7 posts tagged “music”
Video: Show us your favorite commercial of all time.
Submitted by Jane of Art.
Several years back (I think I was in high school!), Spike Jonze did a commercial for Levi's featuring an emergency room patient and staff singing "Tainted Love." I don't know what that has to do with jeans ... but it's certainly memorable.
I've actually been looking for this commercial off and on for years, and I finally found it this evening on YouTube.
What song best describes your current mood?
Submitted by Section31.
At the moment, I have the rap song "Curls" by Madvillain stuck in my head. I don't even like the song that much, but the opening line of the Post's obituary for newsman Ed Bradley -- "Ed Bradley had cool like a vault has money." -- brought to mind the chill background sample used in the song.
The album isn't a bad soundtrack for an evening spent tending to the apartment. Rob and I are hard at work tidying things up, as the leasing office wants to show the unit to a prospective tenant -- and, hey, the apartment needs it anyway. (Nothing like the threat of someone seeing your mess to inspire you to finally clean it up.)
More addictive music fun, this one a Shins cover of "We Will Become Silhouettes," originally a song by The Postal Service.
(AMG tells me that the Shins version actually came out first, a couple weeks before the Postal Service version. But since the song was written by Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard, I'm calling it a Postal Service song.)
I'm a big fan of the KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic podcast. The most recent edition feature a performance by indie band Camera Obscura, which sounds a good bit like Belle and Sebastian. One song in particular has lodged in my brain and refuses to go away. "Let's Get Out of This Country" is a sweet little ditty, catchy enough that I can't listen to it just once. (There's something special about this version; I tried out the album version and it's just not the same.) And, just to put it over the top, the lead singer adds in a few lyrics from Paul Simons "You Can Call Me Al" at the end. It's worth a listen -- but don't blame me if you can't turn it off.
