Dave Brubeck Quartet’s ‘Take Five’ is easily one of the most recognizable jazz standards ever recorded. Contrary to popular believe, the song was actually composed by quartet saxophonist/long time Brubeck collaborator/boozehound Paul Desmond, and became the first jazz single to sell over a million copies. And this is a video
Nobody can argue there’s a more Christmasy song than A-Ha’s 1985 classic ‘Take On Me’. You just can’t. And this is a video of Magical Light Shows owner Tom BetGeorge’s own annual Christmas lightshow, choreographed to the song. Really gets you in the holiday spirit, doesn’t it? Tom’s show only
Living the dream: some people are out there doing it. Living the nightmare: how much longer can I do it? This is a video of musician Paul Barton playing the piano for the crab-eating macaques (aka long-tailed macaques) that live at the 13th century Phra Prang Sam Yot temple in
This is a video of Japanese Buddhist monk and musician Kossan1108 covering Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman’ with traditional percussion instruments. He also sings, which I was not expecting. The video is almost ten minutes long, but the song is only the first five. After that is five minutes of Kossan meditating.
This is a video of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s Etude in B-flat minor for piano being performed instead on glass harp by Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec and theremin by Grégoire Blanc. It’s got a real other-worldly sound to it, like the sort of thing you’d expect to hear when being
Because the Lord works in mysterious ways, this is a video of guitarist André Atunes (sweet last name for a musician) turning televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s very spirited execution of judgement on COVID-19 and its banishment from the US into a surprisingly good heavy metal song. You may recall that Copeland,
From musician Jeremy Messersmith’s Mixtape For The Milky Way, this is the music video for ‘Video Games’, a song about growing up playing video games, and still playing video games, and what they meant to him then, and mean now. The music video created by Eric Power is fantastic, featuring
Because nothing quite captures the spirit of Christmas like Star Trek, this is the Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Musical Tree Topper With Light. And apparently Trekkies have developed future farming tech capable of growing actual money trees to fruition, because this tree topper costs $150. A cost that, admittedly, made