This is the entirety of The Clash’s 1979 album London Calling, but nothing but the lead vocals, as isolated by recording engineer ieatmdf. Wait — medium-density fibreboard? That can’t be a healthy diet. If you’re a Clash fan the video is definitely worth a listen — I particularly liked hearing
This is a video of an elevator full of people including Canadian folk artist Jessica Pierson, who took the opportunity to treat the captive audience to a sing-along. Some of the passengers look less than thrilled about the performance, although the two men in the back of the elevator do
This is a video from Chiang Mai, Thailand, of a bar band trio absolutely crushing a cover of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What A Wonderful World’. It’s really the singer’s vocals that send the song over the top — if you closed your eyes and couldn’t see who was singing it would
This is a video of Jack Black participating in a TrinityKids Care (a Los Angeles based hospice that specializes in pediatric care for children with life-limiting illnesses) event and serenading young Abraham with his favorite song (‘In The End Of Time’), from his favorite movie, School Of Rock. That was
Presumably much to the delight of Meghan Treanor, this is a video of low bass-singer Geoff Castellucci covering ‘Ghost Riders In The Sky’ while dressed as a group of ghastly cowboys. He has a deep voice. You know who also has a deep voice? Me. You probably didn’t know it
This is a video of some unassuming guy in a Napoleon Dynamite Vote For Pedro t-shirt performing Shaggy’s ‘Angel’ at karaoke (in a traditional in front of the dartboards dive-bar setup) and summoning the spirit of Shaggy himself for the performance. I did not expect that. Also, if there was
This is a video of musician Chloe Alexander performing Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ with the help of her yellow-naped Amazon parrot, Gallagher. I’m not sure if Gallagher ever bothered showing up for rehearsals though, because he seems to be all over the place, almost as if he wishes they’d gone with a
This is a rare outtake from the 1964 production of Mary Poppins in which stars Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke lip-sync each other’s singing parts to ‘Chim Chim Cher-ee’. It looks like they were having a blast. There’s also an outtake of Julie yodeling to get the magic smoke