sineast Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 Look, up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's the Mothership, containing strange visitors from another planet, with musical abilities far beyond those of mortal man, who, under the name Parliament/Funkadelic, play funk with their bare hands, more than knee-deep, and can change the course of mighty rhythms. They travel the intergalactic groove to bring their message of hope to all mankind: Klaatu barado nikto, or translated, Free your mind, and your **** will follow. Mothership Connection. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvvVsKCPLE&feature=related Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodGolightly Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 > {quote:title=sineast wrote:}{quote} > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvvVsKCPLE&feature=related I don't think I'd ever heard that one before, but I like it, very groovy! Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 "Funk is its own reward." George Clinton, Captain of the Mothership. George also turned out to be something of a political seer: "They still call it the White House, But that's a temporary condition too." 1975. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 With some help from the Mothership crew, I think the YT problems have been straightened out. To the forefront is Ringo, doing lead vocals on the Beatles' cover version of the Buck Owens' hit Act Naturally. Might win an Oscar? The boy might have something there. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 The video of Oasis' Don't Look Back In Anger featuring Patrick Macnee of The Avengers along for the ride with his trademark umbrella, and a tongue-in-cheek reference to the album cover of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. I was hoping Diana Rigg might pop up too, but she doesn't. You can't always get what you want. Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodGolightly Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I always thought Macnee was so cute in The Avengers. Nice to see him reprise the part, even in a music video. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 That's the part that Patrick will most be remembered for, and why not? Steed had it all: the flat, the car, the clothes, and I'm sure he did all right with the ladies, though that wasn't touched on too much. I almost forgot he also played Sir Denis Eaton-Hogg, the record company president in Spinal Tap. Don't remember his take on the +Smell the Glove+ album though. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 The Tom Tom Club was a side project by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth when Talking Heads was taking one of those hiatuses that bands always take. They had a number of dance club hits, including Genius of Love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHjB-sUEaK4 Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 Traffic combined some folk with some rock psychedelia and a bit of jazz for a very pleasant aural outcome. Here they perform John Barleycorn (must die). Thankfully, the sentence was never carried out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4LvXZNOuI Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 17, 2009 Author Share Posted October 17, 2009 Old school country star Ernest Tubb likes to work on projects in his spare time. This weekend he'll be Drivin' Nails In My Coffin. The problem is not coffin nails, but rotgut. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSNUfcS3AlY Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 The Red Hot Chili Peppers doing a little Californication dreamin'. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 The fab four of punk, The Clash, doing a twofer, +I'm So Bored With The U.S.A./Train in Vain+ Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 21, 2009 Author Share Posted October 21, 2009 The Pixies ponder the oft-asked and rarely answered question Where Is My Mind . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGXdXcpNsv4 Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 The late Peter Tosh, one of the original Wailers, along with Bob Marley and Bunny Livingston, had a fairly successful solo career after he left the group. Here performing Pick Myself Up. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 The Move lip synching along to one of their late 1960s psychedelic pop hits Flowers in the Rain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6o5F0s2SjQ Link to post Share on other sites
musicalnovelty Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 The Move...thanks for that one! Great stuff! Got all their records...45's, LP's, British and U.S. Songs like this really should have been bigger hits, at least in The States. And you never hear them on oldie stations now either. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 All I have are a few CDs. As you mentioned, like a lot of British groups, they were pretty successful in the UK, but got nowhere on the US charts, which is too bad, because they had some great songs. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 24, 2009 Author Share Posted October 24, 2009 The talented and lovely Lucinda Williams reducing things to their bare Essence. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 1980s L.A. punk rockers X, who released many superb albums, performing The New World. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 27, 2009 Author Share Posted October 27, 2009 Art/glam/lounge lizard rockers Roxy Music in their early incarnation, including Brian Eno on synths and "treatments", performing Ladytron. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 28, 2009 Author Share Posted October 28, 2009 The Kings of Kraut Rock, Kraftwerk, performing Neon Lights. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 29, 2009 Author Share Posted October 29, 2009 Queen, giving the old all-out, wink-wink, nudge-nudge glam rock treatment to Killer Queen .....guaranteed. Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 A clever little animation for the They Might Be Giants song Istanbul, not that other place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv-KcF3Rkv8 Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 Johnny Cash, the man in black, performs Man in Black. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfI9B8e9tW4 Link to post Share on other sites
sineast Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share Posted November 2, 2009 Radiohead, asking the multimedia question Feelin' Lucky punk? Link to post Share on other sites
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