Phil’s Faves: Videos, November 13, 2011

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos. For this category, I am also going to include any live performances on talk or variety shows that I see during the week.

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A new number one this week as melody finally beats stupidity! Lady Antebellum is perched at the top of a solid video lineup and some GREAT TV performances!
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Top 10 Videos for the week of November 13, 2011

1. We Owned the Night–Lady Antebellum
2. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
3. Red Solo Cup–Toby Keith
4. A Thousand Years–Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
5. Criminal–Britney Spears
6. Stupid Day Job–Wally Pleasant
7. Paradise–Coldplay
8. Don’t Cry No More–Cyndi Lauper on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
9. Well All Right–Lyle Lovett with Peter Asher and Waddy Wachtel on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”
10. Champagne–Myron Floren with Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra on PBS

1) “We Owned the Night”—Lady A not only owns the night but top spot as well!
2) “Sparks Fly”—It’s so hard to get rid of a Taylor Swift song! It’s really just a trailer for her new concert DVD release, but it’s so darn catchy……………
3) “Red Solo Cup”—There are so many cameos in this video! I particularly like Lance Burton and Carrot Top, who puts a little red solo cup to sleep in a very tiny bed!
4) “A Thousand Years”—Besides the song, I like the 9 kajillion candles in the video….
5) “Criminal”—The melody sounds like it was hunt and pecked out on a primitive iPhone app, but the video is HOT featuring Britney on a crime spree!
6) “Stupid Day Job”—What else can I say about this one? If you still haven’t watched it, check out wallypleasant.com……………..
7) “Paradise”—Another “stupid” video in the countdown! I don’t know if this will ever happen again! A really cute video of the band trying to find each other dressed in elephant costumes! What more needs to be said……………………..
8) “Don’t Cry No More”—Cyndi Lauper sang her heart out on this incredible performance, even going up into the crowd! A lot of artists just go through the motions when they appear on TV but Cyndi pulled out all the stops doing a song from her 18 month old “Memphis Blues” CD. This was the best thing I saw all week!
9) “Well All Right”—It’s about time that someone performed a live version of a song from one of the two Buddy Holly Tribute albums that came out this year! Ironically, it was Lyle Lovett accompanied by Peter Asher and Waddy Wachtel who came through!
They did a very nice job, but what I found most interesting about the appearance was everyone’s hair. One guy had a normal cut. Two guys had shaved heads. Waddy had his usual long hair. But Peter Asher, with his remaining hair dyed a flamboyant henna color (and boy do I hate to say this), rocked a look that was part senior citizen Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols, part Bozo the Clown, and since 2/3 of his top hair is gone but what was left was purposely pushed up several inches, gave it an amphitheatre appearance—what geologists call a cirque. Lyle’s infamous hair looked very normal in comparison.
10) “Champagne”—I don’t know what the full name of this special is—I don’t think it’s out on DVD, but I stumbled upon it during a local PBS pledge drive. The band playing behind the multi Grammy award winning artist, all wore black pants and black T-shirts covered by a blue suit jacket–except for Myron Floren. Apparently, he couldn’t play the accordion with the jacket on, so he was all in black a la Johnny Cash. He was probably in his late seventies or early eighties during the taping, but he looked pretty trim, like an accordion playing “punk.” It was fun to watch!

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