Phil’s Faves:Videos, February 12, 2012

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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An unbelievable live performance knocked Gotye out of the top spot this week. There are other one time entries, too, making this a great viewing list!
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Top 10 Videos and Performances for the week of February 12, 2012

1. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End—Paul McCartney with Bruce Springsteen, Joe Walsh, Dave Grohl, Brian Ray, and Rusty Anderson on The Grammys
2. Somebody That I Used to Know—Gotye with Kimbra
3. We Take Care of Our Own—Bruce Springsteen on The Grammys
4. Ours—Taylor Swift
5. Cough Syrup—Young the Giant
6. Give Me All Your Luvin’—Madonna with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.
7. Super Bowl Opening—Faith Hill
8. Subway—Ladysmith Snack Mombazo featuring Jimmy Fallon and The Roots from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
9. Lonely Boy—The Black Keys
10. Red Solo Cup—Toby Keith

1) “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End”—This was one of those moments that people tune in to The Grammys for! Paul McCartney’s amazing performance of this Beatles’ Medley from Abbey Road drove me crazy! And you can tell by the smiles on the faces of Bruce Springsteen, Joe Walsh, and Dave Grohl that they could cross off an item on their bucket list that they were having the times of their lives! And the image of Paul just pointing at any of the guitarists onstage for their solo was unbelievable as if he was teaching a guitar class and the pupils were expected to show what they could do while the master took turns himself! It was only in front of a billion people or so! And he looked so cool walking from behind the piano to strap on his guitar while Abe Laboriel, Jr. recreated and improved on Ringo Starr’s drum solo! What a jam!!!!!!!
2) “Somebody That I Used to Know”—It only took one of the greatest ever live performances to knock this one from the top spot. Don’t count out a return to the top…..
3) “We Take Care of Our Own”—The first single from Bruce Springteen’s new “Wrecking Ball” CD opened the Grammys as Bruce provided a blistering performance as only he can do!
4) “Ours”—Taylor Swift slips a couple of notches because of such amazing live performances…………
5) “Cough Syrup”—Steadily moving up for another week……………
6) “Give Me All Your Luvin’—Madonna, looking pretty, but a kind of older pretty along the lines of old-timey Broadway dancers like Ann Margaret or Anne “Legs” Miller as Mickey Rooney liked to refer to her, delivers an entertaining video. The song is above average, too!
7) “Super Bowl Opening”—I have neglected to mention how hot Faith Hill has looked doing the intro to NBC’s Sunday Night Football all season long! Then, for the Super Bowl, they go and make her look even hotter in a new video! Wow!
8) “Subway”—This fake group that is a spot on parody of the South African singing troupe, occasionally shows up on Jimmy Fallon’s show. For the Super Bowl, that did a hilarious Subway song: “Everybody likes a footlong/(Hand to the side of the face)That’s what she said!”
9) “Lonely Boy” —I have a feeling this song is going to be a lot lonelier next week………..
10) “Red Solo Cup”—This one may be saying goodbye, too. I’m way past the infatuation stage with it…………….
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