If it’s true that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah only occur on the same day every 79,000 years, then we’d better really live it up! Here are three tongue-in-cheek videos to start things off.
A “Q” Bomb will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.
1. Royals–Lorde
2. Southern Girl—Tim McGraw
3. That’s My Kind of Night—Luke Bryan
4. The Wire—Haim
5. Let Her Go—Passenger
6. Rough Water—Travie McCoy with Jason Mraz
7. Gorilla—Bruno Mars
8. Marry Me—Jason Derulo
9. TKO—Justin Timberlake
10. Demons—Imagine Dragons
This will be a weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.
1. Mexican Moonshine—Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers [FSOAT]
2. Falling—Joanie Leeds & The Night Lights
3. Peek-a-boo Moon—Jason Didner & Jungle Gym Jam
4. New—Paul McCartney [Hall of Fame]
5. Go Downtown—Detroit Blues Band
6. Let Go—Coyote Union
7. Everybody Out There—Paul McCartney [Hall of Fame]
8. O Sun—Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
9. November—Grace and Tony
10. My Life Is Ruined—Detroit Blues Band QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
This will be a 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.
Top 10 Videos and Performances for the Week of November 17, 2013
1. O Sun—Lindsay Lou & The Earthwork Women featuring May Erlewine, darlenYa, Dede, and Sam Cooper
2. Burn—Ellie Goulding
3. Point at You—Justin Moore
4. All Kinds of Kinds—Miranda Lambert
5. Wake Me Up—Avicii and Aloe Black
6. Red—Taylor Swift
7. Night Train—Jason Aldean
8. Roar—Katy Perry
9. Applause—Lady Gaga
10. Sweater Weather—The Neighbourhood
A “Q” Bomb will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.
1. Royals–Lorde
2. Southern Girl—Tim McGraw
3. That’s My Kind of Night—Luke Bryan
4. The Wire—Haim
5. Let Her Go—Passenger
6. Marry Me—Jason Derulo
7. Gorilla—Bruno Mars
8. Rough Water—Travie McCoy with Jason Mraz
9. TKO—Justin Timberlake
10. Demons—Imagine Dragons
This will be a weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.
1. Falling—Joanie Leeds & The Night Lights
2. New—Paul McCartney [Hall of Fame]
3. Indian Summer—Joel Rafael
4. Peek-a-boo Moon—Jason Didner & Jungle Gym Jam
5. Everybody Out There—Paul McCartney [Hall of Fame]
6. Never Stood a Chance—Alejandro Escovedo
7. Go Downtown—Detroit Blues Band
8. Man of the World—Alejandro Escovedo
9. Tick Tock—Steve Nardella
10. Blue Eyed Blues—Mick Clarke QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
Lou Reed, who recently passed away, was known for his work with The Velvet Underground. While a lot of that music is great, I personally like this Saturday Night Live performance from 1986 of “I Love You Suzanne” because he looks like he’s having fun for once in his life:
If you like your music raw and in the style of the MC5, check out these guys–Sonic Graffiti:
November 22 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Irish musician, Tommy Sands, provides a most appropriate new song, “Who Killed JFK?” for the occasion:
I have played quite a few songs from Jason Didner and The Jungle Gym Jam, mostly “kindie” style music. But here is Jason Didner and The Drive tearing it up on “American Road”
This will be a 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.
Top 10 Videos and Performances for the Week of November 10, 2013
1. The Earthwork Music Collective Tour, November 6, 2013 at The Ark in Ann Arbor Michigan featuring Seth and May, Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys, darlenYa, Dede and the Dreamers, Strawberry Heritage, Joe Reilly, and Sam Cooper
2. Paul McCartney on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” October 7, 2013
3. Still Into You—Paramore
4. All Kinds of Kinds—Miranda Lambert
5. Red—Taylor Swift
6. Roar—Katy Perry
7. Point at You—Justin Moore
8. Night Train—Jason Aldean
9. Burn—Ellie Goulding
10. Wake Me Up—Avicii and Aloe Black
1) The Earthwork Music Collective Tour, November 6, 2013 at The Ark in Ann Arbor Michigan featuring Seth and May, Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys, darlenYa, Dede and the Dreamers, Strawberry Heritage, Joe Reilly, and Sam Cooper 2) Paul McCartney on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, October 7, 2013 3) Still Into You
A “Q” Bomb will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.
1. Royals—Lorde
2. That’s My Kind of Night—Luke Bryan
3. Southern Girl—Tim McGraw
4. The Wire—Haim
5. Let Her Go—Passenger
6. Gorilla—Bruno Mars
7. Marry Me—Jason Derulo
8. All Night—Icona Pop
9. Summer Sadness (Remix)—Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais
10. Demons—Imagine Dragons
