A composer that I have just became aware of, is also a remarkable flute player! The first video here is a dance troupe interpreting one of Cornell Kinderknecht’s compositions “Helicoid:A Suite for Mankind.” (Hey! Dancing is allowed and absolutely encouraged on the Phil Maq website! 🙂 )
Since you really don’t get to see Cornell perform, here he is doing one of his songs on bansuri flute:
One of the GREATEST songs and albums ever recorded is “Thick As a Brick” by Jethro Tull! Here are two parts of the song as performed way back when…
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. Hey Girl—Billy Currington
3. Summer Sadness (Remix)—Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais
4. Southern Girl—Tim McGraw
5. Let Her Go—Passenger
6. Best I Ever Had—Gavin DeGraw
7. That’s My Kind of Night—Luke Bryan
8. Clarity—Zedd with Foxes
9. Wasting All These Days—Cassadee Pope
10. The Wire—Haim
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. Still Into You–Paramore
2. Your Papa Don’t Know—Richard Henderson
3. It Came Out of the Sky—Creedence Clearwater Revival
4. Area 51—Charlatans UK
5. Tu Mochila Esta Abierta—Dan Sheehan Conspiracy
6. False Information—Mick Clarke
7. Baked Potatoes—Mick Clarke
8. Martian Boogie—The Brownsville Station
9. Glass Half Full—Jason Didner
10. New—Paul McCartney 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 October 6, 2013
1. Still Into You—Paramore
2. All Over the Road—Easton Corbin
3. Roar—Katy Perry
4. Red—Taylor Swift
5. Safe and Sound—Capital Cities
6. I Need Your Love—Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding
7. Point at You—Justin Moore
8. Whatever She’s Got—David Nail
9. When I See This Bar—Kenny Chesney
10. True Love—P!nk and Lily Allen
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. Summer Sadness (Remix)—Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais
2. Hey Girl—Billy Currington
3. Royals—Lorde
4. Southern Girl—Tim McGraw
5. Let Her Go—Passenger
6. Clarity—Zedd with Foxes
7. That’s My Kind of Night—Luke Bryan
8. Best I Ever Had—Gavin DeGraw
9. Wasting All These Days—Cassadee Pope
10. Goodbye Town—Lady Antebellum
One of the funniest characters in the Warner Bros. animated archives is Marvin the Martian. Here’s a clip of Marvin at his best:
A cartoon that I didn’t mind watching when it was on was Felix the Cat. Outer space often was in the realm of plot possibilities and this one has everyone going to Venus to encounter The Master Cylinder. I’m not sure why a master cylinder was always so evil:
Recently, a momentous event occurred: The actual calendar date was the date that Michael J. Fox went to in the future, 9/23/13, in the movie “Back to the Future.” One of the best songs ever recorded for a movie, is “The Power of Love” [GSER] by Huey Lewis & The News. The video, however, does not measure up to the song:
This will be a personal 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. Baked Potatoes—Mick Clarke
2. Back to School—Joanie Leeds & The Nightlights
3. Tu Mochila Esta Abierta—Dan Sheehan Conspiracy
4. Still IntoYou–Paramore
5. Rollin’ Over—Skinny Lister
6. Safe and Sound—Capital Cities
7. Backseat Blues—Mick Clarke
8. Driving South—Jimi Hendrix Experience [Hall of Fame Artist][GSER]
9. I Don’t Know What You Got But It’s Got Me—Little Richard
10. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft—The Carpenters [Hall of Fame Artist] QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
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.
Top 10 Videos and Performances for the Week of September 29, 2013
1. Still Into You—Paramore
2. All Over the Road—Easton Corbin
3. I Need Your Love—Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding
4. Red—Taylor Swift
5. Safe and Sound—Capital Cities
6. Roar—Katy Perry
7. Point at You—Justin Moore
8. See You Again—Carrie Underwood
9. When I See This Bar—Kenny Chesney
10. True Love—P!nk and Lily Allen
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.
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
No, you’re not seeing double. It’s not an internet optical illusion and I didn’t accidentally post the same week over again. Everything for this week is on purpose. I can’t stand any of these videos or songs and I would make them all #1 on this list. There wasn’t much action on the CMT and VH1 video lists, so here they are again in the same disgusting order…………….. QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
Worst Videos for the Week of September 29, 2013
1. We Can’t Stop—Miley Cyrus
2. Summer Sadness (Remix)—Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais
3. Hey Girl—Billy Currington
4. Clarity—Zedd with Foxes
5. Let Her Go–Passenger
6. Royals—Lorde
7. That’s My Kind of Night—Luke Bryan
8. Treasure—Bruno Mars
9. Southern Girl—Tim McGraw
10. Best I Ever Had—Gavin DeGraw
He was originally advertised for his first tour as “You’ll never see anyone play the guitar in more positions!” For once, the hype turned out to be true. That was how he was introduced in the U.S. and the commercials had their effect. Here’s an early clip introduced by Lulu (Lulu!!??) Ah the good old days of “To Sir With Love………………..”
I always liked the playful side of Jimi. Here’s Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding making fun of lip synching:
And, of course, the classic “Wild Thing” at the Monterey Pop Festival where Hendrix lights his guitar on fire, smashes it, and then throws the parts into the crowd!
