September 2011
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Watch#843: aaron neville - everybody plays the fool (1991)
yes, this is merely aaron neville’s totally flawless early-90s main ingredient cover where he sings to various children about mail deliverers and waiters and fruit salesmen falling in love while wearing one of those sleeveless denim shirts and a mustache that is even more mustached than the mustaches in the original main ingredient...
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Watch#840: the kinks - the last of the steam powered trains/picture book (1969, julie felix show)
whether or not two songs are technically enough to qualify, this is the single best post-victorian bucolic british invasion medley ever aired by the british broadcasting corporation. if i were a fighting man i’d duel over the honor of the picture book bass line.
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Watch#839: harry nilsson and shelley duvall - he needs me (popeye, dir. robert altman, 1980)
i will commit vegetable-powered violence against any man who makes the uproarious claim that harry nilsson couldn’t reach the romantically glorious heights climbed by his friend and fellow hollywood songwriter randy newman. anyone who disagrees that he needs me is one of the finest wet-eyed moments...
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Watch#836: serge gainsbourg - new york u.s.a. (no. 1) (1964)
i have nothing against the continuing crop of think pieces about new york in the decade since 9/11 (and i really mean that, like for example i adore peter w. kaplan’s essay), but it would be lovely if the internet shut down for a day so everyone could watch serge gainsbourg’s two music videos for the song he wrote about new york...
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