http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0memOfe8bbE
In which the 14-year-old future Bright Eyes frontman joins Lullaby for the Working Class’ Ted Stevens for a living room take on “Kiss the Wheel” by the former’s early ’90s band Polecat.
(This old home movie has me wishing Stevens would reform Lullaby again after last year’s exciting politically motivated reunion.)
Still can’t place the year on this clip, but it’s definitely a sign of what’s to come.
Replace the concept of cassettes/snail mail with SoundCloud/e-mail and you’ll read the letter this one-man-show blogger should start sending out to some of the artists hitting up the inbox daily. Perhaps Bangs would’ve employed Gmail’s “Labels.”
(Via Letters of Note)
I’ve always been drawn to compositions that are evocative in any context, and this simple piece — notoriously sampled for Gnarls Barkley’s 2006 hit, “Crazy” — is a prime example. “Last Man Standing,” brothers Gian Piero and Gianfranco Reverberi’s 1966 tune for the film Preparati La Bara!, aka Django, Prepare a Coffin, never fails to resonate, be it the score to a spaghetti western shootout (starts at 2:25), the backdrop to a Bill Withers-esque groove, or — most famously — a bouncy counterpoint to Cee-Lo’s dynamic voice. No wonder Danger Mouse has headed back to this well.
Props to the great modern-day songwriter Fancy Dan for mentioning this incredible clip to me the other night.
