Category: Songs (Page 36 of 96)

DMed’s Video of the Week: Goldfrapp, “A&E”

It’s the middle of January, and we already have a contender for Video of the Year. The beginning looks like a Sarah McLachlan cliché gone horribly wrong, with Alison Goldfrapp dressed in white lying on the ground in a forest, magic-hour light cascading down on her. Then she stands up, and you see that she’s wearing a white top, and nothing else. Suddenly, two leaf men sprout out of the ground, and the silliness begins. Even better is Dave Gregory’s appearance at the very end.

The money shot comes at the 1:26 mark, when Alison lifts her arms Scott Stapp-style, and you’re pretty sure you’re about to see something you’re not supposed to. Of course, you don’t, but hot damn, is it a fabulous tease.

Steal music from the Counting Crows. (It’s okay, they want you to.)

Man, we love it when these kinds of emails come along. Most established bands will only grant us access to a stream of their latest single (see my Lenny Kravitz post from a week or so ago). Not so, Adam Duritz and his Counting Crows. To promote their upcoming album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, the band has given us .mp3s of two songs, “1492” and “When I Dream of Michaelangelo.” Dig in.

To download the songs, click here.

Less Talk, More Music: Morrissey on “Not the Jack Docherty Show”

Continuing with the recurring theme of posting clips from shows I’m barely familiar with myself, we bring you Morrissey performing the underrated single, “Alma Matters” (from the equally-underrated album, Maladjusted), on something called “Not the Jack Docherty Show.” The most I know about Mr. Docherty and his program is that it served as a springboard for one Graham Norton to become a household name in Great Britain, but according to his Wikipedia entry, he also caused quite a star by hosting the 2000 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards and opening the night by revealing the ending of “The Sixth Sense.”

Nice one. Bet that went down like gangbusters.

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