Songs that get stuck your head

More songs that are hard to shake, following up on a previous post.

-Rehab, Amy Winehouse
Art informing life, and vice versa... I almost feel bad liking this song, given what Winehouse has put into the life. The YouTube embeds have been disabled, but the link is here.

-Istanbul, They Might Be Giants
The faves of college kids everywhere; and geography teachers. Again, embeds disabled, link is here.

-Come on Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners
Ah, what a ridiculous video, with those overalls--those poor down-trodden Brits.


-Safety Dance, Men Without Hats
If they went on American Idol, I wonder if the judges would love or hate their unique vocal tone? What a bizarre video....


-Nessun Dorma, Paul Potts
A live audience makes such a difference--check out Paul Potts doing part of Nessun Dorma from Puccini's Turandot. As one of the YouTube posters suggest, compare it to Pavarotti's version--it'll seem thin and pale, but Paul's moment of discovery (with a Simon I like better than on Idol) is about something different than music.




-1 2 3 4, Feist
I really am worried at how many songs I'm introduced to through commercials.




-You Are Always on My Mind, Willie Nelson
He's an American treasure, right up there with Mount Rushmore if you ask me--his distinctive twang, the simple effectiveness of his songs, and Farm Aid too. If you had to explain the U.S. to a space alien, you could do a lot worse than play it some Willie. This is a great, sincere performance.



-What are the Chinese up to?
There's an interesting post on the Virtual China blog that pulls a couple of videos off Mingming1986's YouTube channel. She has nearly 1,000 videos of mainly cute, big-eyed Chinese girls singing along to their fave songs.

And you wonder where anime style comes from!



-Hey There Delilah, Plain White Ts
Simple, yet totally infectious; the real-life story is pretty interesting too.


This parody is comedy gold--from the consistently subtle way he interprets lines like 'Hey There' to all the rest of his earnest-seeming hipster miming; it reminds me how shrewd kids can be about the world around them.



See more of the kid's work (if he were less fat how less funny would it be?)