Foggy Mountain Breakdown

[filkertom]

I linked up to this in the FuMP thread below, but it's too good. This goes on the "Music To Make Me Smile" list:

Got any music that makes you smile? Provide links.

Comments

[robgonzo.livejournal.com]

Yeah man, that's awesome! The only thing missing was the ukulele.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N6O_OvK5__k

[mihai-lado.livejournal.com]

I love the high-energy songs, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0smmqOHskU

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

That's just about the best all-star rendition ever. That city boy Steve sure can hold his head up in that exaulted company, can't he? The comments on YouTube are highly informative by the way.

I could suck-up and cite a lot of YOUR songs that make me smile and weep, but I won't. I just almost made my bff crash his new car by including A BOY AND HIS FROG on a mixtape CD though. Um, oops. I wanted him to hear it, I didn't think he would put it on in the car, it's not possible to hear that song without tearing up.

Okay, what makes me smile? GEEKS IN LOVE by Lemon Demon. Practically the best love song ever for a geeky girl like me.

Edit: oh yeah, the link. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/geeks

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Makes me smile? The hard part is choosing which performance, but this one will do just fine:

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I'll have to go look at the youtube comments to get the names of the people that I recognise but can't remember their names :-)

Last time I saw Albert Lee live (the red Strat guitarist), he was one of the "warm up acts" for Led Zeppelin at the O2 Arena in London last year :-)

That is *fantastic* and that's the tune I want to learn on banjo :-)

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I had no idea that Steve Martin could play the banjo at all, much less like that.

Music that makes me smile:
Bobby McFerrin & Yo-Yo Ma, "Hush Little Baby" ("Musette" is funnier, but I can't find it on YouTube.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GczSTQ2nv94

Jonathon Coulton's rendition of "Baby Got Back"
[Partially for its own sake, and partially because it reminds me of that funny as hell Latin translation.]
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=coulton+baby+got+back&search_type=

Lords of the Rhymes, "Lords of the Rhymes" [NWS, language]
[I'm not particularly a rap fan, but the Gollum beatbox at about 3:00 just kills me.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f86R_Z0_xI

Rita Moreno (and Animal), "Fever"
["That's my kinda woman!"]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0yvHWyvexZA

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

(I'm listening to "Fever" right now. It just struck me exactly how much Animal acts like my 3-year-old. Or vice versa. :) :) :) )

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

This thread has got me hitting Youtube hard tonight. So I went surfing from the fever clip, to drum solos and then guitar solos, and I found a video of a guy playing Drift Away on a guitar... with no arms. It's on a bit of carpet on the ground, and he's playing with his FEET. Awesome... http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3gMgK7h-BA

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[enjis.livejournal.com]

I'm a big show tunes kinda gal, and I love all the songs in 'The Music Man'.
Any one of them can make me smile (and probably sing along.) Your songs have that effect on me too, Tom, as do so many of Frank's and Julia's songs.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Well, what's making me smile right now is that Rick Schwartz video to "Still Alive" that you posted the other day. Other than that, "Hobbits to Isengard" always-- *ducks shower of rotten fruit* all right, all right, I can take a hint.

Okay, how about this?

Or this?

Or this?

That's probably enough to be going on with...oh, all right, one more.

"Hobbits to Isengard"

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

*grin* My wife and I still occasionally quote from this for no good reason.

("stupid, fat hobbits!")

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Hot damn. That was awesome.

One of the songs that most reliably makes me smile, I don't have a link for: "Shiraz", by Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff, which I believe is on Manhattan Sleeps.

And if this one doesn't make you smile, you're made of stone. :) (They've disabled embedding, alas, but as this is the band's official YouTube channel, I'd rather use this link than someone else's.)

Also-- and I know this might sound weird-- but that ASL interpretation of a Marilyn Manson song, that I posted a while back? That *still* makes me smile. (Linking to my own LJ post because people have made some interesting comments about the video.)

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

That Marilyn Manson cover was just amazing. Thanks for linking it!

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Smiling music: Several of Tom's. I mean, that's how I got into filk in the first place, I really needed more music that makes me smile and he had a lot of them.

Specific tunes that aren't done by Tom:
Yee-Haw Factor by Bela Fleck -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00122058W/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk11
Powerhouse by Raymond Scott -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDqR4fqIWE
That's A Plenty by almost everybody -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbzgovfV8Q (can't find the video I wanted, so this will have to do)

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Can't believe I forgot to put this in the list above:

The Lodger by Jake Thackray (can't find a sample online)

There are a few others of his that make me smile, but this one always makes me laugh.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles jamming. No, really.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HOiVaE-pKqM Come on who doesn't smile at You Can Call Me Al?

I was having a horrible day when I found this one :) http://youtube.com/watch?v=m4v71_TJwlA

This is another good one. Well to me it is anyway:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA

This one is on my top ten list of things I listen to when I'm down:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zM2CIlSSqQw

While Roger Miller's version of King of the Road is amazing I'd rank this one as a close second. When I was little my family would sing it together as the tape would play on long car trips up north or to Tennessee:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=loiH-e9Xm04&feature=related

There are way too many more to list :)

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

So much smile music.

I'm extremely fond of Blackmore's Night and, cliched though it may be I adore "Ghost of a Rose." http://youtube.com/watch?v=5nPLdKHY574

I used to worship The Doors. Lately I've been addicted to BBC's "Torchwood." So this came as a pleasant surprise. http://youtube.com/watch?v=VnsuxvbUU44

But given where I was born and where I grew up (it'll be obvious in a moment) I need to stay loyal to the songs I sang to keep myself company when walking home from friends' houses in Junior High. Songs like Santy Anno http://youtube.com/watch?v=2hBQg5JuJwY and Greenland Whale Fisheries http://youtube.com/watch?v=gtdnJBQyQJU which have become popular with a lot of more modern recording artists. So while I can't find anyone doing the American version of the latter, there's plenty of Irish renditions and that makes me happy enough.

I'll stop wandering all over the map now and let you ahve your blog back...

[madrona.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY

I'm not a very good person.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

This raises the question: How many young banjo players are there? Are there any commercial artists under 40?

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not very commercial, and I'm over 40, and it isn't REALLY a banjo, but someone posted this video of me which I think is kinda cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4awqD1g2hSk

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Well, that one makes me want a plate of BBQ ribs and a tankard of ale...

This one makes me smile too.

[nightmarewriter.livejournal.com]

I have some weird ones in my favorites, like - The Gay Men's Chorus version of The Anvil Chorus... with a real anvil! The swap out for bigger tools makes me grin every time. http://youtube.com/watch?v=c3x-pwJGsgU .

The theremin version of Gnarl's Barkley's Crazy: Left hand controls volume, right hand is pitch. http://youtube.com/watch?v=mW0B1sipLBI .

Inspector Gadget Remix by a Beatboxing flute player. http://youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0 .

Naturally 7 with their version of "In the Air Tonight". Although they appear to be using instruments, that's pretend, this is a capella. http://youtube.com/watch?v=T5qc3qZqe38 . They have another video of them performing this song live in a bus in France. It's cool to watch the people stare at them, and then get into it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF-KagTq7qY .

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Here's my contribution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=137GmkJIZDY

BTW, Tom, do you know who the other featured players were with Scruggs/Martin? I recognised Albert Lee and Jerry Douglas. Was the Tele Vince Gill?

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is Vince Gill.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks for posting the link to that as I'd never seen it before. Quite a lineup on that stage. I can't think of any fun music right now. For some reason the song I keep going back to right now is the orchestral version of Lux Aeterna. The version from Requiem For A Dream, which is much better than the version in the LOTR soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLpJtvzlEI

[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask, "Is that on Letterman? It looks like his set"... and then Dave walked out at the end. Awesome!

That's recent, I assume. Do you happen to know exactly what night it was on? Probably the one where I forgot to tape it...

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

That put me in mind of the "Five Million Dollar Band" that used to show up on HeeHaw, only this might better be labeled the 8 or 10 million dollar band.

And OMG that *was* Steve Martin on the other banjo!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

[shrug] Not me -- I have no idea. I almost never delete links, even offensive ones that tick me off -- I'll comment on it and say why I find it offensive.

On the other hand, a few different services lately, including LJ and YouTube, seem to have difficulty accepting that I really really do want to comment, so tech that with a grain of salt.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]