Ok I am going to show my age with my selections:
Memories of childhood (and for the fashion and dance steps) ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78-ftcqpNw

One that was popular when I left my home country, family, culture and language behind (couldn’t find the right video on youtube)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x12vmb_suzanne-vega-luka-1987_music

And some Kanye for good measure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9wnoCCCXVM

oh gawd - i love this! this is SO fun! i've got emmy lou playin' now... !

*off to read upthread*

Thanks, Emma, BlueDog and Mr X ...

Wow, Rosangel, you just floored me with your pick. I read this board a lot and you always post the exact opposite of whatever I'm thinking, but this time you picked one of my favorite songs (Hallelujah). Music will bring an end to the Fedal Wars :-)

An amazing Nina Simone song that I had never heard until someone sent me this link. (Warning: not a festive, Friday song...more of a somber Sunday afternoon.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZa3XsHA6UU

How is it possible to not like Radiohead??? Like how? OK Computer is so unbelievably epic! WIN!

Tfactor,
That Suzanne Vega song is a classic. Great pick.

Lleytsie,
Lol at you and your Britney fixation. My personal favorite is "Sometimes." Great video.

yeah, radiohead ROCKS !

i like sinnerman - by Nina Simone

slipknot - vermillon pt 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGtN-dplYk

"but this time you picked one of my favorite songs (Hallelujah). Music will bring an end to the Fedal Wars :-)"

At the risk of being a NPesque contrarian, I might start a Hallelujah war.

P.S. Cohen for life!

Tfactor I lust love Gladys Knight and the Pips

Love that song too

Love the Pips with there dancing action as well lol!

I adore Atretha Franklin as well

One great voice there.

and heart shaped box by Nirvana .....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28JqQENMbeU

NP, you sir, (or lady!) are a ledge. I love the Dubliners, and that song is so beautiful.

Lleytsie, sinnerman is an amazing song!

Grant yes I am with you

Leonard is a pure Legend,you know i saw him again this year when he came to Sydney when he sang that song the whole audience stood up and cheered him

I like Jeffs version

Noone does it like Leonard though.

emma

yeah - it fits perf for thomas crown affair theme, NO?

awesomeness, gaul. that muppets vid was just the right thing after a long long long day.
also, i get "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions" for about half of the stuff currently linked to here. bummer.

out of extreme tiredness and already one gazillion hours in front of the notebook today, i won´t do a time-eating ´tube search, but just fall back on a vid+song i generally like and which i just recently revisited due to a similar project elswhere, kinda comparable to your youtube party here, Jackie. so i´ll just recycle that choice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2hzVV2Nwfs

Seems the link did not work.

Try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjpwqm-8QEg

Or search "Freedom 90"

hi bissy .... waves waves towards Europe

which way is Europe - from Michigan ?

Around the start of the year there was a debate in these parts about what was the greatest American band. I should've asked if a group with just one american would qualify, because if so, game over:
http://tinyurl.com/n4k3g7

Tennisq
That song will forever be engraved in my mind with memories of home.

AM
As a child I wanted to take that midnight train to Georgia (even if I spoke Spanish and didn't understand what the song was about) ;-)

Tfactor - haven't seen that Kanye video before and it's really good. Thanks for picking that.

There also seems to be a fair amound of rock and indie being chosen. Is there any more pop, dance or rnb to come?

Any other Kate Bush fans? I flove her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9OKddQBRg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3cVY1JESQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv0azq9GF_g&feature=related

hey there Lleytsie! it´s been a long time... enjoyed rusty´s wimbles run surely?
and you´re still in michigan? will you never go back to good ol´ ´straya?

Folks, count me in the Robert Christgau camp re Radiohead. I'm not a fan of his by any means, but the man's got a taste.

Emma, thx... I think.

Bissy That tune has a great beat to it

Yeah i can sure move to that one

am goin back in Aug .... got a job there

and then we go croc hunting right ? as you promised - bissy, you arent gonna chicken out on me mate, now are ya >

FLOVED the London run .... randy played amazing though, if not - he wud have played the semis

Emma,
Loved your picks. That requiem song is kind of telling: "something bad is gonna happen, it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen"
On the spirit of that one, how about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4mq-6tauzM
The movie and the choice of images match very well.

That song from The Dubliners must have kind of a homecoming feeling. We have a similar one here in my region of Spain, that gives me goosebumps every single time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ8op74SEm4

Dunlop I love Goerge,my daughter would also approve she loves him too.

My fave Kate Bush song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1fqgg42vo

You're most welcome. I used to dislike Kanye at first but he turned me around with 'Stronger' and 'Heartless'

One last one just because now and again I miss Freddy Mercury:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8CNj9qBI

Back again..keeping with the festival/live theme because I like live performances a lot better than studio songs.

Foo Fighters - Everlong at Live Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgvhcSa7rOg&feature=related

Leytsie Coming back home

Gee I can feel a Hot Choclate coming on lol!

Love that Belgin Chocolate place you told me to go to at the Quay.

Orff was clearly a 2nd-rater who produced a single massive hit in Carmina Burana. It's schlock, but very exciting schlock it is.

This was meant for SilentP ;-)
You're most welcome. I used to dislike Kanye at first but he turned me around with 'Stronger' and 'Heartless'

Hank/Dunlop - I can't make your link work.

Witney me likey the Foo Fighters

great choice,though I wished he would do his spitting away from the audience lol!

Jackie: Just wanted to say that I'm enjoying this DC immensely. Now, I have to go finish my packing, but I'll leave you with a song that always brings me to my feet, partly because it's always played at the end of Philadelphia Freedom WTT matches. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVZq0Xr6dc

We may be near the bottom of our league rankings, but we're the only team with a song written and sung just for us by Elton John!

I'll be back.

croc hunting it is fo sho, Lleytsie. and good on you for getting a job back at home in fab straya.

loved the movie requiem for a dream, Emma. and its music.

HI, guys
well - I am trying to think of something to add
AM posted my favorite song of all time
and Rafadoc posted my favorite clever video

so I don't know quite what to post
I am loving the suggestions
wish I had some footage of my favorite guitarist - that would be my son - but I don't
so I will have to figure out what to put up here
He keeps promising me he is going on youtube - he and his buddies ( who - sorry girls - hate Coldplay ) wrote some new lyrics to Viva La Vida in parody and are working on a performance - if and when that comes to pass - I will post it
but for right now I cannot think of anything serious that I like

and no - even though I like to dance to it - I will not post Britney or Michael Jackson
I have a thought - gonna go see if I can find it
BRB

ps - I see the Wolverine in the photo - and my god - the girl in the white - just off center looks exactly like Jake's ex girlfriend - I always liked that girl - I miss seeing her around here - wonder if that is her?

On the basis is of as good as any

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGpVcdqeS0&NR=1

"Freedom 90" is one case where style not only is substance, but actually trumps it. Sleekly done.

NP - I adore Kate Bush. What song did you choose? The link doesn't work for me.

Gee all my other songs are on my main computer back home

I love the Rolling Stones,I have seen them live too

Start Me up,Jumpin Jack Flash,Give me Shelter,brown Sugar to name a few.

gauloises, that's odd, 'cause that's one of the official ones. I chose "This Woman's Work." Kate will never be a Joni, but she came close with that song.

Lol Aussiemarg - yeah me too.. but Dave's the man. haha On youtube is also videos of a DVD they did when they were doing acoustic shows - so awesome. They slow down some of the favorites and Dave actually showcases his voice, which doesn't happen during the rock shows where he just screams a lot.

Times Like These acoustic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juw-pDJPX5Y&feature=related

OK - it doesn't matter that the link doesn't work. I know the "Freedom" video:) I think George in those days was still very much in the closet as far as the public was concerned, even though quite a few of us had figured out the real story...

ptenisnet - you've seen the lego version, right?

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

"I mean, George Michael has a point, why not just hire the hottest supermodels you can find and be done with it?"
He sure does have a point, Dunlop. Did that video really last more than 6 minutes? Somehow, it seemed much less, even though i just didnt take my eyes of the screen:)

BTW the MV for "This Woman's Work" isn't quite up to par with the music. Just focus on the song.

Rosia,

The first one was off. I re-posted with the correct link about ten posts later.

Mr. X, I'm glad you enjoyed them. That Victor Manuel song you posted is very beautiful, as are the photos of Asturias in the vid. Very nice.

Bismarck, I loved the movie as well.

NP, I can't see your Kate Bush vid due to copyright restrictions, which one is it?

jejejeje
yep, i saw that when i looked for this one.

Also this one.
I couldn't find a music video though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GugsCdLHm-Q&feature=related

BTW, a long time ago I posted on TW that George Michael's biggest tennis connection was that he had dated Brooke Shields (she was even quoted in a British tabloid saying that he was "all man" (which of course he is, but not in the way that she meant it). He gave an interview sometime later (I think after he was "out") in which he said that no real "action" ever took place, because Brooke's mother had surrounded her bed with traffic cones and a "keep out!" sign.

Witney I love that song,yes acoustic version is great too.

Great choices all around.
Mr X,
I enjoyed your pick. I've been away from home for so long that the only song in Spanish that came to mine is 'Eres Tu' by 'Las Mocedades' (you're probably too young to remember them) ;-)
NP
Talk about great memories. 'They gonna talk' could have written about me and a certain special someone ;-)

Emma, "This Woman's Work." Guess we'll have to do without the MV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NRdA0ST4Zg

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

Weird Al Yankovic's Amish Paradise

one of the all-time best parodies.

I could do this all day - when I have papers due I distract myself for awhile looking up concerts and videos on youtube. Nice job Jackie! I also like seeing everyone's choices!

ptenisnet,
Those guys are too much.
"Camelot!
Camelot!
Camelot!
It's only a model...
SSSSHHHHHH"

That Babooshka video is hilarious. And I too love This Woman's Work, which made me think of Maxwell's cover version, which led to his Ascension song. Forgot how good this song is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bc2owuxYwE

Brooke certainly dated an interesting assortment before she married Andre - and then moved on to her present husband

but I digress - I was trying to find the Cowbell video from SNL - with Will Ferrell
just because it always makes me laugh and it is about a live music performance

but I could to with some Stones - let me see what I can find

I've also got a live version of John Belushi doing Joe Cocker.

now i have to go get caught up on all these vids.

Well, that does it for me folks. I'm knackered.
Thanks for all your choices, I really enjoyed them.
Again thanks to Pedro and Jax for this great DC.
Night everyone! :)

Tfactor, props to ya. BTW "Luka" is one of my Suzanne faves, 2, though I wouldn't call it one of her best.

I also love George Michael when he did some duets with Aretha Franklin as well.

"I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" comes to mind.

beth - so you did see the wolverine in the foto ? am so curious on where this was - and whoo took it

surprising isnt it

so what does jake play - blues, rock ? metal

marg - but yeah, am going to Melb this time around - but glad the hot choc place works well ... am glad you like it

bissy - so you comin to OZ 10 ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9OJw8lLec

let's see if this works
I was at this concert -
even though it cuts off in the end
you get the idea
sadly - the Stones are not what they used to be

moonlite sonata

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

joe_can_bike, Maxwell's cover was quite good. His almost natural falsetto certainly didn't hurt. But the original is better.

Later, Emma.

Tfactor,
Actually, my parents do love that song. But dont you remember this one? It has been voted "Best Spanish song" time after time. I think it's very good, although i will always prefer "La Flaca" to anything else:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pGuEaRctY
The lyrics are on the right side, by the way.

Beth Please find some Rolling Stones,I just love them

As i said I am up the coast all my music is on my main computer at home

I thought you would like my choice

Stairway To Heaven,one of the best written and sung songs ever.

Robert Plant what can I say.

I've been looking for "Rainy night in Georgia" by Randy Crawford and can't seem to find it anywhere. Always liked that song because I was once really stuck there once on such a night.

Lletysie - yep I see the Wolverine
As Jackie put this up - I would bet it was taken in the Chicago area

Jake is a rock guitarist - loves classic rock - but also some of the new stuff
although he bemoans the fact that today's music is synthetic and not instrument based
He is not a big fan of much that is new out there today
and he particularly hates Coldplay -

He also plays the drums and bass -and a little bit of keyboard - but mostly he is a guitarist -
lead guitar - not rhythm

how come none of old metal ....

metallica, sabbath, van halen, iron maid, nirvana, thin lizzie, pink floyd

why no - Comfortably Numb ?

Hey Jackie!! Great topic :) I can't really pick only one because I LOVE music *still searching desperately* Sorry I'm late to the party - I finally got a haircut after three or four months!!!

AM - i found Stones - just posted the link - it was to the concert we went to at the Hollywood Bowl
the event was electric - but the Stones have seen better days
maybe I can find a video of that song - when they were a bit younger for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc&feature=related

hmmmm

yeah, cold play (sometimes) sounds like three lil' drunk guys who are whining to their grand mum

ohhh - am gonna take some heat for this one

Lleytsie, most people know the Moonlight Sonata only for its 1st movement, but the real deal is the 3rd. Beethoven at his ferocious best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0oUefWW4HY

AM: i'm still trying to get over your incredible predicitons for 2009 and all of them coming true. you are a witch woman. a witch.
(a beautiful chanel-clad witch however).

i wish people would put the artist.
love radiohead.

Representing for cheesy mainstream French pop:

http://tinyurl.com/lvk67k

(Jean-Jacques Goldman, "Les Choses")

:-D

I've seen her seven days ago at one of the aforementioned festivals and woman pretty much pwned everybody else...well, I wasn't there for 4 whole days, but everything else i saw was a notch below. Or many, many notches below in some cases (Arctic Monkeys concerts should be avoided at all cost if the one I saw 2 days before Patti is anything to go by).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brHGJ6xqbk

I also could've linked to pretty much anything by Feist, flove her...

I've seen her seven days ago at one of the aforementioned festivals and woman pretty much pwned everybody else...well, I wasn't there for 4 whole days, but everything else i saw was a notch below. Or many, many notches below in some cases (Arctic Monkeys concerts should be avoided at all cost if the one I saw 2 days before Patti is anything to go by).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0brHGJ6xqbk

I also could've linked to pretty much anything by Feist, flove her...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9OJw8lLec
much better

Annie As I said and stated,

I was drunk and on drugs or

I was having one of my famous "Moments"

pt, "What a Wonderful World" is far from one of Louis' most representative #s, but I can't think of a more smile-inducing song than that. Good call.

thanks beth ....

i agree actually, these days its more sound enhancement and electronics, than good old classic guitar strummin

thats why I suugges the old metal and old tock in my above post

whitney: you'r a dave grohl fan? *would die for him* seriously.

Ok - I think I've found one :) I love music from movies and christian alternative. This is from Prince of Egypt: When You Believe but in Hebrew, so beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoaTzfpTU2Q

"cold play (sometimes) sounds like three lil' drunk guys who are whining to their grand mum"
No heat from my side, Lleytsie. What's all that stuff about Roman choirs and Jerusalem bells in "Viva la vida"? I always end up thinking: "WTF are those guys smoking?"
ptenisnet,
Now, that's a true classic.

Yeah , Lleytsie - Jackie and Whitney are gonna get you for the Coldplay hate

I know - I started it -
and one of these days - when Jake does his absolutely hysterical parody I will post it
at least I know you will laugh

He sang us the lyrics on the way to the airport the other day and had us all in laughing so hard the tears ran down our faces

I wish I could remember it - it is biting sarcasm at its best

Because no other video capyures Pavement's gleeful slackness so well: http://tinyurl.com/5dsmq4

Because I have a crush on Neko Case: http://tinyurl.com/5vlprp

Because I gotta rep Toronto: http://tinyurl.com/nopxu

Lynne I love Randy Crawford

have you heard her version of "Imagine" brought tears to my eyes.

Mr X,
Sure I remember Joan Manuel Serrat!
Thanks for that link, it's been such a long time!
I like 'La Flaca' more just because Mediterraneo is somewhat like a hymn (?) still a great song.

Lira Vega - not sure if you have this song by Feist, she sings with Kings of Convenience. Gorgeous, she comes in at the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhLKfU7Nis

"I also could've linked to pretty much anything by Feist, flove her..."

I was close to linking 'One Evening' for her hilarious dancing with Buck 65.

i´d love to, Lleytsie.

Oof. Too tough. Favorite in terms of lyric, melody, video...gah. Ok, I settled for lyric:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd8JEJ2JoNo

LOl Beth - yeah I love Coldplay. But I understand why people don't like them. They've helped me get through many all-nighters in college when I needed something mellow to write papers.

Annie - I LOVE Dave. Really. Love. Taylor Hawkins too.

beth

i know one of my friends does a cool parody of

closin walls and ticking clocks song -

but it cannot be told here in the TW house ... its a good house

thats more for the bars