1. Marvin Gaye, "The Star Spangled Banner." The Nike ad featuring Gaye's soul takeover of the national anthem at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game with footage of the U.S. men's basketball team is in heavy rotation during NBC's Olympics coverage. Here's the original, sans LeBron.
2. Nico Muhly. The 26 year old whiz kid classical composer, gourmand, New Yorker profile subject, and string arranger for Bonnie Prince Billy and Bjork plays the First Unitarian Church Friday night, in support of of his album, Mothertongue. He blogs here. Here's a video for "It Goes Without Saying" by Una Lorenzen.
3. Rod Stewart. Rod the Mod plays Friday and Saturday at the Borgata in Atlantic City. Here's a brown haired Stewart doing "Maggie May" with the Faces, including Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones. from 1971.
4. Pacific!, "Hot Lips." From Reveries, debut album by Gothenburg, Sweden duo of
Daniel Hogberg and Bjorn Synneby, who blend breezy Beach Boys sunniness into their Air-y electro-pop.
5. Laura Marling, "Night Terror." Kinda scary folk-goth from Laura Marling, the self-possessed teenage Brit singer-songwriter whose excellent, Alas, I Cannot Swim is out this week. She plays the Side Chapel at the FU Church with Johnny Flynn on Sept. 17th.
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... And w/ non-musician special guest -- and World's Greatest Radio Deejay -- JOHN PEEL (r.i.p.) on mandolin to boot! Great clip, even if it cuts off before song's end. Playful piss-taking on the TV lip-stink format years before other more celebrated instances (PiL et al.).
How great were the Faces?
VH1 Classic has been sporadically running a fantastic October 1971 Faces concert this year under the generic catch-all billing "BBC Crown Jewels" (also good for finding 78/79 perfs by Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC, the Police, Thin Lizzy).
It's an intact hr. of an English show called "Sounds on Saturday" w/ a stock instrumental lead-in of Yes warhorse "Roundabout" which segues right into Faces opening w/ "Three Button Hand Me Down" (their underrated original) on this episode.
Superb throughout -- fave moments include Rod deferring to the hesitant Ronnie Lane to keep soulfully singing a few more lines to start their top-shelf cover of McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" ...
Posted by David R. Stampone | August 22, 2008 4:58 PM
Posted on August 22, 2008 16:58