A short piece of audio of the Discovery landing, which took place in June of 2008. Just one of a large collection of interesting sound files you can access from Hark Dot Com.
Provided I can get this player properly embedded, of course… should be just above this text.
In the the summer of 1970 some folks in Canada hired a private train so they could load some musicians into it and go from town to town putting on mini festivals everywhere they went. The tour and the film made from it was called Festival Express, and it was an instant classic of the rock world. The musicians included Buddy Guy, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Ten Years After, Traffic, and a whole lot of other incredible talent. A few Canadians managed to sneak on the train to play as well, and so the song Truckin Off Across The Sky was written. But after all this time, the group Historic Films has gotten the rights to it, and they are digitizing another 96 hours of the footage shot for this event, and adding it to their archives. The archives already contain something like 50,000 hours worth of incredible video, and I have to say a serious Thank You! to the team at Open Culture for the heads up on this one!
Too funny for words. Glad someone finally finally put these together the way they deserved to be. I always thought Art was a bit stiff and robotic anyways, now I know why.
Bet you didn’t know Psy’s world wide surprise hit Gangnam Style had a parallel recording, called Oppa Is Just My Style. It features the actress/singer Hyuna, who was also in his video, just like he is in hers of this same song. If you are a fan of energetic dancing, you should check out the rest of Psy’s videos; the man is an absolute maniac on the dance floor, at least in the majority of his music videos. My favorite parody is still Klingon Style, of course. The second video was one he put together to honor the Korean competitors for this years Olympics, and it is both kick ass and shows you a completely different side of his musical talents. I wanted to add a third MV of his here, We Are The One, but could not find the original studio video version on line to embed. They are running it several times this week as part of the Psy Music Block on M-Net, so you still have a chance to see it. BTW, Psy is the primary judge on Superstar K4 so expect lots of aspiring artists there to do versions of Gangnam Style. Another more serious song you can watch online but which I could not embed is Urbanite, it is quite nicely done.
The Korean original of this song has been running on channels like M-Net for months now, and just recently came to the attention of everybody in the world, in fact becoming the first Korean song ever to take the number one position on iTunes. But out of all the parodies, Klingon Style has to be my favorite; and for the seven people left on the planet who have not yet seen the original, I am posting that one as well.
2NE1 is my current favorite South Korean band, and even though they keep hitting the top of the charts there is nothing even a little Top40 about them. Their latest song, I Love You, is a lot mellower than their earlier work, so I hope you can appreciate this total change of pace, and their song Lonely is also quite laid back. Just to give you a feel for their range, a few of those tunes; enjoy!