Rate That Song

[MarkBastable]

A beautiful song this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvnG3_PIYg

No it's not. It's self-indulgent crap. However, in the spirit of the game, I'll point out that you need to rate the previous song before posting one to be rated by the next correspondent. You might have been understandably misled by Brian sticking in an ad hoc comment. The rest of us usually are.

No big deal. If you'd like to rate Scheherezade's contribution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC76b0VZQog&NR=1 and then post Mr Potato Head again, I'll make the 'self-indulgent crap' assessment official by expressing it in terms of a score out of ten.

[papayahed]

Scher: Not Bad 8/10

adityasam: Not bad either 7.5/10

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

[Scheherazade]

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

4/10 at the moment but would have given it a 7 or 8 had I had some Margarita in my system!

Another song that might get better after Margarita consumption:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ahe_...eature=related

[Sapphire]

No Margerita in my system, but I've liked this song from the start It can get a bit "nagging" though...
5/10

Some quick guitar playing Shelbie County Jail

[toni]

No Margerita in my system, but I've liked this song from the start It can get a bit "nagging" though...
5/10

Some quick guitar playing Shelbie County Jail

7/10 I enjoyed the guitars

Weather Report - Birdland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o

[Emil Miller]

No Margerita in my system, but I've liked this song from the start It can get a bit "nagging" though...
5/10

Some quick guitar playing Shelbie County Jail

Quite clever variations on the tune and the guitar isn't electric so 5/10.

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

[MarkBastable]

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

Terrific, of course. 8/10


Some wonderfully constructed rhymes in this too.

[Lokasenna]

Ha! Wonderful! 9/10

If we're in a Disney mood, this next one is my favourite. Probably the darkest song in the darkest Disney movie; bonus points if you speak Latin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRO-M...eature=related

[MarkBastable]

I think it stops a bit short of where it should go - but, yeah, an uncharacteristically dark bit of Disney. 7/10

I've never been a fan of Walt's work, I have to say. I find it glutinous. However, having been forced to watch Cinderella eight times a day when my daughters were toddlers, I have seen a subtextual subversion in the tale of the downtrodden stepdaughter.

When Cinderella wakes up and readies herself for a day of servitude, all the animals and birds - comedy mice and what appear to be psychedelic sparrows - lay out her clothes and make her bed and hand her a towel when she steps out of the shower. And I've noticed that, although these anthropomorphic sprites prepare a shabby dress and a patched-up blouse and a tired apron for our put-upon heroine, there's no sign of underwear. None at all. Which raises the slightly disturbing (though cheerful) possibility that right the way through the movie Cinderella's going commando.

I've always thought it a little implausible that the Prince - who has resisted romantic commitment so long and so successfully - should become so utterly obsessed with Cinderella on so brief an acquaintance. However, one is now intrigued to know what he may have seen reflected in those glass slippers.

Anyway, here's a change of pace. I really don't know why I like this. It's not my kinda music at all. I think it's that there's an emotional honesty about it that's impossible to dismiss....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzMt...feature=avmsc2

[Sapphire]

Definitely one of their best 7/10

That reminds me of this cover:
Alanis Morissette

[MarkBastable]

[color=blue]Alanis Morissette

3/10

I think there are two problems with that.

The first is that after the opening two lines, nothing new happens. Once you've clocked that its BPE's song done to a pretty piano, you're not going to get any more out of it.

Second, it's very difficult to satirise something that was tongue-in-cheek to begin with. It rather implies that you missed the joke and took it seriously, and the resulting spoof makes the spoofer look sillier than the originator.

However - it is possible to make this kind of thing work, if you add a dimension to the original that makes it a new thing.

I think that Ben Folds manages exactly that here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7LzU...eature=related


(er....includes a lot of swearing and adult themes.... Just in case you're not a grown-up.)

[Sapphire]

I don't think I hear (in that song), what you say you hear... It is all in the ears of the receiver!
3/10

Here's a translation of a wonderful song by Jaques Brel (Voir un ami pleurer). Doesn't work half as well as the original, but it is in English... Is it allowed to post a French song?!?
To see a friend in tears

[Basil]

I kinda liked that. 7.5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhVb...eature=related

[OrphanPip]

I haven't really ever gotten too into Neko Case, but I like them whenever I hear them 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCGO...eature=channel

[Basil]

I haven't really ever gotten too into Neko Case, but I like them whenever I hear them

"Them" is a "her."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCGO...eature=channel