Cloud Cult – “Take Your Medicine”

I know, it’s not a real music video this time, but I still love this song.
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Chinese Democracy on sale in November

I know, I can scarcely believe it myself: Guns N Roses’ “Chinese Democracy” will be on sale, exclusively at Best Buy, on November 23.

What next? I can listen “Chinese Democracy” while playing Duke Nukem Forever?

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Laura Gibson – “Hands In Pockets”

This song came out last year, but I just heard the new version with all-cello accompaniment, courtesy of the Portland Cello Project.

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“Pirate Jenny”

When I was a kid, my parents would take us on car trips. During daylight hours, the tape deck was playing Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy after All These Years” and Carole King’s “Tapestry.”

At night, though, they’d pop in other tapes, when Joel and I were asleep. (Nothing dirty, although that would have been amusing in retrospect.) It seemed, though, that whenever I woke up in the dark, groggy and disoriented, there was always one song playing: Judy Collins’ cover of “Pirate Jenny” from the Three Penny Opera.

And yes, I know. Judy Collins did songs with whale songs as accompaniment. She sang “Both Sides Now.” She is the opposite of scary. But this song, boy, it would keep me paralyzed in silent terror as a little kid.

Here then, in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, is a song featuring very uncuddly pirates. (YouTube doesn’t have the Judy Collins version — too scary.)

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Michael Franti and Spearhead – “Say Hey”