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The Who, I Can't Explain
I open part 17 of my youtube countdown with a very serious question, what the hell was going on in England in the 1960s? The ratio of incredible music and cool bands to the rest of universal history makes one wonder about the nature of quarks, quasar radiation, and folded cosmic fabrics. What the heck…
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James Brown, Please Please Please
Welcome to part 16 of my youtube favorites countdown. In this edition we’ll be bringing down the house with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Helped out by his Famous Flames, this performance of Please Please Please, is from the TAMI rock show, a 1964 concert movie. This performance, considered by Prince to be the…
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Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock Around the Clock!
Part 14 of my youtube favorites countdown clicks off another rung, this time with Bill Haley and the Comet’s Rock Around the Clock! This live clip, from 1956, features Bill and his band absolutely shredding their iconic classic with total disregard for the world they were changing. Considered one of the first true songs of…
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John Lennon, Cold Turkey
Part 13 of my youtube favorites countdown continues with the hard-blues psyche fest, John Lennon’s Cold Turkey. Just around the time the Beatles broke up, John Lennon set loose a blistering array of personal/emotional/political singles; Instant Karma, Give Peace a Chance, and this immortal classic, Cold Turkey. John wrote the song about his experience in…
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Eternity, the Game Show!
Christopher Walken once claimed that he speaks the way he does because he constantly keeps waltz time in his head. It explains a lot. But perhaps nothing can explain this incredible sketch from SNL, which is also part 12 of my youtube countdown. Written in SNL’s golden age, this sketch is what happens when you…