Crowds of Every Age, Creed and Gender Are Abound

 THIS is pure, funky, avant garde strangeness.  Having a routine day? Play this loud and watch.  Want to freak out your kids?  Keep calling them back into the room to watch it again and again.   

Oh my is this video a roller coaster of strangess and weird.  Enjoy!

So apparently, this is the new hit music.

 Clowns.  Vans.  Rage metal.  Fusion Jazz.   Well,  what else do you need? 

A saxaphone solo?  Done.   A guy in a ski mask?  You got it!    Chirping birds in surburbia?  There you are!

Just let it play.  Over two minutes of borderline whackydoodle.  

The Dark Power of.... Mac Sabbath

 Thanks to my sister on this one.  What do you get when you mix an anti-Fast food message, a parody of McDonalds corporate mascots, and a skilled Black Sabbath cover band? 

I give you...  Mac Sabbath.  Are they good?  Watch and be delighted, O you lovers of Ozzy with Vegan leanings.  

Super high praise for the guitarist playing under that massive costume. BUT WAIT!   Here's the hard rock icing on the social commentary cake: watch what happens when they wind up giving a performance for Ozzy himself! 

 "Funny as f***,  that!" laughs the 'Prince of Darkness.' 

Becuase... cake.

 Don't ask about the filling.  Just... don't. 

A shadowy flght into the dangerous world of a man... with excellent taste in classical music.

 Sure, this was originally an 1980's synth anthem.  But this cover is too splendid to ignore. 1:22 of brillaince with the bow.  If it  brings you back to being 11 years old on a tuesday night in front of the tube, you are not alone. 

Feel good song and video of the month.

Sometimes a supportive message such as "be yourself and don't worry about how other people judge your dancing"  is so cloying and cliche it fails.   Not this video by Aya Coren for "Lo Osim Et Zeh Kahcah/ It's not done that way."   A catchy pop tune with a wonderful video even includes a bit of  hip hope question and answer time.    To be played loud. 

Gloriously Weird. Play it to wake up your kids.

Dance to it.  Or not.  But listen to the whole thing and you will say "one abu wabu abu" to someone in the next day, I promise. 

There are things you just don't do.

Oh my,  is this weird fun.   Warnickian? Sure,  I'll give it that tag.   Omer Adam has a catchy tune and combines it with a strange eye-ball centered video that has--- you know what, just watch it for yourself. 

Here are the lyrics in rough translation. Enjoy!

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Don’t eat before washing your hands

Don’t enter the Dead Sea after shaving your legs

Don’t peel a clementine in a room that has people in it

There are things we just don’t do, There are things we just don’t--

 

 

Don't take a shower without using water/mayim

Don’t forget Yerushalayim!

Don't pass up an optometrist before buying glasses

There are things we just don’t do, There are things we just don’t-

I wanted something fitting

Perfect for my face

something beautiful

that emphasizes the eyes

So I bought glasses to see (things) more rosy

I saw with my eyes what makes us dance

Let's look at life in the distance

Because in this life there are things that we Don’t

With an optometrist

Here in Middle East

You will see six six [meters- like 20/20]

At the end you will see the road

I bought glasses

This is not such a project

Too bad on the eyes

So give them respect

There is water... at the bottom of the ocean!

A great performance of one of the greatest songs of the 80's.  You may ask yourself, am I right, am I wrong?  You'd be asking about the song "Once in a Lifetime," by the Talking Heads.  This is a version from one of the most amazing films ever made, and certainly one of the greatest of concert films, "Stop Making Sense,"  which should be watched on a big screen with great sound behind it.   Between the brilliance of the Heads and Jonathan Demme capturing so much of the power of that concert, it really is a superb film, front to back.  Heck,  even Pauline Kael and Robert Christgau liked it, and they made their reputations on despising almost anything normal people liked!   For now,  sing along like nobody is listening.  You can even do that hand chopping thing as David Byrne does it. 

Back with Rock and Roll.... from an amazing guy?

Nine years without an update.  What could be powerful enough to get a post now?
How about some fine Rock and Roll,  imported from the Middle East?  Guy Mazig has the chops to make things rock even if your Hebrew is not at Israeli-level fluency.  "Kamah Ani Ohev Otah" is his new single- "Just how much I love you" is the translation of the title and chorus,  and the video is sure to sit well with lovers of bold color and anime.   Turn the speakers up and  boogie!