Bettman's favourite vid

Feist on Sesame Street

Basia Bulat - Snakes and Ladders
These mirrors you've broken are your cry for art
Salt and pepper shakers over your shoulders
Cross your heart
Don't you know it's bad luck
To stay in one place for too long?
You've been listening to the voices in your head
Helpless when they go

So we play a game of snakes and ladders
Gambled our mistakes
Didn't know what could come after
Threw away the cards
Who thinks it could matter?
Oh, who believes in fate, anyway?

When only you could be the one
To win out over me
When it isn't just a game
It's the way we come undone

What a perfect accident
Oh, we danced around them all
Like we didn't even notice
I love the way we come undone

Thought I saw something hidin' in the yard
But it was bad weather to keep a watch out in the dark
You know, all this time I've been playing for your heart
But I never let it on
I'll have to watch you play the part

So we played a game of snakes and ladders
Gambled our mistakes
Didn't know what could come after
Threw away the cards
Who thinks it could matter?
Oh, who believes in fate anyway?

When only you could be the one
To win out over me
When it isn't just a game
It's the way we come undone

What a perfect accident
Oh, we danced around them all
Like we didn't even notice
I love the way we come undone

For those interested... Here is three Billy Joel performances and two Paul McCartney ones that I video'd from my digital camera... Caviat: the quality is not very good -- although better than most others from the concert that I've seen on You Tube -- and was taken mostly from the video screen, with some long-range shots... There is much crowd singing along with them, some from drunks, and some from those musically challanged... It is just a taste of the concert FYE.


Captain Jack - part one




Captain Jack - conclusion




Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - part one




Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - conclusion




Piano Man - part one




Piano Man - conclusion




Paul McCartney - I Saw Her Standing There




Paul McCartney - Let It Be - part one




Paul McCartney - Let It Be - conclusion

it's good to see Don Cherry and Angela Lansbury spreading their musical wings.

it's good to see Don Cherry and Angela Lansbury spreading their musical wings.
- Crimsoninja

Wings broke up years ago... didn't they?

Wings broke up years ago... didn't they?
- ForeverFlyer16

Dan Briere & Wings

Sufjan Stevens - "Jacksonville"



I'm not afraid of the black man running
He's got it right he's got a better life coming
I don't care what the captain said
I fold it right at the top of my head
I lost my sight and the state packs in
I follow my heart and it leads me right to Jackson

Oh Keller oh oh oh
She gave us a medal she gave us a map
Oh Canner Row, oh oh oh
If seeing is right, then look where you're at

I'm not afraid of Nichol's Park
I ride the train and I ride it after dark
I'm not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it one more try
I said things that I meant to say
The bandstand chairs and the Dewey Day parade
I go out to the golden age
The spirit is right and the spirit doesn't change

Oh Keller oh oh oh
She gave us mirror she gave us a map
Oh Canner Row, oh oh oh
If seeing is right then look where you're at

Andrew Jackson, all I'm asking
Show us the wheel and give us the wine
Woohoo! Woohoo!
Raise the banner, Jackson hammer
Everyone goes to the capitol line
Woohoo! woohoo!
Colored preacher, nice to meet you!
The spirit is here and the spirit is fine!
Woohoo! Woohoo!
Education, ask the nation
You gave us our sight and the hearing is fine
Woohoo! woohoo!
Andrew Jackson all I'm asking
Give us the wheel and give us the wine

Dan Briere & Wings
- Crimsoninja

While battling (or giving in to) a bout of insomnia last night, I came across this thread. I'd like to thank you all for costing me about $40 on iTunes. Bastards.

Anyway, I'd like to contribute one of my all time favorites, "In the Morning", by Big Head Todd and the Monsters...

*********************

Won't you tell me in the morning
Of the kisses that you left me in my sleep

Of all the thunder and the stormin'
Of all the racket in the street

Chorus:
And if the sun should open wide
Your eyes to find another day
And I'll never take you back
If you can't find your own way

I want to tell you in the morning
Of the demons that I killed in my dreams
And should the devil take me now, here's a warnin'
Ah, hell can't come between you and me

Chorus

*********************

Matt Pond PA - "So Much Trouble"



Did you go to Montreal
or hide behind the package store
you're hanging out with your old friends
with them they knew you'd see the end

you're in so much trouble
can't hide in your covers
it's forgetting that would beat it all
easier when they don't ever call

i don't think i want to think about it
how the fall is coming down
the light is leaving and it's hard to breathe
buried in a pile of leaves

we don't want to make mistakes
we don't want to be the same
i hand the finger to my fate
he doesn't know and he cannot see that far

i don't think i want to think about it
how the fall is coming down
the light is leaving and it's hard to breathe
buried in a pile of leaves

we don't want to ever change
we don't want to make mistakes
i hand the finger to my fate
he doesn't know me and he cannot see that far

nights get so long and cold
fewer places we can go
you're in so much trouble
can't hide in your covers

i don't think i want to think about it...

you're in so much trouble
can't hide in your covers ...

Enter Shikari - Mothership

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UWAzFOK4YA


Go tell all your friends that this is the end
go tell all your friends that this is the end
go tell all your friends that this is the end
this is the end

i don't understand a word you're saying
what are the clouds running from?
there's something in the air tonight
something is wrong, spit it out!

I just fell from the mothership
(they said that)
your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed
your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed

there's something in the air
there's something in the air
tonight, i'm wide awake, i'm wide awake
there's something in the air
there's something in the air
tonight, i'm wide awake, i'm wide awake

and i'll plead with a thousand voices

I am sane! I am sane!

I just fell from the mothership
(they said that)
your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed
your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed

walk the plank! walk the plank! walk the plank!
walk the plank! walk the plank! walk the plank!
walk, the, plank!

your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed
your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed
your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed
your answers, they're always lying on the ocean bed

Meiko - Said & Done

This song's going to you
The one who's so confused
The one who feels so used
You don't have to wait for all this silly fate
For things you cannot make

Hey
What are you going to say
What are you going to do when it's all said and done

I watched from afar
Wishing on every star
Saving every penny
And I used to feel the same
Like everything's a game but all I kept doing was losing

So hey
What are you going to say
What are you going to do when it's all said and done

Hey
What are you going to say
What are you going to do when it's all said
When it's all said and done

Animal Collective - "Banshee Beat"



Oh, there'll be time to get by;
I get dry after the swimming pool.
Oh, there'll be time to just cry;
I wonder why it didn't work out.
Oh, there'll be time to fish fry
for letters by yours truly.
Yours truly.

Someone in my dictionary's up to no good,
I never find the very special words I should.
And so I have another party with a water glass,
and I sit on all your actions,
it's a birthing game.
And I bet he needs a shower 'cause he's just like me,
but the soldiers in the painting know your secret face.
Well your parrot told me just how I can make you smile.
Gonna let you do your thinkin' if you need a while.
But what I gave you made him get mad,
a little bit funny how a thing like that
could travel through one mouth in through another,
and the next thing you know you gotta hear it from your brother.
And the words they sting, like a stump of old wasps.
Do you remember when I said, "Go throw the rock in there,"
and we ran through the woods to our good house,
but you forgot about the things that he could say like,
"I don't think that I like you anymore,
well I found new feelings at the feeling store.
And I can't find you at our kissing place;
well I'm scared of those new pair of eyes you have."

So I duck out, go down to find the swimming pool.
Hop the fence, leave the street, and wet your feet to find the swimming pool.
'Cause when I'd snuffed out I doubt I'd find the swimming pool.
Hop the fence, leave the street, and wet your feet to find the swimming pool.

But I don't wish that I was dead.
Now, a very old friend of mine once said
that either way you look at it
you have your fits, I have my fits,
but feeling is good.

Confusion's not a kidney stone in my brain.
If we're miscommunicating, do we feel the same?
'Cause either way you look at it
you have your fits, I have my fits,
and feeling is good.

So I duck out, go down to find the swimming pool.
Hop the fence, leave the street, and wet your feet to find the swimming pool.
'Cause when I'd snuffed out I doubt I'd find the swimming pool.
Hop the fence, leave the street, and wet your feet to find the swimming pool.

If you give a little,
you can get a little bit.

Blondie: Rapture



Toe to toe
Dancing very close
Barely breathing
Almost comatose
Wall to wall
People hypnotised
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in Rapture

Back to back
Sacrailiac
Spineless movement
And a wild attack

Face to face
Sadly solitude
And it's finger popping
Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercuries and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, do punk rock

Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!

[quote=tangent_man]While battling (or giving in to) a bout of insomnia last night, I came across this thread. I'd like to thank you all for costing me about $40 on iTunes. Bastards.

Don't feel bad Tangent, I just found it tonight

Here's my first entry (I didn't go thru the whole thread because it's 42 freaking pages long, so sorry if this is a repeat!)

Know your enemy - Rage Against The Machine

Huh
Yeah, we're comin' back then with another bombtrack
Think ya know what it's all about
Huh
Hey yo, so check this out
Yeah
Know your enemy!

Come on

Born with insight and a raised fist
A witness to the slit wrist
As we move into '92
Still in a room without a view
Ya got to know
Ya got to know
That when I say go, go, go
Amp up and amplify
Defy
I'm a brother with a furious mind
Action, must be taken
We don't need the key
We'll break in

Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
'Cause I'll rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em
Fist in ya face, in the place
And I'll drop the style clearly
Know your enemy...Know your enemy!

Yeah

Hey yo, get with this...uggh

Word is born
Fight the war, f**k the norm
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D the E the F the I the A the N the C the E
The mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy

Now something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
'Cause I'll rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em
Now action must be taken
We don't need the key
We'll break in

I've got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
I've got no patience now
So sick of complacence now
Sick of, sick of, sick of, sick of you
Time has come to pay...

Know your enemy!

Come on
Yes I know my enemies
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise
conformity
assimilation
submission
ignorance
hypocrisy
brutality
the elite
All of which are American dreams(8x)

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf

I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

Thong Song - Kyuss

I don't need a seance
I don't read grey lines
I signed it away
way long
I hate, slow songs

whoa yeah,
I don't even care
whoa yeah,
I go over there

my hair is,
real long
no brains
just braun
no shoes
just thongs,
I hate, slow songs

whoa yeah,
you cry like I care
whoa yeah,
buck naked and there...

hooray, hooray for you
hooray, hooray for you
hooray, hooray for you
hooray, hooray for you
hooray, hooray for you
hooray, hooray for you



Completely non-sensical and amazingly cool! One of my favorite bands from the 90's and they gave us Queens of the stone age and Eagles of death metal!

Sarah Slean - Sweet Ones

They're counting on a guilty conscience to save you
But I'm bankin' on the deep blue eyes and the face too
They always said, always said, always said you were easy, oh . . .
Oh if I could have just one piece of that I'd be
Sold . . .

Come over to the sweet ones baby,
and I'll tell you where to go.
I can't see them when they're walking sideways
I don't know,
I don't know.

Come over to my house I'll tend to you solo
("I'll tend to you, I'll tend to you")
So fabulous and well dressed up like a talk show
("So fabulous, so fabulous")
They always said, always said, always said you were easy
("Oh, always said")
Oh if I could have just one piece of that I'd be sold...

Come over to the sweet ones baby,
and I'll tell you where to go.
I can't see them when they're walking sideways
I don't know,
I don't know.

Oh so sad we, love you madly
Want to take you home
Oh so sad we, love you madly
want to take you home.

You know, if I could have just one piece of that I'd be
Sold . . .

Come over to the sweet ones baby,
and I'll tell you where to go.
I can't see them when they're walking sideways
I don't know,
I don't know-w . . .

A-come over to the sweet ones baby,
("Sweet, sweetie")
And I'll tell you where to go.
("Tell you where to go")
I can't see them when they're walking sideways
I don't know,
I don't know!

The Doors - Orange County Suite

Well I used to know someone fair
She had orange ribbons in her hair
She was such a trip
She was hardly there
But I loved her
Just the same.

There was rain in our window,
The FM set was ragged
But she could talk, yeah,
We learned to speak

And one year
Has gone by

Such a long long road to seek it
All we did was break and freak it
We had all
That lovers ever had
We just blew it
And I'm not sad

Well I'm mad

And I'm bad

And two years
Have gone by

Now her world was bright orange
And the fire glowed
And her friend had a baby
And she lived with us
Yeah, we broke through the window
Yeah, we knocked on the door
Her phone would not answer,
Yeah, but she's still home

Now her father has passed over
And her sister is a star
And her mother smokes diamonds
And she sleeps out in the car

Yeah, but she remembers Chicago
The musicians & guitars
And grass by the lake
And people who laugh'd
And made her poor heart ache

Now we live down in the valley
We work out on the farm
We climb up to the mountains
And everything's fine

And I'm still here
And you're still there
And we're still around

The Cure - Burn

Not a big fan of the cure, but I always thought this song from the "The Crow" soundtrack was really cool.

'Don't look, don't look,' the shadows breathe
Whispering me away from you
'Don't wake at night to watch her sleep
You know that you will always lose
This trembling, adored, tousled birdmad girl...'
But every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again

'Oh, don't talk of love,' the shadows purr
Murmuring me away from you
'Don't talk of worlds that never were
The end is all that's ever true
There's nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do...'
Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name
Every night I burn
Every night the dream's the same
Every night I burn
Waiting for my only friend
Every night I burn
Waiting for the world to end

'Just paint your face,' the shadows smile
Slipping me away from you
'Oh, it doesn't matter how you hide
Find you if we're wanting to
So slide back down and close your eyes
Sleep a while, you must be tired...'
But every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again
Every night I burn
Scream the animal scream
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream
Every night I burn
Scream the animal scream
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream

Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream

Well, just came back from a camping trip with the wife for her b-day. Everything was going fine until some dumbass truck driver hit us. "I didn't see you." he said, because he wasn't looking of course. But we're okay, the car's gonna need some TLC. So, in honour of this stinking truck driver who's gonna totally (frank) up my insurance, I dedicate this song.

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

Vader-Litany

Hateful as it may be percieved, "Litany" can be different things for
different people.
Choose your own enemy and conquer your hatred. Love is the Law, Love under
Will.

Fury, hatred, bondage, pain
Anger, blindness, boredom, strain
Slavery, loathing, frenzy, tension
Phobias, fierceness, madness, grudge
Distress, pressure, burden, acid
Disgust, rage, malice, spite
Grossness, rancor, venom, grief
Panic, terror, violence, death

This is what you mean to me

Murder, shash, burn, destroy
Tear, erase, slaughter, scar
Drown, garrote, strangle, slay
Hang, bury, torture, finish
Deafen, blister, mire, flay
Repel, poison, corrupt, damn
Sacrifice, wipe, ravage, singe
Crush, forget, harm, impale

This is what I'll do to you

Cruel, false, mindless, plain
Evil, brutish, perverse, sly
Forceful, stupid, shallow, mute
Cowardly, jealous, gloomy, rank
Tainted, cheap, thoughtless, sick
Vindictive, savage, rotten, gross
Dreadful, useless, envious, dumb
Sleazy, lowly, mocking, sham

This is what you'll always be

http://www.myspace.com/jonathanseet

Westfall, by Okkervil River

you'd never guess it by looking at me, but i can spit this entire song...

...yes. i said spit.