What is your favorite song of the last 5 minutes?

[Tom Sawyer]

Jeff Beck, Tal Wilkenfeld -Stratus and Cause We've Ended As Lovers

http://youtu.be/0yuZ-J5coKk

I usually don't think you should try to classify and rank artists as the best or whatever... but, I'll break that tradition and say that Jeff Beck, if not the best guitarist in the world, is certainly the most innovative and distinctive. The bass player, Tal Wilkenfeld, is an incredible player, cute and infectiously endearing as well.

[Russell Kanning]

I say .... distinctive

[KBCraig]

Brandon Jenkins, "Perfect Slave".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIB8jDS76f0

Gotta keep 'em down,
gotta keep 'em poor.
Gotta keep 'em scared,
wolf's at the door.

Gotta keep 'em sick,
gotta keep 'em mean.
Gotta fall in line,
gotta root the team.

Then you work 'em hard
to an early grave.
Then you got yourself
the perfect slave.

Fill their heads with lies,
keep 'em all confused.
Keep 'em on their knees,
any god'll do.

Keep 'em waiting on
the judgement day.
Then you got yourself
the perfect slave.

People gonna believe what they hear on the news:
that the sky is fallin', you're born to lose.

Just rob 'em blind,
then they just won't see
how they're paying more,
they used to get for free.

When the water boils,
it'll be too late,
and you got yourself
the perfect slave.

Then we'll call it by
some other name.
Yeah, you got yourself
the perfect slave.

Yeah you got yourself
the perfect slave.
The perfect slave,
the perfect slave.

The perfect slave,
the perfect slave.
The perfect slave,
the perfect slave.

The perfect slave,
the perfect slave.
The perfect slave,
the perfect slave.

[WithoutAPaddle]

Happy.  From Billboard, April 24, 2014:


Williams' 'Happy' makes history as the first song to top as many as six Billboard radio format charts

Call Pharrell Williams the crossover king.

The singer/writer/producer's smash "Happy" becomes the first song to crown as many as six singular-format Nielsen BDS-based Billboard airplay charts, achieving the feat by rising 3-1 on Adult Contemporary. "Happy" rules Adult Pop Songs and Adult R&B Songs for a fifth week each. It first topped Pop Songs for four weeks, Rhythmic Songs for two and Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop (viewable on Billboardbiz) for one.

[Jim Johnson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnuSsM7tRw

[Tom Sawyer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnuSsM7tRw

vince malum bono

[Jim Johnson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnuSsM7tRw

vince malum bono

vade ad formicam

[Tom Sawyer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnuSsM7tRw

vince malum bono

vade ad formicam

Mea navis volitans anguillis plena est

[Jim Johnson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnuSsM7tRw

vince malum bono

vade ad formicam

Mea navis volitans anguillis plena est

I don't know people complain, you can use them to power you hovercraft.

[Silent_Bob]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnuSsM7tRw

vince malum bono

vade ad formicam

Mea navis volitans anguillis plena est

Useful phrase to use in a pleading.

[Jim Johnson]

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Citing precedent from Monty Python, your Honor. 

[Tom Sawyer]

Ralph Stanley, blue grass legend... Oh Death
http://youtu.be/If1yxmaJ14M?list=RDIf1yxmaJ14M

Becky got us tickets to see Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys which features his grand son. Saw them at the Iron Horse in Northampton Mass. Sat right up front. Good show, although Ralph Stanley didn't play banjo, late eighties probably the last chance to see him sing. Particularly poignant when he sang Oh Death. Well the extra cool part was Becky won a guitar and the band autographed it!

Some nice folks we met took some pictures for us.

[Jim Johnson]

 

[Russell Kanning]

cool
I like the nickleback song .... you meet so many sleeping people, but you also run into more and more people realizing exactly how people use government power