Oh, YouTube

[tahnan]

YouTube can serve quite nicely to play music in the background while one is, say, writing and editing a homework assignment.

On the other hand, once one realizes, "Hey, I could search for Artist X on YouTube!", one very quickly descends into related video after related video in a Wikipedia-like chain that ends up keeping one occupied for hours. Thus, from Richard Thompson, I end up with Richard Thompson, Shawn Colvin, and John Cale singing "Heartbreak Hotel", and from there to John Cale's Hallelujah, to Leonard Cohen singing it on German TV, to Jeff Buckley's version, to k.d. lang's, to Bon Jovi's...and suddenly it's like an hour later. (End result: of all the non-Leonard versions I've heard, I believe I prefer John Cale's.)

I should go to bed. Homework sent out, in any case.

(Bonus link, especially for my ex: if you're going to take a weird Leonard Cohen song, you might as well make a weird video. He's got this half-smile as if to suggest that he knows something you don't. For instance, what the hell the song means. And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, it's once for the Devil and once for the Christ...)

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Bon Jovi's done a cover of "Hallelujah"? Where? Where? WHERE, I ASK YOU, *WHERE*!!?!?

ahem. o.o

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Variously on YouTube, but try this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANwTNFWvOF8) as a starting point.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

i gotta say, i had no idea bon jovi ventured into such territory until you mentioned it (although i find myself clicking through you tube on related links and finding some weird shit). thanks for pointing this out!

having watched it now, i want to say that he looks constipated and the over enunciation kind of makes me want to punch him in the triangle. at one point, i think he does the paul gross arms.

and yes, john cale's is the best.

[lilisonna.livejournal.com]

I now have that song stuck in my head. But I appreciate the link.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

oooo. Yes, John Cale's version of that song is preeminent. And now I really, really have to prevent myself from watching the "Heartbreak Hotel" vid at work...thanks a lot.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

But do listen when you get home. It's...not traditional.

[lunacow]

Weirdly (or not?), I was just looking for Hallelujah covers on YouTube a few days ago.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure "Closing Time" is about sex. And, um, life. Yes, that's it. Sex and life. And probably a bar of some sort. Oh, and religion. Sex, life, religion and a bar.