Song of the Day: Keep Hope Alive by Crystal Method


Today’s song of the day is from Crystal Method.  Though Keep Hope Alive was featured in the film The Replacement Killers, it was actually inspired by a 1992 speech from Jesse Jackson, which is heard throughout the song.

Song of the Day: Don’t Your Forget About Me by Simple Minds


Given the fact that today is the birthday of both John Hughes and Molly Ringwald, it seems obvious what today’s song of the day should be.

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ooh, woah

Won’t you come see about me?
I’ll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving everything inside and out and
Love’s strange, so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don’t you, forget about me
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Don’t you, forget about me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Will you recognize me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ooh, woah

Don’t you try and pretend
It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end
I won’t harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security, ah

Don’t you forget about me
I’ll be alone, dancing, you know it, baby
Going to take you apart
I’ll put us back together at heart, baby

Don’t you, forget about me
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Don’t you, forget about me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away

Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on, call my name
Will you call my name?

I say
La, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
When you walk on by
And you call my name
When you walk on by

Songwriters: Keith Forsey / Steve W. Schiff

Music Video of the Day: Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie (2000, dir by ????)


It’s Ash Wednesday!  Sharing this song by David Bowie is a bit of an Ash Wednesday tradition and I’m going to keep it going this year.  (Yes, I understand the song isn’t actually about Ash Wednesday but, for me, it is.)

This is from a 2000 performance in London.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: Bayou Boy by Graham Barham (2024, dir by ????)


Happy Mardi Gras to all!

What can I say about this video other than it’s definitely authentic?  There’s a lot of people who will be able to relate to every word of this song.  This guy actually reminds me of more than a few of my cousins.  The fact that the song features more than a little Cajun French only contributes to the authenticity.

Song of the Day: If You’ll Hold The Ladder (I’ll Climb To The Top), performed by Robert Duvall


Robert Duvall missed out on his chance to play Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman’s Nashville but 8 years later, he gave a performance as a country musician that would him his only Oscar.

This is from 1983’s Tender Mercies.

Robert Duvall, RIP

 

Music Video of the Day: Peaches by The Presidents of the United States of America (1996, directed by Roman Coppola)


For Presidents Day, here’s a music video featuring a different group of Presidents singing about their love of peaches and fighting off a group of Ninjas.  How many other presidents can do that?

This video was directed by Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford and future collaborator with Wes Anderson.  Coppola made his feature directorial debut with the excellent CQ in 2002.

The Presidents of the United States of America, one of the more refreshingly angst-free bands of the 90s, broke up in 2015.  Lead singer Chris Ballew explained the break up by saying, “We’re old people now.”  If only all presidents were as honest.

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: All Time High, performed by Rita Coolidge (1983, dir by ????)


Happy Valentine’s Day!

Today’s music video of the day is for the song that was, of course, the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film, Octopussy.  Apparently, the producers realized that there weren’t many words that comfortably rhymed with the movie’s title so they tasked John Barry and Tim Rice with coming up with a theme song that would still be radio friendly.  They came up with All Time High.  I know that some consider this to be a lesser Bond theme song but I absolutely love it.  Some of that might be because this is one of the few songs that I can actually sing all the way through without going off-key.

And it’s the perfect Valentine’s Day song!  I’ll be singing this song later tonight.  Actually, I’ll be singing a medly of James Bond theme songs tonight.  It’s kind of a Valentine’s Day tradition….

Enjoy!