I found it unbearably awkward after 30 seconds.
From someone who likes Larry David, that's saying something.
I just realized the Count is completely absent. That's an oversight.
1-2-3-4 comments. Should we comment more?
[There was a brief interval when I found Feist's music appealing. It didn't last.]
How long until Armsmasher comes along to swoon?
5: We could count the seconds, but unfortunately Feist has taught me only up to four.
I just realized the Count is completely absent. That's an oversight.
The Count has been having some trouble.
Anyway, it's not a patch on this Sesame Street performance.
9: Yeah, you really can't get better than a terms-of-use violation.
8: That's the version we used to learn a cover of that song! I was informed I had to smile like the drummer does—the whole damn time. I did not comply.
8: I know I've mentioned it before, but Christ, to go from that to "I Just Called To Say I Love You"... oy.
That's the version we used to learn a cover of that song!
Do you guys include the shoutout to Cookie Monster and the Sesame Street–themed postlude, as well?
14: You'll have to come to the performance, dude. I can't give it all away on the internet.
I look forward to Feist's kid-friendly version of Down for the Count.
When's the west-coast tour, then?
Okay, now I love her. I don't know how I'd feel about her if I didn't have children, but the non-child-having part of my life is no longer relevant.
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Not that the All-Star Game matters, but the AL just got robbed twice. I like an extra-innings game, though, pretty much in the same way I like a good movie that runs more than two hours.
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I think they just can't stand the continuing embarrassment of the NL. The bottom of the 10th was very well played, defensively, you have to say.
17: as soon as gas is back down to under $3/gallon. So really, really soon.
The bottom of the 10th was very well played, defensively, you have to say.
I do indeed.
And who knew that Christian Guzman had a talent other than hitting into double plays.
Holy crap, this is actually pretty exciting. Impressive pitching.
Don't get too excited... it's gonna end in a tie.
Is it okay to say that the Feist thing is kind of . . . boring?
25: Of course. It's understandable that your offspring would prefer to go off and sling mouse poo against a wall—he is your progeny, after all.
I actually like Feist, but I think that the original music video (with the original song) is much better.
Also, did Tim Lincecum end up pitching or no?
I actually like Feist, but I think that the original music video (with the original song) is much better.
I'd argue the original video makes even less sense than the Sesame Street take, but yeah, the song's obviously better.
More pressingly: why do you all hate children?
This is not the day to ask me that.
The commercials using some of the original song I found unbearably irritating. Not at first, but after it became clear that they were going to run them for a long time before rolling out a differently-soundtracked ad. I don't think I've ever heard the whole thing.
luckily the rest of the album is nice and much folkier than that song so one can dissociate it somewhat from the commercials.
re: 8
That is such an awesome performance. I remember it from the first time it was posted here.
Has any artist quite that brilliant ever gone down hill as quickly as Stevie Wonder? From his 60s and early 70s output to ... everything from about 1980 onwards.
It never occurred to me as a child that the puppets on Sesame Street were "monsters."
You'd think that one would be obvious, huh? But if you would have asked elementary school me if cookie monster was a monster, I think I would have said no. He was a Cookie Monster.
Either way, certainly not Elmo.
to go from that to "I Just Called To Say I Love You"
Aw, I love this song. The best version being the Cosby version where Theo goes, "Jamming on the one!", and Rudy makes a giraffe noise, and Vanessa sighs, "Robert."
I like Feist. I just saw several of the artists I like referred to as 'mommy rockers' and I thought 'and daddies too!'
At the talent show for my son's school, some kids danced around to this song. When they first started playing it I turned to the teacher and said, it's the lip-synching scandal of the talent show. And then they really did just dance around to recorded music. In defense of the school, there were other kids who made their own music.
33: I've heard that said of Rod Stewart, by people who liked his first album. No offense to the laydeez, but it seems to have a lot to do with panties. They just decided to go the Tom Jones -- Engelbert Humperdinck (Welsh) direction.
Gosh, it's disconcerting how the Sesame Street set has been upgraded since I used to watch the show. Gentrification!
40. It's been renamed "Four Seed Whole Grain Street".
re: 39
Rod Stewart's first three or four albums are all good. Mercury reissued them recently as a 3 CD set. They are often surprisingly subtle too given the later bombast. I bought the box as a whim and find myself listening to it quite a lot.
Stanley, I have to say this is fantastic. I hadn't listened to Feist in a while and listened to her on the walk to work solely based on this post.
40: I noticed that, too. Apparently the yuppies noticed that it was in an area with diversity (all those monsters) and good schools and it's so charming, the kids play right in the street! Next thing you know Oscar's can is going for half a million dollars.
re: 39
Another good example of your claim would be George Benson. Guitar nerds (like me) revere his early stuff* but deprecate his smooth vocal stuff. Which George probably doesn't, because the smooth vocal stuff has made him a very rich man.
* The Benson of 'New Boss Guitar' and 'The George Benson Cookbook' era: Borgia Stick, Shadow Dancers, all those kinds of things. Stuff that is, admittedly, fucking great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_lWz6DdD5Q
Roberta Flack. Loved her first album or two.
Maybe we should quit. It's getting depressing.
A friend of mine was a tremendous George Benson fan as long as he could stand it. In the end he was just crushed.
33: From his 60s and early 70s output to ... everything from about 1980 onwards.
The 60s/70s work already included one interesting transformation when Wonder completed his escape from being "Little Stevie Wonder" by renogotiating his relationship with the record companies and seizing creative control of his work. The great early-mid 70s work was the result.
The Feist video is charming, haters.
Rod Stewart's first three or four albums are all good.
As was his stuff with the Faces and Jeff Beck. He had a long long run as a fine rock singer before it went tits up. Age, in part?
re: 46
Youtube has a few 'famous guitar player plays duet with George Benson and is made to look like a pathetic newb' vids. He can still cut it. He just hasn't done anything interesting in decades.
re: 50
Yeah. A lot of his soul covers from that period are really good, and his use of folk instruments and often quite subtle arrangements is good too.
50: Probably penance, for fucking up that Tom Waits song.
Feist is another one of those artists who I feel like I *ought* to enjoy, but just doesn't catch my ear.
re: 54
Me too. There's a few tracks I like. It's nice enough stuff, but doesn't really grab me.
54-5: You should hear what she says about you guys.
I've only heard Feist on a TV commercial that uses "1 2 3 4". It's much catchier than the average commercial.
That video is hugely dorky, but so, so endearing.
I saw Feist in concert last week. She came off as very talented but the show overall didn't really grab me.
It's a good think she doesn't keep counting because she's only reliable as a teacher of numbers until six.
Apparently the yuppies noticed that it was in an area with diversity (all those monsters) and good schools and it's so charming, the kids play right in the street! Next thing you know Oscar's can is going for half a million dollars.
Once those two homos Bert & Ernie bought a brownstone and fixed it up, the realtors took notice, and the rest was pretty much inevitable.
And don't even get me started on that awful cardboard-and-crayons construction that has dominated the streetscape since that little nouveau riche twerp Elmo moved in and put up that god-awful "Elmo's World" development.