Animated All Along the Watchtower - Video

Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower was released 40 years ago this week. Since then, it's been given a number of treatments, including an Animated All Along the Watchtower.

YouTube - Dropkick Murphys: State of Massachusetts

YouTube - Dropkick Murphys: State of Massachusetts

MilkandCookies - Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

MilkandCookies - Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - Redemption Song

Joe Strummer (The Clash, The Mescaleros) died five years ago today. Here he sings Bob Marley's Redemption Song.

YouTube - Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia

YouTube - Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia

Happy 67th FZ. We still miss you.

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time,
I'll give it right back to you one of these days.

YouTube - Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band - Meeting Across The River

YouTube - Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band - Meeting Across The River

MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Brain Damage (Studio Sessions)

MilkandCookies - Pink Floyd: Brain Damage (Studio Sessions)

Patti Scialfa - Rumble Doll

Bruce Springsteen - Live in Dublin

MilkandCookies - Rock and Riffs: 1945 to 1963, Part 1

MilkandCookies - Rock and Riffs: 1945 to 1963, Part 1

Jimi Hendrix, - Red House

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3262051) In case you didn't know why so many guitarists bow to Jimi Hendrix, here's "Red House"

Pipeline

YouTube - Marianne Faithfull - Ballad of Lucy Jordan

YouTube - Marianne Faithfull - Ballad of Lucy Jordan

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

Eight Bars of Soul | MetaFilter: "Proceeding (sic) Otis by two years and 364 days, Sam Cooke was shot and killed on this day in 1964."

Little Feat - Willin'

"I've been from Tuscon to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonapah"

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

(from the Monterey Pop recording)

Forty years ago today, Otis Redding died in a plane crash.

WCUW - Souls Arising

Rolling Stones - 2120 South Michigan Avenue

The home of the former Chess Studio in Chicago. The tune is, I think, the only Rolling Stones' instrumental.

Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher

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Drink from the well and yield your place to another. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

Dave Van Ronk

With a voice like rusty razor blades in the blender, singing Teddy Bears' Picnic.

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3240438) December 1967: The freak flag flies when The Jimi Hendrix Experience releases "Axis: Bold as Love"

FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3240438) December 1967: The freak flag flies when The Jimi Hendrix Experience releases "Axis: Bold as Love"

Iggy Pop - Brick by Brick

Esp. Candy, a duet with Kate Pierson of the B-52s.

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Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Another of those recordings that you can and should play over and over.

Live Aid 1985

Feed the world. (All links )

• It's been too easy to forget just how good a singer and a performer Freddie Mercury was.
• The U2 Bad set was great, as was Sunday, Bloody Sunday, even if the video clip was backwards.
  
• The wonderful arrogance that was The Who. Each band had 20 minutes for its set. Pete Townshend put his boot heel through the light that was signaling the end of their allotted time.
  
• Ozzy!
• Neil Young solo, looking like he's in a bus station, but he's not sure which one.
• Even if the tight harmonies of the Beach Boys don't hold up over the years and out of the studio, it's still good stuff.
• Where else will you find Chrissie Hynde, Joan Baez, and Marie Osmond sharing a microphone?
  

You can find plenty of example of sanctimonious performers and the seeds of the many parodies that came from these events. But, we also got the Best. Concert. Ever.

Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbor Lane

I first heard Woke up this Morning, theme song for The Sopranos, in a Tower Record store in Seattle in the late 90s. I bought the CD and listened to it over and over on the plane ride home.