I Set My Place Here • Aaron Razel

It's...Terrible Tune TUESDAY!!!



In fairness, of course, this is an excellent tune with creative lyrics. It's just that, I'm Chabad, and yes, "Yesh harbei shluchim laMakom" and all that, but, like, it's just a tiny bit ludicrous, you know, as Chabadies might see it.

The Revelation Will Not Be Televised • Stereo Sinai

Stereo Sinai is a husband and wife band from Chicago that rocks.

HT:MM

Ein Kelokeinu - Tuvia Bolton

Mamash ein.

Hadran Alach - Laibel ben Moshe

Well before Lipa. Better than Journeys. And what can you say when someone so naturally rhymes "רבא" with "cover"?

REALLY Old McDonald

I realize from the upload date that this has been around for a really long time. It is still excruciatingly funny! Happy Purim!

The Duck Song (aka The Best Song Ever)

This was actually returned to my Youtube query: Best Song Ever. the funny thing is that it may just be!



Family people: this is a variation of Sawale's famous "Do you have any scwews?" story...

My Jewish Star! - Shlomo Menkes

Awe.Some.

Bombeleo Parody - Meni Ozeri

Hilarious! Thanks Shimshon for sending it to me.

Shabbat - Adi Ran

Good shabbos!

Glass Harp

HT: Gruntig

Piamenta/Stan Getz - 1977 - Mitzvah

HT: YA

Cyber Conductor - Aleksey Igudesman/Sebastian Gürtler

Very cute.



HT: Ber Bom

Barba Abba - Tzipi Shavit

NO, I did not expect to bust THIS song! Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh...



Lyrics here. (It's actually a pretty lovely story :))

HT:Ber/Peninah Bombom

Yngwie Malmsteen with the New Japan Philharmonic - Icarus Dream Fanfare

Long story short, read wiki-p about the man. So, he played one of the pieces off of his "Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E flat minor"—a set written by him, scored by a friend (Rosenthal, a Jew), conducted by a different friend (Levi, a Jew), and performed by the Czech Philharmonic (once full of Jews)—with the New Japan Philharmonic. And that is this.



UPDATE: Peretz noted in the comments that I posted the "wrong" clip. So here is the "correct" one. Special Moments: "Violin" at :37 and teeth-playing at 7:00.

MBD/Aron Razel - Inyan Hasimcha

Like this: We will first take stock of the current state of Jewish music and decide if it is Jewish. We will then take stock of the current state of Jewish music and decide if it is music. We will then take stock of the current incarnation of the King of Jewish Music and decide if... you see what we are going to do, yes?

OK: Aron Razel has a weird way of inserting the laughies and the shouties without sounding disingenuous—which is to say, while retaining his, and its, genuineness. That's huge, especially in a borderline psychotic and altogether bad-advice song like this. I mean, I have been outside that circle, and a good pair of balls can be easily crushed when the Inside Guy follows this advice. But it's also SUCH a great—and really the only—way I can imagine putting these words to a tune. I hate it. I love it. I need to listen again.

UPDATE: I lied. And I hate it.


I don't hate it, of course, but having not heard it for several hours, my annoyances are: MBD's rough איש אחד מבחוץ at :26 and his general hav'ara mizrachi... this is, like, classic Rabbi Nachman! A bissel chassidishkeit? It takes me back to one of my PETTTT peeves: people who get excited by the spiritualness of Eastern religions--things like washing before bread and shaking a palm branch. Honk if you followed that thought. Beep.

Also, re my earlier comment: I didn't understand the whole passage at first. It is not advice to someone to be Chotef ish echod mibachutz, but to examine the way one might be Chotef someone from the side during his own dance, and translate it to yourself. Which is what I was saying though: I wouldn't do that cuz I would kill the person who did it to me. Maim. I'd maim the person who did it to me. Hurt him pretty badly. Glare at him.

A Jewish kid asks his father for fifty dollars. His father says: "Forty dollars! What the hell do you need thirty dollars for?"

Good Advice - Allan Sherman

Memorize. Repeat.

Evën Sh'siyah - Yerushalayim

In your sleep, I will feed them to you; one track at a time—one rocking, bass-driven track at a time—will you come to adore the Rock of Foundation. Take two doses of this first one and listen out for the English bridge at 3:28. Mellowest vocals, temimusdikkest lyrics.

אבי דער זינגער געהייסן האט ער

א פשוטער מערלאט אבער א פיינער שטימע
וואס מער געדרייט ווערט זיסער דעם קול
א שמייכל אויפן פנים און א פינגער אויף דעם קאפ
אוי! וואס א ביסעלע וויין קען טאן

Avi Singing -

Az Di Rebbe Shluft - Leonard Cohen

HT: Isser New

Aleph Bet - Moshe Yess & Megama

The L-rd will forgiveth however you liveth so long as you don't cease the poor man to giveth.

MOSHE!!! WE MISS YOU!!!