Fink @Wikipedia
Fink, AKA Fin Greenall, is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and DJ from St. Ives, currently based in Brighton. Since 2006, the name Fink has also referred to the recording and touring trio fronted by Greenall himself, completed by Guy Whittaker (bass) and Tim Thornton (drums). Fink is signed to independent record label Ninja Tune Records. Greenall is also a sought-after songwriter for other artists, having most recently written for John Legend, and Ximena Sarinana.

sifted because atara posted Dinosaur Ballet which only uses the opening 40 sec, before the orchestra comes in, and i thought someone might like to hear the rest.

from the wiki:
The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488) is a musical composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, around the time of the premiere of his opera, The Marriage of Figaro. It was one of three subscription concerts given that spring and was probably played by Mozart himself at one of these.

The second, slow movement, in ternary form, is impassioned and somewhat operatic in tone. The piano begins alone with a theme characterized by unusually wide leaps. This is the only movement by Mozart in F sharp minor. The dynamics are soft throughout most of the piece. The middle of the movement contains a brighter section in A major announced by flute and clarinet that Mozart would later use to introduce the trio "Ah! taci ingiusto core!" in his opera Don Giovanni.

No, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is not about marijuana, or any other type of drug. It is what its writers have always claimed it to be: a song about the innocence of childhood lost.


The poem that formed the basis of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was written in 1959 by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash rhyme about a "Really-O Truly-O Dragon," and, using a dragon as the central figure, he came up with a poem about the end of childhood innocence. Lipton passed his work along to a friend, fellow Cornell student (and folk music enthusiast) Peter Yarrow, who put a melody to the words and wrote additional lyrics to create the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon." After Yarrow teamed up with Mary Travers and Paul Stookey in 1961 to form Peter, Paul & Mary, the trio performed the song in live shows; their 1962 recording of "Puff" reached #2 on the Billboard charts in early 1963.


The 1960s being what they were, however, any song based on oblique or allegorical lyrics was subject to reinterpretation as a "drug song," and so it was with "Puff." (For Peter, Paul & Mary, at least, the revelation that their song was "really" about marijuana came after the song had finished its chart run; other groups were not so fortunate, and accusations of "drug lyrics" caused some radio stations to ban songs such as the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" from their playlists.) "Puff" was an obvious name for a song about smoking pot; little Jackie Paper's surname referred to rolling papers; "autumn mist" was either clouds of marijuana smoke or a drug-induced state; the land of "Hanah Lee" was really the Hawaiian village of Hanalei, known for its particularly potent marijuana plants; and so on. As Peter Yarrow has demonstrated in countless concert performances, any song — even "The Star-Spangled Banner" — can be interpreted as a "drug song."


http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.asp

>> ^alizarin:

Alternate lineup:
Rush Limbaugh
Karl Rove
Glenn Beck
Re-watch it and think about it


I don't know what's worse... Imagining this trio or realizing that if there *were* a video of it, I would be watching it with my jaw hanging open for the entire video. Possibly more than once.

It's not any worse for being contrived.. it's still brilliant.
Also interesting to note, "Die Antwoord" rearranged becomes "Ad Owned Trio."

http://www.videosift.com/video/Brad-Mehldau-Trio-Knives-Out

Thank you!

In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
*promote

thanks. bummer way to get promotes.

*edit*here are a few good ones as well:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Les-Paul-Lovers-with-interview
http://www.videosift.com/video/Les-Paul-Trio-Dark-Eyes

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
*doublepromote this right here. RIP Les Paul, died today at age 94. Truly one of the greats.

^ I like the big Nintendo IP's (Mario, Zelda, and Metroid). I'm just disappointed that it's the same trio today that it was nearly 20 years ago. I would love to see an M-rated game from the same creative people. In theory the new Metroid is supposed to satisfy that demand, but I loved the Prime series, and would rather have Nintendo create a new IP if they want a first-party M-rated IP. I don't want Samus to become a brutal slayer-vixen.

I'm interested in the new Castlevania game they announced (because they say Kojima is part of the dev team!), but that will be for 360 and PS3, and not on Wii at all.

Castlevania is a 3rd party (Konami) IP anways.

I saw Pat Metheny Trio in concert last year, probably the most worthwhile money I have ever spent on music. This guy plays an amazing array of different guitars so well!

Hey! Thanks Haldaug! You're awesome!

In reply to this comment by Haldaug:
*promote

Don't get your panties in a bunch, these have all been sifted already:

http://www.videosift.com/video/legacy0100-and-JTZ-make-the-worst-music-video-ever-made
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tunak-Tunak-Tun
http://www.videosift.com/video/white-boyband-trio-sings-about-going-down-on-black-urban-boy
http://www.videosift.com/video/Best-Worst-Anti-War-Song-Ever-from-Hungary (my personal favorite)
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-New-Mulleted-American-National-Anthem
http://www.videosift.com/video/When-D-D-meets-MTV-WTF-Insanely-Terrible-Pop-Video

Now go vote up the finest specimens of *Music + *Terrible.

I think Nirvana didn't prepare for that.
Who knows what was really going on, but it seems like the trio weren't expecting that. Possibly stoned to the gills. Charles Barkely, who either plays basketball or sings a Crazy song—I don't know—was calm and kind, up to and including 5:42 (and thereafter upon further review).
“Hurts real bad” were the only words I heard from St. Kurt.
Revealing, in its way.
Sometimes, when we repel from people, it's because we are not at our best, but it is seen as arrogance, or something else.
We may leave to hide ourselves, to protect ourselves, but it is seen as an insult, leaving because the one left isn't good enough.
(but that's not why we left)
That was a hard video to watch.

Intense, that’s the best word to describe the character of the music that took hold at the outset of the 70’s. Powered by stacks of amplifiers, propelled by rock backbeats, fueled with unbridled passion, and full of the spirit of jazz improvisation, this so-called fusion music coalesced into a full blown movement with the arrival of John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Coryell’s Eleventh House, and Chick Corea’s Return to Forever.

With impressive credits, Al was instantly inducted into Guitar Player’s Gallery of the Greats, becoming the youngest player in the magazine’s history ever accorded that honor.

At the outset of the 80’s, Di Meola put his Les Paul on the shelf and turned to the acoustic guitar, touring and recorded with a superstar trio including McLaughlin and Spain’s flamenco master, Paco de Lucia. He returned to his old electrified ways briefly with 1982’s «Electric Rendez-vous» and its follow-up, «Tour De Force Live». In 1983, the same year he recorded the bravado studio album «Passion, Grace & Fire» with the acoustic trio, De Meola had a brief reunion tour with his old RTF mates, Corea, drummer Lenny White, and bassist Stanley Clarke. Though the tour proved that the intensity was still very much alive, no record was released of this powerhouse fusion unit, together again for the first time since the 1976 breakup…

heh - to the title... yes and sort-of no

yes, they went too far in *opposing* same-sex marriage with prop 8

sort-of no, they should have joined together with the same-sex-marriage crowd, stipulating that they would *support* these non-traditional unions *if* said crowd also backed and pushed just as hard for other "eyebrow-raising" arrangements... namely polygamy

if, for instance, we were to allow (for the sake of "being in love" as the foundation of the defacto equal-rights challenge) he to marry him and she to marry her... then why stop at a simple *pairing*? who's to say that you can't "be in love" as a trio, quartet, quintet, etc? why the seemingly arbitrary domestic *duo*? seems to me that in an age of latch-key kids and with the prevalence of each parent to be career-oriented... that our kids may need a larger parental "pool" to meet their needs properly

imho, mormons and gays should join forces to settle this government interference once and for all, with the caveat that we draw the line at beastialiteurs and those wishing legalized bondings with the inanimate