Sure this was good, but I'm holding out for Wanda Sykes and Jack Black's rendition.

@rottenseed: I agree with you, the OTHER girl (not the one in THIS video, but the one that Aniatario linked) isn't singing as well as this girl did. That's just my opinion, I'm not trying to dig on her just to be a jerk. On the FLIP side of that coin, Aniatario did NOT say that his link WAS the girl singing the SAME song, just that she sang BETTER. The youtube comments in his link say "Kahnawake Mohawk Kwahara:ni Kieran Jacobs gives her rendition of the Canadian and American anthems at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston on Jaunuary 18, 2010."

@everyone else who think rottenseed is being a jerk (which he's not, I think there's just a bit of confusion going on here), he's not. It's an 8 year old girl who tried her best, but really, if it's a NATIONAL ANTHEM, wouldn't it make more sense to ALWAYS have everyone sing it from the start all the way through? Of course the crowd sounds better than the girl, she's not a professional singer, but I, myself, sure as hell wouldn't have the guts to do what she did. Good on her for being brave! That TOO is part of what it is to be an American.

@WKB

True, but when the Columbine school shooting was perpetrated, conservatives were quick to point the finger at Marilyn Manson's lyrics. I'm not saying they were right, and I'm not saying that Fox deserves all of the blame here either.

I do think though, that the people pumping that kind of rhetoric onto the airwaves deserve SOME responsibility for atrocities like this. Allow me to compare the Woodstock of 1970 to the Woodstock of '99 for an example.

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>>>>>>The 1970 Woodstock (billed as "3 days of Peace and Music") resulted in reports like this:

"The New York Times covered the prelude to the festival and the move from Wallkill to Bethel.[13] Barnard Collier, who reported from the event for the Times, asserts that he was pressured by on-duty editors at the paper to write a misleadingly negative article about the event. According to Collier, this led to acrimonious discussions and his threat to refuse to write the article until the paper's executive editor, James Reston, agreed to let him write the article as he saw fit. The eventual article dealt with issues of traffic jams and minor lawbreaking, but went on to emphasize cooperation, generosity, and the good nature of the festival goers.

When the festival was over, Collier wrote another article about the exodus of fans from the festival site and the lack of violence at the event. The chief medical officer for the event and several local residents were quoted as praising the festival goers."

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>>>>>>The 1999 version of the event (featuring bands like Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock and the Red Hot Chili Peppers who are all, dare I say, a bit angrier [lyrically speaking] than the likes of Arlo Guthrie or Joan Baez) is painted in a much different color:

"Some crowd violence and looting was reported during the Saturday night performance by Limp Bizkit, including a rendition of the song "Break Stuff". Reviewers of the concert criticized Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst as "irresponsible" for encouraging the crowd to destructive behavior.

Violence escalated the next night during the final hours of the concert as Red Hot Chili Peppers performed. A group of peace promoters led by an independent group called Pax had distributed candles to those stopping at their booth during the day, intending them for a candlelight vigil to be held during the Red Hot Chili Peppers' performance of the song "Under the Bridge". During the band's set, the crowd began to light the candles, some also using them to start bonfires. The hundreds of empty plastic water bottles that littered the lawn/dance area were used as fuel for the fire.

After the Red Hot Chili Peppers were finished with their main set, the audience was informed about "a bit of a problem." An audio tower caught fire, and the fire department was called in to extinguish it.

Back onstage for an encore, the Chili Peppers' lead singer Anthony Kiedis remarked how amazing the fires looked from the stage, comparing them to a scene in the film Apocalypse Now.[12] The band proceeded to play "Sir Psycho Sexy", followed by their rendition of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire". Kiedis later stated in his autobiography, Scar Tissue that Jimi Hendrix's sister had asked the Chili Peppers to play "Fire" in honor of Jimi and his performance at the original Woodstock festival, and that they were not playing it to encourage the crowd.

Many large bonfires were burning high before the band left the stage for the last time. Participants danced in circles around the fires. Looking for more fuel, some tore off panels of plywood from the supposedly inviolable security perimeter fence. ATMs were tipped over and broken into, trailers full of merchandise and equipment were forced open and burglarized, and abandoned vendor booths were turned over, and set afire.[13]

MTV, which had been providing live coverage, removed its entire crew. MTV host Kurt Loder described the scene in the July 27, 1999 issue of USA Today:

"It was dangerous to be around. The whole scene was scary. There were just waves of hatred bouncing around the place, (...) It was clear we had to get out of there.... It was like a concentration camp. To get in, you get frisked to make sure you're not bringing in any water or food that would prevent you from buying from their outrageously priced booths. You wallow around in garbage and human waste. There was a palpable mood of anger."

After some time, a large force of New York State Troopers, local police, and various other law enforcement arrived. Most had crowd control gear and proceeded to form a riot-line that flushed the crowd to the northwest, away from the stage located at the eastern end of the airfield. Few of the crowd offered strong resistance and they dispersed quickly back toward the campground and out the main entrance."

>>>>>>See also, this poignant response from a person in the crowd: http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/08/17/woodstock-legacy/ (crowdmember comments @ 2:20)

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Now now easy there big fella, before you start telling me about how correlation does not imply causation consider this: an article recently published by the American Journal of Psychiatry concluded that:

"Childhood exposure to parental verbal aggression was associated, by itself, with moderate to large effects on measures of dissociation, limbic irritability, depression, and anger-hostility." Furthermore, "Combined exposure to verbal abuse and witnessing of domestic violence was associated with extraordinarily large adverse effects, particularly on dissociation. This finding is consonant with studies that suggest that emotional abuse may be a more important precursor of dissociation than is sexual abuse."
See: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/6/993

Maybe not the best example I could have found but I've already spent WAY too much time on this post. The point is, WORDS carry a lot of power. Even if the pundits (right OR left) never came out and said it, the implication of violence was certainly there at times.

I KNOW Fox has lead the charge of fear mongering in the name of ratings but anyone else who subscribed to that level of attack should share some of the blame as well. Again, not saying that they should take all or even a lot of the blame, but they should be responsible for the violent laced rhetoric they spout.

I say STOP THE AD HOMINEM ATTACKS and we'll see less violence against PEOPLE and (hopefully) more enthralling arguments where the IDEAS are being attacked (which I'm all for) :-)

p.s. sry for the huge post but i was on a roll

just added Green Zone, Rendition, and Redacted to my Netflix queue.

Also, it's interesting that those scenes were removed from Charlie Wilson's War... I thought that was common knowledge that the Taliban was armed/trained by the CIA to fight the Russians in Afghanistan at the time.

Although a far cry from a cinematic masterpiece, even Rambo III (1988) pointed out the fact that no one will win a war in Afghanistan.

I couldn't tell if Michael Moore liked Red Dawn, or was being sarcastic.

I hate to be that guy, but this is VideoSift: This is a terribly inaccurate rendition of the evolution of motility of life on Earth.

Nigeria IS a member state of Interpol. It wouldn't do anything, but it would be entertaining to see them try to issue an international warrant for his arrest and extradition. Failing that, I hear extraordinary rendition is pretty kosher now.

I didn't find it hysterical or anything, but I did find it funny that these two people seemed to go out of their way to do something half serious, and with effort. The ending made me laugh after a really good rendition of the song.

>> ^Xax:

Not the least bit funny, but very impressive faux-retro filterage.

*Cute rendition, but still *NSFW-language.

I can appreciate wanting to sift songs and pieces of music, I consider doing so myself every once in a while but I just always come back to "Well, it's not technically a movie", I don't, however, begrudge you for doing so. Just want to make that clear

Anyway, same to you, siftgod be with you and all that.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
I understand. It is such that there is come music I wish to have represented on the Sift to which there is either no video or, if there is, is renditionally inferior. I hope you at least enjoyed the song.

Frankly, there are a number of the vids that I have submitted for which I expected few if any votes but were voted for out of the kindness and generosity of fellow Sifters. I hope at least some if not all that voted for them found enjoyment and or interest in them. That has been, is, and will be my primary motivation for my submissions on the Sift.

I have appreciated your support as well as your submissions and time in your queues. I look forward to seeing you around the Sift. Happy Sifting and good luck in all you do.

Namaste.
In reply to this comment by Shepppard:
I can't in good concience upvote this, It's just the song with the album cover slapped on

Thank you very much. I understand the reticence. It is such that there is come music I wish to have represented on the Sift to which there is either no video or, if there is, is renditionally inferior. I'm glad you enjoyed the song and thank you very much for the link. I saved the page and am listening to the song for the fourth time. It is another one of my favorites of hers and has been too long unheard.

Frankly, there are a number of the vids that I have submitted for which I expected few if any votes but were voted for out of the kindness and generosity of fellow Sifters. I hope at least some if not all that voted for them found enjoyment and or interest in them. That has been, is, and will be my primary motivation for my submissions on the Sift.

Happy Sifting. I look forward to seeing you around.

Namaste.
In reply to this comment by nanrod:
Upvote even tho its not a real vid. My favourite of her's is Down to Zero which has been previously sifted, but another non live version is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brp8Va8XVQw

I understand. It is such that there is come music I wish to have represented on the Sift to which there is either no video or, if there is, is renditionally inferior. I hope you at least enjoyed the song.

Frankly, there are a number of the vids that I have submitted for which I expected few if any votes but were voted for out of the kindness and generosity of fellow Sifters. I hope at least some if not all that voted for them found enjoyment and or interest in them. That has been, is, and will be my primary motivation for my submissions on the Sift.

I have appreciated your support as well as your submissions and time in your queues. I look forward to seeing you around the Sift. Happy Sifting and good luck in all you do.

Namaste.
In reply to this comment by Shepppard:
I can't in good concience upvote this, It's just the song with the album cover slapped on

I wish bubbles would break into a death metal sort of rendition halfway through, just let the lights fade down, a massive explosion of fiery lights and the hardcore drumming and guitar comes through the veiled perception of bubbles character, then the throaty singing about kitties being nice is heard.

Axel Foley rendition was epic.

>> ^SDGundamX:

I saw Video Games Live when they came to Tokyo and that version brought tears to my eyes (Koji Kondo, Zelda's original composer, played the piano during it), but this... this is just absolutely mindblowing. Definitely will be watching for a CD release like these guys did for their Square/Enix concert a couple years back.


Yeah, i saw VGL too the first time they came to Paris, and it was great. This, however, is nothing short of a masterpiece.

I really expected it to go into the Top 15 to be honest, proving once more than i'll never understand what my fellow sifters likes.

>> ^flechette:

Wasn't expecting Owen Wilson to be playing the oboe.
Also, awesome!


Clarinet, if you're talking about 2:15