Great covers: Paranoid Android by YouTubers

I think I only can say one thing: Great music inspires! :) I am sure you all have seen it by now? It's been around for a few weeks, and now apparently Radiohead have watched it too as they posted it on their website.
Enjoy!

New music: Radiohead - Staircase

Nothing can make you happier than when your heroes step back into the role of heroes again. The last 3 hours I have constantly been watching and listening to this video. I am hooked. I am stupefied. I am dumbfounded. I stare. I stare. I listen. I listen. And occasionally I am trying to get some work done. I can't wait to see the rest of the live concert. Something tells me it's going to make me love The King of Limbs as well. Possibly. It's good to see more people than Mr.Yorke.

Great videos: Sivert Høyem - Belorado

Some music videos capture more then the greatness of the song or the artist itself. Here both the song and the artist are premium, but on top of this the video hos captured some kind of essence of Oslo. It's even filmed on the roof of the place where my band used to practice down town. I am sure that was on purpose. Easy to bring music to that roof. It's the light, the colours, the coldness in the air and the mix between nature and city. It warms my heart and make me proud.

Great Covers: Keane - Under Pressure

I can not believe I haven't blogged about this before! I was looking for my old blog post about it, but no there were none. Well, here goes. The mark of a great vocalist to me is in many ways that he/she is able to do many different things with his or her voice. I think most people who have heard Tom Chaplin from Keane knows that he can do very impressive stuff with his voice, but to take on David Bowie and Freddy Mercury in one song and do it well! Who can not be impressed?? If you are not, you can try the original and see how well he's doing. I also love to see how he's really working to get it! So many different parts of the song as well. Ok, he gets one note really wrong, but bless him, that's ok :) Enjoy! Oh, and of course the rest of the band is also doing amazingly well, not to mention the extra bloke on guitar there. Recognize him? :)

Great lyrics: Ane Brun - The Fight Song

This song has been my favourite for years, but the last year or so I had completely forgotten about it. It's one of the greatest songs written about trying to get away from someone that you love and hate at the same time and just try to physically and psychologically rip yourself away from them. And what a cool bottleneck :) And as always, what a voice.

Spotify link

Link to the lyrics

And wow, what a great video. I have never seen that before!