while watching a video on youtube, i got an idea for a new project. from now on, every day until (at least) december 24th, i will put a music video in my blog at 18:00. i went through the list of bands of whose i own music, and tried to choose one video per band which i really like, which has good quality (if possible) and which is available on youtube. not for every band i could find something, and for very, very few bands, i choose two videos.
sadly, most bands don’t have good videos of the songs i like most, so sometimes having no video for a band just means that i didn’t found anything i both like and which is an acceptable video :-)
well, i hope you enjoy it, or at least parts of it. i’ll add links to lyrics as well as a few comments, which in particular indicate what kind of song this is (i.e. if you want to listen to this if you don’t like strange music as i do).

after some silence, bad religion released another album this year, called the dissent of man. the fifteenth in their thirtyone years long career. and a good one, i think.
here’s one rather catchy track:

i just learned about the complaints choirs project: choirs from all over the world create a song complaining about annoying things in their life. here’s the recording from helsinki, which i like best from the few i saw. its sung in finnish, but there are english subtitles:

a current earworm of mine is an old song called radiant star by the swiss band samael:

today, i saw a modified the simpsons intro by banksy. apparently inspired by rumors that another portion of the animation work should be outsourced to south korea.

edit: well, apparently twentieth century fox didn’t like the intro that much, since they asked youtube to delete it. apparently, they don’t understand the streisand effect – as most companies. too bad.
edit2: looks like the video is back online.

while listening to a mike oldfield collection, i came across his cover of the william tell overture, a well-known classical piece by gioachino rossini. since i really like this song, you can watch it here, featuring many copies of mike:

if you want, you can listen to rossini’s piece on youtube.

i just got orphaned land‘s new album, the never ending way of orwarrior, after long years of waiting. it’s amazing! the first track, sapari, is really catchy. i’m pretty much addicted to it. i might write more about the album later, but for now, here’s the official video for sapari:

edit: apparently, century media requested to delete that video and replaced it by another version of the same thing, with a more “hip” title. great. whatever. here’s the new version:

for some reason, they screwed it up that a lot of hyphens appear in the title… whatever…

just found something very cool on blabbermouth: on a guitar workshop, alexi laiho and roope latvala from the finnish melodic death metallers children of bodom played vivaldi on their guitars! more precisely: summer: presto (op. 4, concerto no. 2, mvt. 3) from the four seasons. check it out:

mellipossu posted some videos from last sunday’s concert by insomnium, swallow the sun and amorphis:

• insomnium:
  1. bereavment;
  2. change of heart;
  3. devoid of caring;
• swallow the sun:
  1. these hours of despair;
  2. out of this gloomy light;
• amorphis:
  1. silent waters;
  2. against widows;
  3. perkele (the god of fire);
  4. a servant.

thanks a lot for the videos!