Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Here's one I'm surprised I haven't already posted. He's 61 in this performance. Pretty funny at the end when he almost takes out the conductor with a giant hanging camera.

Peter Gabriel - Steam

Been a while since this cat got some love too. What a wacky video.

Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds

I had a bit of the sniffles yesterday and thankfully missed the Superbowl halftime abomination, but have recovered sufficiently to post a bunch of links today. Remember this great tune? Maybe not, considering it came out back in 1994. Youssou N'Dour is a world famous singer, composer, and social activist from Senegal. If you haven't heard of him, you're missing out, and hopefully this will change things for you. Neneh Cherry is Swedish-African, quite an interesting mix, and has been around for a while, mostly doing collaborations in recent years. Give this one a good listen or two. And heck, why not post another great track with Youssou featuring in it. Big it up.

BONUS YOUSSOU!

STUFF YOU SHOULD SEE

Anti-Corporate Communities

Now this is something worth considering.

SCIENCE MATTERS

1900 Year Old Roman Super Highway Unearthed

The autobahn of Rome?

Russia Nearly Reaches Buried Antarctic Lake

Think they'll find a Transformer there?

JUST FOR LAUGHS

Call Of Duty Parody

I just had to laugh.

Idi Amin Swims For The Gold

Former Ugandan president and Olympic swimmer.

Bill O'Reilly Explains Why God Exists

How is he on TV? Can you explain that? Who put him there?

SIMPLY AWESOME

Uncontacted Humans In Brazil

Wow. Now that is amazing.

Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers

A while back I posted some Peter Gabriel. He's the guy who wrote much of this song, but he left Genesis at the end of 1975 so this is part of Phil Collins' first tour as lead singer. I consider this song a masterpiece and this performance is exceptional. WARNING: this is not pop music. Some thought may be required to process this product.

Epic.

Peter Gabriel - Digging In The Dirt

Today is special. It's Saturday, which is always a special day, but it's also the last day of winter. Yes, I know, technically this doesn't happen until next weekend, but tonight the time changes and the daylight sticks around an hour longer each day, which for me means that it's time for spring. Thankfully the universe has been listening to my pleas for warmth and has appropriately shifted the world's climate so that our winter has been milder, and it appears the end is nigh. Apologies to the parts of the world where the winter has been worse than usual, but them's the breaks. To that oversized rodent who keeps popping out and telling us we're doomed for a few more weeks: get stuffed.

Digging us out of the winter is a groovy tune from someone you may have heard of before. Peter Gabriel entered the music world as the lead singer of a tiny little outfit out of England, whose name I can't remember. Oh wait... Genesis? Something like that. I don't think they sold many records or stuck around for very long. Maybe they should have booked a show at the Capital? In any event, Peter clearly recognized that Genesis weren't up to much and decided to leave and do his own thing. After failing miserably to achieve success with some weird songs about a hill and a hammer, Peter finally found his footing with this catchy little ditty circa 1992. Turns out hard work and persistence pays off sometimes.

Note that this is, in fact, a remix. Now you might say that it sounds something like the original, but that, for me, is the beauty of it. So often songs are twisted and thrashed about just for the sake of change, but Richard Evans has done a very nice job of staying true to the original and just adding little bits here and there to give it a little extra shine. I actually prefer it to the original. Enough talk, here's music.

EDIT: There used to be a video for this. Now it's gone. These things happen.