Just below is a song of sonic bliss with a music video from a very amazing organic group known as SHEL from Fort Collins, Colorado. Their organic artistry, writing, singing and true instrumentalist skills are well honed and unmanufacted by the machine. They are the real deal, live or in the studio, but especially live where you realize their studio versions do not differ from their live abilities. SHEL = Sarah (violin & vocals), Hannah (keys, squeezebox & vocals), Eva (mandolin and lead vocals) and Liza (drums, percussion and vocals). Enjoy!
SHEL - When The Sky Fell
Since this post was originally created, each of the members of SHEL have
started other music and life projects and there are no active links for
the band SHEL at this time. Please check back later for updates.
See more SHEL videos from previous posts on MusicLoad:
Here is another excellent One Shot Music Video from OK Go. The band has a long and highly creative history that stretches back to 1998, which can is meticulously laid out on their Wikipedia page, so won't bore you with too many details here. It is their one shot music videos, that were first noticed here back in March of 2010 with This Too Shall Pass, that makes OK Go so interesting. Additional music videos, all the way up until this most present one, have also been "one shot videos" that give these guys so much credibility in the creative planning side. The videos take dozens and dozens of tries to get it in one shot, with tons of work going into every move in their videos. When you mix in all the other elements of their music and business dealings, the realization that they are a real organization and not just a band comes into focus.
Foo Fighters is out promoting their upcoming record titled Sonic Highways, due out in November 2014. Here is a great live take from David Letterman of the Foo Fighters with Zac Brown performing the 1970 classic song by Black Sabbath titled "War Pigs" off their Paranoid Album. This song is very appropriate at this time when the powers that be in Washington and in the PR corridors of Madison Avenue are ramping up war and regime change propoganda under the watch of a Nobel Peace Prize president
Foo Fighters w/ Zac Brown - "War Pigs" (Live on David Letterman)
This rocking trio is named Purple. They are from Beaumont, Texas. Hanna Brewer is on drums and vocals, Joe "Prankser" Cannariato is on bass guitar and Taylor Busby on guitar and vocals. This first song below is titled Wallflower. They have a fantasticly true rock & roll attitude. Enjoy!
Please click the play button on the first video below, choose the
high-resolution & fullscreen options, sit back and enjoy. The 2nd &3rd videos will continue automatically, followed by several
hours of tasty handpicked music videos.
Purple - Wallflower
Just below is their most recent video (August 2014) to their song titled Leche Loco.
Purple - Leche Loco
And one more song for the road that seems to ramble on so nicely... It's titled Long Way.
There is a question that has been burning in my mind ever since I became aware of a team of four DJ's/Beatmaster/Performance Artists known as C2C out of France. C2C came up with their own original song titled "Happy", as original as DJ's can be of course, as they sample other peoples songs into their own. Their music video for the song features some amazing dancing, and similarly to Pharrel's release, there was even a contest to involve fans from around the world. This immediately got me wondering after I heard it and saw the video below... Did Pharrell Williams ever hear/watch this C2C version of Happy before he penned his own song titled Happy, complete with dance video and contest? C2C released their own Happy song in December 2012 and Pharrell Williams released his version of Happy in November 2013, nearly one year later than C2C. Perhaps it does not matter, for there is nothing new under the sun. Regardless, C2C deserves some love, for they are a very talented group of guys who know how to muster up excellent music video producers as well.
UPDATE/ANSWER TO THIS POST/QUESTION: A poster on Reddit known as GTAVSUCKS wrote that he thought Pharrell had once admitted that Ce Lo Green wrote the song for Pharrell. However, after doing some research, was led to a story about the history of the song at Contact Music that states:
"In an interview with Howard Stern for his US radio show, Pharrell said: ''[Cee Lo Green] wanted to do it .. and he did do it. He sounded amazing on it. He burns my version! But ... how do I say this diplomatically? The powers that be, at the time, did not see it fit for him. Some folks on his team just felt that the priority should be on [Cee Lo's] album at the time [2012's 'Cee Lo's Magic Moment'], so they elected not to do that song."
C2C - Happy
Here is one more very cool song titled Delta :)
C2C - Delta
and maybe the coolest of their songs, maybe.... (because they are all pretty grooving)
