Best Ever Albums

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Captain_Dude — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:12:57 GMT

Author: Captain_Dude

Posted: 08/20/2011 01:12

"All Through the Night" played overtop footage of Muppets, huh? No different than the previously-posted Bert and Ernie "gangsta rap." I don't care much for when people make those videos. Jim Henson was brilliant and that kind of stuff just disrespects everything he was about.

That kind of stuff is just like inserting the rantings and ramblings of a drunken Charlie Sheen or a drugged-out Lindsay Lohan over a stellar performance by Marlon Brando or Lawrence Olivier. What is the point, even?

As Jim Henson once said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

GM84 — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:47:23 GMT

Author: GM84

Posted: 08/19/2011 21:47

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Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Charicature — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:34:25 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 08/19/2011 21:34

Captain_Dude wrote:

Charicature wrote:

Incidentally Paul Williams is a criminally overlooked songwriter (these days, anyway - he won an Oscar in 1976 and was quite a notable composer in the 70s and early 80s). Ever caught Jim Henson's "Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas"? Absolutely wonderful music in that. He's got a ton of film scores to his name, and was one of the people turned down for The Monkees :lol:

You're absolutely right. Paul Williams certainly IS very much overlooked these days...and no, not just because people actually look OVER him. lol (Okay, I probably have to explain that joke to anyone over 30. Paul Williams is VERY short.)

"Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas" is my all-time favorite Christmas special. (Yes, kids, in those "old days" we actually had to schedule our time very carefully in order to catch it's once-per-year showing on one of the three television stations.) It's also the favorite of my wife...and now my 10-year-old daughter adores it, too. I was really happy to see "Our World" covered on this album by My Morning Jacket. I think they did a great job.

I honestly believe this is one of the best albums to come out in 2011. Even if you'd never heard of any of the songs...even if you'd never even seen the names of the artists covering them (sometimes it's best to not judge a recording based on your "love" or "hate" of an artist)...the proof is in the sound. The sounds on this album are wonderful.

Oh, by the way, some of you may remember Paul Williams in his animated form on Dexter's Lab singing "Just an Old Fashioned Lab Song."

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🤣 I haven't heard Just an Old Fashioned Love Song in a long time - who was that, Three Dog Night? I've forgotten.

EDIT: just listened - apparently they just took the name, not the tune 🤣

Emmett is one source of resentment I have against Disney because of their refusal to license Kermit the Frog back to Jim Henson Productions for the special, forcing them to edit him out of all modern-day releases. For those of you who caught the special in the early 80s on HBO every year (like me and my dad) you know that Kermit was the narrator of the special. You also know that in later years the special was edited poorly, making it not as good as the original. I couldn't get Kermit, but at least the DVD I bought for my son has the original scenes as a special feature as deleted scenes, so he can see those scenes the way I did when I was a kid.

Still can't understand why they edited out Ma's final words to Henrietta Fox, muttered under her breath, "fall off the dock", but then don't edit out the possum's comment "That's tellin' her, Alice." In the edited version this exchange makes no sense.

Anyway, sorry for my diatribe - but between that and Song of the South being blacklisted for release and meanwhile all the crap Disney put out in the 90s as childrens' films, I've soured on the company immensely. I think Walt himself would have walked away from them as they exist today, if he couldn't seize back control privately again. Especially when it came out that Eisner also acquired a porn studio when he acquired Universal for Disney in the 90s.

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Captain_Dude — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:49:24 GMT

Author: Captain_Dude

Posted: 08/19/2011 17:49

Charicature wrote:

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Charicature — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:03:16 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 08/19/2011 14:03

wow - this has got to be one of the most covered tunes of all time:

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Artists who have covered "Rainbow Connection" include Judy Collins,[10] The Carpenters, Sarah McLachlan, DAT Politics, Aaron Lewis, Kenny Loggins, The Dixie Chicks, Justin Timberlake, Kris Aquino, Kiki and Herb, Jason Mraz, The Pussycat Dolls, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Tay Zonday, Jim Brickman, Caroline's Spine, Estradasphere, Leftöver Crack (with dramatically different lyrics), The Dresden Dolls, Willie Nelson (who is quite often incorrectly credited with penning the song), Peter Cincotti, Jane Monheit, pop-punk band Fifteen, Lea Salonga, Andy Bernard (played by Ed Helms) in The Office, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, The Loves and Trespassers William. It was sung by Blondie's Debbie Harry in a duet with Kermit on The Muppet Show in 1981 (Season 5) and implied that Kermit is well known for the song in the Muppet universe. Rock band Weezer is recording the song for the Muppets Remastered soundtrack with an appearance by Paramore's Hayley Williams. Free Wild performs a rendition of the song on their 2010 Spin Dry tour. Also sung by Vonda Shepard in Ally McBeal (Season 2, episode "Angels and Blimps")

"Rainbow Connection" is the title song on Jane Monheit's 2009 album The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me (the album title being a line from "Rainbow Connection"). Prior to this album, Jane Monheit's closing song in her concerts had usually been "Over the Rainbow". In her 2009 tour, she usually closed with "Rainbow Connection" followed by a direct segue into "Over the Rainbow".[11]

Samuel Preston recorded a version on Jim Henson's birthday in 2010 and gave it away free on his twitter page.

Weezer and Hayley Williams recorded the song for the tribute album: Muppets: The Green Album, released in 2011.

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Charicature — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:57:47 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 08/19/2011 13:57

Captain_Dude wrote:

Anyone a Muppets fan? (I'm probably talking to a group where 90% of you never even saw The Muppet Show...>sigh<)

Anyway, there's a new album of Muppet classic tunes coming out called THE GREEN ALBUM. The release date is August 23, 2011. Right now, it's streaming on NPR and you can listen to the whole things or individual tracks. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/14/138984517/first-listen-muppets-the-green-album

I know there are a lot of Weezer fans on this site. Ya'll will want to hear their version of "Rainbow Connection."

The Fray, OK Go, My Morning Jacket, and others have all submitted some great versions of these songs that have followed me through my entire life.

Anyway...enjoy...and post your thoughts. 😁

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I saw The Muppet Movie when I was 5, and Kermit's version of The Rainbow Connection has always stuck with me. It was amongst my repertoire of songs to sing to my son to get him to sleep when he was younger, and will likely be back when my daughter is born later this year. Just have to remind myself of the lyrics 🤣

I caught The Muppet Show in reruns when I was little, and am old enough to have seen The Muppet Movie and The Muppets Take Manhattan in the theaters. I caught a lot of celebrities I already knew of there (due to my father's tastes, I guess, in regards to music) like Crystal Gayle and Mark Hamill...I probably saw John Denver and Mumenshantz (the mimes, whatever their name was) for the first time on that show.

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:56:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/19/2011 02:56

Captain_Dude wrote:

Anyone a Muppets fan? (I'm probably talking to a group where 90% of you never even saw The Muppet Show...>sigh<)

false assumption. Unfortunately I'm not really a fan of m/any of these bands.

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

ShaneSpear — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:52:41 GMT

Author: ShaneSpear

Posted: 08/19/2011 01:52

AlexZangari wrote:

... Weezer's track unsurprisingly sucked. :\

It's OK. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes already made the definitive Rainbow Connection cover anyways.

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Re: "It's time to play the music..."

mooseboy101 — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:45:54 GMT

Author: mooseboy101

Posted: 08/19/2011 01:45

Captain_Dude wrote:

I'm probably talking to a group where 90% of you never even saw The Muppet Show...>sigh<

WWWHHHHHHHAAAAATTT!!!!????

That show was my reason to live at 7 years old (yeah, I was suicidal 7 year old)

Haven't heard the album yet, but it sounds pretty good.

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

AlexZangari — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:05:18 GMT

Author: AlexZangari

Posted: 08/19/2011 00:05

That last track was incredible... I've never even heard of Rachael Yamagata before, but now I have to check her out 😁

But overall, kinda disappointed with the Green Album... Weezer's track unsurprisingly sucked. :\

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

AlexZangari — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:45:07 GMT

Author: AlexZangari

Posted: 08/18/2011 23:45

Piss off, GARY. Shame when an 18 year old has to tell a middle-aged man to act mature.

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

GARY — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:47:14 GMT

Author: GARY

Posted: 08/18/2011 22:47

AlexZangari wrote:

Holy shit... OK Go, Weezer, the Fray, Alkaline Trio, My Morning Jacket, Amy Lee, the Airborne Toxic Event, Andrew Bird!?!?!? This has to be incredible.

Except... Weezer covering one of my all-time favourite songs. Modern day Weezer kinda sucks... :\ I feel like this is gonna be killed by that. I love "The Rainbow Connection," I play it all the time with my guitar...

Keep on dancing moron

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

AlexZangari — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:43:00 GMT

Author: AlexZangari

Posted: 08/18/2011 22:43

Holy shit... OK Go, Weezer, the Fray, Alkaline Trio, My Morning Jacket, Amy Lee, the Airborne Toxic Event, Andrew Bird!?!?!? This has to be incredible.

Except... Weezer covering one of my all-time favourite songs. Modern day Weezer kinda sucks... :\ I feel like this is gonna be killed by that. I love "The Rainbow Connection," I play it all the time with my guitar...

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Xavygravy — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:59:44 GMT

Author: Xavygravy

Posted: 08/18/2011 06:59

I think the originals are superior.
Most modern albums have the tendency to sound over-produced.

But this is still very good.
😜

EDIT:

Solid 4 stars. One of the best movie soundtracks in recent memory. Can't wait for the film!

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Necharsian — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:26:36 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 08/18/2011 01:26

OH MY GOD. AWESOME!

I already know this is album of the year.

(Not joking either, just in case that came off like I was kidding around.)

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:27:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/18/2011 00:27

best. muppet. song. ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OH0wlkfbc

Re: "It's time to play the music..."

albummaster — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:41:02 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 08/17/2011 23:41

I always quite liked this one: 🫢

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"It's time to play the music..."

Captain_Dude — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:33:43 GMT

Author: Captain_Dude

Posted: 08/17/2011 23:33

Anyone a Muppets fan? (I'm probably talking to a group where 90% of you never even saw The Muppet Show...>sigh<)

Anyway, there's a new album of Muppet classic tunes coming out called THE GREEN ALBUM. The release date is August 23, 2011. Right now, it's streaming on NPR and you can listen to the whole things or individual tracks. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/14/138984517/first-listen-muppets-the-green-album

I know there are a lot of Weezer fans on this site. Ya'll will want to hear their version of "Rainbow Connection."

The Fray, OK Go, My Morning Jacket, and others have all submitted some great versions of these songs that have followed me through my entire life.

Anyway...enjoy...and post your thoughts. 😁

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