I can sing higher!

The Muppet Show is one of the all-time underappreciated TV shows! It was funny, it had cool guest stars and everything about it was original and cool. It harkens back to the times of live television and live theater, ratcheting up creativity week after week. Here they bring in Beverly Sills to class up the joint. Funny.

Beverly Sills on the Muppet Show

Drive our ships to new lands

Classic Zeppelin footage.

Led Zeppelin -- 'Immigrant Song'

The princess kept the view?

I thought Prince absolutely ruled last night! Prince has been off-to-the-side for years now and he's been watching these old timey shlubs like Paul McCartney and the Stones (trust me, the NFL would love to just trot out Paul McCartney every year and be done with it) and these amateur punks like Justin Timberlake and he's been saying to himself, 'I can kill these bitchez.' And I thought the proof was in the half time show. He had full command of the audience, it was a well-conceived medley, he reminded everybody that he is the most underappreciated guitarist of the last 30 years, the backlit shadow solo was phenomenal and you can't front on a marching band! (Incidentally, I own only 1 Prince CD (The Black Album), I never saw Purple Rain and the only thing I'd heard before this that I can say I really, really dug was a bootleg from the Sign of the Times tour. Just for the record, I respect his musicality but I've never really listened to that much of him before. I wasn't sure what his show would be but I figured he'd be good and he was.)

Prince -- Super Bowl Medley, part 1
Prince -- Super Bowl Medley, part 2

Get in your car and cruise the land of the brave and the free

Super Bowl Sunday. I worked in a restaurant in college that actually listed Super Bowl Sunday as a holiday (one of the four days of the year we were closed). A big day deserves something special. And here it is, a Ween smorgasbord. Trust me, I'd love to put up more but this'll do for now.

Ween -- 'Freedom of '76'
Ween -- 'The Mollusk'
Ween -- 'I Can't Put My Finger On It'
Creepy-ass homemade video of Ween -- 'I Play It Off Legit'
Ween -- 'Zoloft'
Ween -- 'Pollo Asado'
Ween -- 'Roses are Free' (homemade)
Ween -- 'Bananas and Blow' (live)
Ween -- 'Birthday Boy' (live acoustic)
Ween -- 'The Stallion, Part 2'

(I had no idea Ween was so popular as background music for people's random home movies. Some of them are pretty cool, some of them not so much.)

You must be crazy

Starts sweet and soulful, turns booty rockin'. T-Bone, stone cold playa. The audience looks like a bunch of stiffs, no?

T Bone Walker -- Live at the Jazz Philharmonic 1964

Call her bluff with a huff and a puff

Outrageous outtake from Run Ronnie Run. (Possibly the only outtake in film history that is actually still in the movie, not unlike pointing out that Benjamin Franklin was the only President of the United States that was never actually president.) A musical scene from a non-musical film.

Jack Black -- 'Give Her a Kick in the Cunt'

More is all you need

This is from way back. Back before James learned to sing, before Jason got booted, before Lars got insufferable and before the band's compositional quality went down the tubes. There was a time when Metallica used to offer up seriously ass-whippin' metal, though looking back that was a pretty short period, wasn't it? Unfortunately it was not too long after this they decided to make videos, write ballads and sell more records. An unnecessary choice considering they had top 10 albums, t-shirt sales and concert tours without ever acknowledging MTV. I'm not saying that's the reason they suck but their slide does coincide neatly with that time period. Enjoy.

Metallica -- 'Master of Puppets' (Live 1989)

I am adding...and subtracting

When I do the music posts each day I think of somebody and then I try to come up with the exact opposite of what I just added. The last clip was Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the opposite of which is Kraftwerk. Wouldn't you agree? (Hat tip: Toddger)

Kraftwerk -- 'Pocket Calculator'

Knocked out loaded

DDBB getting their Dr. John on. Sounds great.

Dirty Dozen Brass Band -- 'Junko Partner'

Classic Jimi Hendrix

The documentary film Jimi Hendrix is one of the great underrated rock and roll docs. Here's a coupla clips. This is rare acoustic work from Jimi, what do you know? He's pretty good!

Jimi Hendrix -- 12-String Jam

BONUS -- If you haven't seen the movie Little Richard is worth the price of admission. This is just one of his scenes. Jagger, Clapton and Townshend are all pretty classic too.

Little Richard gives recompense and reward, my lord