Saturday, April 3, 2010

Why is this night special at eight?

A last supper or seder?
Depends...is there ham?
Maybe matzos with salsa.
Well, you guys know where I am.

8:00
1. Vincent Price - Every Spring, the Easter Bunny always sleeps. (1:15)

Look, it's hard to find Easter songs that aren't all gospel.

3. Passover Blues (4:56)
4. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: "War" (3:10)
5. Matisyahu - Warrior (8:00)
6. The Mad Professor - Africa Is Zion (3:45)
7. King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - Israelite Children Dub (3:10)
8. Moses Rap - A Pesach / Passover Music Video (2:56)
9. Moses - Ten Commandments - Mel Brooks (1:09)
10. Tom Waits - Books of Moses (2:53)
11. Slick Rick - Moses (2:50)
12. House of Pain vs Klezmer - Mashup by FAROFF (3:36)
13. Eddie Izzard - Easter and Christmas (2:48)
14. Ada Jones - Under the Matzos Tree (2:14)
15. Frank Gallop - The Ballad of Irving (4:33)
16. The Macaroons - Matzoh Ball (Don't Kick It) (2:31)
17. jib jab - Matzah (1:22)
18. Matzo Man (1:25)
19. The Klezmatics - NY Psycho Freylekhs (Traditional Jewish Wedding) (4:57)
20. Information Society - RIP (0:19)
21. Sammy Davis Jr. - New York's My Home (3:12)

Hey, Sammy was Jewish! Meanwhile, here's a mash-up that rocked.

9:00
23. Idelsohn Society - Exodus 2.0: Passover Mix 2010 (56:33)
Richard Tucker, "The Kiddush"
Darondo, "Let My People Go"
Socalled, "The Four Questions"
Moe Jaffe & Henry Tobias, "Passover Time on the Range"
G-d Is My Co-Pilot, "Dayenu"
Steven Bernstein, "Manishtana" (vs. The Wonder Kids)
Bas Sheva, "Caravan"
Joy Division, "Passover"
Rabbi Kahn, "Your Passover Seder" vs. Flying Lotus
Harold Stern, "Jewish Cowboy"
The Carter Family, "On My Way To Canaan's Land"
Charles Mingus, "Freedom"
Nina Simone, "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free"
Gershon Kingsley, "What Does It Take (The Ten Plagues)"
Socalled, "Dayenu"
Egyptian Lover, "Egypt, Egypt" vs. The Malavsky Family
Ray Barretto, "Exodus"
Benjamin Lapidus, "Las Cuatro Preguntas"
Ray Charles, "Where Can I Go?"
James Harman Band, "The Four Questions"
The Velvet Underground, "I'm Set Free"
Roosevelt Charles, "Let My People Go"

24. Jews in Space (original) (1:36)
10:00
25. Lcd Soundsystem - Zorba The Greek (3:12)
26. Kids Sing Portal "Still Alive" (3:50)
27. 0 - Beehive Polka (2:12)
28. Twelve Girls Band - Clocks (5:01)
29. Braces Tower - Eleven Twelve (3:27)
30. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others (4:31)
31. José González - Teardrop (3:17)
32. Cibo Matto - Sci Fi Wasabi (3:44)
33. Battles - Atlas (7:07)
34. Beta Band - Dry the Rain (6:05)
35. Björk - Possibly Maybe (Lucy Mix) (3:03)
36. Harvey Danger - Carlotta Valdez (2:45) I watched "Vertigo" this week.
37. Ulik (the mechanical clown) - "Lightning" by Philip Glass (4:29)
38. Coldplay - Sparks (3:47)
39. Xploding Plastix - Tintinnamputation (4:26)
40. Orb - Terminus (Excerpt) (3:25)