Video of the Week: The Moody Blues’ Music and NASA Apollo Footage are a Match Made in the Heavens

The Moody Blues’ cosmic 1969 concept album To Our Children’s Children’s Children dealt with the topic of man’s reaching out into space, both in broad, philosophical terms and specifically in the form of the Apollo missions.

Here the album’s first three songs are synched nicely with NASA footage to convey through one fan’s interpretation the message of the record.

If this sparks an interest in this wonderful band’s music, we recommend you explore not only the rest of this fine album but the rest of their early catalog from their classic years of 1967-72.

The discography from those years is listed below. Adventure awaits!

1967 Days of Future Passed

1968 In Search of the Lost Chord

1969 On the Threshold of a Dream

1969 To Our Children’s Children’s Children

1970 A Question of Balance

1971 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

1972 Seventh Sojourn

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Video of the Week: Guster’s ‘Dumpster Duet’ with Pittsburgh’s Trash-Talking Mayor

Guster performed a hastily-written new song about Pittsburgh, dogs, snowstorms, alleys and dumpsters (Called, oddly enough, “Pittsburgh, Dogs, Snowstorms, Alleys and Dumpsters”) with Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto guesting at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh last night.

We realize this band’s fun-loving dork/cool factor–not to mention great music–have earned them a lot of space on this blog (see links below). And we think it’s more than justified. No band we know combines great tunes with a spirit of fun like Guster. It’s a little like the Monkees, if they wrote their own material and their lead singer dressed in thrift store shirts.

See some of the original ‘Dumpster Set’ below.

Guster is as fun as it gets–but their musical and songwriting chops are no joke.

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Video of the Week: The Joys of Phonograph Records

Video of the Week: “Carrying You” from Castle in the Sky

Sungha Jung plays an elegiac (and technically immaculate) version of Joe Hisaishi’s “Carrying You”, from the Studio Ghibli film Castle in the Sky.

Video of the Week: 25 Facts about the Science of Music

Video of the Week: Fallon and Rudd Recreate Styx Video

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