Our top 10 YouTube music videos of all time (playlist)

YouTube is blocking some of the ten from being embedded. Here is a link to the complete playlist on YouTube of our top 10 YouTube music videos of all time. The embedded playlist above is missing "Atomic" by Blondie.

Jacintha B. Pukka & Bartell Darcy

Paul McCartney at the Roundhouse

BBC iPlayer - Electric Proms: Paul McCartney:
Broadcast on: BBC Four, 11:30pm Friday 11th September 2009
Duration: 60 minutes
Available until: 12:29am Saturday 19th September 2009

"Paul McCartney is centre-stage as he plays a one-off concert at the Roundhouse Main Space."

Bartell

The good, the bad, the ugly and the hilarious

Apart from a very amusing performance by "The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain", this contains a reminder from Ennio Morricone that the language of music has concepts for which words probably don't even exist in spoken language.

Bartell

Lesson 1: How to rock

Paul McCartney live on Letterman

In a brilliant set on top of the entrance to the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York, where the Beatles first set the sleepy world of pop alight, Paul McCartney's band gives an object lesson in the elements of rock. The toy bands of today with their pathetic, foppish excuse for boys' brigade marching tunes and the pompadoured screeching prima donnas of ersatz emotion eking out the dead corpse of what used to be their version of rock, should tape this and listen to it 100 times till their eyes are opened and they give up their hopeless careers.

It gets better as it goes along. If you're short of time and just want the best bits, Helter Skelter starts about 14 minutes 50 seconds in. The full set list is Coming Up, Band On The Run, Let Me Roll It, Helter Skelter and a brilliant Back In The USSR. It really starts rocking from about Let Me Roll It and gets heavier and better all the way. The drummer is awesome and the keyboard player is pretty awesome too and the whole band but it's mainly because the arrangements with their heavy booming turns are just very, very exciting if you're in the mood.

Just listening to it again on speakers and can't get the same feeling as when I listened to it first on headphones last night, so maybe try it with headphones. The trouble is I can't really turn my speakers up enough to do it justice (have to consider the neighbours).

Bartell

BBC iPlayer - BBC One Sessions: Duffy

(broken link) Download available for one week (UK only)

"Backed by a five-piece band and a string section, Duffy runs through songs from her chart-topping debut album, Rockferry, hits include Mercy, Rockferry and Warwick Avenue."

She's brilliant in her own way, unique, and when she hits the high note on Warwick Avenue, it's a classic moment, in a new classic song. Very nice string arrangements.

Bartell D'Arcy

Nothing too much, just out of sight

The Daily Download - NME.COM

"'You'd say to him, 'Too much, man' and he'd say, 'No, nothing too much just out of sight.' So I grabbed that and suddenly you could see where it was heading and I followed that trail.' [...] it's hard to remember the last time McCartney sounded quite this ferocious. At times the track recalls the fire-and-brimstone intensity of Spiritualized, while the frantic coda finds Sir Paul whimpering like a dog over scabrous bursts of slide guitar. 'Flaming Pie' it is not.

Download The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth) Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight

'Electric Arguments' is released on November 24 on One Little Indian Records."

Bartell D'Arcy

Farewell to Storyville?

Billie Holiday w/ Louis Armstrong. (New Orleans, Arthur Lubin, 1947)

Sources close to Red Woodward have indicated that there will be no more Willesden Herald short story competitions, though Herald editor Feargal Mooney has stated that this is not the case. "I just don't know what to think," said Steve Moran who was chair of the judging panel in the recent unpleasantness, "It's all sort of co[mpet]itus interruptus, isn't it?"

Meanwhile keep on rockin' in the free world. (Bartell Darcy)

Newsmusic Desk

Cafe session

There was a beautiful and brilliant session in the Budapest Cafe Bar today by Andrea Pope with keyboard accompanist and vocalist, Steve Cox. Over goulash etc, we were treated to wonderful Lloyd Webber, Sondheim and other show songs as well as such delights as Autumn Leaves with "French words" and "English words" ... "not a translation". I was particularly knocked out by Andrea Pope's exquisite rendition of "Or am I losing my mind", which showed her vocal range, very strong throughout from sultry low tones through winsome middle and into effortless, mellow highs.

Walking down the high road to Cafe Budapest we passed a large corner premises with a name indecipherable to anyone who cannot read the Cyrillic alphabet - so I don't know what it's called - with signs promising Bulgarian cuisine and booze. Further along, would you believe a Moldovan cafe, then the Budapest cafe. That's all in about three blocks. At the other end we have some Polish shops, in amongst the Thai and what not. It's a great road for guaging the kind of people arriving in London from the rest of the world.

On the subject of the changing High Road: The Spotted Dog has closed! This is unbelievable. It is said that more taxi drivers know where the Spotted Dog is than know where Willesden is. It's been there since the 19th century.

Bartell Darcy

Radio Willesden now on air

DJ Bartell Darcy, late of Willesden community hospital radio and 2LO, has signed a contract with Willesden Herald allowing us to broadcast his unpopular radio show and also giving us access to his personal playlist, collected over the past century. According to Red Woodward this is an exclusive deal, though looking at the Last.fm website it appears that anybody can do the same. Bartell Darcy says his collection has been built around the theme of, "What can I put on at the end of a party to make everybody go home?"

Feargal Mooney