Welcome to the final installment of DFO Art Week. Today I’m combining the art theme with Request Line / DFO Radio to showcase some of my favorites of the many images I’ve put together for the series over these four years. The theme for today’s Request Line is “Music as Art”, and that can be as abstract as you like it to be. Feel free to post songs that fit your personal definition of “art”. The example I’ve included at the bottom is from an art installation I’ve seen a couple of times at the Broad called “2nd Hand Reading” by a South African artist named William Kentridge. The music is produced by a composer named Neo Muyanga, a fellow South African. I’ve mentioned this piece before; the theme of “tear and repair, end with love” is something that really speaks to me personally, the way that all great art does. Thanks for following along this week.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bcX49kB8I
“I am a lonely painter…I live in a box of paints.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YuaZcylk_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Vu-EeYq_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Xfv96q7I8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R8EkrZVq8A
Let’s make this a DOUBLE SHOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZW822lul1U
Your artwork is phenomenal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9wIVZBhT0
Yep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMUaVoWU0Sw
Worth it just for the guitar: Silvio Rodriguez- Óleo de mujer con sombrero
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dr5WhK446hk
One of the very top works (IMHO) about the least interesting subject for art: the creative process. The Who – Guitar and Pen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xp9EdWnSX-c
A love song to music. Worse places to be than on a rooftop groovin along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQCRVwjyZo
Composed to be played indefinitely while waiting for the Dalai Lama to appear. The quiet intersecting polyrhythmic melodies symbolize peace; the tight coordinated percussive sections war. I think it special to have an instrumental piece say something about the nature of societies in both war in peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr6B43ll-4U
Damn, could have used this for the Names Names Names Request Line too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7TjCbhq9EE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8mDF89n3gw
Closing montage of Parks and Recreation? DEFFO ART:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD6_QXwKesU
Oh fuck yeah it is.
Heh heh. Man-gum.
This is, without question, FUCKING ART!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLvqvLvUIY
Did something happen in Canada today? Did the queen die? It seems all the Canadians are on edge.
Fear not Canada! You still live next to the United States of America! We are armed to the teeth, from the largest thermonuclear tipped 7000 nautical mile range missiles to the smallest concealable assault weapons, we got your back. As long as you don’t piss us off you’re safe as baby seals.
DRINK!
All right, @yeahright, I can’t let this sit on the board any longer.
“The only good artist is an artist in pain…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN8u1KC1HSU
And let’s double this up with another Johnny Yen reference, from a song with the same name as a book about the life of Vincent Van Gogh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvUBf5l7Vw
During this band’s live shows, an artist would paint a canvas, and at the end of the show they would auction off the product. Theirs was still one of the best live show I’ve ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQyhNfmjcOg
Would be remiss if I didn’t congratulate Rikki on this week’s art posts – great work!
That is so stupid. I love it.
In which Andy Partridge sings “Miro Miro on my wall…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoT9SbBgzgE
Shake it like a Polaroid pictrure….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw
Anyone remember when art was specifically created for a song? The Tom Tom Club does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht6J5stphHs
a-ha remembers… Really guys, stop dropping your balls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
Peter Gabriel remembers…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
This isn’t a Family Guy redditt thread. SHOO!
Fine, I’ll go back to my subreddit where we talk about how great white people are and everything feels safe and normal.
Very obvious I’m in a bad spot right now. I’m checking out.
Title track to a really great album (warning: do not play immediately after a breakup).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRO9ZPbAEQ
Derek Carr is finding this thread to be a nice diversion from dealing with all the conformists at training camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WNhsbT0fYk
Pretty song, pretty lady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7mgVp_vL2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsiy1H5tIoM
What about Aztec Camera?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4pWcVPUybE
Shoutouts to Elvis, Edith Piaf, Tom Waits, Chris Marlowe among others. I was into The Blue Aeroplanes way before they never became relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36S254FvANA
they spelled “airplanes” wrong
It was intentional. Back off.
Heir plains?
i think i hit a nerve
I think you hit a guy that had a really shitty Friday. I’m so pissy I can’t apologize yet even though that’s the right thing to do.
GET THIS GENTLEMAN SOME SCOTCH, STAT!!!
GET THIS GUY A GIMLET BEFORE HE GOES FULL CANADIAN AND STARTS APOLOGIZING FOR NOTHING
Calling Mona Lisa “a basic bitch” is definitely art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D3NN6M_DYk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bYXb7iEDJ4
That’s brilliant.
Best tune referring to photographs belongs to A Flock of Seagulls? It’s true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkzgLMH5MA
Gonna go see him in concert on 9/11. Never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tRgYfQ48A0
Why isn’t this whole post Art Garfunkel’s music?
Art Schlichter will give you 3 to 1 on that possibility.
OK, that made me laugh.
I’ll bet.
So would he.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjMZMxNr-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7encWb7lNQ
Now I KNOW Derek Carr has this on repeat…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEcw94ntkD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4sANPkk3ys
Remember, when I said “music as art”, I never said it had to be good art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzdmXOUZpGw
Good thing, considering what I just posted below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvmRxVIuBvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2_dGkqYu6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-v6JeolLzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wCUlPNlQuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCR0YBLSQZ4
“I mean come on.” – Derek Carr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKO2RA1UraI
holy crap that was almost synced.
Specifically for Derek Carr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8UR2TFUp8w
[Ducks]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3rXdeOvhNE
forgot that you can downvote stuff still.
I mean, dude, you could have gone this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dHr8evt6k
or even this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6CMSuT98-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q4K8BOURQg
The name of this song is of the two children of the photographer Robert Frank. The guitar solo in this is pure art to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2nqCfxvNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM
This was definitely on the shortlist.
A pretty and literate-to-the-point-of-pretentious song from Paul Simon? Quelle surprise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUk8L17A8Q
Gonna take this literally; this song title refers to a stretch where Picasso painted almost entirely in shades of blue, even though the song’s about feeling blue (depressed). Of course, it could also be about why Smurfette won’t go swimming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vQ_fnlvvr8
This is a great take.