Best Videos 2007

7. Carleton Singing Knights "Chicago" (Sufjan Stevens cover)
This acapella version was good enough that I felt compelled to share it even though it happened last year. For fans of Soofyan Stevens, and Andy Bernard's 'Here Comes Treble'.



6. K'naan "KickED PushED"
The story of yet another hardship for K'naan.



5. The Besnard Lakes "For Agent 13"
Very moving, even if Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas aren't really 'video people'.



4. Bat for Lashes "What's a Girl to Do"
Donnie Darko meets BMX bikes.



3. Kanye West "Stronger"



2. Destroyer w/ Final Fantasy & Cadence Weapon "An Actor's Revenge" (live @ Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX)
How excited is Cadence Weapon to be on stage with Dan Bejar (the New Pornographers, Destroyer)? I think, very excited.



1. Feist "I Feel it All" (live on Jimmy Kimmel, on a moving city bus)
Reason #1,032 why I love Feist.

Cadence Weapon likes Arrested Development

After seeing Cadence Weapon aka. Roland Pemberton get incredibly excited about performing with Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) and Dan Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers), and hearing him collaborate with Pallet on a CBC Radio 3 session (mp3s here), I was sold enough that I bought his 2005 album Breaking Kayfabe on the weekend.

While I'm finding his album pretty esoteric, the song "The Gorilla is for Sand Racing" is worth downloading - if only for the first 25 seconds of the song. Get it here.

Also, on a completely unrelated note I'm excited to see the Sunparlour Players at the London Music Club on Wednesday. They have a few dates in SW Ontario and are very, very, worth while checking out.

Wednesday Bullets: (Final) Fantasy Videos ... No, its not porno.

• Owen Pallet (aka Final Fantasy) covers Mariah Carey.
  

• Dan Bejar (New Pornographers, Destroyer) preforms 'An Actor's Revenge' from Destroyer's Your Blues [2004] with Owen Pallet and Cadence Weapon. This video makes me remember why the Bejar songs are always my favourites on New Pornos albums.

• I can't believe I haven't mentioned this before, but if you like yourself a good mash-up you should visit the hood internet. My personal favourite is still R. Kelly vs. Broken Social Scene "I'm A Flirt (shoreline)" from the archives April 2007.

• Wow, were the Raptors disappointing again tonight.