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Five Star Fridays

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

I know it sounds odd, but trust me on this one: Eef Barzelay of Clem Snide and his ukulele cover Journey’s “Faithfully.”

There’s also whistling.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 9:27 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Five-Star Fridays/Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

18 Responses to “Five Star Fridays”

  1. #1 |  Stephen |  September 3rd, 2010 at 9:47 am

    It don’t play.

  2. #2 |  adolphus |  September 3rd, 2010 at 9:50 am

    Same problem here.

  3. #3 |  irish red |  September 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 am

    hopefully there’s no whittling…

  4. #4 |  Aaron |  September 3rd, 2010 at 10:10 am

    The rest of that AVClub series is great, too. Don’t miss The Swell Season covering Neutral Milk Hotel.

  5. #5 |  Stephen |  September 3rd, 2010 at 10:19 am

    I am using firefox on linux and I think it is adblock or noscript that is causing it to not play. Tried Google Chrome and it plays.

  6. #6 |  Michael |  September 3rd, 2010 at 10:26 am

    That was beautiful.

  7. #7 |  Ed Dunkle |  September 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Chrome w/ OS X works fine.

    What’s with ukuleles and hipsters these days? I just got Amanda Palmer’s ukulele (side note: English needs more Hawaiian words) versions of Radiohead’s greatest hits.

    Also, I like that on libertarian sites nobody whines about having to watch an ad before being entertained.

  8. #8 |  Howlin' Hobbit |  September 3rd, 2010 at 10:45 am

    This old uke phreak thanks you.

    I’ve run across the AVClub before and enjoyed the vids. It’s good that Bud gets something right, because the beer is made entirely of suck.

    Also, Stephen might be right. I’m using Firefox on Linux but I don’t have adblock and I’m pretty sure I don’t have noscript either. It played just fine.

  9. #9 |  ClubMedSux |  September 3rd, 2010 at 10:54 am

    Sometimes I feel like I take Clem Snide for granted. I don’t think of them as being among my all-time favorite bands, and every album of theirs that I own I bought at least two years after it came out, but every time I listen to them I love what I hear. I should check out Eef’s solo stuff.

  10. #10 |  Mister DNA |  September 3rd, 2010 at 11:01 am

    That’s not a ukulele, it’s a tenor guitar.

  11. #11 |  Mike Leatherwood |  September 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 am

    Sorry, Radley, but Eef Barzelay beats you in the coolest name catergory.

  12. #12 |  ClubMedSux |  September 3rd, 2010 at 11:51 am

    Mister DNA, the folks over at ukulelehunt.com think it’s a uke: http://ukulelehunt.com/2010/07/10/clem-snide-florence-the-machine-uketube/.

  13. #13 |  Mike Leatherwood |  September 3rd, 2010 at 1:06 pm

    Its a Lanikai Uke, btw http://www.lanikaiukes.com/

    Tenor guitars have banjo necks if I am not mistaken. Lanikai does not make them as far as I know.

  14. #14 |  Captain Noble |  September 3rd, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    The whole series on AVClub has been pretty cool, but this was one of the better ones. It’s obvious that Clem took the song seriously and not as a joke as some of the bands seemed to.

  15. #15 |  Salt |  September 3rd, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    Way cool. Matter of fact, I’d like to see Steve Perry cover this cover!

  16. #16 |  Bot |  September 3rd, 2010 at 1:37 pm

    I’d like to see Arnel Pineda cover Steve Perry covering this.

  17. #17 |  CHRISC |  September 3rd, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    Easy on the ears.
    Should be mandatory listening for the SWAT types….

  18. #18 |  Rob Robertson |  September 4th, 2010 at 9:59 am

    Ben Folds does a nice cover of Elliott Smith’s _Say Yes_;

    http://www.avclub.com/articles/elliott-smith,38885/

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