Youtube Recommendations

[Duque de Bragança]

Back to weird song covers. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, in Classical Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk

Better than the original! 
Mind you, this applies as well to Weird Yankovic's cover. 

[Syt]

Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?

[The Larch]

Back to weird song covers. Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, in Classical Latin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk

They also have House of the Rising Sun in Medieval French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c

And Pumped Up Kicks in Old English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKqhDFhNHI

Medieval covers seem to be one of the latest internet fads, I've even seen it being called "Bardcore". 

More examples:

Fortunate son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7olFGxw3Y

Jolene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqQlB5fpuc

Billie Jean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgFMqrABbY

Toxicity (instrumental): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ

Checking other videos it seems that many don't really bother with the lyrics and focus on the music alone (as well as funny drawings  )

[Josquius]

Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?

GF says its gibberish.

Which is a shame as it sounds so much clearer to me than regular French and I thought speaking like a Knight could be a solution for me.

[Duque de Bragança]

Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?

If it's about the trilled r, then they are wrong. The uvular r, commonly thought nowadays of French r dates from Louis XIV. "ll" not pronounced as nowadays as well.
Estoit in pronouncing the s is correct but oi as nowadays French [wa] or even [we) till the 18th century or in some archaic dialects. "oi" was also possibly pronounced as [e] as in œcuménique (proper pronunciation). In Old French, the i could be there to nasalise the previous vowel. This unreformed spelling still finds its way in oignon where the i is silent.

There is definitely an Anglo accent however but is far from the worse or even the average anglo accent. It's not far from the best attempts of In Extremo in their full medieval period. Attempts which occasionally were faulty.

I'd say the Latin pronunciation in the previous song is much better, as in good Erasmian and not that awful Church Latin.

PS: comments mention a Cajun/Acadien vibe and there is some of it as in Anglo pronouncing French.

[Admiral Yi]

That Fortunate Son cover sounded a kinda synthy to me.

[Syt]

Comments on his medieval French cover of House of the Rising Sun say that the translation is good, but the pronunciation is awful. Can you comment on that?

If it's about the trilled r, then they are wrong. The uvular r, commonly thought nowadays of French r dates from Louis XIV. "ll" not pronounced as nowadays as well.
Estoit in pronouncing the s is correct but oi as nowadays French [wa] or even [we) till the 18th century or in some archaic dialects. "oi" was also possibly pronounced as [e] as in œcuménique (proper pronunciation). In Old French, the i could be there to nasalise the previous vowel. This unreformed spelling still finds its way in oignon where the i is silent.

There is definitely an Anglo accent however but is far from the worse or even the average anglo accent. It's not far from the best attempts of In Extremo in their full medieval period. Attempts which occasionally were faulty.

I'd say the Latin pronunciation in the previous song is much better, as in good Erasmian and not that awful Church Latin.

PS: comments mention a Cajun/Acadien vibe and there is some of it as in Anglo pronouncing French.

Thanks.

[Tonitrus]

I've been watching a fair bit of old "Firing Line" episodes on Youtube (perhaps a yearning to hear more civil debates in our frazzled times).

In doing so, one of the recommended videos, is certainly the best comic impersonation of William F. Buckley by none other than Robin Williams:  https://youtu.be/S_VMwVpx4GI

[FunkMonk]

Wow that is spot on   

[frunk]

I've always liked Joe Flaherty's from SCTV, but that is a fabulous one.

[Syt]

In the 70s(?) and 80s, German TV station ZDF had this intro for late night horror/sci-fi movies. It scared the bejeezus out of me at the time. The sequence was designed by Heinz Edelmann who was also the art director on The Beatles' Yellow Submarine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIjbbet1V4


More conventional was the ARD's intro for science-fiction movies, featuring the intro part from Donna Summers' "I feel love" with classic sci-fi art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGFwSJmUuE

[Syt]

This is beyond excellent.

Star Wars version of Cindy Lauper's Time after Time

"You can run, you can hide
but they will find you ...
TIE after TIE ..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_utoy8t2A

[viper37]

OMG!  This is pure genius!

[Valmy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU

An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.

This is really, really good - IMO.

Parts two and three are up!

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw

[Maladict]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo&fbclid=IwAR1YBs_80I7Bc75Lmj82vWUElIvCOP-7lCV7SYLsJT3lK1oMV8JJjy0kuGU

An amazingly well done re-telling of Midway. Amateur animation extremely well presented that shows the dilemma and problems Nagumo faced the morning of June 4th.

This is really, really good - IMO.

Parts two and three are up!

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw

First pleasant surprise this year.