mellicious | Dec. 18th, 2018

I'm behind on both Music Advent and Holidailies, now. But as Christmas gets closer I feel less and less guilty about that.

Anyway, I was watching MTP Daily on MSNBC and Chuck Todd said, seemingly just out of the blue, "Give us any chance we'll take it, give us any rule we'll break it" - and I thought, "Oh, thanks for the earworm, Chuck!" But then it caused me to remember this version.

"Less Than Jake: Laverne and Shirley" (Watch on YouTube)

(I hadn't heard when I posted this about Penny Marshall dying; it doesn't seem like that could just be a coincidence, though. I think they must have said it and I just missed that part at the time.)

#musicadvent 2018

Day 1: Prince does Creep - https://youtu.be/NFXZNt4oLkE

Day 2: Pearl Jam does Petty - https://youtu.be/3wkxAmQo-Vw

Day 3: Haley Reinhart does Gaga - https://youtu.be/jwOokrZKHNE?t=101

Day 4: Hot Chip does Springsteen - https://youtu.be/b4IAuUmG95g

Day 5: Mary Chapin Carpenter does Springsteen - https://youtu.be/l2dFhlaIRk

Day 6: Amy Winehouse does The Zutons - https://youtu.be/6pAz9UpnRKw

Day 7: Chris Cornell does Prince/Sinéad - https://youtu.be/IuUDRU9-HRk

Day 8: Feist & Ben Gibbard do Vashti Bunyan - https://youtu.be/aOHM2Qkt32o

Day 9: David Byrne does Nancy Sinatra - https://youtu.be/qyF2DYLaSIc

Day 10: Miley Cyrus does Nancy Sinatra - https://youtu.be/zK7z2mPay1A

Day 11: Linda Ronstadt does Karla Bonoff - https://youtu.be/hBkk3H_5Kpo?t=125

Day 12: Cry Cry Cry (Dar Williams, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky) do R.E.M. - https://youtu.be/IscJjA6aflk

Day 13: Sara Bareilles does Sia - https://youtu.be/OlqEj3TcAEI?t=40

Day 14: Sara Bareilles does Elton John - https://youtu.be/Ozd2ja7mAgM

Day 15: Less Than Jake does Laverne & Shirley - https://youtu.be/00eRA9r7P9Y

There are just few enough people doing Music Advent that I worry about posting the same video somebody had already posted, I guess I should just get over that. Anyway, somebody had already done a Pentatonix song, and somebody had done some artist singing Hallelujah, but nobody (as far as I could see) did both of those together.

Pentatonix apparently put this on a Christmas album but that is WRONG, so very wrong. This is totally not a Christmas song. But it's a great song so I am forgiving Pentatonix for that, just this once.

"[OFFICIAL VIDEO] Hallelujah - Pentatonix" (Watch on YouTube)