Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Listening Post



This is one of those unsung videos that no one ever considers when listing the best of the medium.

It's a clever artistic triumph -- and one that could be lauded for no other reason than the way it brings the Joan MirĂ³ painting from the cover of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's landmark album Time Out to vivid life.

An homage to the incongruity of life in the 1950s -- when innocence and industry brushed up against atomic paranoia -- here's Donald Fagen's New Frontier.

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