Top 3 for March 5, 2014

Quiero Cantar Entra Las Explosions – from Ainadamar by Oswaldo Golijov

Kelley O'Connor as Federico García Lorca; Dawn Upshaw as Margarita Xirgu; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Robert Spano conducting.

Federico García Lorca and his lover and muse, Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu
Margarita begs Lorca to come with her theater company to Cuba, but he refuses and stays in Granada to write new plays and poetry.

Top 8 for January 2, 2014, plus an aside

I Need to Know Where I Stand by Rhett Miller from Live at Eddie's Attic

Pitchfork describes it as “a decent Meg Ryan movie of a pop song”. I'm not sure if that's a compliment (it wouldn't be, coming from me) but I think it's a darn fine song.

Tombstone Blues by Bob Dylan from Biograph (originally from Highway 61 Revisited)

The sun ain't yellow, it's chicken. Jes' sayin'.