THERE'S A BOT ON MY RADIO!!!

On Monday, 26 December, I visited Liron Teeni (aka @liront) at his radio show (listen to previous broadcasts, including mine, here).

I butchered Kate Bush's "Babooshka" live on the air, and boy, it was ugly.

*Credit for the video goes to the lovely @shiradinur, who did the matchmaking for this blessed event in the first place.

If you're some kind of creep and want to own the song to cherish for all eternity, @freezer52000 has kindly ripped an mp3 track of the song for your enjoyment, downloadable here.

I also decided to provide links to all of the songs we aired on the show, if you don't understand Hebrew, don't want the chitchat, or just want to be able to hear them again.

Children of the Revolution

Suffragette City

The Man Who Sold the World

The Alternative Polka

Born to Be Wild

Feeling Good

The Passenger

הסטלן האוטומטי

Killing

Strange Little Girl

You Only Live Twice

The Mercy Seat

שיר תשרי

Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

Strange Fruit

Stairway to Heaven

Five Step

Debaser

Eleanor Rigby

Like Someone in Love

Comfortably Numb

Peace out. See y'all next Sunday.

Sally's Song

After last year's Christmas Special, I decided to go with a different twist, and perform a song from my favorite Christmas movie ever.

Bali Ha'i

Come away, come away.

Easy Street

Occupy Broadway!

Featuring Rambo the cat as token ginger.

עיר מקלט - City of Refuge

את, כן את.
You, yes you.

Africa

This one goes out to @noahroth, who stuck the song in my head after tweeting this.

Trouble

I was going to do something else, but I felt like trouble.

חורשת האקליפטוס - The Eucalyptus Wood

שיחה שלא התקיימה בשבוע שעבר בין העוזר הפרלמנטרי של ח"כ יוליה שמאלוב-ברקוביץ' להילה בניוביץ'-הופמן, הלא היא ואן דר גראף אחותך, הידועה בכינויה במחוזות הצוויצר:

 @vandersister

ע': אז מה, באירוע הזה שלכם עם הערוות, יהיו נאומים? ח"כ שמאלוב תוכל לנאום?

ה': לא.

ע': תהיה טלויזיה?

ה': לא שידוע לי.

ע': יהיו סלבריטיז? דוגמניות? זמרות מפורסמות?

ה': תהיה יעל דוד. 

ע': עה?

ה': יעל דוד.

ע': מי זאת יעל דוד?

ה': נו, זאת שחידשה את "חורשת האקליפטוס".

ע': (נשמע מבולבל) אההההה. יעל דוד הזאת. כן, ברור. אנחנו נבוא.

Ghosts Can't Run Away

Surprise! I actually posted on a Sunday!

הפרי מהעץ - The Fruit From the Tree

Now we miss my mic, don't we?



Thanks to @shiradinur for making the video.

Birdhouse In Your Soul

I promised @mux2000 TMBG for his birthday. His birthday was yesterday. On a Sunday. Yeah, yeah.



Happy birthday, Mux!

God Am

Sorry for last week. I'll be a better singing bot next time.

Someday I Will Treat You Good

I'm going to let you guess if this one is for you or not. I said "someday", not "today".

Everybody Hurts

To @gonzopants, who reminded me to take comfort in my friends.

And endless thanks to REM for giving us so much to hold on to.

עמוד האש - The Pillar of Fire

Fire

This song is for @Zeelam, who deserves a song, even if it's bad.

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

And there are millions like me. #j14

Black Velvet

With love, to @vandersister.

And yeah, I know. Maybe I should change the name of the blog to "Singing Badly Someday".

Damn you, real life.

מדרום תפתח הטובה - From the South Will Come the Good

The Day I Tried To Live

Pesky health has kept me from putting this out on time, but better late than never, right?

Right???

Children of the Revolution

#j14 all the way!

שיר הפרטיזנים - Partisan Song

By request of @Tamaruli.

One I Love - Special Edition

For @fortyhournight. She meets the qualification.

I Touch Myself

Last year I wanted to do this song for our wedding anniversary, but I sucked too hard on the guitar. I still suck rather badly, but I managed to mangle it passably, I think.

Happy anniversary, Tal. I have excellent taste in spouses.

Beautiful Stranger

It's my twins' birthday this week. I love you, Tal and Neta.

Closer

Warning: LYRICS ARE EXPLICIT LIKE WHOA.

And the whole thing is kind of an abomination. Sorry.

All Of Me

This one is for my gorgeous boy, Yiftah, whose 4th birthday we just celebrated two days ago. I used to sing this to him when he and I would chill in the hammock together. He is my daily miracle. Love you, Tino.

Eye of the Tiger

Thanks to Tal for being wonderful on the guitar. And in general.

Naftali the Fish - נפתלי הדג

הנה נפתלי, נפתלי הדג

הפה קצת פתוח לא מוציא אף מילה

מתחת לפוני עיינים כחולות

הרופא אמר שהטבע עושה טעויות

Here is Naftali, Naftali the fish

Mouth slightly open, never utters a word

Under the fringe, there are blue eyes

The doctor said sometimes nature gets it wrong

וכולם הסתכלו עליו וצחקו

מבוקר עד ערב עושה פרצופים

מתבלבל בידים

מלכלך ת'סדינים

וכולם הסתכלו עליו וצחקו

כן כולם צחקו עליו והתרחקו

And everybody stared at him and laughed

From morning to evening, he makes faces

Confuses his hands

Soils his sheet

And everybody stared at him and laughed

Yes, everybody laughed and walked away

קשה, קשה, להיות בן אדם

נפתלי רוצה לחזור אל הים

לחזור אל הים

אל הים

It's hard, hard being a human

Naftali wants to go back to the ocean

Back to the ocean

To the ocean

לפעמים קירות חשופים זה מראה מלבב

כמו מסך שקוף שמכסה את הפגמים

חיוך שמתוח עד כאב

בעולם המופלא ללא מילים

שקט, שקט שאפשר למשש

כחול בעיינים זה מה שיש

זה מה שיש

Sometimes bare walls are a sight for sore eyes

Like a sheer veil covering the flaws

A smile stretched out to the point of pain

In the wonderful world without words

Quiet, quiet that you can touch

Blue in the eyes is all that there is

It's all that there is

קשה, קשה, להיות בן אדם

נפתלי רוצה לחזור אל הים

לחזור אל הים

אל הים

It's hard, hard being a human

Naftali wants to go back to the ocean

Back to the ocean

To the ocean

Kites

This song is for @YaelBeeri, who is the kind of person everybody needs in her life.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

This song goes out to @danjas, @shiradinur, and @raffeg. You were all on my mind when I chose it.

I'm also singing for Revital, whose birthday we should have been celebrating today. We miss you.



Thanks to Tal for taking the guitar part very seriously.

Big Empty

Heaven Beside You

And you know you have it still, Heaven inside you.

My hands have been taken by tendonitis, so Tal is on the guitar, again.

Day and Night ביום ובלילה

Now, with extra @danjas.

לי יש דנג'ה ולכם לא.



(And some Tal on guitar for good measure.)

Elifelet אליפלט

אופניים וספר A Bike and a Book

בכל זאת.

Thriller

We thought this song would be especially appropriate for Easter, with the zombies and stuff.

Tal, from his usual spot on the guitar, asked to disclaim that the original was also sung badly.

And to all our Jewish friends - be happy, the bread will be back in less than 24 hours!

Enjoy The Silence

After you hear this song? Seriously. Enjoy the silence.


* Once again, with Tal making an appearance on the guitar and regretting he had anything to do with it.

Pressure - לחץ

With love to the Iron Dome. Maybe tonight you'll be mine.



* Once again, featuring Tal on guitar. So much nicer when someone actually knows how to play it.

The Riddle

Somebody, please explain the lyrics to me.

* Featuring the talented Tal on guitar.

King Of Pain

That's my soul up there.

She Drives Me Crazy

If you suspect this song might be about you, you're probably right.

(Also, I know it's not Sunday, but I have mitigating circumstances in the form of kids on vacation and flaky collaborators, and also, it still is Sunday in some parts of the world.)

Black Gives Way To Blue

Just last week, I wrote elsewhere about carrying the memory of a lost loved one for life.

I wish there were only one loved one I could say this song is for.

59th Street Bridge Song

By special request (yes, I will take your requests, too, if I can handle them), for @shiradinur.

Feeling groovy?

Hot Stuff

I'm sick. So this one came out proper bad. As this song deserves to be.

Amazing Quack

Not a Sunday song. Well, a Sunday song, not sung on a Sunday. I decided to try out being a duck for a day. Here is the quack to prove it.

PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT DUCKERY.

Lev Shalem - לב שלם

From Hebrew:

When you are near me, I go submerged

When you are far, I begin to run

You can see into me, I see straight through you

You want spots, I want it continuous

And when I fall apart

You are more complete

Wave by wave comes the pain

A broken heart is a whole heart

Sometimes you're at my place and I'm at everybody else's

Sometimes I'm here, but you're not anymore

You want to wait, I want it now

You want some air, I want to breathe

Hurt

רויטל 5.6.1973-11.2.2011

כואבים עד עולם את אבדנך, יקירה.

Morning Bell

The lights are on but nobody's home.

The Man Who Saw Everything האיש שראה הכל

Saw them live last night. They did it better.

White Man אדם לבן

In an attempt to burn up my 15 minutes as quickly as possible, I contributed some backing vocals to the very talented Mux2000.

Black Hole Sun

Jazz festival. FYI.

Hate Winter שונאת חורף

An original song. Lyrics: @omg_dora, music: me. I actually love the winter.

Stayin' Alive

Larger Than Life

New kazoo!

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