Bob Marley Week
May 14, 2011 5:12 AM Subscribe
Jimmy Fallon commemorates Bob Marley Week on his show by welcoming six artists to perform their favorite Marley song. Performances include Lauryn Hill singing the lovely, lesser-known "Chances Are" and a slightly manic "Could You Be Loved". Via
Fallon better watch out. He probably stole the idea for this show from Aisha Kamilah. She'll sue.
posted by likeso at 6:19 AM on May 14, 2011
posted by likeso at 6:19 AM on May 14, 2011
Still stunning. Still has the serious "GODDAMN, THAT GIRL CAN SAAANG!" chops. I'm glad she's all right now.
posted by droplet at 6:25 AM on May 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by droplet at 6:25 AM on May 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
Funny, I was just going to say the exact opposite thing. Lauryn Hill used to be so damn good. It is nice to see her performing again, though.
posted by chunking express at 6:31 AM on May 14, 2011
posted by chunking express at 6:31 AM on May 14, 2011
I enjoyed this very much. Thanks!
posted by dvorak_beats_qwerty at 7:30 AM on May 14, 2011
posted by dvorak_beats_qwerty at 7:30 AM on May 14, 2011
Because I'm reminded of its existence: Bob Marley f Black Thought - Burnin' and Lootin'.
posted by box at 7:32 AM on May 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by box at 7:32 AM on May 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
I still have his week's worth of shows sitting on my DVR. (I find all late-night television easier to watch on a weekend when I can skip the commercials and lame segments. I can watch an entire week's worth of Fallon in under 2 hours most of the time.)
Looking forward to it. He had Jennifer Hudson on his show last week as a couch guest, and I guess she came back this week to sing No Woman No Cry. In my dream world, I know Jennifer personally and can call her up and have her sing a verse and chorus of any song I want anytime because she and I are bestest buds. Talk about "that girl can saaaang"!
Fallon also did Broadway Week last year, and I'm hoping he does it again. He's really willing to take his audience on all sorts of little journeys.
posted by hippybear at 7:45 AM on May 14, 2011
Looking forward to it. He had Jennifer Hudson on his show last week as a couch guest, and I guess she came back this week to sing No Woman No Cry. In my dream world, I know Jennifer personally and can call her up and have her sing a verse and chorus of any song I want anytime because she and I are bestest buds. Talk about "that girl can saaaang"!
Fallon also did Broadway Week last year, and I'm hoping he does it again. He's really willing to take his audience on all sorts of little journeys.
posted by hippybear at 7:45 AM on May 14, 2011
So beautiful it gave me chills. Thanks for posting!!
posted by hecho de la basura at 8:11 AM on May 14, 2011
posted by hecho de la basura at 8:11 AM on May 14, 2011
I've seen 100s of performers live and easily, without hesitation, the most charismatic, heart-stopping, holy fuck performer I've ever seen was Bob. She does him justice.
posted by victors at 8:17 AM on May 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by victors at 8:17 AM on May 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
victors, unfortunately it's an ability he apparently didn't pass on to Ziggy, who's got a great voice but is a bit static.
posted by entropone at 8:31 AM on May 14, 2011
posted by entropone at 8:31 AM on May 14, 2011
She looks like she's pregnant with another one of his grandkids. Beautiful.
posted by Danila at 8:31 AM on May 14, 2011
posted by Danila at 8:31 AM on May 14, 2011
sorry, whoops, that was a super negative post about something that I've actually been enjoying a whole lot. The Roots' version of Them Belly Full was terrific. and Lauren Hill blew me away.
I gotta say, I've never seen his show, but Jimmy Fallon does get some pretty incredible music to come off of his stage. Submitted for general approval is Just A Friend by Jeff Goldblum. Yeah, you read that right.
Unfortunately not on youtube is BoyzIIMen's recent comeback Motown Philly backed by the Roots.
posted by entropone at 8:33 AM on May 14, 2011 [3 favorites]
I gotta say, I've never seen his show, but Jimmy Fallon does get some pretty incredible music to come off of his stage. Submitted for general approval is Just A Friend by Jeff Goldblum. Yeah, you read that right.
Unfortunately not on youtube is BoyzIIMen's recent comeback Motown Philly backed by the Roots.
posted by entropone at 8:33 AM on May 14, 2011 [3 favorites]
Clearly Lauryn Hill was just in a fire, and decided to grab her bedsheets, blanket, and bling.
Even with all the eccentric twitchiness on stage here - damn, she can SING! Just lovely.
posted by flex at 8:34 AM on May 14, 2011
Even with all the eccentric twitchiness on stage here - damn, she can SING! Just lovely.
posted by flex at 8:34 AM on May 14, 2011
Jimmy Fallon does get some pretty incredible music to come off of his stage
I get the impression that his is the show to go sit in the audience for, too. He regularly has people who are just sitting in with The Roots for the evening. They're not there to be the musical guest, they often don't even have an album to promote. They're just there to hang with one of the best bands in existence at the moment. And by the way they play out into commercial breaks and back in from them, I get the impression that, if you're there on one of those "just hangin' with the band" nights, you get a pretty decent mini-concert which isn't shown on television hardly at all.
posted by hippybear at 9:05 AM on May 14, 2011
I get the impression that his is the show to go sit in the audience for, too. He regularly has people who are just sitting in with The Roots for the evening. They're not there to be the musical guest, they often don't even have an album to promote. They're just there to hang with one of the best bands in existence at the moment. And by the way they play out into commercial breaks and back in from them, I get the impression that, if you're there on one of those "just hangin' with the band" nights, you get a pretty decent mini-concert which isn't shown on television hardly at all.
posted by hippybear at 9:05 AM on May 14, 2011
She sounds borderline tragic. If you showed me this video in the 90s when she was peaking, I would have cried. She sounded worse at Coachella but that's not saying much. Sad all around.
posted by BillBishop at 10:37 AM on May 14, 2011
posted by BillBishop at 10:37 AM on May 14, 2011
Oh hell yes.
posted by humannaire at 1:26 PM on May 14, 2011
posted by humannaire at 1:26 PM on May 14, 2011
Is "tragic" a musical term that I can understand? I only have one L Hill disc, but this doesn't sound hugely different - if anything she sounds mmm, bigger? more mature? I mean, people grow up, or old or out, right? Things change, but I thought this was a rockin' performance, particularly the Could You Be Loved part.
posted by sneebler at 5:20 PM on May 14, 2011
posted by sneebler at 5:20 PM on May 14, 2011
Is "tragic" a musical term that I can understand?
Nope. To my ears she sounds terrible. There's a forced vibrato in her voice that sounds like a bleating goat. Something about her stage presence and body language suggests that she knows she can't hack it, and there's a look in her eyes that says, "get me outta here."
If you look at her career and listen (with many grains of salt) to all the stories about her behavior from former friends and associates, there's something going on there that's not kosher.
Granted, this was the best I've hear her sound in years, and hope it's a continuing upward trend, but it's still very bad.
posted by BillBishop at 8:42 PM on May 14, 2011
Nope. To my ears she sounds terrible. There's a forced vibrato in her voice that sounds like a bleating goat. Something about her stage presence and body language suggests that she knows she can't hack it, and there's a look in her eyes that says, "get me outta here."
If you look at her career and listen (with many grains of salt) to all the stories about her behavior from former friends and associates, there's something going on there that's not kosher.
Granted, this was the best I've hear her sound in years, and hope it's a continuing upward trend, but it's still very bad.
posted by BillBishop at 8:42 PM on May 14, 2011
She sounds like a generic R&B singer, and she looked terrified and twitchy on stage. I was hyped to see her perform, and that was a big let down. She used to be amazing.
posted by chunking express at 8:56 PM on May 14, 2011
posted by chunking express at 8:56 PM on May 14, 2011
Her voice sounds great to me, but yeah, the performance is pretty insane. She looks like she has Parkinson's and bleats through the first song. Could You be Loved? is marginally better though. Don't think she takes constructive criticism well or is at all concerned with how she's perceived by others though, so I guess you just take what you can get from Lauryn. She has a weird messianic complex thing that's been building steadily since her one solo album.
posted by Locobot at 6:08 AM on May 15, 2011
posted by Locobot at 6:08 AM on May 15, 2011
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