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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Growltiger's Last Stand

One of my son's and my favorite songs -- as much for the lyrics as the music -- from Cats. Part I:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmSp73HVpcA&feature=related

And Part II, which must be listened to for the whole thing to make sense:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG3AeLNf1Xo&feature=related

Andrew Lloyd Webber's music and T.S. Eliot's poetry is a hard combo to beat. The music is operatic, but overdone enough to seemingly be mocking itself at the same time. Either way, it's fun.

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