Antarctica Takes It!, Bella Hemming: UkeTube

19 Comments

1. Jimmy September 25th, 2010 4:49 pm
   

   Bella Hemming’s song was good but she talks balls – I’ve played this thing for ages and still I’m nowhere. That version of No Surprises was amazing near had me in tears, and Michelle Blades always brilliant.

2. Herman September 25th, 2010 7:21 pm
   

   Agathe and Fine did surprises me with No Surprises
   & of course the funny Les Poupées Gonflées made a nice job.

3. Ron Hale September 25th, 2010 10:37 pm
   

   The Poupees Gonflees video has been one of my favorites for while now. Good call… Is that a Mideast ukulele shown early on? Shaped like one, but I can’t tell…

   Here’s one for you, just in case you haven’t seen it yet, Al, that puts the ukulele in an entirely different perspective. Language warning for those as delicate as myself & featuring Sweet Bill and F***ing Fred –

   BED INTRUDER cover with PUPPETS!!
   by: PineappleSodomy

4. Logan September 26th, 2010 1:34 am
   

   That Antarctica Takes It! video is so god damned charming. I’m a miserable sap, and it brightened the hell out of my day.

5. Bam September 26th, 2010 9:37 am
   

   WOWSERS. That Bella Hemming tune has been buzzing around my head all weekend. I love it and have officially adopted it as my theme tune (for a bit). I wish it to be played at the start of each episode of my sitcom please. Also, I would like a sitcom please.

6. Woodshed September 26th, 2010 10:38 am
   

   Jimmy: Yeah, girls give terrible advice for picking up girls. It’s like asking a cow how to milk itself (OK, I could have come up with a more flattering analogy).

   Herman: Loving the girls as always ;)

   Ron: I’ll sit that video out, I think. I’m so bored of Bed Intruder.

   Logan: That guy is adorable.

   Bam: Yeah, I’ve had it going through my head all weekend too. Good luck with the sitcom.

7. Ian Emmerson September 26th, 2010 10:47 am
   

   Watching them in random order. Two vids in (Blades and Antarctica), and the obvious must-have accessory for this season appears to be a line of Manson Family style friends doing ad hoc percussion and backing vox.

   Saying that, Michelle Blades is one of the only hipster ukers I like. Sweet voice, and I like a baritone.

8. Peter September 26th, 2010 2:09 pm
   

   Al, could you gives us the chords for the Bella Hemming song? It sounds pretty simple and I can’t stop li9stening. Pretty please?

9. valerie charlot September 26th, 2010 4:13 pm
   

   hi, for the fun, this is an approximative translation of Poupées Gonflées’s song

   The friends of the wife of my husband

   Intro: ouch ouch, ouch ouch ouch ouch, ouch ouch
   Hou hou hou … … …

   Chorus
   ouch ouch
   I live here
   The (girl)friends of the wife of my husband too
   ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch,
   I live here with him
   The friends of the wife of my husband too

   They drink tea pot
   big as tureens
   ouch ouch, ouch and go pee

   Their cigarettes smoke
   And their perfume perfumes
   Hearing ouch, ouch, day as night

   ouch ouch

   They speak with enthusiasm
   Like to talk about ass
   ouch, ouch, drink all the Chablis

   They come at dawn
   Say hello just
   ouch, ouch, go late into the night

   Refrain

   They have the fire in the heart
   A lover at five
   ouch, ouch, a husband for all their life

   They have the heart which cede
   The men are cowards
   ouch, ouch, seductive enemies

   ouch ouch

   They have long legs
   And that roar of anger 4
   ouch, ouch, their children have grown

   They have lives past
   Hanging like chains
   ouch, ouch, some new appetites

   Refrain

   They are paramours or wifes
   Misses or Madam (s) 5
   ouch, ouch, little girls also

   They are unbearable
   We are dancing on the table
   ouch, ouch, he sleeps alone in his bed

   Bridge:
   They always have a good excuse
   Exquisite vultures, sweet jellyfishes
   To show up at the wrong time
   ouch ouch ouch
   It will return at her mother…

   Refrain

   Final: ouch ouch, ouch ouch ouch ouch, ouch ouch
   Hou hou hou … …

10. Helen Shine September 27th, 2010 1:09 pm
    

    I’d love the chords to the Bella Hemming song too :)

11. Larry September 27th, 2010 1:47 pm
    

    I loved Bella, the song idea, the split screen, her voice and playing are both fantastic!!

    The total energy of Antarctica Takes It! really stole the show!!

    Two way tie for first place.

    Love your website!! I’ve been playing guitar for 33 years and just celebrated my second month playing uke, I love it!! (and so does my family “no amps and pedals to drive them crazy….yet!!)

12. Woodshed September 27th, 2010 3:30 pm
    

    Ian: Perhaps I should get me a cult.

    Peter and Helen: Bella emailed me and asked if I could put the chords and I said yes. So expect them at some point. But I make it F – Fmaj7 (5500) – Gm – Bbmaj7 (3210) – Bbadd9 (3213)

    valerie charlot: Thanks very much for that. It certainly informed me.

    Larry: Thanks. Glad you’re enjoying the site and the instrument.

13. Julia September 27th, 2010 5:37 pm
    

    Loved this weeks Uketube… especially the pyles, and antarctica

    but also bella hemming and Lila Burns

    alltogether really great this week

14. Nichole September 28th, 2010 12:18 am
    

    I’m usually more of a lurker, but I just had to comment on this since they’re all such wonderful choices. The Bella Hemming song is so positively charming I had to listen to it twice before I could move on! Thank you so much for all of these.

15. Woodshed October 2nd, 2010 10:31 pm
    

    Julia: Glad you enjoyed.

    Nichole: You’re welcome, I particularly enjoyed the videos this week too.

16. crazysteph12 October 5th, 2010 4:44 am
    

    Loved Bella Hemming! I Just started playing the uke less than a week ago…well just 3 days ago, and the first thing i did before i got my ukulele is i came to ukehunt (without even knowing how this website was going to help me but then I fell in love with it too) and saw bella as the featured vid and i just couldn’t wait to get my uke after that, and now i play that song all the time, you can say that was one of my inspirations lol.

    P.S. I really enjoy this website i am on it all the time and it helped me a lot, especially that first free ebook. really awesome! thanks lots.

17. Woodshed October 5th, 2010 12:03 pm
    

    crazysteph12: Good to have you on board! Glad you’re enjoying the site.

    Everyone who wanted chords for Bella’s song: They’ll be up later today.

18. Haole October 7th, 2010 3:14 am
    

    I’m late to this party, and I agree that “No Surprises” and “Play Guitar” were excellent, but was I the only one who was really digging the Usher song? I never would have expected such a beautiful translation.

19. crazysteph12 October 17th, 2010 6:13 pm
    

    Haole i agree with you, that usher one was great