Nellie McKay - Long and Lazy River - 8-3-2007

[Dontana808]

Her songs are downers--if you listen to them enough they really bring you down and her rhymes are kind of stupid. Great musicianship but that's just not enough.

[jeffymon420]

Calling someone's rhymes stupid is stupid.. Your entitled to dislike her but to discredit her craft is disrespectful. And by your comments I see your obviously not a thoughtful music critic, so how about if you dont like somebodies music share your opinions instead of making ignorant assertions

[Dontana808]

I don't care what you think.

[deanbigstar]

@Dontana808 I hate this goddam thumbs down shit just cuz people dont agree with what some other guy writes. I'll probably get a thumbs down for this.

[Dontana808]

What's funny is that whether they give a comment a thumbs up or down doesn't change the fact that her music is a downer. The cynicism, it gets old.

[jakiner]

@Dontana808 ok right.. i guess we're all supposed to go around listening to music about fairy tales, true love, and rainbows!  try listening to The Dog Song! I think it's her most cynical one yet!

[Dontana808]

@jakiner I guess we're all supposed to post glowing reviews full of fairy tales, true love, and rainbows!

[jakiner]

@Dontana808 yes i only want pure joy

[Dontana808]

@jakiner Well, YouTube isn't exactly the best place to find it. And unfortunately neither is Nellie's music. (You left yourself open for that one!)

[manelmariarodrigues]

@Dontana808 you are a downer yourslef. press auto-destruct button please

[RIRRmuseum]

I am a Nellie fan! Love her voice and her musicianship. I could listen to her sing the phone book. However I think she might have chosen one of her more upbeat songs for a national appearance on TV.

Still, I hope we keep on hearing more from her in the future!

[dugfriendly]

The host steps on her applause. Not cool.

[MISFITROBBY138]

hey man craig is awesome. it was probably for time.

[nedmanxxx]

the ghost of barbara stanwyck howls in the bones of her brow...

[musciatto1]

beautiful and extraordinary, this is Nellie McKay.

[tarzie84]

wow i love her voice

[nosferatudasvampir]

She's a jewel! :) Now how come Amy Winehouse is successful and Nellie is always under the radar?

[shellymf]

Exactly. I really dont get that..

Nellie McKay is sooo Amazingg ,she is so wonderful

[CaesarNeverSaidThat]

Because most people are sheep and have no understanding. So let Nellie belong to the happy few.

[fiyeroswitch]

Exactly. Nellie is a class act and a timeless talent and if the mainstream media can't accept that, its their loss.

[turrddfurrgusson]

She's changed my life.

[alisiapaig]

i love her voice. it's so old fashioned and beautiful. it makes me think of the way people talked in the old black and white movies. so elegant

[eyedreamdesign]

what album is this song on?

[eyedreamdesign]

pretty little head

[caraziladies]

i just love craig fergusen!!!!!

[caraziladies]

isn't she great?

[jonxjquee]

does anyone know where the late late show ep that has her singing Ding Dong i can't find it on youtube

[CaesarNeverSaidThat]

She was on Later with Jools Holland (the best British music programme in my opinion).

[wolvie1973]

i would say that Later with Jools Holland is one of the best music program worldwide, he really understands music and musician, mainly cause he was part of a band himself

[junkieflunky]

brilliant

[cherrulez1]

What a songbird! One of the most astoundingly impressive new songwriters that is astoundingly unknown.

[lisaviktorya]

I love this song. :)

[CPunk1703]

shes hot

[CletusDaFetus]

but intense hard to describe the emotions behind it, but i love it just the same

[CletusDaFetus]

2cute

[Littlegrizzy21]

2:21-2:25 is easily my favorite part! Love it :)

[doomtints]

It's interesting that you like that part the most because that's the only part of the song that she makes a mistake on. :D Or, at least, she does that break in order to recover from her losing the tempo a little bit just before that. I agree that she recovers marvelously. She's fabulous.

[jesuisdashit]

Flaw.  Less.

[thatchbrubaker]

I cannot get enough of this clip.

[AnnDriscoll]

wonderful song...wonderful performance...nellie is the shit

[radioguyrey]

Indeed!

[beforenightfell]

How many clone bitches do you think they will spew out?

[KnittingRam]

wow I couldn't disagree with you more..

Obviously you know nothing about this girl..

"they" aren't spewing out anything.. She's releasing her own records.

Let me guess, you like tool, right?

[beforenightfell]

i guess you don't understand, strands of dialogue. Read it from AnnDriscoll.

I was implying, stating that the industry would find clone, mock, masked versions of Mckay. And i wondered how many we would see.

It had nothing to do with her, she rocks, her mind is wonderful. Politan!

[xxmrrickxx]

Some of her songs show that her vocal abilities are still young but she is going to be around for a long time!

[TVSportsLine]

I have to agree with everyone I mean I hardly ever watch the Late Show and I just happened to catch her and she has blown me away with that voice.

[mike83206]

I've never even heard of Nellie McKay until I saw her on the Late Late Show and man... she really blew me away with that voice. She's awesome!

[doomtints]

I have to agree completely with ehsays. I never watch the late late show, and really I wasn't paying much attention to it as it was on until McKay's performance. Now I can't get enough of her. She is a brilliant and funny and very caring artist.

[dsterry]

Nice post. This is the first time I heard her and I've been catching up since.

[michaelmangia]

adorable!

[retrodepp]

She kinda reminds me aboot Regina Spektor....

[ehsays]

Just happened to catch it on the late late show (which i rarely watch) the other day. Never even heard of her before & was 100% blown away at this amazingly unique, refreshing, beautiful, truly captivating performance. Can't remember the last time a singer has knocked me off my ass like her! WOW!

[mike83206]

I LOVE NELLIE MCKAY!

[mike83206]

wow what a great singer and that voice. i'm definitely gonna get her cd today.

[mhw16]

Woah, she looks just like a girl at my school...

With a much better voice

[Cysvital]

Nellie McKay is so awesome! Definitely one of my favorite singers.

[squirtgunrobbery]

she's so chipper and lovely.

i love her. her voice is so showtunesy but not obnoxious. it's like, perfect happy music. haha. even if the lyrics aren't happy.

she's a bit old-sounding. like oldie-music-sounding. i love her so much.

[roheraa]

wow such a smokey, unique voice. She sounds a lot like dusty springfield. Beautiful song and performance tho.

[ME1211111]

thank you so much for posting this!

i love nelly mckay!

[MISFITROBBY138]

awesome