The Long Tail of Music Performances at the Oscars
February 26th, 2008, 5 Comments »
I was skimming through my RSS feeds, and encountered not one but two references to Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová’s great performance at the Oscars of “Falling Slowly” from the delightful movie Once. Here it is:
I agree with Rob’s assessment that their win for Best Original Song restores a tiny bit of my faith in Hollywood.
I have very little time for the Oscars these days, but they do occasionally feature good musical performances. I have a fond memory of Neil Young playing “Philadelphia” about ten years ago, and I’m sure there are dozens of other good examples.
Where is this content? I searched Amazon to no avail. And besides, I don’t want a CD or DVD that somebody else curated. I want to select my favourites and buy them as MP3s or videos.
For a industry constantly whinging about lost revenue (the latest crisis: people are buying fewer DVDs), you’d think more of this audio and video would be available for sale.