The Oscars’ Best Song Winner: After These Messages, We’ll Make You Say “Awwwww”
Even if “Falling Slowly,” Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s Oscar-winning song from Once, is a little too tepid to be your cup of tea, you have to admit that Jon Stewart bringing Irglova out to give her acceptance speech after the commercial break was a pretty sweet moment, and not even in the “insufferably twee” kind of way that would have probably resulted from a victory by one of the Enchanted songs. (Clip via Defamer.) Plus, the whole thing reminded me how much I liked the quiet, yet intense 2001 album from Hansard’s band the Frames, the Steve Albini-engineered For The Birds. After the jump, the Day of the Dead-themed video for that album’s track “Lay Me Down”:
The Frames – Lay Me Down [YouTube] ONCE – Falling Slowly [YouTube]
