The Song of the Day Thread [April '09]

[featherlou]

Go for it!

[Myglaren]

Missed the window anyway. Typical.


Friday1st May 2009



Discovered while trawling through Joan Baez clips. This is now my favourite version although I did find it a bit odd in the beginning.

[Alastair Moonsong]

Saturday, May 2, 2009:

Sonata Arctica, .

[Myglaren]

Sunday May 3rd 2009

Desireless:

[Vox Imperatoris]

(4th May, 2009) ATC (A Touch of Class) "Around the World (La La La La La)" ( )

Aside from being overly fond of parentheses, it's kind of a strange band: all of them are from different countries, with the two guys being from New Zealand and England, the brunette from Italy, and the blonde from Australia, but the group was based in Germany. Also, that video on YouTube is really high quality (if you hit that button). I've never seen one like that before.

The song was covered by the group beFour, also a two-guy/two-girl band (they pretty much came out of the same tin), as " ", with completely different lyrics. So if it doesn't get stuck in your head with one, it will with the other. :wink:

[Zabigail]

Tuesday May 5th by DJ Changsta. There's just something about this song I like.

[Darth Sensitive]

Wednesday May 6:

Bon Jovi:

Sweet, delicious hair metal. With talkbox (I want one so bad, even though I blow at guitar). Chosen because of the chorus - 3 exams down, 3 to go.

[Myglaren]

Thursday 7th May 2009

Leonard Cohen

[Myglaren]

Friday 8th May 2009

Shivaree:

[Myglaren]

Saturday 9th May 2009

This Mortal Coil:

[Myglaren]

Sunday 10th May 2009

Kristen Barry:

Nice to find this on YouTube. Had a truncated mp3 for ages but managed to lose it a year or so ago. Bought her album but this isn't on it and the other songs don't quite measure up.

[TheFlame]

Catching up with this thread (after a whole month of songs). I'm skipping some of them that are particularly well-known or I didn't have much opinion on:

April 11th 2009 The Black Heart Procession - A Light So Dim (YouTube)

I didn't enjoy this at all; much too dark for my liking.

#36 - Ladyhawke - My Delirium

(April 13) - The link didn't work in the UK but I found . This gets off to a really good start and is overall an above-average electro-pop song. There's something about it though that means I don't like it as much as I might (yeah, I know that's not very specific!)

Hubert von Goisern & Zabine - Juchitzer

(April 14) - Haven't heard anything quite like this before - a sort of operatic pop. It was pleasant enough.

April 16tt 2009, Mylène Farmer. Avant Que L'Ombre

This one was impressive . An excellent performance.

Elisa: Redemption Song (Live; YouTube)

(April 17) More straightforwardly 'pop' than the previous two, but another very good female singer. I'd like to hear the studio recording of this without the crowd noise and slight distortion in the background (though this is much better than some live recordings on Youtube).

April 18th 2009 MUSIC GO MUSIC - 'Light Of Love' (YouTube)

This is mine. One of the best pop songs I've heard in a good long time, somehow virtually unknown.

April 19th 2009 Tom Waites, Cold Cold Ground. (YouTube)

I like the song, not so sure about his singing (it might just be the performance rather then the track, but in general I have a dislike for 'husky' male vocalists)

Tuesday 21st April 2009 - Lucia Micarelli & Ian Anderson, Kashmir

That was indeed awesome!

[Myglaren]

Thanks for the seal of approval, incandescent one

AFAIK Elisa's "Redemption Song" isn't available on disc. If it were, I would have it in an instant, as with Vanessa Paradis' "La Minute De Silence".

[Myglaren]

Monday 11th May 2009.

Myléne Farmer: .

[OneCentStamp]

Sweet, delicious hair metal. With talkbox (I want one so bad, even though I blow at guitar). Chosen because of the chorus - 3 exams down, 3 to go.

Always loved the bass line on this song, especially in the chorus. It was one of the few 80s hair metal songs with any kind of memorable bass part.

[NAF1138]

Hey, no May 12th yet?

Sweet, I can get another song in.

Indy-Punk Rockers The Thermals present the song No Culture Icons!

Tuesday May 12

by The Thermals (YouTube)

BONUS SONG!

A slightly more polished sound from their next album

(YouTube)

[NAF1138]

Catching up with this thread (after a whole month of songs). I'm skipping some of them that are particularly well-known or I didn't have much opinion on:

April 11th 2009 The Black Heart Procession - A Light So Dim (YouTube)

I didn't enjoy this at all; much too dark for my liking.

Yeah, they aren't well represented on YouTube or Last.fm unfortuantly. Not everything of theirs is so dark, but that album was specifically about loss and lonleiness so you get some farily dark stuff going on. Give it a second chance, it will grow on you.

April 19th 2009 Tom Waites, Cold Cold Ground. (YouTube)

I like the song, not so sure about his singing (it might just be the performance rather then the track, but in general I have a dislike for 'husky' male vocalists)

You don't know Tom Waits?

Oh, this must be remedied The Flame.

Off to start an appreciation thread, I will link back to it when it is up an running.

Linky

[Chefguy]

I'm claiming May 13th, as it's my birthday:

[Myglaren]

Thursday 14th May 2009

Amaral:

[Myglaren]

Friday 15th May '09

Natasha St. Pier:

Former Eurovision contestant but I think she can be forgiven for that.

[Myglaren]

Saturday 16th May '09

The Twelve Girls Band

A departure from their usual format. Although there are 13 girls, only 12 take the stage at any one time but here there are 17 and in an even greater departure the new ones are playing violins where previously the only (visible) instruments played were traditional Chinese ones.

They do use a guitar, drums and a midi track quite often, the guitar and drums are rarely visible. A shame and completely superfluous IMO.

[Vox Imperatoris]

(17th May, 2009) Dhany "Miles of Love" ( )

Dhany is an Italian singer I found out about on Pandora Radio. The song it actually recommended was " " (I could only find this version, half in Italian, on YouTube), but I think this one is better.

[Myglaren]

Monday 18th May 2009

Fiona Apple .

So many great Fiona vids on YouTube it is difficult to find the one I like best.

[Myglaren]

Tuesday May 19th 2009

Arielle Dombasle.

An intriguing lady with a very interesting history, here singing

Just love the scene there, 40's style elegant decadence. Reminiscent of "The Singing Detective"

[TheFlame]

I did intend to do all of them but have been really rather waylaid in the past week or so. I'll get back to it...

Also, I want June 3rd.

[Myglaren]

Damn, It was I had intended to post.

June 3rd acknowledged.

[featherlou]

Thursday 14th May 2009

Amaral:

She sounds a lot like Shakira (except less sheep-like).

[Zabigail]

Wednesday May 20th. Martyn Bennett off his Hardland album, performed live.

[featherlou]

What? No song for Thursday, May 21? Okay, how about ?

[Myglaren]

Friday May 22nd.

The Desert Sessions & PJ Harvey:

[Myglaren]

Saturday May 23rd

Vanessa-Mae,

A lovely and remarkably talented young woman. Although she chooses to play predominantly crossover she is still a more than able classicist.

The first time I saw her she was playing her "glass" violin at an outdoor concert with a kind of jetty that reached out from the stage and into the audience, she was dancing and twirling down the jetty and back whilst playing far more ably than most can manage standing still.

The Guadagnini she is playing there was bought for her by her parents for £150,000. What an investment.

[Myglaren]

Sunday May 24th

Mylène Farmer: .

A massively expensive video that is very typical of her - she often plays two characters and at least one of them generally ends up dead.

[featherlou]

Monday, May 25th

Ashey MacIsaac,

[Myglaren]

Tuesday May 26th
Mika Agematsu -
(YouTube)

An exquisite harpist. Her playing (here anyway) is so delicate and refined, she is so serene but so energised, if that isn't too contradictory.

In other performances she can really give it some welly, something I have never associated with harp music before.
The outstanding thing is her wonderful smile. She is such a beauty and the smile just lights her up. The pleasure she has in her playing is there for all to see.

[Myglaren]

Wednesday 27th May

Carina Round, . (Youtube)

Saw her live a couple of years ago and she was epic.
Despite being ill she was so energetic she wore the audience out, unlike James Blunt, who opened for her.

Met her afterward and despite her scary stage persona she is absolutely lovely, very charming and friendly.

[featherlou]

Thursday, May 28th
(sorry for the video quality - it seems to be hard to get a lot of Canadian video on Youtube).

[Zabigail]

Friday May 29, Kenan Dogulu.

[Myglaren]

Saturday May 30th 2009

G F Händel. (YouTube)

From Almira.

[Myglaren]

Sunday May 31st


Vanessa-Mae - (Youtube)

[Myglaren]

As it is the end of the month, are we going to continue with this thread or create a new one for June?

[Vox Imperatoris]

I guess I could do that. Or someone else, which would save a lot of time for me. (Because I would compile them all together from the beginning, including the ones from last month.)

[Myglaren]

I'd be happy to kick off a new thread as long as no-one thinks I am hogging the topic.
I know it comes close, this is my favourite subject, as you may have deduced by now