Song of the day thread July 2009

[Cluricaun]

Hey look, Thursday July 23rd is up for grabs......who wants it?

[Zabigail]

I'll take it!

Thursday July 23

Kinky - too.)

[Myglaren]

Friday July 24th 2009

Inspired by one of the iPod shuffle posts -

1.Dizzy Boogie - Charlie Parker
2.Only Trust Your Heart - Stan Getz
3.Christmas Vespers, Christe Redemptor Omnium - Monteverdi (Canadian Brass)
4.Easier - Glen Phillips
5.Ready - Cat Stevens
6.Prove My Love (Live) - Violent Femmes
7.Konzertstück for Piano & Orchestra in F Minor, Op. 79 - Weber (London Symphony Orchestra)
8.Mayfly - Belle & Sebastian
9.Overture to Tannhäuser - Wagner (no info on performers, but it might be Roger Norrington)
10.Tu Queria - Seu Jorge

by parzival



Harvey Mandel: from his Cristo Redentor album, which I purchased for 10/-($1) in the late sixties

[NAF1138]

Harvey Mandel: from his Cristo Redentor album, which I purchased for 10/-($1) in the late sixties

Wow, I dug the hell out of that song. Great pick.

[Cluricaun]

Wow, not to many people know about Harvey, he's another Chicago 60's whiteboy blues prodigy - much like Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield. That's a bad ass track.

[Myglaren]

I reckon his "Wade In The Water" is unsurpassed.

[featherlou]

Wow, you white boys sure say "wow" a lot.





(That was a very nice track.)

[Myglaren]

Wow, you white boys sure say "wow" a lot.





(That was a very nice track.)

Sorry,

[Myglaren]

Saturday July 25th 2009

And now for something completely different...

This almost qualifies for the "Songs No Other Domer Has Heard" but falls flat on it's face as Harlequin would shoot me down in flames on that one.

Cornelis Vreeswjick, a Dutchman who lived in Sweden. Exceptionally popular, probably as well loved as Sweden's own folk-hero Evert Taub and one of the best interpreters of Swedish folk music ever. Without doubt an honorary Swede and rightly so.


The translation is a glowing example of how translations in general fail miserably. Not that I could improve on it, it just does not convey the emotional content present in the subtexts.

In "Stranger In A Strange Land", Heinlein says that learning a different language is like having a different map of a place (not verbatim) that allows you to explore areas previously unknown and when I learned Swedish this was revealed to me in practical terms.
I may be crazy but I find that is is not possible to explain some of the thoughts that you have in one language in another.

Watching the recent Wallander TV series brought that home recently. Wonderful to hear Swedish being spoken again and I found that after the first few moments I could abandon the subtitles, once I had a handle on the accents. (left Sweden in 1979 and no-one around here speaks it)

It just seems to evoke different emotions.
I wish I could speak French. One day

[Myglaren]

Sorry, forgot to include Claptree above.

Sunday July 26th 2009
Mike Oldfield is someone you either love or hate and I have liked his music since Tubular Bells was first released.

This is a recent variation, more like Tubular Bells III, which I confess I'm not so taken with, prefer the original but then I do have feet of clay. Live at the Thou Art In Heaven concert in Berlin.
This live recording is quite interesting from the very slow paced introduction to the almost frenetic conclusion.
I am always gratified by the large number of female musicians the Oldfield includes in his ensemble.

So much rambling I almost forgot to include the link.

[Cluricaun]

Monday July 29th



This was taken from an instructional video the good Dr. made about playing New Orleans style piano. The song is best known as performed by Ray Charles, and nothing against Ray but Mac here blows any version he's ever done right out of the water.

I can take or leave most of Dr. John's stuff but he is a living legend when it comes to New Orleans style music and I love his voice too. I was surfing around YouTube the other day and found this and now I can't stop listening to it.

[featherlou]

Speaking of "The Mess Around," we watched the last half of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" this weekend, including John Candy dancing around to the song while driving (you know, just before the funniest scene in the history of movie-making ). It just reminded us that "Planes,*Trains and Automobiles" is a comedy classic that should be watched regularly.

As a companion piece to Whiskey and Ryan's song,

[Cluricaun]

I've never seen a man picked up by his testicles before.

[featherlou]

You play with your nuts all the time.

[Cluricaun]

You know what'd make me happy? Another couple of balls, and an extra set of fingers?

[featherlou]

I suspect you've watched this movie.

[Cluricaun]

Once or twice.

[Myglaren]

Love the "Sun, Moon & Herbs" LP but he always seems a bit of a disappointment when he is on TV.
is brilliant. (crap recording - that whining in the beginning shouldn't be there).

[NAF1138]

Tuesday July 28th

Pink Martini

It was the last song I heard before I got out of the car this morning. Pink Martini is a fun band from Portland that does international styled swing and jazz in the big band style. Great great stuff.

[Zabigail]

Wednesday July 29

Schaffer the Darklord - Yes, there are supposed to be two Ps in that. The video is funny, watch the credits too.

[Cluricaun]

Thursday July 30th:

I'm secretly a huge Twisted Sister fan despite the fact that they mostly dressed like extras in a 1980's gang movie and wrote really silly rock songs that pretended to be heavy metal. However they're catchy if simple songs and Dee Snyder has one of the best sets of pipes in the history of hard rock. Plus this song was featured in Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

[NAF1138]

Nice pick. I haven't thought about twisted sister in years.

[Cluricaun]

Thanks, this one actually came to me because I was doing a little on-line shirt shopping yesterday and came across a classic Twisted Sister logo t-shirt (which I bought too) and that put me in a little frenzy of remembering the album this song is on, Stay Hungry, which is an all around excellent hard rock album and the last album that TS put out that was any good.

[Myglaren]

Last one of the month

Friday July 31st 2009 and my daughter's 25th birthday.

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: .

[featherlou]

That was surprisingly fun, Myglaren.

[Myglaren]

Glad you liked it. They are a bit of an acquired taste for many.
They do some very nice but 'different' music.
Used quite a bit in adverts these days, since Simon Jeffes died.

[featherlou]

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009



This band is three guys from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan who seem to get a whole lot of sound out of just the three of them! I've seen them live a couple of times, and they are great in studio and live.

Here's a link to a playlist of theirs on Myspace (including some wicked covers of "Superstition" and "Billie Jean").