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The B-52s "Good Stuff"
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Yes, one of THOSE threads. I'm bored.
The B-52s "Good Stuff"
Right this very second?
This. It's The Yoshida Brothers, which someone on GB turned me onto this morning and I haven't been able to stop listening to for most of the day.
The latest hit by the Noisettes is currently rocking my cranium. Sixties pop, lovely sound.
As usual, Mylene Farmer. At the moment it is Tous Ces Combats.
The video is an amalgam of many other of her official videos.
Right this very second, it's the sound of a DL580 screaming about the lack of aircon in here.
Oh - and Radio 1.
"Ballroom Blitz" by Tia Carrere, from the Wayne's World Soundtrack. Excellent! :)
25 Gun Salute - GUNSHOT.
The best of British rap.
Currently on my MP3 player:
Queensryche - American Soldier
Skid Row (a compilation of my own, basically my favourite 3 tracks from each album)
My Chemical Romance - Black Parade
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules.
Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed - Matt Bianco
Listen To The Radio - Pukka Orchestra
I have old episodes of Loveline on my car player right now. I love music by I distract myself clicking around too much looking for THAT song I'm looking for right NOW.
Fighter - Christina Aguilera
One Piece at a Time, by Johnny Cash.
Alphabet Zoo by Ralph McTell.
Last week I bought a CD player for my grandson to listen to some talking books on. He hasn't any talking books yet but does have Alphabet Zoo, since he was very small.
My kids all loved it when they were little and the slew of grandchildren are no different.
Their favourite was always Kenny The Kangaroo, played at max volume and them all kangarooing all over the place to it.
Just ordered Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band.
I'm about to go to heaven.
Groovy Underwear by The Pansy Division
Powerless -- Nelly Furtado
Man, what a time warp. This has to be the most blatantly gay video ever to be played on MTV, with the possible exception of "I'm Too Sexy." :lol:Quote:
Originally posted by Guinastasia
Been sat listening to Jeff Beck You Had It Coming for the past couple of hous and had to go and get the CD cover, could not think of the name or title.
Bought it and it's sister album Lie At Ronnie Scott's a while back, purely for the Rollin' and Tumblin' track with Imogen Heap.
Didn't really care for the rest of it at first but now I have heard it a few times I do. He is pretty rough and noisy most of the time but can have a surprisingly delicate touch when he wants to.
The CD version is 'better' than this one, technically, but it is nice to see them performing live too.
Bought some Imogen Heap CDs too but they are taking a bit longer.
Now got the Live (!) At Ronnie Scott's on, Behind The Veil currently playing.
Had this for years on his Guitar Shop album. Surprising how close this is to the original recording.
Hell of a workout for your stereo!
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Though today I have been listening to Keane and Augie March as well.
The Police's Ghost in the Machine
Lately I've been listening to The Horse Feathers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBPO9Kun_9A) on constant repeat. Actually, their sound annoys me just a little bit, but it seems to be powering my muse, so who am I to complain?
PJ Harvey having a disaster with Down By The Water
Patti Smith, Ghost Dance
Scott Walker - It's Raining Today
Zager and Evans: In the Year 2525
Still have their original LP around here somewhere.Quote:
Originally posted by longPath
Had to pick Ruby Tuesday off the list. Far better than the Stones original IMO.
Melanie was so pretty, she's a little pudding now but still sings as well, saw her last year.
ETA: - tried to at least but dithered around so long I missed the edit window :(
My youngest daughter loves her, she was completely cracked up by "Psychotherapy" and still giggles about it.
Leftover Wine is such a powerful and moving song.
As is Candles In The Rain*/Lay It Down.
She has a song called "Citiest People" that is may all time favourite but it isn't available on Youtube - may have to rectify that.
Here is a cover. Not too bad but it can't compete with the original.
*Interesting story around that at Woodstock where she wasn't even scheduled to appear.
I'm again listening to Melanie's Candles in the Rain. I was 16 in 1970 and this still makes me shiver. Nothing like being transported back in time....
St. Vincent, mostly Marrow and Just the Same but Brand New
Dress (PJ Harvey).
Dead Can Dance over the video that led me to Mylene Farmer
Boyz-in-the-hood by Dynamite Hack
Mylene Farmer & Seal, Les Mots. There is a delicious irony to this one :)
I have previously stated that I don't visit MySpace. This is actually from Google Videos, linked from MySpace.
Another Heather Nova track, Sugar.
This is from her "Oyster" album but there is an even better live version on her "Wonderlust" album (correct spelling) there are some live versions on YouTube but the sound quality isn't up to much.
Heather Nova live: Maybe An Angel
Not her best performance but part of the magic is being there.
Island gives you goosebumps!
AΠOUREUSE. Veronique Sanson.
Mylene Farmer Rever.
Mylene Farmer Dernier Sourire.
Even the audience are in tears with her.
Roger Waters - The Wall, Live in Berlin: Comfortably Numb, with Van Morisson.
I heard this on the radio on the way home, at first I assumed it was a Jack White thing, the male singer totally sounds like his clone.
Decent song though.
Band of Skulls - I Know What I Am
Heather Nova: The Jasmin Flower.
The album has been here a week but this is my first opportunity to listen to it (home stereo, not YouTube).
Nice!
Cool disk: Talking Heads "12 X 12 Original Remixes"
Excellent remixes of stuff from Little Creatures, True Stories and Naked.
Essentially the albums recorded in the digital age.
These are much more lovingly remixed than most dance tracks.
Bonus, the kid likes them.
I missed this post before. I love these guys. "Sunshowers" is pretty awesome. (Thank you, M.I.A.!) And now that song is what I'm currently listening to. :smile:Quote:
Originally posted by jali
Gillian Welch April 14th (part 1).
A woman after my own hear. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Myglaren
I'm listening to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGDVg0NZQQI
followed by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_GDj2v_So
and rounded out with a classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8
Right now some Scots and Irish music.
Alasdair Roberts, The Corries, The High Kings, Van Morrisson and a few others are queued up on my playlist.
If you haven't heard Alasdair Roberts and you aren't feeling sufficiently depressed I suggest you sample his heartbreaking take on Scots folk song.
Zhao Cong
Just written to her recording engineer to try and pry some more CDs/DVDs out of him and find out if she is going to be touring Europe anytime soon.
Missing Persons - Destination Unknown. I heard this on the radio the other day, and I hadn't heard it in years... and now it's an earworm.
Jem and the Holograms - I Got My Eye on You (Youtube link, sorry I couldn't find a better version)
I've got my random video mix going, which is heavily weighed toward Jem and the Holograms (I need more music videos, and movie clips, and amvs...)
I just got my hot little hands on Muse's The Resistance. I'm quite pleased with it so far. I've never been a huge fan, but I've generally enjoyed what they put out. This one has actually been a lot more enjoyable to me than the previous albums. Knowing how I am about music, it'll remain in constant rotation on my playlist for a few more days before I start putting other things in there again.
Anyone recommend songs like this? I love it.
After seeing her open up for Chris Isaak last night, I'm listening to Lindsay Ell. This girl can flat out play the guitar -- I can only imagine how good she's gonna be once she grows up and really learns some stuff!
Right now I am listening to jazz pianist Ray Bryant.
Genius.
Truly magnificent stuff.
His solo stuff is stirring, truly. But his trio work is great fun.
This week, I've bounced around. Mostly, it's been Less Than Jake, though there's been a fair amount of Muse.
The song "Burning Beard" by Clutch is so damned awesome that I am convinced that I do not own speakers that are capable of playing it loud enough to get the full appreciation. I love that song so damned much.
The other song that I've had on heavy rotation this week, and a radical departure from Clutch is the bouncy and jazzy and poppy "Cavalier Eternal" by Against Me! I heard this at a buddy's house and the chord progression got stuck in my head and I ended having to learn how to play it, and the more I listened to it then more and more that I ended up likeing is.
So one of my favorite bands in the world is a new school hardcore punk band called The Bronx. For who knows what reason they decided to do a mariachi album under the name Mariachi El Bronx. I think that's a pretty cool idea, and it gets even better when you realize that they weren't kidding and they really made a totally balls out mariachi album. Then they upped the ante by covering a Prince song and just transcending everything by being a hardcore band playing mariachi covers of Prince and still scoring so fucking hard by really doing it perfectly. If this isn't awesome, I'm insane because I love this as much as I love anything at all. Matt Caughtran is the best vocalist in the history of music period. Seriously.
I Would Die 4 U by Mariachi El Bronx
Take quite a while to start.
Yeah, this is incredible. Thanks for posting it, CluricaunQuote:
I Would Die 4 U by Mariachi El Bronx
I have been listening to a lot of Andrew Bird lately:
I went to see the Cave Singers last night and they were rather good.
I like Lykke Li, don't know about you.
I turned my iPod into my own personal Way Back Machine this week by loading The Smiths' Hatful of Hollow into it. It's interesting to me that everything that it my least favorite Smiths release in 1987 make it my favorite now: comprised of mostly live-in-the-BBC-studio versions of their best-known songs, the dreadful 80s production values are stripped away. It sounds warm, gritty (especially the bass guitar), and imperfect. Makes me wish I had seen the Smiths in concert.
Right now I am obsessed with these two songs:
I keep playing two favourites right now. The first one is because it's November, and I can't stay sad when Daler is so happy.
And another evergreen:
I wish this were available to buy. It has as far as I'm aware only available on the DVD of "Jacquou Le Croquant".
Just managed to rip it as an mp3 though so I can drag it around on my mp3 player :)
Owl City's Fireflies. The first time I heard it, I didn't much care for it but it grew on me rapidly, particularly after seeing the video.
Walpurgis, I love that Kate Bush video. Yay for Donald Sutherland.
Lately I'm enjoying this song an awful lot. It's very pleasant. (Also, the female vocal is my friend's aunt)
TingTing (NOT The Tingtins :( (Blearrgh!) Mozarts 11th piano concerto. Not exactly as he imagined it.
I just discovered this song by Florence + the Machine, which completely floored me. My inner 20-year old Goth just woke up and asked for her eyeliner.
Ray Bryant
-Alone at Montreux
I heart Tom Waits. :)
been listening to this lately
I've had this song stuck in my head for a couple of weeks.
Van Morrison These Are The Days
Thanks, Myglaren, for keeping this thread alive for so long. :)
Couldn't find an album version for this unfortunately. This is an Americana/Bluegrass band from Australia called The Greencards.
No thanks are due Taumpy, it's pure self indulgence :(
I didn't used to like the following clip, always sounded too 'broken' and as though she should have left it alone. In fact when she sang it in Brussels I wondered why it had been on the setlist at all.
A couple of weeks ago it got dragged onto my mp3 player and I have begun to really like it. I think it must be something that grows on you (no - not like fungus) and I rather like the 'brokenness' and her inability to reach the highest notes anymore (she's 48 now). Thinking about it, I do seem to have a preference for her live CDs and DVDs where they don't quite attain the perfection of the studio recordings, especially where she breaks down and cries onstage.
She went for a little trip yesterday :dubious:
I am currently listening to Explosions in the Sky and At the Drive In.
God, that woman's voice does things to me. <3
^that's exquisite Zuul and has it's similarities to the Ambrosia Parsley voice (what a fabulous name!).
Weird coincidence with the title and the name of the singer - I have just recently installed a Mira shower unit - don't get cold water from it fortunately :)
Oh, you're right on the vocal similarities! And now I am listening to this:
Another pearl Zuul, hadn't heard that one before!
Superb photography too.
This is a little more pop than I usually go for, but I really enjoy Orianthi's guitar:
I have to agree with the 'pop' part - I think she has sold out somewhat in comparison to her first album, which was an absolute knockout.
I bought 'Believe' when it was released and haven't played it much until I put it on my mp3 player a couple of weeks ago. It is growing on me but is distressingly commercial.
Still lots of potential there though. I hope she fulfills Carlos Santana's ambitions for her.
The only genuine love song David Byrne ever wrote:
"Man in Love" Eric Clapton
Heather Nova "Not Only Human". Shame about the sound quality, her guitar is so subdued and it makes the song.
Cop Shoot Cop "Room 429".
Sometimes I think that punk rock is actually finally dead. Then I hear things like this, were it's quite obvious while the majority of music made under the guise of "punk" continues to suck, there are still bands out there that just seem to be able to find the fleeting places where you can still write a new, original and awesome punk rock song.
Gordon Lightfoot
I'm really digging this Your Lips Your Lips, since I saw them on Craig Ferguson. They have a real 80s sound to them, which I can totally appreciate, as an old fogey who goes for that sort of thing. :)
I've been on a Gordon Lightfoot kick lately, and I was going to post some songs, but YouTube appears to only have the covers, and badly recorded live versions. :fist:Quote:
Originally posted by Oliveloaf
Manchester Orchestra
and
A Stained Glass Romance
Lightfoot covers himself, badly, on some later compilations.Quote:
Originally posted by Taumpy
A label dispute of some sort precluded rereleasing some early stuff.
Listening to Summertime Dream right now.
That's the one with "Fitzgerald" on it.
风华国乐 春江花月夜 古筝合奏 风华国乐2008中秋特别节目
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Supremely elegant.
Takes almost a minute to start, after all the waffle.
KEXP.
Currently, Growing Old Is Getting Old by Silversun Pickups.
^^That was pretty nice :)
Everyone I play that for loves that song. There's a lot of music made that sounds quite like that, but This Will Destroy You does it very well.
Which reminds me that a French girl I met in Brussels last year recommended them, must get round to hearing them one day!Quote:
Originally posted by AndrewRyan
Went to a concert last night where she was the soloist in the Concerto Aranjuez. Stunning performance.
Met her afterwards when she played the above and many more on the concourse, got some absolutely rubbish photo's, she signed my CDs, was absolutely charming and beautiful and when asked about more CDs said she was recording the Concerto Aranjuez for release later this year.
A night to remember!
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/...cf80dcf98e.jpg
Ignore the Harry Potter video portion, this is just the best available version of the song.
The beautiful Heather Nova, superb as ever. Wish I had gone to see her last November.
And the ever disturbing "Sugar"
A new singer (for me) Anna Ternheim.
About the only thing I watch on TV lately is the Swedish series "Wallander", that also always has excellent music accompanying it, as I have previously mentioned.
The last two episodes featured the remarkable Anna with:
Just listening to some of her other songs and I am very quietly impressed!
Carina was very popular here a few years ago. Saw her live and she was tremendous despite being ill. She signed with an American promoter and disappeared.
The Atlantics: Flight of the Surf Guitar
It's a reunion album that was never formally released. They sold a few copies on eBay and that was it.
Shame, it's good.
Old Crow Medicine Show doing I Hear Them All. I love this damned song.
OCMS are playing in Belfast in September. D'ya reckon I should go see them?
Oh most definately. They're crazy fun live and put on a great show. Plus then you'll get to see what happened to Irish trad when it got stuck in the Appalachian mountains for two hundred years and what it turned into.
My son just showed me this: