What is your listening pleasure?

Is a particular type of music or any other soundscape (stories read aloud, plays on the radio, birdsong...) important to you, and if so what is it?

For me it is music, usually somewhere in the blues, country rock and/or folk spectrum, but not classical (despite the best efforts of my parents) or jazz. The steady favourites among many others and in no particular order are the likes of the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty (RIP), John Fogerty, Cowboy Junkies, Dave Matthews, Eric Church, Eric Bibb, Amos Lee, Alison Krauss, Emily Barker, Gretchen Peters, Margo Price and Tift Merritt all forming part of about 70gb of music on my old iPod on random/shuffle (so that I can never be sure what will come next).

Not sure what they all have in common, but it may be great guitar work and strong vocals, harking back to early Cliff Richard backed by the Shadows!

I was always too lazy to make much progress on playing any musical instrument myself, but I got as far as acting as a DJ at private parties for a few years a lifetime ago...

My favourite feel good track is probably this from Eric Bibb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1faZB4QSc

During lockdown a number of artists performed items from home and I particularly liked this from John Fogerty backed by his children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOisjEv9zYw

Recently I was steered towards Allison Russell who released her first solo album last month: that did not really do it for me, but her back catalogue as part of Birds of Chicago does impress me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA1L_GvwiG4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvEERoYYz50

One of their recordings led me to Mark Heard (previously unknown to me) and this album https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Broken-Land-Songs-Heard/dp/B06Y5W9R87 which I was given as a Fathers Day present today https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/treasure-of-the-broken-land-the-songs-of-mark-heard/

My tastes in music vary greatly depending my mood. I enjoy 70's and 80's rock, (a whole slew of bands, slow, rock, hard rock) I like some country. I do not like classical or opera, it actually stresses me. I also listen to all the new artists, there is some good music still being made.

I agree with you about the importance of finding music to suit (and sometimes steer) one's mood.

I also keep my ears open for new artists, in particular checking new albums on iTunes and watching NPR Tiny Desk concerts, although I rarely listen to the radio.

However, in recent years it has often been new music by some of the older artists which has caught my attention, for instance Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Dion: I did not realise that Dion was a bluesman, only having previously known of him as a 60s artist with such (excellent) songs as Runaround Sue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ChiYhYPe-s

I can listen to good music of any kind with the exception, mostly, of country although there's good music there, too.

My parents listened to classical, and then of curse I discovered rock and then blues. Over the past few years I've found myself going back to the older big band type of singing (especially Ella Fitzgerald) and I'm even starting to like jazz, which I used to find incomprehensible.

I haven't found much in the way of new artists, but that's my prerogative as a grumpy old lady, isn't it? I can complain about how today's music isn't a patch on the music I used to listen to. Truthfully, though, most of the newer artists I hear all sound the same. They all sing exactly the same. I can't tell the voices apart.

I love the music from 1970s and am still a disco person at heart. Loved the line dancing craze when that first came out. Recently started watching the series Glee on Netflix, and enjoyed their renditions of songs from that era.

During my 20s found a 'coffee house' where I first started hearing more contemporary church music. One of the members was church choir director which I ultimately joined. Loved the lighter, kinder melodies vs the older, serious organ music. Shortly after the movie Titanic came out, the church I attended played the melody from 'My Heart Will Go On' during the meditation time just before the end of the service. A lady recognized it too and asked me why they would play a movie song in church. I told her the words could be considered a prayer.

Got into soft rock when Barry Manilow onto the scene, and went to many of his concerts. Actually paid over $200 for 15th row seat the last time he was at a local suburban arena. Not sure I'd do that again, but it was definitely worth it at the time.

When I was married, my ex was into the folk songs of Harry Chapin so I got to appreciate that music until the singer's death, after which my ex turned to country/western. I accepted/tolerated and got to appreciate some of the artists. We frequently went on road trips and took a variety of CDs with us. Since he was driving, we listened to his music in morning; by lunch I was more than ready for mine.

One singer I was enamored with when I first heard his voice is Josh Grobin. Stopped buying his CDs cause they include songs in other languages and 'sad' songs, which he once admitted he leans towards. Love his voice not what he chooses to record.

I had forgotten about Harry Chapin (who died far too young): I may add something of his to my collection.

My wife would approve of butterflybabe's preferences and identify with choice of music in the car!

I'm amused to see the general limited tolerance of country music: I enjoy country/rock but I am very choosy about the artists and there are many excellent country musicians whose work does nothing for me.

Oh, wow, Disco. Yeah.

Back in Toronto, when Disco was in full swing and the Bee Gees were on every radio station, I worked as a waitress in a disco bar to help support myself through University. Now that was a hoot. It was a massively popular bar with a huge dance floor that had a a giant turning disco ball and all the flashing coloured lights. Hilarious. Except I had to wear high heels and I kept getting the darned things caught between the slats on the outdoor deck. Very loud, very chaotic and very, very good for the tips.

Lex, I get what you're saying about the work of obviously talented artists that nonetheless doesn't appeal. For years I tried to listen to and understand groups like Peal Jam. I can recognize the artistry, and I like his voice a lot, but most of the music makes me want to tear out my eyes. A lot of modern country/pop does that to me, too, because of its high sugar content, though it must be said that I love Willie Nelson, and some of the very old classical country is quite lovely. My dad used to sing a lot of those old songs (he had a fine voice). Crossover artists like Stevie Nicks did a lot to bring me around to tolerating and even liking some country.

One thing I love about Youtube and Spotify is that they are quite good at predicting music I might like, so if Spotify takes me down an unfamiliar path I often like what I hear.

My mother and I saw Willie Nelson in concert back in the 1980s when I was living in the Napa Valley in California. Willie was there in support of some charity event that was only about three miles away from our house. He was just great in person. It was outside and we had seats almost in the front row. My mother was a fan and had the time of her life. I like some country music such as Clint Black and George Strait. I do enjoy the sense of humor that I often see in the lyrics.

I have always been a big fan of Gordon Lightfoot and have seen him in concert about four or five times. He was absolutely magnificent in person.

Ha, Gordon Lightfoot! Haven't listened to him in a very long time. Long time ago, I had a couple of his albums. I like very little country music, but I do love Willie Nelson, Clint Black and Waylon Jennings. I wish Brooks & Dunn would get back together. I heard they were going to, but never heard much after that.

I'm more of a Blues fan having seen B.B. King several times in concert, Delbert McClinton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and some of the good old blues folks like Howling Wolf and Big Mama Thornton. Then I'll slip into some Jimi Hendrix and just float away to heaven!

Wow, Drac, you got to see Stevie Ray Vaughn in concert! That must have really been something. I watch this video every so often and it just blows me away every time.

Mainly stuff from the 70s - Eagles, Dire Straits, the late great Townes van Zandt, early Emmylou Harris with the Hot Band, Chapin, Bonnie Rait, Dr Hook, Joni Mitchell, early Leonard Cohen

Blues, especially early Chicago blues.

Lots and lots of individual tracks according to my mood. Sometimes when we Touch (Dan Hill), The First Time Ever I saw your Face (Roberta Flack), Ripple (Grateful Dead) , Take it Out Back (Chuck Brodsky - the only song I know about fly-tipping!), Sand and Water (Beth Nielsen Chapman - so so so sad), Keep me in Your Heart (Warren Zevon)

OK with "pop" classical, but no jazz

Nothing after the mid-80s, I'm afraid (how sad is that?)

Strangely enough, a lot of my "likes" came from "House MD" - almost invariably they would play a great track over the closing credits and I would then have to scurry around to find out who it was

I like most music with the exception of heavy medal and rap. I like music as far back as the 40's up to the present.

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon quite often in the Chicago Blues Bars growing up as well as at the Chicago Blues Festival. We had so many artists that would play the small Chicago bars without notice. It was always a treat.

I often wonder what Stevie Ray Vaughan and his muse, Jimi Hendrix, would be doing now, musically speaking, if they had lived And Janis, too. But Janis and Jimmy were never going to make old bones.

It was only a few years ago that I realized that a few songs on Led Zeppelin's first album are actually Willie Dixon songs, and they didn't credit him (they are known for this; they seem to treat the lawsuits as the cost of doing business). Anyway, I have a "best of" album of Willie Dixon music and it is wonderful blues.

I envy anyone who saw Willie Dixon and SRV live. Muddy Waters played in Toronto sometimes back in the early 70's so I saw him a couple of times at the blues bars on Yonge Street.

Growing up, though, my absolute favourite band was The Rolling Stones. Those 70's albums are still among the very best rock albums of all time.

It's funny because I am not really a blues fan but seeing them play live and especially in tiny venues was always a very enjoyable evening.

I saw Led Zeppelin twice in concert in Chicago and then saw Robert Plant in concert a couple years ago. He was still outstanding. He was my heartthrob! I had 3rd row seats the first time I saw him which I believe was his first tour. I was in heaven!

I would have been in heaven in Chicago! I think I wore out my Led Zeppelin albums! I didn't know that about some of their music being Willie DIxon songs. I am also a huge fan of him. Then jump ahead to today and I'm really digging Jon Batiste! Leading up to Juneteenth, this one was being played a lot.

Freedom by Jon Batiste

Marian, thanks for reminding me about Gordon Lightfoot.

I've put about five of his songs on my main Spotify playlist. Still love Early Morning Rain.


Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You" were actually credited on Led Zep's first album, so I was wrong about that controversy, but there have been quite a few with LZ. I like to listen to Willie's version first, and then Led Zeppelin's version next. Zeppelin was very true to the music, and even with a different sound they do the songs justice.

Willie Dixon also wrote "Spoonful," which has been covered by many bands, including Howlin' Wolf and Cream. Jack Bruce's rough howl sounds particularly good on that song. All three versions pop up on my list.

Me too! He has so many good ones.

Some music I once loved has fallen off my list, though.

Ii was a huge Genesis fan back in the day, the Prog Rock version with Peter Gabriel. Now a lot of it sounds sounds like silly pretentious nonsense, though I still love Selling England by the Pound. The later Genesis produced some great pop tunes, though.

Early Pink Floyd, the Syd Barret years, I find equally irritating now. Every now and again John tries to listen to one of the albums and we never seem to get past the first couple of tunes.

That Jon Batiste is quite something, especially when he seems to have been more of a serious pianist! I couldn't open the Facebook link posted by Draclvr, but I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHVC1DcHmo

Going back to the live blues artists theme I have fond memories from my late teens of a small venue in Salisbury where we used to see the original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green (a very hard act to beat) and John Mayall with various different lead guitarists including Eric Clapton. I love some of the Chicago Blues and have some of the recorded output from Alligator Records.

My wife was a great Genesis and especially Phil Collins fan: we were planning on going to see their Last Domino tour in Dublin but were derailed by covid-19...

I echo the praise for Gordon Lightfoot, but my favourite more recent folk performer is Emily Barker especially with the Red Clay Halo, probably closely followed by Gretchen Peters.

Thank you, Lex! That will make sure everyone who wants can check that one out.

I have many old cassette tapes of Steve Winwood and Traffic. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys still gives me goosebumps and plays in my head sometimes!

Another great memory for my playlist.


And hey, that Jon Batiste song is a real get-up-and-dance number, isn't it?

The other interesting artist involved in Traffic was Dave Mason, but probably not all that well known as a solo artist although he wrote some great songs including this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4mcRpWAyRM which reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aazChqk4U-c and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L82II1lNjo

On a slightly different note, I am amused to see that Urban Worrier sees himself as having switched off after the mid 80s as I think I recall him as being keen on the Trans-Atlantic sessions which only started in 1995...as well as mentioning this sublime 1997 song from Beth Nielsen Chapman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHf7DtRa5TY

And for something more current, how about Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izZG8jHssXA

That's a beautiful song, Lex. Thanks for the link.

You are more than welcome hagatha - I hope that some of my other links and artist suggestions may also find favour (youtube is such a fantastic resource)

My problem is that I usually recognize songs but not always the artists. Excepts to that would be Elton John, BeeGees, Barry Manilow and a few others.

Barry was the grand opening act when the Chicago suburb of Rosement first opened its theatre. Went with several friends the next day. Needed binoculars but still enjoyed the 'live' aspect. One thing I like about Barry is how he interacts with his audience. That night, the mentioned the 'elites' from the previous night; then added his pleasure with being with the 'real' people. Got a standing ovation for that one!

On one of our trips to Branson, my ex and I went to hear 'Alabama' (I think that's the right one), which was more his favorite than mine. But I did appreciate the one singer with a very low voice, especially when doing their rendition of the song 'Elvira'. Only other 'country' song I really liked, don't remember singer's name, but he was singing about his relationship with his young son. Talking about a car trip where his son spilled his chicken nuggets and drink in the car. The song continues with him saying that he went into the barn to ask God to 'help me help my stupid self'. Say that line to myself sometimes.

Strangest concert I ever went to was to see John Denver who died shortly after it. The day before a close friend of his, George Burns, passed away and that seemed to shadow him. But it was weird because, while we were waiting for things to start, I noticed 3 or 4 guitars waiting and available for him. Never saw that before. Then he simply walked on stage with no previous announcement to the audience. We realized it was him and started clapping. Very little to no interaction or acknowlegement of the audience, except when we started clapping to 'Rocky Mountain High'.

Paolo Nutini is a young Scottish musician I've been following off and off. This is the song that got me interested in him.

New Shoes by Paolo Nutini

His voice has matured and has become quite amazing. Dig up Iron Sky on Youtube - you won't be disappointed!

I think it was a Gameboomer member called GEO who would post "Music Break" posts. I was able to add some great musicians and songs to the catalogue in my brain! One of the best was a live session of Jeff Beck performing at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London's Soho. I bought the DVD and discovered Imogen Heap and the young bass player, Tal Wilkenfeld.

Imogen Heap Blanket Jeff Beck Live Session

Tal Wilkenfeld Cause We've Ended as Lovers Jeff Beck Live

Tal Wilkenfeld is quite the talented bass player, isn't she? I hadn't head of her.

I think she was only 23 or 24 when she played with Beck on this tour.

That's cute.

Okay, Scream is now on my playlist. Grand funk!

You're getting some cool stuff on your playlist!

Yes. It's about 130 songs long now, which is great for drives to Comox and back.

The trip down memory lane on Spotify is wonderful. I recently remembered the Pretender's Don't Get me Wrong and the Hollies' Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress. Also, Simply Red's versions of If You Don't Know Me By Now[/i] and Holding Back the Years. What a voice Mick Hucknall had back then.:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...49A76BD00B&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

OK, now I have to go dig up my Simply Red CDs!

I have a soft spot for folk music and show tunes because I performed a lot of both once upon a time when I had a voice, but I like a lot more. Everything depends on my mood, and I usually listen to whole albums rather than a mixed playlist. This past week I enjoyed Loreena McKennitt's The Visit, Ladysmith Black Mambazo's African Sun, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, Santana's Abraxis, a collection of Pavoroti's arias, the soundtrack from Riven, The Limelighters' Sing Out, Alessia Cara's The Pains of Growing, The Planets by Holst, Pyramid by The Alan Parson's Project, In Gabriel's Garden with Wynton Marsalis & the English Chamber Orchestra, Sandra Boynton's silly Philadelphia Chickens, and Paul McCartney's Ram.

I already had Paolo Nutini in my collection, and I was aware of Jeff Beck playing with a number of talented performers but Imogen Heap and Tal Wilkenfield are new to me: thanks Drac! ...and as a bonus the same youtube page gave me these nuggets from J J Cale with EC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WUeOEkl270 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEtGZyfms7E

Also intrigued by LadyK's selection and pedigree as a performer



I have to confess to not having yet succumbed to spotify (or any other subscription service): I still want to own the recording if it is music that I like, even to the extent of still mainly buying CDs which I then upload for digital listening...

I spent several weeks a couple of years ago, ripping all our old and new CDs to digital files and then uploading to my Western DIgital home server. Now we can listen to our own music anywhere. I even connect the server to Plex Media Server on the TV, so hubby can listen to his country under his headphones while he's reading. I also have a nice portable speaker with very impressive sound and when I connect my server to that speaker can play my music outside on the pool deck!

LadyeKestrel, we used to listen to Loreena McKennitt back in the day. We saw her in concert in Vancouver back in, I guess, the early 90's. Fabulous music.

Lex, I have an album of JJ Cale and Clapton playing together. It's pretty good! The only drawback is that it's copy-protected, so of all my albums, I've never been able to rip a copy for the car. Of course now we don't need to.

Hagatha,
McKennitt has an ethereal voice. I especially love her "Lady of Chalot."

I just spent a nice chunk of time listening to all the music links posted here. Batiste's "Freedom" and Nutini's "New Shoes" made me want to move, and Imogen Heap, who I didn't know at all, is amazing. I also really loved the fun Cale and Clapton had together in those videos.

One type of music I haven't listened to in quite a while is bluegrass. In my late 20s, my ex-husband and I would go to the Englishtown Music Hall out in central NJ to have dinner and listen to some of the liveliest bluegrass bands ever. There is even a NJ public television special about the music hall (circa late 1970s) which is in the Am. Archive of Public Broadcasting and the Library of Congress. I also went to a bluegrass concert in at Lincoln Center, which was spectacular. (I tried to find my program for it because I don't remember the groups or individual names, but I don't have it anymore.)

My Dave loves Bluegrass too. He has several CDs. In digging for my Simply Red CDs, I found all my Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton and ZZ Top CDs!

I am impressed by Drac's range and organisation, but the great thing about the iPod on shuffled songs setting is that it ranges through the entire collection so that all sorts of half-forgotten items will suddenly surface!

Hagatha, is the car no longer part of the equation (hence no need to copy CDs for use in it)? I was reading your other posts about your husband's hip and I saw the video of your lovely previous home - a sad reflection on the ravages of time. I particularly like the tribute album by Clapton and many others notables which followed J J Cale's death - They Call Me The Breeze.

Although Loreena McKennit would not be my normal fare, I am tempted towards what I think may have been her final album Live from the Royal Albert Hall in 2019: as has been said, ethereal. Update: eventually opted for her 2014 album The Journey So Far, with Nights at the Alhambra DVD/CD probably on my wish list...

As for bluegrass, I always think of the soundtrack from O Brother Where Art Thou which introduced me to several wonderful artists.

Lex, my new Accord has a Bluetooth connection so I can just cast music from Spotify on my phone.

I have gotten so many new music suggestions from this thread!

The fact that Loreena McKennit hails from Canada prompts me to comment on how many outstanding musicians that country produces, including one who has not yet had a mention here Bruce Cockburn: I remember reading The Shack some years ago and there was a lot of reference to his music in that which resulted in me buying several of his albums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TUsZzF6es&list=PLuDCBN4mO8msiErWtTFnI7phtX1f3C-2P&index=32 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2bW30NJIxw

More recently and still not very well known came The Bros Landreth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e4867byBJc

We used to see Bruce Cockburn play in high school gyms all around North York. He never really made it big, but he's had a steady following. These days he's heavily into environmental issues, but he's always been that way, really.

But yeah, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Sarah Mclaughlin., etc.

Speaking of Sarah, remember this gorgeous song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLIHnh9dNHQ

Still gives me chills when I hear it.


And now, for something completely different, but apropos of the temperature today and one of my favourite artists of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMWW4R1ZBM

Wonderful! Ella Fitzgerald is one of my favorites. Had such a good time listening to my Simply Red CDs today. Somehow they weren't included in ripping and uploading to my home server. That has now been remedied!

It's impossible to hear Ella sing that song and not feel good.


I have a couple of albums that Joe Bonamassa recorded with Beth Hart. I don;t normally like her music -- she's a little too rough around the edges for me -- but the songs they chose to perform together really bring something out in her voice. These two are amazing:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFH9rkJ3FRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FUgmPYrzpQ

Your Heart is as Black as Night is a song by Melody Gardot, an absolute gem of an artist. If you haven't heard of her, now's the time. Her music is pretty wide-ranging, but she's almost a throwback:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmc1XN3iVVc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qphknagXqA

I listened to Your Heart is Black as Night and loved it. Definitely need to go find more of this! I've always liked Joe Bonamassa, but had never heard of Beth Hart. I'd also never heard of Melody Gardot. Tasty!

The words to Baby I'm a Fool are so very clever. "Look me in the eye and tell me love is never based upon insanity."

Indeed.

Oh, hey, Lex, I notice you're from the Isle of Man. My husband's mother was Manx. Her surname was Watterson. They used to holiday there visiting relatives when they were growing up. .

Perfect.

So, I have to ask all the music lovers in this thread... are there other weirdos out there like me who constantly have music in their heads? I mean I'll get up in the middle of the night to pee and there is music... sometimes it'll be something I hate! Sometimes it'll be an old Christmas Carol... sometimes it'll be something stupid like, "One-eyed Flying Purple People Eater. Sometimes it'll be a little song from Sunday School when I was like 10. I don't know where it comes from and it is always something totally out of left field. I find it totally weird.

Hi all

Like many, my listening is eclectic and mood dependent day to day but there are some generalisations:

- 80s and 90s are the background to my life and so tend to be the easy go to
- country and classical don't really feature, but I have bits of both on playlists
- jazz does not compute
- I discover many tracks through TV shows
- newer bands still feature, but not to the extent that they used to
- melancholic moody tracks are probably my current high rotation genre
- I am still discovering an enhanced appreciation for older bands (Velvet Underground is a recent example)
- I will go see almost anyone live

What else?

I like melancholy. The Cinematic Orchestra track To Build a Home is a good example.

Cover versions can be enticing. Bands like Postmodern Jukebox and Nouvelle Vague brings a completely different vibe to so many tracks, and I also make playlists of different versions of a single song where the interpretation can make it almost seem like a different song completely (if you go away is probably the best example; I also like while my guitar gently weeps and pale blue eyes).

I feel compelled to mention Muse. Arguably (maybe, perhaps) the best live band in the world, in terms of all those things that a make a live show memorable. Most videos don't do their stage presence justice, but watch the opening 5 minutes or so of their concert at Rome Olympic Stadium to get a reasonable idea.

I will go back over the posts to see what else I can discover

Flotsam,

Melancholy, huh? Covers of songs? TV sound tracks?

How about this one, from Mr. Robot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ5RBY0AVEk

I never really got into Muse, though a friend of mine has me listening to them now. He's a huge fan.



Oh, and Draclvr, I always have music in my head. Always.

I will check it out hagatha - thanks for the link.

This track from the Rome show might be one of their more accessible songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w5KCf8hXvo
Plus my wife wants a pair of the red jeans!!

ps. here is a link to the Cinematic Orchestra track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk

pps. watery tarts rule

I have dipped into Muse albums without becoming hooked, but that live track from Rome is impressive: thanks for the link flotsam.

I note hagatha's IOM heritage: Watterson is a well established name here, some members of the tribe being quite influential. Thanks for your links, although some seem not to be available from here!

Joe Bonamassa only really does it for me on a couple of live albums which I think are glorious, Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York 2012 (which has Beth Hart and Paul Rodgers as guest vocalists) and Live at Carnegie Hall (an acoustic evening) in 2017

Another perhaps less well-known female vocalist I admire is Ruthie Foster, particularly on her album Let It Burn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxP4o-fLkFY and shown here more recently with a big band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vnYgvBexJw

It's good to know I'm not the only weird one then, hagatha!

In my experience all the best people are at least a bit weird...

Speaking of female vocalists and ticking my covers box, I discovered Ane Brun whilst looking for cover versions. This is Halo, but most anything she does is worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FWG4hIzQTo

One of my daughters gave me an album by Ane Brun several years ago Songs 2003-2013, and whilst I admired the voice the material did not grab me: this is much more accessible, and I will have to revisit the album. I suspect that in general terms your musical tastes are rather more subtle and refined than my own, but it is good to be prodded towards trying something different: thank you!

The quieter end of my own tastes would normally be no subtler than someone like Amos Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xiTvJaSm3I

...or for something a bit different (reflecting my upbringing in Africa perhaps) Vieux Farka Touré https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDDBIrQZURU or Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQCKm8lBTI4 although only a step beyond some of what the likes of Paul Simon, Robert Plant and others have sometimes incorporated into their own material

My favorite singer that I buy all her albums unheard as soon as they get released is LP. I've met her in person 3 times, she even autographed my arm once. She writes songs for famous artists and has many originals.
flotsam posting the Halo song reminded me of her rendition here.
She had one famous song used in a commercial that is called Into the Wild. I can listen to her all day!

Ana

Wow, what a voice! I had never heard of her but will now explore the back catalogue: thanks for the links Ana.

(I note that you are a hopelessly addicted fan... )

Upbringing in Africa, huh? I spent my pre-teen years in Kenya. We used to go out at night and go to the local bars to listen to local music. I can't imagine why my parents were okay with that, but anyway, the next time I heard music like that was on Paul Simon's Graceland.

I'd better catch up on the links here.

My early years were in Malawi (then called Nyasaland) but my only musical memories from that time are a few records on my parents' wind-up gramophone in particular the Kingston Trio and Cliff Richard with the Shadows: native African music came my way a few years later on the road from London to Capetown, with bands in a bar in Zaire making a strong impression, but after that it would have been Paul Simon as with you hagatha

And another pebble in the musical pond: Lincoln Durham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU6sZAeMKZE

...and yes Drac, in response to an earlier post, there is usually music buzzing around in my head, and thanks to you the other day it included Purple People Eater...!

Yes, I have a huge girl crush on her, Lex! I have lots of photos of her and I. She always plays small, personal venues in Chicago, as well as festivals and comes and greets the crowd and is so down to earth. I think it makes her shine even brighter than her voice.

I too had never come across her Ana, so thanks for the links.
Ditto the Toure links Lex; the others aren't really me but I look forward to listening to the latter linked album in full.

I've been playing Fallout 4 and the song that got stuck in my head from that game is Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye singing "When the Saints go Marching In" where they start playing around with the names of classical composers. It's lots of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t17cq8w5ewc&t=82s

"D'You dig Rachmaninoff? On and off"

"Liszt has grist that you can't resist. Yeah, yeah, put Liszt on that list"



It's actually from a mod that added some wonderful old music to the game, including this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

I see the Four Lads was a Canadian band. Figures.

As you say hagatha, games can have some good music both original and borrowed - however, it is the Manic Miner theme which always sticks in my mind (interestingly blended here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9p5dH7v224

...and this is quite fun from Amanita Design's Samorost 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUTHqP3ap9Y

I can usually be relied upon to lower the tone!

I have caught NPR playing the theme from Amanita's Machinarium a few times!

Various people have mentioned Chicago blues, so you may like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SRrGz08SyU

...and who could fail to get up and dance to the music of this fine figure of a man? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ZaFdpTG8g

wow, great tune Ana ... will have to explore this artist more

I think I beat you to it.

Me too!

I just checked out that LP link. Quite the voice, she has. I'll have to have more of a look.

Speaking of the blues, this is pretty tough to beat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrF_nM9pknU

Janis Joplin was really my first experience with the Blues. I would have been 14 when she died, but Pearl was one of my favourite albums.

Oh, be still my heart! I dearly loved Janis Joplin. It just never got better than Ball and Chain - I have goosebumps just listening to it again. One of the best album covers ever too... I remember being 20 when she died!

That recording of Ball and Chain made my speakers smoke, it's so good. I just remembered it this morning and I've been listening to it all day. I remember that album from when I was just a teeny bopper. Fabulous cover art. Fabulous guitar, stratospheric singing.

I too love the album cover.
I actually preferred Piece of My heart on that album. I will spend some time now though listening to Ball and Chain

I also preferred Piece Of My Heart, and an excellent cover version of it by Erma Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0QAxIKf8G4

but from that era, for me it had to be Grace Slick, especially White Rabbit and Somebody to Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnS0GaiIewM

I can't start listening to these links, I'll never head out the door to go to work.

Janis Joplin and Grace Slick are two that I'd drop everything and crank it up! Such good memories!

A couple of more current big voices to distract you, Grace Potter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8uT8DTvlw and Jennifer Nettles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfPhnxvah0

I was certainly a fan of Grace and all things Airplane
Speaking of female voices, anyone like Heart? I listended to a lot of their early stuff, and they are a band I still need to see live.
More recently, their Kennedy Center performance of Stairway To Heaven in front of Led Zeppelin and the Obamas is awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u-PjvRyr0I

ps- great cover too Lex, ta

Man, this thread just gets better and better!

Gracie and her White Rabbit practically defined a generation for a while. It's a frequent flyer on my playlist.



So the band that got me into jazz, without my really knowing it, was the wonderful Steely Dan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iac-vLq6tnY&t=3s



I still can't comprehend a lot of jazz, but I do like me some John Coltrane and other music of its ilk:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m24Q78QeHA&t=46s

Heart haven't previously been on my radar, but that is a fantastic rendering of the song so I will have to delve into their oeuvre: thank you flotsam (for another former lawyer, you seem quite discerning... )!

Stairway to Heaven has never been one of my favourite Led Zepp songs: the ones that really do it for me are Ramble On, Going to California and Moby Dick (too choosy, aren't I?)

Hagatha, the charms of jazz still elude me (different strokes for different folks), but I do like some of Steely Dan's music, and I am heavily into the Dave Matthews Band who sometimes stray down that road a little.


PS Found this which looks like an interesting collaboration featuring the ladies from Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzeckWog7Wk

Ann Wilson of Heart has an amazing voice.

They offered a unit as part of my degree to help address those sorts of things Lex
Heart (or one or the other Wilson sister) have performed quite a few Led Zeppelin tracks. Rock and Roll is probably their best known, but Immigrant Song and Battle for Evermore are both worth a listen.
Going back to their own catalogue, here is a live (and far more recent) version of one of their signature tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqn0Kv4HBdM. The guitar intro is the ringtone for when my wife calls!
Thanks for the Foo FIghters link.

Thanks for that one flotsam.

Was that a law degree??

Trawling through my alphabetical list of musical artists, the letter B seems to throw up a few slightly out of the mainstream who may be new but hopefully of interest to some of you, including Babajack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI7OMs9iQBQ the Barr Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp74DriyiOs and the BoDeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q815-ZBkL_M and a good 34 track compilation album Blue Rose Nuggets Special Edition Vol 1 (which I think was very cheap on iTunes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEd_2HPJ6a8&list=OLAK5uy_m5vXpLfB_dKd6mAED8iZyPho6yMacJBWc

Arts and Law Lex. The University strongly discouraged a straight Law degree (and actively encouraged extras), on the basis that doing a double degree made you a more well rounded perosn (and they were free when I did them so it wasn't about fees). I probably agree with them.
I look forward to checlking out the links. I don't believe I know any of them. Much appreciated

Blues music from when I was a teeny bopper and blues was all brand new, and SO much better than the Beatles:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6H-o3m7Og


And this live recording of another song brother Johnny recorded:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUXhoIf1eQU


And I'm adding this just because it's Pink Floyd and needs no further explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJgNvwmsRA

Hagatha I cannot open your Johnny Winter link, but this is the one of his which did it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MY18yn4CFM

Your other links were great tripos down memory lane, for which thanks!

Oh, yeah That one!

The Johnny Winter link was for Highway 61 Revisited. I actually thought I'd linked to a live concert version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I06kTGxg82M

Hagatha, that link wouldn't open for me: possibly a geographical restriction. However I found some other links for him doing that song.

Meanwhile, I stumbled across this young blues artist (who was new to me) a day or so ago: one to watch I think, Kingfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-nTAgOMK7w

The voice makes me think a little of Robert Cray who I don't think has had a mention here yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2Qndv_xeE

Wow. Kingfish is an amazing guitarist. I'm hearing some Hendrix and some David Gilmour in that opening solo, mixed in with the blues. Kid should go far, if the world is just.

Hagatha, your mention of Discworld in the reading thread reminds me about the excellent Sturgill Simpson one of whose songs touches on it, and who is someone I would love to see live on the strength of what I have seen on youtube - a very broad and energetic musical palate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW80ynKTmrs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV16tz1NK0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO73im4J2sU
...oh and the song in question https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWx6csgGkg4

Huh. Psychedelic Country. Now I've seen everything!

Sturgill has a fine voice. I can listen to country on a limited basis, especially if it's a decent song like that one.

For a slight shift in direction, I am not sure whether you are all familiar with the wonderful Playing For Change/ Music For Change series which in some ways is a sort of pandemic preview with artists in different countries collaborating from afar: uplifting stuff and here are a few of the links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robbie-robertson-the-weight-ringo-starr-video-885980/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoFFiUiOUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHzNQuWaUzg&list=PL-x8Ol1-UMGu7v1CZoUJu0FHoJet2Yfok

The website is also worth a visit to buy some of the music https://playingforchange.com

(Many/most of you are are probably already way ahead of me on some of this...!)

Happy Birthday wishes are here for you in another thread in the Mixed Bag forum, Lex! I hope it's a good one.

Thanks Marian: it's been pretty lazy - no vigorous gardening despite good weather, and probably too much home-made coffee cake courtesy of my wife Linda!

Lex, I checked out that website. There's some good stuff on there!

Glad you like it: I bought a couple of the albums, PFC Band live in Brazil and Listen To The Music both of which I recommend

I was looking for Tim Rose singing Morning Dew on iTunes and Youtube, believing it to be one of his original songs, but discovered that it was actually written by Bonnie Dobson (another one from Canada) and was surprised that I had never previously heard of her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXuuKwhVvI

As part of the search I also arrived at an album Ah Feel Like Ahcid: American Psychedelic Artefacts from the EMI Vaults (24 tracks on a CD or 30 on an iTunes download) - not something I was tempted to buy, but I did think that it might strike a nostalgic chord with some of you

...but today's main event for me is this one from Playing For Change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oL_pCjPgUg - check out Chris Pierce: quite a voice!

Now that is wonderful blues. Never gets old.

That particular track is available to buy as a digital download single from Amazon and iTunes (cheaper).

If any of you enjoy long guitar solos you might like this version of Cortez The Killer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYrD2SthaMU and another shorter and more melodic one from the same guitarist, Warren Haynes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRwNZrA58

Have a good day everyone, and stay safe in these increasingly troubling times!

This one I like a lot (who doesn't like Eric!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8S7Nn6si0E

Here are three I listen to quite a bit:

#1

#2

#3

Cool stuff!

I like this Steve Winwood performance of the same song but with Tom Petty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8nWtXp7ns4

Eric Clapton playing the blues can do no wrong as far as I am concerned: my favourite album of his is Just One Night - live with a really tight band, Albert Lee as support guitarist and a great selection of songs on a double CD https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz6cAheObZcjM29Q9xiomdz-blOIAes1B - Blues Power really rocks!

I came upon this busking video earlier: good guitar but it was the irreverent comments on the performance which made me laugh out loud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgvhOHF3Pa0

A different sort of soundscape today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPcjNkPPxLc

Too funny.

A music video even I like!

Welcome oldbroad: what other sounds make you fly?

Meanwhile a couple of quieter slices of musical nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDulmaUTCow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprRZ2wFQD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd41cVwl9FY

I like 60's and early 70' music mostly but don't listen to music too much. It seems to always end up depressing me; even the upbeat or cute stuff. Songs that I like bring memories and even if they start out good, they turn out bad because that is all they are now - memories. Even the singing birds caused some pangs.

Actually, I don't have "an ear" for music. I like songs, mostly ones I can sing along with.

Marian, #2 is one of my favourites. I had no idea Prince was such an amazing guitar player until I saw this concert recording a few years back.


My earworm for the day is the Pretenders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxZbWmWaG4

It's stuck in my head.

I actually love this song, have done since I was was in university. It's one of my favourite dancing songs even today.

( I used this particular video because Avengers!)

I too did not know that Prince was a great guitar player until I saw that video, hagatha. It was quite the revelation!

I knew Prince was good on guitar, but it was still a revelation seeing him take centre stage with a solo in such exalted company: thanks for that link.

I also love the Pretenders, hagatha, and there are some interesting and quite hard to find tracks apart from their well known hits, including these two from the film GI Jane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGB-QGDU8mE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPDDT3xy1s

and this Hendrix cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y5Qql4uZVc

Enjoy!

So, Joni Mitchel is finally getting recognized by the Kennedy Center. She's one of our finest poet-singers, and she's been an inspiration to so many musicians over the last 50 years.


One of those she inspired is Diana Krall, another of my favourite Canadian artists, covering Joni's A Case of You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aieYAlKWnoM


And Joni herself, singing the same song with her latter-day whiskey-and-cigarette voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5obQZG_ZmZo



It's so sad that Joni can no longer perform

I was interested to see that Prince was a particular fan, and also did a version of that song.

I especially remember her in younger days at the sequence in Alice's Restaurant about Woody Guthrie's funeral.

I hadn't been aware of Prince's cover until now. Quite wonderful.

Glad you liked it: here is a link for those who may not have found it yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP19mzpbX7M

One of my brothers lives in Belgium and has more European tastes: he recently sent me these

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zq-G4nffIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=zZOryQLkDfc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbLEAGjrg0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LOPozBun4

Lots of good stuff here.
Thanks for the Pretenders links Lex. I saw them years and years ago and (relatively) more recently saw Chrissie Hynde in a double bill with Debbie Harry.
I knew she was once in a relationship with Ray Davies but didn't realise until recently that some Pretenders songs were Kinks songs. Here are links to two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZQUKN5G9xk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6gMS7aiMLk

And here is a link to a NY TImes article about those who were part of the Prince Weeping Guitar cover. I developed a whole new appreciation for his talent the first time I saw that cover.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/arts/music/prince-guitar-rock-hall-of-fame.html

Love those Joni links too hagatha.

SUCH good stuff here! I'll be happily listen to different music for a long time to come!

Flotsam, the Kinks were a fabulous band. Their songs are all so cleverly written. I remember when Lola first came out, everyone at my high school was just 'Whut"? Not sure how they got that one past the censors, although I guess FM radio was around by that time.

I have You Really Got me on my Spotify playlist along with a few other older songs to wake me up on a long drive.

Was going through my cd's this morning to pull pout a few priorities for digitizing and/or putting on the Spotify playlist, and of course this ended up on the list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76pxiPlxHs

Still one of my favourites after more than half a century.

Great stuff, and here are a few more nostalgic hits from that era which I particularly liked

The Troggs - Wild Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg
The Monkees - I'm a Believer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv2MLlZKarM (my sister and I liked this one so much we each bought a copy, often played in different rooms at the same time!)
The Loving Spoonful - Daydream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7u5SdjDSQQ
The McCoys - Hang on Sloopy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlTKhPkZSJo

and the one I always used to play early at parties to get people on the dance floor, Tommy James and the Shondells - Mony Mony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkMgs3lFwkQ (turned up LOUD and usually followed by the Stones, either Satisfaction or Get Off Of My Cloud...)

All fantastic stuff!

And another:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BihcE44msEY


And another particular favourite that my brain just dredged up:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCLYYNllZJg

The Kinks were so inventive hagatha; who would have thought the same writer and band could produce both Lola and Dedicated Follower of Fashion! Eclectic indeed.
Lex, I am ashamed to admit I never knew Billy Idol's version of Mony Mony was a cover. . The original is excellent; I will have to learn more about that band.
And the Stones are an excellent next song - as for which one I wondered whether Rocks Off might have pushed your buttons? A great first track in terms of setting up the album which is to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE

Flotsam, I was a Stones girl back in high school and university. I loved everything they did. At the time they really were the greatest rock and roll band in the world.

They really were

Did you ever get to see them? I still kick myself for not buying tickets on offer to a Wembley concert as I exited the Marble Arch tube station in (i think) 2000.

I saw them once in Toronto back in the 70's. 1975, I think? My high school boyfriend was (and still is) a rabid Stones fan, so it was all Stones, all of the time.

One of the first albums I ever owned was Out Of Our Heads by the Rolling Stones, and I have always been a fan, buying most of their albums more than once with the change from vinyl to CD. I was lucky enough to see them at a relatively small venue in London in 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwhJJSjlFrM I remember that it was standing only for mere mortals like me on the ground floor (with VIPs upstairs seated in the circle), so having queued to get in through security for about 3 hours then spent over 2 hours waiting and seeing the support act and then their set of over 2 hours, I could hardly walk afterwards!

They did a few small gigs. In Toronto in the late 70's they played at the El Mocambo, which was a pretty small club. There was a contest for tickets, but I didn't win one.

Something a little out of the mainstream and "down home," but of possible interest: I have a 2011 live album which I enjoy - JJ Grey & Mofro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpXTK7HD2Ls

...and for something more up to date and bluesy with plenty of energy try Larkin Poe who I find hit the spot on their album Self Made Man from last year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5iF1DKA6IM - their covers seem to get more of an airing on youtube and some of those are not bad

Right now I would say Porcupine Tree is my favorite but I have also been spending time listening to some great new bands like The Warning and Liliac.

Porcupine Tree? I have to go have a listeni just because of that name.

SQF, those were all new to me, but seriously interesting: real girl power from The Warning and Liliac, and quite a depth to the music of Porcupine Tree - thanks for the suggestions.

For those who like it made easy, here are some links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3lsqUqGTzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlOy0XbFVlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INouvLl1JiQ

Thanks for making it easy Lex
The Metallica cover by Liliac was excellent, and they don't do a bad Paranoid cover either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjF-TRyM8qU
Girl power wise, Lizzy Hale (Halestorm) is worth a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkHqUwa4zg

And how good must that Astoria Stones concert have been!

Porcupine Tree makes some good music.

I have to confess to not being into Heavy Metal (apart from some early Black Sabbath) but I had encountered Halestorm: powerful stuff!

My Prog Rock exposure is also pretty limited apart from some Pink Floyd, and talking of Pretty Things...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMrKh6kmcIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qJ-KPlt4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxyah_W7J6U

Thanks for posting those Porcupine tree links Lex. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here, Trains and Lazarus are my favorite PT songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTjc1sPktlY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3OQzfaeSw

Here is a softer side of Liliac that I think you might enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5r2aUl1nvU

Here is an early clip from the warning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDxChwKbroc

Lex ,

I should of added that both Liliac and The Warning are family bands. All the members are siblings.
I also loved all of your links Lex.

The best version of Hallelujah ever IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ

And another favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE2GCa-_nyU

SQF, I had noticed that Liliac is made up of siblings but not The Warning.

Impressed by Pentatonix's version of Hallelujah, but I have a couple of live versions by Leonard Cohen which are hard to beat, and I seem to recall a version by Nick Cave which was poignant: I preferred the second link, and the same youtube page took me to various other interesting items including in particular performances involving 2 Cellos.

Thanks for those ideas and I am glad you are enjoying the thread!

Naturally different music suits and can influence different moods: yesterday these two featured for me
Robert Plant - All the King's Horses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av58E3VLplA
Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFApH_DGDnw

... but today starts like this: Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qae25976UgA
probably followed by Queen - Man on the Prowl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGCsCCcAk_A

Thanks for the links Lex.

I hope some of you got to checkout the Lazarus & Trains links by Porcupine Tree. I love both of those songs.

Chilling to Pachelbel with oceans sounds now.

Some more good stuff.
If you liked the 2 Cellos rendition Lex, here is another instrumental version by the Vitamin String Quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-jMGvvMoAg
Am spending the morning going back over the recent stuff and exploring the youtube sidebars

Cowboy Junkies are another Canadian band. I like their cover of Sweet Jane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9nN3G2CSg

And Robert plant -- what can you say! This is one of my very favourite Robert Plant tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSsol3Zd7k

Love the 80's hair and clothes.

I have always liked that version of Sweet Jane hagatha, and ditto Big Log.
RP does a great version of Song To The Siren, one of my favourite songs, and some excellent duets with Alison Krauss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VEDkza3twU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Xi5gvZ7Kk

Oh, wow, flotsam. I had no idea RP covered Song to the Siren. It's a lovey song, and he covers it beautifully.

My favourite rendering of their version of Sweet Jane is on the album Long Journey Home (live in Liverpool) where it is stretched to over 8 minutes with an intro worthy of the Velvet Underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS3yUwFnVGQ and here is a good clip of them from 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGClEEL0K_o

Robert Plant played an excellent series of concerts across South America in 2012 with the Sensational Space Shifters and they used to be available to purchase (and perhaps still are): I have the one from Santiago from which a couple of extracts are here http://www.tightbutloose.co.uk/tour...-shifters-santiago-chile-movistar-arena/

Enjoy!

Lots of great links here.

How about this for an ethereal voice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo

Flotsam, I had not previously heard the Pachibel with ocean sounds - very relaxing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlZuQEdG51o

I have just bought it used on eBay for £2-00

Not quite as relaxing but still great to chill in my book is Ed Alleyne-Johnson's album Echoes - he also does Pachibel's Canon! Here are some links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO6kYLb6As
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsA2_k9xajY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO6kYLb6As


...and SQF, powerful stuff: thanks for the link!

Glad you enjoyed it Lex.

That is indeed an excellent Sweet Jane, and glad you liked the RP cover hagatha.
Off to check out the violins.

Going back to Song To The Siren, although it was written by Jeff Buckley a lot of people know it through the version by This Mortal Coil. Which was really the Cocteau Twins, and I saw an interview once with the lead singer Elizabeth Fraser where she was reflecting on the fact that the Twins best known song wasn't one that was sheeted home to them.

These are links to TMC and a live Cocteau Twins version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2vw189q4U

It has launched a few ships. The solo career of John Frusciante from Red Hot Chili Peppers possibly among them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZgyv1-i6s4

I missed the Evanescence link last time through SQF but have always thought Amy Lee was much under appreciated. Maybe if she had gone out on her own? I don't know, but I do know she can certainly sing.
Here is an interesting fusion version of her on one of the bands earliest hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk1GtYK7BJM

Wow is all I can say about that last link flotsam. Thank you so much. The audience and the orchestra really added to this great performance. I think you also introduced me to some new instruments.

You are welcome SQF; glad you enjoyed it. The interweb can be a wonderous place
And thanks for the Porcupine Tree links; not a band I had ever heard of.

Very cool

Not the same, but made me think back to Quintessence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj-DUDkbusc

Today's blast from the past - Medicine Head with Pictures In The Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTgNwmGVKc

True story, here.

When I get really stressed I tend to re-watch my old, comfortable shows where I don't have to think too much, and since life is really lemony at the moment, I started to re-watch Buffy. In Buffy the local club always features a band, and the cool thing about that is that those were real bands. One of them is rather striking for its originality and coolness, very avant-garde.

Last night I was watching this band play and for the first time noticed the face of the bass player. He looked...familiar.

No way, I said to myself. But then I decided to consult with Mr. Google, and sure enough, it is Sean Lennon.

This is the piece. Not to everyone's' taste, but rather cool, and Mr. Lennon is a fine bass player.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQRnxPuXlY

As you say, rather cool hagatha: made me think off a band called Trees whose album On The Shore I had many years ago on vinyl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL1IZEe8wjo

Enya and Loreena McKennitt drew from that same well. Lovely music.

Classic Rock, and podcasts, such as My Favorite Murder, The Murder Squad, Criminal..to name a few.

By the way, welcome to Gameboomers, pkstracy!!

pkstracy, I'm mostly a classic rock person, myself. But I've been forcing myself out of my music bubble lately. There's some good stuff on this thread.

pkstracy, when do you do your listening to the podcasts? It sounds as if they are the sort of thing to which you have to listen quite carefully rather than as background

Afterthought: are you also a watcher of crime TV programmes? If so the Mare of Easton thread may be of interest to you (as it was somewhat hijacked by mention of other programmes)

RIP, Charlie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os

Read this today... made me very sad.

Fantastic how Charlie remained respected at the heart of the business while apparently still leading a relatively normal home life - RIP and thanks for the great music!

Charlie was really an anomaly in the Stones. He always seemed to sit back a bit and watch the goings-on with detached amusement.

Speaking of detached amusement, this video here is a classic example of his ability in this regard. Check out 1:42, among other moments.

There are some funny comments in the comments section, too.

"Rest in peace to the most tolerant drummer in history."

I had forgotten that video clip Marian but it really does say it all.

My personal favorite in the comments, "Mick, Keith & Ronnie: having a blast;
Charlie: they may be idiots but they're my idiots;
Bill: why am I here?"

A vintage performance and some reminiscences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfV7eSoRpCk&list=RDCfV7eSoRpCk&index=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCfU1Zhkr5o

Brilliant clip, Marian. That really says it all.

I can still remember every word to almost every one of the songs from their late 60's and early 70's albums. Funny, how music gets into your head that way and stays. If math had had a tune and a drumbeat I might have done much better at it.

No reggae or ska on here yet: who is into that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpVxwWQjIy0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8XvzIfi4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhAec0h4lds

I like reggae. I mean, who doesn't like Bob Marley?


Oh wait, here's someone who doesn't like reggae. Or does he love it?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2xwwkX2T4c

Not a huge fan but who couldn't like No Woman No Cry
I have also always liked this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2oXzrnti4

Not exactly reggae -- maybe you'd call it "reggae-adjacent" ---but this has always been my favourite version of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGV9Bl6CGg

Love that 10cc video hagatha!

How about reggae style (bleggae) Hendix? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHBgGtxdYU

Lex, I love some of 10 CC's stuff. They were one of the best bands-that--wasn't-really-a-band, with its ever-changing roster. They were innovative and their music covered many genres, and well, too.

That reggae-Hendrix cover is pretty cool! Who' d a thunk it?

Here's a bit more feel-good stuff from the irrepressible Tim Hain (who happens to be my cousin), also to be found as part of a whiskey promoting band, the Lagavulins...
https://www.mattersmusical.com/artists/tim-hain-and-jamside-up-2/
https://www.mattersmusical.com/artists/tim-hain-and-the-lagavulins/

They play a mean Hendrix!

Great name for a band Lex!
And loving these links.

I know some of you are not very keen on country music but Chris Knight stands out in a dark way and may be of interest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GqsrL0Y5oY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sTj_PQfDLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylb7RwJn4dk

Thanks for those Lex. I particular liked the first.
The following is for watching rather than listening, although who doesn't like a rousing rendition of Footloose, I stumbled across this yesterday through a strange set of circumstances that began with Ann Margaret, who features, and had to share.
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rLhJZTHYo4

Flotsam, that was amazing. So much fun.


Speaking of song and dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUXAEzaC3Q

The man could sing and dance, alright.


and of course I have to lower the tone by adding this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE

But you can appreciate the cheeky artistry

All excellent stuff - Footloose is always good news, but I hadn't seen al yankovic before, and I had forgotten just how good Michael Jackson was in his prime!

You haven't heard of "Weird Al" Yankovic?

Michael Jackson apparently loved that Weird Al parodied his songs so well, but Al has had a long and varied career. Just off the top of my head, he did "Eat It" as a parody of "Beat it," Like a Surgeon" for "Like a Virgin," Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" For "Money for Nothing" (featuring Mark Knopfler) and many, many others.

Hey, speaking of Mark Knopfler,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC95MEenIxA




Here's someone I recently started listening to. This is a rather lovely song. He reminds me of Van Morrison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z18IKb3bcRs

I liked that last link hagatha; it wasn't someone I was familiar with.
Other things I remember from Al was a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody as a polka, and a parady of Safety Dance that was about watching anything on TV but the Brady Bunch (he got the theme song in there too).
A band I have been listening to and enjoying recently is The National. Here is a live version of one of their tracks from a house down my way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzpC1AzO84Q

I quite like that, flotsam. I'll have to check out more of their music.

Foy Vance I found from Sons of Anarchy -- Ed Sheeran covers Make it Rain in the last episode, and so I went looking for the song and discovered that it's actually Foy Vance's song. I apologize if I've posted this one before -- it's late and I'm very tired. Both versions here, both standouts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfDQuw0icew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD5hIqeKNVE


The sound quality on this one isn't great but I couldn't find a better one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ02s9uz4VM

Very taken with Foy Vance with whom I was not previously familiar, anssd now already have my eye on a couple of his albums: I also see that he has done quite a bit with Ed Sheeran (who is going up in my estimation as a result of some of his collaborations).

The National are also a new band for me and I will explore their music.

Thank you both for the links.

I think I have mentioned Emily Barker (one of my favourite artists) before but perhaps without links so here are a couple which I hope you may enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRWZfTsnSbk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKoaGK_uqLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHpubziPrAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fujRRDSkMjc

Very nice, Lex. I'll check out some of her other music, too.

The thread that keeps on giving.
Thank you both

So we were watching some of my old YouTube video playlists at dinner tonight and stumbled upon one that I still think is one of the most lovely pieces I have ever heard. I would kill to have a recording of it, but it isn't even on Spotify.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGZqnOpC3s

Truly delightful!

Hagatha, you will find a recording of this on an album called Two Rooms which is a complilation of covers of songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Rooms-Ce...mp;qid=1631171212&s=music&sr=1-1
https://www.ebay.com/p/20046063313?iid=124797201446

I see that the album is on spotify but perhaps not including all tracks https://open.spotify.com/album/5JHysk28WSFE8PCZkr5LHF but on the other hand https://open.spotify.com/track/6mCWbMMxaK5FsCpI9jNQUb

These are some download links which may or may not work in your region and/or come with unwelcome baggage...
https://wynk.in/music/song/sacrifice/um_00042284574921-GBF089190213
https://m.dragonrest.net/lagu/mp3/sinead-o-connor-sacrifice-hd
https://sinead-oconnor.mp3quack.lol
https://www.whosampled.com/cover/27389/Sinéad-O%27Connor-Sacrifice-Elton-John-Sacrifice/
https://www.jiosaavn.com/song/sacrifice/EhEpXT0JcgA

I couldn't find the album on Spotify when I searched it last night, so I guess it's not available in our region. Your link gets me to a Spotify site that doesn't recognize my credentials.

The only version I could find on Spotify was a Karaoke version recorded with some no-talent trying to sound like Sinead. Bah!

EDIT: I'm an idiot. I can sign in, and use the site, but the album on Spotify doesn't have Sinead's track. It's got Sting's gorgeous version of Come Down in Time, though.

Also, none of those links are available in our region. I did manage to find a copy of the CD on Amazon, so I took a chance on it.

I still can't believe I didn't buy the album when it first came out. There are a few great tracks on it, some I like better the Elton John's original versions.

Hagatha, the album seems to have become more popular over the years, and scarcer: some good tracks, but some rather indifferent in my view, the problem being that Elton's own performances are pretty hard to beat (although I am not much of a fan apart from the Madman Across The Water album and Crocodile Rock). Glad you managed to get hold of a copy!

Moving on, anyone for some Bob Seger? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7cSSKnkL4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vRsEC65NTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzozUw1TlDw

Against the Wind is a lovely song. I'm not a total fan of Seeger's music, but we listened to a lot of of it back in the day.

My favorite Bob Seger is here.

Marian, I had forgotten about that song! It's now on my playlist.


Some Friday night funk:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILabWVdIMs


A while back we were talking about Canadian bands and singers. We missed k.KD laing! Here she is with Roy Orbison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EiKPrAOHA&t=13s

And singing Leonard Cohen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYiMJ2bC65A

Of course she had a career singing her own music. Quite a character.

Changing tack completely, Make Me Smile was one of my favourtist songs well before it ended up in The Full Monty.
The original from about 1975 is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAoaVU3-ve0

In 2012 I saw Steve Harley do it as part of a long running rock quiz program filmed at a pub in St KIlda down our way. It might be recency bias but I reckon its so much better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo4-b4rOsYE

Flotsam, I like the second one better, too. His voice has matured and become a bit more gravelly and rough, which is very appealing for the song. It's great. I'd never heard of him before.

One of the great pop songs of the era with almost universal appeal: i remember buying the vinyl album...

like many others who had hits then I doubt that Steve Harley thought he would still be performing the song so many years later

A while back I mentioned the Stones playing at the El Mocambo in Toronto.

Here's another of my favourites, playing at the El Mo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk

and I'll throw in this other tune just because:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgIB1OL09H0

I always wonder what he would be doing today. Fabulous.

Your first link is something I linked to on the first page of this thread, hagatha - I absolutely love it!

I get a little brain dead towards the end of the day!

SRV was a very fluid and talented guitar player and I have the Texas Flood album: however, whilst he copied Hendrix well, Jimi was a unique and magical original talent. I can still remember being completely blown away by one of his first TV performances of Hey Joe, although it is the B side of the original single that remains one of my favourite tracks of his, Stone Free.

I recently found an interesting tribute album on youtube: that and some original gems are below.

I saw a documentary clip recently explaining that the album track of Voodoo Child was a controlled jam session featuring various really great musicians who stepped in for the session including Steve Winwood, and was apparently needed to fill the album because they did not have enough other rehearsed and prepared tracks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A5-WL8YkQw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egSVu3rYhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBg0XzXmv7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzZh6-h9fM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZBlqcbpmxY

The TV show Vigil has a haunting theme song Fuel to Fire which has introduced me to Agnes Obel, shown here performing a different song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1wgaFJ0750 (I see from a post elsewhere that hagatha is a fan)

...and haunting in a different way Townes Van Zandt (one of Urban Worrier's favourite artists) with a collage of great photos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yw8O2mdrxs

...and a look at the Stones with a touch of family I had not seen before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZiOFV7wQl8 (if you let it run on you get an interesting version of Little Queenie with Keith + Jerry Lee Lewis, at least on my youtube page)

Yes, I do like some of Agnes Obel's music. I discovered her while watching Dark. I particularly like Familiar and Down by the Riverside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kYH6XZrIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjncyiuwwXQ


YouTube popped this one into the queue while I was grabbing the Obel songs. I've mentioned that I'm not a fan of all of Beth Hart's music, but this is a great song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5JBJu4Dt68

I think I found Agnes through Dark as well. I am watching Vigil at the moment and hadn't twigged that it was her.
Off to check out some of the other links

The incomparable poet Leonard Cohen, singing one of my favourites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGorjBVag0I




Also, and apropos of absolutely nothing except that this one started playing in my head earlier today, and I think the track is the very essence of cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTcw_A80Bo&t=6s

A song for today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDIBzbDfok

I missed the Sunday track on the day it was intended, but the Peggy Lee song is very cool indeed, and what more needs to be said about Leonard?
If you have never come across it there is a great LC cover album called Im Your Fan, from which this is one of my favourites, not least of all because I very much like lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJesz60fHHI

...and a song for today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY

or if it's not going so well, this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy5WM1xYbGo

Another one with a Monday theme here.

And something a lot less cheerful...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtu5V3kHTM



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAPDJheC0Jk

Its Tuesday where I am so I will get in early
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGnn1IcxuRo

And one the other way round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To

And another song for Tuesday here.

Oh, Wow, Moody Blues. That's a long way back!

I hadn't heard Voices Carry before.


From the Cowboy Junkies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pFXE28y8Y

All excellent stuff, but Tuesday's Dead... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYsvg4wo5c

...soon it will be Wednesday 3:00 am... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K0eknfuix8

...so I'm cheating!

Nice ones Lex (and not cheating at all ) I couldn't think of many Wednesday songs but there is this

https://www.google.com/search?q=gue...863j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

This one will wake you up on Wednesday morning!

I dredged this one up from a very long time ago. My brain stores the most peculiar things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDnd2g1ZSw

On the same youtube page (at least on my screen) as that link from hagatha, jump 7 days... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DGvJSuoI3A

I didn't know either of those Wednesdays
Here is a live version of a Thursday song by a true legend. Its from a live performance so you get an extra song. Thursday starts about 4.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izLolM5fhU

Excellent Bowie clip (although I am not a big fan) - love the casual cigarette!

Here are a couple more Thursday related songs - Donovan and then Jess Glynne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAGcT9tzzM4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0v30jKH958

You beat me to the Bowie song! Serves me right for getting up late.

Well of course as we come to the end of Thursday, I've got Friday on My Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJLoYd8xak

I hadn't realised the Easybeats were an Aussie band, so no doubt well-known to flotsam, and he was probably going to post this song!

Here's someone we really, really haven't heard much from since the 60's, but I always secretly liked her when I was a tweenybopper even though she wasn't the Beatles and her dad was a square:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUBHy8WQlzU&list=PL808DAB9C1EBF96D6&index=14

You read my mind Lex. And Nancy certainly had an interesting catalogue - things like Bang Bang and Some Velvet Morning (a duet admittedly) come to mind
This one is not an Aussie band but its a fine Friday song nonethless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgMZpGYiy8

Enjoy the day!

Flotsam, that one isn't available here but I can probably look it up elsewhere.

Try this one hagatha (The Cure - Friday I'm in Love) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W21u1hxv_j4

I was amused to see that the Nancy Sinatra clip has a typo in the on screen title wording...

Have a good Friday everyone!

...and as Friday winds down, Out On The Weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCElUItrLZc

(...and this was my favourite Nancy Sinatra track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fPkzJsMU8 )

Hard to find a Saturday song which is not about Saturday night, but there is this one from Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLiMy4NaSKc

...and for later in the day, Dave Edmunds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5gU9lDMUKo

...and Sam Cooke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8m0mMDpHw

...before letting rip of course with Elton John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wEWSUUsUc

Here's one from the past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz4tdZkk9mY

It's as annoying now as it was back then.

I remember as a kid cranking the song Last Train to Clarksville from this album.

My favorite Saturday song is this.

Marian, I'd forgotten all about that song.

I see Gordon is still touring at 82 years old. Quite remarkable.

Looks like I missed Saturday so I will get a head start on Sunday
There are lots but here are two, a live version of a song from my youth off one of my favourite albums back then and one completely different and more recent by an Australian artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ3NDP-Qiak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OvGzuQv0I

Ok, well, Sunday it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkeDjLZMRRk

Arguably the best Sunday song hagatha

As usual some excellent suggestions but let's not forget this one from the Velvet Underground & Nico - Sunday Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhbyj8pqUao

As I couldn't open some of the links, here are some alternatives to what are hopefully the same songs (although I am not sure about flotsam's second one)
Saturday Clothes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ThqEhSFSQ
Sunday perhaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdQEm_tXBWU or more probably this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ThqEhSFSQ
Sunday Bloody Sunday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4vblG6BVQ

Love me some Velvet Underground.

I don't know Sia at all. Interesting cut, though. I might look for some of her other tracks on YouTube and have a listen.

I put the Foals song on my Spotify playlist. That's how I determine if music is going to stay with me. Nice song.

I remember getting introduced to three bands in particular while at university, the Velvet Underground being one, the others being the Doors and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZpTxEG3tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcAS_i79WYE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No0Q8ni084k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ_vJbQw5ow

The Foals is indeed nice. Sorry about the links.
Joe Jackson's Sunday Papers was the other one. Here is the original version (fingers crossed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5r1ub00btE
And all hail the VU!

flotsam, your original Joe Jackson link worked okay

Oh wow. John Mayall. A classic. My introduction to his music was The Turning Point. I guess it would have been one of my first blues albums. And I just put California on my playlist. Still an amazing track.

hagatha, I think that The Turning Point may be the most recent of his albums which I bought (an interesting departure from his usual heavier sound), my favourite apart from the very early ones being Blues From Laurel Canyon with Mick Taylor on lead guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ObOggb5kn8

...and still performing at 85... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnhYZV6aKg

Ah, haven't listened to John Mayall in such a long time! Think I will ask Alexa to play some while I cleaning today.

I always did like All Your Love from that original album but hadn't heard it in ages

What we are all doing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwbg_2ltgRU


...but Drac, surely you must do your cleaning to this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEKVLjXO2Fk

How about songs with numbers in the titles, your choice whether to match or move up one?

Starting of course with Zero... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfXUDE4DfQM

Okay.

Here's a catchy tune from the past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HqyEHqEYho


And look, I can't resist, because it's Queen, and it's cats, and it's in execrably bad taste:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXezLv_5RaY



Okay, now just to clear your ears from that extreme lapse in judgement, here is another none (Nothing) song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88

hagatha! Loved the "catsody"!

Cool
Is this the best One song ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o

Plus a few Ozzie ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF9rS90U3-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nUFseaHtfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoYgINT2Bac

Believe it or not, the band in the last one found much bigger fame subsequently as children entertainers The Wiggles

Yes, the U2 was going to be my one pick.

So here's another one off the top of my head, even though it's not really a fave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LE



And still technically "One" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8

Seriously, I cannot hear that without dancing.

Cool stuff as always, and loved the catsody!

A few more "ones":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdB-8eLEW8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvMsp7s78Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw2YBdAQCHg

Manfred Mann. Haven't thought about them in literally decades!

Speaking of Another One Bites the Dust:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF7xTTvU2sM&t=3s

(Sorry. )

Nice ones, except maybe for the last one!
One more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7oQEPfe-O8

And a two tthree and four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4dl6JSf-bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9UjLeLN5A

Okay, five, then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw&t=2s

Raising the stakes eh?
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCOimBo5tg
1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU
2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB5sCP6s120
3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvoyBrUbBM
4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8GP2j7NdSo
5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17s_aJfSrrI
6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZuFq4CfRR8
7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCpjFMvz-k
8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kle2xHhRHg4
9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4
10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPEmVvQnxdM

Show-off.

I found or already knew tunes to get up to 30 somewhat to my surprise (didn't bother trying beyond that): there are various songs about road numbers and addresses which bridge some of the (expected) gaps, and of course songs referring to more than one number.

If you've had enough of this theme how about songs with colours in the title (unless that cropped up earlier in the thread) or perhaps months?

These are some numbers songs that I liked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us18AUBM2RI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8

Love Potion Number Nine -- does that take me back.



Here is the colour Blue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHdRkeEnpM

And the other one that just popped into my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcNyMBw818

And there's also this.

I rode in an elevator with him once in New York City at the CBS-TV Studios back in 1966.

Colours eh? Lets do a rainbow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KpfrJE4zw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oox9bJaGJ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7e63qRuJ_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86SgLwFdqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-I4oZkduuc

and the punctuation point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1BThu95d8

Pretty darn good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxsHzfpjbHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoEle04qu_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJunCsrhJjg

...and a left over number https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE36QIwwkOc

Yep, that would have been my Purple choice.

Great selections, some of which I'd never heard before.

I was never a huge fan of Prince's music, but you sure do have to admire the showmanship and the artistry. I'm always struck by that. There are a few artists like that, who have undeniable talent but I can't really get into their music, like George Michael and Annie Lennox, both with gorgeous voices and music that doesn't appeal to me that much, except for some notable tracks. I would say Celine Dion, but her choice of music is just so uniformly awful I can't listen to her at all.


EDIT: And I might add, If I'm going to beat you two to the punch here, I'll have to get up before I go to bed!

Nice
I know what you mean hagatha, and George Michael would be on my list too.
If you have never seen it, the George Harrison induction below shows Prince at his guitar playing best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

Some more numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMy2bmSAIeA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6kvVGPURA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5a0Bl8eY

And a few more colours including an obvious Ozzie one and an awesome live with orchestra version of a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0sYQRECkY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA

Color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkwmSzPdVnY

Boy, that really takes me back!

It sure does. I remember the song but could never have named the band.

White:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgTjUloUEI

Black:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAfLE39ZZ8

And speaking of Annie Lennox AND Procol Harum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZqPoriYXho

Thnaks so much for the Annie Lennox cover. I have never heard that
And how good was Amy.

Hadn't heard Annie Lennox sing that before, and was interested to see this other version on the same youtube page from a German talent show (what I might have called the Joe Cocker version but I know he actually did a gentler version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=959Cf8Nk9O8

Another number https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugy2rkSM7g

Another colour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64mb_hUOb4g

Multiple numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm-po_FUmvM

Any Winehouse had stratospheric talent. What a waste.

I had forgotten about Annie Lennox's cover of Whiter Shade of Pale, and of course it popped up on my feed when I grabbed the original Procol Harum version. Annie's version really is quite wonderful, isn't it?

A sultry version of a different "white" classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqAkjR0tzz0

Hey, remember this song about green?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVhtytqr3VA

I think these guys must have been a one-hit wonder.

I can honestly say I don't think I have ever heard that song.

I remember that song hagatha.

Months of the year, anyone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0C_zSVnPM

Easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlOyj9F5gM

Oh my gosh, that song was given SO much airplay at the time.

As for months:

Pieces of April

One for March (kinda)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Giwmgc4rkY

A few boys you might be familiar with, playing October:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqdJ6CsXt4Y

And this one, again October:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI2-btAACWQ&t=8s

I discovered Nico Stai through the TV series Chuck, which I found to be silly and funny. A show for nerds and geeks, about nerds and geeks.

Two great songs, and a new artists for me too!

I quite like Nico Stai, very reminiscent of Passenger especially on You Came Around.

Another April song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITXBjDTXS90

... and one for May https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGxDx8ftX1I

Here is a June one, by a monthly band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusWM9AKfZg

Excellent - and here they are at NPR (a fantastic source of great performances which I strongly recommend to those who may be unfamiliar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHdsoNewFdU

Thanks for that Lex, I for one wasn't aware
They do July as well, and so does Bruce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfxtuZ6v9m8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lSDQy03LY

... on the subject of Bruce, the album of his Broadway show is good stuff, as is his book Born to Run (even to someone such as myself who is not necessarily a great fan of pop memoirs), and I love this track by Eric Church https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HBh7cVZubk

...but back to months, here is Carole King for August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEwh7-tLnVA

sticking with Carole but moving on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbKE0gJETA0
and one from a potential desert island disc if I could only take 10 with me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENrLwE-JKSs

I have one of Melissa's later albums Yes I Am - great stuff

Another for September - one of my wife's favourites - Earth Wind and Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk

The obvious October
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tPvvsc7No
And one I had never heard of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41bYQBgE

A pretty good film I seem to remember...

One for November https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN-EmQ4Aa6Y

I have always quite liked The Waterboys

One for December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM

That was a great song to round off the year, but here is one more for December anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfD7FzcjVyQ

We probably ought to wait until mid December to do favourite Christmas songs...

Only a few of the Waterboys' songs really do it for me but I have their album Karma to Burn on which I particularly like Fisherman's Blues and Peace of Iona (it also includes one of my wife's favourite tracks The Whole Of The Moon).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eT8KAn26tk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiMi4ddUCEc

You touched on Desert Island Discs: what would be your all-time favourite five albums?

Fisherman's Blues and Whole Of The Moon are goodn's. A Girl Called Johnny is another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUSDeqYYB2Q
All time favourites I will interpret from the perspective of if I only had five to listen to, so had to hear them over and over, what would they be.
I think maybe (and leaving out compilations, concert albums etc)

Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Bruce Springsteen
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Patti Smith - Horses
The Joshua Tree - U2
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

The Muse live recording of their concert from Rome would be in there, as would the Stones acoustic compilation Stripped if they were "eligible" in place of Fleetwood Mac and the Stones studio album

I could also make a case for Blondie's Parallel Lines, the first album from Melissa Etheridge, Blonde on Blonde by Dylan, and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd (and Born to Run and Rumours instead of the ones included).
And I suspect I have missed a whole bunch
And you?

I'd have heck of a time picking my favourites because I also listen to classical. The field would get crowded very quickly. Also, it would be full of Pink Foyd albums, so there is that.

I found as I got older that I almost never have the patience to listen to full album. I'm more likely to listen to one or two tracks and move on. These albums I listen to all the way through:

Wish You Were Here, for sure, and probably The Division Bell, too. And Meddle, just for Echoes.

Selling England By the Pound.

The Joshua Tree

Led Zeppelin 1 and 2

Don't know which Stones I'd pick.

I'm already past five anyway.

Which is your favourite Floyd hagatha? Mine is certainly Wish You Were Here, but Side Two of Meddle has spent many a long afternoon on the turntable.
And do you still have/play records?

I don't have records any more. I'm still a dinosaur, though -- I have CD's. I keep meaning to digitize them, but I have so many it seems like an insurmountable task. I suspect that if I went through them one by one I'd be ditching at least half of them. So many bands didn't pass the test of time for me --like The Who.

I'm not really sure which Floyd album is my favourite. I love Wish You Were Here, but I also love The Division Bell. I'm not keen on the Roger Waters-heavy stuff. I'm more of a Gilmour fan. His music is more...classical, I want to say.

When I was around 20 four of us hopped in a car to see Floyd perform in Montreal. The new stadium wasn't even finished, and we had to sit on the ground. It was during the Animals era, with the giant pig overhead. Quite the scene, that was.


It's been a t least 25 years since I last went to a live concert, though. I think the last one might have been either Loreena McKennitt or even Lyle Lovett, and I know I saw an Itzhak Perlman concert in the last classical series I went to. Have you been to any live concerts recently?

I've been to only 2 concerts my whole life. The first was The Beach Boys playing at the Wisconsin State Fair and the second was Aretha Franklin playing free at a park in downtown Chicago.

Oh, I would have LOVED to see Aretha perform live.

I never got to see the Floyd but I did see Roger Waters do The Wall about 6 years ago and it was amazing. No Dave Gilmour unfortunately. Video technology enhanced the stage show, and the pig flew around inside the stadium.
I think the last live concert I saw was Patti Smith doing the Horses album straight through (a desert island disc), probably 4 years ago now. The most fun live performance was Billy Idol on a pier in Portland, Maine as part of an annual music festival. Ferries kept coming and going and Billy rocked on We just happened to be there, but my wife and I have talked about going for the month that the festival is on.

Another concert I went to back when I was in high school was Elton John with Kiki Dee. That was fun.

You know, I really don't know any of Patti Smith's music. I'll go check it out.

I never saw Elton John in concert but I did see him in a gift shop at Disneyland back in 1982. He was in there to dress up in garb from the Wild West and have photos taken. There were two other guys with him. No one was recognizing him, but my mother did right away, and told me to go into the gift shop so I could see Elton John. I walked right past him and smiled. I think he was afraid I was going to bother him, but I did not. Later on the clerk told me that he came to Disneyland quite often.

I saw Boz Scaggs and Steppenwolf in concert around 1969. Saw Gordon Lightfoot four times, and Sergio Mendes and brazil 66 once.

My ex-husband was at Altamont Speedway in 1969, that notorious concert with the Stones where things really got out of hand.

I did not get to that many big-name concerts, and never really enjoyed the large venues where you could only see the artist on a big screen, but saw early Fleetwood Mac in a small blues club (prompting this to recapture the mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaSPvJmeNpI), Joan Armatrading, Status Quo (as part of a mixed bill following the release of their first hit but I cannot remember who else was on it), Elvis Presley in Las Vegas in 1971 and in a revue bar in the same hotel (where I was working as a bus-boy on a student visa) Ike and Tina Turner who were quite something.

My earliest memory of seeing a live pop act would have been Cliff Richard and the Shadows in the pantomime Aladdin in London.

In more recent years, I much enjoyed seeing Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds when they appeared in UK and also one of my favourite (but hugely understated) artists Emily Barker And The Red Clay Halo. There was also a Stones concert mentioned earlier in this thread, and the Isle of White Festival featuring Bob Dylan too many decades ago...

I would have quite liked to see Tom Petty, although I only became a fan after one of my daughters gave me the album Full Moon Fever.

As to my top five albums, they would be

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo - Dear River
Dave Matthews Band - Crash (or perhaps one of their live albums)
Eric Clapton - Just One Night (although possibly supplanted by Joe Bonamassa - Live from The Beacon Theatre which features both Beth Hart and Paul Rodgers as guest vocalists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVCXGyHwWDE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vtt--3j33g)

As flotsam has pointed out, one of the criteria must be repeated playability, and there are many artists I would miss, probably especially female (Tift Merritt, Sally Spring, Gretchen Peters, and Alison Krauss to name but a few).

Hagatha, no reason to be shy about including favourite classical pieces - I just happen to be a philistine from that point of view despite my parents' best efforts!

This is the time of the year, I start working up the garlic harvest. It's been hanging upside down in the barn curing since harvest in July. I break up about 90% of it into cloves and then set about the task of peeling it all. I put into a small food processor with a little dry white wine and chop it all up and dehydrate for use all winter long. Yesterday I took my Riva portable speaker out to the garage with me and linked to my home media server where I have uploaded digital versions of all my old CDs. Picked out one I haven't listened to in 15 years and wow! Steely Dan's Everything Must Go. They loosened up the blues/funk/jazz on this one and I had to listen to it twice while I was working!

Tasty!

For those unfamiliar with it (like me - thanks for the suggestion), Drac's Steely Dan track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGgtfz5qaaU

Of course, Steely Dan would have to be on my list, and for sure something from Dire Straits, maybe Brothers in Arms. Throw in some Beethoven and Mozart and a soupcon of Bach, and...you can see the problem. I could never choose.

And from Everything Must go, there is Slang of Ages for funk, Green book, Pixeleen... one of those albums with nary a bad song on it!

You are so much like me, hagatha! I found an old mix tape I made some time ago and uploaded. It went from Waylon Jennings (I normally loathe country, but I love Waylon), Mr. Scruff, Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt, Daryl Hall, Jeff Beck, Marvin Gaye... toss in some Nelly and you see the problem!!!

Working on garlic again - today was Michael Franti's All Rebel Rockers!

You could certainly convince me to replace Exile with Sticky Fingers Lex.
I think you mentioned Emily Barker earlier on and I have been investigating her stuff. I only just found out she is one of ours
Hagatha, here is Patti's version of the Van Morrison song Gloria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPO0bTaWcFQ. Its off the Horses album.
I still make playlists like those old mix tapes. I have one called the 70s, which is the songs that were the background to my life in that decade. Not just things I played, but things that were on the radio and MTV and which you couldn't avoid. I limit it to a song per artists and its always a good listen. Plus I went from being 10 to being 20 in that period, so in terms of my own taste in music boy did that change!

Now I'm thinking that I would really like to include The Cowboy Junkies' live album 200 More Miles, but I am not sure what I would be prepared to give up to make room... (actually I have just discovered that they released a new album last year Marked in Dust consisting of live performances from 1989, also earlier this year a book with a CD of live performances Music is the Drug, so I will be considering getting one or both of those)

I recognise the talent of Patti Smith but have never really taken to her as a performer: however I rather like this more accessible cover which popped up when I followed flotsam's link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbiOqWstArk also this from her own canon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yGywwnNswA

She did an album of covers a while back, some interesting choices amongst them. Its called twelve.
Given the Stones were mentioned earlier, this is her take on Gimme Shelter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdBGIjJ77qg
I am off to check out those live albums Lex

More garlic... seemed like a ZZ Top kinda day!

Spotify threw a playlist at me today that had some goodies on it, but notably this singer, who I haven't listened to before (and apologies if she's been mentioned above somewhere):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBAFz880b_Y

I listened to a few of her tracks, and some of her music is pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVrDxi_Cmg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0qbbj2c50

Hagatha, I don't think I had heard her before: as you say, pretty good stuff.

Reminds me of early Imelda May, but may not have the same vocal range https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9EJvMm3nPg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhogVvwbwkw but also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKeTvB_HDGM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKF4DHpDto (and quite cool as a guest vocalist with Ronnie Wood And His Wild Five's Chuck Berry tribute)

Flotsam, I had been exploring the album of covers you mention as a result of the above references. In terms of cover albums I strongly recommend Early 21st Century Blues from the Cowboy Junkies which I think was my first taste of them: there is also this cover of a Bowie song not familiar to me - Five Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyiZZOY00A and for good measure a Bowie performance of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bcnO3VQ_fc

...and Drac, I can certainly identify with a ZZ top kind of day (I have their first three albums)!

Hagatha, Elle King is Rob Schneiders daughter. They do a remarkable duet in his comedy special on Netflix.

Lex, about ten years ago I had a couple of Imelda May CD's. She's pretty versatile. I should go have a listen to her music again.

I am glad to have given a useful reminder - I have and enjoy her 2017 album Life Love Flesh Blood which showcases her versatility rather better than some of the earlier material I had heard: you might like to give that a listen.

Thanks for those links all.
The thread that keeps on giving

Since we seem to be on the subject of chanteuses, here's one of my favourites. This song reminds me of a long driving trip we did a few years ago, driving up in to the interior of BC. We listened to this album more than a a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JU

And another one, nice a low-key.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk

I have and enjoy her album of collaborations Featuring Norah Jones, but I am less keen on her as a solo artist (probably a bit too gentle for my philistine tastes ).

On a more positive note I have just acquired a great double CD album of early Fleetwood Mac Live at the BBC - 36 performances from the late 60s although issued in the late 90s: some of the usual material from that period but also some interesting other tracks.

And for some gentler blues I like to go back to an album by Keb' Mo' - Keep It Simple: this is one of the tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrRChQ0d5M

I have Featuring Norah Jones on CD. Thanks for reminding me!

I googled and found this link; I assume it covers some of the BBC tracks you have Lex?
I wonder how many people never knew they ever sounded like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgBDLKGCEa4

The Peter Green version of Fleetwood Mac was awesome. I have a couple of CD's from that era.

This link takes you to the album on Amazon UK and you can see the full track listing on the reverse of the cover (pictured) https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/produ..._b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1- there is also a quite informative booklet about the early years of the band, mentioning the guitar and mimic abilities of other members of the band.

I think there was a shorter album of some of the material which is the track listing on your link.

There is also a pretty good Iive album of the band from that era, Boston Blues (available on a double CD) posted in full on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PARRhcnLwbk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nic6TbfBm_0

I have an impressive short album by Dannica Lowery - Mind Games (with guests including Larkin Poe): she may be new to some of you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ola4lp7x6JI

Certainly new to me Lex - thanks once again

Mattanja Joy Bradley is another strong but perhaps not so well-known female vocalist by whom I have an album Wake Me Up: this is one of the tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUBWW30X7Ek

,,,and another old Fleetwood Mac album which may be of interest https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/produ...t_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I love the first review on the latter link Lex; will definitely check it out.

Cover versions have come up throughout this thread, so I thought I would share the following cover bands, amongst my favourites and who have their own distinctive take on their interpretations. Maybe there will be something new for you
Post Modern Jukebox do swing/big band versions of all sorts of songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZpdXgsI6C0
Nouvelle Vague by comparison do sultry versions of punk and new wave songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4efME9Vnlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qBWvA6H7Zg
And for a choral take there is Scala and Kolacny brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ILM2CLgdEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5D8DOe77k

Interesting stuff all new to me - I was particularly entertained by Post Modern Jukebox, and Scala and Kolacny Brothers were beautifully melodic: thank you for the links!

As always I was scrolling through what else cropped up on the youtube pages and saw a Jackson Browne track which was new to me Barricades of Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7923AHiJ_U8 - I have always liked a couple of the hits but was unfamiliar with any albums, so duly explored: the greatest hits was a bit of a disappointment, but I really like Looking East from 1996 and the recently released Downhill From Everywhere (both now duly ordered)

I'm way behind here. I'll have to do some catching up!

One final cover indulgence.
Even if you don't like the Toto song, this version of Africa is worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c9-poC5HGw
Am enjoying Downhill From Everywhere and the things that pop up on the side bar. Especially Tom Petty, nothing linked, but he was arguably underestimated.

I always liked Tom Petty.

That Toto Cover is fantastic! I like the original, too.

This one just popped up in my head, and he hasn't been mentioned yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoAO0851FwA&t=7s


And the incomparable Joan Baez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8&t=30s

Thank you for all those. The choir doing Africa is great and elsewhere I found them performing it with some audience participation on America's Got Talent.
I love that Joe Cocker Track: I think I have it somewhere on my iPod, along with another from the same stable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4mcRpWAyRM
- and here's a classic bit of Tom Petty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA (with an interesting band line-up)

I was thinking back to my earliest musical memories and what was played on the old wind-up HMV gramophone with the big horn: my parents mostly played classical but there were a couple of other albums, in particular Beneath the Cuban Moon by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Happy Music from Italy by Marino Marini, although later an album by the Kingston Trio was added, also an early Cliff Richard album (I think the first one with any orchestral backing - Cliff Sings). https://www.discogs.com/release/1986698-Lecuona-Cuban-Boys-Beneath-The-Cuban-Moon and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO_3YD5bREI and https://www.google.com/search?clien...rio+tom+dooley&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 (much that stuff is too old to have made it onto youtube)

When my parents retired from Africa, I was buying early Shadows singles and then I discovered the Stones, while my sister and I were also both pretty keen on the Monkees and I can remember each of us having a copy of I'm A Believer playing in different parts of the house at the same time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9YIsKIEbA

Fast forward and this is one of the songs that still always quickens my pulse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWijx_AgPiA

I've always has a soft spot for this tom Petty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7j0VhEHw

It came out just as I went through a massive life upheaval and it always reminds me of that time.

Lex, my parents were strictly classical but my childhood friend's father was a Kingston Trio fan, so I was familiar with a lot of their music when I was a kid.

I always loved that Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks song.

Okay, every now and then I click on a random song just to see if I can find anything good. That's how I discovered Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux.

This one stood out. Never heard of her before. Must look up some more of her music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8glZ-efMg

A couple of very cool links for which thanks.

I have always liked that Tanita Tikaram song but had never heard anything else by her, so I did a little exploring and found a range of music which seems to indicate that she struggled to find a niche after a very successful first album (including that song), but I quite like what I think is her third album Everybody's Angel (almost, but not quite enough to buy it)

That is a great video of Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty et al, all impossibly young and at the top of their game!

Saw this Playing For Change song which I had not heard previously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QpjR6-Uuks

...and this is something a bit different which someone sent me earlier today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

I have my eye on a new album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss due out later this month.

I have the first RP/AK album. At first I thought it was a bit of a snorefest, but after a few listens I really started to appreciate it. I'll look forward to the next one.

I have songs rather than albums by RP/AK, so have likely cherry picked the ones I like but will certainly check out anything new. I think their voices work well together.
The Petty/Nicks track has always been a fav, and the AC/DC cover is certainly something!
Tanita Tikatam I had completely forgotten about, much like this other performer it brought to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigqKfLWjvM
Early musical memories include lots of percussion (I can still see some of the album covers, the records played on one of those 'chest' pieces of equipment that had a radio built in), then things like Beatles, Glen Campbell, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis and my mum's favourite Val Doonican Early Bee Gees is probably my earliest personal remembrance of something I listened to that wasn't of my parents.
I was trying to think of the first album I ever bought myself and it might have been either of two soundtracks - Jesus Christ Superstar (movie) or American Graffiti. First solo artist or band I bought might have been The Sweet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqketmsRz1E

My first alum would have probably have been the Monkees. The second was Their Satanic Majesties, which I bought at the age of 13 in Mombasa for some reason (probably to annoy my parents). My 11-year old self and my 13 year-old self were two very different people.

I think I bought Goats Head Soup to get the poster for the same reason!

Interesting to see the age differences not resulting in huge change: I was always pleased (although a little surprised) at how far my children largely embraced my musical tastes rather than rebelling against them, although of course they also had their own younger favourites...

My first Stones album was Out of Our Heads, their third UK album, which I think was slightly repackaged and retitled in some other countries: I think my parents bought it for me one Christmas, although I also recall them not being thrilled at the hair and behaviour! Apart from Sticky Fingers, my favourite Stones albums would be Let It Bleed, Aftermath, and Beggars Banquet, although after a bit of a less inspiring period I was quite impressed with A Bigger Bang and Blue and Lonesome - interestingly the latter title was already taken by what I think is a better blues album by Billy Boy Arnold with TS McPhee and the Groundhogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SRrGz08SyU

By the way there is a quite good extended version of Goats Head Soup including some good live material, although rather expensive unless you get it as a download (as I did)

Moving in a different direction, a couple of slightly oddball albums which I like are An Awesome Wave by Alt-J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg6BwvDcANg and Beautiful Freak by Eels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yy141q8HQ - I think those were first albums in each case and I was not as taken with their later material

...and another great artist who I don't think has had a mention here yet, Gerry Rafferty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeC0-PO2BVw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqh9A6M5rs and of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM



...and as an afterthought a cover for flotsam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlw4NohB678

I haven't thought about Gerry Rafferty for so long! He has quite the distinctive voice.


I stopped listening to music for a long time through the 80's and 090's, really until the Ipod showed up with [blip] big music library, so naturally my favourite Stones albums are in the first two decades. Same with Led Zeppelin.

Love the cover version Lex. I have several Cranberries albums amongst the vinyl. Here is a link to an acoustic version by Delores of one of their classics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxbtgLXn4bY

I agree with you about Beautiful Freak and look forward to checking out the other links.

LIke a lot of bands, I discovered the Stones mid-seventies and eventually made my way backwards. Ditto Led Zeppelin (I think Houses of the Holy was the first album of theirs I owned).

Did you have the toilet cover on BB or the plain alternative? I think the latter might have been an American release They certainly had some excellent album covers, Some Girls amongst them (a topic for another day perhaps). And I checked out the expanded version of GHS and might have to ask santa for a copy

I think if asked I would have said Baker Street was the only Gerry Rafferty song I knew but I had no idea he was in Stealers Wheel. The things you keep on finding out.

And hagatha, I am happy to put together a list to start catching you up on the 80s

Dolores shares my surname.

I don't think I knew about the toilet seat cover on Beggars Banquet, and my old vinyl copy had the plain outer cover with the nicely scripted title opening out into a debauched feast sequence.

Gerry Rafferty & Stealers Wheel Collected is a great compilation album produced in Holland and quite possibly in breach of copyright but an excellent showcase for his talents including early tracks by the Humblebums (which featured Billy Connolly as well as Gerry Rafferty).

Another oddment worth a look is Flamingo a solo album by Brandon Flowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

Over the weekend, while searching for something else I came across two interesting compilation/cover albums which may or may not be new to any of you:

Best of Kokua Festival by Jack Johnson and Friends - very laid back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNH4qBTkiyQ

Enjoy Every Sandwich: the songs of Warren Zevon by various well-known artists - not always quite so mellow! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJomp47BliE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYyMRsSE7Qc

Springsteen and Steve Earle - whats not to like! I am aware of Zevon but not familiar with a lot of his music, and must seek some more of it out.
Thanks

For me, Warren Zevon had always just been the great Werewolves of London, but I was impressed with him on David Letterman's show shortly before his death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Mirkd3CT4 and of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1PFz56XWQI and something a little different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m31P_yMIw4M - quite a guy!

Somehow today I found myself listening to Thick as a Brick. I hadn't even thought of it for decades, but I always did love Jethro Tull. I went by bus with a group of friends to see him in Buffalo back when I was in High School. Man could put on quite the show back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X15PsqN0DHc


After that I listened to The Cinema Show, which I love, and that led me to Supper's Ready, which is epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiW302FICE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJq1lwnkNw

Probably not to everyone's taste, but I guess I do still appreciate older Genesis, after all. Some of it is pretty bombastic, though -- a function of having a young Peter Gabriel as a frontman.

I guess I was in a prog rock mood!

This was the Jethro Tull song that I always liked best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m__wmsIn99E

My wife is heavily into Genesis but prefers the later material with Phil Collins on vocals, and one of my younger brothers was a big fan of their earlier stuff: he was a drummer, so probably also admired Phil Collins but in his other guise!

Phil Collins' drumming was incredibly intricate on a lot of their music. If you listen to the whole of The Cinema Show you hear just how amazing he was.


It's too bad he can't play any more. He's badly crippled.


Living in the Past is a superb song, and I had forgotten it! Just added it to my playlist.

Willy Deville was an artist much regarded by his peers but did not enjoy as much success as he may have deserved: I love Spanish Stroll, but only recently discovered that he made a solo album accompanied and produced by Mark Knopfler which included a hit song from The Princess Bride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5LveBIjg3o and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svbv0ArjPGU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvcYRWzuQKg

I haven't thought of that song for about 45 years or so! But I do remember the music.

My double CD of Fleetwood Mac at the Chess studio in Chicago in 1969 finally arrived (from Germany) and is currently great listening in my car: appropriately enough I found this compilation on Youtube. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doyeh2rlMzI


... and some more blues for good measure - Zucchero with John Lee Hooker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRGMLYlXosg

I still have TAAB on vinyl and will give it a spin on this wet day. Aqualung was probably my preference and I think this is a beautiful 89 word piece of poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmIbJ81MbKI
Mink Deville I probably have somewhere too, and I know I have this on a bunch of playlists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpVkI6d_xI
The driving video is great

Nice mellow stuff from Jethro Tull: I had not heard that extended version before and may get a download of it.

Don't know whether any of you are familiar with Zucchero's great album of collaborations, Zu & Co, of which the above track was one: here is another, this time with B B King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMZwr5oLOao

Glad you liked it. I do like the extended version but those initial 89 words are awesome.
I have to say not only wasn't I aware of the collaboration, I didn't know the Zu. I will search out some more on the basis of the link.

A couple of tracks to help kick start the week - Junior Walker and the All Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akrcr16whB4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSosQRiXiPw


...and something cool for later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwzpkhmIT8 (their new album is on my Christmas list!)

Very tasty start to the week!

Yes indeed

As I frothed the milk a little for my coffee this morning, I had this going through my head, googled it and found an updated version... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYTHucboV-o and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGJLiBjQksU

Nice one.
I spun some vinyl today and this was one, though not this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llmSr6Qpjjc
I like these contemporary performances so so many years later.

That's rather lovely. flotsam. I hadn't heard that before.

Ooh, spun some vinyl - respect! What remains of my old vinyl is boxed up in the loft, just about anything worthwhile having long since been replaced by CD and/or digital download ( I still don't like the idea of a subscription music service).

I was not familiar with that band, and the falsetto vocal is a bit of an acquired taste: I have explored their history and music, and I am a little tempted towards House Broken, a live album on DVD/CD from 2015/2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQL05K1RJ0 (a fairly cheap used copy on eBay in Australia, flotsam may care to note)

as at least one review says, somewhat reminiscent of Mott The Hoople https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyJHh451Y4

Glad you liked it hagatha.
I have the audio of that album Lex but not the visual. I must check it out.
Megan's Song is another one of theirs I particularly like. Its on that live album and here is the original Maybe its a little more accessible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC5iGJwec4
The falsetto reminds me of Antony, aka and the Johnsons. Similarly acquired tastewise perhaps but rather beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avabPY3XgRc
I confess a Mott the Hoople similarity had never occurred, but probably the only song of theirs I knew was All The Yound Dudes. I could be convinced based on the link.
I don't do subscription either, cd and digital download being my thing, and I probably have most everything digitally that I would listen to on vinyl. But there is something unarguably tactile about the whole playing a record thing, and they still sound better and more real. So even as the salt in the air corrodes the head of my stylus, I refuse to abandon the medium.
Plus there is the whole Kraken thing (not a song) http://www.alchemisthifi.info/ranges/kraken/alchemist_kraken_apd6_integrated_amplifier.htm

Speaking of vinyl, we were playing old Aussie classics the other night, and so here are some you may not know

Probably known for being the music over the top of the best finale to a tv series ever but we loved it before that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkA7xQb6uPk
An epic before there were such things by the lead singer of The Easybeats, this is a live version many years later from that funny shaped house we have here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPveBD6WWXc.
Just an oldie that he still plays live because we won't let him not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BImWJ0t2Yo
And the best Beatles cover ever (the YouTube poster agrees) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptr7i7sFkM

All good stuff: I had not heard that song by Badfinger, and I had not realised that Stevie Wright went on to become such a rock icon.

Here is something a little different I stumbled upon yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f5HDjjzwqo (my wife is starting to wonder what I would do without my daily musical fix...)

What an eclectic musician Mr Grohl is

flotsam The Warning opened up for the Foo Fighters last September in Mexico City. I've just spent all morning using this thread as my awesome radio station. What a ton of great links you all have provided here.

Here are some additional links that hopefully you will enjoy:

This is the best cover of a song ever IMO. Written, shot and recorded by three sisters aged 20, 18 and 15 years old in one week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKQgesCcTc

Another taste of Liliac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cQy1dtGEc

More of The Warning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeIbG8nkOiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_RB0tRI624
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAP-ydpTys
They are 17, 15 and 13 years old in this clip. Pau the drummer wrote this song about addiction when she was 13 years old. The level of talent in this band is off the charts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM8KeQ_tNQc

I don't know these guys at all, but it's hard not to like this. I mean, it's really cheesy, what with all the glitter and coloured lights and the whole Manilow thing, but they're really good musicians and he kills the song.



SQF, that's also a new band for me. I'll have a listen to those tracks later.

Very much enjoying The Warning SQF. Seriously talented indeed
And how cool it must have been to open for Foo Fighters!

SQF, glad you are enjoying this thread, and thank you for those links: full-on girl power!


My most recent acquisition was the live album of this concert celebrating Kris Kristofferson https://blackbirdpresents.com/video/life-songs-kris-kristofferson-official-theatrical-trailer/ (cheap used copy on eBay of course ), some great performances including Jennifer Nettles but perhaps only for the country music aficionados.

Picking up the tempo again with the Rolling Stones I have just seen remastered and Super Deluxe versions of Tattoo You: the original album was so insipid I did not buy it (although I have several of the stronger tracks from it), but these options will definitely be on my Christmas list (almost certainly the Super Deluxe version which seems to only be available as a download unless you really push the boat out) https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-rolling-stones-tattoo-you-40th-anniversary-reissue/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWsybm9Phc

I have definitely turned into an old fogey. A curmudgeon. An old coot.

I was in the hair salon today for three hours, and they obviously had some Spotify playlist on with big hits of the 2020's and forward, and all I could think for three hours was, "who are these people, and why are they singing this ridiculous music?'

They all sing like hip-hop artists, even if their music is pop, and al of the voices sound the same. I guess Ed Sheeran is a prime example. He's a white boy with flaming red hair and he sings what sounds to my ear like hip-hop, or I guess I would call it "hip-pop."

Anyway, ARRRRRGHHHH!

Back to our regular programming.

... and something differently musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQW66vEX3VU

I'm sorry you don't like some of the new songs, there are still some amazing artists being produced. Ed Sheerhan is actually an extremely talented young man with an amazing writing ability. I don' know which song you heard, he is a mix of hip-hop, pop and folk-pop. I am a big fan of his. I drive a lot during my work day and switch from the old and new music stations.

Different strokes for different folks: Ed Sheehan has done some amazingly varied collaborations, for me lifting his output way beyond what he achieves as a solo performer https://listandlisten.com/ed-sheeran-live-duets/

I keep my ears open for new music, but I have to say that most of what is popular now does little for me, which is why my regular listening is mainly from my own (still growing) collection rather than anything broadcast.

I wish I could like could like Ed SHeehan. He has a lovely voice, but I just can't get into his music, for the most part.

But as I say, I am now officially an Old Bag.

I just wanted to say that this and What Are You Reading are my favorite threads. There is always something new here and something for everyone. Thanks to everyone for posting all these links.

SOF, that's great! It's good, isn't it? Every now and then I go back through the posts here and pick up on music I missed the first time through.

Going back a few posts, I have a couple of deluxe albums from the Stones (Sticky Fingers and Some Girls) so will certainly check this one out.
As a generalisation, I like these types of releases, especially when they have out-takes and early versions of songs, rather than just extra tracks (which is really all that Some Girls has). So many interesting insights into how things might have sounded. Amongst the favourites of the ones I have are Melon Collie by the Pumpkins and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, and though not quite deluxe the extra disk on Led Zeppelin IV is exceptional. Here are some tastes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrsToLa3XEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-xRw_mKaUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgcmDWIthJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R5RZ7BWAcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K3dO8cJft4
My pinnacle is a bootleg of Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town called Unbroken Promise but given its providence I will only mention it quietly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRacRf9-OQY

I like that mellow version of Dead Flowers! I hadn't heard that one before.

And here, as a memorium to a songer/songwriter who I followed on and off over the years, and who passed today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkiZ9tO-Zs&t=58s

And I had never heard the Nesmith track either. Its a nice version, one which accentuates the lyrics.

I believe Peter Tork is the last Monkey left . After I learned to play music , I found myself listening to music that would've , before , made my skin crawl (blues & some country) . Some of it still does today , but to each their own . I can't listen to Harry Chapin's "Cats In The Cradle" without tearing up . Still , occasionally listen to Gordon Lightfoot , Drac , cause of the Big Fitz mostly . Allman Brother's "Whipping Post" is a perennial favorite to this day . Mostly , I listen to music that would scare some people . I was raised on 60's & 70's classic Rock , discovered KISS when I was 5 , & harder music at the age of 15 .


James Marshall Hendrix , best guitarist God ever put on Earth .

CD, I had the fun of seeing KISS live in Perth in 1980. We had a great time

Would've LOVED to see KISS back then ! Fortunately , I was able to see them on the Reunion Tour of '96-97 . Best two shows I've ever seen . Eric Carr was one of my favorite drummers .

I didn't know him other than as The Fox persona and (having read a little) certainly don't know enough about drumming to be able to fully appreciate his talent.
You have piqued my scary interest - any you can share?
To digress, I was purchasing some of the back links and came across this through the link to The Warning cover of Enter Sandman SQF posted. Its another Metallica cover and is pretty wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXXeK1QSMjY&list=PLJvQXRgtxlumMmvPbnQInIkTaKFPh0k1I&index=9

"I believe Peter Tork is the last Monkey left ." Peter Tork died in 2019. Micky Dolenz is the only one left.

My mistake .

He wrote the song. As the story goes, he took it to the producers of the Monkees and suggested that it be used on the show. They told him "it wasn't really a Monkees song," apparently not seeing the irony, given tht he WAS a Monkee. So he gave it to Linda Ronstadt and the rest is history.

He has a nice voice and some of his music over the years was pretty interesting. Most people have heard Joanne, which is a pure country tune, but some of his other stuff was way out there.

Here's one of his more catchy tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi0b8tcCQSE

I had not kept up with Mike Nesmith's career post Monkees, but loved that clip from his Elephant Parts video album (never heard of it before) which eventually led me to this treasure trove of humour and music, Mike Nesmith's Videoranch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj0voUzocNYrteaKivLXKLg

Also relished the clips from flotsam of the various remastered/deluxe Stones and Led Zep albums: I was not aware of the Super Deluxe version of Sticky Fingers which I will definitely have to acquire, and I was glad to be reminded of The Smashing Pumpkins.

Welcome to the thread Creeping Doom: sounds like you must be an only slightly reformed former Goth Headbanger!

Lex, there's some pretty amusing stuff on the Nesmith site. I spent some time last night going through Elephant Parts. I loved the Noir clip about the very confused private eye.

I had no idea he wrote it hagatha. I have a renewed respect for his mucisianship.
The other material is certainly entertaining!

Jumping in a different direction, I cannot remember whether the wonderful Transatlantic Sessions have had previous mention on here, but this is an uplifting performance from those I had not previously seen from Amos Lee: enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-sskQWfK4

... and holding the mood until we do something cheesy like coming up with favourite seasonal songs... Edwin Hawkins Singers and then Melanie (with them)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or0Qe5aCkRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaiT8gATzxc

Love the Melanie one Lex.
Favourite seasonal songs eh? Well here's a live version of one of mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh3pFC65CnE
Its compulsory to play while we decorate the tree

Found out about this group a little while ago:

Greta Van Fleet

And then be sure to watch this afterwards (it is only 54 seconds):

Commentary

Oh, my! I think I'm in LOVE! And for sure the commentary just made it! Best thing I've heard in a long time! Thank you, Marian...

For Christmas time :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNNwQ85xoxU

Led Zep reincarnated. Amazing!

Glad you guys enjoyed Greta Van Fleet!

And thank you for the video, Creeping_Doom - I have never seen that one before.

Hadn't heard of Greta Van Fleet before - excellent stuff and right up my alley: many thanks Marian!

And thanks to Creeping Doom for that the link to that powerhouse seasonal offering from Trans Siberian Orchestra which has led me to their album The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve - I may well get it!

More than welcome , Lex & Marian ! I've heard Greta before . Reminded me too much of LZ , so I changed the station . I'll take Rush any day of the week & twice on Sunday .

A Rush fan, huh?

True story: one of my oldest and dearest friends grew up in the same neighbourhood as Geddy Lee. He was in the very first incarnation of the band, too, when they were all very young. He always said that his biggest claim to fame was having Geddy Lee come to his house and fire him from the band. Apparently his guitar playing wasn't quite up to snuff.

Rush is one of those bands I admire without being able to listen to all the time. They've made some great music, though.

Perhaps I can enjoy Greta Van Fleet more because I was/am only a rather selective Led Zep fan (although I have later become quite a big fan of much of Robert Plant's subsequent oeuvre)...

Rush have rather passed me by, but maybe I'll have to give them more of a try.

Favorite Rush song outside of Tom Sawyer , Hagatha , is Limelight . Totally cool story about Geddy Lee . He is/was one of my influences , far as playing goes .


Lex , my senior year in high school , decades ago , there was a juke box in the lunch room . One of the most played songs , was Stairway to Heaven. Drove me right up the proverbial wall . I didn't like LZ to begin with , that just made it worse . I called them vastly over rated in a music forum once, it was like I started WW3 , several were wishing death on me . To each their own though . Listen to what makes you happy 🙂 . I became a fan at age 5 , of 4 guys from New York who dressed wierd, painted their faces , & had the mindset they would rule the world . Still a fan to this day . Mostly now though. ,I listen to music that peels paint off the walls . Still listen to same music I grew up with as a child . One of my all time favorite songs , is Iron Butterfly's In-A-Godda-Da-Vida .

I edited the previous post so that the posting of the quote would look the way it was supposed to, so the editing was purely for aesthetics - no worries.

I love Led Zep, although not entirely. Their first album took the Blues and turned it on its ears in a savage and brilliant way.

I agree with th disparaging comments about Stairway, though -- it was played far too often and grated on me horribly after a while.

Outside of "Heartbreaker" & "Livin Lovin Maid" (apologies for any spelling errors) , LZ makes my skin crawl . That's just me though . Mr's Ward , Butler , Iomi , & Osbourne though...
After I learned to play an instrument , I found myself listening to music I never would've before . It had been ages since I played . About 6 months ago , I picked up a bass , & learned The Temptations "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" . Trying to play "2 Minutes to Midnight" from Iron Maiden on a 5 straing bass was a pain, luckily , "Revelations" , "Different World" , & "Wrathchild" were rather less difficult .

I've never been able to hear the music in Iron Maiden, unfortunately. I guess it's too loud and angry -- but then again, that's the point, I guess. I can appreciate the artistry for sure, but the music is not for me.

What other music do you play, Creeping Doom? The Temptations is a long way from Iron Maiden.

I have bits and pieces of Sabbath in various playlists but never quite got into them enough to listen to albums from start to finish. Iommi's unique slack stringed sound though was quite a thing. And I do like Ozzy in full flight.
I too would be interested in knowing more about what you play and listen to CD.

Black Sabbath was on everyone's turntable back when I was 14 years old, of course. I was never a fan, though. I don't like Ozzy's voice.

Back then I was mostly buying records to play at parties (I ran a mobile disco), so Led Zep's Whole Lotta Love, Black Sabbath's Paranoid, and Free's Alright Now were at the heavier rock end, along with the odd quirk like Nut Rocker as performed by Emerson Lake and Palmer (the encore on a live album of Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQct6D6HsM)

A bit of a long way from Maiden, yes . When I did play. ,I played mostly rock & metal . Then again , The Temptaions , "Papa" just had that groove to it . The very first song I learned all the way through. ,was Sugarloaf's "Green Eyed Lady" . Still love that song ! One of the most fun to me to play, was "Black" by Sevendust . I do remember being able to play a few Beatles songs , "N.I.B" , "Paranoid" , & "Iron Man" from Sabbath . When I stopped (I had bills & one sure way to pay ,was to sellmy gear) , I was learning "Higway Star" by Deep Purple" , & " Washington is Next" by Megadeth . "Kiss From A Rose" by Seal was a dream to listen to , but never did get around to learning . And I do remember being able to play about 6 songs from KISS (been a fan since 1975) .

I liked Free's "Wishing Well" a bit more myself , Lex . You remember Brownsville Station's "Martian Boogie" ?

I can't play anything, but I can well imagine Black would have been fun CD
I had to look up Martian Boogie but its style immediately reminded me of this by George Thorogood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--AvCsh48bk.
Thanks for the ELP reminder Lex. I had forgotten all about them. I am sure I had that album at one time but don't remember that track.

"One Burbon" does sound a bit , in style , like Martian Boogie . How about "Out Go The Lights" ? I want to say that was Pat Travers, but may be wrong . My biggest influence , when Iearned to play (& would love to play again one day) , was Dad . He still plays . I have family going back generations who played , & several friends who play .

As for "Black" , https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7Zih3HpjE

Or this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i_i7PKdQJU4

I like George Thorogood. But I'm afraid metal is just plain out for me. it stresses me out, listening to it.

Since Christmas is almost upon us, I give you this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0EjVVjJraA


Never gets old. Never.

I feel that same way about country music pretty much , or anything top 40 . My counter to your link , enjoy ! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdWzUYEuZI

Lovely. That, too, never gets old.

I feel the same way about country as you. There's very little of it that i like.

Nice links, both

George Thorogood is good fun, and I remember Brownsville Station but only for Smokin' In The Boys' Room: I googled Martian Boogie which reminded me somewhat of The Georgia Satellites whose greatest hits CD I have. I was struggling to remember the Deep Purple track I used to play for the disco, which was Black Night.

I gave up the disco to pursue my career in the law, as I did not have time for both, thinking (as did just about everyone else back then) that working in the popular music field could only be good for a year or two...

I got as far as some fumbling guitar several decades ago, but did not have the diligence to practice, so never got beyond Apache (the Shadows) and Where Have All The Flowers Gone (backing my mother who played violin). I did try taking up bass a couple of years ago, borrowing one a work colleague had in his attic, but was still too lazy to persevere.

Hagatha's link also led to this from Ian Anderson, holding the mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAfnYJyQPo8

then perhaps time to start getting into gear with Jona Lewie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HkJHApgKqw
followed by Chris Rea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDt3u2Ev1cI (my wife's favourite) and again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckGOCu-Omc (more my own style)
... and of course the ultimate Christmas morning alarm clock from Slade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfHSqLXePI

Have a great time everyone!

Ran across this tasty bit of 1969 music from Duane Allman and Boz Scaggs this morning. The photos during the song are pretty cool too.

Loan Me a Dime, 1969

Now that brings back memories, as I saw Boz Scaggs in concert along with Steppenwolf in 1970.