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What is your listening pleasure? 2
Posted By: Lex
What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/23/22 09:08 AM
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...
I am now masquerading as hagatha, and this is a copy of her post from the end of the previous thread on this topic (which had become too big and is now locked).
A lot of my "new" music comes from TV shows these days. Much of it isn't really new, but certainly new to me.
This one is from an episode of Lucifer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6IAnd check this out -- I literally just came upon this group and this floored me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34byl2BT1oI'm giong to have to check out more of their music.
Here's another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UBcxKiS550
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/23/22 10:21 AM
Hagatha, that Edwyn Collins track was quite a big hit in UK but Dirty Loops is new to me and pretty impressive: I found a nice little download EP called Turbo which includes both those tracks!
As you say, TV shows often serve as an introduction to interesting new music (as do some films)
... and as for the missing Michael Jackson dance routine, how about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtdTJP_GUI
Posted By: BrownEyedTigre
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/23/22 02:02 PM
Thanks, for starting a new thread Lex! Looking forward to everyone's favorites!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/23/22 08:40 PM
That prison dance routine is really quite amazing.
EDIT: And related to Dirty loops, for those who like a bit of jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmbsW1JbQXoActually, jazz/funk. Wonderful.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/26/22 09:16 AM
Pretty cool stuff (although I am not much into jazz): I love one of the comments - Cory Wong makes the best Mario Kart music!
... this came up next on YouTube for me and is a bit more my kind of funk, not a band I had previously come across:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhxQoDlt2AU
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/26/22 04:25 PM
Yeah, that's awsome. I note that Cory Wong is in that number, too -- the common thread through this music.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/27/22 10:30 AM
They do a song called Cory Wong, one of the comments joking that the guitarist is named after the song, which seems to be part of a current trend to name songs after other bands/artists which may then return the favour (presumably at least partly as a publicity device, especially when musicians play in more than one band).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWBUnr0F3Zo
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/28/22 04:55 PM
I was thinking earlier today about songs of freedom and protest, Richie Havens springing to mind in particular as someone I do not think has yet been mentioned on this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynxqdNMry4 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfTjF38wDxM...also this bit of nostalgic nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdWGp3HQVjU...and then of course this great film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erf2iFHG44M
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/28/22 10:30 PM
And then of course this song about redemption and freedom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOFu6b3w6c0And one of my personal favourite protest songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/28/22 10:48 PM
Here is my current favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQIYYmDyIIThe singer wrote this song about addiction when she was 13 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM8KeQ_tNQc
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/28/22 11:10 PM
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/29/22 12:21 AM
Love this oldbroad.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/29/22 01:32 AM
Buffalo Springfield. What a great song.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/29/22 11:12 AM
I love that Buffalo Springfield track (the title of which still seems to catch people out) and was generally a big fan of Stephen Stills: also keen on the Marley and Gaye tracks, and those are impressive performances from The Warning - I may add something of theirs to my music library!
A handful more doses of protest nostalgia, from the flippant to the intense and beyond, some perhaps more familiar than others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AglW6QpmPp8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVpsM3YAgwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXNVA9ngx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19MJbo7a3Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9NKRZUD9lwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E and another version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoWfnFJ52rchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHMlAYeFeYwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpkand one of the queens of protest singers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOuZwpGHJ7E
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/29/22 12:43 PM
Thanks for all the great links Lex. Here is one to wake you up by a band that is famous for love songs but can rock with the best of them. I love how they start the song while the drummer is still setting up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimgAnd another taste of The Warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK7pLOWEYJU
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/01/22 03:28 AM
Love all the protest stuff (there is one that escapes me that I am still trying to bring to mind) and thanks for the extra Warning SQF.
Completely unrelated to anything earlier I came across this live version of one of my all time fav dreamy songs. I saw the band probably 20 years after this and the less said the better but this remains quite wonderful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4m5jQy5A2U
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/01/22 04:25 AM
This IS a protest song, though in this case it is the old guard protesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aeQ3DmKU7AAnd at absolutely the opposite end of the spectrum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc2gZmcCAEkNot a protest song, but these guys caught my ear a while back -- probably from some TV show I was streaming -- and they have done some good stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W1lXB5HViQAnd you may well have heard this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7IHOXkiV8Another one, because itès awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAdDHY2_6Os
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 02:01 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 04:21 AM
Creeping Doom, I had forgotten all about that song! Thanks for posting that.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 04:36 AM
Ditto what hagatha said
How about this protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rptW7zOPX2E
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 05:50 PM
More cool stuff: I am not sure that I had heard of Mazzy Star or that track but I note that Hope Sandoval also sang with The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Warm Inventions to good effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEvgf2DdTQ and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEvgf2DdTQ The Warning's heavier tracks seem to come over much better live, but some of their quieter recordings are strong: I am contemplating getting an early EP which included this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlipfTBaLIIKaleo are very much on my wavelength so I am delving into their recorded output.
This is a song of complaint rather than protest (just to lower the tone)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNwWqrBKzQ
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 06:30 PM
JJ Julius Son, the lead singer in Kaleo, has such a powerful voice. I have a few of their songs on my playlist now.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 07:24 PM
Ah. Silly songs of complaint.
This one came to mind, only I could have sworn it was the B-52s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQZegdcTHfc
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 08:00 PM
Creeping Doom, I had forgotten all about that song! Thanks for posting that.
No problem 🙂 . Not sure this is a protest song exactly , but.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-9poCAuYT-s
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 08:21 PM
That is a new one for me from the Temptations. It might have been a bit too radical for AM radio back in the day.
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/02/22 08:25 PM
I remember Ball of Confusion being on AM radio here.
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/03/22 12:43 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/03/22 06:58 PM
I always liked that Temptations track but it was probably ahead of its time and I don't think it sold as well as their main hits.
Irritatingly I cannot find a playable link for Danice Macleod and BAMFF.
C_D that is one of my favourite CCR tracks from what is just about my favourite CCR album, but this is the one that I always think was underrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPtOtGF4TY
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/03/22 09:07 PM
Maybe this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGB6suK_YDYHonestly, once you hear the song it will be less important.
The song is called "Crevice Tool." Which sounds like it could be rude but it isn't.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/04/22 12:16 AM
I had never heard that hagatha (and not sure I needed too
)
Not a protest or a complaint but a bit of plaintive wondering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jYMMTb0XU
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/04/22 04:28 AM
The horrible thing about Crevice Tool is that I almost ALWAYS hear it in my head everytime I have to use the Crevice tool when I'm cleaning.
I love that video of Amy, obviously made before she became a skeletal, addicted mess. What a terrible waste.
Okay, so here's another protest song, with Queen channeling Monty Python. Or perhaps it's merely a complaint song. Or maybe just an excuse to dress in drag...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Mc-NYPHaQ&t=2s
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/04/22 04:33 AM
A waste indeed. And all those things I reckon for your link
I can well sympathise with the crevice tool. I hear this one in other situations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62eTq8ErUOQ
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/04/22 03:12 PM
Lex here is another example of The Warnings softer side. I hope you like these acoustic versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjd41DdRF3chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0yqw2kd2Fw
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/04/22 05:25 PM
Still no joy with the link hagatha: perhaps a copyright issue in this jurisdiction.
Thanks for those links SQF: having looked for material by The Warning on Amazon, I have been blessed with promotional emails for another older band named Warning and heavy metal bands Candlemass, Rivers of Nihil and Hooded Menace...!
A couple of links which brightened my day, the Stones from 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHjlnn8lKqk and Hendrix from 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJ1duSV04s
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/04/22 08:18 PM
Hendrix never gets old. And I've always been a Stones fan.
The screaming, fainting fans on that Stones cut are hilarious. They got themselves worked up into such a hysterical frenzy one cannot imagine they actually heard the music, but it was the done thing back then.
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/04/22 08:43 PM
You can never go wrong with The Stones.
Lex here is a link to The Warning YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWarning/videos
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/05/22 03:03 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/05/22 04:11 AM
Creeping Dune, Sympathy for the Devil is my favourite Stones tune, too, followed closely by Jumpin Jack Flash.
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/05/22 04:33 PM
There are too many good Stones tunes for me to pick a favorite but besides the ones listed I really like Angie, Wild Horses, Can't You hear Me Knocking, Gimme Shelter, Etc, Etc, Etc...........
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/05/22 06:19 PM
I agree with SQF that it is hard to pick an absolute favourite Stones track from so many great ones, but Sympathy For The Devil and Gimme Shelter are certainly both up there: for me (depending to some extent on mood) Get off My Cloud still always hits the spot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEG0JIXuoFs ... on the other hand down and dirty like this also works for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVZH7IdHP2E ... and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRot9IjNSso C_D I could not open the Cisco Kid link, but presumably that was War (here with something else)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrqKE1iqqoI don't remember hearing Shooting Star before: impressive stuff from them and REO Speedwagon!
Changing the mood a little with two tracks which my iPod picked out for me on the way to the shops today
Ruthie Foster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYa66ojHzM and the PFC Band
https://playingforchange.com/videos/back-roots-live-brazil/
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/06/22 01:14 AM
That was War , yes . Try this link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjwkCeoDVJwShooting Star was a band from Kansas City Mo during the mid/late 70's to late 80's mostly . They still play out on occasion . Founding guitarist Van McClain passed a couple years back . I've seen REO at least 10 , but never with Gary RIchrath , unfortunately .
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/07/22 01:58 AM
I would probably vote for this bit of Stones flavoured blues, and I agree with the first comment below the clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SEShooting Star I didn't know either, but REO I did. I loved their turn in Ozark.
This is the War track that I remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Xs7NK-7B8. And who can resist Eric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4G3KPP1Nts. I was fortunate enough to see him on a low key Aussie pub tour about 20 years ago.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/07/22 02:44 AM
Eric Burden! More songs for my list.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/09/22 09:39 AM
Excellent reminders about Eric Burden: I had forgotten his brief stint with War.
I see that there is a new Cowboy Junkies album of covers coming out next month which may be of interest
https://mailchi.mp/latentrecordings.com/new-album-from-cowboy-junkies?e=b99df10b3d and this is the single from it (David Bowie's) Five Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOgviKgW9Qw
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/09/22 06:13 PM
That cover of Five Years is very good.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 12:18 AM
I agree hagatha. And thanks for the heads up on the new album Lex.
A change of subject but I heard that the album this came from was released 50 years ago today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfmn9M6hXVII imagine just about everyone still has a copy
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 12:59 AM
I remember that song from grade 10!
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 01:26 AM
When I was a teenager, I had that Carole King album.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 01:44 AM
Tapestry and Pearl were the soundtrack to my fourteenth year.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 05:06 PM
I cannot remember whether I had the album but I always liked these two tracks in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqwLrJ6QWho and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKywUyuulk
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 05:59 PM
I remember both of those very well.
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 06:55 PM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 07:24 PM
I always liked Edgar and Johnny Winter. Great music.
Posted By: nami
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/22 10:39 PM
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...
I am now masquerading as hagatha, and this is a copy of her post from the end of the previous thread on this topic (which had become too big and is now locked).
A lot of my "new" music comes from TV shows these days. Much of it isn't really new, but certainly new to me.
This one is from an episode of Lucifer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6IAnd check this out -- I literally just came upon this group and this floored me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m34byl2BT1oI'm giong to have to check out more of their music.
Here's another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UBcxKiS550"I don't even have a phone!!!..." hehe nice scene from Lucifer, yeah I remember also listening to this song during the episode and immediately looking it up to add it to my playlist. I felt a little bit disappointed that after after season 1 the soundtrack did not keep up, I guess the switched music directors.
Yeah I can relate, I lot of my new (so to speak) music is coming from TV series. Last band I found was "Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros" by his song
Home in the show "Community" S1E9. Now, I'm not usually your guy for this type of genre but I think I like this band because its connection I had with the series
.
Nice findings, thanks for sharing them!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/11/22 06:04 AM
That was a fun song, nami. I agree -- not my usual kind of music, but a catchy tune nonetheless.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/13/22 11:37 AM
Someone I liked but had forgotten about getting some coverage recently on TV is Labi Siffre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev-ho8YtuCc
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/15/22 09:51 PM
I agree hagatha - catchy indeed.
Thanks nami.
Stumbled across this through one of the youtube sidebars while following blues breadcrumbs and apparently they hail from your part of the world Lex?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoUDjFMgUKM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/16/22 10:11 AM
Davy Knowles is/was the leader of Backdoor Slam but now ploughs a solo furrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPV9GdgZeJ0 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-oiuhRaMs - occasionally comes home to IOM and always receives a warm welcome!
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/17/22 02:19 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/17/22 10:17 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/18/22 05:59 PM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/18/22 06:28 PM
Oh, yeah. That is fun!
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/19/22 01:33 AM
Always fun checking in here. The last half dozen links were satisfyingly eclectic.
Still making my way through the Knowles show.
And I hope you had everything tied down Lex
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/19/22 04:22 AM
Just happened upon this after many years, and hey, it's beautiful and nostalgic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je4Eg77YSSA&t=4sOh, and I got this from the fifth season of Lucifer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXnvjxFd8I4
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/20/22 02:14 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/20/22 05:11 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SqQNgDrgg(Sorry,
..so sorry, ever,
ever so sorry. Won't happen again)
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/20/22 09:22 AM
As a general rule, I find Monty Python about as funny as tooth decay . However, that was funny ! 😂😂😂😂
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/20/22 10:16 AM
Impressive Iron Maiden in full flight and an excellent segue from hagatha which prompts this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-fVsL5Kdc Some of Monty Python was excellent, but quite a lot missed the target somewhat: I always regard Life of Brian as some of their best work, including this naturally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_-q9xeOgG4
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/20/22 06:04 PM
I hadn't heard the Sellers/Milligan collboration, but it's pretty good.
Of course the one Python song we Canadians like most is this one, especialy those of us who live in British Columbia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tFJQ-LIAkI&t=13sOkay, so moving along.......
Remember this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCOSPtyZAPA
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/21/22 12:43 AM
I hadn't until you reminded me hagatha. And If I was ever to play the drums, I would want a set like in the Maiden link CD (and Lizzy B is another band I didn't know).
A favourite from a favourite 80s band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GkVhgIeGJQEDIT - In the same way that lumberjacks resonates with hagatha, the skit involving the philosophers song is a favourite. Bruce bruce bruce bruce and bruce, complete with corked hats and dodgy shorts
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/21/22 01:13 AM
I can't see that video. I'll try another search.
EDIT: Oh yes, I remember that one, too.
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/21/22 02:21 AM
I hadn't until you reminded me hagatha. And If I was ever to play the drums, I would want a set like in the Maiden link CD (and Lizzy B is another band I didn't know).
A favourite from a favourite 80s band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GkVhgIeGJQI had taken drum lessons as a kid in my early years . In my early 30's I went to bass instead . If I ever had the chance to own a drum set , I think it would be something like this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERezsq0j9NcThere's this . They make Christmas music now , sell out areas every year :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiHyP3wHae8&list=RDGMEM_v2KDBP3d4f8uT-ilrs8fQ&index=21
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/21/22 09:01 AM
That last clip from flotsam reminds me about taking my daughters and a carload of other teenagers to see the Cure at Wembley Stadium in London, probably in 1985: this was in the era before seatbelts and I had a large Peugeot 504 estate car in which I could probably pack about 10 kids (making me popular with other local parents as a treat chauffeur/minder)...
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/21/22 09:15 PM
Lex, that takes me back. When We lived in Kenya we had a forest green Peugeot station wagon with a rear fold-down seat for extra passengers. That car took us all over East Africa, on some pretty scary mountainous dirt roads. Peugeot was one of the most common cars in the East Africn Safari back then. Tough cars.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/21/22 10:52 PM
We had a 404 for a while, and then a station wagon of some sort, that served as a rugby team transport for away games!
You can fit nearly two thirds of the team if packed tetris like
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/21/22 11:10 PM
I think ours was a 404. My father loved that car -- it was his first brand-new car ever after a string of second-hand vehicles. Unfortunately it was too expensive to ship it back to Toronto when te time came for us to leave Kenya. I have many fond memories of the game parks and just travelling around the country in it.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/22/22 02:04 AM
That would have been fabulous hagatha. My own brief sojourn to climb that mountain and dip a three day toe into the game parks just wet my appetatite for more.
We have had this before but in the circumsatnces maybe it warrants repeating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c9-poC5HGwAnd CD, that is certainly one cool drum kit!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/22/22 04:31 AM
Did you climb Kilimanjaro? We got as far as the Kibo huts, which look exactly the same today as they did back them.
EDIT: Actually it wasn't Kibo, which is much higher up. I guess the name has escaped me. I guess the huts all look the same.
Any fans of Nina Simone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckv6-yhnIYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2k52n_Bvw
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/22/22 06:42 AM
I did get to the top. It was truly spectacular and well worth the effort.
Your first link is probably my all time Nina favourite.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/22/22 09:21 AM
Nina Simone was great, and this is the one of hers that still stands out for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI9I03q8EI had a series of cheap used Peugeot 504 estates/breaks in UK and drove them until they were irreparable having seen how versatile and indestructible they were whilst travelling across Africa (and wishing I had one then rather than the Landrover I took)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_504 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6p7xmC88Do and (lightly loaded by African taxi standards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7AfgMXaoH4 And a bonus extra because it was mentioned on another thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 01:05 AM
So Lex, is that Nina Simone song the original, or was it the song from Hair? I have to say, hers is very good. She did a couple of different versions of it.
From Hair, the soundtrack that horrified my mother back in '68 or 69. My father was amused. Again, in Kenya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kRCsOn24I
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 02:17 AM
The first, was a cover, originally performed by The Animals .
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMDrTMnm1IEThe second, & I'm not 100% positive , was done first/also done by Screamin Jay Hawkins :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGPhpvqtOc&t=21s
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 03:35 AM
The Queen song will never again be the same Lex!
And here is The Animals casting their own spell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBUICBz2-L4
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 04:44 AM
Eric Burdon said that he was so impressed with Nina SImone's version that he recorded the song as a cover but she was the first to perform and record it. It was written for her, I believe.
And that Screamin' Jay Hawkins performance is pretty funny, not to mention creepy.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 05:37 PM
This tells you probably more than you need to know about Ain't Got No/I Got Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Got_No,_I_Got_Life
I went to see Hair in London on the night of my first wedding 1971 but by then I was so exhausted by the day's activities that I fell asleep and have no memory of it...
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 09:35 PM
I too saw Hair live on stage in about 1971. However, I was awake the entire time.
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 09:45 PM
I saw it live on stage in St. Louis and could have watched it 10 more times! I had already worn out the LP at home. This was after a self-righteous local politician decided the public was not allowed to see this play and she initially had it banned. But just the threat of a lawsuit sent her packing, thank heavens.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/23/22 10:20 PM
I confess I have never seen it, asleep or otherwise
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/24/22 02:05 AM
Eric Burdon said that he was so impressed with Nina SImone's version that he recorded the song as a cover but she was the first to perform and record it. It was written for her, I believe.
And that Screamin' Jay Hawkins performance is pretty funny, not to mention creepy.
Fair enough , about Nina SImone . My mistake . Could've swore that Meatloaf , may he R.I.P , was part of the original cast of HAIR . Self Righteous local politician Drac ? I'm curious . St Louis , from my scant memory , has been rife with self righteous politicians for decades , but I wager that is basically a universal thing , regardless of geography . Now , to a infinitely more palatable subject :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emQaVGEbYakhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRgp2Z-9WZkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt51rITH3EAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqMX854V8o&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=cwG0uzbffbU
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/24/22 02:19 AM
I first heard Cream's Goodbye album in -- you guessed it -- Kenya. What a lineup!
Love that Yes tune, too.
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/24/22 09:28 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/24/22 05:50 PM
Good silly stuff, and here is some more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x8D4T--0v4 ...Benny Hill anyone?
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/24/22 06:10 PM
Benny Hill was the absolute opposite of politically correct. Hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFB2jEWHblkHere's a silly one from Cream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDE1ZvvHVVgOne year the company I worked for wanted all of the managerial staffl to sing a song for our Christmas party, as a sort of poke-fun-at-the-executives endeavour. I submitted that song as my choice. I was not asked to sing, after all.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/25/22 02:49 AM
DRinking too much? Check out this local track from back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVnLJQIJw2Y
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/25/22 04:36 AM
And if you've had too much to drink, there's this bit of siliness from Spike Milligan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-IU-NQ8c14&t=1s
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/27/22 11:05 AM
I think I vaguely remember Mental As Anything, and I see there are several quite good upbeat albums of nostalgic tunes, but so far I haven't found a live album.
Posted By: soot
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/27/22 04:32 PM
Just started a new audiobook "The Blade Itself" from The First Law Trilogy: Book 1
Author: Joe Abercrombie
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
[most excellent narrator!!]
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/27/22 06:36 PM
Hi Dan, good to hear about some alternative listening: I have taken the liberty of copying your post over to the "what are you reading?" thread as I know it may also be of interest there.
As a matter of interest, do you listen at home or perhaps out jogging and/or driving? Also, for you what are the relative merits of reading as against listening? I ask as someone not yet having succumbed to the marketing initiatives of Amazon and other suppliers in respect of audiobooks!
Posted By: soot
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/27/22 08:58 PM
Hello Lex ... good idea to copy the post, we'll see what it elicits?
I listen primarily while driving to/from work when I can 'listen' and keep up with the story. Started in earnest back at the turn of the century while driving to/from parents' house as that was a 16 hour (long) one day or two shorter 8 hour driving days and it was a great activity to while away the time.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/27/22 11:26 PM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/01/22 08:53 AM
Thanks for that link flotsam: quite a nice selection which I can only sample on Australian iTunes and does not appear to be available in UK
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/02/22 02:28 AM
Sorry Lex, I hadn't realised
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/03/22 05:43 AM
Completely unrelated to anything, this version of a classic VM song was on the radio this afternoon. I had never heard it before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi2EgyZo2Pw
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/05/22 01:55 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/05/22 04:24 AM
That one went straight to my playlist.
Creeping Doom, I'm not a metal fan but I quite liked Blood Brothers. Parts of it are almost operatic.
And of course, it goes without saying that the Rush and Fleetwood Mac are wonderful.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/06/22 03:48 PM
All good stuff: I may have to explore Rush, not a group which has previously made much of an impression upon me (and another Canadian export I see)!
My in car entertainment is currently Jackson Browne's excellent album Looking East: I always used to find him a little insipid apart from a few hits, but that album really stands out for me with every track a winner, along with his most recent album Downhill From Everywhere. I also enjoy his quieter live collaboration with David Lindley on Love Is Strange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AowuiV00Bf4 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPuj69J1BA
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/06/22 04:14 PM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/07/22 04:16 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/09/22 04:59 PM
Thank you for the various Rush tracks: I am quite taken with the albums 2112 and Exit Stage Left, both of which are relatively cheap iTunes downloads, but to get fuller coverage on a single album I may await next month's 40th anniversary super deluxe reissue of Moving Pictures.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/10/22 05:50 PM
Today's in-car entertainment was the Life and Songs of Kris Kristofferson, an excellent album of which not much seems top be accessible unless you buy the album, although I found this
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-...m-the-pilgrim-chapter-33?t=1646933993795There is a video trailer but it does not really do justice to an album which in my view has some of the best recordings of his music, the concert ensemble collectively sometimes outshining even the great individual artists performing
https://blackbirdpresents.com/concert/life-songs-kris-kristofferson/videos/?video_id=2601(in contrast to The Highwaymen, who for me sadly never seemed to be as strong collectively as the individual members)
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/12/22 10:49 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/25/22 05:53 PM
The new Cowboy Junkies album just out and already on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyhw4tD_iE
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/26/22 04:27 AM
I'll have a look at the new CJ album.
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/27/22 01:18 AM
Here we go . Was trying to find a song to describe being discounted/disrespected , so I decided on this instead . My other choice had a certain "h" word in the title .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPX48NpSRvoHow about a couple others .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzkyu72FIshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMi3Yr2LJkghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqURPBtGJzgSomething lighter in nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgmh0BjLKVMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzWbCD67YFYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2NcV1oo-0'Scuse the tone/theme of the first few , just bothered the living daylights out of me that it happened .
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/27/22 10:23 AM
Cool selection, although it puzzles me that there is usually no credit for Warren Zevon in All Summer Long for what is effectively the tune of Werewolves of London.
The man himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3JmtMCJ0ok...and here is a bit of instrumental nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3eLNdxHN4Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoWDj5e65Bc...and as a bonus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSrShbqlz8
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/27/22 07:37 PM
I'm sure Warren was credited in the liner notes when the song was released .
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/01/22 08:02 AM
Amazon was trying to sell me another Neil Young album and included Weld (live) which prompted me to buy it on eBay: this gives a taste for anyone else similarly uninitiated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbLeJREkqxM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/06/22 03:40 AM
Spotify sent me off on a tangent today, and up popped this rather lovely song by Boz Scaggs. I hadn't heard it before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDeTu6rpN-4&t=4sYou gotta love Neil Young. He's always followed his own path.
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/06/22 10:50 PM
For today's listening pleasure a little taste of Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3AQXtqY0Es
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/06/22 11:16 PM
Yes always reminds me of high school, one of the very first parties I went to. I'd never heard them before that, and it made quite an impression.
I've probably posted this before, but still:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xWMS7fv8W0&t=2s
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/06/22 11:42 PM
Great choice Agatha.
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/07/22 01:20 AM
I have never heard of Yes or that song hagatha. Not that that is unusual for most posts in this thread, but being from my teen years it is.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/08/22 05:55 PM
Good to be led in some new directions.
I have been listening to this in the car today, a searing performance of Blowin' In The Wind from Neil Young and Crazy Horse with which I was not previously familiar - all too appropriate to the situation in Ukraine perhaps
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/neil-young/listen-to-neil-young-cover-bob-dylans-blowin-in-th/
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/08/22 07:46 PM
Lex
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/09/22 04:43 AM
I have never heard of Yes or that song hagatha. Not that that is unusual for most posts in this thread, but being from my teen years it is.
That's one of my favourite Yes songs. Clever writing, and a beautiful song.
Here's another one, from much later in their career:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLzPPFc21oLex, I hadn't heard Neil Young's version of Blowing inthe Wind. As you say, searing.
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/09/22 12:45 PM
hagatha. What a great way to start the day.
Posted By: Creeping_Doom
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/11/22 01:05 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/11/22 04:02 AM
That's a great song, CD. I might just add that to my playlist.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/14/22 06:09 PM
Something fairly light weight but nevertheless enjoyable that I stumbled on today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjWQgLvV7xs
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/14/22 08:02 PM
Joss does a fantastic Aretha Franklin, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Vu2uuaZ5I
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/15/22 09:10 AM
Another one from Neil Young's Weld (live) album which I am still relishing as my current in-car entertainment: a great track list and some outstanding performances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-XnPXL_HMA
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/16/22 08:50 PM
Here is the latest song from The Warning. They were opening up for the Foo Fighters and this was from 10 days before the Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins passed away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm78KpEw3uwAnd here is a link to part one of a behind the scenes look at the making of their new album that really shows you the great spirit of these ladies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti2vmY3wsgY&t=51s
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/17/22 04:50 AM
Going back a bit, but still a great song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrtNt7EfZfMAnd honestly, I know I posted some of their music a while back, but I simply cannot get enough of these guys.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e19f0cWBzdYAnd here's a gem, again with Jonah Nilssen singing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuF7XwJlks4
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/17/22 03:19 PM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/19/22 05:48 PM
Nothing like a little Heart power-rock. Still fantastic, after all these years.
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 04/19/22 09:32 PM
Ann Wilson's voice is really something else.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/04/22 10:15 AM
Cool stuff!
I am afraid it's country, but I am having a trip through some early Emmylou Harris albums having found her Original Album Series with 5 CDs in a set for buttons on eBay.
Here she is fairly early on introduced by "whispering" Bob Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgOkW2tiAaY and many years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzQR_zjZQQand of course with Mark Knopfler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK_9ppta_M0
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/08/22 05:19 PM
I was listening to this in the car recently from Stephen Stills's excellent first solo album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P10-ORxQuFA...and it reminded me of this with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWkMMXgQohc
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/08/22 06:52 PM
for the links Lex.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/24/22 06:54 PM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/31/22 10:56 PM
Just a song that's been rolling around in my head for a few days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsyzMPO02u0And speaking of Bruce Hornsby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRQjzltaMQ
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 06/03/22 07:16 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 06/05/22 02:00 PM
We always enjoyed the old politically incorrect stuff like Benny Hill. It's awful and funny at the same time. I hadn't heard of Jeremy Taylor, though.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/08/22 10:44 AM
Just treated myself to a very good recent live album by the Stones - Live at El Mocambo in 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr1y1MRKVo and some extracts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeHqTeNRIo4and
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/08/22 06:31 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy_ArpznZUsThis one you posted in the Crosswords thread is a nice sing along with song!
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/09/22 07:04 AM
It certainly is - I had posted that because of the Longfellow poetry clue, but another possibly appropriate one which is also a good singalong is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PfrpcqLyzY
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/09/22 02:50 PM
I absolutely LOVE this song Lex and I almost always include it in my list when I'm in that mood to sing!
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 07:36 AM
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 02:43 PM
The song is okay but it is not a go to sing along for me.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 04:46 PM
How about this one, which my wife Linda is very keen on and was playing earlier?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaYTNsS_m2w
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 05:11 PM
While I like the song, it is also not one I've ever looked up to sing along with. The version I am more familiar with is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjLpePIz8o
Posted By: Jarkeld
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 09:06 PM
Currently I listen quite a bit to some of the songs of the Four Tops, Men At Work, CCR, George Harrison. Sometimes I like to play the OST to Silent Hill 2 shile I work. Other times I just listen to what Arrow Classic Rock has to offer.
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 09:21 PM
I just got done listening to Harrison's Here Comes the Sun. A brilliant song.
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 09:41 PM
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 09:46 PM
Anyone remember
this? I was listening to it this morning.
Ob, I remember all the songs you linked to just now.
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/10/22 11:02 PM
Oh yes! I like that song also and I sing with it.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/13/22 07:18 AM
I used to play that one at parties back in my mobile discotheque days!
How about these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Blyvv9MdjUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b4vHGBk9cUand/or some early Beach Boys or the Monkees?
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/13/22 08:11 AM
I have never heard of The Bandwagon or Breakin' Down the Walls of Heartache.
Yes, Tommy James and the Shondells, Beach boys, and Monkees.
Are you familiar with Tommy Roe. I like to sing to some of his songs, particularly these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCKXxJRgVgchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZWPVa9-ZQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i-wfec5HGYMy mind was on this song earlier today but I stayed away from it (until now) as this type of song sometimes sends me into depression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ4BHM9CgGU&list=PLkIFaLkfGQ6zAd7Q6-gKsd355eYKlyGq9&index=3
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/13/22 08:16 PM
I think the first album I ever purchased was The Monkees.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/14/22 01:49 PM
I remember that when I'm A Believer was issued as a single my sister and I each rushed out and bought a copy although we were both still living at home, so it was being belted out at both ends of the house!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv2MLlZKarM
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/14/22 05:58 PM
I was the youngest of six children so I pretty much had to listen to whatever my siblings listened to on the family record player. I had no records of my own. Then, when I was in my late teens I guess, the others had scattered to different areas of the house or moved out and had their own players (and took all their records with them) so I started using the record player to listen to dictation records while I was trying to learn shorthand. What do you think happened? One of my brothers decided he needed that record player down in the basement with him and that was the end of my dictation/shorthand lessons.
Woe is me
.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/15/22 07:28 AM
(as the eldest of five I did not often have that sort of problem, although my mother did sometimes let my sister get her own way...)
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/15/22 07:53 PM
Just popped into my head for no apparent reason ,but is now welcome on my playlist, and it takes us wayyyyyy back:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...76BB76DFD9727012D87076BB76&FORM=VIREActually, it just occurred to me that it played on an episode of Supernatural and that's why it's in my head.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/20/22 07:29 AM
Good stuff hagatha, although I tended to prefer some of the other stuff by individual members of Traffic, in particular Dave Mason as well as Steve Winwood of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-uWtqtxZcAMore watching than listening perhaps but the BBC is running a series of four programmes "My Life as a Rolling Stone" which I am enjoying, with some great archive footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxsfHtUGlMc
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/20/22 12:38 PM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/20/22 02:15 PM
She has a wonderful voice. I'll keep an eye on her. Hopefully she makes a go of it, with that talent.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/28/22 04:16 PM
A cool album I had missed until now by one of my wife Linda's favourite performers Michael McDonald
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Lpw39GxwbMSWc86ueggzMan33DvlLVi
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/04/22 09:47 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/05/22 11:50 PM
John showed me one of those a while back. I can see that I'd watched half of it already a while back. Weird and wonderful.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/06/22 07:44 AM
I had found them searching for the GoAway bird (which I remembered from my African upbringing) because Linda would not believe it existed - now we tease each other with its call as a light-hearted negative response in arguments!
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/07/22 06:27 AM
I had to go on a road trip recently for some medical appointments, which is the perfect opportunity to catch up on old favourites.
This was one album that featured
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMNMmvIC2uGbPFFA0xCO5003NgyjTvLiO. An excellent album, and while Come On Eileen is the song that most would likely know the band for, songs from this album like Geno and I'm Just Looking are easily its equal (the latter is sultry good). I loved the brassiness involved, but also enjoyed their more stringsy aftermath.
And I am sure having listened that it tripped a recollection that a bit of one of their songs was used as the theme for a British tv show?
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/07/22 07:28 AM
Flotsam, a great band/album and you are right about the TV theme (although I had to google it to find out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXtq7KVi5SMMeanwhile, my attention has just been caught by the rather promising new Paolo Nutini album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJJOQ6ReMwA
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/07/22 09:39 PM
Thanks for the info Lex. I vaguely remember the show but could tell you almost nothing about it.
The Nutini track is hitting the mark. Off to check out the rest!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/08/22 02:07 AM
The Go-away bird! I remember Go-away birds. We used to see them on our travels. I can't remember if they were on the coast, though.
Posted By: soot
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/13/22 09:18 PM
Listening to Ultima Thule
Track 1433 at the moment :)
Link to the Ultima Thule webpage
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/14/22 10:42 AM
Thanks Dan, interesting stuff!
Posted By: soot
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/14/22 02:03 PM
Yes, I enjoy this venue construct with Ultima Thule and also
Hearts of Space which was the first 'ambient type' radio station I stumbled onto back in the 70s. The Hearts of Space (HOS) station has a new one hour broadcast each week you can listen too. If you subscribe to HOS then you can access their entire library of music. It's quite extensive and spans the globe. There was also a XM Radio station 'Audio Visions,'
the Earth in Stereo) whose mix was always ambient; now listed as the SPA channel after XM merged with Sirius in 2011.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/19/22 10:03 AM
Off in another direction (although Brian Eno is a connection), I was listening to this old album recently and I do not think Bryan Ferry or Roxy Music have been mentioned previously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X12ic4D9g40
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/20/22 09:55 PM
Some good tracks on this LP. Thanks Lex
I had heard the Smoke Gets In Your Eyes cover but not Wonderful World. Quite a different take. He did like a cover version, and some were amongst his best known tracks (eg Jealous Guy, Hard Rain not to mention Lets Stick Together) but here is one you might not have come across
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpzREN3CRi4&t=87s
Posted By: soot
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/20/22 11:45 PM
Ah ... some good tracks Lex and flotsam
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/21/22 12:01 AM
My favorite Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music tune is
this.Bryan Ferry was engaged to Jerry Hall when Jerry Hall met a married Mick Jagger - and then Mick and Jerry got together after that. I read this when I was reading about Bryan Ferry a while back.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/21/22 07:37 AM
The title track for the Bryan Ferry covers album is the one original track on the album and I think is strong but usually underrated.
My favourite Roxy Music tracks are Dance Away and Jealous Guy, and I think I had their Manifesto album on vinyl.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/21/22 08:10 AM
I went and dug out my vinyl versions of Roxy and Ferry and had a nostalgic red wine play.
I had a few more than I remembered
The Bride Stripped Bare was one and was recorded just after the events Marian referenced and apparently contained break up references. I will have to listen less red winely
Posted By: Taintedfury
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/21/22 09:26 AM
I still love the earlier classics compared too today......but to be honest i like all types of music except i can't stand Punk Music....
When i was younger i enjoyed listening to ABBA & the Bay City Rollers now i love listening to Kenny Rogers...
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/24/22 06:53 AM
Complete change of tack, but KISS are touring here at the moment. I saw them when they first toured in 1979 and we queued overnight to get tickets. We organised shifts, then it rained, then it rained harder, so the venue decided to start selling about midnight as there were already more people lined up than there were available seats. Well done them!
Do they even sell tickets like that anymore? If that was the only way to get tickets, who would you queue for in that way (prepared to camp out etc) if they came to a venue near you. It would probably be Led Zeppelin for me if they were ever to tour again.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/25/22 04:20 PM
I am not sure I would ever have camped out in a queue for tickets: that shows real dedication, and in any event I think it was a habit which only started after I was too old! These days I think it is more a matter of getting online like greased lightning when bookings open...
The other problem is venue size: it is unusual to find a well-known artist playing anywhere relatively small (which would always be my preference).
I would be interested in seeing Robert Plant live, whether in a a Led Zep reunion or one of his other incarnations, also the Cowboy Junkies and perhaps Sturgill Simpson (if not in too much of a bluegrass mood).
Posted By: connie
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/25/22 06:34 PM
I'm going to Tampa to see Rod Stewart on Sept.3rd.
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/25/22 07:11 PM
That sounds like great fun, Connie!!
I was in Tampa, Florida for three days when I was 11, having gone down there from New York City on a business trip with my father. I sure would not mind being there for Rod's concert.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/25/22 11:04 PM
Greased lighting is right Lex - and ditto on the small venue.
The Cowboy Junkies are touring here early next year and will be at a 2500 seat venue not too far from me. If that is snmall enough and you happen to be down this way ...
Enjoy Rod in Tampa connie
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/25/22 11:15 PM
I've been listening to a lot of Great Van Fleet recently. Anyone else enjoying them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co This one gives me Led Zeppelin vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrWFu5k1Jpg This is my favorite.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/26/22 09:06 AM
Impressive stuff: I seem to remember that Robert Plant gave the vocalist quite an endorsement, perhaps posted by someone* earlier on this thread.
This clip is quite a good overview/introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr8fJpZJOY8 *it was Marian
https://www.gameboomers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1263357/40
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/27/22 01:52 AM
Those three brothers have a lot of talent and the drummer fits right in.
Thanks for the links Lex.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/27/22 09:25 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 09/11/22 09:30 AM
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 09/13/22 03:12 AM
They are amazing. I posted a track of theirs a while back.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 09/30/22 03:39 AM
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 09/30/22 04:24 AM
A nice version hagatha
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 09/30/22 05:11 PM
Thanks hagatha: quite a nice album from which that is taken MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 09/30/22 05:26 PM
Looks like I need to check out the new stuff from Tedesdhi Truck! I love their music.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/01/22 07:47 AM
One of my favourite Tedeschi Trucks tracks is still their version of Everybody's Talkin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiWbBC0SouU
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/02/22 01:55 AM
Just to change tack briefly, I see my favourite live band Muse have just announced a North American spring tour next year supported by Evanescence. Well worth catching if you never have, even if you aren't a huge fan of their music (and apologies if I have said that before).
Very different to the T-Trucks, a band I wasn't aware of until here but will certainly listen to some more
Posted By: Space Quest Fan
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/02/22 02:00 AM
flotsam - Muse is the favorite band of The Warning and Amy Lee has an incredible voice. That sounds like an awesome tour.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/02/22 02:54 AM
She does indeed SQF. Here's hoping they continue South together!!
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/08/22 12:53 AM
In a very convoluted round about way I recently discovered this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPco24LS31A. I had no idea that they wrote it, or the tragic related stories around it.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/08/22 07:59 AM
Interesting: I always assumed that Nilsson had written that song, and that Badfinger were just helped along by the Beatles!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/09/22 06:48 PM
Thanks hagatha: quite a nice album from which that is taken MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice
I'll have to check that out.
I always liked the original track of Take Me On. Though it was relentlessly poppy and bouncy, it was good to dance to and yet very tuneful, in its way. It popped into my head one day, and I found that version on YouTube.
I love some of Nilssen's music. His cover of Everybody's Talkin' give me goosebumps every time I hear it.
Flotsam, I haven't listened to much Muse, though I love some of the more trippy stuff i listened to today. I'll have to check out more of it.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/12/22 04:56 PM
A Canadian band mentioned in a book I have just finished reading and which sounds promising, The Weather Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJTViDWuofM and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShxnKKohIS4 (I also see that the band, or at least the vocalist has been around for quite a few years on the folk circuit before some reinvention)
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/22/22 09:35 PM
Just feeling nostalgic. One of the loveliest love songs ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyI9flHHT2Q&t=189sAnd another favourite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_HTGdLXL4Mark Knopfler is one of my favourite guitarists, right up there with Gilmour.
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/22/22 10:18 PM
Brothers in Arms is one of my favorites too, hagatha. Mark Knopfler is a guitar god, for sure.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/24/22 07:03 PM
Forget Gilmour, Knopfler is the man and Brothers In Arms is a great album, but I probably prefer his solo outing Sailing to Philadelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch? and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsIthFb-AmUv=GtxuWycNgfo... also pretty cool with Willy DeVille
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H538ET8GoeU
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/24/22 09:08 PM
Oh, come now. David Gilmour is awesome. Without him Floyd would have ended up just being a 60's silly song curiosity. That's my take on it, anyway.
I really like that Willy DeVille track.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/25/22 08:48 AM
I was never heavily into Pink Floyd although I loved some of their material, and a friend of ours happens to be part of the road crew for the Australian Pink Floyd Show.
I really liked Mink DeVilie and fairly recently stumbled across two Willy DeVille solo albums: The Miracle (with and produced by Mark Knopfler) and Backstreets Of Desire (with various well-known guests)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QQLRtzNYE and for a bit of crazy fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk-UmP2uhPI
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/25/22 02:46 PM
I only ever heard of Mink DeVille peripherally, never heard any of the music. It's pretty darned good. I'll have to seek out more. Again, there's Mark's guitar, though, unmistakable.
EDIT: Remember this song? No idea why it's in my head today. Haven't thought about it for decades, and now here it is again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48Za7VZR_c
Posted By: soot
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/26/22 11:20 AM
I listen to Hammock quite frequently
Hammock website I've collect a number of their albums over the years
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/29/22 07:56 AM
I was listening to some Hammock yesterday - very mellow sound which is probably great to chill you out after a stressful day, or perhaps in the background to keep you a bit chilled during a stressful day...
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 11/06/22 02:14 AM
This ancient song popped into my head just now while I was washing dishes and I had to Google it to remind me why I liked it when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4k-5mHxIg
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 11/06/22 05:12 AM
I hadn't thought about Bobby Darrin for years.
It's funny how songs just pop into your head one day after decades -- and usually you remember the lyrics even after l that time.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 11/06/22 08:20 AM
The two songs from him I always remember are Multiplication and his version of If I Were A Carpenter: I hadn't realised he died so young.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x-NZ7TaoT0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFRLOktHXo
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 11/06/22 07:44 PM
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/08/22 10:07 PM
Apropos of nothing, this popped up on the radio recently as part of a segment about songs that stars left well and truly behind them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oet1pKb0VoI remember it but hadn't heard it in forever, and he certainly didn't perform it at any concert I ever saw!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/08/22 11:34 PM
That's...awful.
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/10/22 01:02 AM
It is isn't it
Thank goodness Ziggy came along!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/10/22 03:39 PM
A lot of British bands were doing silly "fantasy" stuff back then. Syd Barrett's version of Pink Floyd and Genesis were major offenders. But that one takes the cake.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/27/22 10:32 AM
I was always a little disappointed that Bowie effectively disowned The Laughing Gnome.
Meanwhile here is something to perhaps get you in the mood for New Year's Eve, Carlos Núñez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vViYSl0tHpM ...and Ed Alleyne-Johnson doing hard rock...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzEHSH2k2IU
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/03/23 06:52 PM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/19/23 05:21 PM
Rolling Stones live at the Max - footage from 1991 I had not previously seen (and an interesting bit of technological innovation, apparently)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQll7667uI
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/19/23 07:50 PM
I've always been a Stones girl, and that concert is amazing. Makes me want to get up and dance!
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/19/23 08:34 PM
Loved it. Thanks Lex
Enjoyed the earlier links too. I especially liked the Lucinda Williams take on a Stones classic.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/20/23 05:51 PM
Glad they hit the spot: Lucinda Williams has quite a good 2021 album of Stones tracks which I am probably going to buy
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Lus-Juke...oding=UTF8&qid=1674236969&sr=1-1
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/09/23 03:55 PM
Burt Bacharach, godfather of lovely easy listening tunes, has died. I may be a rock and roll girl, but he wrote some incomparable songs;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGsCvJWEo8
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/10/23 04:18 AM
He did indeed. Not generally my preferred listening but you have to admire his musical contribution.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/13/23 10:28 AM
I second that.
Meanwhile, I have just noticed another good album from Dion with a lot of excellent guitar guests in 2021 Stomping Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpEeAJO1wL8also a new live album from the Stones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZuloHieUlQ, and an older one coming soon - Madison Square Gardens 1972
plus a nice piece from Jeff Beck I stumbled upon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQSPBC4fS4
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/14/23 09:10 PM
MSG in ‘72 will be one to look out for. Thanks for the heads up Lex.
And there are some other Beck collaborations worth checking out if you scroll down that link.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 02/15/23 02:29 PM
He did indeed. Not generally my preferred listening but you have to admire his musical contribution.
I loved some of his music when I was younger; still like some of it. Dionne Warwick had a lovely voice, and he wrote for her a lot. When I was in my teens I could just as easily listen to
Walk on By as I could anything by the The Stones. At that point I was also listening to Frank Sinatra and his contemporaries (via my boyfriend's parents) and classical music, through my family. Also opera and operetta. It was all fair game, apart from country, though my father did sing some country songs in a mostly ironic way.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/10/23 09:10 AM
I mentioned the album above, but have been particularly taken with this track while playing it in the car Dion with Bruce Springsteen and Patty Scialfa - Angel in the Alleyways - enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUSMkdZKo6I... and prompted by hagatha's mention above, expanding the name a little, Dionne Warwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txtcpiqmjNw
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/10/23 11:44 PM
Also, Dionne Warwick and Whitney Houston were cousins. What a family, to produce two such amazing singers.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/15/23 10:10 PM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/16/23 10:55 AM
Great choice from an interesting album: I could not open your link so here is another in case anyone else has the same problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWkMMXgQohcHere are a couple more good tracks from the same album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz47XGsi2e0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kgeqWv7a1o... and while I was looking for those I enjoyed this one from the Cowboy Junkies, another Neil Young cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC1ss61kATkand another one that shows they still have it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bby4vu5SWRo Enjoy!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/17/23 03:40 AM
That is in amazing album, and it somehow got past me.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/17/23 05:56 PM
Stephen Stills has been involved in some excellent and varied stuff as rounded up in this
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stephen-stills-mn0000021744/biography
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/17/23 06:28 PM
Rolling Stone magazine dubbed him Captain Manyhands because he is so versatile and played so many instruments.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/17/23 06:56 PM
I didn't know about the duets with Judy Collins: a nice little album I may have to get...
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/02/23 03:55 AM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/02/23 03:40 PM
Yes indeed: some wonderful material and I had not realised he was another Canadian export!
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/02/23 04:13 PM
I saw Gordon Lightfoot in concert three times. I absolutely adored him.
Posted By: BeaSong
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/03/23 02:52 AM
I could listen to Dion forever.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/05/23 03:00 PM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/07/23 08:30 AM
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/07/23 04:15 PM
I've never heard of The Pretty Things or their songs, but they do have a very familiar sound.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/07/23 09:30 PM
It's a classic 60's Brit sound. Good music.
.....................................
Holy smokes! It's 50 years old!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/18/23 05:14 PM
This rather lovely song popped up on Spotify. I'm not familiar with his music, but I will be exploring further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymb8h3BMOT4
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/19/23 09:47 AM
A beautiful voice. I remember him from his earliest releases about ten years ago but did not like the choice of material enough to buy an album: this may steer me back towards him, so thanks for that, hagatha.
Something else a bit off the beaten track (recommended to me by my one of my daughters who recently saw her live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuLDpheL8p0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzPqFYcuKY
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/19/23 04:49 PM
Those are haunting.
Here's another good one from Michael Kiwanuka. Very soulful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOubjLM9Cbc
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/20/23 09:51 AM
This extended live version of that song is particularly impressive, the vocal not coming in until after just under 7 minutes...!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fng...tart_radio=1&rv=FngDSOuCNAA&t=60and Youtube seems to be making me playlists (which may or may not be part of the above link), so that the above led on to these amongst others: Black Pumas and then Kaleo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G383538qzQ&list=RDFngDSOuCNAA&index=3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCi0RHLrauU&list=RDFngDSOuCNAA&index=4
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/20/23 08:46 PM
The more of Kaleo I hear, the more I like them. Save Yourself is on my main Spotify playlist.
Here's another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHTTtC9rcqk&t=7sAlso, this is beautiful and also very strange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIclZ6dIxZMI could have sworn that was a Leonard Cohen song, and I could actually hear Leonard singing it in my head, but it isn't his song and he never sang it.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/21/23 08:48 AM
As you say, very Leonard Cohen sounding, and none the worse for that! Thank you hagatha: a new one for me.
Another haunting performance from him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezWHXZEfiPsSeveral quite interesting albums covering various musical styles: probably good enough to tempt me to buy more than one...
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 05/21/23 03:15 PM
When I first heard the Labyrinth song I kept looking for two things on Youtube: The Cohen version of it, and a video of the woman singing it!
He is a most unusual performer.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 06/15/23 10:37 PM
I've probably posted this before, but this song speaks to me a lot these days, and I love her smoky vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5obQZG_ZmZo&list=PLzK8w-NLutG4gYwWw-nrk8sldpRGZzcSI&index=7
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/20/23 05:54 PM
Cowboy Junkies still do it for me, including their new album (link below), but this one still really bites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7p1UmzikNIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0d-ks3h7dk
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/23/23 01:51 PM
And of course here's Lou Reed's version of Sweet Jane, with that fabulous guitar introduction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqpWTC-rvhQThat Lou Reed album was the soundtrack to much of my first two years of university life.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 07/26/23 08:46 PM
RIP, Sinead O'Connor, troubled soul.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/01/23 01:23 AM
So, I've been listening to this lately. It's by far the most beautiful version I've heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvtw3JMXd8I know the original from Tim Buckley, but this one overtakes it by a mile.
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/01/23 11:01 PM
You know I'm not into music like you all are but my friend told me she went to the Bret Michaels concert Saturday so I looked him up and I found this which I rather like - Back in The Day (A Road Trip Anthem):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtzjhx3zFbzDSMiv1OvUwLQ
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/02/23 09:53 AM
Great stuff - while checking out those links I stumbled across this (I am a fan of both)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRr9OhAHm6Y
Posted By: Trail_Mystic
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/03/23 04:39 PM
What a great interview Lex! Definitely checking out more on their collaboration.
I've been vibing out to Rob Robertson's solo work. I always found it funny that they often place his music into the "Pop" category. I guess it's because they aren't sure where it should go
Great stuff though, these are a couple of my favorites:
Showdown at Big Sky (actually pretty much anything on the 1987 album this is from is great music)
Somewhere Down the Crazy River
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/04/23 05:26 PM
How have I never heard of Rob Robertson? Very cool music.
Lex, I love some of the Robert Plant/Alison Krause tracks. I've been listening to them since their first collaboration. They honestly are the last two performers I would have imagined working together but there they are, making great some great music.
Posted By: Marian
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/04/23 05:41 PM
Robbie Robertson used to be a member of the group The Band. Hits include The Weight and Up on Cripple Creek.
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/05/23 02:51 PM
Of course he was!
I didn't know he had a solo career.
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/05/23 04:06 PM
I have a couple of old tapes of Robbie Robertson which I converted to digital. Need to find them - I think they are on an old hard drive in a computer I need to work on! I hadn't heard Crazy River in many years - it was always one of my favorites! I always loved that he is Native American on his mother's side, if I remember correctly. Thank you, Lex!
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/05/23 04:47 PM
Robbie Robertson's album How To Become Clairvoyant is pretty impressive with a number of guest appearances - only a few tracks appear to have made it to Youtube including this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGVg1Ft0AZQI had not realised until perusing his oeuvre recently that he was also involved in quite a number of film soundtracks which are worth a listen, including The Color Of Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh7_E9p0Y3gI seem to be bingeing on Lucinda Williams lately with several of her CDs in my car stereo including Sweet Old World from which here are a couple of tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrSEeNE_Uzwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP11qYuhg8
Posted By: Trail_Mystic
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/06/23 07:57 PM
Robbie is a really interesting guy. Definitely worth listening to any previous podcasts that have him on as a guest, he's got some great stories from back in the day and his somewhat conflicted past. He's one of those guys that never stands still, movies, studio work, solo career - just really talented. Martin Scorsese has been friends with Robertson and other members of The Band for years, which explains how he ended up being the director of "The Last Waltz", a documentary about The Band's last tour, which I definitely recommend if you enjoy that type of movie. Also, "Once we were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band" is another interesting movie about that sometimes volatile time.
Here's a great vid of a drunk Roberson introducing a young Scorsese to Van Morrison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg9rjSsN4v4
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/06/23 08:13 PM
That is such a cool video, Trail!
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/07/23 08:00 AM
Wonderful (and that was always my favourite Van Morrison album - after Astral Weeks, of course!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceI44LrEKk and a few years earlier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDUxmawvfSY
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/09/23 08:36 PM
Holy smokes! Just read that Robbie Robertson died today at age 80 after a long illness.
Posted By: Trail_Mystic
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/09/23 09:32 PM
Holy smokes! Just read that Robbie Robertson died today at age 80 after a long illness.
Yeah, just read that. I'm bummed, but he led a good, creative and successful life. I guess this fits:
Robbie Robertson: It's a Good Day to Die
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/10/23 03:48 PM
Yes, I just saw that, too.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/28/23 04:39 PM
This one came up on my iPod selection this afternoon and I cannot resist sharing it, a great delivery of a great song with great sentiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrdW_UcZrXA
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 08/29/23 04:34 PM
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 09/25/23 09:47 AM
Something I saw earlier today - Bob Dylan on stage with the Heartbreakers a few days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMSLBy8c9wand I am sure you have all caught some of the publicity about the upcoming Stones album, Hackney Diamonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUrjjOUOW4A
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/14/23 10:25 AM
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/16/23 02:16 AM
Thanks for those Lex. I enjoyed them a lot
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/16/23 02:35 AM
Friend was learning to play this one on his guitar, so I had to go look for it on Youtube! Somewhere I have a couple of old tapes from the Alan Parsons Project. Only word is "tasty.."
Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/16/23 09:28 AM
I still have vinyl copies of the first two Alan Parsons Project album Draclvr. Might have to dig them out and give them a spin when I get the chance.
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/16/23 09:05 PM
Wow, new group to me. Enter The Haggis hails from Canada. A good friend will be turning 70 in December and his wife gifted him with a car trip from their home in Louisana to this venue in West Virginia... The Purple Fiddle. Hope you can watch the video he took.
Enter The Haggis
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/17/23 10:55 AM
I could not open that link, Drac, but here is another
https://enterthehaggis.com/videos
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/17/23 02:51 PM
I figured that would happen, Lex. It's a link to the video he posted on his FB page. I was going to post the link you did above, but it doesn't have that particular song. Let me see if I can find it on Youtube.
I can find the song, but not in a concert setting. This is a pretty good video featuring the band... Unfortunately, no bagpipes!
Swallowed bv a WhaleDown With the Ship
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/18/23 09:43 AM
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/18/23 02:16 PM
Thanks, Lex... I looked everywhere! This video has a couple of different band members. Interesting group!
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/18/23 06:05 PM
A very interesting band which had escaped my notice previously, although around for over 25 years I think: have just bought two of their albums (quite hard to find at a low price except as a download)
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/18/23 07:53 PM
I had never heard of them either - believe they are based in Canada.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 10/30/23 09:31 AM
A Scottish singer/songwriter who was new to me and one of whose songs featured in a recent TV thriller series Six Four - Frankie Miller (not to be confused with the Country singer of the same name). A dramatic illness interrupted what looked like a very promising career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2RXF4ecxCchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErxpcuUIuzohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpziTuQxi2chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55j4eknjUghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vr9JvVP178
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/11/23 07:25 AM
Been listening to the Pogues the last few days. I saw them years ago but Shane lasted only a couple of songs.
If you are a fan there is an excellent 2001 doco called If I Should Fall From Grace that you should seek out. How he lasted another 20 years is inexplicable.
Not a lifestyle to embrace but he isn’t the first and won’t be the last destructively flawed artist.
Given the time of year maybe give Fairytale of New York a spin.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/12/23 01:27 PM
His funeral was an impressive party!
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 12/16/23 06:03 PM
You have probably all seen this already, but I only came across it recently - Chris Stapleton at the Super Bowl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcHL0kUFPhw... and at a more usual venue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9J7217_c-0
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/23/24 03:17 PM
I am very weird... I have music in my head ALL the time. I wake up in the middle of the night with music... sometimes It's stuff I hate! It might be some very obscure Christmas carol or a song from my VERY long ago youth that I haven't heard or thought of in 60 years! Last night it was The Little Nash Rambler released in 1958 and according to info I found reached #4 on the Billboard charts. I would have been 11, but I remember it like yesterday. Where does this stuff come from after 65 years!! Those of a certain age might also remember it!
The Little Nash Rambler
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/27/24 11:14 AM
Good stuff Drac, and of course the longer term memory survives the later years better than the short term: you are no weirder than I am when it comes to music always being in the head!
This is rather more recent, but one that came to mind as a result of hula hoops cropping up on another thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-orj2qcamw
Posted By: Draclvr
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/27/24 03:43 PM
I had to laugh when I looked up the modern hula hoop - it was also 1958. At age 11 I was a hula hoop queen and I could keep it going longer than anyone else!
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 01/28/24 07:36 PM
Isn't it amazing how we can hear a song after decades and remember all the words?
I also have music in my head most of the time.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/10/24 09:30 AM
Stumbled across this today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NcJvi5TYEk and I like the comment "what kind of world are we going to leave for Keith Richards?"
It will be interesting to see what comes up on the Lou Reed tribute/covers album next month
https://www.goldradiouk.com/artists/rolling-stones/keith-richards-lou-reed-waiting-for-man/
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/21/24 05:23 PM
I just got around to listening to Keith's rendition of Waiting and it's wonderful. I was a Lou Reed fan back in the day, when Walk on the Wild Side first played on FM radio. Thanks for that link.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/27/24 09:14 AM
Glad you liked it hagatha.
Here's something a bit different from my student year in Paris which I remembered today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUaV02Eo5shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8fGf-N06A
Posted By: hagatha
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/27/24 09:10 PM
Those are great, especially the first.
I've been playing Fallout 76, and the radio sound track has many older songs that my father, who had a fine voice, used to sing. This is one of them, a favourite of mine:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BSvORvIjZiU
Posted By: oldbroad
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/27/24 10:24 PM
Thanks for that link, hagatha. I got lost listening to some of those oldies!
Posted By: flotsam
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/28/24 03:12 AM
My wife and I saw Tom Jones the other day. I am not a big fan but he does still have great pipes.
It was a mix of old and new (he really needs to retire Delilah though) and was all in all an entertainingly enjoyable night out.
Posted By: Lex
Re: What is your listening pleasure? 2 - 03/28/24 10:28 AM
There are probably a good number of Tom Jones fans who still expect Delilah!
Another French memory, and one who kept going for many years, although not to my taste, was Johnny Hallyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_o05vQEpQE