Currently listening to thread

Cate · 24-07-06 15:38:53

Burlesque wrote:

I just read up on Turbonegro (they're Norwegian, by the way, but we Scandinavian types are all the same ), and while they're not my cup of tea, I admire their cheeky sense of humour.
Burlesque.

Nice that you gave them a shot.

I'm currently listening to the much more sedate and far better Tom Waits.

Burlesque · 24-07-06 19:04:46

Cate wrote:

Burlesque wrote:
I just read up on Turbonegro (they're Norwegian, by the way, but we Scandinavian types are all the same ), and while they're not my cup of tea, I admire their cheeky sense of humour.
Burlesque.
Nice that you gave them a shot.
I'm currently listening to the much more sedate and far better Tom Waits.

Ah, that's better .

Burlesque.

The_West_Wind · 24-07-06 23:31:02

My japanese mate introduced me to a band called Maximum The Hormon (how japanese is that?).

This is cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtnIYhie9U

Cate · 14-08-06 13:38:53

I've had the theme song for a sweetly bitter animation called The Cat Came Back stuck in my head all day. So I found it on youtube and have it playing in the background. You can check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uy6Jljkyhw

The_West_Wind · 14-08-06 23:46:20

This one is from Blind Guardian. They're from Germany it has easily become one of my favourites, perhaps yours too, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEsyNgO7kmw

Bishop of Bath & Wells · 15-08-06 00:00:12

I have a Guilty Pleasures confession : I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) by Hall & Oates. I heard it played on the radio a few days ago, and haven't managed to remove it from my internal jukebox (i.e. my head) ever since. I've even bookmarked the bloomin' video on YouTube!

Nurse!

Bish

blissed · 15-08-06 05:00:22

Elvis herselvis

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alleyes1 · 15-08-06 06:00:25

I'm STILL listening to "Geek In The Pink" by Jason Mraz after Josephine S (from AW) suggested it. "It's laundry day!"

Alleyes

Siobhan · 15-08-06 06:15:19

oh, i loved that video. she was a hoot!

The_West_Wind · 15-08-06 22:41:14

After watching "The Cat Came Back" (I havent seen that in years!! ) I thought I'd seek out this gem. It's a version of "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Primus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tEdbwXxXw

RichardL · 16-08-06 02:44:30

well going through this long list of beautiful musin (mostly...as far as some of it is familiar to me)...some thiongs seem good to add...
music to grieve with and to share grief with (elfman and liandra especially)...
leonard cohen (who gets lots of mentions) from his '10 new songs' album...'here it is' here is the night, the night has begun
here is your death in the heart of your son
here is the dawn till death do us part
and here is your death in your daughters heart
may everyone live, may everyone die
hello my love and my love goodbye
and ewan mcoll (kirsty's dad, from whom she was quite estranged until just before her terrible death when she was singing some of his songs in the car)
...his song 'the joy of living'..a song that was played at 2 friends' funerals..one he wrote when he was too depleted to climb all the wat up a hill(mountain) with his companions towards the end of his life. the version that i like is on roy bailey's 'coda' album (2000)
this album also has songs recorded in australia, including 'alyandabu' written by ted egan..who survived some of the terrible things the white settlers did to her family because sge was 'tall and proud and black', and who died in 1961. as well as richard thompson's 'beeswing'
well the list could go on..but yes sandy denny (always voted the number 1 female vocalist in folk music polls in uk) and june tabor (number2)..and yes elfman, kate rusby has an amazing voice too..youi yorkshire person (i'm sort of an adopted yorkshire person but now live just across your northern border..am of an age with you, and involved in lots of the same issues and struggles)
and where would we be without the music...not just the folky but clash too (with mentions), and led zeppelin who for example also transmitted the blues blues and resistance music through the 20th century into western popular culture, from Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. And that's where Dylan got it from too (look at the early dylan if you want to see where he comes from..songs like 'the lonesome death of hatty carol' from the civil rights years which he probably doesn't sing at his corporate gigs any more, as well as songs like 'desolation row')................
and then there's the whole field of classical music...and world music.....
where would we be without our music?....enough,.
LOL and much joy (and sorrow) to read you all...richard

The_Elfman · 16-08-06 11:01:39

Now here is a man with musical tastes I can relate to. If you had mentioned Harvey Andrews in there I might have been forced to kiss you. (There's a lucky escape for you )

A belated welcome to the forum RichardL

Elfman

Burlesque · 16-08-06 11:07:47

"Talkin' about a re-he-volution". Tracy Chapman is rather good, methinks. She sort of disappeared after a couple of hits, but I've heard some more stuff by her, and I can recommend her to anyone with political tastes like the ones expounded upon by RichardL and The Elf.

Burlesque.

The_Elfman · 16-08-06 11:22:02

Tracy Chapman is excellent I think and I beleive is still going strong (although I don't think that she has released an album in about 4 years).

Burlesque · 16-08-06 11:24:30

Yeah, I have heard about her every now and then, but I don't think she has a record contract right now, which is a shame.

Sometimes this forum is just a private playground for you and me, Elf, have you noticed?

Burlesque.

The_Elfman · 16-08-06 11:41:34

Burlesque wrote:

Sometimes this forum is just a private playground for you and me, Elf, have you noticed?
Burlesque.

Yes and I think we need to stop before we get smacked . Anyway I know your'e only playing with me because blissed isn't around. I see through you.

Burlesque · 16-08-06 11:47:46

Blissed is fun and makes one love life and prancing around in the sun with a brightly coloured cocktail full of umbrellas, but he just doesn't have your rugged, brooding charm.

Having watched 39 episodes of The Sopranos over the last week, I've got the theme song, "Woke Up This Morning" by The Alabama 3 running through my head in an unceasing way that is making me contemplate drilling a small hole in my forehead to let it out.

Burlesque.

The_Elfman · 16-08-06 11:52:21

Burlesque wrote:

Having watched 39 episodes of The Sopranos over the last week, I've got the theme song, "Woke Up This Morning" by The Alabama 3 running through my head in an unceasing way that is making me contemplate drilling a small hole in my forehead to let it out.
Burlesque.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5pyVyLjXQI
God I love that R & B.

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Burlesque · 16-08-06 12:03:00

Yeah. Thanks a lot, Elf. Really. Just ... great. I was trying to kick the habit, as it were.

(Walks off, trying not to "got a blue moon ... got a blue moon in your eeeyyyye" too much, but managing only to twitch and hum and sing obsessively.)

Burlesque.

Boundary_rider · 22-08-06 13:26:10

'Heartbreaker Star', Grant McLennan (of the Go-Betweens). Soulful country ballads, a lost (i.e. fairly unknown) jewel. Can listen to these songs ok 'cos they are still quite new to me (only discovered this album after his death) ... still at high risk of getting choked and teary listening to Go-Betweens.
RIP, beautiful man.
If there are any Go-Betweens fans out there, their website has a copy of the gorgeous eulogy for Grant that Robert Forster (Grant's songwriting partner, info for non-fans!) wrote for the 'Monthly'. Here's the link:
http://www.go-betweens.org.uk/library/Hipster.pdf

Bishop of Bath & Wells · 22-08-06 19:24:26

Hi Boundary_rider, I'm not all that familiar with The Go-Betweens, but I love "Streets Of Your Town", I've got it on an old compilation tape which I still play to this day, just to hear that one song!

Bish

Boundary_rider · 30-08-06 12:07:04

'The Conet Project', recordings of 'numbers stations' - illegal and unregistered shortwave radio stations run, allegedly, to transmit encoded messages to spies 'in the field'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conet_project

I used to listen to shortwave radio late at night when I was a kid, I loved picking up bizarre (to my ears) european/middle eastern stations, local police radio transmissions, and these odd 'counting' or 'beeping' stations in amongst all the spooky static of SW. At the time I had no idea what they were, I assumed they were regular stations broadcasting test transmissions. There is something utterly otherworldly about these recording - it is, I suppose, a glimpse into another world that operates beneath our awareness. Spookiest is the 'Swedish Rhapsody', where what sounds like a little girl relays numbers in German, punctuated by a music box jingle - very unnerving (http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet … irdial.mp3).

Also listening to some 'old skool' rave tracks, from:

http://www.backtotheoldskool.co.uk/rave … _index.htm

Trying to bring a bit of ecstacy back into my life. Ooooh what I would do to be able to go out tonight and end up dancing on a table to 'Faith (in the power of love)' or another of those screamer anthems (or just grooving deeply, so deeply, to a mid-tempo Joe90 set in the middle bar of Kinselas). Half an E made things so beautifully mellow and yet the music could crank you up, up, up ...!

Sorry, got completely lost in nostalgia there! If you have no idea of the music or scene I'm talking about, go to the above site and download 'Voodoo Ray' (http://www.backtotheoldskool.co.uk/voodoo_ray.htm) - imagine darkness, sparkling lasers, hundreds and hundreds of sweaty bodies, heightened awareness , community, a secret pleasure (in the beginning!).

Addendum: This post in no way condones drug use, but strongly recommends misty-eyed nostalgia for middle aged blokes who don't get out enough.

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The_West_Wind · 31-08-06 14:17:43

As of right now, "Midlife Crisis" Faith No More.

The_Elfman · 01-09-06 20:10:37

One of my favourite songs by my all time favourite singer song writer, Harvey Andrews. I used to sing this around the folk clubs in the late 70's. It got some very mixed reactions. It is not a political song. It is about people and circumstances:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyB17MhNsGg

The_Elfman · 02-09-06 18:03:49

More Kate Rusby. (Ok Ok so I'm obsessed with the woman. I admit it).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZl9_ZfmnI

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