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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Let's add some strings and make it a concerto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOi5vtxCbA

[Emil Miller]

Let's add some strings and make it a concerto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOi5vtxCbA


Great playing but calling it a concerto is stretching it a bit.

Now here's another genuine musician who was a hero of my misspent youth when I used to go to dances at which he and his band sometimes played Watching this brings it all back: the girls, the beer and the music. This was one of their favourites and boy could they play.

http://youtu.be/ZW9S7H2zcpU

[*Classic*Charm*]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6hOrlbSaVo

[Maria May]

I'm rocking to ''You're No Good'' by Swinging Blue Jeans :)

http://grooveshark.com/s/You+re+No+Good/3pVMkU?src=5

[Emil Miller]

A nice tune and gorgeous animals.

http://youtu.be/waYC_ls-ok8

[Helga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtWvSs1PIPE

it's my feel good song

[*Classic*Charm*]

White Shadow Waltz -Okkkervil River

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBK7PLXvRcs

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Ennio Morricone
Overture to Guns for San Sebastian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dMcOdJH3bY

[Maria May]

''Just the way it is,baby'' by The Rembrandts :)

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Just+The+Way+It+Is+Baby/1UO5U6?src=5

[Idril]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16VdBciUdV4

I think this may be my favorite R.E.M song. It's either this or King of Birds, it depends on what I listened to last. ;)

[Emil Miller]

http://youtu.be/E6FE0z5JY_w

If you don't like cats, that's your problem.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I like them well enough, when I'm not stepping on soggy fur balls and cleaning out their chamber pot.


How about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYiwxM_RVEI

[Emil Miller]

I like them well enough, when I'm not stepping on soggy fur balls and cleaning out their chamber pot.


How about this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYiwxM_RVEI

Very nice felines ,one of the most photogenic of all species.
I payed £64 ( about !00 US$ ) for my cat, which I thought was a bargain at the time but have subsequently paid a small fortune in vets bills and pet food, although I don't begrudge one penny of it. She can be annoying when she sits down in front of the computer screen or walks across the keyboard when I'm playing the piano
but she hasn't actually taken to playing it herself.

http://youtu.be/TZ860P4iTaM

[Maria May]

''Rave on'' by Jimmy Page :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIQYhE5TDI

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Patsy Cline
Leavin' on Your Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e10MTBwIVss

[Oedipus]

David Bowie - Let's Dance

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Leon Russell & J J Cale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA4YIVQ53wk

[Emil Miller]

Leon Russell & J J Cale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA4YIVQ53wk


Now, now Gilliatt, why not try some real R'n'R ?

http://youtu.be/Wel1liTYHY0 :willy_nilly:

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Now, now Gilliatt, why not try some real R'n'R ?

http://youtu.be/Wel1liTYHY0 :willy_nilly:

Hmmm, I'm not so sure of the "real" there, I'm suspecting some lip sync is taking place.

Emil, how about another from one of ole' brother Leon's bizarre studio sessions, this one featuring the cook.
I selected this one especially for you, not so much for the song, but rather for the physical attributes of the cook.

Note the gyrations she makes with her stern.
I've come to learn the current lexicon for this movement is known as "twerking".

Leon Russell Honkytonk Woman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlkIunIU-c

Wikipedia on "twerking" :

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

[Emil Miller]

Note the gyrations she makes with her stern.


Impossible to miss really and that rolling pin looks pretty dangerous as well.

[*Classic*Charm*]

My Favourite Chords- The Weakerthans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkBMpngSy3Y

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Some Sunday morning blues with Sister Rosetta Tharpe This Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrhjgt-_Qc

[Helga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwNzFWRBQWU&list=PLf4-SWY-XFljrPPVYar__B17QJINy7uZJ

Not Perfect

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

More Sunday morning blues from Sister Tharpe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Cekr57rTI

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Aimee Mann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSV7bvwKfU0

[CharlesH]

My music taste is a bit schizophrenic, so today I've floated between CHVRCHES, James Murphy's remix of Love is Lost by Bowie, and the new album by Kvertelak (a Norwegian black metal band).

[Satan]

A girl played this on my laptop in Amsterdam a few days ago and I only paid attention this morning while sifting through history. Heh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=149Fln0DtUc

Bjork is impossibly adorable in this.

[Satan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywVRaEvK24k

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Sarah's a local product down here emerging from the Denton scene. I like "Clementine"

Neko came to mind
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKbRslydU0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWkKbRslydU0

[Emil Miller]

Also schnallt euch an, denn jetzt gehts los, wir fliegen nach Shanghai mit dem Tokyo Express.... Shanadoo!

http://youtu.be/VYpZT96PXS0

[Helga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXuTcr0dqWc

[Emil Miller]

There appears to be some kind of football tournament going on in Brazil; so here's a reminder of that country:


http://youtu.be/MDceigcLvMM

[Helga]

Neil Young Zuma, right now it's Barstool Blues

[Sido]

The Skye Boat Song - The Corries

[Themis]

Don't let it get you down - Johnnyswim
(http://youtu.be/lLBWspQkaBE)

[Sido]

Another Love - Tom Odell

[Emil Miller]

A seasonal piece.


http://youtu.be/TV8JMigIYb8

[Emil Miller]

I seem to remember posting this some years ago and have just noticed it in my favourites box.

So here's another reminder of when the U.S. still had something to offer.


http://youtu.be/iaAiKkmjp3c

[NikolaiI]

The Eleventh Reel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOr3RckmD4)

[SJR90]

Currently jamming the album Slania by Eluveitie

[NikolaiI]

Listening to a lot of great Chris Thile songs. :)

Raining at Sunset - keep coming back to that song. . of all my life, searching for the best and most wonderful things, that one's the most beautiful song. . If the day ever comes that it gets old, I don't think I'll listen to music anymore. . or what's the line, an asbestos dog chasing a paper cat through hell? That day.

Now these are just fun. . posted on my birthday boosts interest for me just a little :)

Love and laughter and music, what could be greater?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7rckqjt8OQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wtkYFy8LxE

[NikolaiI]

I'm listening to the infinite beauty and power of love when it's put to music. . .

At least, so it seems to me, in Big Sam Thompson by Thile, Meyer, Stuart, Watkins and others..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFJF39HtSY

[NikolaiI]

oh I love this world, so infinitely much

Rev. Gary Davis - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHayOpWimlM

It's so bright at the tip of the candle.

[NikolaiI]

Yo-Yo Ma, "Fugata," by Astor Piazzolla


And Yo-Yo Ma playing Lord of The Rings music :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSqIdKwQ0PU

[NikolaiI]

Listening to Orfeo, by Archie Fisher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMbaRTCmJg&list=PL19A4C34FD6766D77&index=1

[NikolaiI]

The Bothy Band, of course
"The Kid on the Mountain" currently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge6RAfHgeA8

[Clopin]

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

[NikolaiI]

"The Mountain Rain" - Archie Fisher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kSvypeueDg

[NikolaiI]

Listening to this most amazing album of Edgar Meyer's, I just discovered it today. Ever sine I heard his first solo album, he's been one of my very favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjBEU7hxFA&index=5&list=PL0F06F98BD7DD6046

[NikolaiI]

John Renbourn and Stephan Grossman, Keeper of the Vine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=RXu7ge-etJc

[NikolaiI]

Vladimir Vysotsky - Magadan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHXh-p5baY

[Emil Miller]

A few days ago I read in a newspaper that Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan) had made an album of Frank Sinatra's songs.
So after years of selling phony incomprehensible homespun philosophy, he appears to have finally grown up.
The article states that: 'above all, the horror is that he sings in a crooner country style'..... to which the only reply is ARRRRGGGGG!

It would seem that the times they are a changin'. We can but hope, but why listen to the croaky whining when you can hear it the way it was intended to be sung?



http://youtu.be/4iQhGb2db-Q

[Pompey Bum]

A few days ago I read in a newspaper that Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan) had made an album of Frank Sinatra's songs.

The rec'd shooooooows
Ah took the bloooooows
An' did it maaaah way!

[Emil Miller]

The rec'd shooooooows
Ah took the bloooooows
An' did it maaaah way!

Yep, it doesn't bear thinking about.

[Clopin]

S' been done anyway.

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

[Clopin]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0va3F2PWBJc

Jackson C. Frank (1965)

[Pompey Bum]

Blues Run the Game. Great song. Interesting guy. A burn victim and a bit of a psychopath. Not the best singer in the world, but he wrote some interesting songs. He's also supposed to be the guy who talked Sandy Denny into leaving a stable nursing job to become a singer (if anyone remembers her). Anyway, it's nice to see that his torch (no pun intended) has been passed to a new generation.

[Clopin]

Only one album though, too bad.

[Emil Miller]

S' been done anyway.

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

Infantile exhibitionism but not entirly without merit, as when he appears to shoot the suckers who paid to see him.
I think I would prefer Robert Zimmerman's attempt but it would be a close run thing.

[Clopin]

Hurricane is a good song though.

[Clopin]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=roNB1b9pUvc

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada

The best, in my opinion, album from the (French) Canadian sensations themselves!

[Pompey Bum]

Only one album though, too bad.

There are other recordings around though. Jackson C. Frank ended up a homeless drifter. Late in his life, a well-to-do fan of his brief early recording career found him pretty much on his back in an alley in New York City, and set him up in his own place. Before he died (which didn't take long), his patron had him record some new songs (which may or may not have been released on an album--I'm not sure). Some of the songs are scary. You can hear him breathing like a monster as he sings them. He was also pretty scary at that point: obese and feral looking, with one empty eye socket (the eye had apparently been shot out as he was being rescued). Some people think these songs are crap, but I find some of them powerful, in a kind of sad and scary way. They just seem like part of his whole weird story to me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4N05coN2g

[Clopin]

That's quite a song! I had never heard it. I know his life story though. I like that, when he was recording his music with Paul Simon, he was reportedly too shy to have anyone look at him while he played.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CprS7irIVCE

Joanna Newsom - Peach Plum Pear

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcOvPnl7wE

Joanna Newsom - Sawdust and Diamonds

[Lykren]

There are other recordings around though. Jackson C. Frank ended up a homeless drifter. Late in his life, a well-to-do fan of his brief early recording career found him pretty much on his back in an ally in New York City, and set him up in his own place. Before he died (which didn't take long), his patron had him record some new songs (which may or may not have been released on an album--I'm not sure). Some of the songs are scary. You can hear him breathing like a monster as he sings them. He was also pretty scary at that point: obese and feral looking, with one empty eye socket (the eye had apparently been shot out as he was being rescued). Some people think these songs are crap, but I find some of them powerful, in a kind of sad and scary way. They just seem like part of his whole weird story to me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4N05coN2g

Wow, fantastic. Thank you so much! Reminds me (though it is very different) of the late Elliott Smith towards the end of his life (which he ended himself with a kitchen knife).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX6etUAIbRU

(irritating crowd noise but magnificent nonetheless)

[Pompey Bum]

Oh you're welcome. Another guy who lived his blues was cool-jazz trumpeter and all around bad-*ss Chet Baker. Baker was also found in an alley, but unfortunately he was already dead. This is pre-heroin Baker:

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

And is post-heroin, doing a piece by Elvis Costello (who had engineered a brief comeback for Baker for a few years before he died). It's a great song to listen to when it's raining (and the best after-sex song in the history of music):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c

[Lykren]

Yeah, I know about Chet Baker. Almost Blue is a wonderful song! My favorite Chet though is his version of 'I Fall in Love Too Easily.'

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

While we're on the subject of depressive musicians, should we really neglect Nick Drake? Here's his 'Harvest Breed.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCy25ylGW_E

Definitely not your typical ballad.

[NikolaiI]

Jackson Frank's one of my all time favorites, it's sad to see him disparaged.

It's also sad to see his story relegated to such a callous remark by someone who previously said they thought poorly of them as a musician - never fun to discuss people you've loved your whole life, with people who think poorly of them.

Frank's story is very tragic; he was the only survivor of an explosion that destroyed his entire music class, and left him badly crippled. He learned to play guitar while in the hospital, and a lot of his music was incredibly good - had some depth of feeling that in some ways, I haven't seen anywhere else. .

My favorites by him are "Just Like Anything," "Marlene," "Milk and Honey," - a traditional song; Jackson's rendition of it is quite astounding - "Here Come the Blues," just a nice, short sweet blues number - and then there two lovely yet cryptic songs, "My Name is Carnival," and "Yellow Walls."

Naturally, we all wish people like him could have healed completely, and led normal lives.. healing work is so valuable. But unfortunately, he wasn't able to overcome his demons, and died at an early age, broke and destitute, like so many other famous musicians and artists.

Perhaps lending credit to Einstein's assertion: "The value of a human being is determined primarily by how he has attained liberation from the self."

[NikolaiI]

Yeah, I know about Chet Baker. Almost Blue is a wonderful song! My favorite Chet though is his version of 'I Fall in Love Too Easily.'

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

While we're on the subject of depressive musicians, should we really neglect Nick Drake? Here's his 'Harvest Breed.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCy25ylGW_E

Definitely not your typical ballad.

Drake's one of those interesting musicians that I came to later, after I'd already learned tons about the folk scene that he came from.. I was a little bit spoiled on him at first, because his guitar wasn't as incredibly skilled as some of the others from his time - Jansch and others.

At the same time, "From the Morning" was the first song I heard by him, and has ever since definitely been one of the most beautiful, simply incredible songs I've ever heard. . . It's always great to find those! :-)

I haven't gone much further into Drake's music, a few here and there. He definitely left an indeliable stamp on music.

[Pompey Bum]

While we're on the subject of depressive musicians, should we really neglect Nick Drake?

Yeah, poor Nick Drake. I think he had some kind of anxiety disorder that kept him from touring, so he wasn't seen as having a lot of commercial potential. He was a suicide, too, which is always sad. (Must be tough to have mental problems). Personally, I'm not crazy about a lot of his stuff. His voice is a little too sweet for me. But some of his songs are good. This one is fairly well known:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2JjJPDz3EE

A weird addendum to Jackson Frank's legend is a song written by Sandy Denny not long before she died (of booze and cocaine and a stairway that wouldn't stay put) that is supposed to be about Frank and to contain a cryptogram of his name. It would have been decades before Frank's work was "rediscovered" by this generation, so when she says "Do you still live there in Baltimore?" she probably didn't have had a clue what the answer was. Denny died in the '70s, but Frank had been a mentor (some say lover) in London in the '60s, and had talked her into a career as a singer (Fairport did a lot of his songs in the early years). Anyway, it's a sad, kind of creepy song. She was half out of her mind when she wrote it, and her songs and lyrics had given way to an obscure sort of surrealism by then. I like them a lot myself, but they're not everyone's cup of tea.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wRZrD5bXtdQ

[Clopin]

I love that Sandy Denny song.

More musicians who ended tragically.

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

Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel

[Max Ernst]

Is 23 a late age to get into classical music?

[Lykren]

No age limit!

[Lykren]

Does anyone else here like Grimes?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_0LzBv894

[Lykren]

No? Okay, how about Thom Yorke?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZl6BRY9IYQ

[NikolaiI]

Archie Fisher - Mount and Go (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz5q-ZP5-RU)

Planxty - Cunla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gk9dXLpGHc)

Macyn Taylor - Ragamuffin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z47_kjnXLsk) .. great performance, by a 16-year old, brilliant prodigy who graduated collage only a year later. I discovered her through a cover of "Reynadine," also a great song.. "Billie Jean" and several others, are really incredible.

Bothy Band - Fionnghuala (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aFAQvhA9kY)

Bothy Band Patsy Geary's/ Coleman's Cross (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sFsWevxrKk)

[NikolaiI]

Bothy Band - Strayaway Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvQWAByuHPU

The Bothy Band - The Kesh Jig / Give Us A Drink Of Water / Famous Ballymote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f-ILLD4vL4

[Lykren]

Just heard this song for the first time. I liked it. What do you think?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQV_cULobA

[Themis]

Há Dias - Luca Mundaca

[Clopin]

@Lykren - You browse /mu/ lad?

Anyway I wish I could post something cool in here, since I'm really quite hip, unfortunately I've been listening to this pretty much nonstop while grinding my Melee tech skill. Also the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex soundtrack.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDwR22TcAOc

[Lykren]

Haha, no, I gave up going to 4chan a long time ago and never went on /mu/ anyways.

[Clopin]

Death in June - Rhine Atrocity

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Wi6_2y3OU

Peste Noire - Ballade ****re les Anemis de la France

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9loIw0dI9n4

[Lykren]

Love this band:


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

[Pompey Bum]

A conversation with Ecurb has got me listening to this today. I can't thank him enough.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agr3XAWCdL0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_b0EGLHRk

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd3nwimUiCI

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

[Lykren]

That same conversation reminded me how much I love Johnny Cash (I love Joplin's 'Pearl' too though; soul through the roof, eh?).

We've all heard Cash's take on Nine Inch Nails (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc), here, right? Maybe my taste for melodramatic suffering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZwmxBmUNhs) is interfering with my good judgment, but I honestly think that Cash's version is a Great Work of Art. In its condemnation of all life has to offer it reminds me of Macbeth's last soliloquy.

In other news my favorite J-pop group has a new single!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfYis6VuXY

Hooray!

[Pompey Bum]

Hooray!

I kind of feel like I've heard that one before. Maybe it was around Taipei last fall. Or maybe J-pop all just sounds kind of similar. Just the same, there's no real response but hooray!

[Lykren]

Hahahaha all J-pop does not sound the same! Or maybe it does, because that song was released 15 days ago so you can't have heard it last fall. Actually a lot of big artists in Japan are produced (read: their songs and lyrics are written, arranged, performed, all but sung) by a guy named Nakata Yasutaka; Meg, Perfume, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and many others. So maybe it all sounds the same cause so much of it is just one guy.

All my friends tease me for liking that stuff, but what can I say? It tickles me in just the right way*. Makes my heart go pitter-patter and all that. Like being in love but just the nice parts. I don't like AKB48 and their cohorts though, they're too sugary even for me.

Back to, uh, 'real' music, this song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Jmcynp9d0) is my favorite on Coltrane's My Favorite Things, though maybe 'objectively' the title track is better.

*also the girls are cute

[Pompey Bum]

Oh I love J-pop. Like I said--hooray! :)

But since you're getting into grown up music now, meet the Sublime:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU

[Lykren]

Pshh, I've always been into grown-up music, even when I was a kid I listened to Bach.

Blue in Green is my favorite song from Kind of Blue. You're the second person I've met who referred instantly to that particular song when bringing up Kind of Blue; is it your favorite too? I think it's, if nothing else, the best expression of the mood of that album; lyrical and uncluttered, yet rich in rainbow fragments.

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, it's my favorite piece by Davis.

[Lykren]

Do you listen to Radiohead, Pompey?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9IODJdi3GA

[Lykren]

I'm listening to this right now.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhSGBpRmaV0

The spoken introduction is hilarious. The rest of it is too. I'd be their boy.

[Lykren]

And, after listening to K-pop for the last 12 hours, and most of yesterday too, I'm listening to this now


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqqSJfS3Lm4

thanks to North Star, who brought it up in a games thread a while ago. Incredible performance!

Speaking of which, I also recently got to see the Annie-Sophie Mutter Trio perform the Archduke Trio and Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor. Sublime, sublime, sublime.

[Clopin]

G.I.S.M - Japanese Crust Punk

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

Peste Noire - French Bawdy BM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_9Gu8TNo9I

[tailor STATELY]

Emerald Waltz - Terry Oldfield

[Pike Bishop]

Yet Again--Grizzly Bear...truly the greatest of Radiohead's children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuG9i5cwGW0

[tailor STATELY]

HIST channel: "101 Gadgets That Changed the World"

[Sido]

Flapper Girl - The Lumineers

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

[Lykren]

Pretty stunned by this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC0fw3iHsVU

[Lykren]

yay


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UeQLO43a2Y

[Clopin]

Boris - Japanese drone/rock band, covering Sometimes from Loveless.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhSS1hUUjQ

[Clopin]

I like The Knife too yo. My iPad won't load YouTube videos from links, but I just noticed the embed.

[Sido]

Destiny - Syntax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wC2NC6h_tQ

[Helga]

Soko album 'I thought I was an alien'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UReXSSe1abE

[Sido]

Arwen's Vigil -ThePianoGuys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0tBS_IAX-M

[Emil Miller]

I thought it would be nice to hear some real singing.

https://youtu.be/4MH_8-iHBxs

[Helga]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-r2BARj6Oo

[Sido]

Breaking The Habit - Linkin Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H4l9RpkwM

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Del Reeves "Girl on the Billboard"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaH0X7wQxN0

[Helga]

My brother in concert singing groovy kind of love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7m4V_brb8o

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Teehee. ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTQAaJWW54

[Helga]

Bridge over troubled water- Simon and Garfunkel

[Sido]

Take On Me - A-Ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Blue Cheer Gypsy Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGeGAML--PI

[Snowqueen]

A tribute to Amjad Sabri...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a18py61_F_w

[Tyrion Cheddar]

A Joe Satriani tune not a one of you would know. ;-)

[Snowqueen]

C'est déjà ça

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIWL9S32QQ

[Helga]

simply groovy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7m4V_brb8o

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

In memory of Leon Russell the pride of Oklahoma a "Stranger in a Strange Land...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQbk2C4ZmsE

[NikolaiI]

it happened to be playing,
Big Sam Thompson, Chris Thile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdFJF39HtSY

[Sancho]

Imelda May.

I do dig a tune in three-quarter time:

https://youtu.be/mY02Tz5cHlo

I heard her for the first time yesterday on the radio doing this song on her new album:

Black Tears (with Jeff Beck)

https://youtu.be/S2xmzjKujGs

And then I went home and bought all her stuff on iTunes.

Oh man!

[Lev Myshkin]

Swans - The River that Runs with Love Won't Run Dry.

[Scheherazade]

Everybody's Talkin'

https://youtu.be/2AzEY6ZqkuE

[Danik 2016]

Reminds me of the 70ties and Midnight Cowboy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2IdfBkkj0

[Scheherazade]

Reminds me of the 70ties and Midnight Cowboy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS2IdfBkkj0

Spot on. :) Should watch the movie again some time soon.

It was one of those songs I had heard before I had even started learning English and absolutely fell in love.

[Scheherazade]

Angel of the Morning ~ Juice Newton

https://youtu.be/HTzGMEfbnAw

[Danik 2016]

Just received this. For Malcolm Young fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9evtVy19ebQ

[Snowqueen]

Ahmad Faraz listening to his own ghazal.

https://youtu.be/8d7jDX_vt3Q

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed the video. The beauty of the poem sung with such a beautiful voice is quite enchanting - even without a knowledge of the Urdu language
(an English translation would lose the aromatic flavor of the Urdu language here) - from an article linked below.

http://pakistanlink.org/Community/2007/July07/06/01.HTM

Interesting to me: Faraz has visited Newark, CA , a small community in the greater San Francisco Bay Area near Silicon Valley, where I attended high school.

Lastly -
In conclusion one cannot help but feel that writing in English about who many consider the finest Urdu poetry writer alive today remains a difficult task. To the reader all I can add is that the flavor, the smell and the essence of the language is indeed almost impossible to translate but we have to continue to inform the world about the richness of our cultural heritage.... I've noted my frustration with translations before and the quote most eloquently sums up my loss.

Thank you for your introduction !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Snowqueen]

So glad you enjoyed the song, Tailor Stately. Faraz is one of greatest poets of Urdu languge in Indian subcontinent. He wrote many forms of poetry like ghazals, nazm and kuliat.

Yes, you are right. It's almost impossible to translate Urdu poetry into English.
Here is another song with English and Urdu subtitles. I hope you'll enjoy that too.

https://youtu.be/kw4tT7SCmaY

[Danik 2016]

Madredeus(Portugal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI73ADm9jDY&index=10&list=RDoUgPNZWhH-U

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you Snowqueen. The translations I found gave me a hint of the beauty of the lyrics. One of them at: http://blog.chandrahasa.com/archives/2749

From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afreen :
The name Afreen/Afrin is mainly used in the Arabic, Egyptian and Indian culture. It has many meanings, including "most powerful rose" in Arabic, "delightful and elegant" in Urdu, "encouragement of goodness" in Turkish, مهتاب ("moonlight") in Persian, and "gem" in Egyptian.

The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary by R.S. McGregor gives the translation "beauty", as does A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic by Hans Wehr.

The primary translation is "the most beautiful one"; also cited: Word/name: UAE; Meaning: Beautiful, enlightenment, silk of heaven

Another explanation (from http://www.bollymeaning.com/2010/07/aafreen-afreen-meaning.html ):

Aafreen/ Afreen Meaning
Aafreen is actually a word having multiple meanings, it's a word used in praise, to express the feeling of one being overwhelmed, it means brave, and it means to acclaim too.

But when we come to a song, it generally means overwhelmingly praiseworthy. For example, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Aafreen Aafreen goes like, husn-e-jaana ki taareef mumkin nahi, aafreen aafreen, aafreen aafreen. Here, he clearly says he's overwhelmed. In Himesh Reshammiya's aafreen tera chehra, aafreen is praiseworthy again.

So as far as poetry, especially romantic poetry is concerned, aafreen is very much praiseworthy, overwhelmingly so.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[tailor STATELY]

Danik 2016: Enjoyed the video... the carousel on the beach was a nice touch. Found a rough translation at http://lyrics-on.net/en/1060092-guitarra-lyrics.html , my take (an interpretive approach/not translation):


When a guitar plays
in the hands of a master
It touches the heart
urging the listener to sing

My coffin will be
most curiously shaped
In the form of a heart
with the soul of a guitar

Guitar, sweet guitar
I weep with your song
Life is more gentle
when I share in your tears

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Danik 2016]

Glad you enjoyed the song, tS. Your rendering of the text reads fine too.

[Scheherazade]

https://youtu.be/DZPEUyiNcjA

[Danik 2016]

Turned internet inside out to find a translation of the lyrics but no go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gJMKalxms4&list=PLs6GeP4EBpDQ7cmkd8RAEh1WYD_Bfi8_B

[tailor STATELY]

Turned internet inside out to find a translation of the lyrics but no go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gJMKalxms4&list=PLs6GeP4EBpDQ7cmkd8RAEh1WYD_Bfi8_B

(lol)

First approximation is pretty sad:

I skulaan, or dela. I play and I do not wake up. If that's the case, this business fudaa. But it's not a scum that's studying. I can skigla, Stadist veks. Gambia or Venezuela. But no pie must ever vege gets. Even when I go to the dump. I skulaan, or dela. I play and I do not wake up. If this happens, the tsydeemit fudaa. But it's not a scum that's studying. So long, I'm hanging out when the stecifer's clog is in the tower. So long, I'm going to blink when Skuru rolls on his tracks. I skulaan, or dela. I play and I do not wake up. If that's the case, this business fudaa. But it's not a scum that's studying.

Still working...

One of the problems seems to be the extensive use of slang:
- Oh, yes, even though the slang has been spoken for over a hundred years, so slangibis have not been much earlier, even though it is really expressive. This is a tribute to the stage slang, Judge Nurmio says. ref: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://www.iskelma.fi/uutiset/musiikki/a-108097&prev=search

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumari_ja_Spuget&prev=search -
Yes, although slang has been spoken for more than a hundred years, so slangibis have not been much earlier, even if it is a joke of expressive power. This is a tribute to the stage slang; skulaa or dela! »
(Judge Nurmio)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[tailor STATELY]

Another possibility from: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://automobilrevue.net/v/NGdKTUthbHhtczQ&prev=search



timomastosalo In reply to Kamona Zhang
1st the translation what it roughly means,*
then I'll have my own fun, and try to change the words so you'd get an impression*
how Odd and difficult slang sounds for people outside of Helsinki, who speak more to the standard Finnish, although many dialects can be very different then the standard.*But the Helsinki slang (Stadin slang) is on a different level.*It 's distantly related to Finnish :)*

The song:*
- I'm playin ', or dyin'.*I'm playin ', an' not jus 'thinkin'.*
If the luck is striking, this business is Kickin '.*
But he won 'be playin', who's afearin '.*

I can move (travel?) Away from The City * (* Helsinki).*
to Gambia or Venezuela.*
But I can not get Sörkka *, out of me.*
Even when I'm dyin '.*
(* Sörkka = Sörnäinen, a Helsinki district - like Bronx in NY, or East End in London)*

I'm playin ', or dyin'.*I'm playin ', an' not jus 'thinkin'.*
If the luck is striking, the systems are Kickin '.*
But he won 'be playin', who's afearin '.*

So long, I'm hanging aroung here,*
as the station clock is in the tower.*
So long, I'm swingin '(groovin') here,*
as the Tram number seven rolls on its Rails.*

I'm playin ', or dyin'.*I'm playin ', an' not jus 'thinkin'.*
If the luck is striking, this business is Kickin '.*
But he won 'be playin', who's afearin '.*

xxx*

Now, here's how it would roughly sound in English (?),*
if we compare how 'The Slang' sounds to Finnish ears:*

- Ah'm sculin '*, or Dellin' (even 'Dealin', from 'dividing, deal, share' in Swedish).*
Ah'm playin ', an' no 'jus' reelin'.*
(* skulaa -> to 'scule', sculing = 'to play music, sports')*
Iv da chag's striking ', des business is peddin'.*
Bu 'he won' be sculin ', who's Fearin'.*

Ah c'n skiggle, wegs from Da Ciddeh * (* Stad = Helsinki).*
To Gambia or Venezuela.*
You can 'ge' Seurxs *, Weg or 'me.*
Even when Ah'm Dellin '.*
(* Sour ('Seurxs') = Sörnäinen, a Helsinki district*
- like Bronx in NY, or East End in London)*

Ah'm sculin ', or Dellin'.*Ah'm playin ', an' no 'jus' reelin'.*
Iv da chag's strikin ', by chyddems'r peddin'.*
Bu 'he won' be sculin ', who's Fearin'.*

So long, Ah'm I'm going to 'aroun' here,*
a da staish clogger, is in da tow'r.*
So long, Ah'm swingin '(groovin') aroun 'here,*
the da scure sev'ner, rolls on its Rails.*

Ah'm sculin ', or Dellin'.*Ah'm playin ', an' no 'jus' reelin'.*
Iv da chag's striking ', des business is peddin'.*
Bu 'he won' be sculin ', who's Fearin'.


Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Danik 2016]

(lol)

First approximation is pretty sad:

I skulaan, or dela. I play and I do not wake up. If that's the case, this business fudaa. But it's not a scum that's studying. I can skigla, Stadist veks. Gambia or Venezuela. But no pie must ever vege gets. Even when I go to the dump. I skulaan, or dela. I play and I do not wake up. If this happens, the tsydeemit fudaa. But it's not a scum that's studying. So long, I'm hanging out when the stecifer's clog is in the tower. So long, I'm going to blink when Skuru rolls on his tracks. I skulaan, or dela. I play and I do not wake up. If that's the case, this business fudaa. But it's not a scum that's studying.

Still working...

One of the problems seems to be the extensive use of slang: ref: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://www.iskelma.fi/uutiset/musiikki/a-108097&prev=search

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumari_ja_Spuget&prev=search -

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Lol! Very valid efforts though, thanks tS! It is one of the songs of the film "The Other Side of Hope!

[Danik 2016]

Another possibility from: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=https://automobilrevue.net/v/NGdKTUthbHhtczQ&prev=search



Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),

tailor STATELY

That is phantastic, Taylor, a big thank you.:) You even managed to reproduce the rhythm in the English version!

[Danik 2016]

Bolero by Ravel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhhkGyJ092E

[Danik 2016]

Georgian lullaby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPttC7uXNE

[Danik 2016]

Disturbed-The Sound of Silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

[tailor STATELY]

Have heard this version... very powerful... enjoyed. I remember when it first came out in the #1 hit version of it way back when, and in the movie... wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the Wikipedia link, I posted it in the forum where I watched the Disturbed video. I also remember enjoying The Undergraduate, but didn´t remember this was one of the songs of the film. The song has an interesting development story.

[free]

https://genius.com/Pet-shop-boys-can-you-forgive-her-lyrics