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[Mutatis-Mutandis]

That was really good, and a pretty progressive sound for 1964. I really liked the horns, and it reminded me of The Beatles, and that's always good. 9/10.

That's right. I'm back to plague this thread. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTty4gqhnvc&feature=relmfu)

[Drkshadow03]

That was really good, and a pretty progressive sound for 1964. I really liked the horns, and it reminded me of The Beatles, and that's always good.

That's right. I'm back to plague this thread. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTty4gqhnvc&feature=relmfu)

2/10. I used to love this kind of stuff when I was in high school, but the gravely screaming that sounds like the singer is gargling rocks and sharp metal objects to show how angry he is with the world got old after I hit a certain age. They sound like a ton of other similar bands from my youth and don't distinguish themselves in the guitar work, which might've bumped them a few points because I'm sucker for stand-out guitar riffs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk&feature=related

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

2/10. I used to love this kind of stuff when I was in high school, but the gravely screaming that sounds like the singer is gargling rocks and sharp metal objects to show how angry he is with the world got old after I hit a certain age. They sound like a ton of other similar bands from my youth and don't distinguish themselves in the guitar work, which might've bumped them a few points because I'm sucker for stand-out guitar riffs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk&feature=related
Never been into the whole punk thing, but the name of the band is cool. 4/10.

Some awesome riffage here. I love this band's intricacy, and the drums are amazing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0Qjw2eRtE)

[billl]

Some awesome riffage here. I love this band's intricacy, and the drums are amazing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0Qjw2eRtE)

I think it would be good background music for an action scene on a TV show, and I can imagine people in a gym or locker room getting their adrenaline going to this track--if the vocals were removed, that is. Listening to the musicianship, these guys are cetainly quite athletic individually, and they kick *** as a band. But I don't buy the singer's singing at all. Of course some people love these sorts of vocals, and I'm thinking that many of these people probably understand what I'm saying here, they've probably heard or sensed the objection before: it sounds to me like a child trying to be awesome by making a monster voice.

What I'd like to hear is a defense of this singing style. I haven't had too many discussions about it, but the couple of times that I have, no one has been able to really articulate to me the attraction. It's usually just fans talking about how different groups are awesome, and how they love this or that singer's intensity, how one guy's voice sounds destroyed, or whatever--and it's sometimes leavened with humor, like they know that such a singer sounds just like a bad cartoon hero show looks. But when the music is on, these adult fans do seem to enjoy the vocals without the ironic detachment that they would presumably have while watching He-Man. Again, I'm not asking rhetorically here: How can such singing be taken seriously?

5/10

This one (the original album's opening track) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yEQTuGArRQ) was a wonderful relief to me back in the days when one often had to simply pay $15 for the CD to see if you liked a singer you had heard good things about. Good for driving.

[Jack of Hearts]

6/10. This reader likes your music alright but what's going on with those lyrics?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIhNgmJ0kvo&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIhNgmJ0kvo&feature=related

One of my favourite singles. Quite unlike anything else I'd ever heard. 10/10


Always the prompt of a not-unmanly tear.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UktmFl5vZUk&feature=related)

[billl]

The vagaries of human experience have led me, for perhaps unworthy reasons, to stand determined not to give that man a 10 for anything, not even if he puts something that beautiful together.

9/10

How about this, then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blqxQV3ak2Y

No, no, no, that's an interesting one, but here's my submission for this phase:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDbMiyAxc80&feature=plcp&context=C37545d3UDOEgsToPDskIuRfF0RyjHuxLIKs0qY1lG

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

It wasn't bad, billl, but it's just too safe for my taste, and I've never been a fan of solo performances unless they're doing something really interesting. 3.5/10.

I think it would be good background music for an action scene on a TV show, and I can imagine people in a gym or locker room getting their adrenaline going to this track--if the vocals were removed, that is. Listening to the musicianship, these guys are cetainly quite athletic individually, and they kick *** as a band. But I don't buy the singer's singing at all. Of course some people love these sorts of vocals, and I'm thinking that many of these people probably understand what I'm saying here, they've probably heard or sensed the objection before: it sounds to me like a child trying to be awesome by making a monster voice.

What I'd like to hear is a defense of this singing style. I haven't had too many discussions about it, but the couple of times that I have, no one has been able to really articulate to me the attraction. It's usually just fans talking about how different groups are awesome, and how they love this or that singer's intensity, how one guy's voice sounds destroyed, or whatever--and it's sometimes leavened with humor, like they know that such a singer sounds just like a bad cartoon hero show looks. But when the music is on, these adult fans do seem to enjoy the vocals without the ironic detachment that they would presumably have while watching He-Man. Again, I'm not asking rhetorically here: How can such singing be taken seriously?

It is just a matter of taste. And, in the case of heavy metal vocals (in a case such as this, they're always referred to as vocals, because it definitely is not singing), it is almost an acquired taste. Justin Beiber sounds absolutely horrible when I hear him--I wonder how anyone can tolerate such a din. I like vocals like that because I like them. I didn't like them the first time I heard them . . . one has to work their way up to gutturals (vocals such as what I linked there and before are made using the gut more than the actual vocal chords) like these. I started with Metallica, which is tolerable to most, then went on to early Pantera, then Slipknot, and worked my way up to vocals like those. It's really just a way to convey the aggressive sound the band wants, and to be able to do vocals like that good (and, trust me, there is a difference between good guttural vocals and bad, if only for the discerning ear), and also go on tour and do them 4 to 5 times a week for 45 minutes each of those times and not blow out your voice box is very, very hard to do, and takes just as much practice and training as any traditional singer.

Still, I still don't like all heavy metal vocals, such as the screeching vocals found in most black metal, like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGk0_1ZlFyk). I love the instrumentation, but can't get past the shrieking.

[billl]

Aww, Ok, but I don't know--I think Natasha is being a little dangerous on a certain level in her own, confessional way.


Anyhow, thanks for your defense of those vocals, Mutatis. I was thinking today in the car that maybe more tuneful vocals would just be a bad match in the ears of some fans. And so (you seem to be pointing out) some sort of art of yelling with, I guess, realms of nuance is built up. Pointing out the evolution of the style (across groups in time) is probably the best part of your post--it directly addresses the "acquired taste" angle.



Still, I still don't like all heavy metal vocals, such as the screeching vocals found in most black metal, like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGk0_1ZlFyk). I love the instrumentation, but can't get past the shrieking.

Yes, I detect a hint of "excited Beavis" in his upper register. The playing was pretty good, but the changes/chords seemed a bit arbitrary now and then. But what do I know?

3.4/10

Let's slow it down, and well, it's another female--but let's see where a Danzig song might fit in all of this (if you don't want to listen to her interview, skip to 1:25 for the song, and by all means turn it up):

http://www.avclub.com/articles/wye-oak-covers-danzig,53066/

[Jack of Hearts]

Yuck. 2/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qxaFmlVnA

[JuniperWoolf]

Don't like Dylan, he's dull. 3.34/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Nq7RmYCGk&feature=related
The lyrics are below the video (just click "show more"), ten points if you can identify which classic horror writer wrote the last two lines in a short story. The rest of the lyrics are a letter that this author wrote to a friend. Literature trivia!

[MarkBastable]

Not bad. 5/10. I had to look up the horror writer.


A terrific song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6tMFFk6FM) with a very clever and completely convincing lyric, of which Alan Sillitoe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sillitoe) would have been proud.

[Paulclem]

Good song. I've not heard much - if any of the Arctic Monkeys. 7.5/10

More social commentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0Iai6iFJk

[Jack of Hearts]

Uh... that vid is all crotch shots of dudes, Paul...

Soooo, 6/10 for the music at least. Didn't really like the words, though.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5ZVIpB4sw




EDIT: Song starts at 1:15.

[JuniperWoolf]

Nah. I get **** from my friends for disliking Cash but I still can't stand that folksy crap. 1/10

This one's got a sweet bass solo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t7Z2oiiHKg) at the end. You don't hear enough bass solos.

[Paulclem]

Uh... that vid is all crotch shots of dudes, Paul...

Soooo, 6/10 for the music at least. Didn't really like the words, though.

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Does it? I didn't watch it. I'll have to start vetting my own vids.

[JuniperWoolf]

Does it? I didn't watch it. I'll have to start vetting my own vids.

Haha, that might be for the best. The entire video was an ode to some guy's crotch.

[papayahed]

erm, yeah that was some bass solo. 6.5/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxhugRKZ8g

[papayahed]

Haha, that might be for the best. The entire video was an ode to some guy's crotch.


hahahahahahahahahaahahahaha.

That's some video.

[Jack of Hearts]

For some reason, always thought that was Hall & Oates. Still don't like it, though. It's plastic-y, pre-digested and his saccharine vocals.... make 3/10. That's a pretty popular song though, so clearly 3/10 is not the general consensus.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TfqbuTBqX8&ob=av3e

[papayahed]

meh, 6.8/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1tpCkAecI

[Gregory Samsa]

Not my cup of tea. 4/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BsZt_3MifU

[sadparadise]

8 OUT OF 10 Reminds me of something Dylan might create.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh0cr2PF_5s

[Jack of Hearts]

4.32628/10.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKV4UD0GQeE&ob=av2e

[MarkBastable]

4.32628/10.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKV4UD0GQeE&ob=av2e

A really good voice of its type. But very much a type. 5/10


My current favourite song... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39yWiUNaX6k)

[Jack of Hearts]

7 17/36 out of 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcMVYzfXS8k

[MarkBastable]

7 17/36 out of 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcMVYzfXS8k

I don't understand at all the awe with which Orbison is regarded. He has a knack of selecting or writing nursery-rhyme tunes, which he delivers in a voice that irritates me beyond endurance. 3/10

Here he is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFjWIooPq0s&feature=fvst) with a top class back-up band singing a song written by Costello. And I still don't like him.

[Jack of Hearts]

Three skriddly-dumps out of five buggaboos.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDR4-VJxMx4

[billl]

8 out of 10 cubits

a "bigger" song with similar vocals. humble or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjrUOlK2714&ob=av2n

[Jack of Hearts]

lol haha

[MarkBastable]

8 out of 10 cubits

a "bigger" song with similar vocals. humble or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjrUOlK2714&ob=av2n

Odd that. Like a lot of their stuff, a charming but undisciplined bit of writing made to sound coherent by calculating and rigidly disciplined production. 7/10

To mark the occasion of my purchase of a Rickenbacker 330/12....this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYa5YkJu4Q).

[Paulclem]

Uh... that vid is all crotch shots of dudes, Paul...




:lol:

Just watched that video. How daft. I knew the song so just listened.

[Paulclem]

Odd that. Like a lot of their stuff, a charming but undisciplined bit of writing made to sound coherent by calculating and rigidly disciplined production. 7/10

To mark the occasion of my purchase of a Rickenbacker 330/12....this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYa5YkJu4Q).

I like the Beatles 7/10 for that one. It has that distinct 60's tone doesn't it. Unfortunately I don't have the musical vocab to describe it better, but it's of a type. I picked up a bit of the same kind of...notes... as were in Money. Good stuff though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGD8aQ2GKr0

I recently had the chance to buy an album of Al Green's in Sainsbury's for £3 quid. Haven't seen hide nor hair of it since. Bah

[MystyrMystyry]

Meh - 6.66/10

Blues:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw

[Paulclem]

Meh - 6.66/10

Blues:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw

Shouldn't a meh song be 4 or less?

Good song 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0isR1emmPs

Blues theme

[BookBeauty]

8.8 out of 10 sun glasses. :D

A fun, bluesy song, with some whimsical notes thrown in!

Here's a slightly obscure artist that I'd like to advocate. Lisa Hannigan is her name. It was very difficult to choose a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRdj8MRj9Js&feature=relmfu

[Jack of Hearts]

10.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3mtsBFe2Us

[BookBeauty]

I give that one a 10 too. Nostalgia purposes though. I grew up with Clapton. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcH_bslOj8g

[Jack of Hearts]

6 gizbits outta 10 o mi liddlebits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA7wDt676pk

[MarkBastable]

6 gizbits outta 10 o mi liddlebits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA7wDt676pk

8/10 Very strong - and not just because of the profanity either. It has some real fizz about it, and oozes plausibility. She sounds as though she's been things and done places. (As opposed to Lisa Hannigan, about whom, taking to heart advice in another thread, I thought I'd better say nothing at all.)

There's a good nature/nurture argument to be had here, by the way. Martha's lyrical rhythms and internal rhymes - not to mention her sense of melody and her delivery - are a lot like her father's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKqZZg2U6t4).

[Jack of Hearts]

Four beard hairs out of so much beard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCg2VMtTF9c

[BookBeauty]

8 out of 10 poetic verses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0MF8pwktg

[Jack of Hearts]

7 sweet lil things out of 10 pride n joys.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYzB0Y-8EI

[BookBeauty]

6.5 out of 10 toe taps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1SiOL7XhhA :D

[Paulclem]

6.5 out of 10 toe taps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1SiOL7XhhA :D

I didn't like it, though they have nice voices. 3/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGyOKr8frw

I really can't place where I heard this. It just seemed to be there.

[MarkBastable]

6/10 The appeal is entirely nostalgic, for me at least. I'm quite happy to hear that tune about once every twenty-five years and give it an indulgent lick of my Curly-Wurly.

However, it has given rise to one of my favourite ever YouTube comments, which I'll reproduce here to save you having to scroll through a couple of pages of semi-coherent one-liners. One contributor describes Lindisfarne as

"...the band who helped make the early 70s what they are today."

Similar sort of period (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMKlA50zGo&feature=related) - a song that my intermittent band takes a shot at.

[Paulclem]

6/10 The appeal is entirely nostalgic, for me at least. I'm quite happy to hear that tune about once every twenty-five years and give it an indulgent lick of my Curly-Wurly.

However, it has given rise to one of my favourite ever YouTube comments, which I'll reproduce here to save you having to scroll through a couple of pages of semi-coherent one-liners. One contributor describes Lindisfarne as

"...the band who helped make the early 70s what they are today."

Similar sort of period (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMKlA50zGo&feature=related) - a song that my intermittent band takes a shot at.

Yes - I agree with the nostalgia. I noticed an Alan Price track in the list next to the video. That'd be the same - nostalgia.

Excellent track - 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAh_4s_-tas&feature=related

Super this.

[Jack of Hearts]

5!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc

[Sancho Panza]

That was reasonably good as cheesy rock goes, but I think something a bit louder and angrier is called for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxjeqCd6Zm0

[Paulclem]

That was reasonably good as cheesy rock goes, but I think something a bit louder and angrier is called for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxjeqCd6Zm0

I didn't like it. Good intro though. 3/10

I prefer this. I sometimes sing it when I'm pushing 10 miles per hour on my bike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsuDFRu8B3U&feature=related

[Shalot]

I didn't like it. Good intro though. 3/10

I prefer this. I sometimes sing it when I'm pushing 10 miles per hour on my bike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsuDFRu8B3U&feature=related

10/10 - deep purple. Quality.

This is my current song of the month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPKTQkkK3YM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur30bn_3G58

He looks like such a boy to have a voice like that.

[BookBeauty]

8 out of 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4lfwQ0LlUg

[MarkBastable]

There's some Dylan I really like, and that isn't it. Pedestrian tune and undisciplined lyrics served up in a lazy arrangement. 4/10


Who's that listenin'? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFNiSjN4BBY)

[Paulclem]

There's some Dylan I really like, and that isn't it. Pedestrian tune and undisciplined lyrics served up in a lazy arrangement. 4/10


Who's that listenin'? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFNiSjN4BBY)

That's an excellent song. 9/10

Difficult to follow with something as good. Something different then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBemzu1Fchk

Excellent film too.

[Jack of Hearts]

Accounting for being made to look at Jon Voight's pubic hair, that gives you...

2 Lisas out of 5 Hannigans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvwJMa5b1Qg



P.S. 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues' is just one of MANY amazing songs on that album.

[BookBeauty]

Hannigan did a cover which I loved, but I thought I should be true blue and go with the original. Annnd 9/10 for that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB9tqgdCt5I

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB9tqgdCt5I


A very underrated Beatles song - one of my favourites. 10/10

Here's another (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfdVvjdSfTw) which doesn't get the profile it deserves.

[BookBeauty]

True enough. 8.5 out of 10. I've heard it so often, I may be a poor judge. :)

Strangely enough, it has been said that Sgt. Peppers is one of the greatest albums of music history, although I would choose a different Beatles album for that title. Just my preference though. I suppose the theme appeals to people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHekNnySAfM&feature=endscreen&NR=1

[Jack of Hearts]

God, love both of those Beatles' songs so much. They're on the short list, that's for sure- a lot of Let it Be is just pure gold and it's even better without Spectre's overdubs (Let it Be... Naked) even though we're all used to hearing it the first way. And 'Good Morning Good Morning' is one of this reader's favorites, too. Short listed.

9 loves out of 10 lives, let's get together and feel alright for Mr. Marley.

Here's one of this reader's absolute favorites!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wp91YPGnLw

[MarkBastable]

Strangely enough, it has been said that Sgt. Peppers is one of the greatest albums of music history, although I would choose a different Beatles album for that title.

So would I. Revolver or Abbey Road.

10/10 for She Said She Said, Jack.

Regardless of genre, you can't knock a fantastic melody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jgIezosVA).

[Jack of Hearts]

0. Absolute and complete crap. A nothing song that desperately wants to be felt, like so many of the worst are. Audrey Hepburn did manage to save it somewhat from its banal and for-the-demographic sentimentality, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrd14PxaUco

[BookBeauty]

Wow, that's a pretty harsh sentiment.:D 9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974ePdYMz4Q

[Paulclem]

Wow, that's a pretty harsh sentiment.:D 9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974ePdYMz4Q

I like it - good guitar sounds.

I liked this in the 90's.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBi-LNM0Og&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

0. Absolute and complete crap.


I'da said the same at your age. Certainly about that song, and probably more vehemently.

It's a shame I won't be around to see you change your mind.

[billl]

I liked this in the 90's.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBi-LNM0Og&feature=related

I remember The Stone Roses getting some attention in the U.S., but the Happy Mondays didn't hit at all over here--I mention this because the song is pretty groovy, but I didn't get the chance to hear it and make it part of my nostalgic repertoire. So all I can do is enjoy the second-hand nostalgia.

But I liked the 90's, and that means a solid 8/10, once the complicated algebra of appreciation is shaken out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Trp3U5IJI

I can't find the album version, but this is a nice alternative. We had a cool radio station back then, and I'll never forget the night the DJ played track after track off of this young woman's first album. The same night, he was also playing stuff off of Stanley Jordan's debut album, which he had also just discovered.

[Jack of Hearts]

I'da said the same at your age. Certainly about that song, and probably more vehemently.

It's a shame I won't be around to see you change your mind.

Are you insinuating that this reader just needs to be dealt a few hard ones before he'll cross Moon River in style one day?

What, to you, is the appeal of 'Moon River'? You're a man of varied tastes, to say the least.



J

EDIT: Also, Sgt. Pepper's is flawless. Revolver is one track six away from being flawless. Abbey Road is Sgt. Pepper's only real contender. That's a hell of a record.


EDIT EDIT: 7 for billl's. The music is cool but the lyrical delivery... is interesting only in one way at best.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TEBtJbi7Q

[BookBeauty]

Back to Dylan!? 8 nasal-vocals out of 10 guitar strums.

I'm torn between Beatle albums, at best. Agreed that Revolver is one track six away. :P The fact that 'Yellow Submarine' is often how the young'uns associate them usually makes my skin crawl.

There have been so many occasions where people have told me, ''The Beatles!? Didn't they write 'Yellow Submarine'? I hate them!'' ... I shake my head sadly.

Despite the many flops, and even though you can tell they were falling apart at the seams, the 'White album' is my favourite right now, but I wouldn't necessarily call it 'the best'. There's just too much 'best' in the Beatles.

And on that note, one of my favourites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRCxRfpQk8

[MarkBastable]

What, to you, is the appeal of 'Moon River'? You're a man of varied tastes, to say the least.

The melody.



Also, Sgt. Pepper's is flawless. Revolver is one track six away from being flawless.

I'd rather Yellow Submarine than Within You Without You.

Actually, I think there are couple of weak songs on Revolver but I think it has more great songs than Pepper.

9/10 for Dylan. Though I prefer the less limp Blood on the Tracks version.

Oh hang on. Long, Long, Long got snuck in there. Which I've always thought was one that slipped past Quality Control. 6/10

Ah - and now it's Mother Nature's Son. Which is the sort of pleasant, unpretentious whimsy McCartney can knock out whilst simultaneously driving a car, texting the florist and making bolognese. 7/10

I tend to like songs that have an unusual lyrical angle on relationships, because so much pop music deals either with 'met her' or 'lost her'. Hats Off to Larry, for instance, will always have a place in my heart - because no other song I know of deals with that emotional position.

And here's one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uIrXfVtXbI&feature=related) that deals not with emotional upheaval, but with emotional stasis. Clever lyric and affecting arrangement.

[BookBeauty]

(Sorry, I edited it and put in 'Mother Nature's Son' instead. You people are almost as quick as I am at posting. :P With Long, Long, Long... I'm pretty sure he was singing about his Lord, rather than his lady. I'm an editing monster, I admit it.)

8/10 for Simon and Garfunkel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ&ob=av3e

[MarkBastable]

(Sorry, I edited it and put in 'Mother Nature's Son' instead. You people are almost as quick as I am at posting. :P With Long, Long, Long... I'm pretty sure he was singing about his Lord, rather than his lady. I'm an editing monster, I admit it.)

8/10 for Simon and Garfunkel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ&ob=av3e

Have edited accordingly. You need to put one up. Oh, you did.

There was a time I had a reputation here for being snarkily dismissive of almost every song offered. I seem to have shaken that off, and I have no desire to re-adopt it, so I stopped the vid as soon as I saw the word 'Kansas', because I know the kind of paragraph that would result from listening to it.

[Jack of Hearts]

Many of the songs presented in the last few pages have been masterpieces, so death to snarkiness. Come on- Beatles, Dylan AND Deadeye Dick???

"She don't eat meat but she sure like da bone!"







J

[Sancho Panza]

(Sorry, I edited it and put in 'Mother Nature's Son' instead. You people are almost as quick as I am at posting. :P With Long, Long, Long... I'm pretty sure he was singing about his Lord, rather than his lady. I'm an editing monster, I admit it.)

8/10 for Simon and Garfunkel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ&ob=av3e

Kansas are hit and miss but that is one of their better tracks 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmzR1CKGtA&

Back when Nightwish were awesome.

[MarkBastable]

While we're citing Dylan, by the way, I thought I'd float this (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1114612#post1114612)for everyone's perusal.

[Shalot]

Nightwish. I think I used to fight with someone who liked Nighwish. So to rate this, I would say.... nightwish.



So here's mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af5A08OWPRE (can't read any words right now. I got to "I really hate lying" and then I decided not to lie. I didn't read it).

[Jack of Hearts]

3. Yuck!

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

[BookBeauty]

Oh yay! 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU&ob=av3e ... Bahahaha! :D

[Paulclem]

I liked this song. Optimistic. 8/10

This is good too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-vSZFEWHlo&feature=related

[BookBeauty]

:D. That's fun! 8.5/10.

My favourite live performance, for reasons I can't fathom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51v6qO7H5HY

[Varenne Rodin]

9/10. I love that voice!

I am in love with this song right now. I love where it goes around the 3 1/2 minute mark..

Honeybee
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw&feature=youtube_gdata_player&feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=ojYK6CW8gdw&gl=US

[Jack of Hearts]

9/10. I love that voice!

I am in love with this song right now. I love where it goes around the 3 1/2 minute mark..

Honeybee
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw&feature=youtube_gdata_player&feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=ojYK6CW8gdw&gl=US

Whatever this link is, it isn't working.

Here's a goodun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMMkP_ofpXg&ob=av3e

[BookBeauty]

I give 'er a 7.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JnCWT-_O8

[Paulclem]

I like REM, and that's a great song. 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDZy6-fMCw4

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Ha! The B-52's. Saw them at the Bronco Bowl in Oak Cliff back in the '80's - 9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JUeAQ_urW4

.

[Paulclem]

Ha! The B-52's. Saw them at the Bronco Bowl in Oak Cliff back in the '80's - 9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JUeAQ_urW4

.

Excellent - 8/10 for the nostalgia.

My mate introduced me to Bauhaus in the early 80's. My favourite was this one,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY&feature=related

but they did a good cover of Ziggy Stardust too. We used to go to a punk nightclub, (it wasn't as rough as the other nightclubs because the punks didn't want to spoil their clothes), and sway around to it.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...My favourite was this one,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY&feature=related

but they did a good cover of Ziggy Stardust too. We used to go to a punk nightclub, (it wasn't as rough as the other nightclubs because the punks didn't want to spoil their clothes), and sway around to it.

7/10

"..and sway around to it" - funny.
Being in Architecture school, I suppose many felt obligated to Bauhuas, whether they truly enjoyed them or not. There was another cat that was a die hard Neil Young fan. The cross pollination between, oh let's take Bauhaus She's in Parties and Neil Young Down by the River blasting across the diesign studio, left the mind in turmoil.
My Bob Wills didn't stand a chance.

With that, how about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KhsEvCo7U

.

[suprematist]

7/10

"..and sway around to it" - funny.
Being in Architecture school, I suppose many felt obligated to Bauhuas, whether they truly enjoyed them or not. There was another cat that was a die hard Neil Young fan. The cross pollination between, oh let's take Bauhaus She's in Parties and Neil Young Down by the River blasting across the diesign studio, left the mind in turmoil.
My Bob Wills didn't stand a chance.

With that, how about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KhsEvCo7U

.

6/10, largely because of the wave of nostalgia it brought; my parents loved Neil Young.

how about a coldwave track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Ja88YO2Zw

[Paulclem]

It has a distinctly early 80's British alternative sound to it. 6/10

This is very different, but funny. Good video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg&ob=av2n

[BookBeauty]

Funky, and funny! I give it a 6.5!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8MAHQhKe7Q

[Paulclem]

It was ok. 6/10

Hows about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_M8m4Yr7vc&ob=av2n

[BookBeauty]

5/10. Bit bland for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a7cHPy04s8

[Paulclem]

Excellent track. i've always liked the Stones, though I can't for the life of me understand why people want to go and see the wrinklies.

9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeGyQIgvSV0

[MarkBastable]

Excellent track. i've always liked the Stones, though I can't for the life of me understand why people want to go and see the wrinklies.


Do you understand why people wanted to go and see them when they were, say, 25?

[Paulclem]

Do you understand why people wanted to go and see them when they were, say, 25?

Yes - they looked the part then. I think they should leave it the young uns. Incidentally, I did read that the older acts are taking up the promotion money as safer bets than new talent. Bit of a musical geriatric jam.

[MarkBastable]

Yes - they looked the part then. I think they should leave it the young uns. Incidentally, I did read that the older acts are taking up the promotion money as safer bets than new talent. Bit of a musical geriatric jam.

I've never understood this idea that rock musicians should give up performing when they hit - what? - forty-seven? No one expects it of blues musicians or jazz musicians or classical musicians.

The argument is often that it's the music of rebellious youth, and so should be performed only by young people. But jazz was once the music of rebellious youth. The blues was once the music of American blacks. And most classical music was revolutionary when it was new, and most composers were under forty when they did their best work.

I saw the Stones about fifteen years ago. They were great. I've seen them on film since, and Keith still plays guitar in a way that no one can match. Why should he stop doing it?

But if you understand why people wanted to see them at 25, how about 35? 45? 55? At what point do you think it becomes incomprehensible?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

If rock musicians can still play their music good, I don't see what age matters at all. I saw Yes a few years ago, and they were awesome. I hope they can still play as good when they're eighty, because I'll go.


Excellent track. i've always liked the Stones, though I can't for the life of me understand why people want to go and see the wrinklies.

9/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeGyQIgvSV0
Not bad, not bad at all. Cream is one of those bands I always suspected I would like, but just never took the time to check them out. I enjoyed that a lot, though. 8/10.

This may be my favorite classical song ever, and definitely in my all-time top 10. It's just amazing. Adagio in G minor, by Tomaso Albinoni & Remo Giazotto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW2dQbN7i3U).

[Paulclem]

I've never understood this idea that rock musicians should give up performing when they hit - what? - forty-seven? No one expects it of blues musicians or jazz musicians or classical musicians.

The argument is often that it's the music of rebellious youth, and so should be performed only by young people. But jazz was once the music of rebellious youth. The blues was once the music of American blacks. And most classical music was revolutionary when it was new, and most composers were under forty when they did their best work.

I saw the Stones about fifteen years ago. They were great. I've seen them on film since, and Keith still plays guitar in a way that no one can match. Why should he stop doing it?

But if you understand why people wanted to see them at 25, how about 35? 45? 55? At what point do you think it becomes incomprehensible?

I can see you've been waiting for the opportunity to have a chat about this. The premise of rockmusic doesn't seem to fit the older male. If it was all about the music, then I could go with it probably, but rock in particular is mixed up with the young, rebel, outsider, going my own way, sexy attitudes. It's about drug taking fast living which becomes increasingly implausible or, in some rockers cases, just sad.

They're not writing about middle aged anxt, but writing music what concerns the younger male. When I listen to a bit of blues, I don't picture young guys chasing women but older guys having their problems with them. It seems a bit more relevant to the age group. Jazz and classical - well I don't know much about that, but the age doesn't seem to come into it. It doesn't seem to jar.

I suppose I feel the same about Duran Duran, and the other poppy groups whose popularity was built on image plus the music. Perhaps I'm just unimaginative - or is it that I can imagine too much...

[MarkBastable]

I can see you've been waiting for the opportunity to have a chat about this.


Well, if I have, it's been a long wait. I remember thinking about this when I went to see Paul McCartney in the mid-seventies. Even then people were saying they should kick it in the head when they passed thirty. I couldn't see why that made any sense , and I still can't really.

The Beatles and the Stones are the same age as my dad - so it's not anything to do with my identification with them directly. And their audience even now - especially in the US - consists not only of people their own age but also of people my son's age. The subject matter of rock music may largely be youthfulness, but the stuff produced in the Sixties is simply part of the established canon that defines the form.

To my son, and many (not all) of his friends, it would be as silly for a younger person interested in popular music to dismiss the Beatles as it would be for a young person interested in theatre to dismiss Stoppard or Beckett. And, of course, if the Stones play, those young people would be eager to go, and even to go with their parents.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I can see you've been waiting for the opportunity to have a chat about this. The premise of rockmusic doesn't seem to fit the older male. If it was all about the music, then I could go with it probably, but rock in particular is mixed up with the young, rebel, outsider, going my own way, sexy attitudes. It's about drug taking fast living which becomes increasingly implausible or, in some rockers cases, just sad.

They're not writing about middle aged anxt, but writing music what concerns the younger male. When I listen to a bit of blues, I don't picture young guys chasing women but older guys having their problems with them. It seems a bit more relevant to the age group. Jazz and classical - well I don't know much about that, but the age doesn't seem to come into it. It doesn't seem to jar.

I suppose I feel the same about Duran Duran, and the other poppy groups whose popularity was built on image plus the music. Perhaps I'm just unimaginative - or is it that I can imagine too much...

I think it's 95% about the music.

[MystyrMystyry]

9/10 for that Mutatis, and thanks!

The Stones' appeal becomes more about nostalgia after a while - actually so does most pop/rock/jazz/ etc, but in the Stones' case their longevity is because they were/are interesting and fun in a completely harmless way. They seem like a band who could have packed it in in the early seventies, but were always so deep in debt and living beyond their means they didn't actually start to turn a profit until the eighties, making them even more determined to capitalise on the name - thus the elongated touring schedules and overblown stage shows of the nineties.

I'm never sure if I like their music over the idea of them, but then I'll hear a number I hadn't heard in ages, and the nostalgia kicks in


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6_IGjTUA0&feature=related

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6_IGjTUA0&feature=related

God, that takes me back. We all grooved to that one at my grandfather's funeral. 10/10

Whatever happened to... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVX2adpyInM)

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I've always had a soft spot for Portishead. 7/10.

Another of my favorites. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftaC0yC714&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

[Paulclem]

Well, if I have, it's been a long wait. I remember thinking about this when I went to see Paul McCartney in the mid-seventies. Even then people were saying they should kick it in the head when they passed thirty. I couldn't see why that made any sense , and I still can't really.

The Beatles and the Stones are the same age as my dad - so it's not anything to do with my identification with them directly. And their audience even now - especially in the US - consists not only of people their own age but also of people my son's age. The subject matter of rock music may largely be youthfulness, but the stuff produced in the Sixties is simply part of the established canon that defines the form.

To my son, and many (not all) of his friends, it would be as silly for a younger person interested in popular music to dismiss the Beatles as it would be for a young person interested in theatre to dismiss Stoppard or Beckett. And, of course, if the Stones play, those young people would be eager to go, and even to go with their parents.

Well yes. Perhaps I'm being ageist in the musical sense.

The only really relevant concern, rather than personal taste, that I've come across is the persistence of older artists against younger acts. I suppose that's understandable given the safety element of the investment. On the other hand the advent of the internet does offer opportunities that didn't exist for young acts in the past. Perhaps there'll be a new musical revolution driven by technology. It has been a long time coming.

[Paulclem]

I've always had a soft spot for Portishead. 7/10.

Another of my favorites. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftaC0yC714&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

It's so evocative of the ending of the film - I can almost see the helicopter lifting off at the end. Besides that, it's a great piece.

10/10

There were some good soul songs in Platoon when they invited Chris into their bunker and he had his first joint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwkZrj2VT4

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

9/10 A great song.

The old lady has been singing this one the past few days, now it's stuck in my head. Be warned this is edgy and raw with a catchy refrain...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhFnTjia_I&feature=related

[MystyrMystyry]

A bonafide classic Gilliatt - 8/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r19HvybIzI&feature=related

[Paulclem]

A bonafide classic Gilliatt - 8/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r19HvybIzI&feature=related

I can't believe it - a Monkees song I don't like. 2/10

This is more like it, though I've never seen a tambourine played with such a lack of gusto and awkwardness by Davy Jones in the vid.

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

[MarkBastable]

I can't believe it - a Monkees song I don't like. 2/10

This is more like it, though I've never seen a tambourine played with such a lack of gusto and awkwardness by Davy Jones in the vid.

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

For maximum happiness, the default position should be that the Monkees are crap - that way you're occasionally delighted.

That one's delightful (despite the embarrassingly talent-free Davy Jones) 8/10

Just because it was on the same YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o&feature=fvwrel). And, actually for that Rickenbacker. I mean, look at that Rickenbacker.

[Paulclem]

feel a bit bad now. They've just announced that Davy Jones is dead. Heart attack.

[Paulclem]

For maximum happiness, the default position should be that the Monkees are crap - that way you're occasionally delighted.

That one's delightful (despite the embarrassingly talent-free Davy Jones) 8/10

Just because it was on the same YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o&feature=fvwrel). And, actually for that Rickenbacker. I mean, look at that Rickenbacker.

I was looking at that vid too. Great song. I discovered it in the 80's. I was a late developer.

This is another one I liked of theirs. Great guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqVrUSz62o

[MystyrMystyry]

Yeah, Paul - I went for that to mark the sad occasion: it was the only one that had Jones actually contributing ;)

Ah Steppenwolf with another classic - though it could do with a slight modern remix

9/10


This one's another nostalgia bop - used to get played at the pub a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA

[OrphanPip]

I like that against my better judgement. 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFww3fLhjl8&feature=related

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I liked that OP, a good choice for a “feel good” mood without the cheese. One can discern the influences on his music. The opening guitar brought George Harrison to mind. 7/10

RE: Davy Jones – Somewhat of an odd coincidence that I posted the Neil Diamond song yesterday and today I learned of Davy Jones death and that Neil composed some of the Monkees songs including I’m a Believer

Bootsy reigned supreme back in the Cliff when I played the role of the token white; a “brotha from anotha motha” so to speak, working at Bonanza Steak House…

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

.

[JuniperWoolf]

I've always hated funk. 3/10

Youth of nausea, euthanasia! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFt7vu9bYM)

[Paulclem]

Good pictures - didn;t like the song though. 3/10.

I remember these in the late 70's - warning swearing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIy7HcwVK3E&feature=related

[Sancho]

I dug it, in a twisted sort of way. 7/10

Tihuya Cats - Cheveza Chicas y Rockabilly

http://youtu.be/MBs9OItEqgw

Así que

[BookBeauty]

Hey, this is fun. Who wouldn't wanna be there? 7.5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTuOAPE-LOo&feature=related

[Paulclem]

Funny - 7/10

This really takes me back to the early seventies when i heard it on the radio. years later I rediscovered it on a pub jukebox and used to put it on every time I was in there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3hK4reVOY

[Sancho]

Ah, George, my favorite Beatle. 9/10

Let’s go down to Lafayette, Louisiana with:
Dave Alvin, "Allons à Lafayette"

http://youtu.be/dKQ2jhzSXbk

[qimissung]

10/10 Awesome, Sancho. I felt like I needed boots and a Lone Star to listen to that.

Now for something a bit different. A great singer and a great song:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xRKio7yHM&feature=related

[Sancho]

El Sancho digs singer/songwriters 10/10 (El Sancho also likes to refer to himself in the third person - and in Spanish)


I felt like I needed boots and a Lone Star to listen to that.

Now yer talkin’! A year or so ago, me and the old lady were down in Austin doing a Sixth Street crawl, ‘cepting I was wearing Chuck Taylors instead of Sh*t Kickers, and drinking Shiner Bocks instead of Lone Star Longnecks, and we were on 5th Street instead of 6th Street, but it didn't really matter because between the two of us we'd already consumed roughly 42 Shiners. Anyway we stumbled into Antone’s and saw this guy:

Geno Delafose, 'tit monde

http://youtu.be/3kFo5aYJI2U

[Paulclem]

El Sancho digs singer/songwriters 10/10 (El Sancho also likes to refer to himself in the third person - and in Spanish)



Now yer talkin’! A year or so ago, me and the old lady were down in Austin doing a Sixth Street crawl, ‘cepting I was wearing Chuck Taylors instead of Sh*t Kickers, and drinking Shiner Bocks instead of Lone Star Longnecks, and we were on 5th Street instead of 6th Street, but it didn't really matter because between the two of us we'd already consumed roughly 42 Shiners. Anyway we stumbled into Antone’s and saw this guy:

Geno Delafose, 'tit monde

http://youtu.be/3kFo5aYJI2U

Catchy. 7/10

It's a testament to the cultural exchanges that have been a feature of Anglo US relations that I understood exactly what you were saying there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoz8iXjfH4Y

Time for guitarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh.

[Sancho]

Carlos! He can still fill a stadium in North and South America – also Central America. 9/10


Catchy. 7/10

It's a testament to the cultural exchanges that have been a feature of Anglo US relations that I understood exactly what you were saying there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoz8iXjfH4Y

Time for guitarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh.

Ha! But do you suppose a Parisian could understand Geno’s Cajun French?

Speaking of cultural exchanges, Appalachian Mountain Music, or Bluegrass, morphed out of the Scotch/Irish folk music of the people who settled in that region of the United States. And sometimes the music will float back across the Atlantic.

Here’s The Well Oiled Sisters doing The Orange Blossom Special at The Edinburgh Fringe:

http://youtu.be/btc7VhvH-A4

And here’s Bill Monroe doing, more-or-less, the original:

http://youtu.be/-86eg1YfR1U

El Sancho digs fiddle tunes – especially when they’re train tunes. "Ain't no ham like Birmingham."

[Jack of Hearts]

C'est un p'tit monde, sans aucune doute.


For the Orange Blossom Special... uh, 6/10 peut-être? Who knows. You probably have to experience the culture to 'get' the music.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8uoObnWQM

[Sancho]

I still remember what I was doing when I heard the news that he’d been killed. 9/10


...Who knows. You probably have to experience the culture to 'get' the music.

Yep. That kind of music works a lot better at a festival – back in the hills – in late summer – with a barefoot hippie chick. Oh yes, also a couple of cold ones helps.

Here’s AC/DC interpreted in the Rockabilly genre:

You Shook Me All Night Long, by Full Blown Cherry

http://youtu.be/QZMSmc-TG_g

[MarkBastable]

That's fun. 7/10

Also check out Ade Edmondson's Bad Shepherds, who cover punk songs in the style of traditional English folk.


Meanwhile, "...the church bells softly chime...." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyX75NpibdU&feature=related)

[Jack of Hearts]

-10 out of 1000 umbrellas opening and spoiling the view... for using a plectrum against nylon strings, that uncultured philistine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9n7EstQI5o






J


EDIT: Actually, is that a steel string acoustic with a classical headstock? 7/10

[Sancho]

Sweet. 7/10


-10 out of 1000 umbrellas opening and spoiling the view... for using a plectrum against nylon strings, that uncultured philistine.

Hey, man, there ain't no rules in Rock-n-Roll (and there’s no crying in Baseball) – you can play nylon strings with your teeth if you feel the need.

This fellow used to light his axe on fire:

Jimi: http://youtu.be/aqc1_RQHOKM

[Paulclem]

That's a brilliant track Sancho. I've added it to my youtube favourites.

10/10

This used to get me going before I went out on the town.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPM6ni4bQzc

[Sancho]

Brilliant right back at’cha, Paul. 10/10! That one’s going on my i-shuffle for long-run Sundays.

Here's SRV doing Guitar Hurricane (I caught this one live, back in the day):

http://youtu.be/3CsD0WesdvA

[Jack of Hearts]

8. Well done, the Sanch!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrd14PxaUco

[BookBeauty]

7!

This song's been in my head for a few days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10vU7Qo-NlU

[Sancho]

Thanks, Jack.

I’ve got sympathy, B.B., and I’m here to tell ya, an earworm can be harmful to you or a loved one.

6/10. Sorry. And I know, The Beatles are arguably one of the best bands to ever blow a 50 amp fuse, but El Sancho has never been taken with Beatle-mania. Their stuff always sounded a little too symphonic for me, too cerebral, like something that was planned out in advance rather than something they stumbled into by accident.

I’ve always thought of rock-n-roll as something that comes from your heart or your guts, not your head. Well, not your prefrontal cortex anyway, maybe from the reptilian part of your brain or your spinal cord. I don’t know, but since I’m already on a rant, I might as well just keep on rolling. Also I don’t think you can fully get rock-n-roll on a set ear buds. It’s the kind of music best experienced while standing next to full Marshall Stack, a full-body event. It quakes your chest, punches you in the stomach, and knees you in the nuts. Speaking of which, I used to have Short and Curlies, by The Rolling Stones as the ringtone for my Señora, but she found out about it and that pretty much put the kibosh on that ringtone. Bummer.

Anyway, here’s a guy who usually evokes strong opinions – positive and negative. He used to be the wild man out in front of The Flat Duo Jets. Now he’s a little older and he’s got a new band - The Dex Romweber Duo - and he still plays and sings with reckless abandon. That’s Dexter’s sister, Sara, on drums, which is pretty cool in my opinion.

Dex Romweber Duo, Brazil http://youtu.be/DNXcbvKiR7s

[MarkBastable]

I'm afraid I thought that was absolutely awful. 2/10

Just to give you a chance to say the same - the repercussions of this epsiode of Top of the Pops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBEcLxnXVAc&feature=related) still resound in me now.

[Sancho]

See what I mean, Dex evokes strong opinions, and El Sancho admires honesty. One man’s music is another man’s pots and pans banging together.

El Sancho also digs Alice Cooper. That tune was an anthem when I grew up. 8/10

Now let’s go down to New Orleans. How about the Professor:

Professor Longhair, Tipitina http://youtu.be/p-lsiDJWMsQ

[Jack of Hearts]

Good golly it's like someone defecated a whole symphony of all things visceral and hearty not unlike soup into the old cranium/10.

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

[Sancho]

Soupy brained El Sancho digs old timey blues too. 9/10. But you know, Jack, if you goes down to the Mississippi Delta, sooner or later somebody’s going to want to sell their soul to the devil down at the crossroads.

Speaking of which, I’m thinking the most famous crossroads out in your neck of the woods is where these two streets intersect:

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae197/mollyandbruno/TheDeadatHaightAshbury.jpg

Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues: http://youtu.be/rdPOAhBp2Ag

[BookBeauty]

I liked this. A lot. I'm giving it a 10 out of 10 awesomes. -- Ah, that was meant for Jack's..

I'll give Grateful Dead a 7. :D...


Something a little different here. I've always found her voice to be exquisite, and eerie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybEZ0cMg3Y&feature=related

[Jack of Hearts]

That's a hell of a place to sell your soul! Of course, the man dealin' with Satan wasn't Mississippi John Hurt but Robert Johnson!

Ah, the Sanch, what an intersection. Saw it on the last visit to the de Young/Legion of Honor (love Rodin).







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[Sancho]

Whoa! You’re right, BookBeauty, what a voice. 9/10. Also, I’m glad she let guitar-guy resolve the ending; for a moment, I thought she was going to leave us hanging.

Yeah, Jack, that’s a pretty cool neighborhood. I walked past that very intersection a few months ago on a city-hike, and if I’m not mistaken, there’s a Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop there now (N.E. corner I think). Anyhow, I think they may be clinging to past a little too strenuously in that ‘hood: I mean, you didn’t have to look too far to find a tie-dye T-shirt (or a hookah), but that stuff is all for the tourist dollars. Hell, 42nd St in Manhattan has a Disney Store now – and the Vegas Strip looks like an amusement park. Has the whole world gone PC on me? Whoa! Chill out Sancho! Back to the music:

Here’s a little dance number I’ll never tire of - a one and a two, and a - Chicken in a bread pan picking out dough, Granny does your dog bite, No child, no…

Ah-hem. ONE two three, ONE two three, ONE two three…I can still get my Señora to cut a rug to this one:

Blue Danube by Johann Strauss: http://youtu.be/NlFBWo-Cbz8

(I think that’s Jo’ on the fiddle.)

[Paulclem]

Excellent 9/10

This song lingered in my mind for a long time when I was younger. It was one of those songs that it took me ages to find out about as I'd hear snippets on the radio, but not the title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqmdG2iNaxE

[Sancho]

Hell yeah! Super Sounds from the Seventies. 9/10 I liked that song the first time I heard it.

I'm gonna change gears again. Here's a Jazzy Rap from the 90s:

Us3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) http://youtu.be/JwBjhBL9G6U

(sorry about the warm-up advertisement - I can't figure out how to get rid of it)

[MarkBastable]

After a smooth bottle of red wine, that was very enjoyable. 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSLFBAJdBI&ob=av3e

[MystyrMystyry]

9.5

Totally fuc ked, but in the best possible way - if their must be fuc ked, let it be in totality!


Here's an oldie again - geez, for some crazy reason I'm in a late 70's/early 80's time warp phase - oh well what the hell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsC0T0pKwfw

[Paulclem]

9.5

Totally fuc ked, but in the best possible way - if their must be fuc ked, let it be in totality!


Here's an oldie again - geez, for some crazy reason I'm in a late 70's/early 80's time warp phase - oh well what the hell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsC0T0pKwfw

Kenny Everett was great wasn't he? I was at school when they released Cool For Cats, and liked it. I though for ages that the line"and I gave the dog a bone" was an example of lazy rhyming. I didn't realise it meant anything else. :D

Watched a George Harrison documentary and it reminded me of this. it used to be on the Jukebox in The Black Rock in Wakefield, and I always put it on when I went in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMgCpb1nli4

[Sancho]

9/10 As the Fab-Four go, I’ve always preferred guitar-man George Harrison. And that tune was on the first L.P. I ever bought. I’d saved enough money cutting grass to buy a cheap record player from the K-Mart and I had enough left over to buy a couple of albums, so I bought that one and another one by Three Dog Night.

So then, here’s a fun tune by those philosophers of the barrio, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. It’s got a couple of really cool guitar licks in it - and guess who? Yep, it’s George Harrison on lead guitar.

Basketball Jones: http://youtu.be/JIbp5C-5WXM

[Jack of Hearts]

8 whatsits outta so many whosits.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2smz_1L2_0&ob=av2e

[Sancho]

uhh, pass

[Jack of Hearts]

Finally found the Sanch's genre.








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[MarkBastable]

It's good pop music, and there's nothing wrong with that. 6/10.

This isn't good pop music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jS4e3zacI&feature=related), but it's good something, or at least I'm starting to think it is again, having loved it once and then despised it for twenty-five years.

[Sancho]

Ahh, punt.


It's good pop music, and there's nothing wrong with that. 6/10.

I’m sure it is, but it just isn’t my cup of tea. And neither is this, or as Ozzy famously said, “What’s a Bieber?”

http://youtu.be/te7F7-JUyq8

Yer killin’ me, Jack, yer killin’ me

[MarkBastable]

Ahh, punt.



I’m sure it is, but it just isn’t my cup of tea. And neither is this, or as Ozzy famously said, “What’s a Bieber?”

http://youtu.be/te7F7-JUyq8

Yer killin’ me, Jack, yer killin’ me

I think the idea is that you rate the one I posted, bub.

[Paulclem]

I don't like it. 4/10

With the quiet talky bits in it, it reminded me of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPR108kwNo4

EDIT- just rated Sancho's.

[BookBeauty]

Hmmm.... 4, or 5. I can't decide. Maybe less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cqU1pFRqYE

[Paulclem]

I liked it. 7/10.

This one used to play in a city centre pub I used to work in in the 80s. It always takes me back. Great vid too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg

[Sancho]

I think the idea is that you rate the one I posted, bub.

Sorry, Mark. I’ve never been much good at following the rules. It’s caused trouble for me my whole life. At any rate, I was trying to rate your tune metaphorically: to me it felt like 4th and long, and I couldn’t do anything with it, so I punted. If I have to give it rating, I’ll say…nah, I can’t do it. It’s just not my cup of tea (not to mix metaphors or anything). I’m sure it works on some level for you and a lot of other people, but I’m tone-deaf to it. Okay, okay, okay, it had some pretty parts, how about…6/10? Y Amigos?

Paul, I’ve always like the Peter Gabriel song, and the video too 9/10

Okay, so, no Bieber fans here. Here’s a Canadian group I absolutely love:

Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane http://youtu.be/BHRFZFmEq9o

[Jack of Hearts]

Well, JoH is no social critic, but it seems that the difference between Gaga and Bieber is that one of them obnoxiously pushes against the the status quo and one of them obnoxiously thrives in it. (Totally unqualified to make that statement, never heard a Bieber song.)

The Sanch, what you said about punting reminds this reader of Leo Kottke's commencement address to the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. Kottke is a god.

http://www4.uwm.edu/news/stories/upload/20080518-Kottke-UWM-Commencement.pdf

9 for Sweet Jane. Simply haunting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2mGqL1HEk

[BookBeauty]

This was adorable. 9/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOdWSiyWoc&ob=av2e

[Jack of Hearts]

Ben voui, regardez les fesses...







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[Jack of Hearts]

7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg&ob=av2e

[BookBeauty]

3/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXvZ9YRjbo&ob=av2e

[Jack of Hearts]

BOOM! 9.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65p6grAGYIM

[Sancho]

Thread revival: 10

Weezer, Uh-huh, uh-huh: 7

I’d’a given Biz Markie an 8

Yo Mama so fat, dat when she wear those Spandex tights wit tha loops around tha heel, and the b*tch haf to faht, she blow the tenna-shoes right offa her feet.

Here’s a blast from the past, and the first music video I can remember seeing, grade 2 or thereabouts, and a Lit-net appropriate selection:
Conjunction Junction, by the Pedantics (I just made up the group name)

http://youtu.be/ODGA7ssL-6g

[Jack of Hearts]

10. They snuck some weird charm into those old Schoolhouse Rock cartoons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijr4rwb2WbE

[BookBeauty]

7 out of 10 for humour, and the ability to mimic popular music exactly. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbxA8a_M_s

[Scheherazade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbxA8a_M_sNever been a big fan of the Flight of Conchords: 3/10

Next song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWN0-MuK38

[Jack of Hearts]

3!


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

[Paulclem]

8/10

Here's a Floyd Classic done in disco style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRk5Gjl_cAg

[Jack of Hearts]

Won't play in America. Guess onnuh yew fore-runners gunna hafta step up yeehaw.






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[MarkBastable]

Won't play in America.

Doesn't have to, does it? It's bound to be Scissor Sister's version of Comfortably Numb. Hang on..... Yes, it is. 6/10


A pretty good pop song, and absolutely my favourite music video ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hd3QPrrGlw).

[Jack of Hearts]

Great! Eight!

Invokes this in the memory:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHPYelqr0E&ob=av3e

[BookBeauty]

8!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM73W_dAkl8

[The Comedian]

Not really my thing. It's alright. 5/10

I'm more into fiddlin' right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkw6aF5ErGY

[Snowqueen]

I liked it 7/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EHAo6rEuas

[Sophia21]

I love this song. 9/10

[Jack of Hearts]

Ehhh?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJncF8Z3U9Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[RicMisc]

I love these sort of songs, if you like it you should check out Christophe Maé. I'll rate it 8/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WWRU2e8jkc&feature=related

[Sancho]

9/10 - me gusta mucho!

So then, from classy to trashy:

Los Guys, Nadine ~ http://youtu.be/xi8bQd7_1cI

[Jack of Hearts]

lol 8


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

[RicMisc]

hahaha - not really my music but I'll rate it a 6.5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLzkLO8Sh4&ob=av3n

[Paulclem]

hahaha - not really my music but I'll rate it a 6.5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLzkLO8Sh4&ob=av3n

I vomited all over the computer screen before the song began.

It was the:
"I've worked really hard to get where I am. I've been all over the world to find myself....I love you all..." blah blah blah. Yeah - doesn't know what work is.

Then the song started and I vomited again. 1/10

I didn't vomit to this though. Lucky really - the monitor couldn't take any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY&ob=av3e

[MarkBastable]

I vomited all over the computer screen before the song began.



Oh, come, come. Let's have a look. It really can't be that ba -bluuurgghh!...oh dear, sorry...I just....blurrrghhhhhh bluk Oh God. ....blehhhchhhh bluuurgghhh!!!


Jesus. ...ack! ack! Sniffffff. Guk! Ptui. Sniffsniff. Yuk....


....well, that wasn't my fault so I'm not cleaning it up.

[Jack of Hearts]

Hey guys, was passing by and heard vomitting. What's going oh godddd blaaaaugghhhhh.... blechhhhhhhhh BLAAAA bleeeeeuuurrrrrr!!!






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[billl]

I vomited all over the computer screen before the song began.

It was the:
"I've worked really hard to get where I am. I've been all over the world to find myself....I love you all..." blah blah blah. Yeah - doesn't know what work is.

Then the song started and I vomited again. 1/10

I didn't vomit to this though. Lucky really - the monitor couldn't take any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY&ob=av3e
I like the music production, actually, because of nostalgia, I guess. (I've been listening to the whole thing, but just now caught a glimpse near the end of the vid though, and that's a terrible sight what's going on in that penthouse, even the rest of the band seems to realize...) I don't know the song, but I'd give a confidential thumbs-up to anyone who felt like they needed to go to the barricades to defend this or that Richard Ashcroft single. Well there's only one I can remember, but THAT can wait for some other entry here (or forever, more likely). I just have a fondness for the sound..., so I had no trouble forgetting about all of this vomiting everyone thinks is so cool recently.

So, 7.5/10.

Really, though, this here observation is what inspired me to go ahead and dig back for the link and do this post:


...

The other problem was a tendency towards the apparently arbitrary. Any kind of art - but particularly music - ought to convince you that that's exactly the way it goes, and if it didn't go that way, it wouldn't be what it is.

When you listen to prog rock and you hear tiddley-bonk-tiddle, biddle-whack, biddle-whack-whack, you can't help thinking, "Well, that's alright, but there seems to be no real reason why it could not just as easily have been tiddley-tiddle-bonk, whack-biddlewhack, bonkity-bonk-whack."

Well, I recently heard something where they pretty much got the thing right, to my ears:


http://vimeo.com/36387644

[The Comedian]

I really liked that song. . .nice progression, musicianship. . . .

I'm in the mood for somethin' from my roots. If you don't like twang, consider yourself warned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xxCMpq-6PI&feature=related

[Jack of Hearts]

Ugh. 6 revisits to a traumatic childhood out of 10 Conway Twittys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPhnOKmhbBw&ob=av2e

Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there but I wouldn't hold my breath. You wasted life why wouldn't you waste death?

[BookBeauty]

I give it a 7!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvytQXi-zc

[MarkBastable]

I give it a 7!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvytQXi-zc

Although I thought that was musically unsalvageable and I would never watch it again, I rather enjoyed it while it was happening. And that drummer's possibly very good indeed. 6/10

I seem to remember that this works best (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DnaxiQBU4I)if you're lying on the floor with your head between the speakers and a spliff in your hand. If you want to skip the Bleep'n'Booster bit, the proper music starts as about 3:15.

[Jack of Hearts]

The **** did you just do to these ears? The worst rating in the history of this thread/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8Flo4Udmk




EDIT: If you're high, is it like watching TV?

EDIT EDIT: Ugh, it's like piping synth straight into your head!

[Sancho]

Rock on mah brothah, or in your case, Jacques, mon frère. 9/10 (the video is a little slow though)

How about one of K-Billy’s Super Sounds from the Seventies :

Stealer’s Wheel, Stuck in the Middle with You

http://youtu.be/DohRa9lsx0Q

After the movie, Reservoir Dogs, I can’t listen to this tune without seeing Mr. Black (Michael Madsen) torturing a cop - Also I get a creepy sense of schadenfreude.

[papayahed]

After the movie, Reservoir Dogs, I can’t listen to this tune without seeing Mr. Black (Michael Madsen) torturing a cop - Also I get a creepy sense of schadenfreude.

exactly. 8/10.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQ-6IAS1cc

[MarkBastable]

exactly. 8/10.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQ-6IAS1cc


In the comments one contributor says, "Someone please inform Bruce Springsteen that his playbook has been stolen." And you can see the point. That sounds like someone who listens to a lot of Bruce but whose own writing lacks the authority, the joy and the sheer vein-popping conviction of Bruce's stuff. 4/10


...all I could say was 'Ouch!'.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxknEhmqObY&feature=related)

[papayahed]

In the comments one contributor says, "Someone please inform Bruce Springsteen that his playbook has been stolen." And you can see the point. That sounds like someone who listens to a lot of Bruce but whose own writing lacks the authority, the joy and the sheer vein-popping conviction of Bruce's stuff. 4/10



erm, yeah That's what everybody says, it's still a nice little song.





...all I could say was 'Ouch!'.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxknEhmqObY&feature=related)

Not my favorite Steely Dan 6/10


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_CmSi6CVI

[Sancho]

Oh, hell yeah! 9/10

Also, I thought a Steely Dan was a lady's appliance.

Anyhow, here’s a local gal from around where I live:
Francine Reed, I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues

http://youtu.be/ajrBTGSL29Y

[Jack of Hearts]

Oh, hell yeah! 9/10

Also, I thought a Steely Dan was a lady's appliance.

Anyhow, here’s a local gal from around where I live:
Francine Reed, I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues

http://youtu.be/ajrBTGSL29Y

Ah, that's a classy noise. 8. Out of whatever you want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBsWS8OShdc

[Sancho]

I don’t know, man. E.C. is one of the greats. He’s even a guitar genius by some estimates, but he gives me the creeps. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because people around him keep dying. And that’s not fair, I know, but I just can’t separate the man from the music in his case.

6

Speaking of creepy, check out this video:

http://youtu.be/ZrLnPRANWRg

Guns are for cowards, but Teddy still plays a mean guitar.

[Jack of Hearts]

7/10 Great road trip music right thurrrr tell yew whut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WQqRDrCo

10 bonus points if you can name the three Dylan tracks referenced in this song.







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[MarkBastable]

7/10 Great road trip music right thurrrr tell yew whut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WQqRDrCo

10 bonus points if you can name the three Dylan tracks referenced in this song.

J

Idiot Wind, You're A Big Girl Now and Tangled Up in Blue

6/10 for the song.

Which one's Pink? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4ia37G4Uw)

[Jack of Hearts]

Have you spent much time with the album? The 'Sittin' on a fence' reference is fairly obscure.

Also you have to rate Hootie. Onlywunnubeewidyewwwwwwwwewwwwwe





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[MarkBastable]

Have you spent much time with the album? The 'Sittin' on a fence' reference is fairly obscure.

Also you have to rate Hootie. Onlywunnubeewidyewwwwwwwwewwwwwe


J

I have a steel-trap memory for lyrics.

[Jack of Hearts]

You didn't rate Hootie. You didn't post a song. You just came back to say you were awesome.


Onlywunnyhbewudyewwwwwweewwwew






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[MarkBastable]

You didn't rate Hootie. You didn't post a song. You just came back to say you were awesome.


Onlywunnyhbewudyewwwwwweewwwew

J

I did. I was editing while you were posting the first reply.

And I didn't say I was awesome. I said I had a good memory for lyrics. I can no more claim credit for that than I can claim credit for being tall.

[Jack of Hearts]

Haha, right. Well you wrote a story aboyt BoT so you're this reader's hero. Also you were oddly kind to Hootie.

Ok. Someone else rate Mark's.






J

[papayahed]

Idiot Wind, You're A Big Girl Now and Tangled Up in Blue

6/10 for the song.

Which one's Pink? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4ia37G4Uw)


8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT6kjQhVJ9Y

[MarkBastable]

8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT6kjQhVJ9Y

Terrific melody. Horrible strings. 7/10

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

[Scheherazade]

Easily one of my favourite songs. Can sing it despite being unable to hold a tune and no one minds. What's there not to like? 10/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07B4TYMkhc

[Sancho]

Nice pick, Scher. What a set of pipes she has, eh? 9/10

How about some guitar-hero rock:

Chris Duarte, C-Butt Rock: http://youtu.be/p1W_ut7mK3A

[billl]

Nice pick, Scher. What a set of pipes she has, eh? 9/10

How about some guitar-hero rock:

Chris Duarte, C-Butt Rock: http://youtu.be/p1W_ut7mK3A

I don't know, it seemed like he was just getting started.

9/10

Now, I know I know, this one lacks the purity of three dudes in Guitar Center, squeezed in front of sale amps with a back-of-the-closet strat. It's a different scene. But it's brief, similarly crowds the space to everyone's delight, and features lyrics (which some song-raters around here pay particular attention to, not me so much, but...) from two different awesome songs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5vaWjVgKTo

[MarkBastable]

Oddly unspectacular guitar work for Prince, but still terrific. 8/10

In this, on the other hand, even the other musicians on the stage appear to be thinking, "Bloody hell - where did that come from (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lZ1Mu78VFM)?"

[Paulclem]

Excellent - 10/10.

What to follow that with? - this'll make you feel better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON9CdliJbvc

[Sancho]

Carlos! Todavía rockin’.

Nueve/Diez

Let’s take the L down to the Southside – of Chicago, that is.

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Lovin’ Cup

http://youtu.be/tAVAiPkeTD0

[papayahed]

Carlos! Todavía rockin’.

Nueve/Diez

Let’s take the L down to the Southside – of Chicago, that is.

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Lovin’ Cup

http://youtu.be/tAVAiPkeTD0

I can dig it. 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8cJP22n8E

[billl]

I can dig it. 8/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8cJP22n8E

Rough jangling fun, I like them, nice find. (big blank bit at the end was a cool authentic indie touch)

8/10

This one is a new release, if you can believe it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9blpg5NknU&feature=player_embedded#!

[Jack of Hearts]

Eh, didn't really like that one billl.

Enjoy this one in exchange:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic

[billl]

Eh, didn't really like that one billl.

Enjoy this one in exchange:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic

I'm one of those who likes it a lot, and I wish more pop music like that was on the radio around here. The olden days had good pop, of course, and I'm not saying this is as good as in the olden days (the 80's), but it succeeds at a lot of the things I've always expected pop to do. The video is fun (the guitarist has the right attitude) as well, and the Jimmy Fallon version is definitely worth a watch.

9/10

Anyhow, back to the 80's sound, here's an actual tune from the 80's, non-pop division--or maybe they gave it a shot for a few days, I can't remember, it was a period of transition for radio formats at the time. Anyhow, while this one doesn't come as fully-loaded as that Carly Rae one does, you just gotta love killer writers with cool music and hooks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTUcoR8_pyE&feature=related

[Jack of Hearts]

That song gives off the heebie jeebies, Scoob. 6

Are we doin' 80's billl?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxLhytQ67fs



Music @2:20. but watch all of it!

[billl]

That song gives off the heebie jeebies, Scoob. 6

Are we doin' 80's billl?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxLhytQ67fs



Music @2:20. but watch all of it!

Well, I did just now watch all of it, and that was just what I needed. That sort of assignment was right in her wheelhouse at that point in her career. I wasn't going to movies, or listening to pop, and so on at that time, so I know nothing about the film and never heard the song before, so it was a real treat to watch.

Nice to see the rest of them in there too. I never liked Captain Lou all that much, but I was definitely a Classy Fred Blassie fan. And I can't help but have a soft spot for the Sheikh (he's still around, apparently). But the news of Lou's relatively recent passing (and the less-recent passing of Classy Freddy) made my smile a little more sincere and appreciative, despite the built-in irony they all worked so hard on.

Wasn't a big wrestling fan, actually--those guys just made an impact real quick when I did watch, I guess.

Anyhow, great ensemble work there (especially once the speaking parts were done with). And the tune was just absolutely fine.

9/10

[OrphanPip]

I'm not sure I can take any more of Carly Rae, it felt like that song was on the radio forever in Canada prior to her big breakthrough into the US, and now that has given her a second life on Canadian airwaves and the song has returned from the dead, or wherever it is radio pop songs go after they've finished their run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQS9Cz-zC6g

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQS9Cz-zC6g

That was great. And their other stuff is great too. I'm enthused. 9/10

As a thank you, here's a slight return on the last artist you introduced me to and who has taken up residence on my iPhone.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJVWSu5Nfi8&feature=relmfu

[OrphanPip]

That was great. And their other stuff is great too. I'm enthused. 9/10

As a thank you, here's a slight return on the last artist you introduced me to and who has taken up residence on my iPhone.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJVWSu5Nfi8&feature=relmfu

Amanda Palmer is always a pleasure to listen to 8/10.

As to the previous band, they recently changed their name and sound pretty radically, going for a synth-electro thing that I'm not completely sold on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWZDZeRE6yo

[Paulclem]

Not bad. 6/10

Something different

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

[OrphanPip]

Odd and amusing, but not sure I'd listen to it more than once 5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttqMGYHhFFA&list=PLBEA1930A9A50F4A2&index=1&feature=plcp

New single from Metric's latest album.

[Sancho]

I’ve gotta tell ya, OP, I liked it. I liked it a lot. I’ve never heard it before, but I dug it on the first go-around. The rhythm section rocked. 9/10.

How about some Nuevo-Hippie stuff:

Cotton Jones, Blood Red Sentimental Blues
http://youtu.be/6ZyUjffFLRY
(The 1st comment from Chexxum a year ago was spot on.)

[Jack of Hearts]

Well suck-mah-grits. 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW81cD4pqoE&feature=related

[Jack of Hearts]

10/10. Mark leaves, thread dies? 0/10








J

[Paulclem]

Well suck-mah-grits. 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW81cD4pqoE&feature=related

Ok - 5/10

The third version I've heard of this song. I like all three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCIhY_NR5CE

[Sancho]

Hell yeah: 9/10

More live music, Brian Setzer covers Caravan:

http://youtu.be/TFL5OZln_XI

[Jack of Hearts]

8!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWgSkX96Ang

[Jack of Hearts]

10/10 Jack. Now for something a lil' different. Amazing song, powerful video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczaDcixBj4

[MarkBastable]

Now for something a lil' different. Amazing song, powerful video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczaDcixBj4


I'm afraid neither the song nor the video held my attention. 4/10




More live music, Brian Setzer covers Caravan:

http://youtu.be/TFL5OZln_XI

I liked that, by the way. Though from your intro, I thought it might be Setzer bringing a rockabilly vibe to Caravan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIwaYwbjF3M&feature=related). Which would have boggled my mind


But moving swiftly on from obscure English 70s prog, to mainstream English 70s glam...


...put your raygun to my head.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2ORPgP5_rI&feature=related)

[JuniperWoolf]

I'll be honest, I just like looking at Bowie, I don't really like his music all that much. 4/10

This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7SkG0D-9g4) I like.

[Sancho]

Hahaha. Been a while since I've heard that one. C'mon, hit me, hit me.

El Sancho digs tacky 70s pop tunes. 8 out of 10 open-collared, floral-print, polyester shirts, and a wide-brimmed pimp hat with a peacock feather thrown in for good measure.

Let's back up twenty more years, when trombones and saxophones could still rock the joint.

Stan Kenton, 23 north 82 west:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdiWwGmML5k&feature=youtube_gdata_player*

(the title refers to a lat/long roughly locating Havana.)

[JuniperWoolf]

Snazzy Sancho, real snazzy. I'd have a ball if that came on at a club. 8/10

All this year I worked at a hotel sort of thing, and they play the radio perpetually in all of the business sections. I hated everything they played for the most part, but this one radio song I really liked. If I were ever a stripper (hey, you've got to admire their work ethic) this would be my jam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI

[Paulclem]

I like it - I didn't think I would. It has a crisp sound.

7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2EvSNHqh0

[MarkBastable]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2EvSNHqh0


The production on that - the drum sound, the bass style, the zingy harmonics - really dates it to a specific Thursday afternoon in the late Eighties, doesn't it? I'm not sure I can get past the generic vision of wine bars done out with reclaimed pews and pastel jackets with the sleeves rolled up. 6/10

However, when you remember the specific song from the time, you can get past the datedness and listen to it with the same feeling immediacy and relevance that you felt back then.

For instance.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QLQb2324c)

[Paulclem]

The production on that - the drum sound, the bass style, the zingy harmonics - really dates it to a specific Thursday afternoon in the late Eighties, doesn't it? I'm not sure I can get past the generic vision of wine bars done out with reclaimed pews and pastel jackets with the sleeves rolled up. 6/10

However, when you remember the specific song from the time, you can get past the datedness and listen to it with the same feeling immediacy and relevance that you felt back then.

For instance.... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QLQb2324c)

Exactly - the feeling of immediacy is spot on. It's as if for an instant you're that person again.

I get it with this - I suppose in my mind it's a generic image of a particular nightclub where I heard this numerous times, but the feeling is unmistakeable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgMhMRC4Fr8

[papayahed]

it's ok, 7.5/10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47G-Wa4qfs

[Brielle92]

Haha, good performance. 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18jPNS-i2c&feature=related

[JuniperWoolf]

6/10, just because I hate it when the video doesn't sync up perfectly with the sound, although I do like the inexplicable chef in the crowd.

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

[MarkBastable]

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


I think that song tries really hard hard, and I tried equally hard to like it, but in the end it sounds like the number they reluctantly dropped from a retro musical during the pre-Broadway try-outs in Hoboken because it slowed down the action of the plot and no one could whistle the tune. 4/10


As Paul decided not to rate this one a few posts back, I'm going to give it another shot. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QLQb2324c)

[billl]

As Paul decided not to rate this one a few posts back, I'm going to give it another shot. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QLQb2324c)

I listened to their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums obsessively, so it gets a 9.8/10.

Now, if you'll allow me to drain the passion out of things (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedIexysvK4&feature=plcp), and just stand by while whatever.

[MarkBastable]

I listened to their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums obsessively, so it gets a 9.8/10.

Now, if you'll allow me to drain the passion out of things (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedIexysvK4&feature=plcp), and just stand by while whatever.

All I've ever heard of Anderson's before is O Superman.

I rather liked that for about two minutes and then I got bored for thirty seconds, and then it irritated me and I stopped it. Which doesn't necessarily mean I didn't think it was any good or, actually, that I thought it was boring. In fact, I'm tempted to write several hundred words about the ways in which it was interesting. Which, in turn, doesn't necessarily mean that I liked it.

7/10

Here's a scary thing: today, that could be conceived, recorded and mixed on an iPhone. Using the Thumbjam app I've done some very similar stuff to pass the time while commuting to work. Which doesn't mean that I think I'm an influential urban avant gardiste, by the way. The innovative techniques she was using are now a standard part of the contemporary musical vocabulary. But that loop and sequencer thing is a lot of fun to play around with.


Meanwhile, in another part of the forest....

You may not be an old-fashioned girl, but you're gonna get dated. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fpW1thGues&feature=g-vrec)

[billl]

All I've ever heard of Anderson's before is O Superman.

That one also didn't used to run so long back then, and has a good video, considering.



Meanwhile, in another part of the forest....

You may not be an old-fashioned girl, but you're gonna get dated. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fpW1thGues&feature=g-vrec)

9/10

I wasn't really into those guys and that scene as much as a particular girl I liked (if ya know what I mean), but she was wiser than me, and even though those guys sounded "old style" and didn't dress half as looney as Adam Ant, they were, in retrospect, great and I get to look back and imagine that I was into that stuff (again, if ya know what I mean), and have great memories, etc. I mean, she didn't have a car, but I did, nothing to brag about though, just something to get me started off with, but I was doing better than a lot of buddies, etc. That clip is particularly great, nice video and nice playing, cool song.

Here's something else I remembered, from after I knew better what's what, a time when there's no longer any reason to wear people out with mysteries about what I might've meant. I mean I really liked this music at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__GbqPyXmJ8#t=8m17s

[Jack of Hearts]

Well, if only one could say they weren't acquainted with whatever brand of awful that was... but having grown up in it, 2/10. For the five string childhood ma, and the tear in your beer. (What's disturbing is that this poster is also acquainted with the sentiment that surely must precipitate these godawful songs-- godawful lyrically speaking, at least).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbmP2vXeQs&playnext=1&list=PLA2AE4F4A19F7E60C&feature=results_video






J

[Paulclem]

Excellent 8/10

I was introduced to JJ Cale in the 1980s. Fantastic music. This was on the first album of his i heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlppIdtLw5A

[Sancho]

Just a shade twangy for my taste, pero me gusta mucho nunca menos. 8/10. Don’t’cha just dig it when you hear a tune by the dude who wrote it (J.J. Cale) and it’s better than the one you hear on the radio all the time (Skynyrd)?

But then, every once in a while somebody covers/interprets a tune and you wind up liking it more than the pop version.

Bad Case of Lovin’ You, Billy Gibbons:

http://youtu.be/M8rjBH3-KaQ

[Jack of Hearts]

Jesus. 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMTKb-pgxGI

[Jack of Hearts]

3 out of 10, Jack, you idiot.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOIsYA1QDuk

[Sancho]

Sorry, Jack. I’ve been busy-busy-busy.

That Weezer tune right there is a real toe tapper. 8/10 The Muppets really take me back. Do you remember Jim Henson’s Muppets in The Land of Gorch from early SNL seasons? Probably not. He had a hilarious cast of characters: King Ploobis, Queen Peuta, Scred, and of course, The Mighty Favog – “It’s gonna cost ya.”

Yes, well, so anyway, I think I’m dating myself, but I first saw this guy around about that time. I was in high school and madly in love with a girl, who I took to the show. She later dumped me hard and I haven’t seen her since around 1980. But I’ve had an idealized image of her in my head for the past 30 years. (I’m still a little bit smitten)

I know, it’s kinda weird.

I have no idea what she looks like now and, for that matter, I don’t really remember what she looked like then. I kept her photo for a while, but my wife found it and ripped it up, which made for a chilly couple of nights around the old homestead.


Anyway, here’s Springsteen from his ’05 studio album, Devils & Dust:

http://youtu.be/Xe-5Z3YzVcs

[Lokasenna]

Eh, never been a fan of the Boss. His music isn't bad, just really not my thing. 3/10.

How about another cultural icon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

[MarkBastable]

Eh, never been a fan of the Boss. His music isn't bad, just really not my thing. 3/10.

How about another cultural icon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY


I'm too appalled even to rate it.