Vladimir Vysotsky - Magadan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHXh-p5baY
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Vladimir Vysotsky - Magadan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHXh-p5baY
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
The rec'd shooooooowsQuote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Ah took the bloooooows
An' did it maaaah way!
Yep, it doesn't bear thinking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
S' been done anyway.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_alTkMQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0va3F2PWBJc
Jackson C. Frank (1965)
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.
Only one album though, too bad.
Infantile exhibitionism but not entirly without merit, as when he appears to shoot the suckers who paid to see him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
I think I would prefer Robert Zimmerman's attempt but it would be a close run thing.
Hurricane is a good song though.
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!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A_4N05coN2g
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
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).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX6etUAIbRU
(irritating crowd noise but magnificent nonetheless)
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
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.
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."
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
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.
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
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
I love that Sandy Denny song.
More musicians who ended tragically.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=raLXnnlPI_I
Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
Is 23 a late age to get into classical music?
No age limit!
Does anyone else here like Grimes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_0LzBv894
No? Okay, how about Thom Yorke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZl6BRY9IYQ
Archie Fisher - Mount and Go
Planxty - Cunla
Macyn Taylor - Ragamuffin .. 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
Bothy Band Patsy Geary's/ Coleman's Cross
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
Just heard this song for the first time. I liked it. What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQV_cULobA
Há Dias - Luca Mundaca
@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
Haha, no, I gave up going to 4chan a long time ago and never went on /mu/ anyways.
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
Love this band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzNWhWfeIg
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
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, here, right? Maybe my taste for melodramatic suffering 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!
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!
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 is my favorite on Coltrane's My Favorite Things, though maybe 'objectively' the title track is better.
*also the girls are cute
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
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.
Yes, it's my favorite piece by Davis.
Do you listen to Radiohead, Pompey?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9IODJdi3GA