That was awesome!! I give it an 8/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBAQ...eature=related
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That was awesome!! I give it an 8/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBAQ...eature=related
That managed to be both thin and overweight at the same time. 3/10Quote:
Originally Posted by NikolaiI
See year what a year can bring...
I want her to sing this to my daughters when they are teens. . .every day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ywz...eature=related
7/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Not a favorite of mine but it's nice.
7/10Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
Hm I like this okay but I don't know really how to rate it; I guess 7/10 will do : P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNuc...eature=related
Doesn't get me where it counts, I'm afraid, though I admire the artistry. 5/10
Not that I'm a great folkie. But I've always has a soft spot for this lot.
9/10 It's perfect but I'm jealous so I'm only giving them a 9 :)
Music like this really makes me happy.
Okay, I'll get off the Bert Jansch kick soon I swear, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlLlwVk9eI
It's definitely more subdued.. but it's just the most amazing sound I've heard. Especially that it's just him, and it's not dubbed.
5/10, mostly for great guitar and splitting the guitar in half like that- how on earth...- but the lyrics and voice aren't so good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8y3kneqrs
8 out of 10. Maybe a little higher. Very good song.
Did you see the Pearl Jam documentary on PBS last night?
Anyway - how about this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G16F3GDOQ
7/10. There's no denying great guitar work.
Woke up this morning with this on the brain...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE&ob=av3e
I can't stand a song titled November rain, not when the weatherman says is going to rain for the next three days, furthermore I really can't stand the Guns 'n roses 1/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-afFAgIFs
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Originally Posted by David Lurie
I've got a lot of time for Baxter. He quietly plugs away producing charming low-key songs of domestic observation, and I'm very pleased he does. 8/10
I trot this out every so often to remind myself - and you - how good old-fashioned r'n'b can be when it's tight and focussed.
Tight. 9/10
Do yourself a favor and don't just listen to the music, actually watch this video.
Blimey. 10/10. I actually rather liked the song too.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
So, to stick with that era, I'll present one of my favourite renditions of a solid-gone jazz standard.
It's not too bad; I'm sure it's good, actually. But I just could never get into that jazz-age stuff. 6/10
The dark-days of November are upon us. So I'm feelin' a little grim
Perty good. 7/10. I'd forgotten how cool/fairly unique their singing style was.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
This one starts of kind of quiet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nD-QMjFvI
6/10 Not one of my favourite Elton songs, but when he was good, he was very good. I could probably do a 180 mixtape of his stuff that I really like.Quote:
Originally Posted by keilj
Here's one. Two teas, both with sugar please.
8/10. Neat changes in that one. Impossible not to tap your foot to it
Anybody remember this gent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1TpeMt8aF4
Yes I remember him, but in my opinion his performances as a triple jumper were much more exciting than his singing 5/10
I love this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lFM1K8R1s
I hated it for the first 1/3, but when she started singing I actually quite liked it. 6/10
This guy makes comic books, which I assume is why the video is so cool.
Well it looked great, sounded ok, but wasn't all that entertaining. 5/10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lot5p...eature=related
Although I like the most songs you post but this one was not for my taste so I give it only 6/10.
Here is a song I listened to for the first time in Sarajevo at New Year eve 2011 it was a concert in the street and people sang together with performers. It was amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhZ-...eature=related
OK melody, but unexciting when I don’t understand the lyrics. 4/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r5lnQYwdbE
[QUOTE=Gregory Samsa;1088969]OK melody, but unexciting when I don’t understand the lyrics. 4/10
Have you ever thought that most of people in this world who listen to English music don't speak English and don"t understand what those songs are about, although they like Elvis, Beatles, Michael Jackson. I for example hadn't known that Road To Hell by Chris Rea was not a love song until I started learning English, however I loved the song very much. Just sharing.
[QUOTE=Olga4real;1089227]Of course. There's no accounting for tastes and some music works fine with language people don’t understand, like Sigur Rós for me. But I don’t think Bob Dylan would be good if I didn’t understand the lyrics and I guess you probably liked Road To Hell more when you actually understood what it was all about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregory Samsa
For me, if I don't understand the lyric, I can't really like the song - because I know that I'm missing a major component of the work. It's one of the problems I have with opera, for instance. The frustration of not understanding the Italian - or German, or whatever - completely negates any pleasure I might get from listening to the music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregory Samsa
I kinda liked it 8/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy_aahkIdEI
Very cool. 8/10
Makes me want to listen to the Spinners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkje4FiH9Qc
Yech. This reader doesn't like religion, the 1970's or Andrew Lloyd Webber. 3/10 for purely superficial reasons. Also, in that video, Jesus seems like a mean dude.
Forget what year this opus was written but it was central to a certain golden age:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGL2rytTraA&ob=av2e
Sort of like banging your head against a wall. . . . . feels good when it's over. 2/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t18suYTiGA
5/10. Because the only good thing to come out of grunge was Pearl Jam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQINEK17aMA
I can’t hear the lyrics ‘coz it’s kinda noisy here but the music is not bad just enough to keep you from sleeping while on work. haha..a little upbeatXD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM&ob=av3e
8/10 [CORRECTION 9/10] The song relies heavily on what it is supposedly shooting down--if I understand it correctly. Then again, what else were they supposed to do, I guess? It's a clever trick that becomes a cheat or something on re-listens. But as long as I'm in on the joke... I don't know...
Leaving that conundrum aside, it's not dumb, it's catchy (a sad anthem becomes a scolding one--that's a nice trick), she's cute. Everything is really perfect and careful, though, and so it's hard for me to go higher than 8. But sometimes I like careful and perfect. Ah, heck, I'll give it a 9/10. The video and everything adds a lot, I guess--it's good to see it skillfully laid out. That's a LOT of sunshine and perfection, though. But funny, here and there.
How about a messy crime story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iARb-JpaY
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Originally Posted by billl
I was rather drawn in at the start, and then it all went to pieces with the cringey spoken bit in the middle, and got even limper at the end. Never heard of the guy, but I'll probably seek out some more. I suspect he's an acquired taste. 5/10
Here's another acquired taste. We can talk about it in the car.... I perfectly understand that many people wouldn't want to acquire it.
Hrm. Not really feeling it. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's abrasive, but I couldn't really latch on to it, except for the instrumental bit about three minutes in. 6/10?
Then again, my taste can be a bit "acquired" sometimes, too. Or at least a bit esoteric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ne49KtcQlA
I could see how one would want to push buttons to that song. . . . but not much else. 5/10
I'm more in the mood for a bluesy, head-nodding song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBACTCS4SmI
It's a little strange to me--the "blues" angle is interesting... I'm inclined to imagine melodrama and moaning about "baby left me" or some "back door man" and there's often something to smile about in the vivid complaining about how bad things are or in some rascally reaction. This tune, though, hits me like a straight-forward lecture about how things can only go in one direction, and that direction is down. Like an instruction manual type of vibe. I can't even decide what emotion the singer is feeling--maybe there's subtleties replacing the melodrama, moaning, and humor I'm used to, when I think "blues"... There must be.
Of course, he's basically a legendary vocalist now, from all reports many people love his singing, and his music continues to touch people's souls. (For the record, I dig "Rooster".) There's dudes nodding their head in the clip and really getting into it, so I'm sure someone else could really rate this pretty highly. But I just don't get it, it actually seems cold and robotic to me. Not bad, though.
4/10
Here's music that I'm thinking might manage to accommodate head-nodding and button-pushing.
http://vimeo.com/5943130
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Originally Posted by billl
I don't find that at all easy not to like, despite not being able to find any reason not to hate it. 9/10
Here's a band I stumbled across on iTunes, who sound so spookily like their influences that you sort of wonder why they bother.
7.5/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
This song was OK--kind of straight-ahead in regards to the melody and the tune in general. What stand out, of course, are the production, the polished performance, and the earnestness. It has the scent of "school band nerd", and the essence of the performance is naturally reminiscent of Marillion, with perhaps a Pink Floyd finish. I'm interested that the album might have a theme or story to it, and they seem good enough that I'd probably be able to make it through a listen. Going by just this particular track, though, I can't help but think that, if I let my mind wander just an inch, it might continue for a mile.
I decided to check what their influences might actually be (via Wikipedia article), and saw mentioned Genesis (Peter Gabriel era, I assume) and Gentle Giant. I know that Genesis a little bit (Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is the only thing I can really point to, though), and I see the thematic angle there, and perhaps the band nerd angle too. But Gentle Giant, I knew nothing about, and so I checked one song on youtube, avoiding the first-listed video because the text summary began with some raving about how handsome the drummer is. And so, accompanied by a nagging memory that I eventually realized was the British TV show "The Goodies", I watched this fascinating and quite watchable slice of the 70's that I completely missed happening at the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrYSTzqFI8
3/10Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
A brilliant observation, and not just because of the dungarees. The thing about 70s prog rock is that when it worked at all - which it often didn't - there was usually an element of self-mockery about it. And Gentle Giant displayed very little of that.
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."
I thought I might post a few that had been used as theme tunes for UK TV shows. Here's one now. (Long fade-in. Do not adjust your set.)