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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. 7/10Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
To mark the occasion of my purchase of a Rickenbacker 330/12....this.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
Just watched that video. How daft. I knew the song so just listened.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
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
Meh - 6.66/10
Blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw
Shouldn't a meh song be 4 or less?Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
Good song 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0isR1emmPs
Blues theme
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=GRdj8...feature=relmfu
I give that one a 10 too. Nostalgia purposes though. I grew up with Clapton. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcH_bslOj8g
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.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
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.
Four beard hairs out of so much beard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCg2VMtTF9c
8 out of 10 poetic verses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0MF8pwktg
7 sweet lil things out of 10 pride n joys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYzB0Y-8EI
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. 3/10Quote:
Originally Posted by BookBeauty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGyOKr8frw
I really can't place where I heard this. It just seemed to be there.
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 - 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Excellent track - 8/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAh_4...eature=related
Super this.
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. 3/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho Panza
I prefer this. I sometimes sing it when I'm pushing 10 miles per hour on my bike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsuDF...eature=related
10/10 - deep purple. Quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
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.
8 out of 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4lfwQ0LlUg
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'?
That's an excellent song. 9/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Difficult to follow with something as good. Something different then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBemzu1Fchk
Excellent film too.
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.
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
Quote:
Originally Posted by BookBeauty
A very underrated Beatles song - one of my favourites. 10/10
Here's another which doesn't get the profile it deserves.
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=CHekN...endscreen&NR=1
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
So would I. Revolver or Abbey Road.Quote:
Originally Posted by BookBeauty
10/10 for She Said She Said, Jack.
Regardless of genre, you can't knock a fantastic melody.
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
Wow, that's a pretty harsh sentiment.:D 9/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974ePdYMz4Q
I like it - good guitar sounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by BookBeauty
I liked this in the 90's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBi-...eature=related
Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
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.
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
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
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
The melody.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
I'd rather Yellow Submarine than Within You Without You.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
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 that deals not with emotional upheaval, but with emotional stasis. Clever lyric and affecting arrangement.
(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.Quote:
Originally Posted by BookBeauty
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.