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It Makes No Difference - The Band's The Last Waltz version, and the My Morning Jacket cover.

Also, the Last Waltz version of Don't Do It. KICKS ASS.

The first instrumental version of I Know I'm Not Wrong by Fleetwood Mac on the Tusk remaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3c2WUVZ9NQ..i always play it when i'm skateboarding it gives me that rush...or when i'm listening to it at home it makes me just want to dance like jagger lol

I can't stop listening to "I Don't Want You to Die" by the Flaming Lips with Christ Martin from Coldplay. Extremely sad but beautiful at the same time. Crushing.

Great songs. I always wonder why It Makes No Difference avoids being maudlin. It should be sappy but somehow isn't.

I mentioned earlier that I've been playing The Band non-stop lately. I had most of their albums but after Levon died, I got Cahoots (which means I'm now one album [the covers one] short of a complete set). This means that I'm hearing the studio version of When I Paint My Masterpiece for the first time so I've been playing that one a lot.

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.

Cab Calloway-Minnie the Moocher

Fred Schneider's version of Coconut. Like, really.

Are you feeling alright?  ;D

"As" by Stevie Wonder. I heard it on the radio Saturday. The lyrics read like a stalker's "love letter". In a good way, of course.

Seriously, this is out of hand. I think I've lost some friends.

But seriously, somehow it is so perfect.

It did lead to this text exchange with a co-worker though.

Me: Do you have any good recipes with lime? I'm not sure where to put it.

Her: Up your ass. I hate you.

That was a pretty good response, I have to say.

I agree.

Amazing.  :lol

For the record, I am also inexplicably suddenly REALLY into The Invisible Man by Queen, from The Miracle.

In my corner, The Sonics doing possibly the least Sonics song ever, 'Since I Fell For You' has been in heavy rotation for some reason.

Also, the first song on this NPR session from The Creole Choir of Cuba. Absolutely beautiful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJSv2hoH5ro

WOW! Had never heard that before - fantastic song.

I'd been rinsing the youtube video of this, but a mate leant me the boxset AND BY GUM. It just ROCKS LIKE A CRACKSTRONG BASTARD

Bought Nilsson Schmilisson a couple of weeks ago when I saw it sitting on the rack at a used record store, thanks in large part to how highly people on this board talk about it. I really dug it on first listen and now I start listening to it and as soon as Got Get Up ends I pick the needle up and put it right back at the beginning. I've been listening to it a lot over the last three afternoons.

The rest of the album's really good as well!  ;D

Sure is!

Do you have any of Nilsson's other stuff because there are a few albums I would place ahead of Schmilsson for personal favourites.

I've been enjoying the whole thing, but that first song has really grabbed me for some reason. I haven't got anything else yet, it's been a few weeks since I've been record hunting. Any suggestions for what I should look for?

I am totally obsessing on This Whole World for about the last 5 days.

I think we've all been there a time or 17

There's a lot of variety but my personal favourite is Harry and I also love Nilsson Sings Newman. After that, I really like Aerial Ballet and The Point.

Son Of Schmilsson.

"Juanita" by the Flying Burrito Brothers

This is cool -- I had no idea My Morning Jacket covered this song.

Hard to beat Rick Danko singing tho'.

Awesome. I've been taking in quite a bit of Gram Parsons (solo records) myself, lately.

And as I posted at the Record Room...Uptown Girl. Billy Joel. Suck it.

You can't go wrong with any of those - The Point! and Nilsson Sings Newman are my two favourites, but essentially any album up to and including p*ssy Cats is worth it.

Also, I had a bit of a moment whilst writing my final batch of essays the other day and played Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer for about four hours solid. God, I love that song.

I'd agree with this.

(My favorite, by far, is Nilsson Sings Newman. But that guy had one hell of a run.)

It's just so cool to be finding little gems like this since radio for the past 20 years pretends The Beach Boys didn't make any music between the release of Good Vibrations and Kokomo.

Currently obsessing over Pretty Ballerina by The Left Banke.

The entire contents of It's Alive by The Ramones.

.......TAKEITDEEDEE1234!

LIKE! to all of the Nilsson guidance here from the other guys.

Like you, AH, I started out with Shmillson - and my next follow up was Nilsson sings Newman;

Essentially a double mind-blow -

1) it's magnificent and will really get you into Harry's world.

2) gave me an appreciation for old Newman, who I hadn't paid much attention to in the past

Enjoy!

the beatles - you've got to hide your love away

i'm going through a beatles fanatic phase lol...last week it was the kinks and the week before that it was the rolling stones..

I love Randy Newman's '70s stuff, so Nilsson Sings Newman is on the top of the list, but I'm excited now to find other stuff too. I'll definitely be shopping this weekend.

You Gave Your Love To Me Softly - Weezer, obscure b-side that I love to death.

Luther, I actually heard "And So It Goes" for the first time a couple of summers ago.  (Don't know how I'd missed it.)
Incredible!
It threw me for a loop!  A masterpiece!

Goin' On.

Like, this is actually an amazing song - every element except the sax solo (I hate sax solos) kicks absolute ass. Carl is amazing. Mike and Bruce (right?) deal a solid lead. The harmonies rock. God, it's great.

Why does it have to be from such a crap album? KTSA is dirt. And yet.... this. I think the new Brian and Mike originals have to match this.

Neil Young - Sugar Mountain :)

Oh hell yeah. I love this song!

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - have been playing this constantly for the last few months.

The Cove - Jack Johnson

The Tulips - Summer Song.  Just heard this in the film "The Music Never Stopped", didn't know who it was, sounded to me almost like Marianne Faithful, and I would have thought it was more modern too but for the fact that all the songs in the film were from the 60's/early 70's.   I cannot find the lyrics or chords for this song anywhere and have been trying to figure it out.  it's a fairly simple song so I think I have a reasonable take on the chords/lyrics nearly worked out. 
I love this song.  Never heard of the Tulips before.

This is a great song.  Neil does a great live version on the Rust Never Sleeps live tour.

Supposedly, after Joni Mitchell heard Sugar Mountain, she wrote The Circle Game.

WOW!! really? i could see it inspiring Joni to write circle game :) i barely got into folk rock because of my father he's into it and he's showed me so much and i love it all.

The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness by The Flaming Lips

The 36 songs found in the twofer of Elvis Presley's albums From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis, plus some singles and unreleased songs. I know several of you are big Elvis fans, so I'm not talking to you here. You're the Peters (heyo!) and I'm the Paul in this situation: I'm reaching the gentiles. To everyone who isn't (and really, I'm only casually acquainted, myself, with hits and then some assorted things my parents happened to have), you need to know this:

Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis are brilliant, brilliant albums.

I've had these for a year or two, but only occasionally would half-listen. The past couple of weeks I've spent quite a bit of time with them. Right now I am of the opinion that this music is really right up near the top of what was recorded in the late '60s. It's easy for someone of my generation to write off Elvis without paying him sufficient attention, just because he was a pop-culture figure of oddly obsessed old people, impersonators, not-dead conspiracy theorists, and of course those rhinestone-encrusted suits. If you grew up when and where I did, the classic rock you needed to know began with Rubber Soul, more or less. Maybe there was lip service paid to the Sun Records Elvis, but then you just moved on. If you had to mention Elvis again, it was to shake your head sadly at what he had become in the era of what really mattered: Led Zeppelin.

Those last few sentences were what my environment was, and what my mindset remained for a long time. But even then, I recalled some line from some documentary or whatever in which someone said (how about this memory? Don't recall who said it, where, or in what!), "the one thing that Elvis never lost was that beautiful voice." Or some such thing.

Well, he was a fucking singer. So who gives a sh*t what else he may have lost if he kept that voice?

That voice is one of the few most expressive instruments popular music has ever had, and it is on full display in these two albums. If you don't know them, find them. Listen to them.

That's not actually a Brian track -- it's Dave Edmunds, with (apparently), Bruce, Terry Melcher and Curt Boettcher on backing vocals. It's a cover of an old Tradewinds song, New York's A Lonely Town, with a couple of changes to the lyric.

Freddie Scott - Hey Girl

the Trade Winds version is also more amazing - although I didn't know Brian wasn't involved, cheers Andrew!

'Wings' by The Hollies. Interesting to learn that they wrote it after The
Buffalo Springfield "forced" them to listen to their new song 'Expecting
To Fly'. Combine that feel with some nicely melodic Hendrix-inspired guitar
flourishes, a melody as strong as anything on 'The Who Sell Out' and
then mix in those flawless Hollies harmonies. The group never topped it.

Leon Russell - Hummingbird

Todd Rundgren - The Verb To Love

The Hollies - So Lonely... These guys were so underrated.

Luke Kelly - The Lags Song... The dude from the Dubliners, what a voice.

I thought I was alone! Such a great song, I actually think Paul were a little depressed when he wrote that song. To forget his problems he wrote this mantra,"Good times coming, laughing at the good times coming in". Thats how I Imagine it anyway.

At the moment:

Be My Baby by The Ronettes
Found myself listening to the song on repeat over and over  :o

Island in the Sun by The Righteous Brothers
Close your eyes and listen to it with headphones. You'll be in paradise!

I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine by The Ronettes
Ronnie shines on this song. The part that got to me was "I wouldn't mind the rain"

Go Ahead and Cry by The Righteous Brothers
Normally I don't like choirs in songs but it fits in well with this one. Beautiful arrangement and vocals.

Flesh and Blood by Wilson Phillips
A desperate plea by Wendy and Carnie to reestablish contact with Brian during the Landy period. So glad they have come a long way since then.

Devoted to You by The Everly Brothers
A simple love song with a lot of meaning an great vocals.

I think it's fading a bit now but for the past 2 weeks it's been Joy Division all day every day. If I had to pick one song that most sums up the whole experience, it would have to be "Disorder." I've always liked the track, but the bass line always just seemed ... odd. And it is odd. It starts on an E, takes a huge leap down to an A flat, then a HUGE leap down to a B (why didn't Hook just choose to play a B within the same octave, just one and a half steps up from the A flat?!? Insanity!), and then back to the same A flat. So I guess the whole thing is based on an E major chord. But it's just weird. But this past week it clicked with me, and all of a sudden it WORKED - it became weird genius.

I'm also guilty of putting that one on repeat constantly. Brian wasn't crazy: just in tune to one of the greatest songs recorded.
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My Way - Frank Sinatra
Voodoo Dreams - Les Baxter
Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane

Rolling Stones - Silver Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgJcXIz1L0

I have strange tastes in music.  ;D

Song I've been obsessing over for the past year:

Grand Funk Railroad - Bad Time


Something about it.  I can listen to it over and over and over again.  Pick out all the instruments, sing along with all the different parts.  Try to make up a new harmony.  Try to figure out the guitar solo.  I just love it. 

Hungry Heart by Bruce Springsteen

"Handwritten" by the Gaslight Anthem and anything off of the new record by The Shins.

I friggin love that song. I hum Brian's 'Getcha Back' falsetto over the whole thing ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ech6pZoBJ4

Goddammit, now I do that all the time as well....  :lol

A lot of Monkees stuff right now. The one I'm grooving on the most is "You Told Me" but I'm listening to all the stuff from that era.

Anything by the Talking Heads. Give me more!

The recording of Joni's Urge for Going by Mary Black.

Sublime!!!!!

Thunderclap Newman--- something in the air

A sound tune! How's it going, Steve!

I just have weird obsessions with some songs songs  :P

A Song for My Father - Captain & Tennille
Nice instrumental. All I can say about it.

Brian's Back
My mind is weird like that. Not sure why I've been listening to it on repeat lately.

Summer's Gone
Fits my mood. Song's self explanatory. Summer's gone, it's finally sinking in...

Down in the Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers
A song about murdering a girl-how happy!  ::) Not sure why I'm obsessed with this on. Maybe I'm just morbid...

Yeah, I'm weird... ::) I'll come back next week with a new set of obsessions.

yeah, i love that song!
doing fine...been in new house about a month. had surgery on both hands little over a week ago (carpal and trigger fingers...have had 6 trigger fingers in the last 5 years). hands sore but i'm ok. thanks for asking  :)

Rolling Stones - Silver Train

Thanks to my budding interest in country music, I'm currently rather obsessed with Tanya Tucker's Delta Dawn.

Right on. Check out Blood Red And Goin' Down.

Ride A White Swan by T. Rex

'I am not a robot' by Marina and the Diamonds

Sherry

Rolling Stones - Silver Train

I just noticed that Hungry Heart starts out with a Motown pick-up on the drums.

Nice. :hat

I have listened to On The Rebound by Floyd Cramer about 23 times in a row. Send help.

Really? It gets me pumped..When I listen to it it makes me want to dance or skateboard..Whenever I work out it's the first song i play on my ipod. (it hits me every time.)
To be honest I'm not very fond of December's Children ..lol..it has a few joints on there that are decent but overall the album was not as great because it was very early in their career and well there wasn't anything too special about RS pre-satsifaction. lol The first album in my opinion that took them to another level was Aftermath.

Axl on piano and vocals, and Slash on guitar doing a great cover of a tremendously underrated song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu26EC7bZnA&feature=related

FYI it's said 'lately', not 'the last time'. in case you wanna improve your English.  ::)

No need for that.

If yer gonna live in 'Murrica, you better speak 'Murican.

why? good ole chunk of advice isn't a bad thing, is it?

Not if it sounds like you're being sarky to someone whose first language isn't English. If you weren't, I apologise.

I've been seriously into The School's two albums, Loveless Unbeliever (2010) and Reading Too Much Into Things Like Everything (2012). Both are excellent, obviously Beach-Boys-styled twee pop but don't seem to be slavishly reverent to their influences. Good songwriting is important too! Particular stand-outs, two from each album: "Let It Slip" (http://youtu.be/xrBF2nsjeaE) and "All I Wanna Do" (http://youtu.be/zdarcOe5L2k), "Baby Won't You Stay With Me Tonight?" (http://youtu.be/H70DJuTgFQw) and "You Make Me Hear Music (Inside My Head)" (http://youtu.be/MPu3QyA-Ggk).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1uT6itlGQY
Chocolate Town by Ween is a current obsession of mine. Hell, all of Quebec is and obsession for me.

I have my set music I like listening to on my mp3 player everyday (Beach Boys, Beatles, Gordon Lightfoot, Pink Floyd), just a mix of the classics.

Though I do obsess and play to death certain songs.  Currently that would be...

No Matter What (by Badfinger)
Vegetable Man (Pink Floyd)
Let The Sun Shine (5th Dimension)
Paradise (Coldplay)
Best of Herp Alpert (Lonely Bull)
Never Getting Back Together (Taylor Swift)
Stop Right Now (Spice Girls)
Theme to "You Only Live Twice" (Nancy Sinatra) - I'm obsessed with that brilliant violin riff.


Obscure list I know.  :lol

Eagles - Best of my Love

Elvis Presley - King Of The Whole Wide World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhDHzJYdwTY

A bunch of Magnetic Fields songs: "1000,000 Fireflies" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqjYhbGFc4Q); "When You Were My Baby" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVQkqrfdysI); "The Saddest Story Ever Told" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE59VaFVIMs); and "Born On A Train" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91uDH-0YGFM). (Also check out cover of "Born on A Train" by The Cat's Miaow!)

In light of the hurricane, I've been listening to Shelter From the Storm by Bob Dylan a lot, but my 45th anniversary set of the Velvet Underground & Nico (a late birthday present) did just come in the mail, so I'm sure I'll be obsessing over Heroin all over again soon.


EDIT: Oh, and Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson.

You, by George Harrison. Mostly just trying to figure out whether the rhythm is slow or fast. I think there are two drummers, one playing fast (and doing them fills) and the other slow.

Also, just the All Things Must Pass album by George anyway. To the extent where I made an alternate album out of it using bootlegs. Don't think I've ever done that with things besides Smile.

A few weeks ago I listened to "Quick!" (from the recent LP) 20-30 times a day.  :-D

At this point I've listened to everything they've done up to 69 Love Songs, though I've only listened to Distortion since then -- I quite liked "California Girls" and "Too Drunk to Dream" but besides those songs I thought it was kinda hit-or-miss. Is their new album worth checking out?

Love At The Bottom Of The Sea is DA BOMB!  :3d

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7UOnWgWfnU

The Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be The Night [produced by Phil Spector]

Real nice....real nice.  :hat

Anyone here a fan of Guster?

I listen to about 10 of their songs I didn't care for any of them but I came across this song "Careful" and I'm obsessing on it. Do you have any other recommendations on their best songs?

The Moody Blues- The Voyage Suite from "On the Threshold of a Dream"

The Kinks - Do You Remember Walter?

One too many mornings - Bob Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjsr7q3F8EU&feature=plcp

I really need to get this album. What a great song!

That album is incredible.
Get it asap!

Or, I have the album. I could always send you the files if you wanted!

No thanks! I'll buy it one of these days.

I own most of Dylan's studio albums - for some reason I've never bought this one.

It's a really good one!

Some Say (I Got Devil) by Melanie.

Van Morrison - The Way Young Lovers Do

I've been getting into Van Morrison recently and am really digging Astral Weeks. There's something about this song in particular that's so interesting.

Al Green  - Your Love is like the Morning Sun

Those strings in that song does it for me every time. (So soft & sweet)

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
The song (and the whole album) makes me feel soooo good.  :tm

This song was my way into Astral Weeks too. One of my favourite albums.

Good Old War - I Should Go/Thinking Of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75hxrSTaEUk

Pink Floyd - Nobody Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUK1fWWR84E

I posted earlier about the British contemporary of Dusty Springfield and Sandie Shaw, Kathy Kirby. There are three different clips at YouTube of a 45 she did in 1972, of the Paul Williams/ Roger Nichols song "Do You Really Have A Heart," apparently first recorded by Dobie Gray three years earlier. I came across it last week and have been playing it twice a day. The song and arrangement are much more contemporary-sounding that most of Kirby's other work I've heard, and the vocal is gentler, more sensual, than her usual approach...the timbre a bit like Dusty's, phrasing a bit like Karen Carpenter's.

Word. Have you heard Boots Of Spanish Leather, rab? It's beautiful.

As for me, this album gets a little less mileage (I love Bob goofin' off, so Freewheelin' or Another Side is more my style) but this is such a good album. Been going through a Bob phase lately.

1980s Bob is rough listening. ;D

Have either of you guys checked out the Witmark Demos yet?
They're great too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSXY5xxZ9UM

Bloody love them - kinda sucks he didn't go in and demo much beyond 1964, really. A Witmark demo of Rolling Stone would be something to behold...

Yeah, they're great!
Maybe with his 50 years and all, we'll get more!

Yeah the greatest Demos of all time... The Full Basement Tapes!!! 8)

Haven't heard the Witmark collection yet! Can't wait to get my hands on it.
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@Hypehat: Never heard that before! It's got that great 'Girl From North Country' chord progression/melody.

I love Bob Dylan phases - they come out of nowhere for me, and he's got such a diverse collection so it never gets old.

Have you guys heard 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue [take 1]' from the No Direction Home soundtrack? Trumps the album version by miles.

When it comes to songs I play every time I come across them on the old iPod, the one that really comes to mind is "Deep In Kentucky" by Sandy Posey. You'll find it on Spotify, not on Youtube - though the latter has a version by the Box Tops, and another by a guy whose name I forget.

 The song was written by Bill Davidson, a native of west Nashville and apparently part of the crowd of musical-minded kids in that neighborhood in the early '60s that included Bobby Russell.  The Nashville part would explain why the song reverses the usual way-down-South lyrical approach, so that the narrator is taking "a trip to that northern boundary, deep in Kentucky where you'll never find me" - in other words, getting on a bus to that mysterious metropolis called Paducah. 

There seem to be four or five recorded versions of "Deep In Kentucky" but there's something about Sandy Posey's version - the arrangement, the vocal - that gets me every time.

I haven't. I'll have to check that out asap!

I heard that song by the Byrds.

Yep, a self indulgent stylistic exercise, and loving it.  One for the seemingly small number of surf rock fans 'round here:

http://m.soundcloud.com/singhalamusic/the-bluebottles-oceanside

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Do you like "I'm on the Outside" ? That's my favorite song by Little Anthony & The Imperials.

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Tell me what you think of it. :)

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Tiny Tim's "You try somebody else" from his Tribute to Ross Colombo album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gkAF5_UOj8
The amount of raw emotion in Jeff Mangum's voice is what makes me come back to this song more than almost any other.

Gene Chandler's "Duke of Earl". Really snook up on me, now it's always in my head. Learned most of the parts now, might drag some friends into a room and make them sing it with me.

Check out his follow-up, "Walk On With The Duke". Not nearly as successful, but a catchy tune!

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Ignition by R. Kelly.

It's the greatest song of all time, especially if you listen to the OG version and then the remix as it is on the album.


I mean,

1) It is a song about a remix of itself.
2) Bouncebouncebouncebouncebounce
3) You must be a football coach the way you've got me playing the field
4) bouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebounce
5) It's like Murder She Wrote/when I get you out them clothes
6) As if the party was catered!
7) Toot toot
8) beep beep
9) That ridiculous bass thing before the chorus
10) That ridiculous one note guitar line
11) The fact that the the OG version is just four notes of ridiculously over-done single entendre devoted to banging in a Jeep like an overture to the ridiculous party jam to follow
12) "Green Light" I'll go, "Yellow Light" Take it slow, "Red Light".... I'll stop.
13) The fact that R is so coy about previewing this remix and drops THE REMIX
14) All up in your greeeeeel
15) After the show it's the AFTERPARTY, and after the party it's THE HOTEL LOBBY, then around bout four you gotta CLEAR THE LOBBY, then you take 'em to your room and f*** SOMEBODY
16) bouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebouncebounce
17) How it is the slowest party jam ever. IT'S SO SLOW


It is so the greatest song of all time.

I like the Dave Chapelle version even better.

:lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt9laRZSdWY
That's how it goes at the R. Kelly party. I sip Cris, you drink piss.

Sound and Vision.

Silence is Golden - The Four Seasons

Can't get it out of my head!

Flo Rida - Wildones...can't get that driving sound out of my head :)

yeah I'm a pretty big fan of this song myself. IT'S THE REMIX TO IGNITION, HOT AND FRESH OUT THE KITCHEN. I must have the censored version because for the lyric you mentioned in #15 it's "take 'em to your room and *bass drum* *bass drum* somebody"

also, the line "sippin' on coke and rum, I'm like so what, I'm drunk" is such a great line.

Yeah, it's censored on every version? Strange practice. But I had to type something. The fact it's just the bass drum there makes it even better, but puerile me sings 'f***'

It's such a ridiculously good song, glad someone else here appreciates the genius of it. It might be an example of a perfect pop song.

Also, I was not under the influence of anything writing that list. It's just THAT GOOD.

I'm probably going to get a shrug or a confused look on this one, but bear me out.

Marina and the Diamonds' cover of 'Starstrukk'. Turns a typical bouncy modern pop song into something dark and moving. Marina Diamandis is basically this generation's Bryan Ferry in vocal style and attitude, and this recording is one of my favorite recordings in the past 10-15 years.

Don't believe me? Hear for yourself.



This is the original, by 3OH3 and featuring Katy Perry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvf--10EYXw

Now THIS is Marina's cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYo6rXVIGY

Great summary of this jam, do you like trapped in the closet as well? ;D

Deep Purple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZFAM1Yuhc

"Woman" by Peter and Gordon.

P&G always went for a big huge sound, but "Woman" is so perfectly early-1966 in its attempt to make the sound bigger and bigger and huger and huger, as if it were desperately searching to break into another dimension of sound.  Groups would get there eventually, but this single proved that bigger and huger wasn't necessarily the way.

Enjoy people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QGWZ9OOGAI

Anything and everything by Lake Street Dive. They're one of those almost but not quite bands, who deserve to be a lot bigger than they are. I was thinking about making a thread about them. Check them out on YouTube!  ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0k2NdXD5I

The Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me
Such a beautiful song!

Requiem for the Masses - The Association

Great song especially the opening with "req-qui-eem"

Bike- Pink Floyd, I always loved Syd Barret's unorthodox ,yet clever  lyrical arrangements  and Samuel Barber's -Adagio For Strings( I Get goosebumps every time I hear it)

Well...this week, it's mainly "Peaceful," written by Kenny Rankin, and "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" written by Lally Stott.

 The versions of "Peaceful" I've been playing over and over on Spotify and YouTube are Rankin's first version (from his debut album Mind Dusters in '67), Bobbie Gentry's (the first cover version, apparently, from her Local Gentry LP), and Georgie Fame's 1969 rendition which made the UK Top 20. Up till this month the only versions of the song I knew were Rankin's 1970s recording and Helen Reddy's hit version, but I like the first three I mentioned a lot better.

"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" I knew from Mac and Katie Kissoon's version which was a sizable US hit when I was a kid, but in recent days I've been playing YouTube clips of Middle Of The Road's version, the UK hit, over and over, because, of course, I love looking at Sally Carr.  (As it happens, the one part of the US where the Middle  Of The Road version hit big in '71 was in Hawaii....so that means our President probably remembers it. I wonder if, after all the meetings are done for the day, he ever tells Michelle he'll be in right after he brushes his teeth, then sneaks over to the iPad and watches the TOTP clip of this.)

Walk, Don't Run - The Ventures. Heard this for the first time 3 days ago on a 60's Hits compilation I got as a Secret Santa present and now it refuses to leave my head.

Obsessing is a strong word, but my favorite songs recently are "Losing You" by Solange, "Treasure" and "If I Knew" by Bruno Mars, and pretty much the entirety of the Raspberries' Capitol Collector's Series collection.

Barrett rules... although at the moment I personally am obsessing over The Zombies' "Care of Cell 44."

Feeeeeeeeeels soooooo good you're coming hoooooooooome...

Getting In Tune by Pete Townshend

I missed this post...Wow, never thought I'd see "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" mentioned on this board...

You're right, the Mac & Katie Kissoon version was the U.S. hit, but for some reason, the small local radio station in my hometown (WAHT 1510AM in central Pennsylvania) always played the Middle Of The Road version, which I preferred. What a catchy little tune that I used to obsess over - in the summer of 1971! And, what a great summer - and year - 1971 was for music, especially AM radio.

From There To Back Again. It's almost incomprehensible how they came up with such a perfect song this late in the game. 5 stars. One of BW + The BB's greatest works.

The Zombies - Imagine The Swan
Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
The Who - They're All In Love
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
Of Montreal - Fun Loving Nun

Great song! There are versions by The Vogues (not on youtube) and Gary Lewis & The Playboys, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH7niRU2GiY

great song. in fact her whole album is pretty impressive.
shes a decent singer in her own right

im listening to 'Bronze Nazareth - King Of Queens'

still I’m a hoodlum to a city queen
‘music like the dope game, “hoes tours and cocaine
Can u remain the same?”
We separate paths and get to strayin
Sometimes I think about you through a wind draft, or old fragrance
I Thank GOD for you Like wise I wouldn’t have made it
The sun was setting on my brain The pressure on my cranium
You stitched a broken man together mighta never weighed in
Put me at ease with my head in your lap at days end
Rubbin your hair wonderin where heaven had been
I was mesmerized by your almond eyes and ebony skin

great Wu inspired hip-hop by a great producer/MC out of Detroit

Talking Heads - Animals.

One of the funniest songs I've ever heard.

Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8aPyBr-_S0

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Copper Kettle by Bob Dylan. Love his country voice, singing sweetly about how to properly build a fire.

I fucking love that song! 8)

This might be the best rock song of the last 25 or so years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgnaYyFLCx8

I've been playing "Mountain Sound" by Of Monsters and Men quite a bit lately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEVaniPOmU

Do You Remember Walter? by the Kinks
 
Soooo amaaaaaaziiiiing

Be my Baby by The Ronettes  :P

Go Your Own Way, Little Lies, and Big Love by Fleetwood Mac

Get turnt up and listen to the "Piss Test" remix by A-Trak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJjk7cijZoo) featuring Jim Jones, Flosstradamus, Flatbush Zombies and El-P. It's fire! The original with Juicy J and Danny Brown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpllaoGUzDU) is monstrous too.

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

Let It Be Me by The Everly Brothers. Not sure whether I should play it at my wedding or my funeral.

Save it for your funeral - you should walk down the isle to Lovey Kravezit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eif9uAm_0M4

The scorn on Phil and Don's faces says it all  :lol

Forget that they issued it as a single, I think the real crime is that they were wearing bowties in 1966!

Been drooling over this since it came out , got that gorgeous PS/Friends vibe to it.

To me , very slightly better than porn  :lol

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

One day , I will travel to Swindon and talk to Mr Partridge about this masterpiece.

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Really into Bill Wyman's solo work at the moment. Got Monkey Grip on vinyl, and i've got that, Stone Alone, and Bill Wyman (self-titled album) on MP3.
My favourite track by him is "Girls" from his self titled album. Really obsessed with that lol

Last weekend I got some Everly Brothers 180g reissues. Great stuff all around, of course, but I am really loving their cover of Ray Charles' "What Kind Of Girl Are You". Great bluesy feel with an interesting high harmony through the second verse.

I'd never heard of him until recently, but I'm REALLY digging Todd Rundgren, especially 1973's "A Wizard/A True Star"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDcngFIy5nA
"There is cause and effect, there's a reason I'm so erect."
Sounds like a Dennis line.

It Must Be Jesus by The Southern Tones from 1954. Ray Charles took the melody from this and turned it into I've Got A Woman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvCbVLZW4EY

Ah, that was the first Rundgren album i heard, now I'm a huge fan.

I would recommend getting the incredible double disk "Something/Anything", then maybe "Todd".

I can't stop listening to Funkadelic at the moment. Cosmic Slop has been on repeat.

Earlier today I couldn't stop listening to the soft and groovy 'Yadig?' by The James Gang. Who knows what song I'll be addicted to tomorrow. Something totally different probably.

I Keep A Close Watch by John Cale

For a little bit longer than a week, the only song I listened to was "I am the Cosmos" by Chris Bell. This song blows my mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR594Kkxmzg

That is a pretty awesome song.  ;D

All Laura Nyro at this point...any one of 30 or 40 tunes

This is a good one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxjk4Ck4vMA. She was so underrated!! She still is. I'd take her over Janis Joplin any day  8)

and what does janis have to do with laura? they are two completely different music divas.

They really don't have anything to do with each other. I just meant that as female singer's go, my pick would be Laura Nyro, as well as Joni Mitchell.

Good call! Been really diggin this song lately http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6EUvuaZ-Q

What a talent.

Just last night I discovered Paul McCartney's Ram album. I can't believe I went all this time without giving it a chance. I must have listened to Ram On about ten times in a row. What a great little gem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_30A9fieqM
Moon Rocks by Talking Heads
This song, along with most of "Speaking In Tongues" is vastly underrated by even hardcore 'Heads fans, even though it contains some of their funkiest and catchiest material. I can understand why someone wouldn't like it, because the production is thinner than paper. 2:07 is one of the funkiest moments in music.

The Lifehouse Demos, specifically Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again

Don't take this the wrong way Peter but, I think I love you. Musically speaking.  ;D

Tom Tom Club 'Genius Of Love'. I don't know why I love this song so much. It's pretty funky.

Am I Normal?----David (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1Uu3USGn8)
Circus----String Driven Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cATm-piRZvs)
You Might Need Somebody----Shola Ama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4swgfp17kkk)
Other oddball stuff...

Stevie Wonder's 'Knocks Me Off My Feet'....it never leaves my ear for too long

The Beatles' 'If I Fell'....which might be beating out 'In My Life' as my second favorite Beatles song.

Million Dollar Bash -Bob Dylan
Forever Young -Bob Dylan
Hear It -The Rolling Stones
Tears of Rage -The Band

Guess right now it's a tossup between "My Other Voice" by Sparks and "The Ballad Of James Bong" by Jimmy Cross.

Not a song per se but Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music is now at Youtube in its entirety:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Vy4VRRO30

After almost 40 years it's starting to sound a little New Agey, but the antidote to that is to start up the clip, wait 30 seconds, open another window and start the clip again. That's almost as good as listening to the quad LP on a quad system (which I did, about 35 years ago....could only get thru Side 1 though).

BBs track I'm kinda obsessing on is the instrumental Transcendental Meditation. I never really grasped before that it's sort of based on what you could call bebop chord changes.  I wonder if Zappa ever picked up on that.

For some reason I've been listening to songs with high parts in 'em...

"Summer Turns To High" - R.E.M.
"Shannon" - Henry Gross
"Horace The Swinging School Bus Driver" - Jan & Dean
"Morning Of My Life" - The Bee Gees

The (almost) last half of The Radio Dept.'s third album, Clinging To A Scheme, from 2010:

"A Token Of Gratitude" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wuny2hroQ)
"The Video Dept." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6cR2YesUrg)
"Memory Loss" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wcpe9pu8qw)
"Four Months In The Shade" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDGjKVoGQA)
"You Stopped Making Sense" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ULJDimqKc)

Herbie Hancock 'I Thought It Was You'.

At the moment, I'm into Phil Spector again  :hat
Every time I listen to "Be My Baby", I'm convinced that it's a fucking masterpiece!

Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love from the box set. It gets stuck in my head every day. I love it.

The Kick Inside!

Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
He Darked the Sun by Linda Ronstadt
Sometimes It's a Bitch by Stevie Nicks
Weave Me the Sunshine by Peter Yarrow

THIS!!!! Fantastic group! So cool to see someone else here who has picked up on their brillance.

Besides, is this a cool idea for a video or what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDca2XAm7o

Roadrunner (1976) - Modern Lovers  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwbRhbta2I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwbRhbta2I)

Birds Fly Away - Theresa Andersson  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-SkkyoWL8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-SkkyoWL8)

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Ella Fitzgerald http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0JjhbaVbE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0JjhbaVbE)

From Here to Back Again/Pacific Coast Highway - The Beach Boys

Caravan - Van Morrison (with The Band from the Last Waltz - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXVD-nSSKE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXVD-nSSKE)

Since yesterday, I've been listening to "We Are The World" by USA for Africa. The intro is beautiful, so is the 1st chorus with 1-2 of MJ & Diana's voices. A bit surprised to hear Paul Simon there, but his inclusion was sorta stylish. Cyndi's cool! I read that she was often compared to Madonna (or going by her own words - "my alter-image") but the truth is, Madonna had never been a good singer or fashion icon of the 80s, just a copycat. Dunno Steve Perry, Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, James Ingram & Kim Carnes, and each of them were fab!

Note: Dylan, Turner & Springsteen nearly ruined the song but it lasts 7 minutes, so I can easily edit those out.

Mungo Jerry, "Lady Rose". I heard it back in '06 & transferred from a tape recorder radio - luckily, I had lots of bad cassettes, so I could record it over there, with no damage to sound. Fun times, I have it now as mp3 -- really great song. I like "dee-dee"s.

Back in the early '70s I was working on the fringes of the music business. One day I had to pick something up (or drop something off) at a London studio and they were playing a tape of "Lady Rose". Maybe they were making the final mix-down or something----it was a while before it hit the shops. I remember thinking the same as you----great song. :=) 

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

Cute video!

"Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars.  Although this song runs the risk of getting a little too played out, I'm enjoying the ride.  Thought it was a new Morris Day & The Time song at first. 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Love Letter": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoEwuyMZAE8

Beautiful.

It is totally Minneapolis sound. I loved it, too. Second-favorite song on that very solid album (only bested by "Feel Right," feat. Mystikal).

Wow, you were 1 lucky star. Did it sound different then or as is now? On the radio I heard version with extended piano tag. And I could swear there was no harmonica.

Another contender >> Charles Wright - Express Yourself. it's funky, it's stylish, it's right up my alley.

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds - You Are My Lucky Star...

Yup.

I'm pretty sure there was harmonica in the version i heard. Can't be absolutely sure, though, it was rather a long time ago.  ;D

I clearly remember the first three occasions on which I heard this song by Jimmy Nail. I've loved it ever since and have obsessed about it at times...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iF47M3YDlg



 

The Obvious Child by Paul Simon

Such a perfect song in every way.

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

2 john: gotcha.

Ever since I heard it a few days back on the "Voice. Kids" show, I've liked the song called "Ben". Did the lyric search and found it was sung by MJ. Now it's my new favorite. Song about rat couldn't be more affectionate and gorgeous. I think it works for kids, there's a video dating 1981 of Michael singing it - still good, but it lost its charm.

the Voice version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJDLxvripsQ (Yaroslav, 7 y.o.)

"The Pact" by Blue Oyster Cult

"Crying" by Roy Orbison. If I had a "Be My Baby" song, that would be it.

Bobby Rydell - Swingin' School. From my CD collection "Gold Hits of R&R" (2008). Very good, but I see why it wouldn't top the charts (#5).

The Band - Jawbone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IF13JxXvGI

Yes indeed. I was singing "Across The Great Divide" to myself only an hour ago. What an album!

I need to own more of The Band.(& more Big Star)

Two more: Big Star - September Gurls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EA

Bruce Springsteen - Lost In The Flood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9Zki_4e98

"I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm
Or was he just lost in the flood?"

"Draft Morning" The Byrds

Don't know if I obsess about it, really, but whenever I play it, I have to play it three times in a row because it puts me in such a serene state - "Think Of The Good Times" by Jay And The Americans.  Here's a clip of them lip-synching it, with a stereo track dubbed in, though it cuts off a little early:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4uBeTv_-hU

I was planning to listen to all of Sandinista! on shuffle before finally getting some sleep but I guess I'll just sit here and listen to this on repeat 

The Clash - If Music Could Talk :hat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA6PrJeDfSo

The Carnival is Over - The Seekers

Nice pick, Lillie. Did you know it's based on an old Russian folk song? Here's the roots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT3cFmh-1bs

Lots of singers/choir/orch. performed it.

Rosanna Rocci's version of Gli Occhi Miei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JytNJsB_3Yk&spfreload=10

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The song has one of the best choruses ever written.

The Rolling Stones - Salt of the Earth
  Been deleting stuff on my comp to get more vacancy, till I saw I had the "Rock'n'Roll Circus" (+ "Charlie Is My Darling"). Decided to watch either before the process; as it got to the final number, I was in awe. And listen, I'm no fan of gospel, but I wasn't turned off by the "black women choir" thing. Some fans & outsiders say Keef is a better singer, more soulful & all that jazz. Well, I disagree. Mick is more skillful, diverse, he even did falsetto later on. But when Keith stepped up - "Salt..." being his 1st solid vocal cred - it turned, actually, very well. It's always been my favorite off "Beggars Banquet". This & "Factory Girl".

Brenda Lee - I Want To Be Wanted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6l5JKWA1LM

Daniel Amos - Broken Ladders to Glory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6TvLYrOWY

Had BibleLand and Songs of the Heart around my brain for the past few days but this song is easily the most entrancing.

The Rolling Stones- Midnight Rambler

I don't why but I can't stop listening to the guitar parts on it.

Lykke Li - Youth Knows No Pain. Never heard of her before, but I'll fill this gap. The song has jus' right amount of darkness that is usually my thing. Sth. very "fatal" about performance. for want of a better word. Good accent.

I was searching my MediaGet for "sun video", picked out the shortest & that was it. I think it's beautiful. And the song is perfect match. Now, I see it's been on youtube for 2 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5gqmJIM8RE

Black'n'white clip with Lykke singing stripped down:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLDHyCkqbuw

Baby I'm-A Want You - Bread

Lou Reed - Waves of Fear

2undercover-m: that's some beautiful cat in your ava! & looks like he's sitting in my favorite cat pose - hiding arms 'n' legs. Nice bandana.

oh hey, thanks! :) my username actually comes from a song called "Undercover Martyn (http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLK4oaXUuLg")," and I use that screen name since my name in real life starts with an M, too :). And the cat is from their album cover, Tourist History. That is a paper crown on his head  8)

 The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrEAWcAvRg)

Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere And It's Now (http://We Are Nowhere And It's Now) (w/ Emmylou Harris)

"You see stars that clear have been dead for years,
But the idea just lives on"

Such an emotional song...

Come And See Her - The Easybeats

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfHW-xfy8I

Beach Comber - Real Estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzkx7ScbZ4I

so good live.

The Struts - Could've Been Me. Formulaic, cheesy bubblegum hit released in the UK last year, and in the US two weeks ago.

"Lavender" by the Boys of Beach. Beautiful early number.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4lD3Uf8_o

Not a song these days but an album. Ye gods!!!

(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/albums/18512/homepage_large.228565f3.jpg)

Death with Dignity - Sufjan Stevens
So High - Dave Mason
Step - Vampire Weekend
Hallelujah - The Helio Sequence

Cold Cold Man (http://'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B977tJeEYpE') - Saint Motel
I Hate Summer (http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-okQSLgprc") - Such Hounds
Past Life (http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAWDk4VjVEA") and Let It Happen (http://"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFptt7Cargc") - Tame Impala

The "all this running around..." part in "Let It Happen" is just amazing.

Last week, Lindi Ortega's "I Ain't the Girl" and "Rundown Neighborhood," both linked in my write-up in the 2015 new releases thread.

This week, nothing tickled me yet. We'll see how it unfolds.

Nelly Furtado - Say It Right

Love this song....... my most listened to lately.

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Just bought this record today. The title track makes my feelings melt.

Queen - The Prophet's Song
Queen - Get Down, Make Love
Queen - Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
Queen - If You Can't Beat Them

Huge fan of The Prophet's Song.  Queen at their absolute best.  They were so great in the 1970s, its a shame Freddie tried to turn them into a dance band for a minute.  Luckily, they were about to return to form with some good releases right before Freddie died.

ie.  the title track to Innuendo. 

Perfect example of both the greatness and diversity of Queen, as well as of our different tastes. I'm a huge Queen fan, but to me "Prophet's Song" is way, way down on the list. Like, not low on the list of their best, but low on the list of their songs overall. And conversely, I like some of the dance stuff. Not all of it, mind you, but some of it. If I had the option of eliminating Hot Space from their catalog, I'd definitely refuse. Plus, I think it was great for the band to just keep doing different things. One of Queen's best traits: constant absorption, interpretation, recombination. Four really good musicians each going in different directions, but cohesive enough often enough to do great things (repeatedly).

I'm all for trying new things to a certain extent.  If bands didn't branch out, we wouldn't have had Pet Sounds, Sgt Peppers, Quadrophenia, or The Wall. 

I'm probably in the minority around here as I prefer to have my rock stars stick with rock music, maybe drifting into pop.  But not dance.  I'll take Miss You, Run Like Hell, or even I Was Made For Loving You.  But I draw the line at stuff like Here Comes the Night, the Hot Space record, and the studio version of Brian's Runaway Dancer. 

I guess I don't even think about "rock" much anymore, and if asked what kind of music I'm most into, I'd most likely say pop. So that certainly makes for an obvious explanation between our positions. As I've aged, my interest in harder music has lessened, though not disappeared.

They have so many great songs...I've just gotten into them. I own the albums from Sheer Heart Attack to Jazz so far and enjoy them all. And I like the idea that each member writes his own songs and I get to pick my favourite again, just like with The Beatles, The Band or Wu-Tang Clan.

I think Queen was at its best on the first five albums - Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, Night at the Opera, and Day at the Races.  

News of the World and Jazz are very good.  

The Game has some great songs.  

Flash Gordon and Hot Space are for completists only.  

The Works and A Kind of Magic are somewhat uneven.

Starting with 1989's The Miracle, Queen started crediting each song to all four of them.  I think they had an inkling that the end was near with Freddie and they didn't want any squabbles.  

I think The Miracle and Innuendo are both really good albums.  

Made in Heaven was pieced together after Freddie died with leftovers from the Innuendo sessions along with some Freddie solo tracks that the band added music too.  

Makes sense.  I tend to be a little seasonal with my music.  I tend to listen to lighter rock in the warmer months, and harder stuff during the colder months.

I'd say QueenII through the Game are essential. There are highs and lows elsewhere. I don't think any are wholly unlistenable.

I agree that having four writers was a huge benefit. While one creative vision makes for a focused, unified act, multiple inputs makes for diverse listening, even potentially useful creative tension. It usually fizzles or explodes, but I think the benefits tend to outweighs the drawbacks.

I liked how all four brought distinctly different things to the table. 

I agree there are no unlistenable albums - Flash and Hot Space did have their moments. 

Recently I heard "She" by Del Shannon - the info said it was almost hit for him but then Monkees took it. I like their version, I've said before that Micky Dolenz is best & favorite singer. however, Del owns it. He sang it with gusto & the 'rap' lines are very cool.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZIDRdABdsM

Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
Death with Dignity - Sufjan Stevens
Now That I'm Older - Sufjan Stevens
Don't Get Me Wrong - Rolls Bayce
Paint it Black - The Stones

Ghost - Majesty

Del could deliver. I like this.

Funny----even in the earliest days you could tell that he wasn't your average pop star or even your average person. There was something worrying about him from the start. But a great singer and composer.
 

"Rise Up With Fists" by Jenny Lewis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNxuiTC1e50
I just bought tickets to see her in February, I'm excited!

Listen to record named after him "The Further Adventures of Charles Westover". AllMusic says it's cult favorite. Not many albums called cults. He was great in his niche & remained great during psych era.

Thanks, RR. I've got it lined up for later.

Actually, Mr Westover and I go back a long way. "Runaway" was the record that opened my eyes to what you could do with pop music----my first and biggest musical revelation. The first 45 I bought was "Hats Off To Larry" and the first album Runaway with Del Shannon.

Max Crook was the pioneer of electronic music as some sites claim. Thing I know is it's very original. I like the "Runaway" soundalikes, esp. "Hey little girl". It has an upbeat chorus. It's very interesting that he'd use Spanish guitar chords as I call it (no guitar player, maybe there's term for it) & sing in a plaintive gypsy-like mood. "Hats off to Larry" is lesser of the bunch but on its own it's good. Look what I found just hrs ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcwM9QaOzU0

Video quality isn't good but you will recognize faces & it's great one-off jam. falsetto intact.

That's amazing----and very moving in its way. Thank you for that. Three major hitmakers of the early sixties. Only Johnny T is still with us.

"Hats" has the distinction of featuring Crook's Musitron again. The follow-up, "So Long Baby", which I also bought when it was first released, has the strangest solo-----it sounds like a banshee!   

If you hit the 2nd "So Long Baby" video, the very 1st comment tells funny story about that solo.
I'm a big fan of yodel so it was great to hear Del doing a little bit of yodelling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn27xBY8X68
It's usually sung fast but just the fact that Del was into it - else why he'd use it, right? - is very cool.

Btw, check out "rockinkb" on YT. He seems to collect Del Shannon, demos 'n' stuff. Among them, original songs by his daughter Jody Westover (who died in 2004) & footage/photos from Del Shannon Museum in Coopersville, MI. Plus, there's an audio of Micky Dolenz' sister Coco doing bluesy cover of Runaway. Micky introduced her to audience.

Lou Reed's Caroline Says II from Berlin. The window pane lyric is just too much.

Great section of a great song on a great album.

For what it's worth--nothing, I realize--I actually hate how he sings that line, though. The vibrato is awkward, has always annoyed me. That says, he was Lou Fucking Reed, and I was (and am) not.

"Po' Boy" by Bob Dylan.

I don't think anyone has ever sung the word "cooking" quite as tenderly.

I've just been listening to a lot of the Guess Who (per the Bread thread), so there's that. "No Time" and "Bus Rider" are fun songs.

Also "All of Me Wants All of You" by Sufjan Stevens, probably my top artist listened to for the past month or two.

And "Sleeping Lessons," by the Shins, because I love the Shins.

Prince's "Baby I'm a Star"

Prince you used to be fucking amazing what happened prince

"Sabine River" by Ray Bonneville. I never grow tired of this one. Bob Dylan in a swamp.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TVZLB2CEqr8

Hits and Mrs - Frank Turner

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

He still has his moments (and is the greatest live performer in pop music: if you get a chance to see him live, do it). But without question, the main thing he's been consistent in over the past three decades or so is the increasing inconsistency. His '80s output, though, amazing. Hell, even the first half of the '90s, while derided at the time as lacking, look pretty good in hindsight. I think a lot of the issue is the same as with anyone else whose career spans decades. It just gets stale.

I really enjoy Mike Nesmith's music...especially the Nevada Fighter. There are several tunes on it that are terrific
 One is Propinquity, and another is his version of  Nilsson's The Rainmaker.

Who'll stop the rain and Up round the bend by CCR

It's that time of year, so I've been listening to some Halloween themed stuff. 

Halloween by Helloween

DOA by Bloodrock

Vincent Price by Deep Purple

Season of the Witch - Vanilla Fudge

Steven - Alice Cooper

I would appreciate it if you shared some of his worthy, late-career stuff; I'm really not that familiar with most of it.

Personally, I enjoyed "Breakdown" on last year's Art Official Age which I bought digitally on its own. I also would be interested in hearing more tips on this subject. The last album of his I actually own is the symbol album (the one with "7", etc.)

Happy to. I'll dig it up after work.

Here are some of the latter-day Prince songs I think are really good. Keep in mind my particular leanings, which are melodic pop and jazz. And keep in mind the caveat that, as I've said, his '80s and early '90s work are without question the best. But the rest isn't useless, is all. A lot of this is soul or R&B bordering on easy listening. There are cheesy synth sounds, bad lyrics, too-long jams ... but there are mind-numbingly, heart-achingly good vocals, brilliant guitars, classic rawk riffs, and f***-me-now seductions, too. The fact is, the voice in particular is shown even now to be one of the best half-dozen voices in popular music.

1996
"Dinner With Delores," Chaos and Disorder
"The Same December," Chaos and Disorder
"Had U," Chaos and Disorder
"Courtin' Time," Emancipation
"We Gets Up," Emancipation
"Soul Sanctuary," Emancipation
"Let's Have a Baby," Emancipation
"One of Us," Emancipation (Yes, the song made famous by Joan Osborne)

1999
"The Rest of My Life," The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale (that bass! those horns!)
"It's About That Walk," The Vault...
"Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic," Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
"The Greatest Romance Ever Sold," Rave...
"Tangerine," Rave...
"So Far, So Pleased," feat. Gwen Stefani, Rave...
"I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore," feat. Ani DiFranco, Rave...
"The Sun, the Moon and Stars," Rave...

2001
"Rainbow Children," Rainbow Children
"The Work, Pt. I," Rainbow Children
"Everywhere," Rainbow Children
"Mellow," Rainbow Children
"She Loves Me 4 Me," Rainbow Children

2004
"Musicology," Musicology
"Call My Name," Musicology
"Cinnamon Girl," Musicology
"What Do U Want Me 2 Do?" Musicology

2006
"Te Amo Corazon," 3121
"Black Sweat," 3121
"Satisfied," 3121
"Get On the Boat," 3121

2007
"Guitar," Planet Earth
"The One U Wanna C," Planet Earth
"Chelsea Rodgers," Planet Earth

2009
"Dance 4 Me," Mplsound
"U're Gonna C Me," Mplsound
"Better With Time," Mplsound

2010
"Compassion," 20Ten
"Sticky Like Glue," 20Ten
"Lavaux," 20Ten

2014
"Breakdown," Art Official Age
"The Gold Standard," Art Official Age,
"Breakfast Can Wait," Art Official Age
"Whitecaps," Plectrumelectrum

2015
"Baltimore," Baltimore (single)
"Fallinlove2nite," HITNRUN Phase One (Not Zooey Deschanel version from 2014)
"Free Urself," Free Urself (Single)

Sorry, everyone, for interrupting your "songs" thread. But hey, these are songs, right? I'm not technically obsessing over any of them at the moment, but maybe someone will.

Nothing from the Batman album? 

 :lol

All joking aside, I'm not a huge Prince fan.  But the Tim Burton Batman movie came out when I was eight going on nine.  I got a cassette of the Batman soundtrack with the Prince songs.  I used to collect soundtracks of movies I loved back then.  So, I have fond memories of riding in the backseat of my father's car, listening to my Prince Batman tape on my Walkman, on the way to the beach.  I still listen to the CD at least once a summer.

I was sticking to "latter-day" material, post-hits era. That, '89ish?, was still in it. 😉

Ah gotcha. 

Re: post "hits" Prince
Thanks for the list, Captain, glad you picked "Breakdown" too.


I just listened to these 4 songs and they're perfectly listenable, but to me, they don't sound like singles or album-highlights. Not even the one that was the single. Not that I'm criticising Prince, he's earned the right to do what he wants for the rest of his life as far as I'm concerned.

Mine these days is a flawless gem from Curved Air's debut album called "Screw":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z9NjJSop5g

I like the instrumentation in that.

Atm for me it's this classic Kinks b-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpwGGJYCCJ0

For the nth time, it's Goddess on the Prairie performed by my favorite Canadians, band Hot Hot Heat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXtCvfC9SDk)
From drummer shouting "FLAWLEEEEESSS!!!" (because they did multiple takes & there's gotta be the end smwr. Flawless indeed) to the last words "that was the closest you could ever come" this is the best modern song I heard to this day & the best song by this group (& they've got many & many goodies). This is the only song I air play on every instrument - drum(stick)s whatnot coz it's such fun.

I like the next song on autoplay, from the same album "Future Breeds" 21 @ 12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLq_FsNOBy0)

Discovered Gilbert O'Sullivan while watching the Barbie doll-stylized film about Karen Carpenter - "Alone Again (Naturally)" was playing for a short time. It was amazing. It could keep any of you positive. It was funny to read Youtube comments saying it's sad. Not in the least.

Percy Faith's 1952 recording of a Brazilian forro tune, "Delicado."

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

I used to hear this constantly on the old Music Of Your Life type of radio stations, a format that held its own in the ratings from 1980 into the early '90s and specialized in music appealing to seniors - ie starting in the late 1930s and going up to the early '60s, not rock'n'roll. The primary BBs-connected song you'd hear on it would be Barry Manilow doing "I Write The Songs." But I kept forgetting the title and artist.  When Music Of Your Life died out as a format along with a lot of its audience, I thought I might never learn what it was because it was an instrumental so no lyrics could be Googled.

Then, wonder of wonders, I found a CD in a Salvation Army store. Happy Radio Days, by Michel Legrand. He made it around 1990 as a tribute to the instrumentals he loved hearing on the radio when he was a teenager. (The CD's arrangements are faithful to the originals and highly uncharacteristic of Legrand's best known work.) "Delicado" was included. 

Faith's 1952 version reached #1 on Billboard's pop chart. The harpsichordist was the late Stan Freeman, who as it happens played the same instrument on the other early '50s #1 record to use it, "Come On-A My House" by Brian's old fave Rosemary Clooney.

The original's in mono, naturally. Here's a slightly rearranged, higher-energy stereo version Faith did in '62, second track on "The Music Of Brazil":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4B3hCZvM4A

Joanna Newsom's "Soft as Chalk"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM9FjL9wYxQ&ab_channel=HaveOneOnMe1

Man, what a great, great song. The it moves and evolves is just magical.
I love when she sings "...out back with the crickets..."

Entertainment - Phoenix
Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
Summer Breeze - Seals and Croft (per a mention in How I Met Your Mother)
Reality in Motion & The Less I Know the Better - Tame Impala
The Disney Afternoon - Ducktails
and any song by America...

The Astronauts, "Firewater".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO_pOYfsJk4

It was enjoyable read as usual. No.1 though? Didn't warrant imo.

late to the Mac DeMarco game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbg27oT8Z9M

Hiatus Kaiyote's "Nakamarra" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozr4KsZBTvQ&ab_channel=HiatusKaiyoteVEVO)

All day, every day.
As one adept commenter says: "this the kinda jam you put on your bread every morning."

Ya Hey - Vampire Weekend (this song, especially the end... so heavenly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-BznQE6B8U

"Move with the Season" by Temples has been my go-to lately.

Also "Do or Die" by Hungry Kids of Hungary.

I've been listening to the title track to Queen's 1991 album Innuendo a lot lately. 

It was released as a single 25 years ago last month.  And the album proved to be the final Queen album while Freddie Mercury was still alive. 

Tom Northcott - Who Planted Torns in Miss Alice's Garden. I decided this is my favorite psych comp track.

I'm obsessed with White Queen (As It Began).

Animal Collective - College. I like frying pan noises & think the vocals are fun.

That's a great song.  Especially worth checking out is the live version from the 1974 Rainbow concert.  Amazing!!! 

(http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/albums/18583/homepage_large.61c85a5c.jpg)

This whole album. "Stoned and Starving" is particularly funny... and a pretty realistic situation ;).

Also, "Leaf House" by Animal Collective is a fun song.

I love the one-two punch of "Master of My Craft" and "Borrowed Time," especially the transition.

Lizzy Mercier Descloux is awesome why did no one tell me she's awesome (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQhAida65YA&ab_channel=LightInTheAtticRecords)

Rediscovering my love for Vampire Weekend's "Run."

And "The Dangling Conversation" might be one of the most beautiful songs of the '60s.

Totally agreed. My favorite S&G song right there.

Chris Stamey -- "Something Came over Me" and "The Newlyweds."

Nazz - "Forget All About It"

I'm listening to a lot of Roger Miller at the moment. This song especially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye_fZocBAMI

"Bluish" - Animal Collective

That "Flori-dada, flori-dada" is very catchy. What's strange, this song smb. compared to the BBs.

"This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)" by Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell, Sam on lead vocal.  I was never much of a Talking Heads fan, and like many tracks on Sing Into My Mouth, had never heard by the original artist.  Still obsessed would be a better way to say it.  This is one of the songs that helped get me through a very rough patch I've been going through this year.  Home is where I want to be, indeed.

Sorry to hear things have been rough, Will. Thank goodness for songs!

Since posting this, I've linked SIMM on my other board and it's an absolute gem! I'm a complete sucker for laid-back pedal steel, which helps.

I don't think I'm familiar with any of the originals. Thank you. :=)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SQsEPTiOY0

This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHfblArVDjM  I'm so into Ike and Tina Turner lately.

Yes, not good to hear. Feel better soon, Will.

"The Moment" - Tame Impala
"Montezuma" - Fleet Foxes

I have been obsessing over "Teenage Kicks." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinCg7IGqHg&ab_channel=UnionSquareMusic)
Damn, John Peel was right. So right.

I confess to not ever hearing the whole Mr Tambourine Man album by The Byrds.

A few days ago while listening on the satellite underground garage channel the song  'Here Without You' was played.

What an incredible song. The harmonies are so beautiful. Downloaded the song and have been listening to it frequently, loving it more each time.

"Unbelievers" - Vampire Weekend.
Just Ezra Koenig in general <3.

Also, "I Love You So" by the Walters. Beach Boys-esque harmonies.

I've listened to "Walk Right Back" about 11 times and I've only been awake for 3 hours.
Working on #12 right now. Would be higher if it wasn't for that whole, pesky school thing.

I recently discovered The Replacements through their song "Bastards of Young (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-s16P1bl0&ab_channel=RHINO)".
That is some top-notch songery.

Television - Venus

Perfection.

Tony Bennett - The Very Thought of You (the opening alone is worth the price of admission)
Sony Rollins - How High the Moon

"Instant Disassembly" - Parquet Courts

Today watch: Eurovision song contest of various years' winners. Favorites are:
 - Dana "All Kinds of Everything"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhQjT14cdA  (btw, same year Mary Hopkin sang "Knock Knock (Who's There)", she got 2nd place)
- Swedish brother trio Herreys "Diggi Loo Diggi Ley"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-RRXHG00GY  (some notes: I heard this song 1st around 10 yrs ago; I had no instrument when going to music school, so I had to go to play the piano at the local kindergarten after kids go home. There I also did homework & would roam about to see what is there in the music room. There was an old record player at display, then I saw a little room in the room with stashes of vinyls. I took some & paid attention to this unknown band Herreys. In the back was a little info on them. I played it; 1st song was Diggi Loo, but English version which is slightly different arr. Same 80s sound but I find the song very catchy! But the Swedish version is good - I mean the studio version, not the live in Eurovision. I like the dance moves, though)
- France Gall "Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5aeeSmkPwQ  (I like the song enough to ignore the French. I don't even care that she sings *really* out of tune. It's a no-no for me usually, it shouldn't have won but the song - arr., melody - is solid)

"Obvious Bicycle" - Vampire Weekend.

The way Ezra sings "don't wait," the ever-so-delicately played piano, and the overall simplicity of the song (which I realized today reminds me a bit of Carrie and Lowell) are just a few reasons why I love this song. And this album.

Oh my goodness I found Alex Chilton and Teenage Fanclub doing a cover of the song together

I've been digging some A$AP Rocky and Schoolboy Q lately...

Also Life of Pablo is on Spotify now...

The Nerves' "Hanging on the Telephone" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emy5mA8Ixtc&nohtml5=False&ab_channel=minutegongcoughs) is a great slice of obscure power pop made un-obscure by Blondie.

I know ScHoolboy Q from "White Walls" from The Heist by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. (The is generally when people start pointing and tittering, as if Macklemore isn't a bona fide rapper or something.) Actually M. is just about my one concession to the world of rap, probably because he's got production wizard Ryan Lewis in tow. What a great album!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbYFcsd026I 

Peppermint Trolley Company - Trust. It's interesting that the 1st chorus is played & the 2nd chorus is sung & played. I like the harpsichord intro/riff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHTNtvngyd8

Besides, guitarfool mentioned in old thread Whistling Jack Smith "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman"; it made me curious, go to youtube & love it! I'm a big fan of whistling in songs! :3d

RR, do you know this one, also from way back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ZdBVAWWNo

The Screamers.

oh what a show one-hundred and twenty-two hours of fear (https://youtu.be/MdCRcrgX080?t=17)

I have no idea why, but lately, The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel has been living in my brain. 

Thanks, this is new to me. I checked several other songs and they're very nice.

You don't need a reason. It's simply a great song.

True. 

I keep hearing people say how great the Disturbed version of Sound of Silence is.  I think that had me on a S&G kick briefly. 

I'm actually a fan of Disturbed, but I think their version of Sound of Silence is absolutely horrid. 

One More Reason by Marshall Crenshaw from the Field Day Album.  I love that album!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_9qzwzBcs

Hey, I was listening to that album just today! Haven't got to know it as well as the debut (which is great, needless to say), but Our Town is a fantastic song. Must check out some of his later stuff...

"Gooey" and "Black Mambo" by Glass Animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7hdF7Xyns

Is the rest of Lonerism this good, u-m? If so, I'll line it up for future listening...

I've listened to that album about 5 times in the past 2 days. Does that tell you anything?

"Mind Mischief" is my favorite song off of that album, I think. "Keep On Lying" always gets stuck in my head.

"Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" is obviously the best song on that album.

Why does your username keep changing.

i have a restless spirit

Blue Boy - Mac Demarcoooooo (https://youtu.be/M8ciJbXlfGo)
Gosh - Jamie xx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjNssEVlB6M)
Keep On Lying - Tame Impala (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6fs9ZsncS4)
Lasso - Phoenix (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emad0Z-yAbw)

Hey this list gives me an idea. Anyone up for like a playlist thread? Like sometimes I want to just suggests whole lists of albums, or a list of songs that fit the weather, or a party playlist. Or maybe your Bubs and you suggest songs in a visual grid (http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,19590.msg572834.html#msg572834).
It also seems like some members are open/wanting to find ways to listen to more/new music, and playlists are a good start to that. Plus we could link whatever Spotify/8tracks/YouTube lists so that we don't have to link every song like I just did. I dunno.

Has to be this song for me at the moment. What a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB75exxkjDc

2 favorites by Paul Revere & The Raiders:

SS396  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYcvBwmIz8
Louise  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7oW1bstgjI

the catchiest - Jan & Dean's "Popsicle"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JerLyqwS8E

The Shillings' "Lying & trying", nice folk rock tune with some neat guitar, drums & wind chimes to boot  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDsLr59yLv0

I've been obsessing over this track, the last song on what may be the last Rush album.  The lyrics really move me:

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

As much as I like Rush, the last new album I got from them was Vapor Trails.  I gotta get caught up.

Oddly, enough, as my Orioles improved to 21-12 this past Thursday night, I couldn't help but think of the title track to 2112.

Obsessing, as in can't get the 'song' out of my head.
It's "Zilch" by the Monkees. Hadn't heard it in 50 years, but when my sister forwarded it to me with the heading, 'China clipper calling Alameda' I immediately replied, not having listened to it yet, 'Never mind the furthermore, the plea is self-defense!" How had I remembered that line after so long, but can never remember where I put my car keys?

Been trying to clear my head by listening to the instrumental track to 'In the Back of My Mind,' a tune I have been obsessing over for a good while as it's so tear-inducingly incredible

Bookends might be my favorite Simon and Garfunkel song. So short but so beautiful.

Prince - The Beautiful Ones

Fresh from radio - search by lyrics showed it's called "You're only human" by Billy Joel. It is maybe my favorite Billy Joel vocal right now.

Oh yes, this is quite the catchy song. It's been 2 years since my Billy Joel obsession. Maybe later I'll listen to him again.

Kinda feel like the same thing happened with the Beach Boys. So great it was overwhelming/I overindulged, and I've filled the gap with other great bands.

I continue my journey into Grizzly Bear. I have a lot of respect for Ed Droste.
Listening to "Yet Again" right now, which is quite good.

Oh my god. I watched a Mac DeMarco interview, and at one point he uses this song to get him pumped for recording music.
It's this 1983 song by some Ryan Paris. I'm kinda in love with this song.
I won't link the video because Mac is very crude here, but if you want to watch it (which you do), look up This Is: Mac Demarco.
Here's some cheesy music for your soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yoBAZXSN98

That is so '80s!

Here's another that is perhaps less cheesy but typical of a certain genre of '80s pop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-Ru1XkNZc

This one recently helped me through a rough-ish time...

Yes, there is "favorite" & then there is "short-lived". After listening to variety of bands & singers I get back to the BBs. Billy Joel isn't like them. The hits "Piano man", "Uptown girl", "Honesty" are nice. Billy has good voice & it  rocks but the songs are not what I usually like. That radio song was big surprise, very catchy indeed.

3 by The Aerovons (thanks to Judd!):

"Everything's alright" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwkye07BQY) - best song NOT by the Beatles!

The link to "Here" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOXfmHxI1N4) is to full album; go to the end. Lost Paul track.

& "The Years" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kAKOiKZg2Y) is very beautiful though it's not what, usually, I like.

Who copped what from whom? Actually, who cares----this is very good indeed.

I'm listening to the album all the way through. Thanks, Dudders and RR. :=)

Judd mentioned them here in other thread. I said "send me mp3".

"Searchin' for the Perfect Wave" by Surf School Dropouts, kwan_dk's band. Best song from their album "Summer is a state of mind".

Not so much obsessing, more like delving deeply----into the music of k.d. lang. With thanks to SteveMC for pointing the way...

Hoping one of you fine people can help this old lady...

There was a song I would hear now and then back in the 60s. I hadn't heard it since then, until Brian's show on Saturday, where it was one of the songs on the pre-show tape. I'm obsessing about it simply because I haven't found out who sang that song, which is presently a constant earworm and as such is driving me batty. Would like to go back to having Beach Boys or Beatles classics playing in my mental jukebox.

The song is very simple. It mentions a bluebird. I can put the notes, simplifying the melody. If I put AAA that means the A note is 3 beats etc. A 'low' before letter indicates note below middle C.

Verse:
D C D C, D CC, D lowA lowB, D lowAA B / repeat

Chorus: no words, just bah bah bah etc

DDD, DD lowB DDD, D lowB D F# DDD, lowB D EEEE GGGG AAAAAAAA

Hope this makes sense, am not indicating eighth notes, dotted notes etc. also this is in my head, not having access to a keyboard.

Thanks in advance.

Eternity's Children "Mrs. Bluebird"?

YES. That's it!

"Spasibo", RR1!

I'm quite into "Saint Simon" by the Shins
"Angels" by Chance the Rapper
"Want Remover" by Protomartyr
and the new Wilco song, "If I Ever Was a Child"

Drats. I came here to say this song, but it looks like i was already obsessing over it.

Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, A-Tasket. This cutie has cool taste in music, look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDwblguiFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJgsCO_qK9o

Willie, Waylon, John and Kris......... like the picture says  ::)

Whiskey in the jar!

Over the moon today to discover this lovely gem from Barry Gibb is being released as a bonus track on his new solo album.

This song is beyond gorgeous ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOFq767GLRQ

American spring - Everybody (big favorite; Diane's voice fits this fun type of song. Marilyn's couldn't work imo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6no9DKxJhW0

Nick Lowe's Cruel to be kind at Daryl's house with the late T Bone Wolk.

Love, love love this. I have the intro as my ring tone. I love being driven to distraction and back with a good choon ... :-D

Frank Ifield - She taught me to yodel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LybSS4amIS0
11-year child sings it in the local "Voice kids" show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPM70Q1IoY

She makes a cracking job of it (no pun intended). Pity about the panel of jerks.

My obsession right now is that darn song that I can't identify (see separate topic). I often spend an hour a day hunting for it, googling string after string after string...

Yes, it's funny the judges didn't turn around sooner. She says after that she learned this very tough song in 2 weeks! Isn't it fabtastic?

Hoyt Axton - Double Double Dare, the lead voice sounds just like the guy from The Unrelated Segments. cool rhythm too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axt4tpTmdMA

Angel Olsen - "Woman"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4Hl6kDnK4&index=9&list=PLJhKEt4Hct7WGQl5oAXmCMw7kRa7QnL9y

Not wanting to be an undercover-m tribute act or anything but I do have AO's album Half Way Home lined up...

My goodness, you're gonna turn into me! But hey, that's not such a bad thing, right?

That 's true but I think my family and friends might not understand. :lol

I think it's because your choices are less complicated. No comparisons made with other tracks/albums made by the artist in question. That tends to throw me off the scent.

The track by Cymbals Eat Guitars is pretty cool too. :=) 

The Eagles - Take It Easy. Glenn Frey is good singer.

2john k: didn't you set the rule "1 artist - 1 album"?

For myself, you mean. Generally speaking, yes, but it's not entirely unbending.

Some artists are worth exploring further but even then the first album I hear is often the one for me.

But not always. I had to listen to three by Mac DeMarco before I found "the one" (Salad Days).   

You put that much dedication into listening to ol' Mac?
I'll have you know I saw him for the second time last Wednesday. He's a blast.

"Intern" by Angel is still a gorgeous song.
I've also gotten much acquainted with Ought's stuff.

The Yardbirds - No Excess Baggage. Larry in Iron Leg blog says it's their best song. Agree.

I found this trailer of "Intern". It is gorgeous.

Ought----another new name to me...

It doesn't have to be new anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEQyi6eCxWw

(and yes, "Intern" has been on repeat for me these days)

H'mm. Perhaps Ought isn't a new name to me. That cover looks darn familiar----and the voice is familiar too... 

I think this is why: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,149.msg585505.html#msg585505

:P

The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman. Best song by best girl group. :3d

Ha. Yes indeed. And I did give it a brief listen but couldn't warm to the vocals----sorry!  :hat

Oasis "Don't Look Back in Anger". Casual fan before, after hearing this song, I'd like to check them further.

Oasis have long been a big favourite of mine and I have fallen back into them in quite a big way this summer. While Don't Look Back is, in my opinion, their best, they've got a lot of great songs in their catalogue.

Butthole surfers-hurdy gurdy man.   Cant stop playing it..great cover from a weird band

I read in many blogs that Oasis' debut regarded one of the strongest as the debuts go. Do you agree with it? usually, debut album is the weakest in [artist]'s catalog. Then they get better etc.

Most people do think that way about Definitely Maybe, their debut, and see it as the best in their catalogue. Personally, I prefer their follow-up What's The Story Morning Glory but I can see the acclaim for the former - it's wall-to-wall good songs with a fairly cohesive sound throughout. Morning Glory has higher highs but lower lows, for whatever that's worth, and I also appreciate the variety of different sounds it has. Any album after those two have their fair share of duds but, again in my opinion, they had great songs all throughout their career.

I think they came about at a time in England where there was a big audience for musicians making exploratory, 60s sounding, British sounding music so it's no surprise that a lot of bands were making their best music during that 1994-95 period.

Thanks for answer. In that case - re: last sentence in 1st paragraph - I'll check them chronologically.

Street "What a strange town", from their self-titled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTS9mlDhp_8

That female singer has very cool voice.

Wow. Love the alternation between her unusual voice and the spoken part----to say nothing of the "instrumental break"!

Thanks for the tip, RR. I've got their album lined up for future listening...

Maybe not so much obsessing over but rather revisiting.
The Beach Boys' version of California Dreamin'. Haven't heard it in years - it's a real good version of this song.
The reason for revisiting? Read an interesting thread on another music forum about the Beach Boys in Russia. Forgive me if this is old news, but didn't know that the most played Beach Boys song by far on Russian radio is California Dreamin.
Posters from Moscow said that occasionally songs like California Girls or Good Vibrations are played, but California Dreamin is one of the only BB songs on regular rotation.

Any thoughts, Mari, RR A1? Don't know where in Russia you live - situation might be different there?

2john k: of 9 tracks, 2 highlights - "Strange Town" & "Boeing 707". The rest is dull imo.

2Elizabeth: Read it here: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,17424.msg564660/topicseen.html#msg564660
I'd like to hear "California girls" at least once.

California Girls gets played fairly often here. However, don't know the last time that I heard the intro - the disc jockeys insist on talking right through it.  :-\

Curious - how did you become a Beach Boys fan?

Well I bought cassette "1" (the Beatles), didn't like much of it, forgot it. Then revisit 3 years later, like it, find the Russian Beatles site, read it, download songs, rarities. Watch the films. Via them discover the Rolling Stones, like them better than Beatles. Again, download songs etc. Then I get back to Beatles, was intrigued what is this "Pet Sounds" that Paul praised & said is influence to Sgt. Pepper. Download it, like it, then Sunflower, "At My Window" favorite, read the thread about Beach Boys in the Beatles site. The founder is huge BBs fan. He started side forum Beatles club. There was very interesting thread about BBs where he linked to this board, I checked it, immediately liked it & then year after decided to register. Many new things I learned about the BBs here, in Smiley Smile. This board's archives can't be beat.

Fascinating.

And as I post this to SS, there's a precious cat, Mr Fuzzy, who just turned 15 years old, sitting to my left.  :love

Happy Birthday to Mr. Fuzzy! :3d Buy him new basket. :police:

What is your BBs fandom story? Didn't read 122 posts you made - maybe it's there? Then link to that thread/post. :police:

Please don't try to go through my earlier posts, unless you want to fall asleep!

The Beach Boys were just one of the groups that I listened to growing up. Remember seeing them on TV a few times. I was probably 6, maybe 7, years old when I first heard them.
At that age period (1962-64) my favorite songs were actually "Soldier Boy", "Mr Bassman" (which I thought at the time was Mr Spaceman), "She's So Fine", and "My Boy Lollipop." That last song came out sometime in the period of Fun Fun Fun and I Get Around.

My feelings about the Beach Boys changed in 1966, at 9 years of age, upon hearing God Only Knows. Remember weeping, thinking that was the most beautiful song I ever heard.
At 10 and a half years old, Good Vibrations blew me away.
Loved Carl's wonderful voice on I Can Hear Music, which was played a lot down here.
Then they seemed to drop off the radar for a while, until Sail on, Sailor which also got a lot of AirPlay.
Would be reminded periodically about them while listening to the distant signal from WSB radio in Atlanta, which broadcast Atlanta Hawks basketball games. I listened to them because I was a fan of one of their players, Pete Maravich, who was there at that time. Whenever they played the Portland team (I think), the play by play announcer, Skip Caray, would say that Stan Love,one of the players, had a brother in the Beach Boys.

Are you sleepy yet? :-)

Anyway, moving right along, have been a fan all these years. Knowing about the conflicts in the band, I really didn't want to watch the TV movies about them. As I posted somewhere some time back, I just wanted to enjoy the music and not know "how the sausage was made," all the doo doo involved in making those incredible songs.

Seeing the movie L&M however made me decide to know more about the conflicts, to try and understand. Still trying to understand! And unfortunately my love for songs such as Surf's Up and Time to Get Alone is mixed with bittersweet feelings, knowing the conflicts involved with getting them recorded.

Enough for now.

You like the deep cuts, then, rather than the surf hits? Neat story.

Not so much a song as a cantata (and a film):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZPgGbUuX0

Every song on Ezra Furman's Perpetual Motion People album. But if I had to pick a few in particular, Lousy Connection, Haunted Head, Ordinary Life, and Body was Made. But really, all the songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvfI6Q5WFT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-0_PSsPSfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzP2YqYaWoI

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

I've got it linked for future listening. Always pleased to broaden my musical horizons. ;=)

Just how many albums you lined up for future listening? There must be thousand.

I did a little horizon broadening myself and listened to your cantata. Very powerful.

Yes, Mr P could deliver. (The conductor Valery Gergiev rates him the number one 20th-century composer.)

I suppose he's like Tchaikowsky in some ways----he could write a luminous ballet like Cinderella (which my daughter danced in many years ago) and something as grim (but ultimately uplifting) as Alexander Nevsky... 

Not at all! It's true I listen to many of the "lined-up" albums all the way through. Others, mainly rap ones, I dip into to check out their use of samples and others stiil are clearly not my cup of tea so I let then go after a few tracks. I should point out that I do all this listening at the very beginning and very end of almost every day... 

All I've got lined up right now is (for the second time!) the complete wondrous oeuvre of Adam Marsland (http://www.adammarsland.com/adamatoz.html). Every song  a winner. If you decide to check it out, folks, see which of the albums most takes you fancy and buy it. It's only fair!

When I need a break from Mr M, SCZ's suggestion will come in very handy. :=)     

Great record, been on repeat today
http://youtu.be/Yy8V-iUG0dw

2john k: You should be Mr. Marsland's manager. :3d

Check the Iron Leg blog, its user Larry Grogan posts 45s by famous/obscure bands & singers. Cool site.

Oddly, the track that sticks out for me so far is "Tip Of A Match", which isn't among your favourites. I like his use of doo wop nonsense rhymes! What an original talent. I can understand you getting obsessed with this album...

I'm glad you liked it! Tip of A Match is a great song. They're all great. If you were to ask me this morning which songs off that album I'm obsessed with it would probably be all the bluesy ballads, because, you know... Monday, lol.

Alligator - Paul McCartney.

It by itself is probably not the greatest song, but the production and the way McCartney sings the chorus really make me happy.

This next song is in French. The melody/arr./beat is good enough to disregard it, as well as bad vocals. go figure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5-02gWlmU

So you're obsessed with its badness? ;D  It's jaunty enough, I suppose, and utterly inoffensive... 

This is the sort of stuff I had to put up with when listening to French radio stations in the early to mid '60s in the hope of hearing the latest US 45s (some of which never got played----or even released----in the UK). The French were more up to date than the Brits in that respect. 

Well, some stuff I post here, it's not sth. to be obsessed with. English rules. :3d

John, I think you mean Prokofiev. However, what you said holds even better for Tchaikowsky, who composed an even more luminous ballet like "The Sleeping Beauty", and also the sublime but harrowing Sixth Symphony.

I wasn't expressing myself properly (happens often). I meant that Prokofiev was a lot like old Tch.. Thanks for pulling me up on that. :=)

Oh sorry, you were expressing yourself more than properly! Totally my bad, my reading skills were at one of their frequent lows...
By the way, I abolutely agree about Prokofiev. The Russian musicians had a great 19th century, but in the 20th they blew everybody else out of the water in the "classical" field, with Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Stravinskij.

Cliff Richard - "Congratulations". 2nd place in Eurovision, could be 1st, Cliff is great singer, can be equally good at both slow & fast songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbkiyzmI4o

Had this one in my head while walking the dog. I started "singing" it too, much to the consternation of the local populace, who already think I'm a little weird:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyC3DEYoZ4

Chocolate Watchband - "Misty lane" (alternative take), "Let's go let's go let's go", "Gossamer wings", "Uncle Morris", "Are you gonna be there (at the love-in)". Cool tracks.

Dean Martin "That's Amore". The local staish played it today as 50s pick (for 60s was Dusty Springfield "Wishin' & Hopin'" etc). Quickly recognize as the 3 mice sang it in movie "Babe: pig in the city". I liked it then. Dean's voice is better though. No idea what "amore" is, might be some Italian food, as there's ref. to "pizza" & "pasta" in the  lyrics.

Amore is the Italian word for love.

"In Napoli where love is king
When boy meets girl here's what they say"

Of course Dino may be confessing his love of pasta----can't say I blame him...

Chris Stamey "Where the fun is"; mentioned in the blog post about the Ork records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dpupXgtMA
Big fan of Chris since then. :3d

Peter Gabriel "That'll Do". Completely unfamiliar with this artist, believe it or not, but this ain't too shabby  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSlnGNanlhE

Kirsty MacColl's hit "A new England". Written by Billy Bragg, she reworked it, arranged the vocals, with her signature multilayered harmonizing (as she said in documentary she's one woman BBs; Billy in the same doc says it blew him away what Kirsty did with his simple song; he sang it at 1st & 10th anniversary concerts in Kirsty's memory)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnzpg5GgQCo

I almost put this in the Beatles Survivor thread, but thought better of it.
Here will do.  I've been obsessed with "Cars and Girls" for many years.
This one's for the boys.

https://youtu.be/jEJdfDD4dVg

By sheer coincidence, john k in "What you listen" mentioned Fleet Foxes & right after New Riders of the Purple Sage "Panama Red" next track was "Blue Ridge Mountains". What's cool about is it sounds a bit 3-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5dUsZ4Djd0

Lovely song there, RR. I have their other album with a similar picture on the cover but not this one...

The Eva Cassidy version of Autumn Leaves.     She has been gone for many years and I just Discovered her a few months ago while listening to random stuff on Pandora.    I can't recall when I  Was last so moved by a piece of music  upon first listen.  I have been going back to it almost daily.    You may have heard this before but if not, and you love the music discussed on this board, you should check it out.   

Thanks, donald. That is really beautiful. My favourite out of what I've heard from Ms Cassidy so far is Sting's "Fields Of Gold":

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

Tame Impala, everyone. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE5bD54-ewg)

Thats a cool song sounds old yet by the comments they are a newer band :o. second this on repeat now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz2MY2Ogf0U
Warhaus - The Good Lie

just had to interrupt replaying it to relisten to First We Take Manhattan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A) - I'd totally forgotten just how much the original is 80s Miami Vice/synth/pop (mentally imaging a universe where this was a just before they went ultra seriousness Depeche Mode song or even The Pet Shop Boys)  :lol

Yes indeed. Following up your enthusiastic post across the road, I now have Lonerism lined up for early morning/late night listening. :=)

Dewey Cox goes all Brain Wilson...50,000 Digeridoos...love it!

Yeah, that album came out in 2012. Glad you enjoy.

I finally did it! I hope you also enjoy.

It's stunning so far. Odd that I left it (and TI) aside for so long...

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

Like no other.

Sounds good, Mari. I heard something by BH years ago, didn't warm to it and left them alone after that. I do like this though.

Regards to you and Mr Waves. :=)

The Residents "Weight-Lifting Lulu": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB7iayLqBN0

(http://e.snmc.io/lk/f/l/dc0df85c9c89a533204515a2a22015a3/5302839.png)

fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better than some other music.

Shuffling right now: Spiral Starecase "More Today Than Yesterday" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E4C3WmVRyw

Liked it immediately & then downloaded from some site few years back. The kind of song that lifts spirits.

Spike Jones w/ City Slickers "Leave the Dishes in the Sink Ma" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPwdb9x_mm4

Spike Jones rules. :3d

Rolling Stones "Sweet Black Angel" - fans usually prefer "Sticky Fingers", "Goats Head Soup" if asked which 70s album is favorite. There's good & bad tracks in both. "Exile in Main St." is about the same but I still prefer it to any 70s album. "Sweet Black Angel" is great song, it's got hooks, features best Mick vocal in the album, he's really good at doing "black" accent/ voice & he plays harmonica very good. Listen to it & you'll be tapping the percussion & acoustic guitar with Keith, Mick & Jimmy Miller.

Dj screw-25 lighters instrumental. been in my head all day

"Leningrad Rock & Roll" (cover) performed by 10-year-old in "Kids' voice":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nytKFb48jA

Here's cool heavy metal song "Not Falling" by Mudvayne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodq_eFYU7Q

Levitation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mt0N5-LLw) - Beach House

"Rainbow Connection" - Kermit has such endearing voice. Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBSsHKiWDs
"Best of Friends" - friendship song from Disney cartoon, my cat likes it, stops walking around house if it plays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRh9rzqvdI

"Frozen Orange Juice" by Peter Sarstedt (famous for "Where do you go to (my lovely)" which was huge hit in UK). Beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igK6c9ytr6g

He had an earlier radio hit in the UK with the intriguingly titled "I Am A Cathedral":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvgGQCn82rc

"FOJ" is pretty good too (I like the wind riff at the end).

I didn't realize he'd died earlier this month. RIP, Mr Sarstedt.

a nice tune to wake up to. Thanks, RR and JK.

this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH97ma9YiI) was actually stuck in my head when I woke up.

Hi Mari. If you're really enthusiastic about OK Computer and I'm in a really good mood I might just surprise myself and give it a listen...! :=)

oh, good. I've also sort of listened to In Rainbows and Amnesiac, and so far I think I like OK Computer the best.

But while we're at it, this is a good one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPV2njSYuXo), too. Or at least it gets good in the latter half.

Really good songs:

"Paper Chase" by Love Children, chorus is pure confection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PhC5UXxfyI

"Morning girl" by The Neon Philharmonic WITH Nashville Symphony Orch. - beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFOXD6G8nsc

"Virginia" by U.K. singer/ songwriter duo Vigrass & Osborne, the guitar riff is akin to Beatles' "Two of Us"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVwbYOQul-I

"Happy Song" by Union Express, male & female vocs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MFwlvkzafI

"The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1" by Neutral Milk Hotel - great voice & what sounds like melodica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULmbLlPvVk

That is one amazing album!

'The Four Seasons - Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) : III. Presto' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkz8HKAvBGM) by Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. Martin In The Fields.

I've been playing this often for the last month or so. This version is probably the most well played all around that I've ever heard. I'm always looking for new versions of The Four Seasons so if anyone has any recommendations please feel free to suggest!

I listened to the song "Touch" by Daft Punk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkhol2Q1og) (off of Random Access Memories) last night, and I had a great time.

Curious to know what you think of this. Maybe you know that Max Richter has "recomposed" The Four Seasons. For someone who isn't the work's biggest fan, this is a godsend! I often have this wondrous album playing while I work.

https://youtu.be/8oYWfJuMGMA

Hi Mari. I'm still out on RAM. Ask Ovi, who really did his level best to convert me a while back. I like the track with Panda Bear but the rest still leaves me cold.

Yes! I can't even tell you how many times I've listened to that album. When I first heard about it I thought "Recomposing Vivaldi? That's sacrilege!" Then when I heard it I thought it was brilliant. It actually got me hooked on Max Richter's other work, not sure if you've heard it, but his album Memoryhouse is an incredibly chill/beautiful album. The song 'November (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09OjR0newhw)' is especially good.

Cool. Thanks for the tip! I've seen quite a lot of Richter's work around so it's good to be pointed at something specific. I'll give it a try. :=)   

I like "Untitled", "Fool" (cool arrangements) & uptempo numbers "Ghost", "Holland 1945". The rest is tedious, esp. "Two-Headed Boy" (both). But, as I said, Mangum's voice is jolly good.

continuing my journey into Radiohead, I've been listening to this lately:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Radiohead.kida.albumart.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7hvGPLexL0)

click on that, and it'll take you to a song I like.

Taco "Cheek to Cheek", forget Fred Astaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZQxwox59Y

Such great "retro" voice.

"El Condor Pasa" instra by Spirit of The Incas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Fv5EQwfOE

I really like Simon & Garfunkel's version, beautiful vocals, arrangements (with that balalaika start) & ofc melody. But the Incas has ethnic flavor, very interesting.

Del Shannon "Red Rubber Ball" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLWXBVvCQ1s

This song's been covered by many - from The Seekers to Cilla Black to Neil Diamond & even Simon & Garf did it live acoustic. But what's good about Del's version is that the cool catchy drum pattern from the original is intact. :3d

'The Actor' by the Moody Blues. It just sounds like the dawn of time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ihZ_TbFqY

Quicksilver Messenger Service "Fresh Air" though it's not sth. I'd like usually. cool drumming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUHlxBZMiqw

Thanks. Needed to hear that again  :love

Reminded me a little bit of this - a past/current obsession
(didn't realise it but I needed it so much right now)

Peter Kingsbery - Only The Very Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyunavoX-KY

Daft Punk's boring band with boring songs. That Kingsbery example too.

Having a Spiritualized moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkpBtgf0JU

The version they/he couldn't originally release, even more beautiful/immense
When that choir comes in with the extra Elvis....  

Broken Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNfWDRuBNY)

Cool Waves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFk9Ev_a16A)

:tm

I recall poster "hypehat" was huge Spiritualized fan. So, I downloaded songs he linked to - & what do you think, wild neon sins? - I didn't like any! Not fan of Elvis either. The best rock'n'roll singer to me is & was Little Richard. I don't buy into "Elvis= king of rock'n'roll" cliche.

What do you think of Elvis' last 10 or so years of work?

I listened to it & didn't like. I read he was versatile; could sing blues, soul etc. but I don't hear it.

Sunshine pop candy "Sunny Day Girl" by The Hobbits, made in '67 when everybody went psych: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVfvvY6JKKU

Tom Petty "Feel a whole lot better": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSgdqwlb8M0

Didn't listen to other covers hence posting it here. What's sure is the Byrds did it waaay worse. Not their fan.

Psychic TV "Godstar" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu8NdrSnwZw

I hear it as "goat star", there's technicolor clip with goat moving about, as well as 60s footage with Brian Jones & Rolling Stones - the song's subject.

Not exactly obsessing, but I have this high, vaguely middle-eastern sounding guitar line in my head and I don't know where it's from.

If it's in A minor (just for convenience's sake) it's roughly as follows (lower case = upward shift, CAP = downward shift): 

a_______  G# a b c B___ A G# a________

It's say it's late '70s, early '80s.  The name Mink DeVille originally came to mind, probably for no good reason.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Hi, John. Have you used search-by-music websites before? This is the one I use: http://www.midomi.com (http://www.midomi.com/). Of course, you need a microphone to use it. Soundhound is the corresponding smartphone app and is the one I prefer, although Shazam seems to be more popular.

Well, while I'm posting here anyway, here's a song I've been enjoying lately (along with the rest of the album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCjlhyFug8

Thanks a lot for the info, Mari. I'll see what my digitally challenged brain (and musically challenged voice) can do with it.

Great Dave Davies song there...

From Larry's blog, Peter Robbins aka Charlie Brown recorded 45 at 12:

"If I Knew Then" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nrcvXWmC5o), sings out of tune in 0:24, 1:03, 1:45
"Little Brown Mouse" (http://www.funky16corners.com/sounds1/ironleg_current/peterrobbins_littlebrownmouse.mp3)

The Super Dupers "Mickey Mouse March" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2aXvYoLuyU

3 kids sing song I didn't hear before by "Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes". They end at 3:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_wzgFylamg

Really like the melody. I gather it's Bill Medley from The Righteous Bros.? Anyhoo, I think the best in the trio is the girl. At 10 she's got such voice, wow.

Obsessing over is a strong word. I don't think I've had any sort of obsession for quite a while, which is super weird for me and it's sort of freaking me out.

But... here are some songs I certainly have been enjoying. There could be an untapped obsession (or a rekindling of one) in any of these:

"Moonlight on the River"  (https://open.spotify.com/track/1yCJHs8UFfmqMujayg9i5y)- Mac Demarco.
A 7-minute long song from boring old Mac? Yeah, he changes things up on this album just a tiny bit, and this song best exemplifies it. (Sorry there's no Youtube link.)

"Holiday"  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vraoiVCDdaM)- Vampire Weekend.
This is one of their most popular singles, but I didn't really realize what it was about until recently (something about the US invading Iraq and a girl going vegetarian because of war). Also, there's a Dr. Strangelove and a font size reference all wrapped up in a few silly lyrics. I need new music from them, and soon, because I love this sh*t.

"Every Little Thing"  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8H7Q-D8Zys)- The Beatles.
Again, not obsessing over this song, but I've never considered myself to be a huge Beatles fan. I started listening to Beatles for Sale a bit more recently, and there are some nice tunes on there. It's been kinda fun to look through the Survivor thread for that album. I don't think I have the knowledge to participate in any of them, but I look forward to maybe reading them more in the future.

"PRIDE." (https://soundcloud.com/rapfavs/sets/damn) - Kendrick Lamar.
I've also been listening to this album a lot, and I like this track the best so far.

My current obsession is this silly song, "Green Grow My Nadgers O", which I've been singing for days (be glad this is the internet):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJj3JeZVirw

Well, it is quite humorous to picture you singing and humming as you click and scroll through SmileySmile. :P

I can't really pick a song—I'll have to be more attentive to song titles when listening—but this band, Felt, is my new favorite thing. Incredibly hard to purchase their releases, which is a goddam shame. I'll have to discuss them more in the '80s thread.

Unrelated, but our roommate's cat has ousted my Macbook off my lap and is currently purring so much I can feel vibrations throughout my body.

Hi Mari. I'd never heard of Felt but I'm checking them out now...

Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (1986) is touted as their masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZErC-4gnY8g

Sounds great so far. Ignite the Seven Cannons (1985) looks interesting too...

"Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" by Looking Glas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tRXewCAmU), mainly due to its brilliant use in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol.2. Been stuck in my head ever since.

"Cool Calm & Collected" by Rolling Stones. Mick sings it very well, song shines with joy & neat kazooing.

The American Epic series that ran recently had a segment on the development of the steel guitar.
I love the sound of the steel guitar, whatever style it is.
Am a fan of the "sacred steel" tradition. This is pedal steel guitar used in some church services.
So the series reminded me that it was too long since listening to the Campbell Brothers. They played this song at our JazzFest a few years ago, and I couldn't help it, had to get up and move!
This is great music for doing housework, mopping the floors, rattling those pots and pans, scooping out cat litter...

Morning Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPtQmYmsCCQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPtQmYmsCCQ)


And for something COMPLETELY different:
Read a story about Korla Pandit. He was a guy who said that he was from India. Wore a turban and played a mean organ. He was very popular in the 40s-50s.
I find the music fascinating, but am curious about how it was so popular.  It wasn't, at least to my ears, soothing, but was a bit unsettling at times
Here he is, playing a song that's very familiar to surf music fans:

Miserlou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ytSC8rz84 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ytSC8rz84)

Oh, and Pandit wasn't from India, but from the U.S., born in Missouri. And he wasn't Indian, but African American. In our crazy country back then, an African American couldn't get gigs like this. But be some other "exotic" ethnicity and the sky was the limit.

this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mibyeYUsvU&list=PLF8AF8F1675D343DF&index=6).

A quite understandable obsession, M. :=)

It's really odd discovering (with a little help) music by a band from the '80s I'd never even heard of a week or two ago...

"Merrie Melodies" cartoon intro song - such fun!

I miss classic Looney Tunes. 

Who's your favorite-not favorite characters? To answer it 1st - Sylvester & Tweety. Really wished that cat ate the dumb pseudo-cute ugly birdie.

I've always been a fan of the Roadrunner / Wile E Coyote shorts.  And you have to love Daffy. 

We watched a movie from about ten years ago called Looney Tunes Back in Action, which was surprisingly good, but it flopped because it apparently got zero promotion. 

Faves - Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd

Runners up - Daffy Duck and that Martian guy.

Can't think of any I didn't care for.

Here they go again - people not reading posts they quote with great attention. I asked "who's your favorite-not favorite characters?". You answered re: favorites. Tell not-favorites now. Easy like this.

I apologize for providing an answer that doesn't conform to your standards. 

I don't have a least favorite to be honest.  Unless you include the female funny they created for Space Jam. 

Apology accepted. Ta.

Do you've favorite cartoon music theme?

Favourites? Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo for starters. And Cow and Chicken always crack me up...

Non-favourites? That dreadful Snagglepuss----Heavens to Murgatroyd indeed!

Hmmm.......I'd probably go with the "Linus and Lucy" theme from Peanuts by Vince Guaraldi.  It was originally written for the 1965 Charlie Brown Christmas, and has appeared in many of the Peanuts animated shows, specials, and movies over the last five plus decades.  

Close second would be Danny Elfman's theme for The Simpsons.  

Favorite cartoon theme song?
While I really like the songs for classics such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons. the best for me is the Jonny Quest theme song from that 60s show. BTW, my favorite character on that show is Bandit the dog.

PS - Just saw closing credits for the Flintstones and Jetsons. Had forgotten how in both, pesky cats caused problems for Fred and George.

Listened to "Linus & Lucy" - boring. Is it what Vince Guaraldi famous for? Not my bag.

Steely Dan "Charlie Freak" from Android Warehouse.

Here's the intro to a fun Dutch cartoon series. I believe it was translated into English as Ox Tales:

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

I can see not really liking Vince's work, but boring seems like an odd description.   To each their own. 

Being a fan of West Coast Jazz, I like Guaraldi's work.

For "Peanuts" music, my favorite song is Skating, particularly at Christmastime. Like to imagine being outside during a gentle snowfall - while we have the air conditioner on inside LOL

Good one.  Personally, I think the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas Soundtrack is an essential album at Christmas. 

It's interesting what turns some people on, where others find it as meh.
But that's good, what would really be boring is everybody agreeing on everything.

Example - just saw FB post of my 5 month old grandnephew falling asleep to the gentle strains of - Killswitch Engage.  ;D

Interesting.  I don't think they could put me to sleep, but outside of a song or two, Killswitch never did much for me.  I think Howard Jones (who I don't think is even in the band anymore) is a decent singer, but I think he used the growling / screaming vox a bit much for my taste. 

My sister and brother in law are always playing Mozart for their grandson (supposedly, Mozart makes you smarter). And probably all the while, my grandnephew is thinking, "Turn that blankety blank stuff off. I want to hear some REAL head banging music!"

Well, I think there's a direct link between classical and heavy metal.  So, it kinda makes sense. 

David Ruffin - I've Got a Need For You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6462RXQudTY

Also his version of A Rainy Night In Georgia from the same album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-xm1EYyp6g

Can't get enough!

Welcome, JL. Didn't hear the 2 songs you say.

Larry recently posted the famous band's (yet I didn't get chance to check them) song: https://ironleg.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/genesis-where-the-sour-turns-to-sweet/

3/5

Interesting.

And yeah, I love David Ruffin's solo work. He was great with the Temptations, but his first 3 or 4 solo albums are mostly excellent. 'David', the album from which I got those songs, was released in 2004 after being in the vault for decades. Check it out: every song is a masterpiece, and it's one of the greatest albums I've ever heard (and I don't say things like that lightly).

Song I'm obsessing over today:

Queen: I'm Going Slightly Mad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6hY_50Dh0

Agree on both counts. Ruffin's My Whole World Ended is fabulous, too. I just love that album.

And the latter, while a lot of later Queen doesn't really stand out for me, that particular tune returns to my head all the time. I'm not a huge fan of the production--it was of the time, and the synth sounds and atmosphere of it aren't really my thing--but the song is just so good. The melody of the refrain is great, not really something you'd expect from a rock band, it reminds me more of a musical showtune (not that this is a rarity for Freddie's songs). Plus it's just funny. Freddie was so funny.

I think the music video gave me a greater appreciation for the song, especially knowing that Freddie was not well, and the video shoot was quite taxing on him.   Through all the pain and the knowledge that he was dying, he retained his humor.

That makes The Show Must Go On (closing track from the same Innuendo album) one of the most powerful in their entire catalog. 

the captain - I agree, My Whole World Ended is great too. Both that and 'David' are my favorite two albums of his. I also enjoy 'David Ruffin' from 1973 and 'Gentleman Ruffin' from 1980 (they sure loved putting his name in album titles). Yeah, the heavy synth production stuff I've never been a big fan of (with a few exceptions of course). I go back and fourth on Queen because they are technically one of my favorite bands, but I don't care for a surprising amount of their songs. I don't like their really early stuff too much, nor their 'mid-period' sound from 1980-1984 save for a few songs; but I absolutely love their late 70's and late 80's/early 90's work the most. I think it's unfortunate how a lot of their best work went basically ignored in the US, when it was very popular in a lot of other countries (reminds me of another band that we all know and love...)

KDS - Yes, I was going to mention that Freddie wrote the song because of how he was feeling. Allegedly he was suffering from dementia caused by AIDS, and thus he was going 'slightly mad'. The video and lyrics reflect this. So it is entertaining (he probably thought it was and his bandmates too from what I could glean from some behind the scenes footage), but tragic at the same time. Which could be said for the entire album 'Innuendo', that one has entranced me since I first heard it when I was 14. It's my favorite Queen album. I love 'The Show Must Go On' too, and 'These Are the Days Of Our Lives'. Not to mention the title track...dang, I'm gonna have to listen to it again. :D

Um which song am I obsessing over now? I'll go with a classic :P

"The Beach Boys - I'm Waiting for the Day"

Innuendo is probably my favorite post 70s Queen album (the first 5 are my favorites).  The title track is one of the most overlooked songs in their catalog, partly because the album had so many strong songs. 

I agree on several fronts with you both (but won't bore you with point-by-point explanations!).

Regarding favorite post-70s albums, KDS, I almost can agree there. But I go back and forth between Innuendo and The Game, which (despite being the intro to synths and the dance music I know you don't like at all) had some amazing things on it. I absolutely love the title track, "Save Me," and "Need Your Loving Tonight" as much as I like the two big singles. But Innuendo, that is truly a really good album, especially considering the shape Freddie was in (as you mentioned). Whatever there is I don't like about it, it's still got more than enough to offer fans of almost any period of the group, even if it was all through the production of the day. But hard rock, silliness, epic near-prog, showtunes, ... Queen really delivered.

(All that said, I love A Kind of Magic, too. Maybe now and again that would be my pick...)

I think Queen has a lot I like on all their albums.

The Game is strong.  Save Me is amazing.

Flash Gordon and Hot Space even hsve their moments.

I think The Works, Magic, and The Miracle are inconsisent, but each album has some classics.  Keep Passing the Open Windows in a nice album track, even though it reminds me a lot of Steppin Out by Joe Jackson.  Was It All Worth It from The Miracle would been a nice swan song if Innuendo didnt exist.

That's a really good point. Obviously "The Show Must Go On" ends up being similarly great in its place as the actual closer (assuming you don't count Made In Heaven as a proper finale, but a posthumous collection). But yeah, "Was It All Worth It" would have been great, too. I wonder if that was intentional. Unless I'm mistaken, Freddie knew he had AIDS before The Miracle. So maybe they were thinking that way? (I hope you don't think it's crass to consider that viewpoint. But Queen were business-savvy, legacy-savvy to some degree, and absolutely had an eye for drama. I wouldn't put it past them, and that's no insult.)

Almost makes a person hope "Summer's Gone" can become "Was It All Worth It"...

I actually don't think that's crass at all. In fact I too think that it's correct, it seems the entire group was using his illness for not only creative inspiration but also for, as you mentioned, legacy. Not to suggest they themselves were crass, lol, because of course they were sad over the situation. But Queen was one of the smartest rock groups I've ever seen in many respects and no doubt they (Freddie included) wanted to make the most of the rather dire situation.

Yeah, Freddie knew he was sick my then, which is why they didnt tour to promote The Miracle.

You never know.  With knowing Freddie had limited time, they could have written Was It All Worth it just in case The Miracle was their last album.

And, thats pretty much how I view Made in Heaven, more of a posthumous collection than a proper album, especially since Brian, Roger, and John had to "Queenify" some Freddie and Roger solo songs to pad out the album.

Tuned in favorite "Culture" channel, there were 3 young musician guests plus singer in some program, they discussed/ played Django Reinhardt. I dug things I heard & checking now this artist - 1st, the wiki list ("Djangology", "Daphne" etc). Don't know literally anything about guitars & techniques but this is jolly cool.

Smb. posted "We Are The World" clip in YT, they made Hall & Oates imitation among others where the blonde/ redhead danced in funny "shiver" way. Went to check the real Hall & Oates if he really dances like that. Indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3F4c7E9IBU

2 good things - singer's voice & the "m-e-t-h-o-d..." bit which is funny & catchy. Lifehack: can't create the lyrics to chorus? Just spell the song title. :P

I like Paul McCartney solo best, then the rest Beatles. But, "When We Was Fab" rivals the best by Paul.

Further proof that great things happen with former Beatles work with Jeff Lynne. 

IMO, Paul's best solo album of the last 30 years is Flaming Pie, which Jeff Lynne produced.

This song aside, Jeff Lynne's collab with Beatles is dismissed by me. Dislike the style.

I love his work with George, especially Cloud Nine and that first Wilburys album.  And I think he also sent George out with a really good swan song in Brainwashed.

I dislike these albums. But even leaving Lynne, I wouldn't be big George solo fan. "Not Guilty" good, what else? "My Sweet Lord", the other ATMP cuts, few things from Concert for Bangladesh. That may be it.

How about Living in the Material World or his self titled album? 

I'm a big fan of his Cloud 9 album. The posthumously released "Brainwashed" is also quite good.

Same here.  I wish George and Jeff did more in between.   But, I think George's solo career is more quality than quantity. 

S/t is the 1st George album I checked. I reckoned it might be very special he named it after himself. Wrong. At least in LITMW there's some variety but I didn't like it too. I liked the doc by Scorsese.

Since you ask these questions, does it mean George's catalog is your biggest favorite? Isn't there album(s) you didn't like?

I know this wasn't directed towards me, but I hadn't dug into George's solo work for a while, and looking back at it now that I'm older, I have to confess, I may actually see/agree with your points to a degree. I know a lot of people love George's solo career, and I do love ATMP, but I was just listening to LITMW again and I don't find it impressive. It's...'pretty good', but not nearly as inspired or tuneful as its predecessor. I listened to Dark Horse, and my reaction was that it was mediocre, but maybe it was George's hoarse vocals distracting me from the music and lyrics. I easily prefer Paul's early-mid 70's solo work/Wings work and at least John's Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Wall and Bridges and even Double Fantasy to either LITMW or Dark Horse. I like Concert for Bangladesh, and I liked a couple of songs from Cloud 9 but never listened to the whole thing, so that's next on my list to check out. This may be in large part, because, and it pains me to say this because George is one of my idols, his solo work just isn't as appealing to me as John and Paul's and listening to it again so far (outside of ATMP) hasn't been a particularly fun time for me. I 'try' to like it, and I do enjoy a handful of his songs here and there, but a lot of it I find to be dreary and monotonous. But he did have a lot of music, so chances are I'll find some gems that I'd either forgotten about or didn't know about in the first place.

George probably has my favorite post Beatles career.  I guess if theres one Im not crazy about its Gone Troppo.

John is a close second.

I really like Wings, but I find a lot of McCartney's solo material to be very inconsistent

It's fine. You summed up many views about George. We agree. What can you say about Ringo? Liked hits or beyond it? Listened to the newest to date?

Which is favorite song by John barring Beatles? In some magazine issue John's friends & fam each picked their favorites. Sean listed "God". I agree with this choice, imo it's the coolest musically/ vocally in John's catalog.

Im not sure if I have one favorite.  God is up there.  Mind Games, Happy Xmas, Instant Karma, How Do You Sleep, Nobody Told Me, Imagine, etc

You listed popular. What's the favorite obscure album track?

Probably I Found Out or Well Well Well

I think John kinda lost his relevance after Sometime in New York City. Paul was more consistent in the 70s for me, but John's highs were higher, with most of Plastic Ono Band and the early singles Instant Karma, Cold Turkey, Happy Xmas etc. I don't think Paul could ever write something as powerful as God.

Yeah, those two are awesome songs. I also enjoy "Look At Me", just a perfect example of what a great singer/songwriter can do with just a guitar and minimal production.




I pretty much agree. I think it's almost as if he was running out of inspiration. He still had SOME, obviously, but not enough to expand beyond a couple of albums. I think Imagine was already a pretty noticeable step down from Plastic Ono Band, for instance, even though that's a good one too. After that he definitely had some great songs, but just wasn't as brilliant as he was in his Beatles days and very early solo career.

That being said, #9 Dream is probably my all-time favorite solo Lennon tune. Given how it was during a time when, as I mentioned, he was struggling a bit artistically, when I hear it I'm still like "Wow, where did that come from?" (From a weird dream he had, I know, but I mean compared to the other stuff he was recording at the time). It's just so beautiful, the perfect 'dream' song...that chorus is out of this world and sounds like a George Harrison type thing, including the opening slide guitar solo. The only part I kinda don't like is the 'pousse pousse' or whatever word. I know they changed it so it wouldn't sound like the other word, but it still stands out and adds a sort of sexual context to an otherwise innocent sounding song. Oh well, no biggie. Still love it. If you can, listen to the fade out with the volume up, you can briefly hear I 'think' John doing some backup vocals that are drowned out during most of the rest of the song. It just shows how much is really going on.

So '#9 Dream' is the song I'm obsessing over right now.  ;D

"#9 Dream" is one of my favourite John solo efforts ("Woman" is another). It's certainly a song that's difficult to get out of one's brain. I have no trouble with the mock-French chorus and have never thought of it that way. It's just something utterly magical----a language from another planet.

From the sublime to the ridiculous. Right now I'm obsessing about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCY0aeUx-Ns  

I've always thought this song was inspired by The Zombies' Hung Up on a Dream.

I've liked his hits for the most part. I listened to "Ringo" from 1973 all the way through and found it mostly enjoyable, of course not on the level of the very best John, Paul and George stuff. "Ringo's Rotogravure" I've listened to as well and liked it less than Ringo, but it's still pretty fun. I remember being disappointed by the other Beatles contributions on that album, but I guess it's to be expected that they would just give Ringo whatever toss-offs they wrote and save their best material for themselves. Other than those two albums I've heard other songs here and there. I watched a concert of his a few years ago with his 'All-Starr' Band, and liked some of it but a few of the originals (don't remember their names) were pretty, sad to say...bad. I haven't heard the newest stuff, but this conversation has made me interested in giving it (and some of his older stuff) a shot.

It's a shame what happened, as John's songs on Double Fantasy were great.  It's sad to imagine (no pun intended) what he could've accomplished in the 1980s and beyond since he seemed to get that creative fire back. 

Yes! I liked his Double Fantasy songs a lot too. It seems like he lived long enough to become at peace with himself and life in general, get back into music, then he got shot down...really sad. Oh well. Guess it just makes us appreciate what he did give us that much more.

I always thought that, had John lived, The Beatles might have reunited for Live Aid in 1985.