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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: cheeseds on Wed, 26 January 2011, 03:06:05
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Right now for me it's Tegan and Sara, Twin sisters from Canada. Tegan does more punkish stye music and sara does more quirky songs
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Tegan's video from Sainthood
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Sara's video from Sainthood
Tegan's Video from The Con
Sara's Video From The Con
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My Tegan and Sara stint was a couple months back. Currently I'm listening to We Were Promised Jetpacks a lot on Spotify.
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I don't listen to music.
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HOLD THE PRESSES
Rubberbandits - Horse Outside best song ever? I think so
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I don't post in threads.
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Sara likes Angelina Jolie.
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My Tegan and Sara stint was a couple months back. Currently I'm listening to We Were Promised Jetpacks a lot on Spotify.
Sadly youtube is not loading at work right now, but with a bandname like that.. it has to be postrock or something like that? :P
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I listen to the new album by Oceansize a lot, even though I'm vehemently telling myself it's not as good as the last one.
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Urg... all these videos are blocked in Puerto Rico. To hell with the music companies.
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What Band are you Currently Addicted too?
Impractical to list.
But let me highlight some underdogs:
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Wet to see T&S a while back, (sept. 2k10 maybe?) and they were very very good.
I'm currently listening to a lot of the artic monkeys which id say was me in a regression.
http://www.last.fm/user/skarzee
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Urg... all these videos are blocked in Puerto Rico. To hell with the music companies.
But...you're part of the U.S.:confused:
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Yesterday I learned that the great T Lavitz died in October.
RIP, T.
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Symphonic band at high school.
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I never get addicted to anything.
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Big T&S fan, Sara guest sang on a single for "The Reason", who are friends of my wife and I:
I havent been listening to a ton of music lately, but some friends of mine from out east have their first EP coming out (preview trailer/teaser here) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InaeP6YhSfQ), and I have the pre-release.
I have also started listening to one of my favorite records of 2009 again, "Dada Bandits" by Finnish group "Rubik". They put out a new single this month (laws of gravity), on their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/rubikband
I saw these guys when they played a show with some friends in Mtl. Probably my favorite song of theirs is "wasteland":
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I have also started listening to one of my favorite records of 2009 again, "Dada Bandits" by Finnish group "Rubik". They put out a new single this month (laws of gravity), on their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/rubikband
I saw these guys when they played a show with some friends in Mtl. Probably my favorite song of theirs is "wasteland":
Interesting. With their sound, one would rather expect them to be from the US. Not bad in any case. Looks like Laws of Gravity saw a bit too much brickwall limiter action though.
As for yours truly, currently neither my MP3 player nor my bank account can agree with any major band crushes.
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I'm in love with an old punk rock band from Chicago called Braid. And I found out today they're getting back together!
I also like this band (also from Chicago) a lot:
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Thanks for posting that - I'm into Girl Pop. I'll start with "So Jealous" and go from there.
i cant speak for "So Jealous" i havent really listened to it all that much but as far as "The Con" and "Sainthood" goes I love them to death.
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The Con is an absolutely legendary album. top 20 for me for sure.
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Sadly youtube is not loading at work right now, but with a bandname like that.. it has to be postrock or something like that? :P
Yup. Been listening to a lot of post-rock/dream pop and shoegaze lately.
Thanks for posting that - I'm into Girl Pop. I'll start with "So Jealous" and go from there.
Reminded me a bit of Mates of State, another 2 person band
Mates of state are a really fun band. I have all their CD albums bar the covers mixtape one.
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Agreed that Mates of State are cool. I first heard of them like 5 or 6 yrs ago when I saw them open for DCFC (before they went pop).
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Police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLFF2P8fInI
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When I saw this thread I was going to post about T&S and thought I was going to be the only person here who's even heard of them. Very cool that the first post is all about them.
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Police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLFF2P8fInI
Saw the Police back together a few years back, was a good show. I'm not usually addicted to any band although I do go an an AC/DC binge now and again.
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MUSE since like forever, that is if Panda's did listen to music.
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When I saw this thread I was going to post about T&S and thought I was going to be the only person here who's even heard of them. Very cool that the first post is all about them.
Same here thats why i posted them turns out there are like 5 people that not only have heard of them but like them.
The Con is an absolutely legendary album. top 20 for me for sure.
what i liked best about The Con is the DVD that came with it that shows a "behind the scenes" of them in the studio, it really gives theirs fan a view into how they make their music
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HOLD THE PRESSES
Rubberbandits - Horse Outside best song ever? I think so
Werd!
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give it a week youll be driving in your car and youll see a horse in field on the side of the road and that song will pop into your head for the rest of the day
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I never get addicted to anything.
Except Iodine; but that's normal for you.
COMPUTERLIEBE!
This is an interesting voice-synthesized piece by KARL Bartos:
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Well okay, not really a band but such a wonderful song, and even more amazing acoustic version.
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I'm addicted to talk radio. It's great to listen to, especially when dumb people call in (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TBCgT3s7s&feature=related).
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@db_Iodine:
Trance, now that's something I haven't been listening to on a regular basis for quite a while. An acoustic version of a trance track is not something one hears every day either.
Whoever mastered the Original Mix above must have been deaf though. You'd think that when things get audibly distorted, they'd realize it's too loud.
On an unrelated note, look @ your sig in light theme...
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A FLAC version of the song sounds a lot better than the youtube vid.
Fixed the sig.
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oh lord i almost forgot to mention my love for pomplamoose! they are turbo indie band that is on youtube, they did the recent Hyundai Christmas commercials on TV. They do covers and original music. ill post vids later once i figure out what videos describe them best.
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Doesn't every indie hipster (and then some) on YT know Pomplamoose? ;) Their latest original seemed quite nice (not earth-shattering but definitely rather catchy), unfortunately I never got to hear their older ones due to the stupid "this video is not available in your country" issue.
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Not a band, but I am addicted to most any contemporary country.
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Well, I have been (as many have noticed) posting cover versions from Japan and elsewhere of the group one of whose songs in being covered by a Finnish artist in his native language here:
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I like sexy music videos...like this one:
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Damn... Nice vid \KL
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Not a band, but I am addicted to most any contemporary country.
I'm not too big on a lot of the new country. A lot of it is getting to be more like pop and rock music than anything else. There's still a few good country songs out there these days, but it's hard to beat the old timers like Johnny Cash, George Jones, etc.
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Not a band, but I am addicted to most any contemporary country.
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Bwahaha. Not one of these 7 videos is available here. 7 in a row might well be a record.
*sigh*
EDIT: Oh, and keyboardlover's doesn't say a peep either.
quadibloc's Finnish ABBA cover works though...
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Kraftwerk, ELO
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Bwahaha. Not one of these 7 videos is available here.
consider yourself lucky ...
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Damn... Nice vid \KL
You're welcome! I love all the butt shots in that video :D
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give it a week youll be driving in your car and youll see a horse in field on the side of the road and that song will pop into your head for the rest of the day
I can't even get it out of my head now! My girlfriend loved this song too btw ( I was hoping she would)
Thanks =)
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consider yourself lucky ...
I didn't dis your music. Don't dis mine.
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I didn't dis your music. Don't dis mine.
sorry, I had no idea, you were in Hootie and the Blowfish. I don't make music, because I suck at every single instrument ever invented. So feel free to dis all you want.
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sorry, I had no idea, you were in Hootie and the Blowfish.
I think the meaning of "my music" is "the kind of music I choose to listen to".
But then, I recently learned from a webcomic (http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/archive.php?date=20110105) that I enjoy that the first band mentioned in this thread suffers from some unfortunate stereotypes.
Mind you, that same stereotype applies to some of my favorite music:
Aside from that kind of slur, though, I can understand people dissing my music simply because it is old-fashioned, so few of the younger people of today will have a taste for it.
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And my musical tastes are at least a bit eclectic...
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I like sexy music videos...like this one:
Nothing beats this
Nothing.
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Wow, when did Tegan and Sara get so BAAAD? I love their "older" stuff, but that first video makes me a little... grumpy.
Mates of State make my head hurt, even though I like their pingy happy smiley time musics...
as for the rest: tl;dnr
I've been a huge futureheads fan for several years now, although their newer stuff is a bit more mature, which usually also means a bit more bland... But if there's a band I'm currently "addicted to", it would either be them, or Bowie.
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Looking at harpsichord music led me to the researches of the professor who demonstrates the intonation he believes was used by Bach for the Well-Tempered Clavier (as opposed to equal temperament, as generally believed) in this video:
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Q: Are we not men? A: POLYSICS desu
MMA fans might get a kick out of this one
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Since two days i only listen to Gamma Ray, especially rebellion in dreamland. I haven't heard that since about 14 Years, damn how fast time runs...
If you listen that, you should listen thw whole ~9minutes, because that thing changes a few times: Klick! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeiX6bf2OPI)
Jerri
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If I had to pick one group... Tried not to pick the obvious stuff! (hope they're not blocked!)
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From this, you can discover that Bohlen-Pierce
has nothing to do with Sarbanes-Oxley.
Now, here is conventional music, in a conventional temperament,
but apparently played on a keyboard using the Wicki-Hayden arrangement.
A keyboard that looks like a keyboard, and so appropriate to the forum.
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Today has mostly been Rumbleseat. Heard this particular track on a BMX video I was watching so fired up Spotify and gave the album a listen. Not bad at all.
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Anyone else using Spotify? I saw there was a Django Reinhardt release (Oh Lady Be Good (2011)) so decided to give it a listen and 39 seconds into the first track (Dinah) there was the Windows "donk" sound. I panicked and thought "oh ****, what's crashed?" then remembered I'm on OS X. So took the song back a couple of seconds and sure enough it appears to be embedded into the track.
Can anyone else using Spotify confirm if it's there on their own Spotify? I assume it would be. Just want to make sure.
http://open.spotify.com/album/60KdadPAQpcBXhhcCzRXfN
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Karnivool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18SUFbABxNQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjvtx3HMUks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7SzOdW3Vg
How does one embed youtube here?
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Since Yesterday it is the Tron Soundtrack from Daft Punk. Since a long time a very nice mastered CD (not such Brickwall-limiter as loud as Possible CDs).
Maybe the nicest mastered CD i've ever owned. I think that sounds really nice on some good hifi equipment!
Anyways, since the film came out (last thursday here in germany) i wanted that soundtrack :). The Bass can be a bit heavy for some people, it's more earthshaking than any bluray movie i have.
Klick me! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXYuw96d0c)
Jerri
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How does one embed youtube here?
We have YOUTUBE tags for that here.
Looking at harpsichord music led me to the researches of the professor who demonstrates the intonation he believes was used by Bach for the Well-Tempered Clavier (as opposed to equal temperament, as generally believed) in this video:
That guy's website (http://www.larips.com/) was an interesting read. So old Johann Sebastian hid his little secret in plain sight, right on the front page of his book. Fascinating.
Now for something a little, but not completely, different...
If you guys have misplaced your time machine lately and are sorely missing it, here's something to cheer you up:
(... or maybe not, given the time in history.)
That recording sounds more natural than a lot of the commercial stuff out 10, 20 or even more years later. The electronics can't always keep up, but still. Apparently they used Neumann CMV3A microphones with M7 capsules (cardioid condenser mic, tube amp of course), and the 6.5 mm wide tape (which would only become 1/4" = 6.35 mm after the war) ran at 77 cm/s (30 ips).
(There's a couple of pretty amazing-sounding 78s out there, too. You'll find a sticky on those on the Steve Hoffman forums.)
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Today has been Cruyff In The Bedroom latest album. Searched for them before but there was no sign of them on Spotify. Dunno when they upped the latest album either, but also searched for Plastic Girl In Closet and they've an album up too. Hopefully more Jap shoegaze makes it's way onto Spotify.
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Currently listening to Kid Rock...
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Kid Rock's put out some good stuff.
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(... or maybe not, given the time in history.)
At least they used the magnetic tape recording technology for something besides Hitler's speeches.
Of 250 stereo recordings made in that period, only three survived the war; I was able to track down this site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetophon) with the history involved.
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Take 2:
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How does one embed youtube here?
Youtube tags and use the code after the = mark in the youtube link. So for my video it was
[youtube]Vos7MqOf5Yc[ /youtube]
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Thanks man
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Searching to see if there were any other pieces of the three surviving recordings, I was not expecting to find the girl of my dreams...
Apparently the film was innocuous enough of political content that it went on to be shown in the Soviet Union after the war, and even to enter the syllabus of their standard course on cinema.
Also, it is heartening to learn that both the lead actress of the film herself, and her career, survived the war.
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Listening to some chiptune on youtube and this was in the related vids.
Russian demoscenes project t.r.a.c.k.e.r.s. - http://trackers.fmf.ru - present demoscener Darkman007 (Tuapse, Russia). He realtime playing music in tracker on PC keyboard, without MIDI keyboard.
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that's AWESOME, BUT I GUESS YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO DO IT WITH BUCKLING SPRINGS
*puts in rock concert earplugs, just in case*
;D
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Heh, Karajan. His daughter Arabel lives here and does some weird performances.
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Searching to see if there were any other pieces of the three surviving recordings,
You can also find Beethoven's 5th piano concerto with pianist Walter Gieseking on the 'tube. I forgot what the 3rd one was...
Apparently the film was innocuous enough of political content that it went on to be shown in the Soviet Union after the war, and even to enter the syllabus of their standard course on cinema.
Here's another one like this:
(With English subs.)
That was a very fancy and expensive production, intended to be as good as anything in the fantasy genre back then. Ironically it was scored by none other than Erich Kästner (under a pseudonym, and even that doesn't show up in the credits), whose works had been burned and who was not allowed to publish under the Nazi regime. His sense of humour and humanist world view are quite apparent.
Looks like if you want to have the best people to get the job done, you have to make compromises sometimes. Of course this kind of ambivalence works both ways - don't think that wartime technology specialists were not in demand afterwards. Life's a strange place at times...
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Of course this kind of ambivalence works both ways - don't think that wartime technology specialists were not in demand afterwards. Life's a strange place at times...
Well, technology is both politically neutral - unlike art and literature - and something we desperately need for survival.
After all, right after World War II, the Soviets ended up developing The Bomb, and so the United States had no choice but to do everything it could to be the leader in ICBMs. Otherwise, the sacrifices of World War II would all have been for naught, as the world would have come under the rule of an equally bad, if slightly different, form of tyranny.
It doesn't strike me as strange that desperate people will do what they have to. What else would you possibly expect?
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I was thinking more of people like radar specialists here in Germany, so technology that was actually relevant in war. For an example that should be pretty well-known, rocket specialist Wernher von Braun went on to work for the US after the war, and he wasn't exactly opposed to the old regime to put it mildly.
But yeah, ultimately technology is a tool, and whether it's good or bad depends on what you're doing with it.
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Where's all the progressive metal???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ho4-tExpTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8Aoy8dH-A
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Killswitch Engage. Can't get enough...
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Today I have been listening to 8 bit stuff. Mostly Sabrepulse.
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Here is a live performance, from the year 2010,
of Valoa Ikkunassa - Finland's first entry to the European Song Contest, in 1961, and thus an original Finnish song. There, it was performed by the beloved Laila Kinnunen.
Speaking of the Eurovision Song Contest - and the thread title:
this was a recent Finnish entry, and, amazingly enough, the artist, Laura Voutilanen, is visiting Edmonton in early March on her current tour.
And this, in Swedish, is the sort of thing I had been searching for in Finnish for so long:
being a sentimental fool.
And having just discovered that what they love in Sweden, they also admire in Croatia, I should also share this one with you:
The song I was really looking for was sung in Swedish by Marianne Kock, under the title "Jag vill ha dig"; that isn't on YouTube, but here's another one by her whose melody should be familiar:
Oh, and here's a Swedish cover of a hit for another of my favorite artists:
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Finally, I decided to use a more direct search strategy:
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I know what Ripster's into.
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That is disgraceful... AC/DC sounds way better. Linkin Park:
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Well, "Back In Black" may be too wild for me, but this song with a somewhat similar title is pleasant enough:
But today, I was looking up this tune - here is its original hit version:
and perhaps its most famous cover version:
and a later cover by that artist who is one of my sentimental favorites:
The song has an interesting history: the melody was written in 1911 with the title "Melody in A Major" by General Charles G. Dawes, who would later become the Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. The Dawes Plan led to him sharing a Nobel Peace Prize.
It was in 1951 that Carl Sigman wrote the lyrics for the modern song, but it was not until 1958 that Tommy Edwards had the first hit with it.
And, in a Google search for information about the original melody, I found that much earlier, Don Wilson adapted it and gave it lyrics under the title "Let Me Dream", sometime in 1932 or previously.
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Epica. (Watch some of the studio sessions from when Simone was only 18.) Their music gives me chills and regularly makes me ask, audibly and to no one in particular, "Why are you so fraking good?"
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Epica.
Symphonic Metal. A genre I would not have imagined even existing.
So far, I've seen this and am suitably impressed:
Also, I noticed a video of them preparing for a classical performance in Miskolc. I misread the name, and thus wondered if there was a university in that city. Indeed there was; it was established in 1949, as the Technical University of Heavy Industry, but it was the successor to the University of Mining and Metallurgy of Selmecbánya - which was founded in 1735, and which was the first school not run by the church in the Hapsburg Empire.
The Béla Bartók Institute of Music is now part of that university as well, so the city has a rich musical history.
Although mining does involve delving deeply into the Earth, I would suspect that the contents of the rare book section of its library would be unpromising...
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For the record: that must be a fanmade MV, as that's not Simone. Simone is a striking Dutch redhead. Sensorium is an Epica track, though, and that's Simone's voice you're hearing.
The girl seen in the video may be the lead singer of Within Temptation. I'm not sure.
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Van Halen, maybe due the fact, that Eddie is one of my Guitar Heros!
Damn, now i know, what's missing on my pedal board.... an old MXR Phase 90!
I like Epica much, too!
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For the record: that must be a fanmade MV, as that's not Simone.
You are quite right. I didn't read the description of the video carefully, as it was in Spanish. However, the description lists the various music videos from which clips were taken to produce this fanmade video:
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
The Birthday Massacre - Blue
Within Temptation - Memories
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down
Incubus - Anna Molly
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
Since they were all professionally produced music videos, naturally that's what the result looked like...
And so you are right about the woman in the video being from Within Temptation.
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Kalafina, I guess.
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NOT currently addicted to Arcade Fire, but congrats to them on the Grammy. "Funeral" was the soundtrack to my and my wife's move from Halifax to Montreal. Hard to believe that was the middle of last decade...
Also:
http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com
god, so many lulz. It has ceased to upset me that so many people in the world are off-base, they can't all be helped.
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Yes, props to Arcade Fire for winning that paper weight, although you could always hock it when times get tuff. It is good to see "Indie" get a little love from the establishment.
Currently, I have (2) songs which rattle round my head: LCD Soundsystem, "Tribulations"; The Pixies, "Where is My Mind". LCD for the beat (which is really not that interesting but Just digging it) and The Pixies since I love playing it finger style. Oh and of course the obligatory John Cage and Zakir Hussain... etc.
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My musical odyssey was interrupted by some outside suggestions... this part of a movie soundtrack
is often confused with this lovely song
(Deleted link: video of "Tänk Om Han Vet", a cover of "Maybe I Know")
(Deleted link: video of "Jag Är Bara Din", a cover of "I Will Follow Him" or "Chariot")
Here's a cover of the song in the two videos above which have been deleted, this one a surprising English-language one:
Oh, and someone did perform it in Finnish:
even if it wasn't Laila Kinnunen:
Of course, one can always bring out the big guns:
Of course, if we're going to talk about chariots, here's the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra:
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Of course to the Grammies "new" is someone that has been recording for 5 years.
Well, of course. I mean, really, you aren't going to win any kind of Grammy unless you've got chops and savvy, not just raw talent - and so new is relative to arriving on the radar screen, not starting to perform in public.
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http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com
Hilarious.
Grammy for best new artist.
Deservedly, it seems. I hadn't heard of her (not really my genre), but it's not hard to tell she's good.
(The interesting part is the other nominees who didn't get one, which included several heavyweights.)
Of course to the Grammies "new" is someone that has been recording for 5 years.
What did you expect? When I heard that Arcade Fire had won a Grammy, it struck me as at least somewhat unorthodox. Granted, The Suburbs was somewhat of an expected fave last year and graced a number of top album lists, but still.
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Oh, yes, now... since some may feel I gave one performer short shrift above...
This was a beautiful melody... but she is also capable of putting forth a supreme effort...
and so are other artists:
but one may well want to stick to the original:
On the other hand, if your interest is in contemporary artists, there are some who can bring something to the table even for a song already so well-handled as this one:
And, for such a popular song, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that there were foreign-language covers of it as well:
And not just by other artists:
Hey... everybody sang it!
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I've currently had two different songs stuck in my head recently.
Christian Metalcore: For Today- Devastator.
Cab Calloway- Jumpin' Jive
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Symphonic Metal. A genre I would not have imagined even existing.
Have you heard of Nightwish? They have some orchestral metal stuff.
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Have you heard of Nightwish? They have some orchestral metal stuff.
An understatement if I ever saw one. These Finnish guys pretty much kicked off the whole symphonic metal craze with their '97 album. Popular stuff about ten years ago over here, and judging by album review numbers on Amazon, this continued throughout the decade. All that without a whole lot of mainstream media exposure.
At the time, Nightwish could build upon what Dutch band The Gathering had done 2 years before. I posted a video of these guys in this very thread at some point, IIRC. The world is a small place at times.
Symphonic metal has one big problem, it's pretty much stuck in a niche without a lot of room for evolution. It's quite stereotypical.
Speaking of metal, have I mentioned Ayreon's metal operas already? Maybe not the very most original stories ever, but definitely well executed.
Yours truly currently has a bit of a classical phase. Lately I was looking into various interpretations of Bruckner's 8th, and read up on Karajan (you don't have to like the guy, in fact there's plenty of reasons not to, but even with all the controversy, he's a whole lot more of an inspiration than, say, Lady Gaga...).
Oh, and I read this over @ Head-Fi (http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/252834/who-s-your-most-hated-musical-artist/570):
SECRETS TO A RADIO HIT!!!
* Take an artist who may have some real talent.
* record an acoustic demo with a guitar and them singing.
* Toss it in the trash or the extra CD no one listens to.
* Record the artist saying a few chose words and phrases.
* Add auto tune.
* Add bass.
* Add claps.
* add hits.
* more bass.
* Listen.
* More auto tuning.
* more bass.
* more bass.
* more bass.
* more auto tune.
* more auto tune.
* more bass.
* electronic chorus.
* call in DJ to add a filter effect.
* Chip/bit tune for about 30 seconds.
* RADIO HIT!!!
The guy's onto something, I'd say. ;)
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The guy's onto something, I'd say. ;)
More auto tune. So that's what's replaced more cowbell.
Ah, and here's Nightwish:
I was astounded when I heard Emma Bunton (the artist formerly known as Baby Spice) covering Downtown, mildly surprised when I heard her covering So Nice (Summer Samba, Samba de Verao)... but quite utterly flabbergasted when discovering that she dared to cover Where Did Our Love Go (and pulled it off quite nicely, I think).
Given the T-shirt she was wearing when she covered Where Did Our Love Go above, I should have expected that she would do this one too:
But when it comes to covers, I can't help but be impressed by this one by Susanna Hoffs:
And here's some sheer chutzpah from Finland, a cover of a performer seldom covered:
but seldom is not never, even in France itself... oh, no, this is Italy:
but I'll spare you Grace Jones' version of La Vie en Rose.
Perhaps I'm underestimating. Bobby Darin had a hit with that lovely melody in English, and it was covered again...
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Been addicted to Dream Theater for a few years now....my favorite Prog Metal band. Favorite album has to be "Train of Thought"
I also love listening to some old NOFX and old school AFI
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Old nofx and afi kick ass =)
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Here's another old foreign-language cover that I thought of some note...
At first, glancing at the group's name, I thought the name of the group was what would actually have been, in French, "Les Schtroumpfs"...
and here's another cover of a lovely old song that they do well:
and yet another:
They sang in French as well as Spanish, incidentally.
But then, yes, I listen to really old music...
But then, good old music lasts...
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Cab Calloway- Jumpin' Jive
Fabtastic. Apparently Fred Astaire called this the best movie dance scene ever, and you can see why.
Last night I was zapping through the radio just for fun, to see whether there would be anything interesting out there (turns out it's quite listenable if you zap a lot), and was hooked by this song:
One of those really distinctive voices that one always recognizes.
Seemed like a good opportunity to look out for a used best-of. A vinyl edition of Fleetwood Mac's mega-seller "Rumours" is floating around here, but I don't have anything else.
Here's one that used to be popular in Southwest Germany in the '80s since SWF3 (I think) liked to play it... back in the day when it was common for radio stations to put work into their playlists (and employ people who loved doing that) rather than being spoon-fed by the industry.
Now a song doesn't have to be old to be good. Here's what I perceived to be one of the big hits of last year:
Finally, the current #1 in the German single charts, something listenable for once (sorry to my fellow countrymen who can no longer bear it, but it is a good song, all overplaying aside):
Bit of a KT Tunstall vibe going on there. Apparently this is the best track on the album, the rest supposedly isn't so hot for the most part.
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I ran across this beautiful melody, and I can't seem to pin it down...
It was also covered in Finnish by another artist, and in that version the sound quality may be slightly better:
It seemed familiar, but apparently it is not a cover of an English-language song: the Swedish version is apparently the original.
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Well, I always think that someone will appreciate the old memories that I am bringing to them... thus, when they hear this melody, it will bring back pleasant memories of when they heard the English version in the very early years of the 1960s:
This was the original, but it doesn't sound like the hit version most people remember:
One of these is the hit:
Oh, my. Here's something for Ripster:
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@quadibloc:
Simone (of Epica) actually learned to sing classically because of Nightwish, specifically the performance of the band's original lead vocalist, Tarja Turunen. The Nightwish video that you posted is from the band's most recent album, its first since their firing of Tarja. (The event caused a major schism in their fanbase.) Their new lead Anette (Olzon) is thought to sound "too rock" to be true Nightwish. For me, Nightwish has always had amazing music outside of the vocals, too. And that is a credit to their composer/keyboardist. He's still in the band; so I still listen to them.
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I've also spent many hours listening to Andy McKee. Do yourself a favor and Youtube him. He recorded the entirety of two of his albums just for that purpose, and it's worth every moment.
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I've also spent many hours listening to Andy McKee. Do yourself a favor and Youtube him. He recorded the entirety of two of his albums just for that purpose, and it's worth every moment.
Yes, he plays lovely guitar music. And the video I looked at inspired me to try to find out what the instrument he was playing was called, so now I know what a "harp guitar" is.
Right now, I've been immersing myself in the surreal impression resulting from finding popular songs being performed in other languages, sometimes even involving the transposition of geographical locations:
Harper Valley becomes the head of a fjord, and
Jackson becomes the town of Laxĺ.
But that doesn't mean I haven't enjoyed other genres:
even though the bulk of my listening is unadventurous easy listening:
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I'm listening a lot to Trentemřller, Zero Cult and The River Empires at the moment. They're all worth checking out. The last one is probably the most obscure. Think The Dear Hunter, but prettier.
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Today I came across a band called The Gentleman Losers on Spotify while idly clicking through related artists of someone I've forgotten now. Only the Dustland album is up, but it's really good. Pretty chilled. I especially like track 4 - Ballad Of Sparrow Young.
http://open.spotify.com/album/4x31RikE7FngqN1NfhqpIE (http://open.spotify.com/album/4x31RikE7FngqN1NfhqpIE)
spotify:album:4x31RikE7FngqN1NfhqpIE (http://spotify:album:4x31RikE7FngqN1NfhqpIE)
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Found this forgotten gem on YouTube:
It even had a little-known vocal version, although the performer was famous enough:
This, on the other hand, is a very well-known and familiar song, but it has surprisingly good sound quality:
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Been addicted to Dream Theater for a few years now....my favorite Prog Metal band. Favorite album has to be "Train of Thought"
Dream Theater is pretty amazing. My favorite album is either Scenes from a Memory or Six Degrees
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Dream Theater is pretty amazing. My favorite album is either Scenes from a Memory or Six Degrees
Live at the Marquee - Surrounded
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Might not be work-safe unless you have closed headphones.
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When I was a student in Junior High, at one time another student brought an accordion to class and played it for a special occasion. It was a rather unusual-looking accordion, and I wondered how it worked.
The other day, I was looking for information on the chord buttons of a conventional accordion, and in my searches, I came across this video,
which, amazingly enough, was from Finland, a place under my intense musical scrutiny over the past while. And the performer in this video is playing just that unusual kind of accordion.
Well, to make a long story short (actually, it was short enough, involving the Wikipedia article on the accordion), such an accordion is called a chromatic button accordion.
I try to explain its workings very briefly at the bottom of this page (http://www.quadibloc.com/other/mus03.htm) on my own web site now, but there are more detailed explanations and diagrams elsewhere.
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This is not a new obsession by any means, but I am definitely digging Kings of Leon's new cd! They never let you down with their music! And no matter how many times I listen to the old stuff, I never get sick of it!
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I couldn't find a really good-sounding clip on YouTube of a performance on the Wanamaker Grand Court organ, so I settled for a more ordinary instrument...
In any case, associated web searches led me to find this web site (http://virtualorgan.com/) which offers an interesting free computer program, called MidiTzer, which lets you turn your computer into a Wurlitzer Series 216 theater pipe organ.
You can play MIDI files downloaded from their forums (registration is required to access that part of their forums), and if you attach MIDI keyboards to your computer, you can play the organ.
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Well, I always think that someone will appreciate the old memories that I am bringing to them...
*chuckle* I couldn't help but be reminded of a certain someone in front of this keyboard when I read this. You never know whether people actually read some of the more exotic stuff you put on the web 1.0, except when you get e-mail feedback. That's much like being on the radio. I still wonder whether anyone ever reads my big fancy page on receiver technology.
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A disbanded band called fear of music
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I still wonder whether anyone ever reads my big fancy page on receiver technology.
Since I knew that I had read some big fancy pages on radio recievers, like the boatanchors page (http://kf6gk.com/), I had to go and check.
I see that I hadn't encountered your site before, but it is a good page, with useful information even in English. This page (http://stephan.win31.de/superhet.htm) reminded me of a recent discussion (http://community.livejournal.com/girlgenius_lab/455800.html) I engaged in on LiveJournal, where I tried to explain what a superheterodyne receiver was to the nontechnical in a couple of paragraphs.
The subject came up because it is a discussion page about a comic about a young woman named Agatha Heterodyne. She is the latest scion of a family of mad scientists.
Incidentally, I think the performance of Sambalina I linked to above is the only one on YouTube; it was recorded before by Joe Venuti and his Blue Five, and this recording was even reissued on a recent CD compilation, but while there are other recordings of Joe Venuti and his Blue Four, and Joe Venuti and his Blue Six, Joe Venuti and his New Yorkers, Joe Venuti's Rhythm Boys, Joe Venuti's All Star Band, and Joe Venuti's All Star Orchestra (not to mention Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang with their All Star Orchestra) there just isn't that one.
Oh, and here he is with someone famous.
And here's the theme music from a movie which happened to have the same name as a completely different song...
a piano performance of music by the composer of the music for the movie that rocketed the governor of California to stardom. You know, this one:
As for the song I was thinking of... it was belatedly given a funny music video...
in which the singer herself made a cameo appearance apparently...
And YouTube hasn't run out of foreign-language versions of her songs, either...
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Myself, I've been listening to Cira Las Vegas's stuff lately... most of what she does is covers, though.
Here's the only original song she's got up:
A couple of covers (most of them aren't made in a studio with professional editing, when she does editing, she does it in Windows Movie Maker):
Yes, an Amazing Horse cover. (This is actually the one I was linked to first.)
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Fixed.
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Here's an unusual cello performance on YouTube:
The composer, rather than the performers, is credited in the video title. I'm sorry, Euday, I can't do that.
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impractical to list.
But let me highlight some underdogs:
yes!
Shawn Lane was so amazing...
woody, I bow to you.
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We all bow to the late great Shawn Lane.
Welcome to GeekHack!
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Wow, just realized that without even thinking, I made my first post in response to seeing Shawn Lane haha.
G.A.S. is quickly turning into K.A.S. (hopefully someone will know what I mean)
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G.A.S. is quickly turning into K.A.S. (hopefully someone will know what I mean)
... that you have now a strange hunch for keyboards, too?
Here, something to soothe you:
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Wow, you just read my mind. I was just watching some Jimmy Herring clips and recently dug out my old Coricidin medicine bottle to pathetically try to play some slide ala Trucks.
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Wow, you just read my mind. I was just watching some Jimmy Herring clips and recently dug out my old Coricidin medicine bottle to pathetically try to play some slide ala Trucks.
Funny. You're the only one around that is on my waves of music.
Small world, they say.
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Funny. You're the only one around that is on my waves of music.
Small world, they say.
Small world indeed, never know what to expect eh?
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Yours truly has been looking more into the important female(-fronted) side of '80s post-punk / new-wave and related stuff lately. Those interested may want to listen to "The Young Lady’s Post-Punk Handbook, Vol. 1 to 3 (http://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/women-of-post-punk-the-young-ladys-post-punk-handbook-volume-1-1978-1983/)" or take a look at this playlist (http://www.npr.org/2011/01/21/132741321/hear-a-mix-ari-up-the-slits-and-the-women-of-post-punk).
Now just about everyone and their dog already knows about Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Slits, Cocteau Twins, Nina Hagen or Lene Lovich. But what about Danielle Dax?
(Not too many smart women with guts in popular music these days, unfortunately. Watch an interview, and you'll know what I mean.)
Or Young Marble Giants, who...
...are a likely influence for this popular modern-day indie act.
And of these guys, Jamie XX has proven to be a source of quality dubstep remixes:
And what would a list of female-fronted one-offs be without the brilliant Throwing Muses?
With all of this background, it should be a bit easier to understand where this young lady was coming from at the time:
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Enjoy!
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I only knew of this song as an instrumental, but the sheet music - in a compilation of "song hits of today" from the early '60s - gave me the original German title, which led me to this:
Here it is sung in English by the singer who apparently had the original German hit in 1960:
(the German words are different, largely dealing with the geographical locations of many cities around the world)... but I think that Americans have a reply to that song...
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Totally hooked right now. Perfect music for getting in a good mood.
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Here is a Russian singer, possessed of remarkable vocal talents, encouraging Soviet youth to study hard in school:
At 0:23, on the blackboard, there is a diagram of a transistor flip-flop.
Note that the singer is Eduard Khil' - another song he has performed, known variously as Trololo or Vocalise, has the potential of damaging your sanity should you listen to it. Please exercise caution.
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Translated it is A Paean To Potatos
While the title there means "Nikita Mikhailov Loves Kolbasa", which is a kind of sausage, the title of this particular "vocalise" selection, sung by Eduard Khil', actually is about the joy of returning home after an absence.
Given the nature of the Soviet political system (secret police, labor camps), a silly demented grin is probably entirely appropriate.
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Gigliola Cinquetti, famous for making a hit of the song later covered, again as a hit, in the United States by Al Martino as "To the Door of the Sun", here sings a song I only knew of as an instrumental... particularly by Paul Mauriat:
But it originally came from about the last place I would expect:
Although the singer is from Afghanistan, he is singing in Farsi, not Pashto. (Possibly in Dari, which is Afghanistan's dialect of Farsi - although Pashto is Afghanistan's official language, Dari is apparently used more, at least in business and in the cities.)
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El Bimbo?
Yes. It was composed in Afghanistan, and given its Portuguese title by a French musical group that made a hit out of it.
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Here's one for the collection of classically-rooted songs (I hope I didn't post this one before):
No need for me to write much here, it's all documented very well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_treni_di_Tozeur).
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Amazingly enough, I still encountered something surprising from Laila Kinnunen:
here seen performing early in her career with her sister Ritva, who ended up leaving the performing side of showbiz for a relatively unexciting career as a television executive.
Fortunately, the A. Aallon Rytmorkestra from Finland also performed this song, giving its English name. It was so familiar, but I had not heard it in ages... and so I could not have thought of its name myself. (Saija Varjus, on the other hand, has a recent hit with a completely different Finnish song of the same title.)
Here's a familar version:
and another one that was a hit:
and a version with the English lyrics:
When the title is a single word, one has to search in other places to get extra keywords with which to find the good versions...
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**** yeah, Chet Atkins. Finally this thread is interesting to me again :D
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Totally hooked right now. Perfect music for getting in a good mood.
Parov Stelar gogogogo!
Discovered him while watching root.Drewbie's Starcraft stream. So sick!
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For some reason I'm totally addicted to this song right now:
Btw, the album (http://www.amazon.com/Have-Facts-Were-Voting-Yes/dp/B00004RI7B) is in my top 10 of all time.
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The Avalanches, Bonobo, Toro Y Moi.
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KATIE MELUA ftw!
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Well, I couldn't find something quintessentially Canadian to post.
I couldn't find a version of Blues in the Night that was all that much better than the one by Katie Melua.
But I ran across this today:
and so it will just have to do.
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Bright Eyes
Iron and Wine
MGMT
Bon Iver
Noisia
16bit
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^ Iron and Wine is cool. Ever listen to Owen?
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Bush, The Buzzhorn, Course of Nature, Pulse Ultra, Pink Floyd, the OST for Gran Turismo 5 (lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWfp5k1zfM&feature=related
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Death from Above 1979
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Orgasmic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_EgW1zxWQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_EgW1zxWQ)
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They are Canadian?
No. As I noted, I couldn't find anything particularly Canadian, or any version of "Blues in the Night" worth bothering y'all with, so I settled for something that was merely good.
But I've found something Canadian now:
... Dusty Springfield, Kim Wilde, and Journey also sang songs titled "Stay Awhile", but those songs were different from each other as well as different from this one.
And here's something else Canadian:
And this song was written by the Canadian composer Ian Tyson, but it was made a hit by American singer Judy Collins - so here are Ian & Sylvia on stage with Judy Collins:
And this one is given as coming out the year before We Five had a hit with it:
and I see that is indeed true!
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I musta missed Adele during all the Winehouse/Duffy hypefest.
This is the best Winehouse video:
Has some candy, too.
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The "feel good" song of the year, right here:
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I realize what I'm setting myself up for, but I'm still addicted to Soundgarden "Superunknown". There's plenty of stuff before and since that I enjoy as much, but that CD will always make me smile. Sometimes I enjoy it at face value, other times Chris Cornell's high pitched "Yeeeeeeaaaahhhh!!!" just makes me giggle.
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And here's something else Canadian:
<3 (to resort to YT-speak for a moment)
So let's stick to Canadian artists for a while and go on in time...
'70s:
'80s:
And finally, the noughties:
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Heijira! Jaco Pastorius FTW!
Yep.
I have the much more experimental followup Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, too (this one also with Pastorius on bass). While not very well-reviewed at the time, it has a number of strong moments, like the title track. Sound quality on the HDCD version is excellent, too (I used a software decoder to benefit from peak extension). The host of a local jazz program likes to use this album to test hi-fi setups (not sure which version though). The old CD edition of Hejira is far from bad-sounding, but seems a little more restricted at the edges of the frequency spectrum.
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Interesting. It took a few Google searches to learn where to look to find more of this...
a song about, of all things, luck on slot machines.
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Jaco was an amazing bassist, but his tone has always made me sick. I really hate when a bass is drowning in chorus and has that much midrange. It sounds cheesy and dated. I don't want to
be assaulted with corny effects so I steer clear of pastorious. It wasn't just him, that "Weather Report" sound has been everywhere, I just wish Jaco had steered clear.
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I've just learned that Daisy Bell has something in common with Peggy Sue.
As we all know, Peggy Sue
was followed by
this sequel.
Well, it turns out (http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songster/42-fare-you-well-daisy-bell.htm) that Daisy Bell wasn't about to put up with leaving her wedding on a bicycle built for two...
There are even images of the sheet music on another site (https://proteanpaper.com/scart_results.cgi?comp=howiebik&framed=0&part=F-SM-073&scat=1&scatord=desc&scatall=&skey=norm&srkeyall=&srkeywords=&srcateg=000000000000000215).
But there don't seem to be any recordings around of this obscure song.
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Entwhistle > pastorius any day ;)
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Entwhistle > pastorius any day ;)
Oh, you mean this guy?
Other bass players have come in for their share of praise on YouTube as well; this fellow doesn't even have a well-paying gig yet -
A lot of the comments said this highly-paid professional artist wasn't really very good, even though the audience seems to like him:
but maybe he just stops every few bars so as to let the audience quiet down so they can hear him. Ah, by about 1:53 he actually gets going.
And here's another well-known performer:
But let's return to the late Jaco Pastorius for purposes of comparison:
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Brian Bromberg - one of the contemporary bass masters, both electric and double bass. That guy's broad spectrum is amazing.
And some Jaco-like bits from the great Bireli Lagrene:
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Here's a lady I hadn't listened to in quite a while... well, shame on me, how could I neglect songs like this:
...or "Winter"?
Then again, she's not for everyone. Can you spell "intense"?
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I just learned that the Via Galactica, or Milky Way, is called the River in the Sky in Japanese...
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Here's a lady whose album has been on my to-buy list for a while, covering a song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel_(song)) first recorded in 1951 and made popular in Europe in a French version sung by none other than Édith Piaf:
Citing good ol' Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Calvi) (hardly the very definition of a first-rate article, but it'll do):
Style and influences
Calvi has been compared to other female singers PJ Harvey and Siouxsie [Sioux].[39]
Calvi's style has been described as dark, romantic, atmospheric pop.[40] The singer has stated that the powers of lust are an inspiration and her performances are deliberately sexually charged.[41] Calvi has cited Nina Simone, Maria Callas, the rock of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, the blues of Captain Beefheart, the stage performances of Nick Cave, David Bowie and Scott Walker as well as classical composers Messiaen, Ravel and Debussy as among her influences.[6]
Calvi has stated that the films of Gus Van Sant and Wong Kar-Wai and David Lynch have also influenced her music. She has admiration for "people that make beautiful films where the cinematography tells the story" and tries to do the same in her own work.[42]
It seems that unlike her theatrical stage persona, she's actually quite shy and rather likeable in real life.
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Nation of Ulysses. Sick ass punk rock youth anthems.
Straight outta DC.
"Remember me? I used to be president. Of the medicine cabinet."
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Is there a way to correct spelling in thread titles, this one drives me nuts and is bumped very frequently ;)
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I had only known Jezebel from Frankie Laine's version, and would never have guessed that Edith Piaf also sang it.
Nothing much that I've listened to lately is worthy of the august company around here, but I did run into this:
the original version of Mary Hopkin's later hit Temma Harbor.
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That typo is unfortunate indeed, but as said there's not a lot one can do about it... ;-/
Watched too much weird sh!t on YT today, ugh. Need to put on some "normal" music now. *grabs Dvořak's 8th* Ah, that's better...
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Sometimes, I feel embarrassed that the music I like is dull and ordinary compared to the more renowned and serious music that others find worthy of note...
But this tune is so haunting, so beautiful, that I make no apologies for it.
It's the theme music from a British TV show of the 1960s (No, not Doctor Who, it's all conventional acoustic instruments.)
But if you do enjoy vintage synthesizer sounds,
(as a bonus, some girls in bikinis)
And here's Mike Leander on the harpsichord:
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for the past couple weeks i've been listening to a lot of:
stendeck
empusae & shinkiro
boy is fiction
chevelle
trust company
james zabiela
hernan cattaneo
cybo
klyxn
millipede
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I will reply to your charge of inauthenticity:
It was merely from an earlier season.
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Always pleased to oblige...
even if you can't make up your mind...
and here's some more miscellaneous percussion...
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Nope.
Not sure why. OCN claims the OP can change thread titles and they use Vbulletin.
i've changed thread titles there but haven't been able to anywhere else that uses vbulletin