What Band are you Currently Addicted too?

[quadibloc]

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.

[noodles256]

Bright Eyes
Iron and Wine
MGMT
Bon Iver
Noisia
16bit

[keyboardlover]

^ Iron and Wine is cool. Ever listen to Owen?

[petey293]

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

[strum4h]

Death from Above 1979

[silat]

Orgasmic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_EgW1zxWQ

[quadibloc]

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!

[woody]

I musta missed Adele during all the Winehouse/Duffy hypefest.

This is the best Winehouse video:

Has some candy, too.

[keyboardlover]

The "feel good" song of the year, right here:

[Oqsy]

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.

[keyb_gr]

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:

[keyb_gr]

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.

[quadibloc]

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.

[Oqsy]

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.

[quadibloc]

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 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.

But there don't seem to be any recordings around of this obscure song.

[Oqsy]

Entwhistle > pastorius any day

[quadibloc]

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:

[woody]

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:

[keyb_gr]

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"?

[quadibloc]

I just learned that the Via Galactica, or Milky Way, is called the River in the Sky in Japanese...

[keyb_gr]

Here's a lady whose album has been on my to-buy list for a while, covering a 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 (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.

[keyboardlover]

Nation of Ulysses. Sick ass punk rock youth anthems.
Straight outta DC.

"Remember me? I used to be president. Of the medicine cabinet."

[Oqsy]

Is there a way to correct spelling in thread titles, this one drives me nuts and is bumped very frequently

[quadibloc]

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.

[keyb_gr]

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...

[quadibloc]

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:

[phillip]

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

[quadibloc]

I will reply to your charge of inauthenticity:

It was merely from an earlier season.

[quadibloc]

Always pleased to oblige...

even if you can't make up your mind...

and here's some more miscellaneous percussion...

[phillip]

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