Subject: old music
Date: Tue Oct 12 01:02:43 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Thanks, ix, for posting the clip of "Great Gig in the Sky". It sent me on a small journey, of playing different versions, etc. I just now wrote on another ("Science News") thread about how my vinyl collection is still in (mostly) good shape. Well..........one of the ones that's likely *not*, is "Dark Side of the Moon", as (like all sentient good-music lovers of the time) I played it over and over (and over) again. So much so that it 'saturated' my brainbone, and I bet I haven't listened to it in 2+ decades. But part of the reason I haven't is that I hate the "Money" song (after the first 10-15 times, that is), largely because that's the one/main song from the album that top 40 radio would play, so it just got old.
But the point, really, is that I think I appreciate those vocal calisthenics more now than I did then. I had more of an emotional reaction, and don't think I did at the time. In that vein, here's one of those "reaction" videos (I watched several) that I thought was quite nice/'interesting'.
Link: reaction to first hearing "Great Gig in the Sky"
Date: Tue Oct 12 01:24:01 2021
User: ix
Message:
Date: Tue Oct 12 02:02:03 2021
User: cellmate
Message:
i'm inclined to credit Clare Torry with more than "vocal calisthenics" on the original
Date: Tue Oct 12 02:05:33 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Funny how that works, isn't it? It's quite the pleasant surprise, actually. Not that I really needed any help appreciating the depth of the Floyd..................but this experience (many listens of many versions) opened my eyes further to their genius.
Date: Tue Oct 12 02:07:01 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Oh, me too. That was just shorthand for "wow".
Date: Sun Oct 24 13:44:07 2021
User: Klepp
Message:Peanuts enjoy Joy Division...
Link: New Wave
Date: Sun Oct 24 20:39:21 2021
User: Stop_GMO
Message:forgive my forgetful obtuseness... is that question resolved... I didn't see where it was resolved...
Does this resolve it... or will it still revolve?
Link: Written by Joe Marchese
Date: Mon Oct 25 10:11:44 2021
User: Klepp
Message:Suitable for spliffage...
Link: Dub Reggae
Date: Tue Oct 26 13:47:39 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Klepp, that's the same link/site you posted back in August:
Date: Mon Aug 2 17:26:48 2021
User: Klepp
Message:
Old reggae.
Link: Heavy Dub Mix 70's
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I actually meant to comment on that at the time, but never got around to it. I like that stuff a lot, and that link is nearly identical to one I have somewhere as a bookmark. Don't know why more peeps aren't into that groove. I listened to it again last night for quite a while.....
And hey -- I've posted the same musical selections before, too - but I don't think nearly so close together. And "not that there's anything wrong with that."
Date: Tue Oct 26 23:56:54 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Some ages ago on this board, we visited the Threepenny Opera and Die Moritat von Mackie Messer (the Ballad of Mack the Knife). In the version of the song made popular by Bobby Darrin, Lotte Lenya is prominently mentioned. Louis Armstrong actually was responsible for lyrical invention. In the first translation of the song, the women mentioned were Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver, Polly Peachum, and Lucy Brown. Armstrong replaced "Polly Peachum" with "Lotte Lenya" when recording the song, as a tribute to Lotte Lenya, Weill's widow and one of the stars in the original play. Armstrong and Lotte Lenya recorded the song as a duet, completing the interesting circle of Lenya's involvement in the original Weill play as Polly Peachum.
Link: Louis Armstrong, "Mack the Knife"
Date: Tue Nov 2 07:53:40 2021
User: redberet
Message:I'm not ashamed to admit Frankie Valli is my all around favorite. As a matter of fact his was my last concert about three years ago. For mid 80's it's amazing the voice he still has and get out on the stage without a cane. He's due back here next month and I'd still pay to see him. I saw him at the old Circle Star back in '74. That thing had a circle stage that rotated 360 because the seats were in a circle. Not bad seat in the house. Performers didn't like it much.
To the Jersey Boys.
Link: Let's Hang On
Date: Tue Nov 9 18:41:00 2021
User: Klepp
Message:Suzanne Vega, circa '90 remix.
Link: Tom's Diner
Date: Wed Nov 17 02:53:38 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I'll listen now again to Tom's Diner, but only after what I came here to post:
[Beethoven's Ninth, Fourth Movement]
Date: Wed Nov 17 02:59:41 2021
User: Klepp
Message:...I actually meant the Second Movement, but the fortuitous error makes one NEED to hear ODE TO JOY at ear-deafening levels aw well!
Date: Wed Nov 17 03:30:01 2021
User: Klepp
Message:Depeche Mode, zone out...
Link: VIOLATOR
Date: Fri Nov 19 02:41:18 2021
User: sgmsgmsgm
Message:Haven't clicked the link but I assume that you are talking about either Shakin Stevens or Jim Morrison
Date: Fri Nov 19 08:31:19 2021
User: outskirts
Message:Not the Who? (WHO's behind the door?)
Lol... it's Zebra!
Date: Fri Nov 19 13:04:33 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I guess it could be taken numerous ways, but I came upon it (Zebra's eighties version--an old, forgotten favorite of mine) while searching YouTube to listen to "Zebra," a beautiful, much newer song by Beach House (dream pop, newish genre)...
Date: Fri Nov 19 14:03:01 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Beach House is a very mellow group, and "Zebra" was a track on their 2010 album, "Teen Dream."
A song or two of theirs was posted in the Interesting New Music thread.
Date: Fri Nov 19 23:26:01 2021
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:I had known this song by a cover played in 2000s:
https://youtu.be/rgIRaZ0z89Q
Then I discovered the 1960s' version by a vocal band. I can't choose which one is better. One of my favorite songs for sure.
When I first located the older version, I remember playing it in a repeat mode and playing a freecell tournament at the same time. You may guess it was a great result for me in a strong field.
Link: Çayır çimen geze geze (1966)
Date: Fri Nov 19 23:44:50 2021
User: redberet
Message:You can tell granny, that could be considered an aid.
Date: Mon Nov 22 00:30:01 2021
User: Klepp
Message:He was considered "dreamy" by young females, back in the day...
Link: Ricky Nelson
Date: Wed Nov 24 23:10:41 2021
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:That's the same thing you posted in this thread Sept. 24 last year, but that link is now dead. I like *some* Eno, but for some reason this offering eludes me.
Date: Sun Nov 28 05:05:44 2021
User: Klepp
Message:Perry Farrell was cool.
Link: Pets
Date: Mon Nov 29 02:09:06 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Sometimes, this song gets overshadowed by "Maggie May", and while that's top-notch, this one touches all the bases. It rocks hard, as the Faces and Rod were at their peak, with each player throwing the full weight of their considerable talents into this. Easy to see why Mick and Keith wanted them some Ronnie Wood. It just churns with a sense of urgency - which the very best R&R does. The whole album is excellent, but this is an enduring gem. Maggie Bell from Stone the Crows (how long's it been since we've heard that band's name?) raucously helping push the vocals.
PLEASE.............PLEASE.....................don't play this until you have your speakers up LOUD. This is one of those songs where that's just the way it needs to be. It's part of the deal.
Link: every picture may tell a story.........but the audio is boss
Date: Mon Nov 29 09:28:18 2021
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:TN,
I do love that song, but it’s hard to take a lot of the lyrics now. Rod cuts out a couple of verses if he does it live these days.
James
Date: Mon Nov 29 09:44:27 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:I *almost* included an admonition to look past the non-PC lyrics......but decided listeners would/could recognize them as a product of the mindset and that point in time. Not to excuse them - but to contextualize them separately from the non-lyrical aspects. A task too egregious for some, which I understand.
As you well know.........the musical universe is rife with examples of great talents encumbered, shall we say, with aspects not suitable (as Denny would put it) for genteel, polite dinner conversation.
Date: Wed Dec 1 03:59:46 2021
User: Klepp
Message:Dave Brubeck classic...
Link: Take Five
Date: Wed Dec 1 14:29:16 2021
User: BuzzClik
Message:Jarreau's version could certainly qualify for the Really Different Covers thread.
After Paul Desmond's death from lung cancer, even the Dave Brubeck Quartet were left with simply covering the song. Desmond's genius is unmistakable.
Date: Wed Dec 1 16:10:17 2021
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
Message:One thing leads to another.
"Blue Rondo à la Turk" is a jazz standard composition by Dave Brubeck. It appeared on the album Time Out in 1959.
Rock keyboardist Keith Emerson used this piece (uncredited) as a foundation of his "Rondo" beginning when he was with the progressive rock band The Nice; it appeared on the album The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack. Emerson's version was in 4/4 time and Brubeck, meeting with Emerson in 2003, described it to him as "your 4/4 version which I can't play."Emerson, a great admirer of Brubeck, took this to mean that Brubeck preferred his own version, as Brubeck would have had no difficulty in playing Emerson's interpretation.
Link: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Rondo Live in Zurich 1970
Date: Wed Dec 8 14:37:36 2021
User: cellmate
Message:
i watched the John Cameron "Get Back" documentary. well worth watching if you're a die-heard Beatles fan
its interesting how the song Get Back changed over the course of the sessions
i'm surprised they didn't come up with an alternate set of lyrics for "I've Got a Feeling"... "I've Got an Ego"
Date: Sat Dec 18 09:31:12 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I think dude had a bit too much fun sans raiment, regardless the tune here.
Link: Jermaine Stewart
Date: Sun Dec 19 12:08:43 2021
User: outskirts
Message:Sung by the inimitable Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon, Superheroes remains to this day as my goat.
It is the ending song to RHPS, before the outstanding closing credits, that is.
I love show tunes 🎵
Link: https://youtu.be/gxwtBTjNevU
Date: Mon Dec 27 23:01:29 2021
User: Kaos
Message:CBS Sunday morning did a segment on the song Country Roads this week. I’d always thought of this as a John Denver penned song which I’d always liked in spite of it being a John Denver song. Turns out, not written by JD. Now it all makes sense. JD just wasn’t that deep.
Date: Tue Dec 28 11:41:44 2021
User: Klepp
Message:I give "Gimme Little Sign" a hearty thumbs-up...especially the spacey keyboard...makes me want to listen to The Animals...
Date: Tue Dec 28 14:18:06 2021
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ok...........wasn't gonna post this one, but since I know you appreciate the dub beat.......
This was from really about the same time period, and hearing it recently on that great KEXP reggae show brought me to rediscover the original (I think) Brenton Wood version that I posted above. Which I think is the superior version, but this one has a groove and its own unique charm I think you'll dig.
Link: Owen Gray's version
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