The Non-metal music thread

[Prospero]

John Stewart... saw him once at the Bluebird cafe in Nashville. Terrific gig.
This song is a sort of reference, for me, to all the nonsense in the Politics strand.

John Stewart / Survivors - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ike6jeepk)

[robertlouis]

Great song. He's sadly underrated and of course he's no longer with us either.

Another fine American songwriter:


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEy6EuZp9IY

[Prospero]

Bob Dylan - "Everything Is Broken" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXn9PptgN8)

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ejhq9ve1jc

[Prospero]

Hard to hear the real force of this song past the familiarity

Pete Seeger: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2SIIeqy34)

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orv_F2HV4gk

[robertlouis]

I'm on a roll with female songwriters this morning.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKDE2a1eKVI

[Prospero]

Wyclef Jean featuring Paul Simon - Fast Car ft. Paul Simon - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxlxlRMHBc)

[Prospero]

David Crosby - Laughing (with lyrics) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzvylMnCe3k)

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23YVo2j5SN4

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6etdn9oEiA

[robertlouis]

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

[Prospero]

The sound of ecstasy incarnated by Patti smith

Patti Smith Gloria - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxygqSTO1lQ)

Patti Smith - Horses - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPwOfwhpiW8)

[Prospero]

a song in keeping with this forum...

Liz Phair"Hot White Cum" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx_VXRG_qc)

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kd3Y-anRlM

[maxpower]

I like Liz Phair a lot, Prospero. This is one of my favorites.


Liz Phair - Divorce Song - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssql3nT4zVE)

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YNsZLtzF18

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5pXfVz4sog

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpl5HNkj8c

[nevada64]

Mr. Ray Charles.

Ray Charles - What'd I Say LIVE - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjeSS3kktA)

[robertlouis]

Mr Otis Redding


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb-CrShpMnE

[nevada64]

Mr. Wes Montgomery.

Wes Montgomery - Four On Six - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLDTKun4so)

[nevada64]

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs)

[robertlouis]

Messrs Mark Knopfler and James Taylor.

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

[Merkurie]

The Beatles - "Dear Prudence" Stereo Remaster - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmF698mXzLg)

[nevada64]

The Beatles - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM2Ttov_zR0)

[Merkurie]

Liaisons Dangereuses - Avant-après Mars - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V4T2Sn3wBs)

[Prospero]

The Beatles - If I Fell (HQ) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKYPI1jjdg)

Early Beatles. Utterly simple but beautiful

[Prospero]

This resonates....

Pete Atkin - Beware of the Beatiful Stranger - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Butt2hVdyzg)

[Prospero]

Pete Atkins recorded several albums co-written with Clive James... this is an early one...

Master of the revels.wmv - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2aKeDuB1w)

[Prospero]

Pete Atkin - A King at Nightfall - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWB_xkhcai4)

[robertlouis]

This one for a dear friend of all of us. You know who you are. The uncredited female singer is the wonderful Christine Collister.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E64PxV3cEFU

[Prospero]

K.D. Lang - Shadowland - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-fHwdkRGy0)

[Prospero]

Nice song RL... very nice.

bd - Forgetful Heart Jun 20th 2011 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZKoTGLR_sI)
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgBhyU4IvQ)

[robertlouis]

My pleasure, Prospero.

This is from the latest offering to fall through my letterbox. It's one hell of an album. Their first was my album of the year in 2011. This could be the same in 2013. Much heavier in every way.


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

[robertlouis]

And also for Prospero, from all of us.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-7SnMnX78

[runningdownthatdream]

Yet another cover of yet another brilliant John Prine song

"Angel From Montgomery" by Susan Tedeschi off the "Just Won't Burn" Album - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPhj4utDuJY)

[Rockit_]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UtIDlWk2D0

[robertlouis]

Always reckon this was better than the Stones original version.

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

[runningdownthatdream]

Always reckon this was better than the Stones original version.

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

No Way!

I know the Stones were infatuated with the FBB and yeah their music (at least what I listened to) was innovative for the times but something in their delivery just doesn't do it for me.

I think Jagger's vocals were stronger than Gram Parsons and this song really highlights that difference.

[runningdownthatdream]

RL somehow I think this is a song you would cover

Galveston Hurricane 1900 - Film: Thomas A. Edison - Music: Tom Rush - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pjSTnl99Q)

[robertlouis]

No Way!

I know the Stones were infatuated with the FBB and yeah their music (at least what I listened to) was innovative for the times but something in their delivery just doesn't do it for me.

I think Jagger's vocals were stronger than Gram Parsons and this song really highlights that difference.



We'll just have to agree to differ on that one, Dream. I always felt that Gram had a plaintive, keening quality to his vocal work that marked him out as really special. I love Mick's vocals generally, but he never works for me on the slower and more gentle songs.

In the meantime, perhaps we can agree that this band of four Canadians and one son of Arkansas made music just about as fine as you can get.



http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AIQeMvp5Ew

[robertlouis]

I love Tom Rush - very underrated as both writer and performer. Thanks.

[runningdownthatdream]

We'll just have to agree to differ on that one, Dream. I always felt that Gram had a plaintive, keening quality to his vocal work that marked him out as really special. I love Mick's vocals generally, but he never works for me on the slower and more gentle songs.

In the meantime, perhaps we can agree that this band of four Canadians and one son of Arkansas made music just about as fine as you can get.



http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AIQeMvp5Ew

No disagreement on The Band for sure.

[robertlouis]

No disagreement on The Band for sure.



You were talking about covers. A lot of Robbie's songs work really well solo on acoustic, like Rockin' Chair, Lonesome Susie, even Cripple Creek. There's never been any group like The Band for me. The best ever. And Robbie is a brilliant songwriter with a terrific grasp of history.

But I haven't done a cover except as an encore for about ten years now.

[runningdownthatdream]

I love Tom Rush - very underrated as both writer and performer. Thanks.

YW......how about Phil Ochs


Phil Ochs — When I'm Gone - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-BBVQLnxI)

and Josh White

'There's A Man Goin' Around Taking Names' JOSH WHITE (1933) Blues Guitar Legend - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q97fm54JaLo)

[robertlouis]

Delete

[runningdownthatdream]

You were talking about covers. A lot of Robbie's songs work really well solo on acoustic, like Rockin' Chair, Lonesome Susie, even Cripple Creek. There's never been any group like The Band for me. The best ever. And Robbie is a brilliant songwriter with a terrific grasp of history.

But I haven't done a cover except as an encore for about ten years now.

Robbie is a great songwriter. I find that the guys who focus on the content of the song, the lyrics, seem to create music that stands well as solo performances. Neil Young is another and of course all the great folk/rock musicians like John Prine, Townes van Zandt, Steve Earle, etc.

[robertlouis]

Robbie is a great songwriter. I find that the guys who focus on the content of the song, the lyrics, seem to create music that stands well as solo performances. Neil Young is another and of course all the great folk/rock musicians like John Prine, Townes van Zandt, Steve Earle, etc.


I agree - can't listen if a song lyric is just cliches or without purpose, which is why 99% of the popular stuff leaves me cold. And that means speak clearly too. I earnestly hope that people get that from my music.

A few great Brit acoustic writers for you to Google - Ralph McTell, Richard Thompson, Steve Knightley, Martyn Joseph..... It could be a very long list!

Here's Richard Thompson to whet your appetite. Hell of a guitar player too. And I'm proud to say that we play the same model of guitar - Lowden, handmade in Ireland.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HApy-Xoix-g

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNxvpJUPct0

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqMa-Plvwe8

[runningdownthatdream]

I agree - can't listen if a song lyric is just cliches or without purpose, which is why 99% of the popular stuff leaves me cold. And that means speak clearly too. I earnestly hope that people get that from my music.

A few great Brit acoustic writers for you to Google - Ralph McTell, Richard Thompson, Steve Knightley, Martyn Joseph..... It could be a very long list!

Here's Richard Thompson to whet your appetite. Hell of a guitar player too. And I'm proud to say that we play the same model of guitar - Lowden, handmade in Ireland.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HApy-Xoix-g

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNxvpJUPct0

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqMa-Plvwe8

Am familiar with Ralph McTell and of course with Richard Thompson too. Will check out the others. Last one of the night for me, not so much a writer himself but covered a lot of other great songwriters

1913 Massacre Ramblin' Jack Elliott - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWfHRcdSAk)

[Prospero]

This is one of the darkest songs I know off....sinister

Elvis Costello - I want you - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWt6XxP2biE)

[Prospero]

Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello - "I Want You" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOmhOumh-w)

[maxpower]

The Coral - In the Morning - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KErHjXpsfwA)

[Prospero]

Elvis Costello - Shot With His Own Gun - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Xw-RjQrWM)

[Prospero]

Harry Worth - Elvis Costello - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj4ZN4G-6TM)

[Prospero]

Written for the soundtrack of Cold Mountain

Scarlet Tide: Elvis Costello, Renee Fleming, Rufus Wainwright, Kate McGarrigle - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6b-3xP842Y)

[Prospero]

Ring Them Bells - Ron Sexsmith, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckkHB3Y2DcI)

[Merkurie]

Sinead O'Connor - Thank You For Hearing Me performance (1994)(HQ) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPOM20kgWlc&list=PL5494A4D9D9F89B8B)

[Merkurie]

Alter Bridge: Ghost Of Days Gone By [HD] LIVE - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJK4RPn2Ni0&list=PL5494A4D9D9F89B8B)

[duplicatt]

Everybody Wang Chung tonight!

Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXu6QmxpJE)

[robertlouis]

The great and unheralded Ron Sexsmith.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSYdJZNKXT8

[robertlouis]

And while I'm on a Canadian songwriter roll.....


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rR7E6NfY4

[robertlouis]

And again....


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Y72zHVxhs

[robertlouis]

And again....


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

[dderek123]

And while I'm on a Canadian songwriter roll.....


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rR7E6NfY4

Gordon is one of the greats!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tr_L31StI

[robertlouis]

And finally. For now.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6jQhnF6LMw

[duplicatt]

Well...

If we are on a Gordon Lightfoot jag, this has always struck me as a very poignant song


Gordon Lightfoot - The Circle Is Small (I Can See It In Your Eyes) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9zKE50JT2k)

I can see what you believe in when his name is mentioned and I die

[robertlouis]

And speaking of Canadians and songs about circles.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w02YmwXIVpM

[runningdownthatdream]

More of those damn Canadians!

Blue Rodeo - "Try" [Official Video] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkMaBy6EX0w)

Shoeshine Workin' Song - Murray Mclauchlan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJTIRf8krI)

Burton Cummings - I'm Scared - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DeBSJv9lR4)

[robertlouis]

And still they come! Used to sing the Stan Rodgers one myself for a few years. Fantastic song.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVZxbIt04h4

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

[dderek123]

And still they come! Used to sing the Stan Rodgers one myself for a few years. Fantastic song.


This is a Stan Rogers hit from my neck of the woods. Great drinking song :cheers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0CvSIhF_tA

[runningdownthatdream]

Had never heard of Stan Rogers until you mentioned him here some time ago - a great voice.

a few others with a big Celtic influence:

The Rankin Family - Fare thee well love - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6-mo4jS8VI)

Loreena McKennitt - The Mummer's Dance - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CJ7bNnsKYY)

Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoApELfgWcg)

[robertlouis]

Another, and one of the finest IMHO, Bruce Cockburn. Love his percussive guitar work. And an incredibly powerful song. Met him at Cambridge FF a few years back. Lovely man too.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02J_kPincA

[robertlouis]

And bringing things up to date.... Love this girl's work.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltYq-jalYm0

[runningdownthatdream]

what about Peaches

Fuck The Pain Away - Peaches - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHcMqOQt4NY)

[robertlouis]

Or these two. This is as close to perfect as it gets.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fcBEGjK3cM

[duplicatt]

Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl - HQ Video - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB8txXS2PFs)

[robertlouis]

Back to Gord.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqttl9aWm0

[robertlouis]

And again.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDnPBnY6RE

[duplicatt]

Lay a whisper on my pillow...

Roxette - It Must Have Been Love - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4)

[duplicatt]

Can you take me high enough to fly me over yesterday?

Damn Yankees - High Enough (Official Video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_uh8XjgLTE)

[duplicatt]

Just 'cause you're right that don't mean I'm wrong...

The Outfield - Your Love - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1iwQxiHrs)

[duplicatt]

Now she can't be that warm with the wind in her arms...

Steve Winwood - Valerie (1987 Remix) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RriQt0ebFaw)

This song is something of a heartbreaker if you know the story behind the tune. Will Jennings wrote the song about Valerie Carter, who was a fellow songwriter and a backup singer, who fell into drugs and had her life pretty much ruined. that makes the song pretty much a plea for her to turn her life around.

[duplicatt]

David A. Stewart & Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U15HQJwqsIo)

[duplicatt]

The Bangles - Eternal Flame (La Flama Enterna) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4)

[duplicatt]

I keep looking for something I can't get
Broken hearts lie all around me

Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJky8YuTr4)

[Prospero]

Jim Croce - Greatest Hits - Lover's Cross - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didAIcrjsl4)

[Prospero]

Jim Croce - Time in a bottle - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0k-sEuo8ZU)

[maxpower]

Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTZoJ01FpD8)

[Prospero]

C.O.B - When He Came Home [Spirit of Love] 1971 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3409H0xFfg)

[duplicatt]

And take your baby by the ears and play upon her darkest fears...

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xpJRwIA-Q)

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9Qa7MpAvw

[Prospero]

Lucinda Williams "Are you alright?" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7K1sabE9A)

[Prospero]

Lucinda Williams - Blue - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0_AVhvdpgw)

I envy the wind. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xR_rQvHoEE)

[duplicatt]

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Passionate Kisses - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TCMpA5TfHc)

[Prospero]

Falling Out of Love From the album Mercy Now - By Mary Gauthier - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mT-nstxOVk)

[Prospero]

Mary Coughlan - Whiskey didn't kill the pain - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE6Q96TGyuI)

[Prospero]

"Очи черные" Дмитрий Хворо�тов�кий (9.2006) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yIrj61Lm1M)

[Prospero]

Anna NETREBKO. Song op. 4 no. 4. Rachmaninov. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmbriHyn2x4)

[Stavros]

It is always a mistake to perform Rachmaninov songs with orchestra, they lose their delicacy and subtlety, but most of all, lose the bell-like tone of the piano which was so hugely important to Rachmaninov, in whose music whom bells are symbolic as well as musical. By contrast, consider Richter and his wife in one of Rachmaninov's most exquisite songs with as rich a postlude as you are likely to hear in a song.

Richter and Dorliak - Rachmaninov - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1-xqHFSebs)

[Prospero]

The Byrds - Everybody's been burned - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQcvCxtvOfI)

[Prospero]

Thank you for that Rachmaninov Stavros...one of the most perfect of his songs I think, setting the Pushkin in a heartbreaking way. I am afraid i still cleave to the Anna Netrebko recording of it - with orchestra. (I will see if I can post it - if I didn't already) But this is deeply wonderful too.

[Prospero]

The Beatles....and emmylou harris

The Beatles - For No one - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iAykoKLog)

Emmylou Harris - For No One - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIy2Lz_Evio)

[robertlouis]

The pic made me laugh, so here's the song as well.




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

[Prospero]

Love it... (more than the song actually)

[duplicatt]

She comes to speak to me
I freeze immediately
'Cause what she says sounds so unreal

Tal Bachman - She's So High - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElORM9O-0U)

[robertlouis]

I'll be playing and singing with this lady next weekend and loving every minute. She's great.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21IbgTewrMs

[rockabilly]

Hillbilly Moon Explosion - My Love Forevermore

[Merkurie]

Ultra Nate - Found A Cure (Official Video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWiQ9QYMuA)

[a994]

An excerpt from one of my favorite live recordings by this gaggle of Bay Area hippies, in this case at the Sky River Festival near Seattle on September 2, 1968:

Grateful Dead Live in Sultan 9-2-68 -- (3 of 8) The Eleven & - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6NLydjDVEM)

[Prospero]

You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart (Acoustic Version) - Eurythmics - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelmKcW5_M4)

[Prospero]

Marianne Faithfull & Angelo Badalamenti - Who Will Take My Dreams Away - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX85WqylDI)

[robertlouis]

A couple of fine performances of two of my favourite piano concertos to start the week.

And yes, that is Rachmaninov's Third piano concerto, not the much better known and much overplayed Second. Altogether sprightlier and more mature imho.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOOfoW5_2iE


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJnpsuv3E7s

[Prospero]

I am on a Rachmaninov spree so thanks RL

[Prospero]

Rachmaninoff songs op 4 no V-VI Ashkenazy - Söderström - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBNyMqCb69Y)

Nicolai Gedda, How fair this spot, Rachmaninov - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9GjuAppb_0)

Tine Thing Helseth - Rachmaninov: Zdes' khorosho - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88fE_ol0xdw)

Rachmaninov - Song op. 21, n° 7 "How nice it is here" (Зде�ь хорошо) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5WfwbTU7AI)

[robertlouis]

I am on a Rachmaninov spree so thanks RL

My pleasure. Here's another favourite Rachmaninov piece.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_U8nENg63w

[robertlouis]

And while we're on a Russian theme - I absolutely love this piece.


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

[robertlouis]

Oh hell, why not? Love this as well.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDZTah8J2A

[irvin66]

Funny........:confused:
Ylvis - The Fox [Official music video HD] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE)

[robertlouis]

Classic 60s pop from one of the best voices ever.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osVaF4t-zFc

[Prospero]

Dedicated to Odette de Crecy....

Carlos Santana - Black Magic Woman (with lyrics) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPo9Gd2z6rI)

[Prospero]

My favourite Kinks song - and a wonderful evocation of London in the swinging sixties

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset HD (Excellent Quality) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-D9xcZgKX4)

[Prospero]

Neil Young - Heart of Gold - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXaC07X5M8)

[Stavros]

[QUOTE=Prospero;1391774]Dedicated to Odette de Cracy....

de Crecy not Cracy; the original song may have been about Peter Green's guitar, or it may have been derived from the Otis Rush song, All Your Love.
Proust created Odette out of Laure Hayman -

http://reynaldo-hahn.net/images/photosmonde/photosmonde/images/laure_hayman_nadar.jpg

[Prospero]

Typo Stavros... sorry

[Prospero]

She is always a woman to me - Billy Joel - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHfBXHari34)

[robertlouis]

More classic stuff from the 60s. The first real supergroup?


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQSJKOgI1jc

[maxpower]

More classic stuff from the 60s. The first real supergroup?


I love Cream. (Not a pun.)


BADGE / CREAM - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7rHCYtbZRo)


Cream-'Swlabr'-1967 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxcFE00bdfQ)

[Prospero]

and then they re-united (briefly)


Cream - We're Going Wrong / Alternate Take (Royal Albert Hall 2005) (21 of 22) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsMLWPD2No0)

[Prospero]

Leonard Cohen - Who by fire - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTRX23EMNk)

[robertlouis]

Back to where it all began....


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4mJ3aEhHo


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pN7eNSFXEY

[Prospero]

"It's hard enough I know, to find the strength to go, back to where it all began."

David Crosby - Traction In The Rain (with lyrics) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEyPuMGyEQ)

[Prospero]

Sting - I Love Her But She Loves Someone Else - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2FG0iKPuYI)

[Prospero]

David Ackles - The Road To Cairo .1968 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-T-T5LaJTU)

[Prospero]

And Elvis Costello and Eton John due on another great David Ackles song

Down River - Elvis Costello and Elton John - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNwr7QsCb5M)

[Prospero]

David Ackles - Love's enough - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMDJMbPvfns)

[nevada64]

Sting - Fragile - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY)

[Prospero]

Melody Gardot - Gone - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7FutzVv8KI)

[Prospero]

Smoke- Ben Folds Five - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0e3TH1m02c)

[Prospero]

Marlene Dietrich ╬ Illusions ♥â€* - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4MEjf_bIKw)

[Prospero]

This was a film that I loved many years ago. The pan pipe score by Gheorghe Zamfir captured it's haunting magic.

Picnic at Hanging Rock - theme soundtrack - Gheorghe Zamfir 'Doina Sus Pe Culmea Dealului' - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-6bU4x7us)

[duplicatt]

How far have you been?

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs)

[Prospero]

That track was the theme music to a wonderful holiday i had in Florence at Christmas 29 years ago.

[maxpower]

Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZbcoWrUsw)


Pete Townshend - Slit Skirts (1982) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQ2KT8oZhw)

[Prospero]

Elvis Costello - The Birds Will Still Be Singing - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq14kBBLBGg)

[Prospero]

Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach-This House Is Empty Now. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI5iUvpL6n4)

[SammiValentine]

Metal is gay. Where is the epic trance thread?

[Prospero]

Hiya Sammi... create a trance thread... and everyone will follow it

[robertlouis]

Metal is gay. Where is the epic trance thread?

Welcome back, Sammi. We've missed you.

And you're right. Metal is gay. :dancing:

[SammiValentine]

Hiya Sammi... create a trance thread... and everyone will follow it

i only ever created 1 thread. i think its my limit. i cannot handle the editorial pressure in this crazy rat race.

[Prospero]

For all the hung angels....


Jane Siberry & KD Lang - Calling All Angels - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRUErh47sao)

[Prospero]

On the theme of angels.....

ABBA Like An Angel Passing Through My Room - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za7ThH5x01k)

[Prospero]

The Angel - Buffy Sainte-Marie - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvqAgMexQOU)

[Prospero]

Jimi Hendrix - Angel HQ - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rckJTq25A)

[robertlouis]

Another Angel.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5NuI6Ai-o

[Prospero]

Angel flying too close to the ground - Bob Dylan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2exDYfESFAM)

[Prospero]

When the Angels Fall by Sting - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uVvRDHM4s)

[Prospero]

Mychael Danna - My Angel (Exotica Soundtrck) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FxtzpAsNFA)

[duplicatt]

Are you hiding somewhere behind those eyes?

Icehouse - Electric Blue - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUFOVu1CurM)

[duplicatt]

A whisper to a scream...

Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly) - Icicle Works - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQCpI4GbKQ)

[Prospero]

Swinging Blue Jeans - You`re No Good - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPSAz3a7nuU)

[maxpower]

As the month is almost over...


Big Star - "September Gurls" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAIuim4GXK0)

[robertlouis]

And another September song.....

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Prg0dIQx0

And one for October.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnJdQ9izto

[Prospero]

The Pretenders - Thin Line Between Love And Hate - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pCCdclkdLY)

[Prospero]

Pink Martini - What'll I Do (with singer China Forbes & Special Guest Norman Leyden) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-JpPR7Gu8)

[robertlouis]

Requiem for a season


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcEAI5p-wUg

[robertlouis]

Speaking of classic 60s LA bands....


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

[robertlouis]

You call it fall, we call it autumn. The genius that is Ray Davies.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3AMWc6t3cc

[Prospero]

Autumn leaves - Miles Davis - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsp5OASh7bg)

[Merkurie]

The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make (TOTP) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DE8UQnM5Y)

[Merkurie]

Depeche Mode (Enjoy The Silence) Devotional Tour 1993 (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Q-wq_YRlM)

[Merkurie]

Depeche Mode (Behind the Wheel) Devotional Tour 1993 (HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAcHb6EcNzM)

[Prospero]

Marianne Faithfull "Broken English" (12" version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSaiKPREubo)

[Prospero]

Marianne Faithfull -- The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc)

[Prospero]

Why D'ya Do It?- Marianne Faithfull - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mvAMEaWgTQ)

[maxpower]

Squeeze - If I Didn't Love You - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p9sPVXGa1Y)


Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTWF7eirJw)


Squeeze- Annie get your gun - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCKtHoGHRU)


Private Sessions: Squeeze: Pulling Mussels from a Shell - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JUzzCRmW6s)

[dderek123]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFjHo7Cdrw

[Prospero]

Bob Dylan - "Everything Is Broken" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXn9PptgN8)

[Prospero]

Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9EKqQWPjyo)

[Prospero]

Ain't Talking - Bob Dylan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnDq_f-NZnE)

[Prospero]

david bowie - trying to get to heaven - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU1stwHBXI8)

[Prospero]

Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever (High Quality) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs)

[robertlouis]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-DY9n7_KFM


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCsAm39zAQ


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

[hippifried]

Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker - "Shadows And Light". - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLKb9Ms68ME)

[Prospero]

Strangeness indeed. Beethoven's 9th - the od to joy performed on hundreds of theramins hidden inside Russian dolls.

"Symphony No.9, Boogie" by Matryomin ensemble "Da" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEHItrTMHM&feature=player_embedded)

[robertlouis]

A very moving song by my good friends Show of Hands about exiles from Chile.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdycmeAC-qw

[robertlouis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWq8bBirKg

[Prospero]

Talking of The Band - and that album - one of my all time favourite tracks by them.

Whispering Pines - The Band (The Band 6 of 10) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDyLukweBGw)

[Prospero]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds People Aint No Good - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdoBzzc8hU8)

[Prospero]

Marlene Dietrich "You Go To My Head" 1939. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJ-kY15eFE)

[duplicatt]

Quarterflash - Harden My Heart - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqeKV2UYq1Q)

[nevada64]

A Taste of Honey




The Beatles - A Taste Of Honey (2009 Stereo Remaster) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLG7jHC0yM4)

[Prospero]

Keeping this seat warm until its founder Robert lois returns from wherever he has vanished too..

Working Class Hero - John Lennon - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU)

[Prospero]

This is almost unbearable... but wonderful

Johnny Cash - Hurt - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF9AJm0RFc)

[Prospero]

and still with the man in black.... imagine singing this to a prison audience!

Johnny Cash 25 Minutes to go (live from Folsom prison) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n-azJnAdAc)

[Prospero]

And based on a book in which the day of the dead plays a big theme this song by Jack bruce.

Jack Bruce - The Consul At Sunset - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybzjBD17g0)

[fred41]

The Platters..."Only You"

..some cool memories.

THE PLATTERS - ONLY YOU - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2pEdc1_lI)

[fred41]

The great Sam Cooke....

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEM4VlnGNXU)

[nevada64]

Nice Fred41. Thanks for that. What a great voice.

[fred41]

Nice Fred41. Thanks for that. What a great voice.

Beautiful song..beautiful voice. Man died far too young.

[Prospero]

Hugh Masekela - Coal Train Live - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgYhTTZXP4g)

[Stavros]

One of the best versions of this song; I prefer it to either the Billie Holliday or Ella Fitzgerald.

Sylvia McNair - Why Was I Born? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHNIIYX1kM)

[hemiv8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hdz8z5deQU

[Prospero]

Willie Nelson & Alison Krauss × No Mas Amor - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwN2S9P3nmM)

[Prospero]

"Where Is My Love" Lucinda Williams - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlD09Ea73Dk)

[Prospero]

Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5T6s25XK4)

[Prospero]

Juliette Greco sings Sous le ciel de Paris - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieG0DHfISE)

[Prospero]

Juliette Gréco - Chanson des Vieux Amants - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZbiUusGqY)

Les Amants reguliers - La Chanson des vieux amants - Jacques Brel - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4F5jfN7Kf8)

[robertlouis]

Here's a treat. Jean Sibelius himself conducting his own overture Andante Festivo, recorded in 1939.

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

[maxpower]

Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - "Long Time Gone" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R_rhdglVBk)

[fred41]

Nice post Max... Norah Jones is bit of a chameleon (and a total cutie pie) ..so no surprise there, but who would've thought her and Billie Joe Armstrong doing Everly Bros. songs would be any good? They kept it simple and it works.

[maxpower]

Yes, it totally works, and I like it a lot. Here's another track:


Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones - Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine [Music Video] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUZYwDB5mjI)

[robertlouis]

Great track from the 70s. Sometimes you just want to hear something that makes you smile. Hope to be gigging with Benny Gallagher in February. :D


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hje8Wrb4MF0

[robertlouis]

More Gallagher and Lyle. Used to do this one when I was half of a duo a few years ago.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvFgY_1cBoM

[altroo]

Metal, in its various guises, swamps every other genre in the What Are You Listening To Now thread.

I'd be up for a thread which caters for music which depends slightly less on volume, guitar pyrotechnics and satanism, and more on melody and intelligible lyrics.


I really hope I'm just overreacting here because I'm new, but it that really how you feel about metal?

I would really love the opportunity to open your ears to some music that is, while still 100% metal, very melodic, perfectly intelligible, and contains 0% satan. I understand that's not the point of this thread, so I'm just going to quietly leave these here in the corner


Dream Theater - Solitary Shell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTHfGtaZb08) (Lyrics (http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/67226/))
Opeth - Windowpane (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvltVKjacw) (Lyrics (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/opeth/damnation.html))
Epica - Solitary Ground (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuErECk4_iA) (Lyrics (http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858543073/))


Now, since you're not here for metal, how about a nice Canadian Sea Shanty?

Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w)

[robertlouis]

I really hope I'm just overreacting here because I'm new, but it that really how you feel about metal?

I would really love the opportunity to open your ears to some music that is, while still 100% metal, very melodic, perfectly intelligible, and contains 0% satan. I understand that's not the point of this thread, so I'm just going to quietly leave these here in the corner


Dream Theater - Solitary Shell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTHfGtaZb08) (Lyrics (http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/67226/))
Opeth - Windowpane (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvltVKjacw) (Lyrics (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/opeth/damnation.html))
Epica - Solitary Ground (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuErECk4_iA) (Lyrics (http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858543073/))


Now, since you're not here for metal, how about a nice Canadian Sea Shanty?

Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w)

Thanks for your sensitivity! I started this thread because the other music thread here was about 99% metal, and mostly of the death/thrash/WTF kind.

As a self-employed musician myself in the acoustic singer-songwriter style, I just felt that we needed a bit of balance, so we've had everything here from jazz to classical to blues to acoustic and round again.

So, in the spirit of your offering, I'll certainly give those songs a listen.

And thanks for the Stan Rogers clip. Love his songs. I suppose you know North West Passage? Goosebump time!

And above all, enjoy the forum! :)

[dderek123]

Barrett's Privateers is awesome. I've already posted it in one of the music threads.

[robertlouis]

Barrett's Privateers is awesome. I've already posted it in one of the music threads.

Stan Rogers was altogether awesome. Such a tragic loss and so young.

And WHAT a voice. One of the very best.

I have a couple of his albums and one that his brother Garnett did with an old pal of mine from Scotland, Archie Fisher, showcasing Stan's songs. Terrific, stirring songwriter with a great ear for melody too.

As you're in Canada, Derek, seek out David Francey. You won't regret it!

[danthepoetman]

Moby - Hyenas - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwyZIQWXCXY)

Moby-Walk With Me - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vPGxL0kaw)

Nina Simone Blackbird - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1nY1xvSkc)

[danthepoetman]

Philip Glass- Violin Concerto no. 1 mvt. 2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFf6p6actPo&feature=related)

[danthepoetman]

Public Enemies Soundtrack - Ten Million Slaves Otis Taylor - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzTz7o96qg)

[Caff_Racer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3TVEH1DPbg

Anecdote time: This song was originally meant to be a comedic piss-take of the whole Rocker scene, but in fact the Rockers adopted it as a sort of anthem, and it could be heard blaring from juke boxes in all the caffs in the land, from the Ace in London to the Busy Bee in Watford, and all points in between!

[Caff_Racer]

It's Friday night, so here's a couple of drinking songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ECZMvbLxg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0q8Oho_RjM


Slaynt!

[maaarc]

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIFw2Sk4GsUthought this was pretty great

[Prospero]

NPR chose Kacey Musgraves as one of their top female country stars of 2013. I can see why.

Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go 'Round - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfj2Ir3GgQ)

[Prospero]

And this is an older song - Shadowland written by my friend the great veteran jazzman Dick Hyman, but with lyrics by k d lang

K.D. Lang - Shadowland - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-fHwdkRGy0)

[Prospero]

Dick himself...

Jelly Roll Morton The Finger Breaker by Dick Hyman - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcsArJYYfs)

[robertlouis]

Something a bit special. James Taylor guesting with Jerry Douglas, the world's best dobro player, on a really moving Hugh Prestwood song.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC1wQ5XF-6Q

[Prospero]

Philip Glass - 01 - Koyaanisqatsi - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Il58Ln4cI)

[Prospero]

This is a fantastic version of "The House Of The Rising Sun" by Dave van Ronk. He heard it from an unnacompanied Appalachian singer and came up with the chord sequece which is now famous. Bob Dylan heard him singing it in a New York coffee house and stole it for his first album. But Dave van Vonk's version is better I think. Van Ronk inspired the new Coen brother's movie "Inside Llewyn Davis."

Dave Van Ronk - House Of The Rising Sun - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX2ZYLTGu4E)

[runningdownthatdream]

This is a fantastic version of "The House Of The Rising Sun" by Dave van Ronk. He heard it from an unnacompanied Appalachian singer and came up with the chord sequece which is now famous. Bob Dylan heard him singing it in a New York coffee house and stole it for his first album. But Dave van Vonk's version is better I think. Van Ronk inspired the new Coen brother's movie "Inside Llewyn Davis."

Dave Van Ronk - House Of The Rising Sun - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX2ZYLTGu4E)

A good version but for me Nina Simone owns this song with this rendition

Nina Simone- The House of The Rising Sun, slow live version - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCuu5fOEB3Y)

[runningdownthatdream]

Something a bit special. James Taylor guesting with Jerry Douglas, the world's best dobro player, on a really moving Hugh Prestwood song.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC1wQ5XF-6Q

Co-incidentally I was listening to this recently where I found the dobro actually shines as brightly as Alison's voice - is no small accomplishment!

Alison Krauss / Shawn Colvin / Jerry Douglas - The Boxer - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ylhySDIH_A)

[runningdownthatdream]

Margie Joseph - Let's Go Somewhere And Love - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W8TBTC1gDw)

[Prospero]

Good old Tom Waits... offering a cheerful view of the human condition. A favourite song performed here by the wonderful Camille O"Sullivan.

Camille O'Sullivan - Misery Is The River Of The World - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXlu_0nUEA&list=RDD1FDSJINpJ0)

[nevada64]

Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin - Solace - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2NQYxpM-b4)

[Prospero]

Chet Baker - For All We Know - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QH1Mfg3xOM)

[Prospero]

This is sung by a Turkish born Jewish singer called Yasmin Levy - not Natascha Atlas as the label suggests. it is in Ladino, medieval Jewish Sephardic language from Spain.

Yasmin Levy & Natacha Atlas - Mano Suave - יסמין לוי ו×טשה ×�טלס - יד ×¢×וגה - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSEkm7ww_jE)

[robertlouis]

P, I strongly recommend that you read "Andalus" by Jason Webster. Gets into the soul of modern Spain and its paradoxical desire to shake of its moorish roots while continuing to embrace them.

He also wrote "Duende", a stunning account of the lives of the real flamenco singers and dancers - it was serialised on Radio 4.

And I'm currently reading "Guerro", his book about the Spanish Civil War and Spain's continuing inability to come to terms with the horrors of the Franco regime. So far, it's every bit as good as Giles Tremlett's "Ghosts of Spain."

[robertlouis]

Here's my friend Joe Solo from his album of Spanish Civil War songs "No Pasaran", about a Brit and a Russian fighting for the Republicans, whose only common language was backgammon. Terrific lyrics.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8m_b_HOZYU

[Prospero]

Tremlett's book was very good.

Oddly Boris Johnson, of all people, did a good TV documentary a few years ago which dealt, in part, with the Spanish refusal to own their Moorish heritage while using it still to make tourist dollars.

[Prospero]

I'm a sucker for a beautiful woman who can make beautiful music. And Aziza Mustafa Zadeh certainly does that. Hardly a household name the Azerbaijani/Azeri jazz musician is very popular in France and Germany. I've never managed to see her in concert (I'm not sure if she has ever played in the UK). Music from Azerbaijan is rare but this might prompt you to listen to more.

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Dance of Fire - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA13_DAGA1g).

[runningdownthatdream]

I'm a sucker for a beautiful woman who can make beautiful music. And Aziza Mustafa Zadeh certainly does that. Hardly a household name the Azerbaijani/Azeri jazz musician is very popular in France and Germany. I've never managed to see her in concert (I'm not sure if she has ever played in the UK). Music from Azerbaijan is rare but this might prompt you to listen to more.

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Dance of Fire - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA13_DAGA1g).

That was certainly beautiful music. One of the few times I've actually bothered to listen to a recommended song from beginning to end.

Music from central Asia intrigues me - the influences are so diverse just like the people themselves.

I was recently introduced to the music of an Uzbek singer - Sevara Nazarkhan - by an Uzbek friend of mine. Hope you enjoy.

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

[Prospero]

Glad to have provided you with some new music. I know Severa Nazarkhan's music slightly but not heard that track before. Aziza is actually the daughter of a notable Azeri composer and what i love about her music is the blend of eastern and western modes to produce something beautiful and strange.

There is a lot of her stuff on Youtube and i have all her recordings - about six CDs in all.

[Prospero]

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Passion - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUr3ScVt7xE)

[Prospero]

John Renbourn playing music by the late great blind irish harpist Carolan.

John Renbourn - Three Pieces By O'Carolan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQl_Nmpq_vA)

[robertlouis]

Time for some contemplative Schubert to start the day. The incomparable Alfred Brendel.


http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdjedHk-c1Q

[robertlouis]

Definitely in a piano mood this morning.

The beautiful andante from Shostakovich's 2nd piano concerto. More Rachmaninov than Rachmaninov!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUWP3KPLOao

[robertlouis]

More Brendel. The adagio from Beethoven's Emperor piano concerto.

Now go out and face Friday calmly.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu2fi3Tvhe0

[Prospero]

wonderful music RL....

[Always_aUnicorn]

Alright a specific thread for those who don't like metal. Maybe that means people won't thumbs down metal in the what are you listening to now thread. I mean it's not like anyone's posting it here.