Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to) - by Andarthiel
qolelis on 9/4/2021 at 20:16
[video=youtube;yzxqyNcJUow]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzxqyNcJUow[/video]
Aged Raver on 10/4/2021 at 08:54
Over the months I’ve been listening to Transatlantic Sessions (20 hours) and played this particular song many times (written by Rabbie Burns in 1791).
Personnel:
Karen Matheson – vocals (from Scotland)
Paul Brady – vocals (from Ireland)
Donald Shaw - piano (from Scotland, Karen’s husband)
Aly Bain – fiddle (from Shetland)
Jerry Douglas - dobro guitar (from USA)
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Had we never loved sae kindly
Had we never loved sae blindly
Never met or never parted
We had ne'er been broken-heart-ed ...”[/CENTER]
[CENTER][video=youtube;bWzXTebD5X0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWzXTebD5X0[/video]
from Transatlantic Sessions series 2 (1998) - (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ae_Fond_Kiss) Lyrics
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[CENTER] If you’re a fan of Celtic, Scottish or Irish Gaelic, bluegrass, country, Cajun, French/Canadian, with a touch of Rabbie Burns, Stephen Foster, contemporary folk, pipes, reels and jigs then most of the six series are (
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZ7YA33F4d_-yFVCGn9y2y_6VvhVhXv8) here (comprising 38 half-hour programmes, co-directed by Aly and Jerry). (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Sessions) Background reading of the sessions.
There are 2 bonus videos on YouTube but both are out of sync so I have not referenced.
Pre-dating the above Aly Bain made
The Shetland Sessions, which I haven’t seen or heard (2 albums).
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Gray on 10/4/2021 at 21:27
Only tonight did I discover that Front 242 have released old live recordings on Spotify, circa 1987-1991. I was quite surprised at how much better those versions were than were on my live albums, or indeed, perhaps even the studio albums. Some even had extra lyrics, whole verses and intros, sometimes even actual singing, gold dust for a music nerd like me. Unfortunately, I could not yet find any of these old new live versions on YouTube so this will have to suffice as a placeholder video, symbolic of much unlinkable greatness. Sorry.
[video=youtube;ouXLukLgbz8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouXLukLgbz8[/video]
Such a shame I can not link that awesome 1987 version of Quite Unusual, it has a whole extra intro that changes the entire feel of the song.
Gray on 10/4/2021 at 21:57
And for no other reason than that this is an awesome song I was recently reminded of, everybody should get some more Oil In The Eye. You can thank me later.
[video=youtube;krikNVjdMh4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krikNVjdMh4[/video]
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Sorry, I'm on a roll now. Must have some Lassigue Bendthaus. Makes Kraftwerk sound organic.
[video=youtube;Lw5bbaFK8_c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw5bbaFK8_c&t=9s[/video]
Malf on 11/4/2021 at 09:52
@qolelis:
Huh, didn't expect to see DJ Scotch Egg here!
I used to work with a guy who knew him. The London music scene he's part of is quite small and everyone seems to know everyone, with a lot of people flowing between bands.
Hey Colossus, Gum Takes Tooth, Bad Guys, Shit and Shine, those guys are all part of the same scene, although often playing wildly different music.
My friend from work is the guy behind Drumcunt.
He was a terror in the office, who would lull us in to a false sense of security with a relatively normal playlist, then leave having queued up some combination of white noise, static and feedback.
Gray on 11/4/2021 at 19:26
Trent Reznor just won a Bafta for Best Soundtrack to the Pixar movie Soul. While I'm pleased for him, I'm also confused. I've listened to NIN for ages, and this feels... strange.
[video=youtube;kuoFiIFkdAA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuoFiIFkdAA[/video]
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I'm genuinely shocked, it felt so surreal, switching on BBC and they're talking about Trent Reznor, my first instinct was "what, has he died of a drug overdose?" But no. He made music for a kids' movie and won an award. Clearly, I've not been paying attention for the last couple of years, perhaps he's done more of this stuff and I never noticed. I was somewhat surprised when Mark Mothersbaugh started doing TV themes, or when They Might Be Giants did the Mickey Mouse Club House theme, but Nine Inch Nails doing a kids movie...? I did NOT see that coming. Then again, I didn't see Pharrell doing that either, until it happened.
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The closest similar thing I can think of was the sheer surprise when I discovered that, after watching about 2-3 seasons of Archer, the jazzy theme song was written by Jim Thirlwell. That got me properly confused as well. Don't get me wrong, I like that people can change and do different things, it's more that I didn't expect any of that. Says more about me than about them as artists. I just did not expect the man famous for shouting "I wanna f*** you like an animal!" would do a Disney/Pixar movie. Shows how little I know.
demagogue on 11/4/2021 at 23:59
He did the soundtrack for Mank, about the writer of Citizen Kane, which is very 1930s classic Hollywood ... big band, over-dramatization, tension strings, wind instrument curiosities, brass triumphs, swelling resolutions, etc, kind of camp by today's standards.
This is who he is now. Not 1930s classic Hollywood, per se, but a musical chameleon that fits whatever soundtrack he's making.
hopper on 15/4/2021 at 21:25
Went down the YT rabbit hole and found out there's a channel called NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - and also a three-piece band called Khruangbin. Man they tight.
[video=youtube_share;vWLJeqLPfSU]https://youtu.be/vWLJeqLPfSU[/video]
Kolya on 15/4/2021 at 22:45
Yeah, Tiny Desk concerts were great back then, before the plague. Lots of great bands played there.
NPR still creates them but now in in various places, which is fine, although I liked the focus on the music that the original TD provided.
There's also the similar (
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUh4W61bt_K5JJmDUDPlhTQgjbZcJkPdE) Live on KEXP.
Karras35 on 16/4/2021 at 08:10
[video=youtube;K3SA5Z-cbC8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SA5Z-cbC8[/video]
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