Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to) - by Andarthiel
PigLick on 5/8/2022 at 11:12
last one my favorite jazz cover of all time, last album before his death, coming on from a suicide of his partner, such sublime improv.
[video=youtube;ECtNyyLEW7E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECtNyyLEW7E[/video]
the triplet line beginning around 3:52, chefs kiss
Its worth listening to the whole album really if you are a jazz fan.
You Must Believe in Spring.
Its a call to the eventual closing of a winter, when times will be better. A noteworthy musical piece for all those afflicted with depression and melancholy.
Aged Raver on 6/8/2022 at 08:55
Loved all the recent posts. I've been a bit of a fan of Hildegard von Blingin' since her Bardcore version of (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg) Pumped Up Kicks and have just seen/heard this recent creation. Her tweaking of the old lyrics brings a sort of refreshed nostalgia (for the song - you understand).
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[CENTER]Wikipedia has fascinating stuff about the song's origins pre The Animals/Bob Dylan/Dave van Ronk et al ...
In 1953 Lomax met Harry Cox, an English farm labourer known for his impressive folk song repertoire,
who knew a song called "She was a Rum One" (Roud 17938) with two possible opening verses, one beginning
"If you go to Lowestoft, and ask for The Rising Sun, There you'll find two old whores and my old woman is one." :wot:
Earlier recordings included Roy Acuff (1930's) and Leadbelly and his wife (1940's).
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Tocky on 7/8/2022 at 02:52
Quote Posted by PigLick
very treacly, but I do enjoy Paul Anka songwriting, he has a handle on that bittersweet nostalgia.
My turn, my daughter sings in an acapella choir and they had a concert a few days ago, and sang a brilliant version of this, which I hadn't heard for ages.
Ain't it great when they like the stuff you like? And then when they do it well it's like, "I made that person". I did that... somehow. The worlds going to be okay after all. It's why I want a lot of you to reproduce. We can't let the assholes win.
Anyway, since we have gone kind of schmaltzy, here is one I sing along with every time it comes on the radio. The time that sticks out the most was driving back from Dayton at one in the morning with everyone asleep in the car. My grandson woke up and sang it with me.
[video=youtube_share;YG8FFJQYoTM]https://youtu.be/YG8FFJQYoTM[/video]
Also it was made for quadrophonic sound but nobody has that anymore. You kind of get a taste through headphones though.
Gray on 7/8/2022 at 04:13
Has this ever happened to you? By sheer accident, you bump into someone. Someone special. Someone very different and amazing. You fall completely in love with them. Everything they do is amazing. Then, slowly, over time, as you both age and mature, you develop in slightly different directions. Sure, their new ideas are still brilliant, but not quite the same. You still love them. But you keep diverging. And then, eventually, you get to a point when you just do no longer feel the love for them you once had. You part ways. You never speak again. Well, sort of. Many years later, you accidently, again, bump into each other. You are both much older and wiser now. You've changed. They've changed. But through all your experiences, you are still essentially the same as you were, back in the day. And you fall in love again, all over again, as if it was the first time. You just can't believe how amazing they've become since the last time. So, of course, you buy a ticket to see them play live.
I do apologise if someone mistakenly misread the above as a loving relationship. No, it's just a fan rediscovering an old band that is now surprisingly good again. Sorry to disappoint. All that was just a lengthy tedious preamble to pimp the new songs by Clan of Xymox that are utterly brilliant. And I've got a ticket!
[video=youtube;nqe39P50gzo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqe39P50gzo[/video]
The full story is much less interesting. In 1991, I discovered a new band. As I was visiting my older brother down south, I rifled through his LP:s, and he had their previous album. Cool! He then told me he never actually listened to it, but just bought it because the album cover was pretty cool, much like this other one. And then he showed me the album A Clan of Xymox. Granted, the album cover was pretty cool, but when I listened to it, I instantly loved it, and taped it. I then spent the next few years trying to find it on CD, which for many years was quite impossible. Small relatively unknown band, small unimportant subgenre. Took me ages.
When I did finally manage to track it down on CD, I was elated. I had worn out the tape completely. I had deconstructed each song into tiny bits and learned to play each individual part. At the time, in the early 1990s, before the commercial internet, I had an online music review website. Back in those olden days, information was very difficult to find, it was pre-Google, and the internet was pretty much just a bunch of us university nerds. So, naturally, I gave this album a glowing review, using the word "brilliant" at least twice. So I was very surprised, startled even, when the singer of the band emailed me out of the blue, thanking me for my kind review. I wasn't being kind, I genuinely loved it. I guess he just went on AltaVista or HotBot (pre-Google search engines) to search for himself, and my review site was one of the very few that came up.
Many times I've just nearly missed seeing them live. On Thursday will be the first time ever. I can't wait. Xymox started out as synth/goth, then evolved to synthpop, techno, and eventually a very pleasant mainstream pop, before they rebooted themselves and went back to their goth roots. And I very much hope that that's what I'll see live on Thursday.
Bonus pop-Xymox:
[video=youtube;wOORHsKmmRA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOORHsKmmRA[/video]
That'll be the song you'll fall in love with, unless you're a heartless bastard and have terrible taste in music.
Tocky on 7/8/2022 at 05:09
Ah. You had me. I was already thinking of an old friend. Then you revealed it was a band. No reason that can't be an old friend either. Perfectly understandable that you grow apart from those as well. And come back to them. I liked the first one best BTW. It had a bit of a harder edge. Go see them. Take your girl.
This one reminds me of howling in Soho with friends. Also pricing hookers but I've already told that story.
[video=youtube_share;lh0w01S7Jnk]https://youtu.be/lh0w01S7Jnk[/video]
Tocky on 7/8/2022 at 05:40
One more. This one reminds me of driving back from Sardis lake after a day of partying. I should not have driven. I realized that about halfway and pulled onto a side road which was less traveled. The car was full but everyone was kind of out of it. I put in this tape and maybe that was a bad selection as it draws you in and less attention to the road. When I came to a fork in the road near the bootleggers store I took a road that didn't exist. Neither left nor right nor middle. I took far left into a deep depression that was not a road. That woke us all up. Everyone stood outside the car and said we were not going to be able to get out of the spot. We talked about it as this song played. I got everyone back in and we just drove out like it was nothing. We stopped and sobered up a bit before going on. Fucking blue Valium. Never again.
[video=youtube_share;4QA30qkRYy8]https://youtu.be/4QA30qkRYy8[/video]
mxleader on 7/8/2022 at 05:57
Quote Posted by Tocky
One more. This one reminds me of driving back from Sardis lake after a day of partying. I should not have driven. I realized that about halfway and pulled onto a side road which was less traveled. The car was full but everyone was kind of out of it. I put in this tape and maybe that was a bad selection as it draws you in and less attention to the road. When I came to a fork in the road near the bootleggers store I took a road that didn't exist. Neither left nor right nor middle. I took far left into a deep depression that was not a road. That woke us all up. Everyone stood outside the car and said we were not going to be able to get out of the spot. We talked about it as this song played. I got everyone back in and we just drove out like it was nothing. We stopped and sobered up a bit before going on. Fucking blue Valium. Never again.
[video=youtube_share;4QA30qkRYy8]https://youtu.be/4QA30qkRYy8[/video]
Great album, but I'm more partial to Live at Pompeii.
mxleader on 7/8/2022 at 05:58
I'm on a folk music kick lately:
[video=youtube_share;V4jUZ-Ex1k0]https://youtu.be/V4jUZ-Ex1k0[/video]
Tocky on 7/8/2022 at 06:08
Oh damn. What we do in the shadows. Hilarious series. I love the evil vampire shit but I'll take this as a second best vampire sort.
One more Floyd. Shit I love them. That Gilmore guitar is unlike anything ever.
[video=youtube_share;3GE-sfEbJ7I]https://youtu.be/3GE-sfEbJ7I[/video]
PigLick on 7/8/2022 at 09:40
I love that album cover, it really captures a mood.