Very enjoyable music based on medieval poems. Thanks for posting!
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Not that there's anything wrong with the above, but just so as to get back to a somewhat more modern groove, this here was one of the hits at the discotheques back when DJs were still playing records made by actual musicians, rather than by kids with a PC featuring music editing software... ;)
In addition to the music appreciation class I'm taking, I'm signed up for a dance lesson at a studio near where I live. I'll be learning Swing, the Hustle, and Foxtrot.
One of my all-time favorite dance songs is "Sing, Sing, Sing."
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A
Love to dance! My parents did ballroom dancing and had the time of their lives.
Given that our Sister Elen likes classical music, I would like to share these two old but excellent pieces of symphonic rock from my teenage years here, by a Dutch band called Kayak. Hopefully our Dutch members will stumble upon this thread as well, because this was one of the Netherlands' finest bands. ;)
Jeff Beck, performing his wonderful "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" — from his critically acclaimed 1975 album, "Blow By Blow" — in a slightly updated version at the 2007 Crossroads Festival.
The young girl playing bass guitar in the above video and being cheered upon by Jeff Beck is the then only 20-year-old and extremely talented Tal Wilkenfeld, who aside from touring with Jeff Beck has also performed live with Herbie Hancock, as well as that she played bass on the "6 String Theory" album by Lee Ritenour.
Meanwhile Tal has also already recorded several albums of her own — usually in the jazz-fusion genre — but more recently she has picked up a more alternative, folk-like style, in which she herself also takes care of the lead vocals. A sample of that here-below. ;)
Even though this song was actually about Ronald Reagan, the lyrics seem very appropriate for our time as well... ;)
And this one below harmonizes very well with our brother Aianawa's favorite words, "Know Thyself". ;)
An oldie but a goodie. ;) They came out of nothing, had a few hits, and then they suddenly disappeared again. And yet they had all it takes: great lyrics, great music and great voices. Hmm, maybe they weren't willing to play the game of the music industry? :hmm:
This here is a song that I held onto back when I was going through a very hard time due to my family severely taking advantage of me. It was a long time ago — i.e. the late 1990s — and meanwhile, the creases have been ironed out and forgiveness has been granted, but it was nevertheless a heartbreaking situation, and I eventually had to walk away from it all in order to maintain my sanity. It's a long story, but I think I've already told my homies in the mod room.
Note: You'll have to turn up the volume a bit and be patient with this one, because it starts out with about half a minute's worth of "background noise", and then the music slowly fades in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSH2ZGeQEls
Let's talk about me for a minute
Well how do you think
I feel about what's been going on
Let's talk about me for a minute
Well how do you think
I feel about what's gone wrong
Let's talk about dreams
I never learned to read the signs
Let's think about what it all means
I never seem to have the time
Let's talk about you and your problems
All that I seem to do is spend the night
Just talking 'bout you and your problems
No matter what I say I can't get it right
Don't think about dreams
Is it all a waste of time
Don't think about what it all means
If you are a friend of mine
Talk about me, for a minute
I'm the one who's losing
Talk about me, for a minute
I'm the one who's always losing out
And how do you think
I feel about what's been going on
Let's talk about me for a minute
Well how do you think
I feel about what's gone wrong
Let's think about dreams
We never seem to have the time
Let's talk about what it all means
If you are a friend of mine
Let's talk about me
I'm the one who's losing out
I'm the one who's losing out
I'm the one who's losing out, losing out
Talk about me, for a minute
I'm the one who's losing
Talk about me, for a minute
I'm the one who's always losing out
We saw this young woman perform on Saturday. :omg: I'm in love with this voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3th5KSCZ4zk
This one made me cry. It's beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXIPpF3FmNo
This not a blatant statement of opposition to Dreamtimer's beautiful songs above. Be warned, this can be a bit of an "ear-full" experience. :D
In her latest film the three-time Oscar-winner portrays a historical figure of dubious note: "Florence Foster Jenkins," an amateur soprano who gained popularity for her absolutely horrible voice - and her unbounded enthusiasm for sharing her "gift" with the world.
I've seen the movie and it was a real tragedy, but also quite an eye-opener as to realizing how people can live in their "bubble" totally unaware of the outside world. When all that is said...I really enjoyed it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDbdKjwIEnU&t=304s
Meryl Streep as FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS sings "Adele's Laughing Song"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2YEwoWNrY
:omg:Kerry sings? Her speaking voice isn't particularly lovely, I can't imagine her singing. Sometimes you can't tell...
Yes, she sings... or at least, she tries to. :p Her first husband was a producer, guitarist and songwriter, and she has recorded at least one album with him. The opening tune that she uses for all of her Project Camelot videos is a song from that album, called "Jaguar". She has also performed live on stage with a band at some of the Project Camelot conventions.
The original version of "Jaguar" didn't have her singing so much as that she was whispering, and it still sounded fairly agreeable — or at least, the small part that I've heard of the song. But then she re-recorded that song and she made an attempt at singing, and just like Meryl Streep in that movie, she has a horrible way of singing, not to mention that she also can't hold her tone very well. I cannot begin to describe the vicarious embarrassment I experience whenever she starts singing. :p
Sideways related, Kerry has many of the same mannerisms as my brother's ex-wife — who's a bit younger than Kerry — and even though my ex-sister-in-law used to play one of the flugelhorns in a concert band, she is absolutely tone-deaf. She only managed to play that instrument by rote matching of the notes on the music notation sheet to how one must place one's fingers on the pistons for bringing out those particular notes.
Whenever she attempts to sing along with a song on the radio, her pitch goes all over the place. And Kerry isn't all that much better. :p
Stop...I can't stand it! (I feel guilty laughing)
He's a jag, he's a jag, he's a jag-u-ar.
I like the music.
To be brutally honest with you...that was MUCH better than I had anticipated. Not too bad at all! I can listen to anything but angry music...that's when I find the OFF button. :chrs:
The best Boston song that never was a Boston song... ;)
When Boston founder and guitarist Tom Scholz decided to focus his time and energy on his newly-founded music electronics company — as well as that he was involved in a legal dispute with his manager at the time — he told the other Boston members that they could go and engage in solo projects in the meantime if they wanted to. This is when Boston's other guitarist and co-founder Barry Goudreau decided to record an album of his own with a bunch of songs he had written for Boston but which had been rejected by Tom Scholz.
However, instead of hiring session musicians to take care of the drums, the bass and the vocals on his new album, Barry asked his Boston buddies to record the songs with him, and so with the exception of Tom Scholz, every member of Boston can be heard on this album. And that's where things went bad.
The record company that was producing Barry Goudreau's album started advertising the album as a kind of "Boston Lite", and when Tom Scholz found out about this, he went ballistic and immediately started suing all of his former band mates. The matter was eventually settled, but by that time, the record company had already lost interest in Barry Goudreau's album and stopped promoting it. Still, the album did produce two singles, this here-below being one of them. ;)
Another oldie but a goodie. This is the live version which appeared on the "Watch" album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. At that point in time, they still had Chris Thompson on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Dave Flett on lead guitar — the best combo the Earth Band ever had. ;)
Laughing at clueless narcissists is the best medicine for having to suffer them. Very good production and musicians. It would have been a high quality product without the vocals. Man, I would love to see her Live At The Apollo in Harlem NY. Sandman Sims would be incapacitated by laughter. That aside, our sister gave it what she had.