I love this too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5TXxmNDaU
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I love this too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5TXxmNDaU
I think I may have shared this before (I'm a sucker for listening to the same songs over and over (blush)) - but this is one of my faves:
http://youtu.be/J2OCSWF7sAw
These guys are great, even if you don't like their music their videos are well worth watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U48nRVL9Q4k
This is a great simple tune heard it first on NCIS
http://youtu.be/dHzr7wdnuqw
This is the intro called Haters Unite that starts the gaming podcast I occasional guest on every few months with friends.
http://youtu.be/l-vtpZFliRY
Still the best live album by direstraits.
http://youtu.be/aVjG8mNkvAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
This is one almight incredible performance by stevie wonder on the childrens show Sesame street
performing his song, Superstition.
Look out for the little kid on the scafold at 0:41 getting down to the music.
I don't really want to bring the mood down, so if you're feeling a little vulnerable at the moment, I suggest you don't listen to this track. That said, it's a beautiful piece of music that I've known for many years. It was running through my head today (for obvious reasons, if you've read what's been going on in my life recently), so I just wanted to share...
http://youtu.be/106cf2DFqJM
I just listened to a self-created mix, derived from clicking "play" on every embedded video on the page above. With the benefit of hindsight, I can declare with confidence that it won't be catching on and was, by my own estimation, a bloody awful racket.
But before that, a song called Shrinking Violet by a band called Mostly Autumn. I imagine few people will have heard of them. They're a folk/progessive rock band from York, classic British rock that's so classic even the CDs should be sepia tinted. Enthusiastic, numerous lineup changes, more drummers than Spinal Tap... to many the antithesis of cool and to others completely endearing. Just hear it out and listen to the words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvjOh...OAkk-MQkGZYsQg
There's a bloke called Steven Wilson. Some people might know of him from his solo albums and bands such as Porcupine Tree and Blackfield. There's a few other groups he's been involved with. I believe No-Man was the first of these act, and it included himself and a guy called Tim Bowness. A rotating cast of whoever did what they needed completed the lineup. They hardly ever do live shows, and usually in fairly small premises.
A few years ago, I bought the first No-Man album, Speak, and to be honest it left me cold for quite a while. However, it pushes its way back onto my playlist when working from home (I do this occasionally). When they released Schoolyard Ghosts a few years ago (2008?) it got positive reviews. YouTube and the sound samples on Amazon are good methods of finding out what you're getting in advance, and I gave them another go. It's a great studio album, but I couldn't help but wonder over the reason that they didn't appear live. However, my wife then gave me the live Love and Endings CD/DVD set last Christmas, recording sections from one of their occasional live appearances at Leamington Spa in 2011. Admittedly, there's always production on live albums that renders a lot of them pseudo-live, but there's been a lot of thought (and not a massive budget) put into this. My only criticism is that the CD is a bit quiet to be heard over the noise from my very basic car.
Disappointingly, the band has been put on indefinite hold as Steven Wilson's schedule is too full. So, after finding out that there was a live act I should have had more faith in than I did, it looks like I'll never get the chance to see it. Not that I'm a great fan of crowds.
A link to the song I listen to most days, one that received one of the lighter makeovers, called Wherever There Is Light:
Live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsJEAOpZLTI
Studio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3T2iJ715ss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mPiizL1Jlc
\Jim steinman performs surfs up. he wrote it for meat loaf but this is a far more emotional version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6KBkiLr0mg
Left in the dark. Jim steinman again. Its amazing to think these songs are 32 years old.
You swore you'd be with me at 7 o'clock now its a quarter to three; well whatever you got and who ever it was
i guess you couldn't get it from me.
God i love those lyrics.
Relaxation Al Emor
Love this song
http://youtu.be/-oMmw2N1VbM
http://youtu.be/-oMmw2N1VbM
We don't use the video though just the song for relaxation love it
Great song (& album cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=E_-UxceKGBI
This was posted on a friends FB wall this morning and it really made me laugh so I thought I'd share the bizarreness with you all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xc614Z8lsg0#t= 212
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pgPq4FGWfk
modern classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Y2FVD5JVw&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLjhJRPvOzuIqTR4K-bsK1TinDy43V65J_
My band of the moment - 1975's and The City. Also like chocolate and woman (Hope video link works ok!)
Off to see Spector tonight
I'm rather loving Imagine Dragons atm.. This one has amazing lyrics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn7eYibzmTs
Imagine Dragons - Nothing Left To Say / Rocks LyricsCustomize :
Who knows how long I've been awake now
The shadows on my walls don't sleep
They keep calling me
Beckoning, beckoning, beckoning
Who knows whats right
The lines keep getting thinner
My age has never made me wise
But I keep pushing on and on and on and on
There's nothing left to say now
There's nothing left to say now
Give it up, give it up now
Give it up, give it up now
There's nothing left to say now
There's nothing left to say now
Give it up, give it up now
Give it up, give it up now
Below my soul I feel an engine
Collapsing as it sees the pain
If I could only shut it out
I've come too far to see the end now
Even if my way is wrong
I keep pushing on and on and on
There's nothing left to say now
There's nothing left to say now
Give it up, give it up now
Give it up, give it up now
There's nothing left to say now
There's nothing left to say now
Give it up, give it up now
Give it up, give it up now
I keep falling, I keep falling down
I keep falling, I keep falling down
hey
I keep falling, I keep falling down
I keep falling, I keep falling down
If you could only save me,
I'm drowning and the waters of my soul
There's nothing left to say now
There's nothing left to say now
Give it up, give it up now
Give it up, give it up now
There's nothing left to say now
There's nothing left to say now
Give it up, give it up now
Give it up, give it up now
(instrumental interlude/end song, silence, start ghost track: "Rocks")
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
I threw some rocks up at your window
I broke some rocks right through your window
Timber! Timber! We're falling down
Let the forest hear our sound
ooma ooma oom
Why cant i see whats right infront of me
We fall, we fall
We fall, we fall down
We fall, we fall down
We fall, we fall down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs
One of my all time favourites
Was listening to this while working today
http://youtu.be/6iEq5Qs98DM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj8wCjlUSkE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaL5XjQSJtY
Mostly Autumn. A band I love and few people ever seem to have heard of. The first is a song called Evergreen, from their last live performance with female lead vocalist Heather Findlay and the second is Hold The Sun, sung by her replacement Olivia Sparnenn. You'll either love them or you won't. I'd describe them as enthusiastic, ambitious and quite endearing.
I didn't think this one was still on YouTube. Listened to it in the car on the way home today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28kkc1q87o8
Mostly Autumn again. The song, The Gap Is Too Wide, is in memory of keyboard player Iain Jennings' mother.
Seven piece band, string quartet, choir, piper... Mostly Autumn at their ever so slightly ambitious best. Nicely low key I think :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8xTZIOAPhs
Listen to this song and tell me it the best song EVER!!
Meat loaf its all coming back to me now.
The original version.
Love Meatloaf!!!
I'm listening to the bang, crash, bang of Call of Duty. Cheers partner! I love you - but turn the blinking sound down. I'm trying to procrastinate quietly (when I should be working) lol
Oh yes... Although I would probably vote for Bat out of Hell. I have been a huge ML fan for years. When I was pregnant with my daughter I was on the road quite a bit and I would drive up and down the motorway with ML at high volume. Years later and my daughter is also a huge ML fan, so the in womb training worked! Have you ever seen Steve Steinman's Vampire Rock? A musical using the ML songs. It comes to WSM every year and for a few years it became a tradition that me and my daughter would go and see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXznl5S7ZbI
This will send shivers down your spine.
Heart Acoustic version of Alone. Ann wilson is incredible.
Just played Bat out of Hell and as I am alone in the house apart from the animals sang it at the top of my voice. I now suspect the puppy thinks I am ever so slightly mad!
If we're talking Meat Loaf here
Rock N Roll Dreams Come Through
Staring a young Angelina Jolie in the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AEdMUVHP4E
Jim steinman is the most amazing song writer.
I played this at my wedding as it reminded me of my wife's family.
Gypsies, tramps and thieves. cher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThToz3UmIL4
I go through Meat Loaf phases. :)
Some randomness. First, Bluehorses. Sadly, now "retired". Their stock-in-trade was taking traditional folk songs and "rearranging" then in a manner that rendered them... something else.
One live: http://youtu.be/TxlLmxxS9mc
One studio recording played over film: http://youtu.be/qgQz5N4orhM
Second, a long-time favourite of mine since childhood: Chris Rea.
http://youtu.be/BC7mgM4uhn8
A track called Thinking Of You, a live performance that sounds only lightly "produced". Shows off what's great about him: limited performance apart from singing and playing blues-style slide guitar, but no need for anything else apart from the band on stage with him.
http://youtu.be/QJ5KNnHECjY
Ain't Going Down This Way, from Dancing Down The Stony Road, after a period in his life that gave him every right to sing the blues. I was off long-term sick at the time, and this song plus another, Burning Feet (http://youtu.be/xYmKLtvhP7I), carry a personal meaning for me from that time.
Finally, anyone else remember this from the seventies?
http://youtu.be/2qn3A4ycG0I
Meatloaf was the first gig I ever went to! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
Oh yes I remember this, loved it.Quote:
Finally, anyone else remember this from the seventies?
Bit of useless information.
Bad for good was meant to be the follow up to Bat out of hell.
But meat had lost his voice and was heavy into drugs. So
Jim steinman released it as his solo album and meat loaf finally got his voice back for
The Dead ringer album.
This song is from the bad or good album. Featuring the fantastic vocals of Karla Devito. The lady who sung on Bat.
It has to be the weirdest video i've seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxwaipS0aw
Dance in my pants. Jim steinman and karla devito.
I was going to change this but i meant on the Bat out of hell tour.
It was Ellen Foley who sung on the album. oops. sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw
The late great Gary moore still got the blues for you.
I love Annie Haslam's voice, although I was an adult before I actually bought a Renaissance album.
Gordon Giltrap is the sort of person who... I had to look him up but I hear the song and if I were to have asked what it was... then realise that somewhere on the edge of my memory... can't put a name to the person but... is that him?
From Renaissance and Annie Haslam to a more recent group, less well known than they should have been and who have taken splitting up to another level. Karnataka started as a predominantly Welsh rock band and had started gaining some following by the time they released their third album in 2003. I don't think that album, Delicate Flame of Desire, has all that great a title, but the content is outstanding. To me, the vocals (Rachel Jones, now Rachel Cohen) are very Annie Haslam and the guitar (Paul Davies) has tones of Steve Rothery in post-Fish era Marillion. The song Time Stands Still is the first full track on the album. Outwardly, it sounds positive and uplifting, but the words are a striking contrast. In various parts of the song: Everything seems out of place and it's so very cold... My dreams turn to dust... I'm so very tired. Something sounds wrong, every song seems to ask a question and the band broke up not long after, as did the marriage of the singer and bassist.
The whole album has been uploaded at the place I've linked to and I recommend you at least give the tracks Delicate Flame of Desire, Strange Behaviour and Out of Reach a listen.
The various members have all moved on to other projects and Karnataka is currently in its third or fourth incarnation (only the bassist is the same).
In case anyone wonders what Steve Rothery of Marillion sounds like (and you are not allowed to admit that you didn't!), listen to a selection of guitar solos via this link.
And to whoever fed the hedgehog jumping beans (hedgehog) will you please stop, it isn't fair.
Bad for Good was one of the first CDs I bought when I got my first CD player (actually a 4x speed CD-ROM drive on my old 486 PC, purchased for an astronomical sum during the first week that quad speed drives became available). I got it as part of a batch containing a Heart's Bad Animals, a Carly Simon CD, Whitesnake's 1987, a Dire Straits "best of" and a few others I can't remember because I've got nearly 500 albums according to my PC's catalogue and I can't recall where every last one came from.