What music are you listening to atm?

[purplefan]

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.

[CeeCee]

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 ADORE early Stevie Wonder stuff Thanks for sharing this, purplefan!

[CeeCee]

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...

[Four Candles]

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

[Four Candles]

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

[purplefan]

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.

[purplefan]

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.

[Sarah76]

Relaxation Al Emor
Love this song


http://youtu.be/-oMmw2N1VbM

We don't use the video though just the song for relaxation love it

[knowlesy]

Great song (& album cover)

[Suzi]

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!