What music are you listening to atm?

[purplefan]

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

[Four Candles]

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

[Suzi]

Meatloaf was the first gig I ever went to!

[Pen]

Finally, anyone else remember this from the seventies?

Oh yes I remember this, loved it.

[purplefan]

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

Northern lights. Blimey, that brings back some memories.
Sort of reminds me of Gordon Giltrap.

[purplefan]

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.

[purplefan]

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.

[purplefan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw

The late great Gary moore still got the blues for you.

[Four Candles]

Northern lights. Blimey, that brings back some memories.
Sort of reminds me of Gordon Giltrap.

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 will you please stop, it isn't fair.

[Four Candles]

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.