Author Topic: Music was my first love... (Read 640726 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1400 on:** February 05, 2016, 02:53:24 AM »

And in 2016's continuing musical cull, I see Maurice White has died. I suppose there is a simple numbers thing happening. There are greater numbers of known music artists reaching an age when death is common, and it is an improvement on 27.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5p5u1x_wnA

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1401 on:** February 05, 2016, 02:58:36 AM »

Sometimes insomnia is a curse but at least when the alarm goes off later, I am simply getting ready to go on a plane for a weekend in one of my favourite cities, and to see some friends on a serendipitous Sunday.

This has nothing to do with that but followed as a recommendation from the last piece, and I heartily agree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npv-g431Qis

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1402 on:** February 05, 2016, 03:06:04 AM »

In part because the favourite city to which the miracle of modern travel will take me is Paris, but also because it's a proper middle of the night piece of melancholy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TPQiEXC1_g

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1403 on:** February 05, 2016, 03:09:47 AM »

And since it is getting to that time in the morning,companion pieces to end on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IS4VERpVjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfGQEwzjNOE

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1404 on:** February 05, 2016, 03:31:19 AM »

One last thing - some Ivor Cutler

http://tinyurl.com/gonqx9j

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1405 on:** February 05, 2016, 08:00:07 AM »

Bit of light ska with Joya Landis, Angel of the Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXgtHqBcCJ8

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1406 on:** February 05, 2016, 09:06:32 AM »

Hard to believe this is from 1980 - Suicide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-RrBiNFykQ&feature=share

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1407 on:** February 05, 2016, 09:17:45 AM »

Glasgow - Tokyo collaboration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb4jGWEk8lc&sns=fb

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1408 on:** February 05, 2016, 09:03:37 PM »

Ah Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-wSK4-1lg

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1409 on:** February 05, 2016, 09:08:01 PM »

And some US male harmonizing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGXXrUvNzec

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1410 on:** February 05, 2016, 09:16:23 PM »

Vaguely considering a sort of guilty pleasures theme for my next few posts on here. I don't really subscribe to the idea anymore of feeling guilty about them but in the past, at the time I first liked they might not have been the 'correct' thing to like in terms of one's friends. This seems appropriate as it also references that yesterday was the anniversary of Karen Carpenter's death. When they were successful, I was meant to be somewhat angry and not keen on anodyne pablum,or some sort of similar teenage nonsense but she is a great emotive singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evETS8_WFGE

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #1411 on:** February 05, 2016, 11:20:58 PM »

NS - I also think Karen Carpenter had a wonderful voice.

We are in good company:

“I just want to tell you, love, that I think you’ve got a fabulous voice” - John Lennon - on passing each other in a restaurant.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1412 on:** February 06, 2016, 07:19:52 AM »

One of the reasons why the concept of a guilty pleasure has less resonance with me than with some, is that I have always appreciated a well turned pop song. They don't have to be meaningful or imporatnt, and sometimes that is the charm. Some bands release little bundles of joy that everyone regards as being great, Haircut 100's Love Plus one falls in that category, and I've been to a few parties where people said I don't care who knows it but I really like this' and played it.

This isn't Haircut 100, this is far worse in the realms of things you aren't supposed to like, but I've always found it well done - Life in the Big Apple by Kajagoogoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJiamTBja5Q

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #1413 on:** February 06, 2016, 11:25:54 AM »

Hi NS

Your link for the Carpenters takes me to somewhere else entirely for some reason - so I am using that as an excuse to post my all time favourite Carpenters track:

https://youtu.be/5GChYjK8rIk

This Masquerade written by Leon Russell.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1414 on:** February 06, 2016, 04:15:08 PM »

This was more about other people trying to make me feel guilty as a teenager of about 14 for owning an album of Marilyn Monroe singing. The charge which didn't bother me much then, and not at all now was that I was gay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPzo-vGkoc

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1415 on:** February 06, 2016, 08:45:19 PM »

Following on from that, one was not meant to like musicals, and even back then not meant to like Lloyd Webber musicals, many of which I don't. But oddly of the Holy Trinity of musicals for me is thus one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-voeq7Cebo

Owlswing · « **Reply #1416 on:** February 06, 2016, 11:37:30 PM »

Thanks C W McCall - I needed a good giggle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHb_0Lhegig

Rhiannon · « **Reply #1417 on:** February 07, 2016, 12:19:46 AM »

My guilty pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPqsDU0j2I

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1418 on:** February 07, 2016, 09:18:52 AM »

Of course the other thing I wasn't supposed to like at that age was disco, but I like dancing, and I am/was good at it, and despite what those at the same age thought, girls like boys who can dance. Of course a with many things that were looked down on, it has had a resurgence. I did think of putting a link to Chic but Niles Rodgers has always been cool (I recommend his autobiography)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kylKj0ARB5A

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #1419 on:** February 07, 2016, 10:03:02 AM »

https://youtu.be/qyTHJ40pasM

Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways.

Shaker · « **Reply #1420 on:** February 07, 2016, 12:24:12 PM »

Quote from: Rhiannon on February 07, 2016, 12:19:46 AM

My guilty pleasure.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPqsDU0j2I

I love that tune too

BBC Four did a rather good evening of documentaries about ELO and Jeff Lynne a while back.

bluehillside Retd · « **Reply #1421 on:** February 07, 2016, 12:32:30 PM »

James "Blood" Ulmer - "Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9g6ZJjt9lg

Play it LOUD Baby! Still sounds great I think...

Rhiannon · « **Reply #1422 on:** February 07, 2016, 12:36:15 PM »

Quote from: Shaker on February 07, 2016, 12:24:12 PM

I love that tune too BBC Four did a rather good evening of documentaries about ELO and Jeff Lynne a while back.

I have good memories of dancing to this with my son at a wedding a couple of summers back.

Like NS I do enjoy dancing, although these days it tends to be restricted to my kitchen. No idea if I'm good or not but that's not the point. Not disco though. This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVkq8IEO4tc

Rhiannon · « **Reply #1423 on:** February 07, 2016, 12:53:12 PM »

Once had a discussion with Horsethorn about Blue Monday being the first proper goth single. True or not, if you've got your black eyeliner on and you want to shake your booty this is the one to do it to. Utter tosh, but good tosh. Needs to be played so loudly you fear for your hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RVJyNpfDk

Rhiannon · « **Reply #1424 on:** February 07, 2016, 01:01:04 PM »

Which inevitably leads to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8mWG6HlmU

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