Author Topic: Music was my first love... (Read 488180 times)

SweetPea · « **Reply #625 on:** April 18, 2012, 10:52:54 PM »

Quote from: Professor Wallofski on April 17, 2012, 01:52:34 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phenakistoscope_3g07690b.gif

Very good!!

And it goes with this .....

A cover by Trip Sirna - Not Over You:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJBgKBNOu7M&feature=uploademail

Scaramunga · « **Reply #626 on:** April 20, 2012, 11:40:11 AM »

This is just awesome - The Afrobeatles 'Taxman vs. Upside Down':

http://afrobeatles.com/#4139

I think this is the first time I've ever taken in the lyrics of Taxman. Can anyone imagine one of today's boy bands doing a song like that (other than a cover)?

SweetPea · « **Reply #627 on:** April 20, 2012, 10:58:57 PM »

Bert Weedon, around at the birth of British rock,
died today, at the age of 91.

Rest in Peace, Bert - you had a wonderful name

This is his version of Dance On:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4RYGqmPy1Q&feature=related

SweetPea · « **Reply #628 on:** April 22, 2012, 05:31:09 PM »

This is for my cousin, and all the other guys, that took part in the London Marathon today.

Well done!!

Here are the Proclaimers - I Would Walk 500 Miles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJuyn0WAYNI&feature=fvwp&NR=1

Stay with this for the interview at the end ...... a scream, and the accompaning musicians are good too - like something from 'The Muppets' - (no offence guys!).

BK Baracus · « **Reply #629 on:** April 24, 2012, 10:19:32 AM »

A tad political but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tmtKiGGGps

SweetPea · « **Reply #630 on:** April 30, 2012, 05:46:49 PM »

Just wanted to share this video. This young lad is sooo talented.

Jun Curry Ahn with "The River Flows in You" ... cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHblMjqJfs&feature=relmfu

No it's not triplets - just him. How he assembled the video goodness knows!

Enjoy .....

FastFlint · « **Reply #631 on:** May 01, 2012, 10:28:52 AM »

Saw these guys on Sat with the Unthanks

She has a lovely voice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSTwW2MJoNI&feature=related

Scaramunga · « **Reply #632 on:** May 04, 2012, 01:05:27 AM »

Is anyone familiar with dance/swing music from the 40s?

I need to find some mid-tempo music for a funeral - so not too upbeat and not too somber. Anything like a Glenn Miller fire themed tune would be ideal (don't ask, it's a personal joke).

Scaramunga · « **Reply #633 on:** May 04, 2012, 09:43:28 AM »

That is very cool. I had to watch it twice though, as the first time around I had Derek & Clive's nonstop dancer sketch going around in my head.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's a bit too R&B. I need something that was a bit more commercial at the time - I'm not sure why anyone in the 40s would listen to anything but blues or jazz, but thems the breaks.

My only other thought is finding something good (i.e. something I like) from 1919.....the year of my grandmother's birth. Pity House of the Rising Sun wasn't written then, as I could have gone with an early version of that.

Scaramunga · « **Reply #634 on:** May 04, 2012, 09:58:37 AM »

Not from the 40s or 1919, but I came across this - Kiss of Fire by Toni Arden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAfg2rxnkZs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Doubly apt because of the fire link and the fact that it's a cremation. Maybe a bit dark (humour wise) for other relatives......although better than my first thought, which was the Prodigy's Firetarter.

Scaramunga · « **Reply #635 on:** May 04, 2012, 10:37:12 AM »

Sometimes I can't see the wood for the trees. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire by The Ink Spots might just be perfect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JfGQsGgmZA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Looking back at music from the 20s and 40s I can easily find stuff that's still fresh today. It's just a pity my Nan wasn't into that sort of thing in her youth. To me the likes of Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn sound like the latter day equivalent to the trash churned out by the X Factor - what was she thinking?

FastFlint · « **Reply #636 on:** May 04, 2012, 11:03:47 AM »

Quote from: Scaramunga on May 04, 2012, 01:05:27 AM

Is anyone familiar with dance/swing music from the 40s?

I need to find some mid-tempo music for a funeral - so not too upbeat and not too somber. Anything like a Glenn Miller fire themed tune would be ideal (don't ask, it's a personal joke).

Not really - but you tend to end up ideas like Moonlight serenade which has a funeral style I think,

American Patrol is "mid"

Tuxedo Junction?

A String of Pearls -that's really nice

I don't know - included vocals but is cool

April in Paris - is mellow

The Story of a Stary Night?

At last - might well do the trick

Perfida - cool

They can be heard as samples on amazon

SweetPea · « **Reply #637 on:** May 04, 2012, 11:57:49 AM »

Hi there Scara ....

You have obviously lost your Nan recently.

Just wanted to say, take care and I'm thinking of you.

Re the music - being a DJ and, I can see, rather a perfectionist, you are having difficulty deciding what to play at the funeral.

You know what - relax into it - maybe even think about who will be attending the funeral and what they may like to
hear.

Your Nan will enjoy anything you come up with, I'm sure.

All the best

SweetPea

Scaramunga · « **Reply #638 on:** May 04, 2012, 12:07:57 PM »

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I simply mustn't be in the mood to consider the Miller stuff - it's enough to make me chuck myself in the furnace.

Scaramunga · « **Reply #639 on:** May 04, 2012, 12:11:36 PM »

Thanks SweetPea

Quote from: SweetPea on May 04, 2012, 11:57:49 AM

maybe even think about who will be attending the funeral and what they may like to

I think that's part of the problem........finding a balance between what other people will like and what I can endure. I am admittedly something of a music snob and I've rained on many a parade because I can't put up with music that is so bad it makes my skin crawl.

FastFlint · « **Reply #640 on:** May 04, 2012, 12:55:32 PM »

Quote from: Scaramunga on May 04, 2012, 12:07:57 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I simply mustn't be in the mood to consider the Miller stuff - it's enough to make me chuck myself in the furnace.

I think for much of his output - that's not an uncommon view, and I generally share - but move away from the greatest hits and look at the other stuff

Perhaps something here

http://www.pastperfect.com/Browse.aspx?category=1940s+Music

Scaramunga · « **Reply #641 on:** May 04, 2012, 01:39:54 PM »

Thanks. I'll keep digging, but I'm just not in the mood right now. I need to get back to the 21st century with Ugly Duckling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deQxgSnzugo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbSiqhJHcc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Grin firmly back on face - job done

FastFlint · « **Reply #642 on:** May 04, 2012, 01:43:20 PM »

Quote from: Scaramunga on May 04, 2012, 01:39:54 PM

Thanks. I'll keep digging, but I'm just not in the mood right now. I need to get back to the 21st century with Ugly Duckling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deQxgSnzugo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcbSiqhJHcc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Grin firmly back on face - job done

Fabulous

My cheer up stuff is a little more mainstream

B - 52's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEfmCvu8R8

"Roam"

BK Baracus · « **Reply #643 on:** May 06, 2012, 06:15:32 PM »

Some "old school" rock from Mr. Cooper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtiJsi3HOo

Sebastian Toe · « **Reply #644 on:** May 07, 2012, 04:12:37 AM »

www.youtube.com/watch?v=phWv7l8Lm_A

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey0eS-Nx6Ks

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnduohfNq_Y

Sassy · « **Reply #645 on:** May 07, 2012, 01:22:17 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8NTThnTx4&feature=related

Elvis Presley...Johnny Cash and many more have sang this song.

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you King David.
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne,
she cut your hair Samson.
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
love is not a victory march
Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you'd let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
Its not a cry you can hear at night
Its not somebody who's seen the light
Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Sassy · « **Reply #646 on:** May 07, 2012, 11:58:26 PM »

Quote from: Professor Wallofski on May 07, 2012, 01:39:21 PM

Quote from: The Lord's way... on May 07, 2012, 01:22:17 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8NTThnTx4&feature=related

Elvis Presley...Johnny Cash and many more have sang this song.

Elvis died in 1977, Leonard Cohen didn't release this song until 1984.

I thought the time scale was wrong too,
I thought Elvis sang Glory Glory Alleluia and that someone did a tribute to him and used the music for this song for that tribute... But does it really matter?
I know for sure Johnny Cash did it and so many more modern day artists too.

I was not aware of the year of it's release otherwise I would have known that too.
But I suppose some of us have to make errors just so you can take delight in pointing them out...

Do you actually have a comment on the song?

FastFlint · « **Reply #647 on:** May 08, 2012, 01:03:41 PM »

Quote from: Professor Wallofski on May 08, 2012, 01:07:23 AM

This is how it's supposed to be done

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTiXoMCppw&feature=related

and this too

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4&ob=av3n

I never heard a sadder story about a singer than Jeff Buckley's."

http://www.religionethics.co.uk/index.php?topic=177.msg120076#msg120076

Jeff B's version sounds good to me, in a bleak and almost soulless manner

FastFlint · « **Reply #648 on:** May 08, 2012, 01:14:22 PM »

Just come across some Kurt C and Nirvana unplugged - not sure how I missed it

Come as you are - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yADOdeZTD9c&feature=related

About a girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhcttcXcRYY&feature=related

Not sure why that whole album got to me - but it did

FastFlint · « **Reply #649 on:** May 08, 2012, 02:17:41 PM »

Quote from: Professor Wallofski on May 08, 2012, 01:27:22 PM

Quote from: FastFlint on May 08, 2012, 01:03:41 PM

Jeff B's version sounds good to me, in a bleak and almost soulless manner

It's interesting to compare the various interpretations, Buckley sings it as a lament, whenever I hear Cohen sing it it sounds more sardonic.
Sandra Burke , who sang it on X Factor has said she didn't like the song and that it did nothing for her, she certainly sang it that way.

Happily, I've missed X Factor - I think Cohen's version is the definitive, like Dolly P and "I will always..." but I have a soft spot for the John Cale version in the film of Shrek (the album was by Rufus W, apparently) which brings out the sense of loss

If you can't feel a song, don't bother - is my opinion

Yes, I'd agree - even the version

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