Makes for good background music that I don't feel the need to pay attention to.
Makes for good background music that I don't feel the need to pay attention to.
Did everyone else already know that Billy Joel did all fourteen parts of "The Longest Time" after deciding that the Persuasions weren't doing it well enough?
Son just messaged me, 25th anniversary of Heated, show Dec. 10th, you in? Yup.
My favourite Big Sugar album, I just listened to it yesterday. Twice.
When I was a kid in the 1980s, there was so much stuff that referenced the 1950s. Well, the nostalgia cycle is here for me, and I can't get this damn song out of my head. The Regrettes are wonderful.
They played this on the radio. I was soooo happy
So much energy
Tchaikovsky. It wouldn't surprise me to learn he'd written a part for the kitchen sink in his music somewhere. Mad genius, that one...
These European bands are really doing it for me lately. Vola. Opeth. Leprous. Villagers of Ioannina City. Gojira.
In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :
YES. Lots of good stuff from South America, too.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
I saw that tour. Most excellent.
Took youngest son out for dinner this evening and bored PW with our near constant talk of music, and somehow ended up talking about David Sylvian. He'd never heard this
the whole album is a treasure, but the driving bass line puts this one at the top in my book. And it's a simple arrangement really letting the individual parts shine without being too busy. And it's in 5/8. Pardon me while I nerd out.
In reply to Duke :
Interesting interpretation of a fantastic song.
Now-comedian-but-former-rocker Reggie Watts fronted a Seattle band called Maktub ("mock-tube") in the mid '90s thru early '00s. They covered the song well, too, IMO:
I'll throw this in here. I'm not religious, but when Lauren Daigle had a few hits on the radio I became a big fan of her music. My wife and I used one of her songs as our wedding song. I took her on a surprise trip a few weeks ago to see her concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. What an amazing show she put on!!! It was 45 degrees and drizzling/misty, poor girl was freezing her ass off but still sang her heart out.
This is her singing her most well known song at the show.
June 21, 1969. Montreaux Jazz Festival. Les McCann (keyboard) Eddie Harris (sax), and Benny Bailey (trumpet).
From Wiki:
"Swiss Movement is a soul jazz live album recorded on June 21, 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland by the Les McCann trio, with saxophonist Eddie Harris and trumpeter Benny Bailey. The album was a hit record, as was the accompanying single "Compared to What", with both selling millions of units."
And this is what they say about Eddie:
"In 1969, he performed with pianist and vocalist Les McCann at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Although the musicians had been unable to rehearse, their session was so impressive that a recording of it was released by Atlantic as Swiss Movement. This became one of the best-selling jazz albums ever and was nominated during the 13th Annual Grammy Awards (1970) for the Best Jazz Performance – Small Group or Soloist with Small Group."
In reply to Peabody :
The dudes in Incubus were all under 20 when they recorded that stuff, too.
ELO-Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus Live 1971 on the world's greatest $1500 3.1 Home A/V system. There's a thread somewhere I started about A/V systems that I have no idea how to find.
In reply to Beer Baron :
I wouldn't say I'm a country fan, but hot damn, can Darrell Scott sling a tune.
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