What [music] do you listen to? Share your favs

[footgoose]

 

[Lucky Phil]

5 hours ago, fotoguzzi said:

Hey Phil. We can’t get that link to open in the US. Says,

Video unavailable

The uploader has not made this video available in your country

 

No idea. It's a video of "I'm your man" a live concert of Cohens work by various artists inc Nick Cave, Rufus and Martha Wainwright Anthony from Anthony and the Johnstons and others. Quite brilliant performances of Leonard Cohens work. To fully appreciate his work you need to listen to other performers versions I think. Brilliant poet and song writer but less so as a performer.

Phil

[docc]

 

[audiomick]

Ok, so the young lady has discovered Cuban music at some point, and has got most of it right.

I had the very good luck to spend a couple of evenings with a cuban band. Brilliant. Compared to what the young lady in the video is doing, it is like, I imagine, a group from Boston trying to play delta blues or something.

Whatever, this was very commercial, but the music was authentic, I think, and this is what the young lady was trying for. I reckon.

 

https://youtu.be/zEjTNTJsIf4?feature=shared&t=261

[audiomick]

@docc you've said (writen) it before. It's amazing where and how this (motorcycle) forum brings things to ones attention  and opens ones horizons.

[docc]

37 minutes ago, audiomick said:

@docc you've said (writen) it before. It's amazing where and how this (motorcycle) forum brings things to ones attention  and opens ones horizons.

Truly. I so appreciate this "thread". 

A "rock" song came on the radio the other day, very "vocal centric", but the drummer -ah "that drummer!" That is Neil Peart! This is RUSH!

I would have not recognized it without this unexpected journey on a "motorcycle" forum.

You guys rock (in so many ways!)

Thanks for the journey!

[Cabernet]

 

[guzzler]

That's wild ole liquor in them jars.....

[Kevin_T]

What can say the motorcycle off season can not end soon enough.

[audiomick]

@Cabernet re: born to be wild

 

Brilliant. Canny intuition and an internet search machine led me to find out more about them.

https://stevenseagulls.com/

The name alone is really high class satire, and the rendition is brilliant. Proof of the ethos if you want to perpetrate musical silliness, make sure you can play your instrument really, really well first.

The band is from Finnland, which somehow doesn't surprise me. Interesting people with a very cultivated sense of humour.

[docc]

19 minutes ago, audiomick said:

@Cabernet re: born to be wild

 

Brilliant. Canny intuition and an internet search machine led me to find out more about them.

https://stevenseagulls.com/

The name alone is really high class satire, and the rendition is brilliant. Proof of the ethos if you want to perpetrate musical silliness, make sure you can play your instrument really, really well first.

The band is from Finnland, which somehow doesn't surprise me. Interesting people with a very cultivated sense of humour.

@Admin Jaap posted their original hit, Thunderstruck, some years ago. Still their best, IMO. I got to see them live in a small room in Nashville - they were a riot!

Worth the re-post:

 

[audiomick]

Tight as a duck's arse. Fantastic.

Regarding the "finnish attitude", look at this. Don't pay too much attention to the guitar playing. That is a bit rough, but that is not what the man does for a living. Listen to the voice, and take note that he let his obivously overwhelmed cousin film it and post it on the 'net.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPc7Se3SmkY

 

Dan, the singer, is a member of the ensemble in the Opera in Leipzig where I work. Lovely bloke. This is an indication of what he does for a living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmM1IaolYE

 

The point is, someone from another culture who does the opera thing for a living would have threatened to kill the cousin if he didn't take the video down from the net. I spoke to Dan about the video one time, and I don't think he is really happy that it is out there, but he is ok enough with it to not take action. I like that.

[audiomick]

31 minutes ago, docc said:

 I got to see them live in a small room...they were a riot!

in that category, shitty video, but this lot played in the pub in Melbourne where I was house technician for about two years. One of the best evenings in the entire time, and I don't even really like the style of music.

 

[Pressureangle]

On 12/15/2024 at 9:01 PM, footgoose said:

"one of the greatest music films of all time" - Wim Wenders   quite an endorsement from one of the greats

Hope to get to see it

trailer...

 

At least somebody put together a playlist of Cohen covers on YT.

 

[audiomick]

R.E.M. : it would be nice if the bloke could sing more than four tones.

 

On the subject of french vocals and distorted guitars (ok, the song is from Belgium...) this came out when I was 14, or maybe 15 by the time it came to Australia. I loved it. As far as I can tell, the chorus means something like "it's all ok for me".

I found this quote in the Wiki, which I find very appealing:

Quote

In a review of the song for AllMusic, Steve Huey praised its "simple, inspired stupidity".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ça_plane_pour_moi