youtube party…post a song you like which you think is not that widely known

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  • August 20, 2016 at 7:45 am #51181
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    When I was in California I got drawn in a bit to the edges of 80s California punk. Mostly that meant going to certain pubs and hearing certain bands. I have several different branches to my musical taste, including a huge Coltrane/Miles Davis branch, but I also have a Nirvana/Sex Pistols/Ramones/The Clash/Alice in Chains branch. What was interesting about California punk is that it also had a rockabilly/country-punk dimension to it. As a result I saw these guys a few times–The Blasters.

    Unfortunately the original video is freaking awful visually so I post 2 versions. The way I would do this is play video 1 for the sound and video 2 for the visuals though the sound is okay on 2.

    A favorite song from that era:

    VIDEO 1 – for sound not visuals

    VIDEO 2 – better visuals, sound okay

    August 20, 2016 at 9:19 am #51188
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    Tom Morello, formerly of ‘Rage Against the Machine’ and ‘Audioslave’ created an alter ego he calls the ‘Nightwatchman’ as a vehicle to express his political/anarchist views. He’s put out a few albums as the Nightwatchman including one called “World-wide Rebel Songs”. It’s an album devoted to rebellion and justice. “It Begins Tonight” is my favorite song from that album. I’m sort of a metal head (classic metal, not death metal or speed metal) but this is one of the few songs he does as The Nightwatchman that has a hard-rock feel. I also like folk music and most of the Nightwathman songs are kind of folks-y, including another of my favorites called ‘Union Town’.

    It Begins Tonight

    Union Town

    August 20, 2016 at 9:34 am #51189
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    One of my favorite directors is Paolo Sorrentino, especially his Il Divo. This music is from another excellent film, Youth, starring Michael Kaine and Harvel Keitel, among other surprises.

    This next one may be an acquired taste, but the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, especially his Tres Colors triptych, and The Double life of Veronique, match image and music in truly brilliant, haunting ways. Zbigniew Preisner was the genius behind most of his soundtracks.

    I fell in love with Juliette Binoche after seeing her in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But watching her in Bleu just deepened that.

    August 20, 2016 at 10:22 am #51201
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    On a much different note . . . . Milla Jovovich. Known mostly for her acting career, she made one really great album as a teen (just 16 when it was recorded; 18 when it came out — I think), and it really should have a much wider audience. It’s beautifully strange, with hints of Kate Bush and the Cocteau Twins, but really all her own. She wrote all the songs but one, a rendition of a Russian folk song.

    You can find the entire album on youtube.

    August 20, 2016 at 10:42 am #51202
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    I found this CD at the library a few years ago.

    August 20, 2016 at 12:05 pm #51209
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    Zooey wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8viuo9B0Io

    Clearly you are interested in the legendary “satisfied/not satisfied” dialectic that goes to the heart of a lot of older generation african-american blues and gospel.

    Here’s an alternative view.

    August 20, 2016 at 3:00 pm #51224
    sdram
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    Burn Down the Cornfield – Written by Randy Newman, performed by John Baldry.

    August 20, 2016 at 3:51 pm #51230
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    This is my favorite Identity Politics
    song.

    August 20, 2016 at 4:01 pm #51231
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    Oh, and i am a sucker for old-timey-superstition songs. Weird, but true. I just love’em.

    Sometimes i skim thru youtubes looking for the best version of, say, “I’ll fly away.” This…is not the best version. Still, the song is so damn good, it proves that ANYONE can sing this, and still cause some fun to be had:


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    A different version…

    August 20, 2016 at 6:12 pm #51240
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    Lots of great choices above.

    Thanks, everyone.

    WV, your last choice made me think of the Dropkick Murphys, for some reason. After listening to Milla Jovovich, with its fey, haunting, so sweet vibe, it’s time to shift gears, grab a Guinness and rock out.

    Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

    August 21, 2016 at 5:32 am #51280
    TSRF
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    August 21, 2016 at 5:49 am #51281
    TSRF
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    OK, maybe most people have heard “Digging in the Dirt”.
    Here’s a deeper cut:

    August 21, 2016 at 4:43 pm #51335
    TSRF
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    and here’s a fun little ditty:

    August 21, 2016 at 8:15 pm #51340
    TSRF
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    OK, OK, last one, promise…

    August 21, 2016 at 10:22 pm #51345
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    Rival Sons, “Pressure and Time”

    August 21, 2016 at 11:01 pm #51348
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    August 22, 2016 at 12:04 am #51352
    Ozoneranger
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    The Journey you’ve never seen before.

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    August 22, 2016 at 12:13 am #51354
    Ozoneranger
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    Why do we get one try to edit posts…I’m totally confused by this archaic GUI…

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Ozoneranger.
    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Ozoneranger.
    August 22, 2016 at 12:34 am #51359
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    Ozoneranger wrote:

    Why do we get one try to edit posts…I’m totally confused by this archaic GUI…

    Tell me what you’re trying to post. I’ll put it in.

    August 22, 2016 at 12:50 am #51360
    Ozoneranger
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    Post at 1204. But change to this link=

    August 22, 2016 at 6:40 am #51361
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    Ozoneranger wrote:

    Post at 1204. But change to this link=

    Done!

    Sorry about the problems.

    I would have done this sooner but apparently I fell asleep before your last post.

    August 22, 2016 at 9:47 am #51370
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    ZN,

    Any way you could get Ramsmaniac to look into setting video resolution to fit the post sizes? With my own website, I have full control over that, and can tweak them for HD, 4 by 3, etc. etc. And there are plugins as well that extend the capabilities of WordPress along those lines. Free, btw.

    I’m guessing he’s really busy, and all. But it shouldn’t take him but a few minutes to adjust the resolutions, or add a free plugin to do that.

    August 23, 2016 at 12:20 am #51433
    Ozoneranger
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    Thanks, dude. I should know how to navigate this stuff, but my patience for all things are lacking these days.

    August 23, 2016 at 4:55 am #51437
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    August 23, 2016 at 8:58 am #51440
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    Sinéad Lohan was an exceptionally talented Irish singer/songwriter who seems to have disappeared. Or she just chose a different way to make a living. She created two beautiful albums in the 1990s and then basically just stopped.

    This particular song is representative of her lovely voice, not her fine songwriting, being a cover of Dylan’s “To Ramona”.

    August 23, 2016 at 9:09 am #51441
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    Humble Pie’s “Rockin’ the Fillmore” may well be the best party album of all time — Well, admittedly, I’m biased, having grown up when I did.

    Anyway . . . give it a listen, the whole thing, when you’re in one of those moods. And I’m guessing the old fogeys here know what I mean by that.

    August 23, 2016 at 10:47 am #51459
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    Ozoneranger wrote:

    Thanks, dude. I should know how to navigate this stuff, but my patience for all things are lacking these days.

    No problem OR, glad to do it.

    August 23, 2016 at 11:07 am #51460
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    zn wrote:
    Ozoneranger wrote:

    Thanks, dude. I should know how to navigate this stuff, but my patience for all things are lacking these days.

    No problem OR, glad to do it.

    Galdarnit, ZN, would you just make up your mind!!

    ;>)

    August 23, 2016 at 11:51 am #51464
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    Cat Stevens. He doesn’t fit the heading of this thread all that well, because he’s fairly well-known. But I think since his conversion to Islam, he’s been largely forgotten. Or remembered angrily. Back in high school, his music influenced me a great deal. I thought he was incredibly wise, so close to the earth, to what matters in life, cutting through the bullshit.

    An existentialist singer/songwriter, in a way. To me, he was a part of that pantheon of wise souls, along with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Melanie, CSNY and Simon and Garfunkel.

    Four great albums from him, IMO: Tea for the Tillerman; Teaser and the Firecat; Catch Bull at Four; and Foreigner.


    From the first of those albums. It’s his song, but not his video, of course.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Avatar photoBilly_T.
    August 23, 2016 at 2:03 pm #51472
    PA Ram
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    Love this version of “Personal Jesus” by Shaka Ponk:

    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick

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