redcairo Posted October 28, 2016 I liked the Monkees! I especially liked "Last Train to Clarksville." Tom Petty is the only person who writes really simple 4/4 time music that I actually really like. Some of his stuff (like Free Falling, Learning to Fly, etc. which is sort of the archetype of his style) is just sort of so-simple-its-genius. I hadn't heard that song Face in the Crowd above -- thanks! I remember being really moved by a line in his song 'Refugee' when I was young (and he was barely older then) that said something like, Somewhere, somehow Somebody must have kicked you around some Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped, tied up, Taken away and held for ransom Honey, it don't really matter to me (baby) Everybody's had to fight to be free You see you don't have to live like a refugee It sort of put life in perspective a little, that someone was basically saying yeah, you suffered, BFD really who doesn't? Find a way to move on. It's a good message since many people like me at that age are so lost in their still-seeing-everything-through-the-trauma-of-their-past it's hard to realize that really... we're not special. Nearly everybody has it. Whether we learn to get up and find a way to keep moving on is the only question and you know, most other people are doing it, so it's gotta be do-able... boy that was a long time ago. You know what group I recently realized I utterly love and yet mysteriously have no albums from, is the Hollies. This is a playlist but the first song "The Air That I Breathe" is a lovely languid-blissful resting-in-the-Tao-after-sex kind of thing (really, from the lyrics!). RC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redcairo Posted October 28, 2016 I like that! Kinda like "easy listening funk" :-) RC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apech Posted October 28, 2016 Before you ask I found this through the comments page in The Guardian: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted October 28, 2016 How about something less rowdy? https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+twist+chubby+checker+youtube&form=EDGNTC&qs=PF&cvid=b5402deb51d04075a6b5b8ca35182866&pq=the+twist+chubby+checker+youtube Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted October 28, 2016 A side note to that song: It was written and first recorded by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. The producers wouldn't release their cut of the song because they decided it would be a good song for an artist they were trying to promote; Chubby Checker. It was a very big hit for Chubby and that secured him in the music industry. Hank's original cut was finally release much later, after the sales of Chubby's cover stopped selling. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=hank+ballard+the+twist+youtube&view=detail&mid=851988831CDEC6B87DE7851988831CDEC6B87DE7&FORM=VIRE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redcairo Posted November 4, 2016 A "chorus" of sign language! That's both hilarious and awesome! RC 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted November 6, 2016 https://www.bing.com/search?q=that%27ll+be+the+day+buddy+holly+youtube&form=EDGNTC&qs=AS&cvid=e3eb888d84ff4facb98f623874517a72&pq=that%27ll+be+the+day+buddy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerostao Posted November 11, 2016 RIP leonard cohen ^^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted November 11, 2016 2016. Truly a hard year on music... much gratitude Mr. Cohen, you will be missed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted November 13, 2016 1950's Rock-A-Billy playing here today. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheWhiteRabbit Posted November 14, 2016 I like rockabilly. This is what i am listening to right now: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted November 14, 2016 I have no Black Keys in my collection but based on the little I have heard from them I have nothing negative to say about the group. I always enjoyed any song I heard from them. My mood this morning caused me to run my Bluegrass collection. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted November 14, 2016 I bumped into this song while working with my music today and thought I would share it; Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redcairo Posted November 17, 2016 (edited) Home Free has a new video-song. I LOVE THESE GUYS. I support them on Patreon, I just think they're awesome -- it's a men's acapella group (with vocal percussion/instrumentation). They have pop, country, folk, some gospel and a lot of christmas stuff. This is a sort of easy listening country-folk-madrigal cover from Zak Brown Band. They're from Minnesota and Texas. If you like harmony, these are your guys. This is a song called "Colder Weather" but I'm using the link for my playlist of them that it's in. RC Edited November 22, 2016 by redcairo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted November 18, 2016 Nice song. I love harmony but never have cared too much for acapella. Just my weird. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redcairo Posted November 18, 2016 One reason I like these guys is because they basically do bass and percussion via vocals and a lot of their stuff I don't miss the instruments at all. RC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted November 18, 2016 Back in the old days, The Mills Brothers would do music acapella but they would also vocalize the instruments that would normally be in a song. Bluegrass music carries on the tradition of acapella. It is heard mostly with religious/spiritual songs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
