I hate this thread because you tube is blocked on the mine, expensive bandwidth and all that. All I get is 'this page cannot be displayed'. So music here goes: Bob Marley, Jacob Miller, if you've never heard Jacob Miller look him up on fekking youtube that I cant get here. Dona will love him. Tired fe lick weed in a bush.... DUSTY SPRINGFIELD!!! Gegory Issacs, even though he was a bit of a piss artist. Third World, Steel Pulse, Led Zep, Guns and Roses, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd to chill. Lou Reed is god whilst Neil young is Jesus. Robert Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Rolling Stones, The Clash, Areatha Franklin, DUSTY SPRINGFIELD!!! Ramones (Lukes favourite) Kinks, Gordon Lightfoot, Morcheeba, Ludwig van Beethoven, Red hot Chillies, Pixies, Johnny Strauss, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fleetwood Mac, Joy Division but hated New Order, Jimi Hendrix, Wolfgang Mozart, Talking Heads & TomTom Club, Cream, Some of Rod the Mod, Small Faces, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, bet you ain't heard of them, then most of Motown, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Santana, The Who, Lady Gaga, Rhianna, although I'd rather **** her than listen to her music. She could share my umbrella anytime. P Square, anyone like Nigerian Music?, Just getting into Buddy Guy, DUSTY SPRINGFIELD!!! Pistols, Buddy Holley, Bizet, Bobby Dylan, Bowie, Stranglers, DUSTY SPRINGFILD!!!! I'll probably edit this post when I remember more. EDIT Madness, Specials, most of the ska on the Trojan Label, Ian Dury, And of course; DUSTY SPRINGFIELD!!! .
I like Dusty The Ramones were brought up on '60s music - The Beatles, Stones, The Who etc - but more importantly the great melodies of the girl groups, The Beach Boys and singers like Dusty (who had great, great songwriters penning songs for her). Not Cilla though.
If you've put up a vid of Dusty singing 'this girls in love with you' I'll demand the mods banish you to the Citeh board.
I wouldn't call myself a fan of much of New Order's work but the very early stuff had something, particularly this.......
How can you prefer that to Jonny Cash's version. The guy was dying, his wife was even closer. He put his soul into it. Makes the hairs on my neck stand on end when I listen to it.
Time to enjoy both kinds of music........Country....and .....Western. This is a particularly messed up favourite:
Except that's not really the case. First of all, at the time he was recording American III in 1998 he was told he had eighteen months to live, so doesn't that mean he poured his heart and soul into the covers of Tom Petty's Won't Back Down or U2's One? Secondly, saying he put everything into Hurt immediately diminishes everything else on American IV as well as pre-emotively diminishes everything on American V and VI, even though the recording sessions for the latter two were up to just three weeks before Cash's death, yet they included the following: As for Cash's version of Hurt, to be honest there's several issues I have with it, mainly how everyone's perception has bastardised the meaning of the song: the song's about heroin addiction and how it will drag down all the people around the addict, and Cash's version has the exact same lyrics (except for one word at the start of the second verse) yet people always talk about it as a song about an aged man looking back on their life, completely ignoring what the lyrics are actually saying - and the main reason for this is the video, even though as director Mark Romanek freely admits that the initial version was just supposed to be the footage of Cash performing the song intercut with footage from the House of Cash and the use of archive footage came about because Cash's management gave them a lot of stock footage which they didn't intend to use, and only came about due to a happy accident in the edit suite where they decided to splice some footage in to see what it was like and spliced in the first clip they could find, and that was the clip of Cash riding the train that happens in the first verse. It also doesn't help how the song has since been ridiculously overused by editors to evoke emotion, even though it's for things as crass as a Nike commercial. Most of all, though, I first heard Cash's version without seeing the video and it simply doesn't have the same impact as the original, let alone of the Cash version with the video - while in comparison his cover of Ain't No Grave (posted above) has a ton more impact based on the audio alone.
Exactly my view of New Order. Never a fan of electronic music, but the early stuff was true to their Joy Division roots
Here's a trio from me. Father (tragic early death - this one his best song!) Son (tragic early death also - what a voice he had! and this is a special recording of something written by Henry Purcell 230 years ago)....... (first link is to a musician who accompanied a broadcast talking about Jeff B's singing etc; second link is the straight song; amazing!) And not the holy ghost, but Blondie (the holy bombshell!) https://philipsheppard.com/2009/02/10/playing-with-jeff-buckley/ or
It's a shame David Bowie's "my mate Trent Reznor" period gets overlooked so often ...especially because it gave us this
I've been trying to decide what to put up by The Dead Kennedy's. I've gone for this, even though I wouldn't call it reflective of the majority of their work. Probably, I've chosen it because it isn't. Because he didn't write it, Jello Biafra didn't want it on the album . It's one of my favourite songs ever, top 10, no problem.
By complete contrast.......to everything..........The Tubes with 'White Punks on Dope'. Wembley in November.....with Alice Cooper and The Mission.....see you there?
