Music: What are you listening to today?
In the spirit of the books and movies threads, here's one to talk about what you're listening to lately and what you have discovered. Tell us if you like it, what it reminds you of, anything you like, short or not, simple or not.
Like the books thread, I'd ask that we keep it mostly to stuff we are listening to or going to listen to soon, or have just finished listening to (that is, like a log more than a resume).
Below is my first entry.
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Bonnie Raitt, by Bonnie Raitt.
My understanding is that this was her first record, which she made when she was 21. Nine out of the eleven songs are covers; the two she wrote are "Thank You" and "Finest Loving Man," and both are good.
I really liked this album. Bonnie's voice is much sweeter here than I've heard her before, and very warm, traveling between notes more fluently, and not yet as raspy sounding as it became. (Which I also like in its own way.) Despite the sweetness of her voice she manages to put some heart into the bluesy material, and sings with what sounds like a real love for the lyrics. It's great to hear someone who doesn't just walk through lyrics. She sounds like she really thought and felt her way through the songs. Many of the most gifted and popular singers out there don't, winding up leaving a lot of a song's power still on the table, so to speak.*
From an Amazon.com review:
Bonnie wrote two of the songs here (Thank you, Finest loving man) but relied mainly on covers, beginning with a cover of Bluebird (written by Stephen Stills, famous as a member first of Buffalo Springfield then of Crosby Stills and Nash). One of Bonnie's major influences, Sippie Wallace, is represented by two songs (Mighty tight woman, Women be wise) while Bonnie also covers Any day woman (Paul Siebel), Walking blues (Robert Johnson) and Since I fell for you (Bud Johnson) among others.
I really enjoyed Walking Blues a lot and wanted to hear it immediately again, but decided to let the rest of the album play out instead of interrupting its flow. The album is good enough that I think I'm going to listen to it again.
By the way, it's in the Rhapsody's catalogue, if you have that service. It's also at Amazon, and the MP3 256kbps download is on sale there for $2.99. You can listen to samples there too.
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*This reminds me of a biography of John Denver that I saw on PBS the other day. I'm not a big Denver fan, but the biography was so good that this is the second time I felt compelled to watch it. Anyway, in it his manager said that at a particular concert Denver sounded exceptionally good, and it seemed like the audience noticed it. His manager recalls saying something like, "Your voice was incredible today. How did you do it?" Denver replied that he was trying to do what he learned from Placido Domingo when they worked together. He said he was amazed by how deep Domingo's art was; he didn't just sing a line, but put the right emotion into it word by word. If he was going to sing about a piece of steel, his voice would sound like steel. Every line was emotionally full, clear, and precise.
I got a bit of a feeling of that in this Raitt album. Raitt very much inhabited those songs when she sang. Unlike some spoiled divas, the newly emergent Raitt got across the feeling that she was glad to be there.
NSFW.
There are a lot of great Girl Name songs
Michelle
Lucille
Jolene
Peggy Sue
Roxanne
Maggie May
Angie
Just off the top of my head if I really thought about it and haven't been drinking I would come up with more.
Caroline. No?
I know it has that "No" added.
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Listening to all of Pet Sounds and remembering when I pulled into my driveway. A group of kids no more than six or seven years old immediately began dancing when I was blasting this:
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Brain Wilson originally wrote "Don't Worry Baby" for the Ronettes. It was a follow-up to "Be My Baby." Ronnie Spector talked about Brian running into the studio, excited about the song he wrote for her, but since Phil didn't write it, it didn't get recorded. She released a version in 1999.
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Veronica - Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello - Alison
Okay, we're doing this.
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Steamraise wins.
Looks like I opened a can of worms 😀 I doubt there are very few girls names that aren't song names. I love this one though
apparently it was over the volume of the music where singer felt it was too loud and drowning out the vocals - i'm no musician, but wouldn't someone not playing the instruments have control over that and not the people playing?
also, apparently another band member swooped in and punched the singer a bunch 3 times after he got pulled away by roadies
definitely feels like those guys all hate each other and just need the cash at this point hence the reunion tour
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Punk rock bubblegum.
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Folk duo (sisters) from Stockholm. Ridiculously good live. Here they are covering Emmylou Harris and Patti Smith for Emmylou Harris and Patti Smith.
not a woman's name, but what i'm listening to
Peter Green – guitar, vocals
Jeremy Spencer – guitar, vocals, piano, percussion
Danny Kirwan – guitar, vocals
John McVie – bass guitar
Mick Fleetwood – percussion, drums
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac: Watch Out
Lazy Poker Blues
"Is there nobody listening to my song?"
Before The Beginning
The Turtles Elenore
You Baby - The Turtles
Bob Dylan performing the Byrds' version of My Back Pages alongside Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and, yes, G. E. Smith.
