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 hav
god i haven't thought of Critters Buggin in ages!
I find that I really like the Lovin' Spoonful. I really liked them the last time i listened to them in the 1960s.
Broken YouTube LinkI don't know what your listening situation is, but try to catch a couple of old Spoonful cuts with a pair of good headphones. I found the experience startlingly good.
Oh, to have been in the pub with Joe Cocker the first time he heard this one.
Added to the list of greatest songs never nominated for Best Song.
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Born Free won over Alfie & Georgy Girl
Two favorites from my youth. I'vr worked the phrase, Tried to mooch a towel from the hoi poloi hundreds of thousands of times into my conversation over the last 60 years. So far, no one has recognized it.
Broken YouTube LinkBroken YouTube Linkdo not you worry my whole tomorrow starting early is blocked out for headphone reflection time upon uncollected spoonfuls of love from a musical mentor
Summer in the City sounds as good today as it did in 6th grade.
as are The Drones and all of Gareth's other solo renditions of this
also in the running for best album title of all time
Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
wonderful lyrics when you finally get to understand them
sometimes hearing their words are like learning another language
yet the passion is always translated via soundwaves
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Standing on the deck watching my shadow stretch
The sun pours my shadow upon the deck
The waters licking round my ankles now
There ain't no sunshine way way down
I see the sharks out in the water like slicks of ink
Well, there's one there bigger than a submarine
As he circles I look in his eye
I see Jonah in his belly by the campfire light
See the albatross up in the windy lofts
He gets to beating his wings while he sleeps it off
I hear the jettisoned cries from his dreams unkind
Gets to whippin' my ears like a riding crop
The captain once as able as a fink dandy
He's now laid up in the galley like a dried out mink
He's laying dying of thirst and he says or I think
Well, we're gonna be alone from here on in
Well you are all my brothers, and you have been kind
But what were you expecting to find?
Now your eyes turn inwards, countenance turns blank
And I'm floating away on a barrel of pain
It looks like nothing but the sea and sky remain
I sing na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na
A harpoon's shaft is short and wide
A grappling hook's is cracked and dry
I said, why don't you get down in the sea
Turn the water red like you want to be?
Cause if I cry another tear I'll be turned to dust
No the sharks won't get me they don't feel loss
Just keep one eye on the horizon man, you best not blink
They're coming fin by fin until the whole boat sinks
Fin by fin
Fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin
truly is an extraordinary composition once injected with his vocal passion
bet it's hell to sing at the local karaoke pub
let alone solo live on an internet broadcast
This is too cool beans to not be in this thread...
Courtesy of REDeye, found while sampling the jazz thread
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Electric Guitar: John McLaughlin
Associated Performer, Trumpet: Miles Davis
Bass Guitar: Michael Henderson
Percussion: Airto Moreira
Drums: Billy Cobham
Keyboards: Herbie Hancock
Keyboards: Keith Jarrett
Soprano Saxophone: Steve Grossman
Composer, Lyricist: Miles Davis
Producer: Teo Macero
Recording Engineer: Stan Tonkel
Mixing Engineer: Stan Weiss
Mixing Engineer: John Guerriere
Could just be me, I get the sense that the opening influenced Burning Down the House.
and without any shadow of a doubt i do believe the blues and jazz threads collectively compiled on this particular website are some of the most complete collections of quality examples of those particular genres ever assembled in the history of the internet, thank you to you all
