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.
Christmas, Dec 20th. Lyrics by Christina Rosesetti and music by Gustavo Holst.
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do you like it slim?
this was the more successful of their two hits, not really my style but it's ok, just really like that one song above
as you can see from a lack of views, they really sputtered out quickly and were quickly forgotten despite having been big enough to do the late show circuits etc when these songs were contemporary
This I certainly remember. Not a bad song.
The name Sponge I do recall but I may be mixing it up with Spoon...not sure
I got a 90s deep cut! Does anyone remember this song/video? It got a ton of play on MTV but only for a few months.
Gauges cannot take you home.
4 days left til Christmas (and Winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere today btw - Summer is coming!) so it's allowed to get a little cheesy when it comes to songs.
December 21st:
Spoiler
Spoiler
Spoiler
Sometimes I feel like I'm pretty unlucky. Back when I was playing poker, both PokerTracker and Hold'em Manager had me running way below EV (or at least that's my story and I'm sticking with it).
Also playing BJ and the lottery where you're obv destined to lose, I've still lost way more than I statistically should.
But then I remember that I was born at the perfect time to experience Kim Wilde throughout her career and I realize that I won the lottery afterall.
Seatbelts!
December 22nd:
Spoiler
December 22nd bonus:
December 23rd:
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-ev special
Christmas music imo
how do you embed vid? trying to post some uptempo/hardcore
let's say the code for this vid is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eo84jDI...
so we just want what comes after v= which is 4Eo84jDIMKI
so we put that in the youtube tags
this also works with shorts, but has trouble with playlists and won't work if you try to cue to a timestamp, that requires a forum specific code and not the natural youtube one
?start=*&
where * is how many seconds you wait until it starts
so if we want the above song to start at the hook at 47 seconds in then we do this
4Eo84jDIMKI?start=47&
i know that's not too helpful for music, but it's super helpful for other embeds
still can't get the link to work idk what im doing wrong
lol, pwnage!
Copy and paste the highlighted part of the URL in the message section.
Then highlight that and click the YouTube tags.
no he did it right, it's just the video owner clicked the "no embeds" box or something
