To the song level:

Janis Ian: Society's Child

John Butler Trio's Get Funky Tonight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipo9SXBDLw0), just coming off the beautiful Natalie Imbruglia's Torn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bPndxNNKfA)

(Interesting Fact: You can see how I dance when I'm alone in the first link, and also watch Natalie show you how I dance when alone at about the 3'30" mark in the second link, both YouTube).

Cheers,
Marc

Tinnitus.

And a psychotic patient in isolation room telling us he's the President's Boss.

Trespassers William - "Different Stars"

Extreme tinnitus ...

and,

my head telling me it's not really vr, zp and pshrynk all with the same av ...

after the discussion with WDecraene yesterday about the horrible Tom Waits :irony mark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark): and how some of his songs might be bearable when sung by rod steward and the like, i remembered that along with the eleventy-bunyip Tom Waits albums i unthinkingly have accumulated i also have "Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits (http://www.amazon.com/Step-Right-Up-Songs-Waits/dp/B000002NVK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1214316967&sr=8-13)" as performed by artists such as Violent Femmes (damn ! i forgot them on my list on that other thread...), Jim Buckley, and Drugstore.

Old Shoes by Drugstore is beautiful, as is Martha by Jeff Buckley (it'll break your heart...)

oh, and how could i forget to mention The Wedding Present (that's Nick Cave's old band...) covering Red Shoes by the Drugstore ??? brilliant stuff.

Tinnitus.

And a psychotic patient in isolation room telling us he's the President's Boss.

the original or the punk rock cover ?

now we've got zp in triplicate....

Classical Gas by Eric Clapton

Electric Funeral-- Black Sabbath

the original or the punk rock cover ?
I'm more of a classicist, so the original Mothers of Invention.

side 1 of sounds of the humpback whale

Journey's Greatest Hits

(And my coworkers talking across the room.)

Tinnitus.

And a psychotic patient in isolation room telling us he's the President's Boss.


Sorry about the humming. Tell the pt that YOU are the Prez, and maybe it will rile him up enough to cover the sound of the tinnitus.

When's that vacation you need so badly? The stress isn't going to go away - you have to walk away from it. Hey! Tell the pt that! :D

Sorry about the humming. Tell the pt that YOU are the Prez, and maybe it will rile him up enough to cover the sound of the tinnitus.

When's that vacation you need so badly? The stress isn't going to go away - you have to walk away from it. Hey! Tell the pt that! :D
Trouble is, I took a huge vacation earlier this year, so I got nothing for time off. Just found out that I have Independence Day off, so I get a three day weekend, coming up.

somebody here said in a post long forgotten that friday means that there are 3 more workdays until monday, he was sick, should see a shrink, is there a doctor in the house?

somebody here said in a post long forgotten that friday means that there are 3 more workdays until monday, he was sick, should see a shrink, is there a doctor in the house?
There is, but he'd have a fool for a patient.:D

He's such a smooth talker....

I am currently listening to nothing. Just the ambient sounds in my cube farm.

Or perhaps you could say I am listening to John Cage's 4′33″ on constant repeat.

Hello? You seem to have my stapler?!

Hello? You seem to have my stapler?!
no, but i saw the staple, it was right through the belly button of miss august

Huh. that would explain all the navel piercing.

and a thumb tack is a navel destroyer, could save the navy billions

after the discussion with WDecraene yesterday about the horrible Tom Waits :irony mark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark): and how some of his songs might be bearable when sung by rod steward and the like, i remembered that along with the eleventy-bunyip Tom Waits albums i unthinkingly have accumulated i also have "Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits (http://www.amazon.com/Step-Right-Up-Songs-Waits/dp/B000002NVK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1214316967&sr=8-13)" as performed by artists such as Violent Femmes (damn ! i forgot them on my list on that other thread...), Jim Buckley, and Drugstore.

Old Shoes by Drugstore is beautiful, as is Martha by Jeff Buckley (it'll break your heart...)

Horrible Tom Waits? Blasphemy....

Of course... yeah, there's a good chunk of his stuff that I'd rather put a whole in my head than listen to, but Time, Martha, Ol' 55, Downtown Train (Rod Stewart... uck!), Christmas Card from a Hooker...

At any rate... Jeff Buckley doing a cover of Martha? I'm so there!

(His version of Cohen's "Hallelujah" = greatest song in the universe.)

Horrible Tom Waits? Blasphemy....
oh boy, even *with* the irony mark... *sigh* :rolleyes:

Of course... yeah, there's a good chunk of his stuff that I'd rather put a whole in my head than listen to, but Time, Martha, Ol' 55, Downtown Train (Rod Stewart... uck!), Christmas Card from a Hooker...
and Swordfishtrombones !!! and... and... and...

At any rate... Jeff Buckley doing a cover of Martha? I'm so there!
oh, it will break your heart, but it is so worth it.

(His version of Cohen's "Hallelujah" = greatest song in the universe.)
to be honest i prefer Cohen's version of "Hallelujah" :rolleyes: but i can't argue with the "greatest song in the universe" part... (well... along with a few of Tom Waits' ;)...)

What Are You Listening to Right Now? My neighbor's lawnmower. He needs to tune the damned thing, it's driving me crazy.

I'm listening to a load of swifts squeaking and shrieking as they circle round the sky. They'll stop in the next half-hour, as it gets dark. Then the foxes will come out and play noisily. All the wildlife seems to have moved into the cities round here.

I'm listening to a load of swifts squeaking and shrieking as they circle round the sky. They'll stop in the next half-hour, as it gets dark. Then the foxes will come out and play noisily. All the wildlife seems to have moved into the cities round here.


Very interesting. Seems sort of nice to think about, actually.

Very interesting. Seems sort of nice to think about, actually.Not when it's racoons making the garbage cans tumble!:rolleyes:

Not when it's racoons making the garbage cans tumble!:rolleyes:

I see. :chinscratch:

All we have are sky rats. Pigeons. They love to nibble on the medical waste from the special dumpsters.

I need to get out of this city before I go insane.

*sigh* i mostly see sky rats as well. although there are ducks on the canal, and swans on the lake in the Buttes Chaumont park.

do you really have foxes in the city, Patricia ?? i can't imagine that... although we have some woods and rural areas not very far outside of Paris, but still Paris seems to be quite well insulated from wildlife... although of course cities have their own particular species of wildlife...

Yes, There's a family of them living somewhere nearby. And quite a few foxes live in the local cemetary, as do some rabbits. At various times in my garden there are squirrels, foxes, bats, hedgehogs, and, occasionally frogs (on their way to a neighbour's pond). And birds.
I have friends in south London who also have loads of foxes. They are quite common in cities now. Bristol has several colonies which have featured in television documentaries.
Perhaps there are fewer in Paris because of the peripherique?

Yes, There's a family of them living somewhere nearby. And quite a few foxes live in the local cemetary, as do some rabbits. At various times in my garden there are squirrels, foxes, bats, hedgehogs, and, occasionally frogs (on their way to a neighbour's pond). And birds.
ok, well we DO have bats !!! in fact, in the summer, if you go to the canal at dusk, first you can watch the swallows acrobating in the sky, and then as it gets darker there is an imperceptible transition, and the arcs get more erratic, the shadows are a little more jagged, and then you realize it's not swallows anymore...

we have squirrels as well, and plenty of birds (apart from the pigeons, there are sparrows, and ducks, and sometimes (rather bizarrely) seagulls, and some others whose names i don't know.

I have friends in south London who also have loads of foxes. They are quite common in cities now. Bristol has several colonies which have featured in television documentaries.
Perhaps there are fewer in Paris because of the peripherique?
yes, that seems likely. i wish we did have foxes here... they're so beautiful. although actually i don't really like seeing animals in cities, they always seem out of place and sad. so i guess i *don't* really wish we had foxes here. but in the suburbs would be all right, where there are more gardens and fewer cars...

i saw a hedgehog last summer in the country in the south ; we were out on the terrasse behind the house after dinner, and we heard a rustling, and turned our heads expecting to see the neighbor's cat again, but instead a strange pointy nose came out of the leaves, and then a little prickly head... we all stared at each other for a few seconds, and then he decided to take a different route and went back into the garden. it was the highlight of my evening (and it had been a pretty good evening up to that point, already).

well, although it may seem like it sometimes, unlike some animals zeldas are not nocturnal so i really must go to bed now.

Currently I am listening to the Loved One print something upstairs, what sounds like a garden blower-vac in the distance, some Noisy Miners having little territorial stoushes, and a couple of rainbow lorikeets discussing the morning news ("I see the price of nectar's gone up again..."). Also, just now, the Loved One has finished printing and is whipping up a luvverly latte, which means the grinder and espresso machines are making their wonderful noises too.

Cheers,
Marc

Sleep well, Zelda.

Right now I'm listening to a Gaelic Football match. Weird stuff! That must be one of the most demanding team sport ever!!!

My crying baby, a nagging spouse, and a barking dog....not necessarily in that order! The TV is also on, and I'm trying to concentrate.

What I am listening to as I type this is The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps the Dr. Ebbets UK Mono edition which has now changed tracks to Sheryl Crow - Run, Baby, Run.

Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte (orchestral rendition). Well, I'm trying to listen to it but the stinking hotel room air conditioner is a hundred times louder. God, I hate those things!

By the way, I hate elevatorish music and am not interested in background music at all. But the orchestral rendition of this piece is by far the most relaxing music I have heard bar none. I have yet to figure out how it relates to a dead princess. Must investigate some day.

A gentle rumbling of my HD.

Indigo Girls, Nomads-Indians-Saints. Specifically "Watershed" right this instant. I'm more fond of the other albums but they're all lined up in my music player so I'm running through the lot.

Yes, There's a family of them living somewhere nearby. And quite a few foxes live in the local cemetary, as do some rabbits. At various times in my garden there are squirrels, foxes, bats, hedgehogs, and, occasionally frogs (on their way to a neighbour's pond). And birds.
I have friends in south London who also have loads of foxes. They are quite common in cities now. Bristol has several colonies which have featured in television documentaries.
Perhaps there are fewer in Paris because of the peripherique?

Foxes have been spotted in Brussels as well ... I love it when essentially wild animals make their reappearance amongst humanity (Wouldn't like that to happen with snakes though. They scare the hell out of me). I heard the story that there's a falcon (or another bird of prey) residing in Central Parkn NY (having built it's nest agains one of the appartment buildings) !? :)

Foxes have been spotted in Brussels as well ... I love it when essentially wild animals make their reappearance amongst humanity (Wouldn't like that to happen with snakes though. They scare the hell out of me). I heard the story that there's a falcon (or another bird of prey) residing in Central Parkn NY (having built it's nest agains one of the appartment buildings) !? :)
Perigrin falcons are nesting in the skyscrapers next to Central Park. They are alos nesting in the not so sky scrapers in La Crosse, WI. Saw one flying overhead yesterday afternoon.

Songs that are catching my ears lately :

Breanna Lynn-Slip
Lamb-What Sound
Cat Power-Baby Doll
Saith-Rock Bottom
Lily Allen-Alfie

Walter Carlos - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 In G Major
Good thing you caught me listening to something that makes me look hip and smart.

Chrysalis - Definition

Back in the late 60's, San Francisco band like the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead were highly popular. MGM Records tried to duplicate the phenomenon by mining a different territory, and producing a series of albums from Boston based bands they labeled the "Bosstown Sound".

Chrysalis was one release. Definition was their only album, and it became a cult favorite. It's been on my top ten albums list from when I first heard it. The sound is psychedelic. Leader J. Spider Barbour was a grad student in entomology, and the songs are full of odd insect references, like the mayfly, cleaning wings singed by a candle flame, becoming a metaphor for the singer's failed romance. And for just outright weird, "Dr. Root's Garden", in which kids play outside his house, while inside, Dr. Root breeds bottles of disease to loose upon the world he thinks has wronged him.

Spider is still around, a biologist living in upstate NY, who also plays with a local band called the Curmudgeons. http://www.ulster.net/~spider/

The Rev-Ola (http://www.revola.co.uk/) specialty label in the UK re-released Definition on CD with bonus tracks , but this is the original vinyl.

Just wonderful.
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Dennis

This year, far more than we have had for the past fifteen years, the songbirds are back. Cardinals are out in force and a few bluebirds, robins are plentiful, and even some orioles. Of course there are always a crow or two; but, the pigeon population seems to have diminished a great deal.

Music at the moment, Warren Zevon's I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

00134. "Weird Al" Yankovic - [Running With Scissors #01] The Saga Begins
00135. Sarah McLachlan - [Solace #11/11] Wear Your Love like Heaven
00136. Smile Empty Soul - [Smile Empty Soul #14] Eraser
00137. Wizard of Oz in Concert - [Dreams Come True #30/37] Debra Winger - Haunted Forest
00138. Beach Boys - [Greatest Hits 1961 - 1965, Vol. 1 #02] Surfin' U.S.A.

00134. "Weird Al" Yankovic - [Running With Scissors #01] The Saga Begins
00135. Sarah McLachlan - [Solace #11/11] Wear Your Love like Heaven
00136. Smile Empty Soul - [Smile Empty Soul #14] Eraser
00137. Wizard of Oz in Concert - [Dreams Come True #30/37] Debra Winger - Haunted Forest
00138. Beach Boys - [Greatest Hits 1961 - 1965, Vol. 1 #02] Surfin' U.S.A.
00139. Lazy Susan - My Comforter Needs Adjusting (Will You Be the One to Do It)

currently listening to the shrieking hordes of unwashed minions of satan which regularly invade the schoolyard outside my kitchen window. judging by volume, there are approximately eleventy gazillion of them in there now, and they are all simultaneously being flayed alive. when does school end this year ????

in parallel to that, in the courtyard of my own building, some unidentified birds (not pigeons) think that there is some kind of "who can make more noise" competition going on, and are bellowing "CHIRP !!! CHIRP !!! CHIRP !!!!" at the top of their surprisingly powerful lungs.

i think it may be time for my anti-noise dispositive again.

...
i think it may be time for my anti-noise dispositive again.

OH! What's that?! Sounds brilliant, like something Doctor Who might use.

I'm currently listening to Americans milk camels and then drink it straight from the bowl.

Cheers,
Marc

OH! What's that?! Sounds brilliant, like something Doctor Who might use.
if i say it is, can i have a sonic screwdriver to go with it ??? i so want one of those...

(in fact it's the dj headphones which i will soon have to have permanently grafted to my head)

I'm currently listening to Americans milk camels and then drink it straight from the bowl.

Cheers,
Marc

the original, or the punk rock cover ?


(help me out, i'm trying to launch a new catchphrase here.)

currently listening to the shrieking hordes of unwashed minions of satan...

Band name: The Shums (aka, The Shrieking Hordes of Unwashed Minions of Satan) whose full name is The Shrieking Hordes of Unwashed Minions of Satan Which Regularly Invade the Schoolyard Outside My Kitchen Window

Band name: The Shums (aka, The Shrieking Hordes of Unwashed Minions of Satan) whose full name is The Shrieking Hordes of Unwashed Minions of Satan Which Regularly Invade the Schoolyard Outside My Kitchen Window
SHUMSWRISOMKW just doesn't roll off the tongue with quite the same verve.

SHUMSWRISOMKW just doesn't roll off the tongue with quite the same verve.

Uh-oh. If I enter SHUMSWRISOMKW into my secret SSCMDB decoder ring/badge/thingie, I get out Covert Silliness Operations. But I thought we weren't supposed to talk about that. Hey, don't look at me. It was Queen Zee who said it, not me.

pfff. silly dog, that's the whole point of a secret code.


(why do you think we need the decoder rings in the first place ???)

... I'm currently listening to Americans milk camels and then drink it straight from the bowl....
Ahhhhhhhhh, raw milk. If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger.

Morning here, I have some oldies but goodies lined up to the next few hours -- Mamas & Papas, Lovin's Spoonful, Jackson Browne, Eagles, Spirit, Meat Loaf, and Byrds.

I just finished listening to Arlo Guthrie's first album Alice's Restaurant and the song Highway in the Wind. Now there is a group of songs by one-hit-wonders, Right now is Liar, Liar by the Castaways, next up is Goody Two-Shoes by Adam Ant.

Adam Ant !!! i love him. Stand and Deliver !!

well i think i know what i'm about to be listening to...

Madonna's Confessions from a Dancefloor

Also listening to the sound of ringing phones, loudmouth co-workers, the roaring of the AC unit on the roof 2 stories down, frequent sirens, and the sounds of other people complaining about their jobs. I need a vacation.

Hajime Chitose - Megumi no Ame. (Composed by Yoko Kanno.)

Hajime Chitose - Megumi no Ame. (Composed by Yoko Kanno.)

Who's a what now?

(Note, this is my ignorant and impolite way of saying "Need more input". Sure, I could look it up, but I'd rather hear what you have to say, igorsk :) )

Cheers,
Marc

To the song level:

Janis Ian: Society's Child

Hampton the Hampster: "The Hampster Dance Song"

puts me in a really good mood ....

Oh, and that was followed by Handel's "Water Music" ... I guess I'm going in alphabetical order by artist today.

I'm hungry ... must be dinner time. Pizza I think.

Hajime Chitose - Megumi no Ame. (Composed by Yoko Kanno.)

Who's a what now?
(Note, this is my ignorant and impolite way of saying "Need more input". Sure, I could look it up, but I'd rather hear what you have to say, igorsk :) )

Megumi no Ame (The Blessing Rain) is the song title, Hajime Chitose is the singer. She's got a pretty distinct voice (some compare her to Björk) which not everyone likes :)
The video: 1 (http://www.videouncovered.com/play/8759/hajime-chitose/megumi-no-ame.html), 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3QxPKgQ1P4).

Megumi no Ame (The Blessing Rain) is the song title, Hajime Chitose is the singer. She's got a pretty distinct voice (some compare her to Björk) which not everyone likes :)
The video: 1 (http://www.videouncovered.com/play/8759/hajime-chitose/megumi-no-ame.html), 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3QxPKgQ1P4).

Thanks! I'm watching it at the moment.

Cheers,
Marc

I am listening to Zelda's brilliant new epic recording Shums which can be found on this thread.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=205511#post205511

...and i'm listening to the live version.


again.


all day, every day, y'all. feel my pain.

Lovely. Absolutely lovely. The Shums!

Would that be the original or the punk rock cover?

the extended "ice-skating in hell" dance remix.

now i'm listening to "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners. any typos in this post can be ascribed to the fact that i'm bouncing around in chair so much it's a wonder i haven't fallen off it yet.





oops, spoke too soon.

Holy Rolls and Breakfast Bowls by Zelda Pinwheel

(This is not a joke, it is from the EP The Laundry Room.)

Holy Rolls and Breakfast Bowls by Zelda Pinwheel

(This is not a joke, it is from the EP The Laundry Room.)

pre-emptive disclaimer : it's nothing to with me. like pshrynk, thieving bastards have stolen my name.

plus, talk about disloyal competition with my epic recording, SHUMS.

Say it to me now by Glen Hansard

Exit music (for a film) by Radiohead.

this whole album is so brilliant (ok computer). i think it's my favorite, along with the bends.

now i'm listening to the ever excellent "Honey Bee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR58UZZ3q4k)" by Diana Ross and the Supremes. sadly i could only find y'all a remixed version, but it's not too badly butchered. "honey bee, you stung the heart in me !" they just don't write lyrics like that anymore. :rolleyes:

oh, now i'm listening to the Miracles : "Hoping The Pause Is Helping The Cause." it's on my old school playlist.

So you are a Motown fan? I remember a time that it was hard to hear good old Rock 'n Roll for all of the Motown version of soul music that was on the Top 40 airwaves when I was in high school.

Right now I'm listening to the original of "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly. (It was later remade by the Rolling Stones.)

So you are a Motown fan? I remember a time that it was hard to hear good old Rock 'n Roll for all of the Motown version of soul music that was on the Top 40 airwaves when I was in high school.
:D

Back when FM radio was first becoming established, a lot of AM stations owned FM frequencies as well, and weren't sure what to do with them.

My favorite FM "underground" station was the sister station of the top black top-40 station in the city. The AM station played Motown. The FM station played the Grateful Dead. The overnight DJ on the FM station was the son of the (white) station owner.

The top white top-forty AM station also had an FM underground rock sibling. That was an automated tape loop operation. Song, song, song, FCC mandated station ID break, song... but no announcer to tell you what it was they were playing. They had some amazing music, and moments of extreme frustration. "Wow! That's great! What it it? I want to buy the album! What is it? Arrgghhhh!" :p

Right now I'm listening to the original of "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly. (It was later remade by the Rolling Stones.)
And others.
______
Dennis

So you are a Motown fan? I remember a time that it was hard to hear good old Rock 'n Roll for all of the Motown version of soul music that was on the Top 40 airwaves when I was in high school.
oh, yes, i am an enthusiastic (if not unconditional) motown fan. that is to say that i like some of it very much, and some of it i can take or leave. but when i'm in the mood for that, i really don't want to listen to much else. i also like motown covers : i have the soundtrack album to "standing in the shadows of motown" which is frankly brilliant. there's a version of "ain't too proud to beg" by Ben Harper which i can listen to over and over for hours. also an amazing version of "what becomes of the brokenhearted" by joan osborne. one of my other favorite original motown songs is "can i get a witness" by marvin gaye. that song rocks. in fact i think i'll listen to it right now. you know what else is a great song by marvin gaye ? "try a little tenderness." and this cover (http://www.deezer.com/track/873514) by aretha franklin is nothing to shake a stick at either.

Right now I'm listening to the original of "Not Fade Away" by Buddy Holly. (It was later remade by the Rolling Stones.)
hehe, i looked it up on youtube... the only version of that song i knew is the one by the Grateful Dead (my dad loves them, they were the soundtrack to most of my childhood). i didn't even know that it was a Buddy Holly song originally, or that the Stones covered it later... :rolleyes: clearly my musical culture has some large holes in it.

The top white top-forty AM station also had an FM underground rock sibling. That was an automated tape loop operation. Song, song, song, FCC mandated station ID break, song... but no announcer to tell you what it was they were playing. They had some amazing music, and moments of extreme frustration. "Wow! That's great! What it it? I want to buy the album! What is it? Arrgghhhh!" :p
oh, that would have driven me completely crazy. before the days of online playlists i used to make lists of songs i heard on the radio that i wanted identified : "14h17, something something lalala petite fleur lalala... 14h23, lala baby baby lalala..." and then call the radio station. the one i listened to the most was Radio Nova (http://www.novaplanet.com/) (listen online !) and since (at the time, anyway) they were a smallish operation it was always the same guy who answered the phone (he was an intern, so he got all the crappy jobs). i drove him nuts because i would make him look up dozens of songs at a time, and he was occasionally quite rude to me, but since i took it as a joke and was quite sassy back to him we eventually became friends and would go out for drinks. i like to think that it's (at least partially) thanks to me that the site has the "what was that song ???" feature ("c'était quoi ce titre ?") which allows you to search the archives. (you're welcome.)

16:18 CDT -- History Channel show "The Universe", Episode "The Biggest Things in the Universe", Tivo replay started by hubby.

oh, yes, i am an enthusiastic (if not unconditional) motown fan. that is to say that i like some of it very much, and some of it i can take or leave. but when i'm in the mood for that, i really don't want to listen to much else.
Motown produced great music, but got brickbats for business practices. Founder/CEO Berry Gordy ruled with an iron hand, and brooked no dissent. Temptations lead singer David Ruffin wanted to leave the group and go solo. Gordy disagreed. Ruffin's solo career was largely torpedoed by Gordy for disobeying him. Stevie wonder once expressed frustration, after attending a meeting of Motown execs and presenting the material for his new album. They heard "Superstition", and weren't interested in anything else. That was the killer top 40 radio track, and that was all they cared about. Wonder was trying to produce an entire album, but they were firmly rooted in the single as the product.

Some of the Motown session guys have popped up lately touring as a group. They played on many hit Motown records, as largely anonymous session men. They didn't get rich, since they didn't get royalties and made standard union session fees, but there was a lot of work, and many got houses and boats from the income they made as session players. It's nice to see them step into the spotlight under their own names, and I think they've gotten more than a few comments at gigs along the lines of "Oh, yeah! You're the one who played that great popping bass line on that Temp's cut! I learned how to play bass because I wanted to play like that!

hehe, i looked it up on youtube... the only version of that song i knew is the one by the Grateful Dead (my dad loves them, they were the soundtrack to most of my childhood). i didn't even know that it was a Buddy Holly song originally, or that the Stones covered it later... :rolleyes: clearly my musical culture has some large holes in it.
I credit rock with greatly expanding mine. I paid attention when rock bands began playing blues, country and jazz tunes, and said "Hmmmm. Let's go pick up albums by the guys these guys listened to when they were learning to play." 1,500 albums later...

oh, that would have driven me completely crazy. before the days of online playlists i used to make lists of songs i heard on the radio that i wanted identified : "14h17, something something lalala petite fleur lalala... 14h23, lala baby baby lalala..." and then call the radio station. the one i listened to the most was Radio Nova (http://www.novaplanet.com/) (listen online !) and since (at the time, anyway) they were a smallish operation it was always the same guy who answered the phone (he was an intern, so he got all the crappy jobs). i drove him nuts because i would make him look up dozens of songs at a time, and he was occasionally quite rude to me, but since i took it as a joke and was quite sassy back to him we eventually became friends and would go out for drinks. i like to think that it's (at least partially) thanks to me that the site has the "what was that song ???" feature ("c'était quoi ce titre ?") which allows you to search the archives. (you're welcome.)
I got to be friends with a couple of the late night DJs. One in particular said "I assume my audience is stoned, balling, tripping, or all three, and program accordingly." I think he liked me because I could call him at 3AM and have a coherent conversation. :p
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Dennis

I am relistenind to sticky pants (stones being a long time fav but one I seldom listen to anymore) and realizing how f...ing great these guys were, and thinking how exciting musically it must have been back in these days unlikely today.

Best of The Boston Pops

Reminded and prompted by this thread, I finally replaced my tape of The Whole Story (Kate Bush) with the CD.

So, at the moment, I'm listening to "Cloudbusting" (with the added local irony that, for some reason, we have completely lost water to the house. I think "the men in power" digging up the road at the bottom of the hill may have done some "Pipebusting").

Cheers,
Marc

Reminded and prompted by this thread, I finally replaced my tape of The Whole Story (Kate Bush) with the CD.

So, at the moment, I'm listening to "Cloudbusting" (with the added local irony that, for some reason, we have completely lost water to the house. I think "the men in power" digging up the road at the bottom of the hill may have done some "Pipebusting").
We've had that here for the past several afternoons, as my building works on the plumbing.

What's more annoying is interruptions in internet service to to cable breaks.

"We're hunting backhoes! We're using fiber optic cable for bait! Works every time!" :p
______
Dennis

We've had that here for the past several afternoons, as my building works on the plumbing.
...

With this new house, from the flotsam and jetsam of the infants of passing tenants, I have developed a predilection for the naming and placing of the discarded and once-lost toys. Thus, there is Spidey, and Miow-miow, and Lady G-G, and Ronald, and then there's Pog...the Amazing Pog...oh, the stories Pog The Incontinent Adventurer can tell!

Anyway, Pog is a cute, yellow, squeeze-toy hedgehog, about the size of a cricket ball. I initially found him near the water meter out in the front garden, and so naturally found him a hidey-hole from the ravages of a hedgehog-intolerant society within the meter box. Well, Pog liked his little hollow for some time, until the other day I found him 20 metres down the hill on the road. I suspect that if Pog wouldn't come to the Mountain of Intolerance, then the Mountain of Intolerance came to him in the form of the Meter Man. I don't know how it went down, but I suspect The Man's easy, autopilot meter-checking was suddenly kicked into shock upon lifting the cover, and expressed itself in "WHAT THE #$%^ IS THAT? AGGH, ^&*!ING KIDS!" and a forehand scoop (or backhand, if lefthanded) down into potential obliteration upon the road, crushed, like just another one of us oppressed species.

...but he has been saved, and sits now in a little hollow at the base of a clump of bamboo palms by the pool, eye to the pool-bar, the water and mostly the sky, dreaming of a world without hedgehog- and gibbon-oppression.

Incidentally, the water is back on, and I'm on a second go through The Whole Story, currently listening to Hounds of Love.

Cheers,
Marc (Gibbons Unite!)

BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA, BABOOSHKA-YA-YA!

I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep through the night
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie
But I say why
Why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?

(The Obvious Child, Paul Simon)

I registered to vote today,
felt like a fool.
Had to do it anyway
down at the high school.
Thing about the second line -
you know, "felt like a fool" -
people say it all the time,
even when it's true.

following into...

I'm gonna stand guard like a postcard of a Golden Retriever
and never leave ‘til I leave you with a sweet dream in your bed

(Sure Don't Feel Like Love following into Father & Daughter, Paul Simon)

Cheers,
Marc
PS. The latter always brings a tear to my eye.

Daddy's gonna buy you a dream to cling to,
Momma's gonna love you just as much as she can...and she can

(Love of the Common People (Extended version), Paul Young)

My heart going boom boom boom
"Son," he said "Grab your things,
I've come to take you home."

(Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel)

Cheers,
Marc (tears streaming...)

When love congeals - it soon reveals
The faint aroma - of performing seals
The double-crossing - of a pair of heals
I wish I were in love again

Words- Lorenz Hart
Music- Richard Rodgers

Sung by- Frank Sinatra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ju1q3a8A4s

Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon...

(...We are Shaking the Tree, Peter Gabriel)

Cheers,
Marc (...and DANCING around CRAZY like a gibbon jitterbuggin' with a deckchair)

You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
Floor collapsing
Floating, bouncing back
And one day....
I am going to grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Hysterical and...

Radiohead-Let Down

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One crowded hour, you were the only one in the room
Well I played a few songs for those bumps in the night
In fact I played this very tune
You said, "What is this six-stringed instrument but an adolescent doom?"
And one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin

(One Crowded Hour Augie March)

Cheers,
Marc (playin' it for me, and playin' it for T - coz I reckon he'd like it)

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...

(...she showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian Wood, The Beatles)

Cheers,
Marc (for Queen Zee)

Я знаю что у
нее нее нее
Душа кошкина
а я шикарная
Мадам Брошкина
она такая
Никакая
никакая
Ну что ты в ней
нашел

Алла Пугачева - Мадам Брошкина

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ZJuZWNrvU

Now listening to...the link above.

Madam Broshkina...is...genius!

Cheers,
Marc

Now listening to...the link above.

Madam Broshkina...is...genius!

Cheers,
Marc

Great song I agree. But when someone takes the trouble to write a song about you it would be in bad taste not to like it. I have no idea what the lyrics mean but I am pretty sure they are complimentary. Perhaps someone who speaks Russian could explain what the song means.

i found a way
i can't explain
but i feel just like a stranger
all alone, i'm on my own
and i feel just like a ghost

"just like a ghost" by yubaba smith & fortune (http://www.myspace.com/yubabasmithandfortune). (you can listen too, if you follow the link.)

Motown produced great music, but got brickbats for business practices.
i find that sad, but (even sadder) unsurprising. i like to hope those days are over, especially with the new possibilities of autoprod, youtube, myspace and the like, but i think the majors still have far too much of a say.

Some of the Motown session guys have popped up lately touring as a group.
oooh... i would love to see one of those concerts. what is the name ? (just in case, you know...)

I credit rock with greatly expanding mine. I paid attention when rock bands began playing blues, country and jazz tunes, and said "Hmmmm. Let's go pick up albums by the guys these guys listened to when they were learning to play." 1,500 albums later...
me too. i like pulling on the threads of songs and following them as well. probably half of the music i listen to now, i discovered via a different group, following influences and friends and evolution... but there's so much !! i'll never know about everything...

I got to be friends with a couple of the late night DJs. One in particular said "I assume my audience is stoned, balling, tripping, or all three, and program accordingly." I think he liked me because I could call him at 3AM and have a coherent conversation. :p heh... :p i can understand that. i think Khaled (the radio nova intern) liked me because i talked back to him. (coherently, though.)

"We're hunting backhoes! We're using fiber optic cable for bait! Works every time!" :p[QUOTE]
:p

[QUOTE=montsnmags;208686]...but he has been saved, and sits now in a little hollow at the base of a clump of bamboo palms by the pool, eye to the pool-bar, the water and mostly the sky, dreaming of a world without hedgehog- and gibbon-oppression.
aw. i love that story. hedgehogs the world over are glad you've got their back. and i'm putting in to the Ministry for a Medal for you.

When love congeals - it soon reveals
The faint aroma - of performing seals
The double-crossing - of a pair of heals
I wish I were in love again

Words- Lorenz Hart
Music- Richard Rodgers

Sung by- Frank Sinatra
wow. none of the songs i listen to have lyrics that brilliant. can i come over and play records at your house Madame B ?

You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
Floor collapsing
Floating, bouncing back
And one day....
I am going to grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Hysterical and...

Radiohead-Let Down

see ?? brilliant, brilliant song. thank god for radiohead. (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=206808&postcount=75) the world would be a bleaker place without them.

One crowded hour, you were the only one in the room
Well I played a few songs for those bumps in the night
In fact I played this very tune
You said, "What is this six-stringed instrument but an adolescent doom?"
And one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin

(One Crowded Hour Augie March)

Cheers,
Marc (playin' it for me, and playin' it for T - coz I reckon he'd like it)
i like it, anyway. :smiley: i'm going to be listening to that all day.

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...

(...she showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian Wood, The Beatles?

Cheers,
Marc (for Queen Zee)
:smiley:

Я знаю что у
нее нее нее
Душа кошкина
а я шикарная
Мадам Брошкина
она такая
Никакая
никакая
Ну что ты в ней
нашел

Алла Пугачева - Мадам Брошкина

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ZJuZWNrvU

Now listening to...the link above.

Madam Broshkina...is...genius!

Cheers,
Marc
sometimes disconcertingly so.

Great song I agree. But when someone takes the trouble to write a song about you it would be in bad taste not to like it. I have no idea what the lyrics mean but I am pretty sure they are complimentary. Perhaps someone who speaks Russian could explain what the song means.
calling igorsk, igorsk to the music thread...

Some of the Motown session guys have popped up lately touring as a group.
oooh... i would love to see one of those concerts. what is the name ? (just in case, you know...)

That would be the Funk Brothers. An excellent documentary was made of them called "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

http://www.standingintheshadowsofmotown.com/

That would be the Funk Brothers. An excellent documentary was made of them called "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."

http://www.standingintheshadowsofmotown.com/

hey !!!! that documentary has been at the top of my list of films to see for ages now !!! i haven't tracked it down yet (working on it). i have the soundtrack ; that's the covers i mentioned in an earlier post. brilliant, brilliant soundtrack. i love it.

Я знаю что у
нее нее нее
Душа кошкина
а я шикарная
Мадам Брошкина
она такая
Никакая
никакая
Ну что ты в ней
нашел

Алла Пугачева - Мадам Брошкина

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ZJuZWNrvU


I agree with Zelda. I think you need Igorsk.

Here's what I got, but my Russian is very elementary (and I humbly apologize to any person who falls down laughing at my translation).

Я знаю что у ---- I know that in
нее нее нее ---- hee hee hee
Душа кошкина -- soul of (koshkina)
а я шикарная --- while I elegant
Мадам Брошкина - Madam Broshkina
она такая ---- it such
Никакая ---- None
никакая ---- None
Ну что ты в ней - Well that you in it
нашел ---- found


Dreamer

well that's better than i could do. does koshkina mean kitty or kitten by any chance ?

I agree with Zelda. I think you need Igorsk.

Here's what I got, but my Russian is very elementary (and I humbly apologize to any person who falls down laughing at my translation).

Я знаю что у ---- I know that in
нее нее нее ---- hee hee hee
Душа кошкина -- soul of (koshkina)
а я шикарная --- while I elegant
Мадам Брошкина - Madam Broshkina
она такая ---- it such
Никакая ---- None
никакая ---- None
Ну что ты в ней - Well that you in it
нашел ---- found


Dreamer

I took Russian in college centuries ago but I could do little better. I do know that the н in нее is pronounced as an N in English and I don't think нее нее нее is hee hee hee - more probably it, it, it. Of course, that makes the translation crystal clear, don't you think? нует!

I took Russian in college centuries ago but I could do little better. I do know that the н in нее is pronounced as an N in English and I don't think нее нее нее is hee hee hee - more probably it, it, it. Of course, that makes the translation crystal clear, don't you think? нует!

Da ! :rolleyes:

anyway, i've left a message on igorsk's profile asking him to help us out.

My favorite and most useful Russian phrase is Я не знаю. My professor usually gave me an exasperated look when I answered his questions that way.

(That's "I don't know" for the non-Russian speakers.)

Dreamer

Алла Пугачева - Мадам Брошкина

Lyrics of modern Russian pop is mostly rhymed nonsense but I'll try.

Я знаю что у неё неё неё душа кошкина
Ya znayu chto u neyo neyo neyo dusha koshkina
I know that she that she that she has a cat's soul
А я шикарная Мадам Брошкина
A ya shikarnaya Madam Broshkina
And I am magnificient Madam Broshkina
Она такая никакая никакая
Ona takaya nikakaya nikakaya
She's such a nothing, nothing
Ну что ты в ней нашёл?
Nu chto ty v ney nashol?
What ever did you find in her?

P.S. So where is your nickname from? I have some vague impression of seeing a "madam Broshkina" in some book we had to read in school, but cannot for the life of me recall the title or even the author.

Lyrics of modern Russian pop is mostly rhymed nonsense but I'll try.

thank you igorsk ! so that mystery is solved at last and we can fully appreciate the lyrical brilliance accompanying the fine animation of the video. it turns out it's a timeless, universal story, as we might have guessed from the animation. i'm sure we've all lived that before.

P.S. So where is your nickname from? I have some vague impression of seeing a "madam Broshkina" in some book we had to read in school, but cannot for the life of me recall the title or even the author.

yes, where *is* your nickname from ??? inquiring minds want to know.

I used to go with a girl from Uzbekistan (I am a guy by the way) and one of her favorite singers is Alla Pugacheva who sings "Madam Broshkina." I always liked the song and thought it would make a good screen name.

I used to go with a girl from Uzbekistan (I am a guy by the way) and one of her favorite singers is Alla Pugacheva who sings "Madam Broshkina." I always liked the song and thought it would make a good screen name.

Every day in every way, you just get better and better.

NP. Everybody Hurts, R.E.M.

Cheers,
Marc ("So hold on, hold on...")

Every day in every way, you just get better and better.

i really have to second that sentiment.

I'm listening to silence, punctuated by the staccato sound of heavy rain.

i'm listening to Scarlett Johansson singing songs by Tom Waits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKma-pBoRTw). it's frankly amazing.

I'm listening to the most beautiful sound in the morning universe: the espresso machine.

Cheers,
Marc

i'm listening to Scarlett Johansson singing songs by Tom Waits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKma-pBoRTw). it's frankly amazing.

Brilliant!

P.S.

I think Scar (that's what I call her) rather fancies me.

Brilliant!

P.S.

I think Scar (that's what I call her) rather fancies me.

how could she not ?

i'm thrilled to see our taste in music converging.

I am currently kicking it "Old School" with Patsy Cline.

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Sometimes I feel like the...

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At this moment I'm listening to... Hello Bonjour- Michael Franti and Spearhead (for about the 20th time...yep, I just stuck it on repeat and I'm chair dancing my way to getting ready to sleep time!)

Are You Ready?

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i'm your brother, don't you know,
she's my sister, don't you know

can't imagine what could possibly have made you think of that song.

madame b, we're always ready for whatever you're planning to throw our way. ready, yet completely unprepared, simultaneously. (what ? oxymoron ? where ?)

Right now I am releasing my inner "New Bohemian."


What I Am (http://www.last.fm/music/Edie+Brickell+and+New+Bohemians/+videos/5519651)

Now I'm embracing you
From the highest altitude
The telescopes our friends they watch us
These heights are dangerous
From here I can see why
Our astronauts retire early

(The Best Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCDR3Y_PDik) Boom Crash Opera)

Cheers,
Marc ("I put my spacesuit on, I count from 10 to 1")

Can’t seem to face up to the facts,
I'm tense and nervous, can't relax,
can't sleep, bed's on fire,
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire.

(Psycho Killer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEadbTCKDA) Qu'est-ce que c'est?, Talking Heads)

I watch this video from Stop Making Sense and can't help but think that David Byrne is everywhere you wanna be, baby! The man's bug-eyed brilliance has the music of the strange-spheres ready to blast through his veins like the overture of a quaking neutron star.

Cheers,
Marc ("Je me lance vers la gloire ... OK!")

Will you miss me when you're sober?, Deborah Conway

Cheers,
Marc (with whisky tears and a feeling close to numb)

...And I get all your good advice
It doesn't stop me from going through these things twice
I see the knives out, I turn my back
I hear the train coming, I stay right on that track
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of a dream
I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
I've done all the dumb things
I melted wax to fix my wings
I've done all the dumb things
I threw my hat into the ring
I've done all the dumb things
I thought that I just had to sing
I've done all the dumb things

(Dumb Things (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWhj4sVeVD0), Paul Kelly)

Cheers,
Marc ("Welcome strangers to the show..")

How many cabs in New York City, how many angels on a pin?
How many notes in a saxophone, how many tears in a bottle of gin?
How many times did you call my name, knock at the door but you couldn't get in?

(I know...I've been...Careless (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq7X_6PlilE)...I lost...my tenderness, Paul Kelly)

Cheers,
Marc ("...How many ways can you lose friend?")

I have always thought in the back of my mind,
Cheese and Onions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw)

now, rather surreally, i am listening to the cacophany of apparently a bazillion seagulls.


in paris.

now, rather surreally, i am listening to the cacophany of apparently a bazillion seagulls.


in paris.
The original or the punk rock cover?

it seems to be the punk rock cover. but then we are talking about seagulls ; i'm pretty sure even the original is a punk rock cover.

Backup vocals for The SHUMS?

if only de facto...

actually, i'm not sure whether the shums are there or not anymore, because i wasn't lucid enough this morning to notice much of anything (more a testament to my being not at all matinal than to the shums being subdued or absent, but either of those is also possible). i'll have to try to wake up and pay attention tomorrow.

i do seem to remember drinking my coffee with no feelings of general misanthropy and sociopathy, so that would tend to indicate that the shums are in fact gone for the summer. pray every hypothetical god ever invented, collectively, that this is the case.

Does a tune stuck in your head count?:chinscratch:

Well, I'm forced by myself to listen to Saga's "That's as far as I go". Done so fer the last 13 hours in a row now...

i'll have to try to wake up and pay attention tomorrow.

Uh, why?

Uh, why?

so i'll know that there is much rejoicing to be done, if they're gone*. (the champagne will be on me ! ...no wait, we're organising an mr apéro in paris next week, that could turn out to be expensive... uh, beer for everybody !)


*and that it's time to just shoot myself in the head, if they're not.

Ouch, Zelda! Maybe it would be better if you tried not to pay attention so that you won't notice if they happen to still be there. Wait, it's The SHUMS. You'll notice.

i'll notice, yeah.

My Bon Jovi Playlist.

I'm listening to Return to Forever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lObVilGPjHc&feature=related) - apropos the panty.

I'm listening to Return to Forever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lObVilGPjHc&feature=related) - apropos the panty.
Aaaaaaaah!
Now THAT is music!
They were in Montreal the week before last for the jazz festival. At a hudred a pop I just couldn't make it. Shame on me, they might never reband again...

Classical Gas by Eric Clapton
Try Tommy Emmanuel's version!

When I'm Gone - Eminem

i'm listening to Scarlett Johansson again. i'm completely in love with her version of "falling down".

that part where she sings
"go on, put your ear to the ground : you'll be hearing that soo-uund..."
man, i just have to stop what i'm doing and smile.

i am listening to the golden silence of a complete absence of SHUMS. it makes me want to type very very softly so as not to spoil it with any noise whatsoever.

i am listening to the golden silence of a complete absence of SHUMS. it makes me want to type very very softly so as not to spoil it with any noise whatsoever.

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

BOO!

Cheers,
Marc

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

BOO!

Cheers,
Marc

:jumps out of chair: hey !!!

it seems to be the punk rock cover. but then we are talking about seagulls ; i'm pretty sure even the original is a punk rock cover.
And now for the new single from the hot punk group the Shite Hawks, called "Mine!"... :p
______
Dennis

And now for the new single from the hot punk group the Shite Hawks, called "Mine!"... :p
______
Dennis

yep, that's the one. are they playing it on all the radios, or what ?

"Good News Week" by the Hedgehoppers Anonymous

Doctors finding many ways
Of wrapping brains on metal trays
To keep us from the heat.

right now i'm listening to scarlett johansson again. on "song for jo" which is the only not by tom waits song on the album, there are some instruments in the background, i love the way they sound, so plaintive but comforting and uplifting at the same time, like the melancholia of remembering the happiest day of your life, a long time ago. i can't figure out what instruments they are. i wish i knew.

I'm listening to "Dora the Explorer" and trying to get the picture out of my mind......
Strangling Map!!!

maybe some kind of bugle with a mute.

or possibly oboes. i'm not really sure what an oboe sounds like. it could sound like that.

I am listening to Damien Rice.

The Blower's Daughter (http://www.last.fm/music/Damien+Rice/+videos/+1-UHPTHP4dihA)

I am listening to Damien Rice.

The Blower's Daughter (http://www.last.fm/music/Damien+Rice/+videos/+1-UHPTHP4dihA)

ooh, more great music to discover, thanks...

and look : madam b is up to 1000 posts. i wonder how many of those are books.

"Yam! Bam! mon chat Splash
Git sur mon lit a bouffe
sa langue en buvant tout mon whisky
quant a moi peu dormi, vide, brime
J'ai du dormir dans la gouttiere
Ou j'ai eu un flash
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
En quatre couleurs"
(*)

Cheers,
The King of the Divan

(* Just bought on iTunes today, and now on lather, rinse, repeat)

oh no. tell me you didn't really. i worry about you, chéri.

oh no. tell me you didn't really. i worry about you, chéri.

"Ca plane pour moi ca plane pour moi
Ca plane pour moi moi moi moi moi
Ca plane pour moi
Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!
Ca plane pour moi"

Cheers,
Marc
Still the King of the divan (lather, rinse, repeat)

Plastic Bertrand

That bitty is well over thirty years old now Marc!

Plastic Bertrand

That bitty is well over thirty years old now Marc!
"Bad taste is timeless" :p
______
Dennis

Plastic Bertrand

That bitty is well over thirty years old now Marc!

I think it's only just over, unless by "bitty" you mean me, in which case, fair cop. :D

"Bad taste is timeless" :p

Oy, watch it, mate, or I'll start singing Rock Me Amadeus at full belt 'til you can't get it out of your head.

I've a loaded iTunes account, and I'm not afraid to use it. ;)

Cheers,
Marc

"Bad taste is timeless" :p
______
Dennis
evidently...

Oy, watch it, mate, or I'll start singing Rock Me Amadeus at full belt 'til you can't get it out of your head.

I've a loaded iTunes account, and I'm not afraid to use it. ;)

Cheers,
Marc
hey now, calm down !! no need to get over-excited, we don't want to do anything rash !!! just put down the itunes account, and back slowly away from the computer. nobody needs to get hurt.

Sweet Bulgarity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTlwH122mI)

Eagles, Hotel California, live version, long intro.

Sweet Bulgarity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTlwH122mI)

that was AMAZING !!!! thank you !

if you like that, might i recommend the lyric stylings of l'Attirail (http://www.deezer.com/fr#music/result/all/l%27attirail) (balkano-parisian gypsy orchestra, with accordeon *and* trumpet, and a drum section made almost entirely out of cooking pots (really)). they do a version of that song as well. i wanted to share specifically that song with you but while i was trying to find it (i have 3 of their cds) i kept getting distracted by how great all the songs were and forgetting what i was looking for.

but you can start with The raki raki's sweets (http://www.deezer.com/track/257047) and El ultimo smoke (http://www.deezer.com/track/257075), preferably played loud and / or with really good headphones. make sure you push the furniture out of the way, you won't be able to stand still. if you like those, i highly recommend that you listen to the albums "musiques des préfectures autonomes", then "dancings des bouts du monde", then "harmonies communales" in that order (click on the album links in the deezer pages).

when i discovered l'attirail about 10 years ago they were playing in a tiny café on the canal near the Gare de l'Est, in the middle of the afternoon. the café was so tiny, and so packed with people for the concert, that they had piled the tables on top of each other in the back of the room to clear the floor, and on top of the tables were more people. the band was crowded in a little corner in the back and everyone was dancing and shouting and clapping their hands. i think the entire building was actually swaying along with the dancers, from their enthusiasm.

since i'm too short to see much if i'm in the back of a crowd, i climbed on a table as well and that was the begining of a beautiful story between me and l'attirail... for several years after that (until all the original members but one left the band to have children... don't you just hate when that happens...) i never missed a concert in every tiny café in the city and became friends with the musicians. one evening i had a near religious experience while dancing with the trumpet player, who was playing as he danced with me. the stuff of legends, i tell you. amazing band.

check their albums on beleive (http://www.believedigital.com/albums/5083,musiques-des-prefectures-autonomes.html) as well.

Sweet Bulgarity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTlwH122mI)

Loved it, MB. The folks at candyrat have found a gold mine of talented people. I have a couple cds from them and am always looking for great things like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hAPttcN0uE

Inspired me to dig out my ancient copy of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_State_Television_Female_Vocal_Choir
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,457280,00.html
http://www.last.fm/music/Le+Myst%C3%A8re+des+voix+Bulgares

"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. I am trying to make a music video starring my Spore creation. :D

I'm also trying to get the kitchen cabinets painted ... but that's another problem.

Loved it, MB. The folks at candyrat have found a gold mine of talented people. I have a couple cds from them and am always looking for great things like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hAPttcN0uE

that's great stuff vr ! thanks for the linky !! i've just been sitting here listening to different clips... i love his voice.

clearly i'm going to have to look into candyrat records...

"Er war ein Punker
Und er lebte in der großen Stadt
Es war Wien, war Vienna
Wo er alles tat
Er hatte Schulden denn er trank
Doch ihn liebten alle Frauen
Und jede rief:
Come on and Rock Me Amadeus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ_rDkPLjio)"

[INSERT EVIL LAUGH] ...and there's plenty more where that came from, me lovelies...[INSERT EVIL LAUGH]

Cheers,
Marc

Frightened Rabbit

Heads Roll Off (http://www.last.fm/music/Frightened+Rabbit/+videos/5998250)

Warning to Zelda. This video features "Shums" but they can only be seen but not heard.

Cat Power

The Greatest (http://www.last.fm/music/Cat+Power/+videos/+1-UowZbpQkCO8)

Frightened Rabbit

Heads Roll Off (http://www.last.fm/music/Frightened+Rabbit/+videos/5998250)

Warning to Zelda. This video features "Shums" but they can only be seen but not heard.

i appreciate your concern for my psychological well-being. visible but inaudible shums cause me no pain, unless there is the implication that they might become audible in the future.

The Pretender by Jackson Browne

Elgar: Complete Works for Wind Quintet

Elgar: Complete Works for Wind Quintet
I always loved his 2nd Symphony and the Enigma Variations.

"Ozark", from "As Wichita Falls, so falls Wichita Falls" by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.

(I miss Pandora [yes, I know there are ways round this]; never really got to grips with last.fm; maybe I should try it again.)

(I miss Pandora [yes, I know there are ways round this]; never really got to grips with last.fm; maybe I should try it again.)

me too. :(

"As Witchita Falls, So Falls Wichita Falls"

:D

"As Wichita Falls, So Falls Wichita Falls"

:D

Well I would have hoped for a picture at least :D

Well I would have hoped for a picture at least :D

Ummm ... a picture?? Of the music??

Yeah .... ok.

Psst .... someone go call the panda, and grab a straightjacket

Ummm ... a picture?? Of the music??

No; Wichita Falls. The city. I thought it was in your neck of the woods -- must have been mistaken.

Psst .... someone go call the panda, and grab a straightjacket
are they out of curvey ones?

No; Wichita Falls. The city. I thought it was in your neck of the woods -- must have been mistaken.

are they out of curvey ones?

Oh .... yes .... the city. Yes, I think it is in Texas.


Sedation, people .... I need some sedation for this one!! Hurry up before he starts trying to dig another tunnel!!!

There's a monkey in the jungle
watching a vapour trail,
caught up in the conflict between
his brain and his tail

(19-2000 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzDiFEqAoUk), Gorillaz)

Cheers,
Marc ("...dancing to the music of gorillaz in a happy mood.")

Finally someone let me out of my cage
Now, time for me is nothing cos I'm counting no age
Now I couldn't be there
Now you shouldn't be scared
I'm good at repairs
And I'm under each snare
Intangible
Bet you didn't think so I command you to
Panoramic view
Look I'll make it all manageable
Pick and choose
Sit and lose
All you different crews
Chicks and dudes
Who you think is really kickin' tunes?
Picture you gettin' down in a picture tube
Like you lit the fuse
You think it's fictional
Mystical? Maybe
Spiritual
Hearable
What appears in you is a clearer view cos you're too crazy
Lifeless
To know the definition for what life is
Priceless
For you because I put you on the hype shit
You like it?
Gunsmokin' righteous with one token
Psychic among those
Possess you with one go

(Clint Eastwood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpDer9wdUEw), Gorillaz)

Cheers,
Marc ("No squealing, remember that's it's all in your head")

currently listening to my friend jake's brilliant, amazing, beautiful version of tom wait's "Smuggler's Waltz / Bronx Lullabye" which i may just have on "repeat one" for the rest of the week, if not the rest of the month (... year...).

sorry, no linky, it's just for me. :nice:

(oh, and @ marc : yeah baby, gorillaz !! too good.)

Recollect me darling raise me to your lips
Two undernourished egos four rotating hips
Hold on to me tightly I'm a sliding scale
Can't endure then you can't inhale
Clearly
Out of body experience interferes
And dreams of flying I fit nearly
Surrounds me though I get lonely
Slowly

(Inertia Creeps (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZB4B5Wdcis), Massive Attack)

Cheers,
Marc ("Moving up slowly...")

Well I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
Maybe I'm a dog that's lost his bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep the night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
But I say the cross is in the ballpark
Why deny the obvious child?

(The Obvious Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGiD8vXVAI), Paul Simon)

Cheers,
Marc

BATUCADAAAAA !!!!!!

Well I dont know how many pounds make up a ton,
Of all the nobel prizes that Ive never won,
And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
But I know one thing,
And thats I love you.

XTC

The Mayor of Simpleton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Da9sc6YDBo)

Well I dont know how many pounds make up a ton,
Of all the nobel prizes that Ive never won,
And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
But I know one thing,
And thats I love you.

XTC

The Mayor of Simpleton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Da9sc6YDBo)

aw, that's such a sweet song...


(edit : but my golly, some of those musicians have terrible haircuts. i never saw this video at the time. i am enjoying the "avengers" aesthetic though, definitely.)

BATUCADAAAAA !!!!!!

For you, my sweet, pastry-stuffed Queen Zee (Trust me, clicky the linky at bottom)...

Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze,
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees,
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don't fence me in.

(Don't Fence Me In (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3p_Rf0AY6E))

Cheers,
Marc ("Don't fence me in")

Ralph Towner-Blue Sun (http://www.deezer.com/track/952371)

For you, my sweet, pastry-stuffed Queen Zee (Trust me, clicky the linky at bottom)...

Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze,
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees,
Send me off forever but I ask you please,
Don't fence me in.

(Don't Fence Me In (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3p_Rf0AY6E))

Cheers,
Marc ("Don't fence me in")

oh, yeah baby !

(surely you can't think i don't know --and love-- that song ??)

(i love the part where he chuckles.)

Look me in the eye
And tell me that I’m satisfied
Look me in the eye
Unsatisfied
I’m so, I’m so unsatisfied
I’m so dissatisfied
I’m so, I’m so unsatisfied
I’m so unsatisfied
Well, i’m-a
I’m so, I’m so unsatisfied


The Replacements-Unsatisfied (http://www.deezer.com/track/8999)

One of my favorite bands from Scotland.



Texas-So Called Friend (http://www.deezer.com/track/886227)

One of my favorite bands from Belgium.


K's Choice-Believe (http://www.deezer.com/track/871441)

K's Choice-Almost Happy (http://www.deezer.com/track/871447)

K's Choice-Everything for Free (http://www.deezer.com/track/871440)

K's Choice-Butterflies Instead (http://www.deezer.com/track/871454)

K's Choice-Not an Addict (http://www.deezer.com/track/871444)

Urge for Going by Tom Rush (in fact the whole Circle Game album)

Dark Lady by DJ Food from the Mambo Show Us Your Hits album.

(Note, it's not the Cher song)

Cheers,
Marc

The First Circle/:Rarum IX/Pat Metheny

Texas-So Called Friend (http://www.deezer.com/track/886227)

Ohh... Sharleen Spiteri... White on Blond/White on Blond/Texas. Madame B, that wouldn't be about you would it?<slap>
Must... Concentrate.... On.... Work.....
Must... Get... Back... To.... Work.....

Steve Harley 'Sebastian'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbP8XpQC5Us

some beknighted, unidentified neighbor is listening to ABBA, of all things. god help me.

some beknighted, unidentified neighbor is listening to ABBA, of all things. god help me.

Ooooh, ABBA! [rushes off to iTunes store...]

Cheers,
Marc ("Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...")

oh god.

they're listening to ABBA on repeat.

quick, where are my headphones... this calls for extreme evasive manoeuvres.

(oh marc. i'm going to have to put your itunes access on suspension, aren't i ? it's for your own good, really.)

...
(oh marc. i'm going to have to put your itunes access on suspension, aren't i ? it's for your own good, really.)

Gods-damned, stinkin', rotten jetpacks. Every time I supply them the deal blows up in my face.

Maybe it's for the best - a couple of days ago I bought Aqua's Barbie Girl when I noticed I didn't have it.

Cheers,
Marc ("Come on Queen Zee, let's go Party...")

Gods-damned, stinkin', rotten jetpacks. Every time I supply them the deal blows up in my face.

Maybe it's for the best - a couple of days ago I bought Aqua's Barbie Girl when I noticed I didn't have it.

Cheers,
Marc ("Come on Queen Zee, let's go Party...")

see now i really think that speaks for itself.

(but yeah, we can go party. i'll dj though.)

Voice conference. :angry: And I'm chairing.... :help:

some beknighted, unidentified neighbor is listening to ABBA, of all things. god help me.\

You don't like ABBA? HA! Here. Watch the video....ABBA'S GREATEST HITS...... its set on 'replay'

Love, the cat. :D

Voice conference. :angry: And I'm chairing.... :help:

I knew it. You weren't just being clever. You are certifiably nuts, right? :D

You don't like ABBA? HA! Here. Watch the video....ABBA'S GREATEST HITS...... its set on 'replay'

why all the hate, desertgrandma ? what have i ever done to you ???

Call finished, thankfully.

Year of the Cat/Live at the Roxy/Al Stewart.

(I can't help feel that this is hostage to fortune...)

I knew it. You weren't just being clever. You are certifiably nuts, right? :D

Nuts? Completely: Cashew, Brazil, peanut, pistachio and best of all Macadamia ......

why all the hate, desertgrandma ? what have i ever done to you ???

Oh goody. Can I listen to the list? (where is that stirring smilie?)

<pause>

Lyrics just went:


And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears


Does the Lounge have a theme song?

why all the hate, desertgrandma ? what have i ever done to you ???

Nothing. You've been naught but kind. Perhaps its an age thing, but I do love ABBA. Listening to their songs makes me happy and dance around the house. Not a pretty sight, really, since I can't dance, but at least it gets me moving! Can we still be friends even tho our music tastes are 'different'? :D

{quote}Nuts? Completely: Cashew, Brazil, peanut, pistachio and best of all Macadamia ......{quote} (yes I know jj, I did it wrong again. send more instructions!)

OH, GROANNNN........BUT I do love cashews......

Nuts? Completely: Cashew, Brazil, peanut...

:eek: Peanuts are actually a legume, and unrelated to the nut family.

:eek: Peanuts are actually a legume, and unrelated to the nut family.


So take THAT, lazyscot! :D

Nothing. You've been naught but kind. Perhaps its an age thing, but I do love ABBA. Listening to their songs makes me happy and dance around the house. Not a pretty sight, really, since I can't dance, but at least it gets me moving! Can we still be friends even tho our music tastes are 'different'? :D
ABBA wrote carefully crafted pop songs. Not everyone cares for them, but they were masters at what they did.

They were also a source of divided feelings in their native Sweden. On the one hand, they were international superstars, popular around the world, and selling millions of records. Swedes were proud of them.

On the other hand, they were multimillionaires because of their success. Sweden is a rather ruthlessly egalitarian society, and no Swede is supposed to be significantly better off than another. There was a fair bit of resentment of their wealth, though it isn't clear what they are supposed to have done instead.
______
Dennis

It's probably an urban myth, but i once heard that they were int he 105% tax bracket in Sweden.

Snopes is quiet on the subject.

It's probably an urban myth, but i once heard that they were int he 105% tax bracket in Sweden.

Snopes is quiet on the subject.
They would certainly be in the highest bracket.

I have a acquaintance in NYC who was born in Ireland, worked in Scandinavia, and emigrated to the US. He explained his move as financial - taxation was best described as predatory in Sweden, and he couldn't make any money.

A Swedish woman I knew a while back described working there. "Once I have passed the probationary period, and I am in the union, you can't touch me!" I asked what the incentive was for anyone to actually work hard and produce, since there was no direct incentive to do so, and no penalty for not doing so, and was told "We work because we are good Swedes, and that's what good Swedes do."

I suppose it works for them.
______
Dennis

So take THAT, lazyscot! :D

:smack:

And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling sparrows....

Sparrow 1 - LazyScot 0

Nothing. You've been naught but kind. Perhaps its an age thing, but I do love ABBA. Listening to their songs makes me happy and dance around the house. Not a pretty sight, really, since I can't dance, but at least it gets me moving! Can we still be friends even tho our music tastes are 'different'? :D
heum... do you promise NEVER to make me listen to ABBA ???

It's probably an urban myth, but i once heard that they were int he 105% tax bracket in Sweden.

Snopes is quiet on the subject.
those aren't taxes : they are fines. for subjecting the world to severe mental anguish.

ABBA wrote carefully crafted pop songs. Not everyone cares for them, but they were masters at what they did.
some torturers are masters of their craft as well. i don't like them either.

to be fair, it's not just abba. disco in general makes my skin crawl. after about 6 nanoseconds i start to feel nauseated and after 8 nanoseconds i usually begin to have a grand mal seizure.

also, history has demonstrated time and again that nothing good can come of any musical endeavor that gets its start by winning a television contest. *especially* eurovision.

You have my sympathies; not many things worse than listening to music you don't like filtered through apartment walls.
For me, it was the psychological torment of never knowing when it would stop; and it being an intrusion of my private space :angry: - it's a pretty miserable experience.


also, history has demonstrated time and again that nothing good can come of any musical endeavor that gets its start by winning a television contest. *especially* eurovision.

Not a competition entrant - but Riverdance came out of Eurovision; surely that makes it all worth while :).

You have my sympathies; not many things worse than listening to music you don't like filtered through apartment walls.
For me, it was the psychological torment of never knowing when it would stop; and it being an intrusion of my private space :angry: - it's a pretty miserable experience.
thanks for sympathising ; that's kind of you. it's not actually filtered ; it's transmitted directly via the courtyard. they should give concerts in the courtyard ; it's got some fairly impressive acoustics. you should hear when they let the local shums out to rampage around it. slight reverberation, sure, but the sounds carries something terrible. (and i do mean "something terrible" in this case).

Not a competition entrant - but Riverdance came out of Eurovision; surely that makes it all worth while :).
if you say so... :rolleyes: have not actually seen riverdance, so am unequipped to answer, although i tend to be skeptic (...eurovision != something good...).

Sorry, Sparrow, Riverdance resembles Irish clogging like American diplomacy resembles responsible international correspondence.

LazyScot wrote:Lyrics just went:

And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears