Culture Club's first album, Kissing to Be Clever. Say what you may about this band, but Boy George's voice was silk personified and the tracks on that album were so different, so ahead of their time in 1982.
What artist/song are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
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I just listened the hell out of this yesterday.
And I am an Elvis fan.
One of his very best songs, IMO.
No name to the song... Just a song from the TV show Znation, Grand Canyon episode (cut clip). Can’t get the song out of my head since first hearing it.
Arkay Lynchpin
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Love the 80's, 90's and modern stuff too, but
I was just watching this video and it always strikes me as somehow it's "bigger" than one man playing the guitar and harmonica and singing. I'm humbled when I watch it and I find myself going back to watch it from time to time. Tiny Dancer video with Elton playing the piano when he is young also embodies that feeling for me. Maybe it's that I was born in 1970, so it's this sense of coming home to my childhood, but that's what goes through my mind as I ponder and listen to this song....
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Arkay Lynchpin
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Neil always brought a focus to my world in the mellowest ways....
This will always be my favourite;
Definitely, an amazing Neil Young song too! It is hauntingly beautiful. Thanks for posting this one. I am working from home today playing major catchup after the holidays and I literally stopped and played it 3 times. I hope that the youngest new generations doesn't lose sight of these "jewels" of the past. I hear songs that are brand new from new artists that are popular and I KNOW that if these same young listeners knew about some of these older songs/videos that the young ears would love to experience the same wonder we felt listening to them when we were young. Maybe the youngins wouldn't like every song or even most of the songs, but SOME of the songs would resonate with them. Music (like books!!!) can bridge time and I think it gets lost in the fight for money and the eyeballs and earholes of the masses for the new artists/songs coming out. It is such a sales "engine" these days that there is little money is pushing old hits to a new generation.
I put on some old...I mean OLLLLLD....Pink Floyd while camping with some of my much younger friends (friends my age won't go camping anymore...grrr!!) and they all asked who it was and thought it was a newer band! LOL!
Same thing applies to newer (but older) bands like say Mazzy Star. So Tonight That I Might See is a great album. I play it when I want peaceful background music to the soundtrack that is my life when the time is appropriate. It is so peaceful and centers me. The song is just guitar, a violin and her melodic and magical voice which typifies their sound.
One of my favorite bands when I was an angry youth was New Order and I'm happy to say I was able to see them recently in a small venue. I see a lot of concerts and this one was up there with the best I've seen. I believe the newest generation would love old New Order (and Joy Division who later became New Order).
Here is a great video of a good example of the kind of old New Order upbeat sound that would have been more mainstream if released today by a new band...at least I believe new music pulls from this. New Order when they first started out used instruments (like Pink Floyd did) and achieved sounds that they use computers/mixers/etc for today. Finally (b/c I can sit here all day and post my fav artists and vids), I will leave you with how these upbeat songs make me feel (yes, at 45 years old and a grown man...haha!).
...okay...okay....if you don't want to watch a girl dancing around (or picture ME dancing around) then here is an live version of same song from 1983.
On that side Joy Division note, here is a Joy Division song that transitioned to New Order and is one of the few they always play even today. (From 1987)
If you like music historical influence stuff you should watch the b/w movie Control about Joy Division as their influence on modern music is amazing. The lead actor CHANNELS singer Ian Curtis. I can't say enough how well he did portraying the lead singer. The movie has cameos from U2 and other bands about how they were shaped by Joy Division.
It's a bit different as movies go, but worth watching and I'm not afraid to throw that out there. I'm a better person for watching it though and I believe some of you will be too.
Curt
If you like music historical influence stuff you should watch the b/w movie Control about Joy Division as their influence on modern music is amazing. The lead actor CHANNELS singer Ian Curtis. I can't say enough how well he did portraying the lead singer. The movie has cameos from U2 and other bands about how they were shaped by Joy Division.
It's a bit different as movies go, but worth watching and I'm not afraid to throw that out there. I'm a better person for watching it though and I believe some of you will be too.
Curt
I saw the movie a few years ago and thought it was great. I didn't know much of anything about Joy Division before I saw the movie. After seeing the movie, I bought their two albums (plus the compilation album, Substance) and love them. I have to be in a certain mood to listen to Closer. It's great but very dark.
LOVE Days of the New! Brings back a lot of memories from college for me. I find myself listening to Tool or A Perfect Circle a lot more these days, but I still bust out the Days of the New and I actually have the CD in my car right now!!!!
Travis Meeks was really good in that band. I have all their music. He came to our area years ago, but I didn't get to see him, because I had to work that night.LOVE Days of the New! Brings back a lot of memories from college for me. I find myself listening to Tool or A Perfect Circle a lot more these days, but I still bust out the Days of the New and I actually have the CD in my car right now!!!!
Tool is a big favorite of mine also! Hope the new album comes this year!
Arkay Lynchpin
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