What are you listening to...

This is one of the first songs I looked up when I learned of Gordon Lightfoot's passing.



View: https://youtu.be/bAedY3NucEs



A song so beautiful and well done many people don't realize it's about breaking-up.

"I don't know where we went wrong,
but the feelings gone,
and I just can't get it back."

 

Rick Wakeman.

 

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DWqyYW8tOg

In memory of the late great Jeff Beck...

Eric Clapton releases Jeff Beck collaboration Moon River – an emotional new single showcasing Beck’s masterful guitar work

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/eric-clapton-jeff-beck-moon-river

 

Beck isn't (I don't see any reason to refer to his music in the past tense) a flashy player, & the casual listener might think "So what's so special?". Guitar players react more along the lines of "How did he do that?".

 

View: https://youtu.be/dQgct-j6snc


Peter Gabriel has actually made very few solo albums when you consider he left Genesis in 1976 (I think). I like to believe he prefers quality over quantity.

 

Fanny.


Some background:

https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/fanny-the-right-to-rock-premieres-may-22/


The link for the documentary (note - about 90 minutes):

Fanny: The Right to Rock | Episode 1 | PBS

 

Indie pop-ish song by Mumble Tide called Hotel Life. Fun sound, cool video, plus you get to be a snob about this to all your friends that haven't heard it, which of course is the best thing about indie music


View: https://youtu.be/gnAHYg85rBs

 

JJ Cale. Found him last year. Great Tulsa rhythm

 

More like watching & listening,
Or listening & watching.


View: https://youtu.be/nfv2lvFKiCk

 

https://remix.audio/track/35021/rillen-rudi-empty-pavements-serj-tankian-adele

I wouldn't say I'm a big Adele fan but for me this rocks pretty hard after the first fast paced intro. Thay first bit sounds like your 18 but as soon as her vocal starts it sounds more adult, 40ish ? as it kind of grinds through the rumination. I'm feelin it, but I'm 60 and want to tell her, don't call it giving up, call it transcendence to independence.
End of the day it is what you spin it to be in your own mind.

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I want to add this here in reference to "it's about wang dang time" in the picture thread.


View: https://youtu.be/h1IITi3k9aY

 

While looking for what's this band I found these...
An oldie 80s thing that sounds pretty cool and not nessasrry 80s if it doesn't ping a memory

View: https://youtu.be/lk5iMgG-WJI


Then this was found scrolling below the 80s British search results. Pretty dang great I think at first listen...

View: https://youtu.be/z726OPwCnjE

Hopefully there's more good stuff in this rabbit hole.
Fuck yeah there is !

View: https://youtu.be/K8VOxFvHpKA

 

Awkwafina is a queen.
Been a fan for a long time.

 

Ya and I'm like oh what's this cool new thing ?? Oh it's 8 years old...dang I'm a geezer behind the curve again.

 

Going back much further than eight years...


View: https://youtu.be/4KUL9-eNXzQ



Disco (still) sucks, but not equally.

 

Ooooh, Kasiban is great. I think that was the first song I got name recognition with them on. It was on a FIFA soccer video game, maybe 2010? Their catalogue is pretty good.

To keep in the sharing vibe, here's my next contribution. Caroline Rose just had a KEXP performance drop. They are fun, and the KEXP channel is great to do a rabbit hole dive on, too
View: https://youtu.be/fBMsCHdzFbs

 

I'll play. Grace is the best Soul Rock since Joplin.


View: https://youtu.be/paeNnR33i5Q

 

That's an interesting interpretation of Neil Young's Cortez the Killer. I wonder what percentage of her voice Grace is using? My guess is 90%.


Joan Osborne never really did try to fill the Soul Rock Queen role. I'll include an extremely honorable mention of Joss Stone.


View: https://youtu.be/yKLNyZjIQyY

 

RIP Sinead.

Her version with the Chieftains of The Foggy Dew makes my heart hurt every time.

 

Cortez the Killer is literally one of my favorite songs. Thanks for sharing! Built to Spill also has a fun cover of it if you want to check it out.
View: https://youtu.be/TNOvqFISxIc

 

This guy deserves a much larger audience.


View: https://youtu.be/gW9iLMIhIcU