I am Music

This woman has a terrific voice...I first heard her when I lived in England in the eighties...unfortunately due to reasons I can only guess at.. she nevermade the extreme big time...which is sad, because she could stand aganst any singer out there in her prime...

Here's 3 examples of her work...all fairly short...I hope you enjoy them, but especially her voice..Tenderness , Only You, and Love Resurrection... Alison Moyet
 
This is an awesome performance...Annie Lennox live at the Arista records 25th Anniversary celebration, accompanying herself on piano...the definitive version of Why

I can almost feel her channeling Ray Charles.... :cool:
 
tungtied2u said:
This is an awesome performance...Annie Lennox live at the Arista records 25th Anniversary celebration, accompanying herself on piano...the definitive version of Why

I can almost feel her channeling Ray Charles.... :cool:

Oh, don't start me on Annie. Her version of one of my most favourite songs.

Everytime we say goodbye

Oh shit, now I'm crying.
 
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Tristesse2 said:
Oh, don't start me on Annie. Her version of one of my most favourite songs.

Everytime we say goodbye

Oh shit, now I'm crying.

Good evening darling. Wanna borrow my hankie ? Yea...Annie is special, one of a kind, and one of my all time favorites too.

Uh...can I have the hankie back? I'm feeling verklempt myself.... :eek:
 
OK...let's have a slobberfest...Somehwere from West Side Story.... :kiss:

so the singing isn't that great from the movie...I know...but I ran across this clip from 1964.....and submit it as an apology...Shirley Bassey..OMFG !
 
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"The famous saying about the Velvet Underground, the unofficial band of Andy Warhol's 'Factory,' is that only a handful of people ever saw them perform, but all those people went home and started bands."

It probably took me thirty years, but I finally got what the VU was doing. I'm feelin' kind of New Yawkish today, so let's cue up a tune or two, eh? Sweet Jane oughtta do, I think.

OK. This version is obviously off some kind of reunion tour. If you can get past the idea of the VU doing a frickin' reunion tour without that making you rather sick, it's kinda fun. You do have to love Mo playing her bass drum like a really really big tom-tom and what's with that headstockless guitar Lou's playing? ZZ Top uses those also. How do you tune the damn things?

Hey. You ever see the old SNL skit about "What if Napoleon had had a B-52 at the Battle of Waterloo?" Probably not. No matter.

Anyway, here's my pick for Best Video in the category of What If the Velvet Underground Had Actually Been a Grateful Dead-inspired Jam Band from Vermont Who Has Its Own Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavor?

It's more profound when you're stoned. Trust me.

And, finally, my favorite version, manifested as a Seconal-drenched lullaby by Canada's Cowboy Junkies. Ah, Margo Timmins! I have a major urge to sit alongside you on the banks of Owen Sound reciting poems from Les fleurs du mal (in the orignal French, naturellement), clinking glasses of Pernod, and staring dreamily at your awesome cheekbones. I'll even turn the treble on my amp way way way down, if you will but deign to kiss me.
 
Tzara said:
"The famous saying about the Velvet Underground, the unofficial band of Andy Warhol's 'Factory,' is that only a handful of people ever saw them perform, but all those people went home and started bands."

It probably took me thirty years, but I finally got what the VU was doing. I'm feelin' kind of New Yawkish today, so let's cue up a tune or two, eh? Sweet Jane oughtta do, I think.

OK. This version is obviously off some kind of reunion tour. If you can get past the idea of the VU doing a frickin' reunion tour without that making you rather sick, it's kinda fun. You do have to love Mo playing her bass drum like a really really big tom-tom and what's with that headstockless guitar Lou's playing? ZZ Top uses those also. How do you tune the damn things?

Hey. You ever see the old SNL skit about "What if Napoleon had had a B-52 at the Battle of Waterloo?" Probably not. No matter.

Anyway, here's my pick for Best Video in the category of What If the Velvet Underground Had Actually Been a Grateful Dead-inspired Jam Band from Vermont Who Has Its Own Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavor?

It's more profound when you're stoned. Trust me.

And, finally, my favorite version, manifested as a Seconal-drenched lullaby by Canada's Cowboy Junkies. Ah, Margo Timmins! I have a major urge to sit alongside you on the banks of Owen Sound reciting poems from Les fleurs du mal (in the orignal French, naturellement), clinking glasses of Pernod, and staring dreamily at your awesome cheekbones. I'll even turn the treble on my amp way way way down, if you will but deign to kiss me.


Margo T. is my best friend's cousin. You want her number? :devil:
 
Sara Crewe said:
Margo T. is my best friend's cousin. You want her number? :devil:
Hell. Do foxes wear socks? ;)

I just noticed another line in Theodor's book, and am now really wondering. Do
Chicks with bricks come[,]
Chicks with blocks come[,]
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come[?]​
Should I be concerned that this smut is freely available in our elementary school libraries? Or should I file the information away and start striking up conversations with women holding clocks and bricks?
 
Tzara said:
Hell. Do foxes wear socks? ;)

I just noticed another line in Theodor's book, and am now really wondering. Do
Chicks with bricks come[,]
Chicks with blocks come[,]
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come[?]​
Should I be concerned that this smut is freely available in our elementary school libraries? Or should I file the information away and start striking up conversations with women holding clocks and bricks?

Ah, one of my favs. :)

Fox in socks are game is done, Sir. Thank you for a lot of fun, Sir.

Come to think of it. What's with the Sirs. I think it has some kinda weird BDSM ring to it...

I would file it away in the gooey-goo 'cause it could get you into a sticky situation if you pull that out with the wrong person.
 
Cowboy Junkies

Is a newish band (hell, to me, Talking Heads is a newish band) I really like. There aren't many.

Anyway I may not want to sit on the Owens Sound with Margo Timmons and admire hr cheekbones, but I could listen to that husky whispery voice all day (although at the moment I'm listening to Edith and Archie sing Those Were the Days, thanks to TV boy :cool: ). My absolute favorite CB song is Blue Moon Revisited, but as I couldn't find that on Youtube, here's a pretty good live version of Lost My Drivin Wheel.

Sigh. Stifle it, Edith...
 
eagleyez and I have this game we play--no, not that game...we don't talk about that one here :devil:--called "Top Five." Who are the top five rock musicians, top five bands, top five ice cream flavors, you get the idea. I suppose it's what happens when two poets hang out together endlessly. We both put Lou Reed in our top five rock musician list, and though this clip isn't really rock (cause I couldn't find Andy Warhol's Dream, which I love), it's a great and very poetic song brought to you by those two happy minstrels Lou Reed and John Cale from Reed's excellent "Songs for Drella" cycle.
 
OK, one more Cowboy Junkies link and I will lay my Margo Timmins fetish to rest.

Oh. That actually sounds kind of kinky. :rolleyes:

Aw, hell. Enjoy it anyway. It's a good song.
 
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by Bob Dylan is one of my favorite songs. The version I really like is by the Byrds, but I can't find that on YouTube, so check these out instead:
  • Dylan, 1965, looking young.
  • Dylan, 1995, looking old and strangely similar to Keith Richards.
  • Van Morrison, looking really creepy, like a raincoat wearing exhibitionist.
  • Them, AKA a younger Van Morrison, from the soundtrack of Romeo Is Bleeding. Way better.
  • Hey, Joan Baez! Kind of a trip.
  • Hole. Courtney's kind of subdued, and of all of these, this is my favorite.
 
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