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Last Train to Clarksville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3_bSfBaPVg
Rush may be perennially overlooked by the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the band is getting an award for lifetime achievement at home.
The rock power trio has won a Governor General's Performing Arts Award. The band members are among the laureates announced Tuesday in Calgary.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/03/06/gg-performing-arts-awards.html
Rush is also overlooked by people who like good music. (Or was that too close to the heart?)
I can't stand Geddy Lee's voice. Sounds like he's been castrated with a rusty knife. Either that, or my hearing is worse than I thought. I miss the days of Crowbar and King Biscuit Boy, not to mention Ronnie Hawkins.
Your hearing is obviously worse that you thought.
Well, I watched as much of Rush's recent movie documentary (I think it's called "From An Enlightened Stage" or something) on MPIX as I could before changing channels - their music sans vocals is okay, but when I hear Geddy Lee sing, I either have to leave the room or change channels. By contrast, I can't get enough of The Band's "The Last Waltz" even when Neil Young comes on.
David Burk, music video director from outdoggy video, chose to use footage from queuepolitely’s short film ‘War on Kleptocracy’ for the Face of Freedom project by social activist, rapper and singer Tijana Bass. In the single Tijana Bass collaborated with legendary Hip Hop group Public Enemy to produce this audio and visual treat. Enjoy:
http://queuepolitely.com/2011/06/public-enemy-tijana-bass-queuepolitely/
Okay it's time, once again, for another one of my weirdly eclectic and eccentric song lists, because that's jus' the kinda person I am:
Kashmir Zep
Girl from Ipanema Amy Winehouse
Catholic Girls Zap
Rapture
Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's fly
DJ's spinning I said my, my
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sais pas, Flashe no deux
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercuries and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, do punk rock
ha ha
Feet of the Moon Parachute Club Giver-giver Carleton pub nights yeah!
Hello Time Bomb Matt Good '99 Giver-giver Coquitlam!
RISE UP NDP ♫ We want freedom! ♫
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kF9LSOE0ykI#!
Chimes of Freedom - The songs of Bob Dylan (album to benefit Amnesty International) - various artists
Not my favourite album of Dylan songs, by a long shot - Joan Baez's early album of Dylan stuff is far better.
I'd say half of the artists on this album are musicians I've never heard before.
Lots of music, though - this is four CDs.
Some strange stuff, especially Flogging Molly (yeah, that's their name) singing The Times they are a-changing. So awful I had to skip to the next song after a minute. And the next artist (Fistful of Mercy) is just as bad, so I skipped that one, too.
I dread hearing Sinead O'Connor singing "Property of Jesus" which is coming up in a few minutes.
Dylan himself must be embarrassed by some of the dreck in this collection.
ETA: Side Four is the best of the lot; especially #7 which is Thea Gilmore singing "I'll Remember You".
Actually, the cover of "Property of Jesus" by Sinead O'Connor ain't half bad - I liked it better than I liked Carly Simon singing "Just Like A Woman". But, then again, I could never stand Carly Simon.
Any Day Now? Have you seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVz-g2DZt7I
Yeah, I think Any Day Now is the one. Sorry, can't download Utube on dialup.
I've been in love with Joan's voice all my life, and, generally, I prefer some of her covers of Dylan songs to those by Dylan himself. My favourite album of all time, however, is a Dylan one: Blonde On Blonde, which i think is simply the best album ever recorded. You should take that with a grain of salt, though, because I haven't bought many albums recorded after 1980 - I much prefer music of the 1970s and 1960s to anything recorded since.
This is a tune my young nephew and I seem to like even tho neither of us appreciates hip-hop or house tunes much.
Party Rock Anthem! LMFAO(sorry that's their handle)
Party Rock is in the house 2niiite
Everybody just have a good tiiime
Everyday I'm shufflin...
What little music I've bought since 1980 is mostly reggae - almost all of Bob Marley, for example, and other artists (Peter Tosh especially). I've got a nice (small) collection of great reggae stuff. Oh, and all of Nanci Griffith's folk albums, as well as Perla Batalla. Perla Batalla sings Leonard Cohen covers better than Leonard Cohen - just like Joan Baez singing Bob Dylan. And, finally - Joan Osborne - she used to be a lead singer for the Dead, then went solo. I love her - we're friends and email occasionally.
Hey that's cool, Boom Boom. I like J.O.'s voice on Sara Smile.
Red Red Wine
stay close to me.
Don't let me be alone;
It's tearing apart
My blue, blue heart.
Have you heard Right Hand Man?
Listening to her now. Cool.
I get the feeling that Janis Joplin has lived through quite a few of the greats. I hear Joplin a little here with Joan Osborne, and I hear Joplin's whisky voice when Plant sings Whole Lotta Love. Steven Tyler does Joplin a lot. Janis and Aretha are the queens of rock and soul imo.
Joan's new album
Stan Rogers' Northwest Passage. It never gets old.
Yeah, I love those old Stan Rogers and Gordon Lightfoot albums. And Murray McLauchlin and Joni Mitchell and Kate and Anna McGarrigle and... geez, this country produced a lot of great talent way back then.
In honour of Conservative budget day, I'm listening to Ian Robb's "They're taking it away".
The melody is here, and someone has kindly posted the lyrics here - so you can sing along with the tune in the background.
A couple excerpts:
And the chorus (to the same tune):
My emphasis, of course.
Sorry, didn't know that. The video was from a 1969(?) TV special, showing Earl Scruggs & Joan Baez performing "Love Is Just A Four Letter Word". Then I see this morning that Earl Scruggs died yesterday at the age of 88:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bluegrass-musician-earl-scruggs-88-dies/2012/03/28/gIQAcTyqhS_story.html
Yeah, Earl was one of the greats.