Songs You Love

[Meatwad]

R.E.M. - Oddfellows Local 151

[Meatwad]

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

[Meatwad]

Just thinking about Twin Peaks in the film section of the message board and Im reminded of Julee Cruise's "Falling" which is a really nice song and one I haven't heard in a very long time.

Julee Cruise - Falling

[Meatwad]

Corpo-Mente - Ort

[innerspaceboy]

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)

Grabbed this on wax as soon as it was announced.

[ribbons]

Belle and Sebastian - Fox in the Snow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSI1idOUzM

[Guybrush]

I'm sure I've posted this elsewhere too, but some days ago I talked to the father of one of my daughter's friend and we got to talking about music.

We had a lot in common and also a love for this song by Nina Simone 🙂 it's by far my favorite by her. His too, it turns out.

So beautiful and hauntingly sad. It's the best song recording that ever came from Porgy and Bess that I know of.

[Hope]

I love Electric Youth because its great to know that if someone asks for a song that distills everything down into one song that represents the 80's, then there is a go to resource.

Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth

OMG. I had this stuck in my head for the whole last day of our holiday in Bruges. It drove me crazy in a kinda good way.

[Guybrush]

Who doesn't love a bit of King Crimson fronted by Adrian Belew? 🙂 This might be them at their catchiest.

[grindy]

Who doesn't love a bit of King Crimson fronted by Adrian Belew? 🙂 This might be them at their catchiest.

There is something a little lame about the chorus that always bugged me. I still like that song and I'm obviously a huge KC fanboy. If we're talking catchy though, I'd say 80s KC is where it's at.

[Lisnaholic]

Thanks for sharing Dinosaur, which I hadn't heard before.

I liked the surprise of how the song comes back, and of course the AB guitar throughout. I think that grindy has a point though: "I'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones" is a line that doesn't seem worthy of the repetition it gets here.
Also I love Fripp's "guitar as chain saw" sound, but here we only get about 2 seconds of it, right at the very end. If anyone wants a bit more:-

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Here's a song I love. It's short and simple, but I love it for Alynda Segarra's voice, and the way that she talks about "my Jesus", which no-one in England would dream of saying, plus as well "she are" which makes me want to throw my Grammar Police badge out the window.

[grindy]

Thanks for sharing Dinosaur, which I hadn't heard before.

I liked the surprise of how the song comes back, and of course the AB guitar throughout. I think that grindy has a point though: "I'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones" is a line that doesn't seem worthy of the repetition it gets here.
Also I love Fripp's "guitar as chain saw" sound, but here we only get about 2 seconds of it, right at the very end. If anyone wants a bit more:-

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Here's a song I love. It's short and simple, but I love it for Alynda Segarra's voice, and the way that she talks about "my Jesus", which no-one in England would dream of saying, plus as well "she are" which makes me want to throw my Grammar Police badge out the window.

I think you nailed it. I thought it's the melody but indeed, if they had some second sentence nicely rhyming with the first, instead of just repeating it, I'd enjoy it much more.

[Guybrush]

I'll agree the "somebody is digging my bones" isn't particularly good, unless it's so clever I don't get it. I still love the song, though.. and it's fun to play on guitar 🙂

Today, I was reminded of this lovely classic from the underrated London Wainwright III.

I love swimming and a typical pastime in the summer is taking the car to go for a dip someplace. This is the perfect soundtrack to that.

The song was also covered by the Earl Scruggs Revue and Loudon sang on that version as well.

It's a little faster and more lively, but I somehow prefer the original.