Top Tunes!

[Leon]

I thought we needed a challenger for the Totty thread, so here's the Tunes thread!

Post up anything that takes your fancy, it could be an old classic, something you've just heard, something that brings back memories, or something you like to listen to while you're painting!

[Leon]

An old but cool one, which appeared mysteriously on my iPod recently:

An amazing performance at the SuperBowl halftime show:

And a surprisingly good cover of an Adele track:

[Last Hussar]

I'm not going to embed videos, because I have too many I like to listen to - They are all on You Tube, plus you don't need the videos to appreciate music, just go and bloody listen to them.  Here are just a few

Lovecats - Cure
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Time Goes By - Jimmy Durante
Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Eternity - Robbie Williams (It is perfectly OK for a middle age man to enjoy Robbie Williams SINGING, ok)
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits (Fell in love for the first time to this one)
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
O'er the Hills - Traditional
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Traditional
It was a very Good year
One for My Baby
Well did you Evah - Sinatra/Astaire
California Dreaming - Mamas and the Papas
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright version from Shrek
Mack the Knife
Aint that a kick in the head - Dean Martin

[FierceKitty]

I'm not going to embed videos, because I have too many I like to listen to - They are all on You Tube, plus you don't need the videos to appreciate music, just go and bloody listen to them. 

A man who listens to music instead of watching the visuals? This could kill of the commercial music business!

[FierceKitty]

off

[goat major]

Cue the Modfather

And the Who's opening for Quadrophenia

[DanJ]

[lentulus]

A bit sappy, but brings me back to a place and time when the world was ahead of me -- and my body worked!

I remember enjoying this when it came out - finally the DJs started playing something at the Saturday night dances at uni that was not drudge-dull disco!

tags no small number of good memories.


And from just after I finished - a boppy love song that's also a anti-war protest.  Its not easy to become a hit in North America and not be in English

Lately, I've been listening to these lads a lot

I have no more French than to read a cereal box, but it reminds me of the "Rock and Reel" and local kinda-Irish and Acadian that was big here when I was a young fellow.

And while this is about far more than winter, it is a good meditation fro the first blizzard of the season.

[Techno]

Coo...

What an eclectic list so far.
I'm not going to embed vids either.....'Fraid I just listen too !....(and I don't have the savvy to post vids.....Stroll on I've only just learned to post pics....and that's being a pain at the moment on photobucket !.....I must be the luckiest person on earth there....I ALWAYS seem to be the 100,000th visitor of the day !)

Rock and Roll & Stairway - Zep.
Industrial disease - Dire Straits.
The last domino - Genesis.
Get organized - Boston.
Karn evil 9 - ELP.
Green grass and high tides - Outlaws
Highway song - Blackfoot
Fly from here - Yes
Heroes (live) - Bowie

I'll give up now.....there are hundreds more !

Cheers - Phil.

[Raider4]

Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright version from Shrek

The one you hear while watching the movie is by John Cale, and is the version against which all other versions pale by comparison.

The Rufus Wainwright version (which I've not heard) is on the soundtrack due to some rights problem.

As for me, I'm currently alternating between Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, The Who's Tommy, and a folder full of 80's stuff (The Cure, Mission, Cult, Sisters Of Mercy, Damned, Adam & the Ants, and other slightly 'alternative' poppy stuff) on random play.

Cheers, Martyn
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[Leon]

I think Stairway deserves a little embedding:

[Nosher]

Weller & Winehouse - Heard it through the grapevine

Winehouse - Monkeyman

Weller & Craddock - Wishing on a Star

The Jam - Town Called Malice

The Cure - Friday I'm in Love

The Housemartins - Anxious

The Beautiful South - 36D

The Smiths - headmaster Ritual

The Farm - Groovy Train

Shaun Ryder - Happy Mondays

The Prodigy - Firestarter

Underworld - Born Slippy

EDIT: Vid's embedded.

[goat major]

Nosher wins the good taste award so far !!!

[Rob]

Simply the best tune ever made. This is one of those tunes you just have to keep turning up till the blood starts oosing form your ears.

LUVVELY

[Last Hussar]

The song I first fell in love too. Still brings a tear to my eye after 25 years

[Hertsblue]

What an impossible task! Mine usually vary on a day-to-day basis. However, in no particular order -

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Mozart - Piano Concerto, 2nd movement.
The Stones - Brown Sugar
Don Maclean - Vincent
Queen - I Want to Break Free
Jaques Lousier Trio - Bach's Air on a G String
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Fishermens' Friends - Bully in the Ally
Thin Lizzie - Kilgaragh Mountain (Whiskey in the Jar - O)

and many, many more.

And no, I'm not going to post videos since there aren't any for most of them and anyway I can't be arsed.....

[Leon]

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing:

Pearl Jam - Even Flow:

Living Colour - Cult of Personality:

[goat major]

Appropriately for this forum.... Tin Soldier by the tremendously brilliant Small Faces

[Leon]

Nicole Scherzinger at this year's Royal Variety.  I was genuinely surprised at how good her voice actually is:

And one of the better tunes I've heard in a while:

[Luddite]

The great Woody Guthrie...

Eric Bogle's masterpiece

Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick : Sovay

I was intending to do 3 but here's a couple more.

Something a little more upbeat perhaps?!

Chaiyya Chaiyya for the film Dil Se

aaaaannnddd...lets finish with a bit of Wierd Al 'white and nerdy'