What's a great, great song you heard recently? (see rules)
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June 20th, 2015
What’s a great song you heard recently?
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Song and performer(s) only – that’s all – you cannot provide any comment about your choice
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But please freely comment on other people’s choices
I’ll go first:
Devo – Girl U Want
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Mack the Knife – Bobby Darin
Two great songs to start it off!
I Love It – Icona Pop
Mack the Knife always surprises me. It’s almost 80 years old, and it gets covered like a pop song and a show tune and a serious jazz standard. The Bobby Darin version is my second favorite after Ella Fitzgerald.
This is first I’ve heard of Icona Pop. I like it! I’m old (52) but I’ve started to like more electronica because I’ve been listening to KCRW online radio.
Grizzly Bear is totally new to me. I have to say it’s kind of slow for my taste. Not bad, but best for background music.
ZOMG Love Hurts was THE slow song at my high school dances!
Because the Night sung by Bruce, or Patti Smith or 10,000 Maniacs
Get the Party Started by Pink.
The cover I linked to is amazing but what I loved is the footage of Led Zep guys watching. Very touching.
Mack the knife always surprises me, too. It was slightly before my time, and when ever it appeared I was always, like, Wait! Stop! What IS that? I never experienced the saturation-play that sort of jades you to even the greatest songs.
We have a local station that a guy runs out of his basement (maybe 15 mile radius?) and he mixes pop, country, you name it. New New, New York followed by Who Let the Dogs Out. Dolly Parton might be followed by the Stones. I love the surprises.
Etta James – At Last
American pie by Don McLean
B.B.King —The Thrill is Gone (re-mastered first studio version from the album Completely Well, 1969). I hadn’t heard it since about 1980 and now can’t get his smooth, precise, low-action git solo out of my head.
I was listening to that just the other day @Espiritus_Corvus! I love my streaming service. It suggests things to listen to and sometimes I lie in bed flicking through the different albums and tracks suggested. Joy! This weekend, B.B.King was on that list along with John Lee Hooker and a heap of other great artists.
Another Country – Rod Stewart
Last week, for a couple of days, it was the theme music to “How the West Was Won.” I’d seen the film for the first time in forty years. Jesus, what a horror casting 54 year-old James Stewart playing a fur-trapper and eventual husband to beautiful, 31 year-old Carrol Baker. WTF were they thinking? Anyway, Lee J. Cobb and Richard Widmark took the film from the bad category to the average. Forget getting a fair and balanced history of Anglo-American expansionism in this film. It’s strictly a romantic period piece. But the music is fabulous and stuck with me for days. I rode my hoss singing it out loud.
Today it’s the simple, early blues of John Lee Hooker, when all there was in the background was the sound of him banging on his old, beat up acoustic guitar:
Boom, boom, boom, boom
I’m gonna shoot you right down
Right off your feet
Take you home with me
Put you in my house
Boom, boom, boom, boom
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