Thanks for this, V. It's beautiful.

Amazing. You really can find anything on the interwebz.

In HS, our choir did an arrangement of Silent Night that I loved. It was beautiful. For some reason, my dad came to our concert and I remember he said it was the best version of SN that he'd ever heard (quite a compliment from dad considering he hated to go to those kinds of things.)

Well, I still remember a bit how it went. It was perfect, mostly because our soloist Laura had one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard, something else my dad also noted.

So I was thinking about it and started messing around with google...and I found it. The arrangement is by Rhonda Polay, and is quite popular (though I've not heard it since HS.)

This girl misses on some parts, but you can get the idea. (With all due respect, I don't think anyone could match how Laura sang it.)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm feeling verklempt, just like I did when we performed that song and Laura blew the room away.

How about a Joni Mitchell cover?



I wonder if Dan could've got a tighter pair of trousers...?

This is the video Adak linked to in the Macabre Democrats thread. It was hidden. And it's very touching.



WARNING: this video might make you cry. Wow. So beautiful.

very nice.

I guess each of us has his/her own definition of beautiful.

It isn't youtube because the song isn't there. But it is a wonderful song:

http://www.gettyimages.com/music/dow...sunday-morning

Sorry in advance ,

Nice!

Ya really can't beat a bit of Thin Lizzy.

I dug it for the intro/countdown.

anyone for some *ahem* making love music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotat...&v=76TapKZ4_zM

Been too long. Can't remember how to post the link ... lil help?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotat...d=ChteB4efjOg&v=76TapKZ4_zM

the part after v=

Meant to post these the other week....mayhave done, can't remember. Went back a few pages and couldn't see it, so:



Sweet -



Funky -

thanks jim, but there were two "=" <<thats kinda funny looking.

3, actually....


Seems to always be the 'v=' that works.

WHAT? I'm right here, why are you shouting??

Here's a black metal song I like:

Just heard this song in a Honda Civic commercial.

Too gorgeous not to share.

Imagine the trepidation/thrill of playing Stairway to Heaven for... Led Zeppelin. :eek:

wow. fucking awesome. Thanks , bruce.

It must be surreal for them. Especially, I look at Robert. He wrote those lyrics in 15 minutes. I remember hearing him say that it was like something was pushing his pen. Like the song already existed before it was written, and he just uncorked it. ( that may have been because they ripped the melody off from Taurus, but hey...)

anyway.... here's this huge production version with backup singers, and orchestral accompaniment, and goddamn Obama in the the audience.

When he teared up.... I teared up.


moar!


here's the full gig:

wow---I missed that one.. thanks for posting it Jim.

Incredible. Led Zep is the music of my misbegotten youth.
Good, good times.

I missed it too. thank xoxoxbruce for putting up that first link. It just got me digging. Apparently they did a little bit of promotion for the dvd of Celebration Day release.... and the Kennedy center honors thing happened at the same time.

That was Fucking OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!

Queen at Live Aid. I watched this live on TV.

I love the music on Lena Dunham's show Girls.

I really loved this song by Icona Pop

http://youtu.be/UxxajLWwzqY

Doesn't anyone remember this song?
 

Some girl in the bin was always singing one song or another. She was trying to remember a song and I don't know if it was this one, but it's what she put me in mind of.

I remember clearly listening to it/singing along with my grandma. Maybe she had the radio on or maybe she had the record and played it on her big old console stereo. (I would've been about 8 years old, and we visited grandma a lot)

When I finally remembered sort of how the song went, I couldn't come up with who sang it. When I got home I googled it. And wow! I remember it so well now. Hurricane Smith was Norman Smith, who was an engineer then producer for EMI records for the Beatles.

It was cool to hear it again...one of those songs you never hear anymore so it was fun to rediscover it in such an odd way. Yeah, it's very 1972, but I love it. :)

Wanda

So.

Watched "Flight" last night. You know it's amazing what music can do. It can take you higher than you imagined was possible, for a piece of music, and, it can dump you lower than a snake's belly.

For three days, I've been in the foulest funk that I can function in. Just ill, pissed off and everything/everybody seemed to make everything worse.

The first appearance of this song in the movie (if you've seen it, you know what I mean) found me as pissed off as I've been for this particular period of shittiness, and by the time the scene was over I was singing along, verily dancing in my chair.

And I was smiling. I woke up at 6:30 this a.m., fresh as a daisy, feeling good for the first time this week...

...And I was singing "Feelin Alright" by Joe Cocker.

I totally get that, grav. Good song. :)

Was the movie OK? No spoilers please.

And this song, used in 127 Hours, has that same feel good effect on me:



--Bill Withers

The movie was great! I think the first thing ya see is a boobie!! Wouldn't watch it with a child less than 16-17, though. Or Momdigr! That's right out.

7.75 outta 10

I loved 127 Hours. I mean really loved it, I watched the whole thing again the next day. Damn, now I'm halfway thinking about watching it again tonight.

I watched it 3 times really close to each other, and i've been thiking about watching it again! Love it!

It makes me cringe.

That scene where they work their way into the slot canyon by wedging themselves against the walls and then letting go and dropping down into what they hope will be a pool full of water just really bothers me.

It's been a while since I saw it, so maybe I'm not remembering it well. But the memories that stick out in my head are all of this guy doing pretty foolish stuff. Darwin let one get away.

It's weird though, because in an action movie, I don't have any problem with the crazy and dangerous stuff people do. I think it's because this is supposedly based on a true story that the crazy stuff bugs me.

I mean, back to that swimming scene. It would be so easy for them to bash their heads on the cliff inches in front of them or inches in back of them, get knocked unconscious, and then drown when they hit the water. And he didn't even check the water depth before cliff dropping into it. He couldn't even see the water from where he was. He had obviously been there before, but it had been a while. And in the desert, water is there one week and gone the next. It depends on the rain.

Yabbut. James Franco. ;)

I thought about the head knocking thing too. Apparently, that was added into the film:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/...yles-127-hours

Billy Cobham & George Duke Band - Stratus (1976)
 

Billy Cobham, 13 years later...



And...22 years after that...

just brilliant

Oh, man, I love Seasick Steve. He is such a cool guy.

I probably posted this eons ago...but I can't be arsed looking :p

It's what is in my head atthe moment anyways:

Time for some Colourblind James:

Dr Funkenstein says:
 

Come on up to the mothership, Starchild!



Bring your flashlight!



'Cause we're gonna turn this mother out!



(ok that's it, I wanna get funky and boogie!) :jig:

Yeah, man.

In this video of "The Legendary Showdown" --Steve Gadd, Vinnie Colaiuta, and Dave Weckl, at the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert 1989, Los Angeles, I have skipped ahead to the part where Vinnie starts using one hand at a time, lol.



Vinnie, may people agree, is the sickest (in the way the kids mean this) drummer out there, to this day. Somewhere I may have posted the story where Frank Zappa hands him a brand-new stack of "impossible" drum charts, and Vinnie immediately nails them. Sight-reading, while alternately using his "free" hands to eat a plate of sushi, flip pages, and push his glasses up his nose. Everyone in the room (I think Zappa, Steve Vai, and maybe Bozzio) were simply disgusted. He is, like, too good to be human.

Sometimes I like some primitive visceral thumping as well. Note Jimhelm at the mic. Them Crooked Vultures.

Mayhave already posted this, or a different performance of the same:

Toe tapping music:




This next one I adore. Just brilliant. Beautiful lyrics and well performed.

You're in good company, Dana--Temporary Blues is Minifobette's favorite song on that album. :)

Good stuff Dana!
We drove Lil'Griff up to Hamilton College today for a Junior Visit which gave us time to listen to the whole Alabama Shakes album. Fine piece of work.



Note grin on bass player.

Aw YAHHH

Been on my mind a lot lately. Proceed at your own risk.

Can a musician or someone like that explain to me why chorus of this song sounds a lot like the chorus of the Smithereens' Behind the Wall of Sleep?