As a spinoff from another thread, what is the song(s) you just can't get enough of? there are four songs on Tift Merrit's "Tamborine" that I keep on playing ---Good Hearted Man ---Laid a Highway ---Like a Tambourine ---Still Pretending
It's not my favorite song by any means, but lately I find myself listening to Livingston Taylor's "Our Turn To Dance" from "Ink" (a fine Chesky recording) over and over again. Maybe it's touching a chord like Albert Porter mentioned above -- our daughters are pretty much grown, one is about to get married, etc. But it's a fine song in its own right, and you'll enjoy it. Happy Listening.
"About Time" by Steve Winwood...for the 10 days or so this cd has gone from house to car to work and back again. Every song is a gem. Winwood is at peak on the Hammond B3. The guitarist really smokes, and the rhythm section gets into my bones.
"Ring the Bells" by James, from their c.d. "Seven."
I love this song for it's music and lyrics. If I ever play it, I know it will be near my c.d. player for days.
Sample of lyrics...
When you let me fall Grew my own wings Now I'm as tall as the sky When you let me drown Grew gills and fins Now I'm as deep as the sea When you let me die my spirit's free There's nothing challenging me.
The new song Bob Dylan wrote for the movie "North Country" is an amazing country-folk ballad that has been stuck in my head since the day I first heard a few months ago. The song, "Tell Ol' Bill," is full of amazing, haunting imagery telling the tale of pain and the scarred resignation that comes with the acceptance of a failed relationship and lost dreams. It is sung from the woman's point of view and ends with:
Tell ol' Bill when he comes home Anything is worth a try Tell him that I'm not alone That the hour has come to do or die.
All the world I would defy Let me make it plain as day I look at you now and I sigh How could it be any other way?
This has to be one of the best written songs of 2005 and one of Dylan's 10 best ever...seriously.
Eva Cassidy--"Live at Blues alley". The rest of her catalog is pretty special too. If yuu don't have something by her, you are missing something special. I also can go a month or so and not listen to Jennifer Warnes "The Well", but when I do play it again and give it a good listen, I wind up listenig to it regularly for the next 3-4 weeks--like almost for the first time. I don't think I will ever tire of these ladies' voices.
24u, I agree about Ray Montford 'Shed Your Skin' - great music and playing, well recorded. I have a couple of his other discs but they're not quite as well done.
If you like Loreena McKennitt, I highly recommend her 2 CD set 'Live in Paris and Toronto'.
Hippo song notwithstanding, here's what keeps getting played time and again in my house:
Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up Sarah Brightman - Eden Christian Theileman et all - Carmina Burana on DG DVD-A Ton Koopman - Organ Spectacular; famous organ works by Bach on DVD-A Stan Getz Quartet - Pure Getz on SACD Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out on SACD Ludacris - Red Light District
Nothing lately but at various times earlier in life:
Classical Gas - Mason Williams You can't always get what you want - Stones Karn Evil 9 - ELP I'm not in love - 10CC Miracles - Jefferson Starship Won't get fooled again - The Who
Glenn Gould first brought the Goldberg Variations to life in his best-selling 1955 debut recording, a brash interpretation that made this "difficult" piece into child's play. He revisited the work in his final recording in 1981, shortly before his death. Only this time, deliberation was the rule, not playfulness. You can hear every voice, every line, clearly and distinctly. And the whole work is tied together by precise ratios in the change of tempo. Gould covers the range of human emotion in this piece. The stacatto in the bass of the first variation is violent and precise. The legato in the aria, especially when repeated on the final track, is tender and absorbing. Everywhere, Gould finds things -- structures and patterns -- you didn't know were there. Masterful.
I've heard many artists' visions of the Goldberg Variations, but the 1981 recording is more beautiful than the others by a wide margin. Then again, I am a huge GG devotee, and own almost his entire body of recorded work. It's out of control; for example, I have a cd recording of the 1981 Goldberg (from the A State of Wonder set), the SACD-only disc, and a VHS of the filming of the session.
Sorry this post sounds so pedantic and stock. This is what happens when you truly love a piece of music. You lose the ability to describe it. I never even try to write poetry.
Well said, Albert. I remember my daughters listenting to Milli Vanilli---"Girl, You know it's true". Thank God they have matured into young women with pretty good tastes.
"Nights When I Am Sane" by Mickey Newbury. The whole cd---I can't get enough. His music strikes a chord somewhere deep in me. I think he is probably the most underratted songwriter--maybe ever. He is also a good musician and singer. Every song is so poignant.
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