What are you listening to ...right now?

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This gets quite wild..

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WheoGHREF60

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^ ^ ^ ABOVE ^ ^^

This gets quite wild..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WheoGHREF60

Excellent. Much better than listening to all those kids practicing on it in various films and shows spanning the decades. Had felt it was featured in the original The Bad Seed. At least there's proof it was in the 1985 TV remake (the 1:20 mark): https://youtu.be/DFFLRXmjHag

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Number fifteen on the Halloween list (not a ranking). Check out offerings by others in between. Previous is here: https://www.scivillage.com/thread-2918-p...l#pid46795

Throbbing Gristle: Hamburger Lady ... https://youtu.be/0BtTneSsNJ0g

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0BtTneSsNJ0

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Number sixteen on the Halloween list (not a ranking). The previous is above or the post before.

More or less a time when industrial went mildly mainstream, after Throbbing Gristle experimentally founded the genre back in the 1970s. (Not to mention the distorted Dalek voices of "Doctor Who" back in the '60s/'70s)

The full version of "Stigmata" (with the nihilistic sequence of F-word declarations after the 6:20 mark) is here: https://youtu.be/F4v9ouAs8yI

What's embedded below is the "safe", shorter, edited version that played on alt-rock radio stations back in the 1990s. Also minus the lyrics display and graphics scenes the above has. 

Ministry: Stigmata (1988) ... https://youtu.be/uP-jaRK27zo

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/uP-jaRK27zo

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Number seventeen on the Halloween list (not a ranking). The previous is above or the post before.

Who would have thought back in the day that an organ could contain so many dimensions of alien horror in and of itself?

Live Journal (excerpt): Imagine taking a full-scale cathedral organ, the kind with three million pipes and a basement full of machinery, turning all the blowers right up to 'hearing damage' mode, and then leaning on all the keys and pedals at once. That's the opening chord of Volumina.

You feel as though, in settling down to write this piece, Ligeti carefully collected together lots of textbooks on classical harmony, sacred music, organ writing and so forth - and then chucked them out the bloody window. Volumina is an exploration of the sound limits of the organ, making it sound like the most adventurous of synthesizers before such things were even invented.

Ligeti conjures extraordinary, hallucinogenic soundscapes from the instrument. Eerie floating, throbbing textures of wind moaning through industrial piping give way to furious explosive rages that sound as though a serious bar brawl has actually broken out inside the organ. In between these are frankly disturbing collections of noises that sound as though they were made by no Earthly instrument, ranging from banging on the pipes to blowing across them to what sounds like the hoarse, dying bubbles of someone choking to death on a kazoo, while someone twiddles the tuning knob on a radio... (MORE)

György Ligeti: Volumina (for Organ) ... https://youtu.be/0wrhD4ghAUg

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0wrhD4ghAUg

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How 2001: A Space Odyssey Uses György Ligeti's Music

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KTw2T708TW0

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Number eighteen and nineteen on the Halloween list (not rankings). The previous is above or the post before.

A shorter, simulated(?) vintage video of BWJ playing it is here: https://youtu.be/Obs73TqWbog

Blind Willie Johnson: "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" (1927) ... https://youtu.be/71dlO3ceX14

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/71dlO3ceX14

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Rockwell: "Somebody's Watching Me" (1984) ... https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7YvAYIJSSZY

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Here's the original, more or less (live version): https://youtu.be/v_r0L7fWlyM

How an Irish man wound up in Italy (interview of Baltimora): https://youtu.be/mv3e6tnbvNs

Where the Tarzan yell is unfortunately replaced by an instrumental riff, but still the best (IMO) acoustic cover with vocals out there: https://youtu.be/9Y4eH5vs5pk

Cover by Liz Berger (female vocals): https://youtu.be/IvNlB8pt-HU

The Weekend Jammers: cover of "Tarzan Boy" - Baltimora (1985) 

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aUGG60ySFNk

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Out of sheer coincidence I was listening to that song last week. I like your cover better than the original because I can understand the lyrics. Not that that has ever been a requirement for liking a song.

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According to the Quaggy Woods legend, The Band Perry first needed to make money via some CM hits and a couple of albums before they could then disappear into oblivion to do their own thing music-wise.

Here is the original: https://youtu.be/7NJqUN9TClM

Usually I wouldn't embed a video where the microphone sounds even mildly distant from the singer. But this "impromptu" performance deserves a bit more than the total neglect it has received for ten years. No small feat to sing as adeptly as that in a slapdash environment, especially while distracted by whatever she's fiddling with intermittently. 

jjmc10025: cover of "If I Die Young" - The Band Perry (2010) 

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-3gZBmSyLEg

Now to a more professional audio quality cover.

Jess Moskaluke: cover of "If I Die Young" - The Band Perry (2010)

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/q-8_XONWMKQ

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Here is the original: https://youtu.be/G3dFpQzu54w

The original as a live version, done the same year: https://youtu.be/ruTMp4_sy1E

I know, but this old-timer in the following vid is the best, minimalist acoustic cover Youtube has (excluding the many useless, interrupted ones that are guitar lessons). Just try to imagine what a long-haired rocker and totally wasted on acid tripper he might have been way back then:
https://youtu.be/OpSsrCcXWCU

Cotten (below) plays all the instruments herself, and does a pretty good job of reproducing the canon recording of the song. Which is something the Stones have rarely done well in performances, especially after the '60s. 

Margot Cotten: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" - The Rolling Stones (1968)

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/W8BVz1w9oxY

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^^^ Must have been quite a thing getting (most of) Jumping Jack Flash (she did well, very well) but wimpy vocals.
As a belated scary movie I watched The Exorcist - hey I know that music - Tubular Bells. We were just moving from the Dansette (I could weep for the Dansette.. one 'o'clock, two 'o'clock, three 'o'clock..) to 'Hi Fidelity' with woofers and tweeters and the rest..
Looking back a bit I'd say Beethoven had more talent in his little finger than this guy .. but Beethoven had one huge scoopful of talent in his little finger..
Blast from the past..

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bv_4sZCLlr0