What are you listening to ...right now?

[RainbowUnicorn]

R&B Funk Disco

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/65Mj1QIAvGM

[C C]

Took this cover to remind me that the original even existed. All I remembered was the riff.

(2022) Kim Lachance: "I Think I'm Paranoid" (Garbage) ... https://youtu.be/CiaWDW7A6Mk

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CiaWDW7A6Mk

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Shirley Manson: in terms of vocal style, the Deborah Harry (Blondie) of the 1990s.

(1998) Garbage: "I Think I'm Paranoid" ... https://youtu.be/ypr18UmxOas

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ypr18UmxOas

[C C]

"It's not your granddaughter's nursery rhyme."

Aug 30, 2022 - Corey Heuvel: cover of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (Buddy Guy)
https://youtu.be/MSpW4pKoeZ8

The original song is here (1969): https://youtu.be/5xczHPPMleE

Solo guitar thread (embed): https://www.scivillage.com/thread-11461-...l#pid52872

[Magical Realist]

Shades of the 80's again..Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way". Only rock song that used a xylophone that I know of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGD9i718kBU

[Magical Realist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3VqAsMXE7o

TALK TALK - LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT (1985)

"At the heart of TALK TALK was the clenched, despondent voice of Mark Hollis – a singular, downbeat instrument, yet one capable of commanding such individual, esoteric and compelling music.

Terms such as ‘post punk’ and ‘post rock’ were never quite able to calibrate the pop-rock spectrum for TALK TALK. Simply, Hollis’ musical trajectory was to work back to his first ideas for the band’s sound, something like a jazz trio with his voice on top, an eye on the minimalism of artists such as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Whatever terms we use to describe the music the group composed later in their career – ambient, gospel, spiritual, an exercise in Miles Davis-inspired free jazz – it was certainly interesting. The great shame, though entirely understandable, was that Mark felt disenfranchised by the whole music industry and ultimately the singer and songwriter of such delicate, introspective work turned his back on the music ‘machine’.

Talk Talk’s third studio album The Colour of Spring saw Mark Hollis imbuing his creations with the spirits of Bartok, Delius and Miles Davis. Seasoned session musicians were brought in - including Steve Winwood and Robbie McKintosh – and kept in the dark regarding the context of their input.

"We learnt over the years that giving an outsider any hints as to musical approach was almost always doomed to send them off in the wrong direction," said producer, co-writer and keyboardist Tim Friese-Greene.

"So what we ended up doing, which must have been quite intimidating, was to get people in and say nothing. That way at least they'd be free to play anything they wanted. Sometimes you get a result and sometimes you'd just write the session off and erase them when they'd gone, which happened on many occasions. We became very good at erasing things."

“…we thought, OK we'll go in and write a single, treat it as some kind of challenge. I had a drum pattern loosely inspired by Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill' and Mark was playing 'Green Onions' organ over the top."
Augmented by a David Rhodes' guitar hook, the end product was the celebratory LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT, a single that helped The Colour Of Spring sell over two million copies.

The video here is TALK TALK performing the single on Dutch TV show TopPop in December 1985, a month before its release."

[Ostronomos]

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KA5CEUZH1AA

[Magical Realist]

What I wouldn't give for a concert like this!

On September 3, 1982. The three day US Festival in San Bernardino, California took place featuring, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, The Cars, Talking Heads, The Kinks, Ramones, B52's, The English Beat, Gang Of Four, Grateful Dead, Pat Benatar, Jackson Browne. Apple Computers founder Steven Wozniak bankrolled the festival.

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[Magical Realist]

"How Soon Is Now" by The Smiths..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek

[Magical Realist]

"Linger" by the Cranberries

RIP Dolores O'Riordan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s

[Magical Realist]

Aching almost painful nostalgic yearning for the 80's...images of long gone friends and the gay bar dance scene in Austin TX...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HI_xFQWiYU

Youtube comments:

Georgia Lorenzetti
1 year ago
Currently listening to this on repeat, in my bedroom, on Christmas Eve, while it’s raining outside. This is what peace feels like.
1.9K

Cheri Hughes
Cheri Hughes
4 months ago
The 80's were the best years to be a teenager/young adult. This is a classic!
910

Algox
Algox
4 months ago
Napoleon Dynamite's ending is so nice and sweet, and the addition of this song almost makes me wanna cry. Of happiness.
538

elflingskitten saunders
elflingskitten saunders
2 weeks ago (edited)
I remember being a teenager in 1988, we were very poor and they were about to shut off our electric. I heard this for the first time then while standing in our driveway and just being overcome by the feelings of hope and joy this song gave me.
Almost 35 years later and it's still possibly my favorite song ever
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Timothy Emerson
Timothy Emerson
2 months ago (edited)
I just lost a lifelong (57 years) friend. This song has become a huge part of my mourning. Its incredibly painful to listen to right now but I NEED it. Its beautiful.