OT: Music 5

[buggs]

This one’s for @buggs! Don’t think I commented way back when you posted on the Amanda Shires love. I share that love…not only is she musically talented, but oh man what a sweetheart!

Love Jason and Amanda’s version of this John Prine classic. (Man that sucked losing John to Covid)

Thanks for this. I'm glad someone noticed. She's just stunningly talented and easy on the eyes as well. If you've followed her career for a while you can see her self confidence evolve. The talent was always there without question but her looks are almost plastic and I mean that as a complement. You just never know what she's going to do with them. Probably a bit of "country music mainstream" trying to bring her out but she and Jason apparently aren't interested in that. Nice to see that they reject the mold of looks > talent. Jason Isbell is a very lucky man. Both are remarkably talented and I'm not even a big country fan.

 

[buggs]

Don't know how you all feel about comments on YouTube but I love going through them. Some absolute gems:

The combined blood alcohol content standing on that stage must be absolutely staggering...

It's almost like I was up there with them...

 

[buggs]

So...Mark Knopfler. Heard of the guy? Rumor has it that he's got some talent. Had my doubts, but saw him a couple of times, once with Dire Straits just before heading to Australia back in 88. Some guy named Clapton opened for them Had a huge Dire Straits phase in about 1984 or so, never have recovered really. Also saw him on a solo tour probably 20 years later. Tried to see him in Vancouver at the Commodore but tickets just kept going up, even for a single ticket so it wasn't to be. That would have been 2019 which I fear may have been the last tour. Such a talent, such a diversity of music. So much ability and seemingly so little effort.

Three of my favorites but there are so many more...

This song has been my favorite for years now. It wasn't always but this performance was just incredible. Emmy Lou does not appear.


Was this off Dire Straits last album? It seems like it to me. Two different videos, one for the "American" market, another for the UK and presumably Europe. This is the American version. Seemed like such a positive song to me. The album was full of gems.



The one that started it all, at least for me. I could listen to this a million times in a row and still be happy listening one more time. One of the few songs I would pull over just so I can close my eyes and listen to the song.



So many more songs, many of them meaningful to me, from this band because of the timing of their great success through the early 1980s, that could be posted. Telegraph Road should be posted but with three videos per post it didn't make the cut. That in and of itself is a tragedy.

 

[Ducky10]

Thanks for this. I'm glad someone noticed. She's just stunningly talented and easy on the eyes as well. If you've followed her career for a while you can see her self confidence evolve. The talent was always there without question but her looks are almost plastic and I mean that as a complement. You just never know what she's going to do with them. Probably a bit of "country music mainstream" trying to bring her out but she and Jason apparently aren't interested in that. Nice to see that they reject the mold of looks > talent. Jason Isbell is a very lucky man. Both are remarkably talented and I'm not even a big country fan.

Big Jason Isbell fan, just a brilliant songwriter and performer.

 

[buggs]

So what happens when you mix this...



With this:



Might it end up here? Nah, purely coincidental. Back in the day some argued that this wasn't the case. LOL.

 

[buggs]

Did you know Rob Halford was (is) gay? I had no idea back in the 1980s so the songs sort of evolved within my mind from that point on. But I was a huge Judas Priest fan back in the day. Still am to this day. Wore a British Steel lapel pin to high school grad. Nothing wrong with it, just marvel at how young and naieve I was at the time.







Easily top three band for me back in time. Absolutely tons of stellar music, loved every live show I attended. Those were the days I knew someone at Eaton's who could get in early to the box office so I was regularly in the front five rows. Golden days.

 

[buggs]

Which brings us to this:



Pretty much sold on the idea that the basis for this movie was Judas Priest and Rob Halford. Enjoyed the movie rather immensely, notably this scene. Jennifer Aniston has never hurt a scene she's been in. Just sayin'.

 

[FFHockey]

No words required….maybe a few tears.

 

[Ducky10]

Did you know Rob Halford was (is) gay? I had no idea back in the 1980s so the songs sort of evolved within my mind from that point on. But I was a huge Judas Priest fan back in the day. Still am to this day. Wore a British Steel lapel pin to high school grad. Nothing wrong with it, just marvel at how young and naieve I was at the time.







Easily top three band for me back in time. Absolutely tons of stellar music, loved every live show I attended. Those were the days I knew someone at Eaton's who could get in early to the box office so I was regularly in the front five rows. Golden days.

I was/am a huge Priest fan. To me, there is nothing like British Metal. I thought Halford being gay was the worst kept secret in music during the ‘80’s, lol.

 

[AlphaLackey]

I guess it really has been FAR too long since I've been on a gambling / degenerate drunk bender, cause I heard this song again



And all I can think of is "HOLY SHIT YES SIGN ME UP"

I mean

"and the only thing a gambler needs,
is a suitcase and a trunk"
(sign me up!)
"and the only time that he's satisfied
is when he's on a drunk"
(see above, lol)

 

[AlphaLackey]

"ALPHA YOU IDIOT IT IS A CAUTIONARY TALE!"
".. a cautionary tale...?"
"yes!"
"okay CAUTION cause this PARTY DONE GET STARTED, YO, DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS!"
".. *le sigh*"

 

[AlphaLackey]

And speaking of "wait a minute, what do you mean I'm supposed to NOT want this", here's another one that warms my honorary boomer heart down to the very last cockle.

 

[schmockeyknife]

great base line on this one

 

[spiny norman]

Some more 1960's music from the sorta random playlist ...

 

[schmockeyknife]

more like spill the cannabis

 

[Ducky10]

great base line on this one

This thread was definitely missing Joe Jackson, my introduction to edgy sophistication.

 

[schmockeyknife]

and they're canadian!

 

[spiny norman]

From tonight's sorta random playlist ...

 

[chaos4]

Taylor Momsen? A little underrated? A little too much try hard? Not sure, like most of the music. A lot of "I'm not Hollywood" going on IMO, though that's not a bad thing. At the same time, a lot of marketing on looks? Hell of a voice though.

https://youtu.be/BX6KILafIS0

 

[chaos4]

Summer is here!

 

[spiny norman]

Some 1990s rock music before tonight's Jets game ... Go Jets Go !!!

 

[buggs]

This thread was definitely missing Joe Jackson, my introduction to edgy sophistication.

Got me on ignore? I've posted at least three Joe Jackson videos. Here's another:

 

[buggs]

Ok, for real. My favorite JJ tune:



So, so, so much energy...

 

[Ducky10]

Got me on ignore? I've posted at least three Joe Jackson videos. Here's another:

Lol, I’ve lost tracked of what I’ve posted , let alone everyone else. Sorry

 

[Eyeseeing]

Lol, I’ve lost tracked of what I’ve posted , let alone everyone else. Sorry

So much good music has been posted here !