Vegas Free-for-All

jphelan

Jan 5, 2016
11:09pm

I love the Go Go's --- Belinda Carlisle sure has a voice. My favorite Go Go's song is Vacation.

I also like Belinda's solo work!

Leave A Light On (with George Harrison on guitar)

Runaway Horses

I get weak

BobOrme

Feb 19, 2016
8:43pm

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I saw Tears For Fears at Red Rocks about 30 years ago. I was there with my best friend who is 5 years younger than me - I'm now 63 and he is 58. There was a 16-year-old girl named Christie sitting behind us that thought it was really cool that "old guys like you" liked the same music she liked. I still like it!

This band surprised me with their stage production. They were true to their recordings by having so many musicians doing so many things in the live performance. I half expected much of the music to be synthetic, generated on a couple of keyboards. Nope! SHOUT!

Come on, I'm talking to you!

snidely333

Feb 20, 2016
1:03am

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Tears for Fears had a song called Mad World that was sort of an upbeat poppy tune that I don't remember hearing much on the radio. The song was given a rebirth by Gary Jules as featured in the excellent metaphysical film Donnie Darko starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Jules gave the song a deeply emotional and dark, depressing interpretation.

Original version of Mad World: Original Version

Donnie Darko version: Mad World Jules

The song also showed up on the British version of X-Factor: X-Factor

Another version from Puddles Pity Party and Haley Reinhart from American Idol playing with Postmodern Jukebox. I'd love to see Puddles Pity Party in Vegas. Puddles is a 7' tall sad clown with a glorious voice. Puddles Pity Party

BobOrme

Mar 14, 2016
8:53pm

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I enjoy watching The Voice, particularly the blind auditions. Last night was the final blind auditions for this season. One singer really got my attention. Her name is Moushumi and she sang Wicked Game, a Chris Isaak song. I really wish I could hear her sing a full-length version of that song. The actual performances broadcast on the show are sometimes way too short, but I understand the necessary TV time constraints.

Here is Chris Isaak's original version of his great song.

I don't want to fall in love

BobOrme

Apr 11, 2016
6:49pm

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The Sound of Silence was released when I was still in high school. Whodathunk a band called Disturbed would cover the song so many years later, in a powerful way that Simon and Garfunkel could have never imagined!

This guy has some pipes!

eurotraveler

Apr 12, 2016
1:48pm

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Originally posted by: BobOrme
I've always found unusual time signatures to be appealing. Most musicians and some vocalists won't even attempt this form of music. During the 3 years I was running the light system at a local live rock club, I only heard one band that attempted to cover Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo, and even then they were using computerized back tracking to do it.

Danny Elfman was the front man, and lead singer and song writer for Oingo Boingo. His career consists of much more than his work with Oingo Boingo. He has composed many movie scores and other commercial music including the theme to The Simpsons TV show. He quit performing with Oingo Boingo almost 20 years ago when the sound pressure levels of live rock and roll started to have a significant affect on his hearing. He is married to Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda's daughter. His niece by marriage, is Jenna Elfman, who is probably best known as Dharma in the Dharma and Greg TV series.

I think Auld Lang Syne is long worn out as the official song for New Year's Eve. I nominate Dead Man's Party to replace it!

Don't run away, it's only me!

I love Oingo Boingo, and especially Dead Man's Party! Count me in on replacing Auld Lang Syne with that song.

clcjim

Apr 12, 2016
1:50pm

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I like it, Bob. It respectfully retains many elements of the 1965 original, while adding an entirely new twist. That guy (David Draiman) has some pipes, alright.

Your post got me to thinking about the many Simon and Garfunkel songs that I like. One of the prettiest, I think, is Kathy’s Song, which Paul Simon wrote about Kathleen Chitty, a British girl he had met, and with whom he had become smitten.

The song first appeared on the 1966 Sounds of Silence album as a solo sung by Simon. I think this version, sung by Garfunkel at one of their reunion concerts (I’m guessing late 80s or early 90s) is even better. Among other things, I like it for its beautiful simplicity -- Garfunkel on vocals and Simon on acoustic guitar, period.

Kathy's Song

In the video, Garfunkel dedicates the song to his wife Kathryn (they were married in 1988), but she’s not the “Kathy” that Simon wrote the song about decades earlier.

Edit: Just found a different source that pretty much confirms that this video came from a concert in Atlanta in 2003. Shows ya how little I know.

eurotraveler

Apr 12, 2016
2:01pm

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Probably the band that I have more CDs of than any other is King Crimson. Amazing musicians with the one constant over the years being Robert Fripp. Connie and I were fortunate enough to see the current incarnation of them in concert in Madison, WI in the fall of 2014 at the Barrymore Theatre. Incredible show. I'll see them or any of the Crimson ProjeKCts when they come anywhere near the Twin Cities.
But my tastes in music include classical, opera, some country (probably the older artists), jazz, pop, standards. Just not a big fan of rap.
And Steely Dan rates high for me....
Some times its nice to listen to simple pop songs, then other times I like to get totally engrossed in something like Mahler's Symphony #2. Different music for different moods.
But I couldn't imagine how much poorer my life would have been without music.

BobOrme

Dec 8, 2016
5:18pm

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Originally posted by: eurotraveler
Probably the band that I have more CDs of than any other is King Crimson. Amazing musicians with the one constant over the years being Robert Fripp. Connie and I were fortunate enough to see the current incarnation of them in concert in Madison, WI in the fall of 2014 at the Barrymore Theatre. Incredible show. I'll see them or any of the Crimson ProjeKCts when they come anywhere near the Twin Cities.
But my tastes in music include classical, opera, some country (probably the older artists), jazz, pop, standards. Just not a big fan of rap.
And Steely Dan rates high for me....
Some times its nice to listen to simple pop songs, then other times I like to get totally engrossed in something like Mahler's Symphony #2. Different music for different moods.
But I couldn't imagine how much poorer my life would have been without music.

Unusual, but kind of fitting, my reviving this thread is because the music world just lost one of the most talented musicians with an incredible voice. I bought King Crimson music when Greg Lake was still with the band. He later teamed up with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer. RIP Greg Lake.

Solo acoustic version of Lucky Man by Greg Lake

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