A song a day

[ChristineM]

 

[Stevicus]

Who are these children
Who scheme and run wild
Who speak with their wings
And the way that they smile
What are the secrets
They trace in the sky
And why do you tremble
Each time they ride by

 

[Revoltingest]

For fans of Fargo...

 

[ChristineM]

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Revoltingest]

Piano only.....

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Stevicus]

It's...it's...a Ballroom Blitz...

 

[Stevicus]

I just want to celebrate...

 

[an anarchist]

I was feeling lonely. I put this song on and it sent me bawling.

You live in my dream state
Relocate my fantasy
I stay in reality
You live in my dream state
Any time I count sheep
That's the only time we make up, make up
You exist behind my eyelids, my eyelids
Now, I don't wanna wake up

20/20, 20/20 vision
Cupid hit me, Cupid hit me with precision, I
Wonder if you look both ways when you cross my mind
I said, I said
I'm sick of, sick of, sick of, sick of chasing
You're the one that's always running through my daydreams, I
I can only see your face when I close my eyes

 

[an anarchist]

Spoiler: Song with trigger warning

This song SLAPS so hard that YouTube links the s*icide hotline (988)

Mood every day sometimes

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

Spoiler: Song with trigger warning

This song SLAPS so hard that YouTube links the s*icide hotline (988)

Mood every day sometimes

Yikes! I see what you mean about wanting to kill yourself after hearing that. LOL. I think I need a sedative.

That song is slightly older than you are if the biographical data you gave is accurate. Interesting that you found it. In my day, we didn't listen to music from earlier generations. Chuck Berry and Elvis were the rage before the music I first heard arrived, and I never actively listened to them.

I'm a product of the late sixties through the mid-seventies, and the music I listen to is of that genre, although the bands I liked continued making music into the eighties and beyond, but not in the styles that became popular starting with disco. So I like a very different kind of music than the song you posted.

Here's an example of a Leo Kottke song our band covered that is beautiful to me. I hope you like it:

And if you're interested, here's Leo doing the same song before a live audience (as were we, but just some coffee house) giving a little background on it - why he wrote it.

If you want to skip ahead to the music there, it begins at 1:30. Same song but played differently. He's playing an amplified acoustic guitar (no pickups) solo that he finger picks, and we (that's my wife on that thunderous bass) were two people and a digital drummer using flat picks on instruments with pickups, so he gets an acoustic country sound and we're pop and electric. Also, he includes an extended instrumental section after the third verse, where we end. And if looks like he sang the second verse twice, where Tony and Mario are mentioned:

 

[an anarchist]

Yikes! I see what you mean about wanting to kill yourself after hearing that. LOL. I think I need a sedative.

That song is slightly older than you are if the biographical data you gave is accurate. Interesting that you found it. In my day, we didn't listen to music from earlier generations. Chuck Berry and Elvis were the rage before the music I first heard arrived, and I never actively listened to them.

I'm a product of the late sixties through the mid-seventies, and the music I listen to is of that genre, although the bands I liked continued making music into the eighties and beyond, but not in the styles that became popular starting with disco. So I like a very different kind of music than the song you posted.

Here's an example of a Leo Kottke song our band covered that is beautiful to me. I hope you like it:

And if you're interested, here's Leo doing the same song before a live audience (as were we, but just some coffee house) giving a little background on it - why he wrote it.

If you want to skip ahead to the music there, it begins at 1:30. Same song but played differently. He's playing an amplified acoustic guitar (no pickups) solo that he finger picks, and we (that's my wife on that thunderous bass) were two people and a digital drummer using flat picks on instruments with pickups, so he gets an acoustic country sound and we're pop and electric.

Also, he's changed the verses somewhat. He's got Tony and Mario in the first verse, whereas the original and our version mentions them in the second verse:

This is a very nice cover!

I am quite fond of cover bands as I am quite fond of karaoke and singing myself.

 

[Jedster]

@an anarchist

Enjoy a great sound

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Kathryn]

 

[Kathryn]

 

[Kathryn]

I'm on a Sting kick and I love the series above!

 

[Kathryn]

I have seen Sting several times and he always puts on a great show. The last time I saw him was with my son in Austin and this song always reminds me of him, and Sting closed with this song, which I love. It was super special.

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

How about a nice slow blues about a former lover whose memory still haunts as well as another shameless plug for our former band. This cover has a very warm sounding pair of guitars that complement one another nicely over a steady bass and a digital drummer.

Here's the original from which this was copied for contrast. It's acoustic guitar here, a fuller band with keyboards and two percussionists, a more complex and improvisational bass line, better vocals (Clapton), and a better instrumental in the middle (Clapton), but he's Clapton and we were amateurs with day jobs paying homage to a great song and a great musician as best we could: