| GratefulFan 28.01.2013 14:34 |
Every music nut knows being carried away by some great song when they're supposed to be doing something else. What's yours, right now? And, if you like, what are you not doing? "Gonna get inside yoooooou. Gonna get insiiiiiide - your bitter mind." I love you Pete! link |
| waunakonor 28.01.2013 21:20 |
Right now? Probably The Best of Times by Dream Theater, as I kind of mentioned in another thread. Such a pretty melody. These are the best of times I'll miss these days Your spirit guides my life each day. I'm also finding it hard to get over Another Time, Another Place by U2. Boy, their debut album, is a fantastic little rock record, despite what most of the rest of their career looked like, and that song in particular has been stuck in my head for a couple days now. This is kind of a neat idea. I never really thought of keeping track of what particular song is really getting lodged in my brain at a particular time. Maybe I should keep a journal. |
| GratefulFan 28.01.2013 21:59 |
You're supposed to put links so you can share. :) |
| waunakonor 29.01.2013 10:31 |
The Best of Times: link Another Time, Another Place: link How's that? |
| mooghead 30.01.2013 16:00 |
This song is driving me to distraction right now... from one of my top 3 favourite albums ever... anything with a guitar/mandolin duel is fine with me :-) link |
| waunakonor 30.01.2013 18:36 |
So that's one of the three mysterious albums you like better than ANatO? |
| GratefulFan 31.01.2013 09:01 |
Thanks to you both for the links. Elton is an artist I should be ashamed of having only in the hits formats, plus Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (the song). I'm seeing The Tragically Hip in a little under two weeks so have been listening to a lot of their stuff in recent days. Sleep was a little elusive last night and I got stuck on this one. It's one of those songs to listen to in the dark by the stereo lights. It's about the loss of Gord Downie's (lead singer) sister's son at just five years old due to a heart condition. Absolutely wrenching and beautiful. link September seventeen For a girl I know it's Mother's Day Her son has gone alee And that's where he will stay The wind on the weathervane Tearing blue eyes sailor mean As Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain For a boy in Fiddler's Green His tiny knotted heart Well, I guess it never worked to good The timber tore apart And the water gorged the wood You can hear her whispered prayer For men at masts that always lean The same wind that moves her hair Moves her boy through Fiddler's Green Nothing's changed anyway Nothing's changed anyway Any time today He doesn't know a soul There's nowhere that he's really been But he won't travel long alone No, not in Fiddler's Green Balloons all filled with rain As children's eyes turn sleepy mean And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain For a boy in Fiddler's Green |
| waunakonor 31.01.2013 14:40 |
GratefulFan wrote: Thanks to you both for the links. Elton is an artist I should be ashamed of having only in the hits formatsSame here. :P I'm probably going to purchase some more of his music, at least digitally, pretty soon. Anyway, I Want it All has been stuck in my head recently. Here's a link if you really need. one: link Also, The Outlaw Torn by Metallica (very good song): link Hear me And if I close my mind in fear, please pry it open See me And if my face becomes sincere, beware Hold me And when I start to come undone, stitch me together See me And when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn |
| GratefulFan 31.01.2013 17:00 |
^ Those are interesting lyrics. That's why I love these kinds of random music threads. I still remember with great happiness a love songs version of this I started two or three years ago. I loved that thread. I still think of it from time to time. I was introduced to some music there that I will never forget. Cost me money though! This one probably will too. |
| Gregsynth 31.01.2013 19:34 |
If you guys want some Elton John concerts, I can hook you up! |
| queenUSA 03.02.2013 09:45 |
Bruno Mars Locked out of Heaven. I'd post a link but at 88million views, probably not necessary. Here's a link though to a skit on Saturday Night Live featuring Bruno. It's called Sad Mouse and features him as an emotionally distraught NYC Times Square Worker. This was October 2012. link If the link doesn't work just google Bruno Mars Sad Mouse. If you don't care for sad mouse, here's Bruno and band with Locked out of Heaven live on SNL (same show as above). link |
| GratefulFan 10.04.2013 11:47 |
Ran this on repeat for a while this morning. I remember when I first heard the song with the intro. A beautiful noise and even on first hearing you knew what song would eventually emerge. I was playing the intro for my son once, telling him what song it was going to be, and he couldn't hear it in there and wondered how I could. I didn't and don't know and can't describe it without the language of musical knowledge. It's just something you can feel running underneath and coiling together. It's the same for that Hotel California intro that is played with it sometimes. You knew what was coming on first hearing of that as well. Anyway, without further babble, The Alan Parsons Project: link And, what the heck, The Eagles. link |
| GratefulFan 24.04.2013 12:28 |
Just because it's not THAT bad. Come on! :) link |
| GratefulFan 15.05.2013 12:53 |
Can't get this one out of my head today. I had a mad crush on B.O. when I was about 17. Best we didn't run off together though as I would have ended up with some pretty unfortunate initials. link |
| Holly2003 15.05.2013 14:51 |
GratefulFan wrote: Can't get this one out of my head today. I had a mad crush on B.O. when I was about 17. Best we didn't run off together though as I would have ended up with some pretty unfortunate initials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpA3NVafsdo lol! |
| Lord Gaga 15.05.2013 15:46 |
GratefulFan wrote: Every music nut knows being carried away by some great song when they're supposed to be doing something else. What's yours, right now? And, if you like, what are you not doing? "Gonna get inside yoooooou. Gonna get insiiiiiide - your bitter mind." I love you Pete! linkThis is a great song. I watch The Americans (check it out on FX if you haven't!) which takes place in 1981/1982, and they play a lot of great timely music (one was 'Slap and Tickle' by Squeeze, another was 'Tusk' by Fleetwood Mac) but the biggest surprise was hearing this song in a scene. Definitely should have been on Face Dances, along with about half of Empty Glass. |
| Lord Gaga 15.05.2013 15:49 |
GratefulFan wrote: Thanks to you both for the links. Elton is an artist I should be ashamed of having only in the hits formats, plus Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (the song).I'd recommend his output from between Madman on the Water/Tumbleweed Connection (I forget which comes first) to A Single Man, so about 1970ish to 1978. (A Single Man is very underrated, IMHO.) Everything after is kind of spotty and can be summed up with a Greatest Hits package, though he really started getting back into the process of making albums instead of singles around 1992 with The One. His recent stuff is fantastic, as well. |
| brENsKi 15.05.2013 16:14 |
love "madman" and "capt fantastic" both cracking albums currently listening to Hotel California album again - the whole disintegration theme is quite compelling and "the last resort" is one of the finest songs (lyrically) that i ever heard. remember hearing it back in 77 as a 14 year-old and thinking how good it'd be to have a mind that could write that stuff. slight divergence - was painting the garage floor last weekend - with Planet Rock blaring full volume all i can say is looking at the walls now - it's easy to tell when the faster harder tunes came on the radio - i blame MSG's - Attack of the Mad Axeman and Montrose's - Space Station No5 for a couple of bad paint splash incidents |
| waunakonor 15.05.2013 20:33 |
I originally posted a blank comment as a mistake, but now I have something to say. Thanks to someone on this thread link I've been on a major Ayreon binge recently. Every time I do work on the computer I have one of Ayreon's many proggy rock operas playing as a soundtrack. Good stuff. |