Some time back in this thread, I've already described my musical tastes at length. Here, I'll just briefly mention that I've directed my attention again towards what was perhaps my favorite of the Manos Hadjidakis compositions sung by Nana Mouskouri (it was also sung by Aliki Vougiouklaki (Αλίκη Βουγιουκλάκη) who performed it originally in a movie from 1960 and Harry Belafonte): Mes s'afti ti varka (or Mes tin varka)... Μες σ'αυτήν τη βάρκα.

In fact, Anna Vissi, who sang "Min ton rotas ton ourano" (the original song on which All Alone Am I was based) at the Love Radio concert, also sang this one, at the "Unplugged" concert in Cyprus.

I'll be quite frank here, I thought for sure that someone would have mentioned Justin Bieber in the course of this thread.

Thankfully there is still hope for typographers.

I'd far sooner mention Morning Musume or the sub-group Mini Moni. Telephone! Ring! Ring! Ring! Bubblegum pop indeed.

There’s this anecdote that Thomas Beecham was visiting with the Sibeliuses, and Jean cranked up the hi-fi so loud everyone else left the house and went into the garden. He said you had to have it that loud to hear all the orchestral details. Right. Dude would have been a head-banger in a later era.

Just picked up the vinyl of Bowie’s 1973 album of covers from London groups 1964-67.
This slipped by me back in the day, but it’s not bad, his singing is over the top, the band solid and there’s some crazy arrangements, especially “See Emily Play”. That one kind of prefigures the Dukes of Stratosphear.
“Shapes of Things” is preposterous.
Laura Nyro’s Gonna Take a Miracle from a couple years earlier had the same kind of idea.
Another similar homage was GnRs The Spaghetti Incident?
No doubt lots of other artists have covered the songs they grew up on, as a package concept.

No, I’ve let my subscription lapse.
But thanks, that’s really interesting!

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I would agree with most of it.
The thing that struck me most about Ziggy was its conception of live performance.
At the time, you’d go to a concert by the Who or Zeppelin and the set would be really long with a bunch of scruffy individuals wandering round the stage and jamming extended versions of their album tracks. The Dead at Glastonbury doing a 20 minute Dark Star. But Ziggy was different—the band were in matching outfits on a large empty stage, and they played the songs just like the record, 3 or 4 minutes each, while moving around in choreography. That, and the self-referentiality, it was quite a shock.

The noisiest party the Queen has ever the seen, aka the Diamond Jubilee Concert.

Were it Slade, you could probably feel the noize as well.

Have just listened to Comus - First Utterance. I get the feeling it's being hyped quite a bit lately, a friend recommended it, and it sure is great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJp0rr54OU0

Nick, that's going to be a blast!! Sure you will survive it?? The Stones haven't been the same since Wyman's bass groove left in '92 - and my favorite Stone's band of all times was with Mick Taylor!!!

Right now I'm just listening to some of Adele's music and my latest crush, Rita Ora...

n.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pQxyQktNFwc – Dunno which is cooler, the showmanship or the actual playing. Seemed to me from the comments that some folk found it a bit too… well… revolutionary.

Les Baxter

...and speaking of my all time favorite band, check this Stone's video while it's still up ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MMgPbt9jhw&feature=related

...Worried About You.

n.

@5star – Talking of covers… Nutt'n as odd as hearing Metallica cover Whiskey In The Jar. I swear to all that is, I had to check and double-check and triple-check to be sure it wasn't Thin Lizzy.

Depeche Mode ... all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX9iKeSY7A&feature=related

n.

Concerto a Cinque op9n9 by Tomaso Albinoni off the Hallgrímskirkja H002 CD.

Visions de l'amen by Olivier Messiaen. One of the greatest modern composers if you ask me.

Iggy Pop: Après
(nice new stuff: Iggy sings chansons in French)

... and music from Haiti:
Toto Bissainthe: chante Haiti
Boukman Eksperyans: Libete
Boukman Eksperyans: Revolisyon

U2 - Achtung Baby.

n.

The Dark Royal-Hued Lord's Instrument Of Immortality.

R.I.P. Jon Lord.

The opening concert of The Proms.

"The Best of Classic Rock" (who'da thot ya could headbang to a symphonic orchestra uv alla dings?)

Green Day ...all.

Wake Me Up When September Ends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHa16644e-k&feature=player_embedded

...20 years has gone so fast.

n.

A "Thunderstruck" cover on a live-on-radio rock concert from the Fish Meal Factory in Borgarfjörður, E-Iceland, while watching streetlights cut conical patterns through the fog.

VoA's African Service on 15,580MHz.