The Music Box

[Horsa]

If you like the 50ties music Matchbox made a revival with numbers like

And another popular singer in Denmark was Shakin Stevens -never got thecredit he deserved

And also Status Quo looked back withe the Aniversary waltz

I do. Do you like songs like these then?







I like Shaking Stephens too. Here's 1 of my favourites of his.



Talk about later revivals of 50's & 60's songs do you remember the Jive Bunny in the 80's who did a lot of reviving 50's & 60's songs?



& I'll leave you with an appropriate song.

 

[tented]

Interesting article in my local paper about the research of "what is a 'hit'" in music:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/que...-why-some-songs-are-hits-20191108-p538s5.html
Somewhat unsurprisingly to me, they found that some new/unexpected variations in the chord progressions are the vital ingredients that make certain pieces of music "famous". I'm a poster boy recipient of here when I've been saying that I'm "bored" by a music that lacks variety and repeats known chords ad infinitum. Of course other people might have different tastes/opinions, but they have averaged opinions of the population at large in this study and their results make sense to me.

I ran across this video, and thought of your post.

 

[Chris Koziarz]

I did not run across bjork before.She does very good job reviving this old swing jazz song. Excellent dynamics in both volume and mood.

 

[Horsa]

I did not run across bjork before.She does very good job reviving this old swing jazz song. Excellent dynamics in both volume and mood.

I remember this song from my High School days. Quite a lot of girls in my year went around singing it.

 

[Chris Koziarz]

The Icelandic girl can sing in English.
Can the opposite be possible? Rarer (because folks with English mother tongue have less incentives to learn foreign languages) but surely yes. Take the example of this beautiful Icelandic hymn sang by my music teachers. Let's forgive Nick (T 2nd from the right) for starting a fraction too early (or others for being too late depending on point of view), this wasn't even any performance but just an impromptu rehearsal at the great venue:

All UT comments by native speakers are superlative. I am not a speaker but I can hear gorgeous harmonies. I'm very lucky to have Naomi (A 2nd from L) as the director of my choir.

 

[tented]

The Icelandic girl can sing in English.
Can the opposite be possible? Rarer (because folks with English mother tongue have less incentives to learn foreign languages) but surely yes. Take the example of this beautiful Icelandic hymn sang by my music teachers. Let's forgive Nick (T 2nd from the right) for starting a fraction too early (or others for being too late depending on point of view), this wasn't even any performance but just an impromptu rehearsal at the great venue:

All UT comments by native speakers are superlative. I am not a speaker but I can hear gorgeous harmonies. I'm very lucky to have Naomi (A 2nd from L) as the director of my choir.

That’s beautiful.

 

[Horsa]

The Icelandic girl can sing in English.
Can the opposite be possible? Rarer (because folks with English mother tongue have less incentives to learn foreign languages) but surely yes. Take the example of this beautiful Icelandic hymn sang by my music teachers. Let's forgive Nick (T 2nd from the right) for starting a fraction too early (or others for being too late depending on point of view), this wasn't even any performance but just an impromptu rehearsal at the great venue:

All UT comments by native speakers are superlative. I am not a speaker but I can hear gorgeous harmonies. I'm very lucky to have Naomi (A 2nd from L) as the director of my choir.

Icelandic isn't a popular language to learn but we Brits learn other languages. I learnt French at school which was my favourite subject as I found it very easy, so much so that I never got more than 5 questions wrong in exams. Some people learnt German but I never got a chance to learn it. I learnt Spanish for my holidays & got on well. I read a book on Swedish that my Brother-in-law left on my book-shelf when I was in middle school. I know some Scots/Gaelic too.

I'll listen to the music you shared later.

 

[Chris Koziarz]

This story
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...as-staff-of-being-racist-20191116-p53b9e.html
is developing into an interesting dilemma: is it worth by a poor employee to file a defamation lawsuit against a music star? The costs are big bug the potential payout may be worth the trouble. I think the employee should go ahead and file. She has very good ground stance. will.i.am has contradicted himself by first defaming the women by publicising her name and then urging his followers to stop the tirade because "type of disrespect and name calling is uncalled for". Huh? So why did you call her "racist", in the first place Willi? Don't you understand that having millions of followers calls for some level of role model responsibility? You can claim that the world is racist, it's your opinion. But you made a mistake by naming someone as such, without substantial evidence. If you did not name your adversary, it would have been Willi vs. Qantas (which could have been less acute as Qantas is politically very correct), but now it is Willi vs. a Qantas employee who ahs emotions and who is eager for your money, so it may cost you.
It's harder to prove racism in Australian court rather than it would be in US. And if not proven guilty, the innocent presumption applies. So, If will.i.am thinks he can get away with his claim about racism (just like his older idol OJ Simpson did and got away with murder) he may be hit by a little surprise.
So, you know whose side I am on here, how about you?

 

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[Hoergren]

Let's go back to the sixties - not The Beatles, but everybody else as there waS a rich production of faboulous music. One of my favorite groups around 1966 was The Who -here with Happy Jack

Another even bigger favorite was the Kinks - here with their Lola -here a production from 1970

Another good song from 1970 Kinks with Apeman

Last but not least another song about life from 1967 -Waterloo sunset


Next time it's X-mas songs
PS Remember to watch the lyric video of Little Mix brand new X-mas song One I've been missing -it's just great -out today Friday.

 

[Hoergren]

The worlds biggest girl group Little Mix has issued their first original Christmas record - One I've been missing - great song. Here a lyric video so you can learn the text before the real video comes out:



Little Mix just finished their LM5 tour and got an award from The 02 arena

 

[Horsa]

Let's go back to the sixties - not The Beatles, but everybody else as there waS a rich production of faboulous music. One of my favorite groups around 1966 was The Who -here with Happy Jack

Another even bigger favorite was the Kinks - here with their Lola -here a production from 1970

Another good song from 1970 Kinks with Apeman

Last but not least another song about life from 1967 -Waterloo sunset


Next time it's X-mas songs
PS Remember to watch the lyric video of Little Mix brand new X-mas song One I've been missing -it's just great -out today Friday.

Very nice.

Non-Beatles 60's songs I like

 

[Chris Koziarz]

David Byrne gathered a bunch of enthusiastic musicians called American Utopia and made a hilarious performance of his old hit "Road to Nowhere". I used to like Talking Heads when I was a kid, but not so much this number because musically it's not very exciting. Yet music is not everything. Utopians do repeat (unsurprisingly) all notes from the original, yet the ambience and the costumes are original. Well, I know few examples of artists shocking audience with bare feet but not to this extent.

 

[Horsa]

David Byrne gathered a bunch of enthusiastic musicians called American Utopia and made a hilarious performance of his old hit "Road to Nowhere". I used to like Talking Heads when I was a kid, but not so much this number because musically it's not very exciting. Yet music is not everything. Utopians do repeat (unsurprisingly) all notes from the original, yet the ambience and the costumes are original. Well, I know few examples of artists shocking audience with bare feet but not to this extent.

I used to like Talking heads as a teenager as I found some of the monologues in it were quite funny. I listened to them as well as reading them. I think Alan Bennet was a good writer. Lol.

 

[Hoergren]

Just so you can see how big an event a Little Mix concert is - here from the their last performance on the LM5 tour at the O2 in London where they are floating over the audience singing Secret Lovesong (their LGBT inspired tune) plus 2 more before they return to the stage- first a video with the view and then Secret Lovesong in a better angle


As you can see the audience is singing along and some of the girls are almost crying.It's a meaningfulll song meaning a lot to Little Mix

 

[Horsa]

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[Horsa]

 

[Horsa]

Songs from my favourite Moody Blues album

 

[Chris Koziarz]

I used to like Talking heads as a teenager as I found some of the monologues in it were quite funny. I listened to them as well as reading them. I think Alan Bennet was a good writer. Lol.

My favourite number by TH (US band, not Bennet, LOL) was actually Psycho Killer, because there was a bit more non-standard music in it, including interesting key changes. The version below is the best (although not spectacular, you can skip the whole play of electric effects starting at 4:00, Jimmy Hendrix used to do it much better). But you can also see young Byrne who did not change that much. They looked immaculately groomed gentlemen (and 1 lady) on stage: they tried to entertain audience with music rather than with their look.

 

[Horsa]

My favourite number by TH (US band, not Bennet, LOL) was actually Psycho Killer, because there was a bit more non-standard music in it, including interesting key changes. The version below is the best (although not spectacular, you can skip the whole play of electric effects starting at 4:00, Jimmy Hendrix used to do it much better). But you can also see young Byrne who did not change that much. They looked immaculately groomed gentlemen (and 1 lady) on stage: they tried to entertain audience with music rather than with their look.

I knew who & what you were talking about but decided to have a bit of fun. I heard of them but have never heard their music. I'll listen to it later. Thank you very much for sharing.