The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[johncorrigan]

Going through one of those Lucinda Williams' times - never realised she'd done 'Gentle on my Mind'. I like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdxbG4E8jJU

I did know that she did 'Drunken Angel', but not who it was about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckroKLPsqg

[johncorrigan]

Very sensitively and beautifully performed version of Bruce's 'Streets of Philadelphia' by Richie Havens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PbGd4x9aI

[cloughie]

Very sensitively and beautifully performed version of Bruce's 'Streets of Philadelphia' by Richie Havens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PbGd4x9aI

jc you're picking some great interpretators of song at the moment - Lucinda and now Richie!

[Lat-Literal]

Very sensitively and beautifully performed version of Bruce's 'Streets of Philadelphia' by Richie Havens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PbGd4x9aI

I didn't know that the great Richie Havens had covered that song.

I like Havens early (Woodstock-ish) and I especially like Havens late (2003/4 - the "Grace of the Sun" CD which is an underrated clasisic)

Going to go for 150 since 2004 just because I want to and especially because while the point up to the 100 was difficult this is a challenge that is almost impossible:

And I'm starting with a mild enough affair from one of my favourite musical women, at least from my own generation:

Tracey Thorn - Tinsel and Lights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_FBwG5KUHE

[Lat-Literal]

Had a look at Jonathan Richman who is still doing the rounds but decided to go for the younger Scandinavian version.

There is something both beautiful and unsettling in this considered wonky simplicity:

Jens Lekman - Tram No 7 to Heaven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h46gOBZhPfk

When I was being let down for the second time personally at Worthy Farm by a senior civil servant, one of many of whom had let us all down, a little lad gave a brave version of this one. Mass applause all round but the moment suggested to me that while it wasn't to my taste - and I think it's old hat - if you were going to choose one from the period, this is it:

Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISy0Hl0SBfg

(It's good fun for many - I really see that because I make a point of doing so as far as I am able - consequently total support - who would blame them in an ever peculiar world?)

My own choice of black rapper since 2000 is predictable because he is poetic, mature and contemplative, but then I come from De La Soul, PM Dawn and Dream Warriors, if anywhere:

Ghostpoet - Survive It - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usksH8B07do

And, if I can, I am going to find the lifelong wonderful Annie Haslam next who is really, really, one of mine.

Steve Howe/Annie Haslam - It's All Over Now Baby Blue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXfzu3UJTCw

Diversion:

One of many reasons why Annie is my female Alan Hull; that good....I just love this as much as I did in '78 :

Reniassance - A Song For All Seasons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpFVwx9SwZc

[johncorrigan]

Had a look at Jonathan Richman who is still doing the rounds but decided to go for the younger Scandinavian version.

This is my favourite (and the family's favourite) Richman song, Lat...an old Kershaw stand by, 'You're crazy for taking the bus'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rcd4Yfo0q0

'It's Salt Lake City, Everybody Off!'

[Lat-Literal]

This is my favourite (and the family's favourite) Richman song, Lat...an old Kershaw stand by, 'You're crazy for taking the bus'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rcd4Yfo0q0

'It's Salt Lake City, Everybody Off!'

Love Jonathan Richman JC - but seen him just twice although that is pretty good. At V Chelmsford with a lot of white stilettos in the mud and much confusion, the latter especially in me as I always find the beautiful people disorientating. Essex - well, you can imagine! The skin and voice equivalent to LSD whether I liked it or not even if it was empty ish at his stage. From memory, the trickiest moment was a mild accusation from bare chested tattoed dad rockers, retired albeit disgruntled and still with a bit on the side, about full on solo dancing. Whatever, it wasn't exactly Millwall. Next, it was Richman in EU North London. The Jazz Cafe where the platform was so low and so close we were true equals. I am not sure why I have ever been permanently terrified. Everything is totally bizarre. Given this is a late night, here's something more wonderful - and obvious - than 6am krispies and flakes:

Jonathan Richman - The Morning of Our Lives - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUYJfbZ-Qc

(For the beautiful dreamers among us - and all the cataclysmic spiritualists - everything that is wrong about Jonathan and where does one start? - is so brilliantly, originally right)

[Lat-Literal]

OK, while my dinner fish is in the cooker, my four other favouirtes: the best American mock punk song and three true universally naive romantics:

Miracles Will Start To Happen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LTDA1KHzg4
Roadrunner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnmHgnPPkkQ
Neighbours - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eNsApIjNDY
That Summer Feeling (from I)* - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zmy2oBGmPc

(Romance akin to Warhol - and sunnier/more innocent than Velvet Underground - borderline outrageous/pop genius)

*Smirk!

I bought the CD which features the first track on a solo break in Glastonbury Town while others did cricket - I was conveniently dropped off and am in no doubt it is his best. I said that to the dog-on-the-string-people who spend their lives pacing up and down there and the musical duo in the Tor which I walked up to at 1am before oddly they ran for their lives.

[gurnemanz]

Recently added: Dylan sings Buddy Holly's Heartbeat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maUZkWX_IqU
Hang down your head (Tom Waits) by Lucinda Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kchRoeSasSM

[Lat-Literal]

Recently added: Dylan sings Buddy Holly's Heartbeat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maUZkWX_IqU
Hang down your head (Tom Waits) by Lucinda Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kchRoeSasSM

Lovely.

I think I'm now up to 110 separate artists with good enough output since 2004/5.

If so, these are 111 and 112:

On balance; and their CDs can be obtained for less than a pound now, Kings of Leon:

Kings of Leon - Fans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1hgRDRc3ug

Swamp Rock?

To the extent that it matters, we could talk about links back to Creedence Clearwarer Revival who sold more records than the Beatles in 1970 if you wish but you won't wish!

Amy Winehouse for cloughie and people like me who on the news, not expecting it, became all emotional in Limpsfield Chart just before a nice walk but let me check the dates:

Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own (2006) - https://www.bing.com/search?q=amy+winehouse+tears

The thing about Amy to the less than initiated is that you always want to say to people but here is the unequivocally magical performance rather than just a potty mouthed chart hit. And I remember things - I'm a mouthy kind of person who happens to listen - and I'll never forget s-a saying it all could have been so different had she been taken under a jazz wing.

Spot on.

There was something big there - I could have believed it would have been huge in its non-commercial domain circa age 45-50 - personally I would have been there for the live secret.

[Lat-Literal]

113-115:

I think we've got to do Caribou, haven't we....gawd knows what - it's more in the potential than in the functionality:

Caribou - Sun 'n' Vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euS2SlC68q8

And to be all encompassing - I'm far from fully subscribed:

Daft Punk - Get Lucky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EofwRzit0

So, yeah, this was the section where I was just getting down with the kids - grandad was asked if there was anything of theirs he really liked. Yeah, he loved this one and he did the Dad dance thinking he was younger. Like 54, which he is and he isn't, yes. No? Get a life. Having indicated he still "knows", he'll turn next to his things again. Anyhow, fabulous this - I am pumping it via x-box drone into the hardwire of Km Jong-Un as we speak but I'm two-way with the secret services. Mainly we get on great. They do know my main sentiment.

Pharrell Williams - Happy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

(Do not adjust your set - normal service will be resumed)

[johncorrigan]

Spotify's algorithmic kings chucked this beauty at me tonight...is it the best song about Bob? Belter.
'Diamonds and Rust'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

[Lat-Literal]

Spotify's algorithmic kings chucked this beauty at me tonight...is it the best song about Bob? Belter.
'Diamonds and Rust'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

Well, yes, JC. I'm not sure that I can think of many.

The people I mainly went with to Glastonbury - it varied a little - were of my age - a tad younger - but they got into music at around 14 rather than 6/7. They tended to regard any of my pre 1977 sympathies as overstated. In the early days, when sixties/early seventies artists would feature in middle age in the line-ups, my decision to see them would be met with a "no.......surely not" but later it was always a case of "we suppose you will be wanting to see that" and I would do, requiring a temporary going of separate ways. Baez in the acoustic tent in 2008 was a no brainer and I'm very glad indeed to have made the effort to go far up the TV sidelined hill alone to see her. To my mind, always a bit disappointing in interview because she comes across as a person who is not quite as I expect, she is as an artist truly legendary and that also carries across completely into her artistic persona.

Not a dry eye in the house.

Joan Baez at Glastonbury 2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du16TxxZQTM

(From memory, the headliner there at the end of Sunday when everyone is at their most tired - could potentially have been empty-ish but it was absolutely packed)

[Lat-Literal]

117-120

Chris Forsyth & Solar Motel Band - Shaker Steps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62w0F32q3A4
Tony Joe White - Rain Crow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5epBL_L8-Y
Mudcrutch - Beautiful World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6iOE9GWPvg
Hiss Golden Messenger - Domino - Time Will Tell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMpaov8AgEs

121-126

Randy Newman - It's a Jungle Out There - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdF3E2NVI8
Horsebeach - Beauty and Sadness - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4c_60LGjc
The National - Fake Empire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prW-qgEQxBI

Meg Baird - Counterfeiters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLFxer3izA
The Dears - Warm and Sunny Days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbsfs114rTk
The Fireman - Lifelong Passion/Sail Away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Woxt5Kjeqs

[cloughie]

Well, yes, JC. I'm not sure that I can think of many.

The people I mainly went with to Glastonbury - it varied a little - were of my age - a tad younger - but they got into music at around 14 rather than 6/7. They tended to regard any of my pre 1977 sympathies as overstated. In the early days, when sixties/early seventies artists would feature in middle age in the line-ups, my decision to see them would be met with a "no.......surely not" but later it was always a case of "we suppose you will be wanting to see that" and I would do, requiring a temporary going of separate ways. Baez in the acoustic tent in 2008 was a no brainer and I'm very glad indeed to have made the effort to go far up the TV sidelined hill alone to see her. To my mind, always a bit disappointing in interview because she comes across as a person who is not quite as I expect, she is as an artist truly legendary and that also carries across completely into her artistic persona.

Not a dry eye in the house.

Joan Baez at Glastonbury 2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du16TxxZQTM

(From memory, the headliner there at the end of Sunday when everyone is at their most tired - could potentially have been empty-ish but it was absolutely packed)

The Baez albums at her peak for me were: 5, Farewell Angelina, Joan and Any Day Now - the last of these included 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands'. In addition to the many Dylan tracks she covered there were also Donovan and Tim Hardin
Songs.