Author Topic: Recommend some music videos to me! (Read 1137027 times)

tomos · « **Reply #300 on:** October 26, 2011, 06:02 AM »

Something to help ye warm up for halloween

The Struggle (ScroobiusPip)
(The F word gets used a good bit, so I guess NSFW)

I suspect I'd have to listen to it a few times to get all the words... Johnny Depp gets a hard time lol

If you like that one here's another Introdiction - ScroobiusPip

Renegade · « **Reply #301 on:** October 26, 2011, 06:27 AM »

Something to help ye warm up for halloween
The Struggle (ScroobiusPip)...
-tomos (October 26, 2011, 06:02 AM)

That was pretty cool!

Target · « **Reply #302 on:** October 26, 2011, 06:18 PM »

Something to help ye warm up for halloween
The Struggle (ScroobiusPip)
e that one here's another Introdiction - ScroobiusPip
-tomos (October 26, 2011, 06:02 AM)

nice find

I'm not generally one for rap or hiphop (YMMV), but I rather like these guys (not at all sure I understand the johnny Depp reference in that one though

).

A scan through some other youtube postings turned up this one

not a music video, but thought provoking and indicative that there's a bit more to them than the usual pap we see from this genre...

p3lb0x · « **Reply #303 on:** November 21, 2011, 03:38 PM »

Daniel Ingram has done it again with Find A Pet Song from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

There is something pretty Disney about this song that just makes me love it.

40hz · « **Reply #304 on:** January 04, 2012, 10:15 PM »

One of my favorite musicians and songs.

Loreena McKennet performing All Souls Night from her Live at the Alhambra concert.

Fans of exotic (at least to many Western listeners) instruments will especially enjoy the backing orchestra.

The sound quality on this clip doesn't do the DVD justice. If this is your sort of thing, don't miss checking it out.

Curt · « **Reply #305 on:** January 05, 2012, 03:02 AM »

-really a traditional Celtic Christmas song, and quite similar to her track The Mummer's Dance.
Good find

40hz · « **Reply #306 on:** January 05, 2012, 06:35 AM »

-really a traditional Celtic Christmas song, and quite similar to her track The Mummer's Dance.
Good find

-Curt (January 05, 2012, 03:02 AM)

More a traditional Samhain song in that the oldest tradition of the Celts wasn't Christian. One of those basic 'portal' festivals that occurred on solstices and equinoxes. In this case the beginning of the 'season of darkness' where the door between the realms of the life and death was opened for a single night and free passage back and forth between them made possible. A severely watered down version continues on as the children's holiday of Halloween. Many of the rituals and imagery of this festival (and others) got repurposed for the 'new' Christmas by Christian missionaries when they systematically wiped out the old pagan culture and traditions in the British Isles.

I sometimes wonder what someone from one of those old indigenous tribes would have thought if they could see how the most (some argue second most) important spiritual event of their year has been reduced to a silly costume festival - and an excuse for vandalism.

Anyway...if you enjoyed that clip, there are several others from the same concert also up on YouTube.

tomos · « **Reply #307 on:** January 05, 2012, 07:53 AM »

^ Christmas-date is based on the older winter solstice festivals (and the celebration that the days are getting longer).

was Samhain/Halloween/All-Souls-day not related to the equinox? No, that's earlier - seems to be as you say end-of-summer/start-of-winter fest.
Okay, I see from wikipedia, they do say that Samhain might have been considered as the start of the year. Hadn't known that before

Curt · « **Reply #308 on:** January 05, 2012, 08:33 AM »

This song is not twelve hundred years old. I have it on a "Celtic Christmas Songs" compilation.

40hz · « **Reply #309 on:** January 05, 2012, 09:03 AM »

^Yup! The old Pagan calendar (and festivals) don't exactly sync or equate with our more modern post-Christian ones - although ritual equivalents and overlapping themes abound. Mircea Eliade and Joseph Campbell had a lot to say on that topic.

The old calendar is found "in the blood, the sky, and the earth" and differs from the seasons "born of the Book of the New Law" as some of today's pagans would put it.

40hz · « **Reply #310 on:** January 05, 2012, 09:06 AM »

This song is not twelve hundred years old. I have it on a "Celtic Christmas Songs" compilation.

-Curt (January 05, 2012, 08:33 AM)

I'm sorry. Did somebody say it was 1200 years old? I don't recall Loreena McKennett ever saying that.

Although she is also a recognized and respected musicologist, so if she did say so, you can be sure she can point to evidence, such as a period manuscript, to support such a claim.

MerleOne · « **Reply #311 on:** January 05, 2012, 09:56 AM »

Thanks for signalling this video. Is there any CD/mp3 album someone could recommend from her ? I could'nt find any in Amazon mp3 store.

f0dder · « **Reply #312 on:** January 05, 2012, 09:57 AM »

Thanks for signalling this video. Is there any CD/mp3 album someone could recommend from her ? I could'nt find any in Amazon mp3 store.
-MerleOne (January 05, 2012, 09:56 AM)

I really like her "The Book Of Secrets".

40hz · « **Reply #313 on:** January 05, 2012, 12:21 PM »

Thanks for signalling this video. Is there any CD/mp3 album someone could recommend from her ? I could'nt find any in Amazon mp3 store.
-MerleOne (January 05, 2012, 09:56 AM)
I really like her "The Book Of Secrets".
-f0dder (January 05, 2012, 09:57 AM)

+1! My favorite too, followed by the CD for the Live at the Alhambra concert.

The lady certainly has class. Something sorely lacking in a lot of musical performances these days. Check out her website at www.quinlanroad.com when you get a chance.

MerleOne · « **Reply #314 on:** January 05, 2012, 02:19 PM »

"The Book Of Secrets
-f0dder (January 05, 2012, 09:57 AM)

Thanks.

40hz · « **Reply #315 on:** January 05, 2012, 09:54 PM »

OK...I'm surprised I've never mentioned this artist before considering what a big fan I am...

May I introduce Ms. Happy Rhodes, guitarist, songwriter, and singer with an almost freakishly huge (and documented) vocal range which runs from A2 through G6#. Translated into English, that's four octaves, or half the keys on a grand piano.

Her styles are varied, and have had people compare her to such diverse performers as Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, and David Bowie. And her lowest registers are so deep (for a female) that some people have openly questioned her real gender. (She was born and remains a biological female in case anybody's wondering.)

The following are a few (of several) videos up on Youtube that show some of her amazing stylistic and vocal range.

The Chosen One

Temporary And Eternal

And her now famous version of David Bowie's ~~Ashes to Ashes~~ Space Oddity.
(And yes, that's really her unaltered voice throughout.)

She deserves much greater recognition than she's been given.

Note: There's also full footage (1.5 hours) of one of her Tin Angel concerts that can be found here.

40hz · « **Reply #316 on:** January 05, 2012, 10:02 PM »

And just to switch gears, a song I find myself liking more and more as time goes on. Moreland & Arbuckle's Purgatory.

Not sure how effective the video itself is. (Missing some 'hotness' if you know what I mean?) But I think the song is spot on. Some gritty 'bad attitude' music for a rainy afternoon.

tomos · « **Reply #317 on:** January 06, 2012, 03:27 AM »

Temporary And Eternal [Happy Rhodes]
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVVkbUwprc[/youtube]
-40hz (January 05, 2012, 09:54 PM)

enjoyed that especially - there's a link to a better quality version of the same video here. It is kind of shocking when she starts singing deep after all that high singing!

oh yeah, FWIW, the Bowie cover is Space Oddity

40hz · « **Reply #318 on:** January 06, 2012, 05:12 AM »

It is kind of shocking when she starts singing deep after all that high singing!
-tomos (January 06, 2012, 03:27 AM)

Yeah. Until you see her do it live in concert there's times when you'd swear she had someone up there singing with her. And when she starts flipping back and forth with different styles in different ranges in the same song it can almost sound like a duet. Very spooky!

The thing I admire is how easily she could turn it all into a gimmick - but never does. Everything she does is in keeping with the music. Probably one of the reasons why she hasn't cracked the commercial mainstream.

Pleasant person too. Great sense of humor and a sweet disposition. Treats her audience well - and puts on a good show. As a result, she has one of the most loyal group of fans you'll find anywhere. And deservedly so IMO.

oh yeah, FWIW, the Bowie cover is Space Oddity
-tomos (January 06, 2012, 03:27 AM)

Oops...and I knew that too.

Thx for pointing it out. Now corrected in original post.

Oh BTW - she's done a cover of Ashes to Ashes too. Listen to it (sorry-no video) here.

tomos · « **Reply #319 on:** January 06, 2012, 05:55 AM »

oh yeah, FWIW, the Bowie cover is Space Oddity
-tomos (January 06, 2012, 03:27 AM)
Oops...and I knew that too.
-40hz (January 06, 2012, 05:12 AM)

I know, I'd make a good editor - of other peoples posts

Oh BTW - she's done a cover of Ashes to Ashes too. Listen to it (sorry-no video) here.
-40hz (January 06, 2012, 05:12 AM)

Have to post a Bowie version now!

tranglos · « **Reply #320 on:** January 06, 2012, 07:06 AM »

And once you need to wind down after all that...

superboyac · « **Reply #321 on:** January 06, 2012, 04:28 PM »

Thanks tranglos...that was beautiful.

Ok, here's another lovely jazz number:

40hz · « **Reply #322 on:** January 06, 2012, 05:14 PM »

@tranglos & superboyac - thanks for those! Great picks.

panzer · « **Reply #323 on:** January 07, 2012, 02:47 AM »

tranglos · « **Reply #324 on:** January 07, 2012, 07:05 AM »

@tranglos & superboyac - thanks for those! Great picks.
-40hz (January 06, 2012, 05:14 PM)

There are many versions and covers of "Águas de Março" on YT, including a very beautiful one by Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice, but that one is the absolute best - dropouts, scratches and all.

Great thread, everyone, thanks!