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fannishliss1. "Feeling Good" by John Barrowman, from Another Side. Mr. Barrowman is really in my headspace right now... my fannish obsessions come and go this way.... so I've been writing stories about Jack and listening to Barrowman's incredibly beautiful voice. I'm a voice coach, so I'm really critical of singers, and Barrowman is pretty much textbook flawless. I am really impressed by his performance instincts and by the purity of his tone. I don't usually listen to that type of music that is all orchestrated with strings -- I'm a heavy metal girl at heart -- but for Barrowman, I will. This song is originally from the play, "Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd". The link is to a live performance that is extended with a full troupe of dancers and choreography, but it's fun to see John's own personality come through in the performance, so I went ahead and linked it there. If your public library subscribes to Freegal, you can download this album with your library card!
Anybody got a trenchcoat Jack figure they'd like to sell, or, like a stack of Torchwood magazines? I'm buying! :)
2. When I was a Young Girl, by Feist, from Let it Die. So, for the past few years, I've been listening to more indie women singers, and Feist is one of them. I love her song Mushaboom, and her cover of the Beegee's Inside and Out, but it's this cover of one of my favorite traditional ballads that is owning me right now. It's a version of the Bad Girl's Lament, which is also a version of what we commonly know in the US as Streets of Laredo, one of the first ballads I ever learned. When I was little my mom had a book of ballads from Scholastic books called Folksong Festival which was decorated with spooky woodcuts in that late 60s way, and I was fascinated by Streets of Laredo, which I first learned from country singer Marty Robbins. :) This is the newest ballad I'm adding to my repertoire. Feist got it from Virginia traditional singer, Texas Gladden, whose album I ordered from Smithsonian Folkways.
here Feist's awesome embellished live version as well, where she plays a very hot guitar. :D
3. Song I want to hear when I turn on the radio: Radioactive, by Imagine Dragons. (wow, what an unexpected video, but yay, Lou Diamond Phillips!!) The first I heard out of this band was their completely different song, It's Time. I was part of a dance concert in January and our big group number was to It's Time, so I find that to be a very cheery song and it makes me run my feet in my feet like in the dance (packing my bags and giving the academy a raincheck -- that's me). I love how those two songs by the same band are completely different! Radioactive hits me right in the bone where I LOVE heavy metal apocalyptic songs. (Another huge favorite in that vein is So Cold by Breaking Benjamin, from the album We are Not Alone, which I always associate with the crew of Serenity.). I really love the cathartic feel of a strong, apocalyptic heavy metal song. It puts my own stresses into perspective. I'm like, no matter how bad I have it, this guy in Radioactive or So Cold probably has it worse, and he's actually gonna make it, so I can too!! This is also why I love Nick Cave so much. :)
4. Obligatory mention of songs by Led Zeppelin. As my husband and I were discussing the other day, Stairway to Heaven IS the best song of all time, BAR NONE, but if I could only hear one last Zep tune before I died, it would be How Many More Times, which I adore. I started my love affair with Zeppelin when I was a teenager, so after 30 years, you know, I don't listen to these songs every day like I once did. But every moment is inscribed so deep in my brain and body, I can basically run the whole song behind closed eyelids. So that's okay. Favorite Zep song to play at the Farmers Market is Going to California, though Battle of Evermore is a close second when hubby and I are feeling really bold.
More of my favorite Indie women and the songs I'm loving by them:
5. Suzanne Vega -- who is re-releasing all her own songs to regain artistic control -- my favorites by her that are heavy on my playlist right now are her great classic Marlene on the Wall, Calypso, and especially, Honeymoon Suite. Suzanne Vega Close-Up is also available on Freegal. I first fell in love with Suzanne Vega as the most amazing songwriter way back in the 80s... I loved to sing the song Gypsy to my husband when I was still not sure whether I'd be able to land him (it did take six years after all!).
6. Imogen Heap: songs from her album Ellipse, especially Earth, Bad Body Double, Little Bird, and First Train Home. I like to think First Train Home is partly from the pov of the Tardis. :D There's some similarity between Imogen in this vid, and Idris. And we all know Neil loves Indie women...
... 7, speaking of, my favorite Amanda Palmer song from Dresden Dolls, is Good Day. "I took out the trash today and I'M ON FIRE!!" I also love coin-operated boy, (wow amazing video!!!), girl anachronism and the Jeep song. I need to listen to more recent Amanda. She is in my icon being awesome. She lets people sign her naked body. Wow!
Here is bonus Amanda giving her amazing Ted Talk on the Art of Asking.
8. Here is a great little song I listen to almost on a daily basis: A good Day, by Priscilla Ahn. No relation to Amanda's Good Day, above!! Priscilla Ahn has a very pretty voice and writes nice little songs. I first came across her on a Doctor Who mix album. One of the many great things about fandom is the mix albums!!
9. In case you do not believe me about the Heavy Metal, here is Clutch with a crazy fun apocasong: Escape from the Prison Planet. I got this off the soundtrack from Escape from LA starring Kurt Russell, the sequel to Escape from New York. :) Buying soundtracks for a dollar at my local used CD place is one of my favorite ways to get new songs into my playlists. The guy singing this song would definitely be a contact of Fox Mulder (mutual friends with Bob Lazar) as well as Frank Devereaux. :D Another apocafave is Space Lord by Monster Magnet (yes, he is driving my Firebird at 2 minutes in, but I don't have the t roof). And for my Supernatural peeps out there -- my favorite Motörhead is not Ace of Spades or even Killed by Death, but Joy of Labour, which is all about Dean after Hell -- I dare you to deny!
Let's see, I've posted about traditional ballads, heavy metal, Indie women, and John Barrowman.... I guess that just leaves my adoration for Cerebral British Dance Music.
10.
Gang of Four/Shriekback/Kingswamp -- an evolving concatenation of musicians around bassist Dave Allen, drummer Martyn Barker, and singer Barry Andrews, that I have adored for nearly 30 years.
Gang of Four -- to Hell with Poverty, my favorite punk song of all time. Gang of Four are the apotheosis of punk to me.
Shriekback released two flawless albums in the 80s, Oil and Gold and Big Night Music, and are still going even now!! Here is a representative song, This Big Hush. the most romantic apocalypse, so beautiful and hypnotic.
Kingswamp, The Floating World, a song by a British Dance Band that decided to become American Southern Rock. how did they do that!!! with British singer, Walter Wray. :)
The Fixx -- two faves I could find on youtube are Sunshine in the Shade (oh wow, look at them being baby boys in the 80s!!) Sign of Fire and Sense the Adventure --my old pagan anthem. :D
Keane, The Cardigans (actually Swedes), Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor (Irish of course) -- but I'm out of time. :)
Bonus Classical piece: The Sherlock Partita :D
Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004: Chaconne
Okay, so this was an amazing bonus to doing this meme, a full 30 minute vid of Itzhak Perlman performing the whole thing live. AHHHH. I do love me some Bach. Bach just hits my brain like a drug. So beautiful, so RIGHT.
I have to post this in batches, otherwise I will make a mistake and lose all my links. apologies in advance for the repeated ETAs. ;)
Anybody got a trenchcoat Jack figure they'd like to sell, or, like a stack of Torchwood magazines? I'm buying! :)
2. When I was a Young Girl, by Feist, from Let it Die. So, for the past few years, I've been listening to more indie women singers, and Feist is one of them. I love her song Mushaboom, and her cover of the Beegee's Inside and Out, but it's this cover of one of my favorite traditional ballads that is owning me right now. It's a version of the Bad Girl's Lament, which is also a version of what we commonly know in the US as Streets of Laredo, one of the first ballads I ever learned. When I was little my mom had a book of ballads from Scholastic books called Folksong Festival which was decorated with spooky woodcuts in that late 60s way, and I was fascinated by Streets of Laredo, which I first learned from country singer Marty Robbins. :) This is the newest ballad I'm adding to my repertoire. Feist got it from Virginia traditional singer, Texas Gladden, whose album I ordered from Smithsonian Folkways.
here Feist's awesome embellished live version as well, where she plays a very hot guitar. :D
3. Song I want to hear when I turn on the radio: Radioactive, by Imagine Dragons. (wow, what an unexpected video, but yay, Lou Diamond Phillips!!) The first I heard out of this band was their completely different song, It's Time. I was part of a dance concert in January and our big group number was to It's Time, so I find that to be a very cheery song and it makes me run my feet in my feet like in the dance (packing my bags and giving the academy a raincheck -- that's me). I love how those two songs by the same band are completely different! Radioactive hits me right in the bone where I LOVE heavy metal apocalyptic songs. (Another huge favorite in that vein is So Cold by Breaking Benjamin, from the album We are Not Alone, which I always associate with the crew of Serenity.). I really love the cathartic feel of a strong, apocalyptic heavy metal song. It puts my own stresses into perspective. I'm like, no matter how bad I have it, this guy in Radioactive or So Cold probably has it worse, and he's actually gonna make it, so I can too!! This is also why I love Nick Cave so much. :)
4. Obligatory mention of songs by Led Zeppelin. As my husband and I were discussing the other day, Stairway to Heaven IS the best song of all time, BAR NONE, but if I could only hear one last Zep tune before I died, it would be How Many More Times, which I adore. I started my love affair with Zeppelin when I was a teenager, so after 30 years, you know, I don't listen to these songs every day like I once did. But every moment is inscribed so deep in my brain and body, I can basically run the whole song behind closed eyelids. So that's okay. Favorite Zep song to play at the Farmers Market is Going to California, though Battle of Evermore is a close second when hubby and I are feeling really bold.
More of my favorite Indie women and the songs I'm loving by them:
5. Suzanne Vega -- who is re-releasing all her own songs to regain artistic control -- my favorites by her that are heavy on my playlist right now are her great classic Marlene on the Wall, Calypso, and especially, Honeymoon Suite. Suzanne Vega Close-Up is also available on Freegal. I first fell in love with Suzanne Vega as the most amazing songwriter way back in the 80s... I loved to sing the song Gypsy to my husband when I was still not sure whether I'd be able to land him (it did take six years after all!).
6. Imogen Heap: songs from her album Ellipse, especially Earth, Bad Body Double, Little Bird, and First Train Home. I like to think First Train Home is partly from the pov of the Tardis. :D There's some similarity between Imogen in this vid, and Idris. And we all know Neil loves Indie women...
... 7, speaking of, my favorite Amanda Palmer song from Dresden Dolls, is Good Day. "I took out the trash today and I'M ON FIRE!!" I also love coin-operated boy, (wow amazing video!!!), girl anachronism and the Jeep song. I need to listen to more recent Amanda. She is in my icon being awesome. She lets people sign her naked body. Wow!
Here is bonus Amanda giving her amazing Ted Talk on the Art of Asking.
8. Here is a great little song I listen to almost on a daily basis: A good Day, by Priscilla Ahn. No relation to Amanda's Good Day, above!! Priscilla Ahn has a very pretty voice and writes nice little songs. I first came across her on a Doctor Who mix album. One of the many great things about fandom is the mix albums!!
9. In case you do not believe me about the Heavy Metal, here is Clutch with a crazy fun apocasong: Escape from the Prison Planet. I got this off the soundtrack from Escape from LA starring Kurt Russell, the sequel to Escape from New York. :) Buying soundtracks for a dollar at my local used CD place is one of my favorite ways to get new songs into my playlists. The guy singing this song would definitely be a contact of Fox Mulder (mutual friends with Bob Lazar) as well as Frank Devereaux. :D Another apocafave is Space Lord by Monster Magnet (yes, he is driving my Firebird at 2 minutes in, but I don't have the t roof). And for my Supernatural peeps out there -- my favorite Motörhead is not Ace of Spades or even Killed by Death, but Joy of Labour, which is all about Dean after Hell -- I dare you to deny!
Let's see, I've posted about traditional ballads, heavy metal, Indie women, and John Barrowman.... I guess that just leaves my adoration for Cerebral British Dance Music.
10.
Gang of Four/Shriekback/Kingswamp -- an evolving concatenation of musicians around bassist Dave Allen, drummer Martyn Barker, and singer Barry Andrews, that I have adored for nearly 30 years.
Gang of Four -- to Hell with Poverty, my favorite punk song of all time. Gang of Four are the apotheosis of punk to me.
Shriekback released two flawless albums in the 80s, Oil and Gold and Big Night Music, and are still going even now!! Here is a representative song, This Big Hush. the most romantic apocalypse, so beautiful and hypnotic.
Kingswamp, The Floating World, a song by a British Dance Band that decided to become American Southern Rock. how did they do that!!! with British singer, Walter Wray. :)
The Fixx -- two faves I could find on youtube are Sunshine in the Shade (oh wow, look at them being baby boys in the 80s!!) Sign of Fire and Sense the Adventure --my old pagan anthem. :D
Keane, The Cardigans (actually Swedes), Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor (Irish of course) -- but I'm out of time. :)
Bonus Classical piece: The Sherlock Partita :D
Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004: Chaconne
Okay, so this was an amazing bonus to doing this meme, a full 30 minute vid of Itzhak Perlman performing the whole thing live. AHHHH. I do love me some Bach. Bach just hits my brain like a drug. So beautiful, so RIGHT.
I have to post this in batches, otherwise I will make a mistake and lose all my links. apologies in advance for the repeated ETAs. ;)
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Date: 2013-07-05 01:34 pm (UTC)It's frankly amazing how many new bands and songs I've discovered via fandom mixes. Just like the old days really and the mix tapes! I love that!
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Date: 2013-07-05 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-05 01:43 pm (UTC)Amanda! You are such a contradiction to me - what about Palmer do you love? She can't sing. At all. But she can write/create and boyhowdy can she promote herself! Have you seen her humbling TED?
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Date: 2013-07-05 03:17 pm (UTC)Her voice is swallowed, but it registers to me as on pitch :)
What irritates me most in singers is little mannerisms that are not justified by the performance. whereas Amanda's performances are very powerful and very honest feeling. :)
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Date: 2013-07-05 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-05 03:19 pm (UTC)Here Scully is standing in for a different redhead. :)
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Date: 2013-07-05 02:03 pm (UTC)And OMG! My library has freegal, and I didn't know!
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Date: 2013-07-05 03:20 pm (UTC)Yeah -- no possible way to narrow it down to ten!!