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Lifehouse's "Broken", "Storm" and "Everything" - can't get enough of listening to those songs over and over again

Nickelback's "Gotta Be Somebody" is my current "can't get that outta my head" song

Barbara Lynn's versions of "Misty Blue" and "What'd I Say ?" (Yay, youtube !)

The only thing better than fabulous R&B is fabulous R&B played by lefty guitarists.

Okay, to our music experts...

I have just watched EDtv for the umpteenth time and the scene where he and the english chick are on the table about to have sex...there is a score of two songs there. I have finally found the first one, Dirty Water, but not by the artist that did it for the movie. I am looking for the second portion. It sounds like it is done by someone with a foreign accent or it actually is foreign language.

I cannot find it and i have looked for it for years. IF anyone knows, please drop me a line and tell me. Thanks, Rick.

By the way, right now i am listening to cobrastrike by the Teddybears. Heard it on the benchwarmers and looked it up. For some reason, i dig it.

Ozzy Osbourne, Let It Die. Great first track on his new album, Scream. Probably his best album since No Rest/No More Tears. The band line-up's all new to me, but Ozzy seems to attract stellar musicians. Other standout tracks are the first single, Let Me Hear You Scream and Time Won't Wait but I'm digging the whole album.

"Wake Up Everybody" by John Legend is a phenominal song I've quickly grown to love. I don't know who the female is dueting with him but she's terrific too. The Roots back him and Common, who has basically emerged as my favorite rapper, adds in a solid verse.

The Monkees -- CHANGES (1970)


"Oh My My" is STILL one of my favorite songs of all time!

Grizzly Bear's _Veckatimest_ CD seems to keep finding its way back into my player. Man, this is a beautiful record.

KPM 1014: ALL THAT JAZZ -- David Lee (1967)

Wake Up Everybody was originally written and recorded in the 70s, in my home town of Philadelphia, by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes . The Legend/Roots version is part of an all-covers album.

The big deal at the Spidey-Jazz Yahoo Group over the last 2 days was that a particularly MOST-SOUGHT track used in the cartoons was FINALLY identified! It's the loud, blaring piece heard when Spidey is "Swinging To the Zoo" in the 2nd season episode DIAMOND DUST. As it turns out, it's called "POWER DRIVE" by Johnny Pearson, and was used as the theme song of the Australian cop show, DIVISION 4.


Trying to find this one track has been driving members of the group crazy for the last several years...

An old Gil Evans recording, There Comes A Time. I'm actually a huge Evans fan, but I don't think it's one of his better works overall. As the cliche' goes, there are some sparks of brilliance, but it's generally a mish-mash.

I have unholy amounts of love for Into The Hot, though. One of the first jazz LPs I ever bought. Really should get the stereo fixed one of these days. Not being able to hear my vinyl the right way kinda' bites.

I had no idea it was a cover! I'm really loving their version of it! I'll def have to check out the original now.

Hope you enjoy it; Blue Notes' lead singer Teddy Pendergrass had some powerful pipes.

And I should make an addendum -- I think my previous post made it sound like the Blue Notes authored the song. They didn't -- it was written by John Whitehead, Gene McPhadden, and Victor Carstarphen, and produced by Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff.

Jethro Tull -- LIVE BURSTING OUT (1978)

Funny that - I just finished listening to Tull's _STAND UP_ from 1969.

Speaking of Tull, I'm kind of digging The Fancy Toys , featuring Ian Anderson's son, James Duncan.

Red Heaven, the 1992 Throwing Muses masterpiece. Everything about it is perfect, so far as I'm concerned.

(And let the record state: TM was never "grunge" or "alternative." They've always done their own damn thing, though they flirted with the stereotypical "college sound" on 1989's hunkpapa. Which wasn't bad, but kind of diluted what I think of as their distinctive sound.)

band of horses


they're kinda 80s power ballad/90s depressing.

David Garrett - Rock Symphonies

Stalk-Forest Group -- ST. CECILIA

Today it's Peter Case's second solo album: The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar (1989).

Most reviewers just called it Blue Guitar.

Case was taking a break from the rawer, "power-pop" sounds of his work with The Plimsouls and going more into folk-rock mode, as with his previous solo record.

I guess to a lot of people, the arrangements are dated, but to me it holds up beautifully. I also remember people made fun of him for supposedly ripping off Springsteen, which just made me roll my eyes. I've always found Springsteen to be overrated, and the idea that nobody had the right to sing about the down-and-out without getting Bruce's permission first was pretty damn stupid.

Anyone who really knows me knows what a huge fan of System of a Down I am. Well, they've been on "hiatus" since 2005, but I've loyally supported the interim projects of its lead singer Serj Tankian as a solo artist and its guitarist & drummer performing as Scars on Broadway. Both first albums were very good and helped fill the void SOAD has left pretty admirably.

Serj released his second solo album Imperfect Harmonies last month, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit despite (or perhaps because?) it's quite a departure from his solo debut and especially from anything SOAD ever did.

Serj has a really unusual voice to say the least. It's very rangy and he frequently explores his range with some pretty dissonant and unpredictable notes. I don't think his is a voice that everyone would automatically enjoy. It's kind of nasal at times, and he enjoys using it in unconventional manners. But to me it's haunting at times, often beautiful and just unique and exciting.

In Imperfect Harmonies, he moves pretty much completely away from electric guitar and instead heavily favors orchestration as his primary music. There's not a single one of its eleven tracks that doesn't feature a good deal of orchestral backup. Yet he uses it in such a way that it still feels like a rock album and most of the tracks are fairly up-tempo, so it's not a snoozefest full of sappy love songs. In fact maybe one or two of the tracks can be possibly classified as such.

If there's a downside to Serj's lyrics, it's that there's a tendency to at times to be overly verbose. Witness a sample of his lyrics to "Borders Are":

fear is the cause of separation
backed with illicit conversations
procured by constant condemnations
national blood-painted persuasions

here's my song for the free
no it's not about praise and publicity
corporatocracy what a hypocrisy
aristocracy versus democracy

fear is the cause of separation
backed with illicit conversations
procured by constant condemnations
national blood-painted persuasions

If those read kinda verbose, you can see that the lyrics sound awkward and crowded at times. Also obvious, like with System, Serj tends to have a heapin' helping of politically-skewed songs which can turn some off. There's also a good share of relationship and otherwise non-political songs as well.

The more I listen to this album, the more and more I'm enjoying it. I was skeptical about buying it as the pub made it clear this was orchestra-heavy. Normally, I don't go for that sort of thing in large doses; I'm definitely a lover of the electric guitar. But if the execution can be this entertaining and multi-dimensional, then I'd definitely be game for more of the same. A solid effort through and through.

If you're curious at all, here's a link to two videos from the album:

A lyric video for "Borders Are" and the official video for "Left of Center"

If you decide to check them out or have already listened to the album yourself, please post some comments.

Today it's Marilyn Mazur's Future Song, from 1992. (Recorded in 1990.)

Mostly instrumental jazz-rock. Aina Kemanis provides some vocals, but they're usually abstract and meant to blend in with percussionist Mazur's soundscapes, rather than to draw attention to themselves.

It's a big sound for a small group (Most tracks are just Mazur and another drummer/percussionist, Kemanis' vocals, and alternating electric/acoustic bass and guitar. Occasionally there's a horn or two added.) I'm always freshly surprised to be reminded that the ensemble is so small.

The tone veers violently between sunny and stormy. So to me it's very Autumnal and appropriate to where I live. The first track in particular ("First Dream") has some nightmarish passages that seem right for the day, as well. A lot of Mazur's work veers more into New Agey or minimalist territory, but I find this side of her much more satisfying to listen to.

You can find her on youtube , if you feel so inclined.

^I'll listen to yours if ya listen ta mine, clee!