Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So, what are you listening to?

Nothing lately. Life's been crazy.

this: Mondo bongo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B9OaJIFumg

Trawling through YouTube, I recently came across a few songs from the early 70's by a singer named Emily Bindiger. It was sort of a psychedelic-folky sound (sort of early Grace Slick crossed with Natalie Merchant). Here's a few samples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iqpL6_q3Lg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCw7VGtv74s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsUPQA1baaU

I tracked down the rest of the album, just called "Emily" and the whole thing was just phenomenal. It seems it was her only solo album, recorded when she was just 16, backed by the French psych band Dynastie Crisis. It was so good, though, I wondered how why I had never heard her before.

Well, a bit of googling later and it turns out that I have heard her... obscurely... in every decade of my life. It seems that after this album, she toured with Leonard Cohen, and later recorded with him, being the female half of the duet on "Who by Fire," which was one of my favorite songs as a teen. A few years later, she was cast in the children's program, "The Great Space Coaster," which I watched every morning before school as a little kid. She later got into voicing TV jingles, being the voice behind, "Wait'll we get our Hanes on you..." and "Trust Sleepy's... for the rest of your life." More recently, she's been performing with an a capella group who, somewhat notably, sang the "Spider Pig" song from the Simpsons Movie.

What an absolutely bizarre career!

Do you think she may be stalking you, Exnihil?

I've been listening to the Oxford American's latest Southern Music CD. Alabama (the state, not the band) is the focus this year. Some great stuff you've probably never heard before.

Amos Lee, my new favorite. Started with his newest, Mission Bell, and also his self-titled album.

Rick Wakeman:
THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII
JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
NO EARTHLY CONNECTION
WHITE ROCK
CRIMINAL RECORD
RHAPSODIES
ROCK N ROLL PROPHET
1984
G'OLE
COST OF LIVING
CRIMES OF PASSION
SILENT NIGHTS


(The early-80's albums tend to be a low point, sadly... but he got much better again in the mid-late 80's... at least for awhile.)

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!

^I'm with Prof on this one Cobie.

On the other hand, I dig BIG DADDY'S album "SGT. PEPPER'S". They redid the entire album in the style of various 50's rock & roll artists.


"With A Little Help..." in the style of Johnny Mathis' "It's Not For me To Say"

"Lucy In The Sky..." in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"

"Within You Without You" done as a spoken-word poem recited by a Greenwich Village coffee house beatnik

...and the kicker...

"A Day In The Life" as a Buddy Holly tribute. The "John" section in the style of "Peggy Sue", the "Paul" section in the style of the flip side, "Everyday", the finale as a tribute to "Heartbeat", and the END, as the sound of a plane crash followed by the news report of Buddy Holly's death.

He hasn;t crossed my mind in years. What a jolt!

Wakeman went thru what I'd consider a rough period in the early 80's. Then from about 1986-93, he seemed to get more inspired than ever. Not only was he doing some of his best albums ever, but he was also knocking about about 4 albums PER YEAR.

But about 1994 the inspiration seemed to fade... and sadly, the number of albums didn't. So he was continuing to knock out dozens of albums which just weren't grabbing me, and a lot of these were hard to track down or expensive, or both.

then I read how due to mind-numbingly bad business management, he was somehow-- incredibly-- NOT getting any royalties at all for ANYTHING he wrote before 1996... (It's no wonder he kept knocking out so much new stuff.)

Dave Matthews' 2010 concert in Atlanta...right now.

"Electro-cute" by Babamars.

Rev Theory:

Hell Yeah and Light it up.


Hey, sometimes this old dude likes to listen to the hard stuff, lol.

Uhh, *cough* "Firework" by Katy Perry *cough* ...

But then I rock out super-hard with slipknot right after!

The Down 'n Outz, "My Regeneration."

This is a side project of Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliot, a highly knowledgable fan of the obscure (to Americans) British rock of his 70s adolescence. Here he sings on a collection of covers of the various offshoots of his all-time favorite band, Mott the Hoople. Kudos to Elliot, especially for unearthing the title track of Ian Hunter's "Overnight Angels." That album was considered a disaster at the time, and even most Hunter fans (as well as Hunter himself) haven't a kind word to say about it; I've never heard the album (it was never officially released in the States), but this song, at least as interpreted by Elliot & company, is awesome.

Have to admit it, Glee. Every song they've done on the show is on rotation on my iPhone's iPod.

My entire BILLY PRESTON collection. A lot of what I have is out-of-print or very expensive, and I transferred everything I had to CDs last year.


PRESSIN' ON (1982) has the distinction of being my favorite disco album!

Some old religious stuff of Amy Grant's... seeing her in concert tonight in NYC...

Hey, my overpriced CD from Italy arrived today. In perfect shape-- a miracle,
the guy wrapped it in a thin plastic store bag with some tape, and only put some bubble-wrap on one side. Amazing the jewel case wasn't cracked. Cheapest mail-order packaging I've ever seen anybody do.


The Brotherhood Of Man was a "studio group" put together by a producer, and presumably its members were all unknown and anonymous to the public back in 1969-71 when this stuff was done. Someone online made the sarcastic (and somewhat funny) comment that "Nobody between the ages of 12 and 30 would be taken in by this". At the time, I was 13, my Dad was 53. HE bought the 45, not me!


I'm guessing at one of his weekend playing jobs, someone asked him about the
song, "California Sunday Morning", the next day he went out and bought the record, played it, learned it, and the next weekend, was able to play it on the job. He did that sometimes! It's just funny, considering he was so "out of it"
when it came to "popular" music, and as it turns out, this song was never on an
album, and the single NEVER charted in any country! Wow. Great song, though.
You'd never know it was by a group from England.

This .

(Just a little shout-out to all those fans of a certian comic strip. Also, eff the haters on YouTube's comments. It's a splendid cover version. Somebody save me from old fogies, especially the ones half my freakin' age.)

It's okay, Drake. I think they make a patch for that.

When I feel melancholy, nothing soothes me like the Latin ballads of my childhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhU4HKxkg2k