Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: I also was obssessed all summer with Rodrigio y Gabriella, especially "Tamacun".
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I wouldn't say this is my favorite song or anything - but I heard the song, "Mercy" by the Welsh singer Duffy for the first time in a department store with my wife the other day:
Yeah, its a few years old, and it's pretty fantastic. Duffy is pretty awesome all around. She has a lot of fast songs like Mercy and slow ballads, all in the style of early / mid 1960's motown yet with a very modern twist.
She was part of the 'movement' Amy Whinehouse started and now Adele is clearly leading.
I am currently obsessed with a song I know nothing about that I heard while getting my hair cut. A woman with a haunting voice (sort of like Amy Lee, when she's got her goth on, but maybe a hair richer and / or a bit auto-tuned to give it an echo-y quality) is singing what sounds like 'are you ready?' among other things (she says that a lot, making me think it might have been the title), but I have no idea who it was, or what the title was.
There's seventy bajillion songs with related titles, and none of them sound right.
Grr! Although I've discovered lots of neat stuff while looking for it. Who knew Eartha Kitt sang?
Back in the summer of 1997, I was sitting my new girlfriend's living room waiting for her to get ready to go to dinner, just idly watching a music video. I remember thinking...
"Hmmm... this song is pretty good."
In any case, before it was over, she came out ready and I flipped the TV off...
... never to hear the song again.
I later married that girlfriend - but never did find out what the song was or who sang it... until 5 minutes ago!
Just randomly clicking around Youtube, I happened upon the same video which I only ever saw that one time before, from a band I've never even heard of. "Reef"? Were they ever popular?
Anyway... my conclusion - 15 and half years later:
I will listen to absolutely everything, and my favorite genre changes based on what season it is (from Jay Z to Combichrist). A month ago I picked up a Florence and the Machine CD at Target and popped it in the car cd player, and Wow! It was excellent! I spent probably 20 hours driving, and the album was on repeat the whole time and I didn't get bored or tired of the music once.
"Breath of Life" has to be my favorite song on the album. It's pretty haunting (albeit not as haunting as Kristen Stewart's zombie-like acting used in the music video).
Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you. But who'd ever think to look for me here?
This video thang that I just learned how to do by studying Jerry's zombie drag queen post to my birthday thread has become the most awesome-est THANG ever on Legion World! *looks hot*
Meanwhile, back to my current favorite song: my favorite THANG about it besides the dance beat is the reggae break in the middle... rap breaks in the middle are SO tired. I kinda miss sax breaks... but that is an 80s dinosaur, I'm afraid. So anyhoo, I'm here to encourage MORE reggae breaks! No Doubt is, of course, on the forefront of this battle, as far back as 2001 when they stealthily slipped a Bounty Killer reggae break into their hit song HEY BABY, disguised as a rap:
But they say your first time is the best... and when it comes to reggae, I must disagree, because I think my best was with tank top-sporting second-generation reggae hottie Ziggy Marley:
And my first was with probably the same as many of you... *shudder* Musical Youth:
There were other major acts in the 80s who used reggae, usually not on single releases (see: Culture Club's first album) but I am far too drunk to look all that up now. So I leave you with one of my fave 80s feel-good songs:
I love these guys ... they remind me of 80s big rock
I've also been into some vintage Kanye West ... he used to rap about real life and it was hopeful music and it was inventive ... now I don't know what happened to that guy ...
I really like this one by Flo and the Machine but I am really disappointed by her live voice.
These guys are kind of fun ... 80s is back and supersampled!
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