What are you listening to?

[garbon]

Marlena Shaw - California Soul
Aretha Franklin - The Weight

[Liep]

James Vincent McMorrow - Wicked Game

Heard in the new Game of Thrones trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuH3tJPiP-U

[Savonarola]

I listened to a couple of Clara Rockmore recordings after today's Google doodle.  I didn't care much for them; outside of creepy movies and "Good Vibrations" I just don't care for the Theremin.  I've seen two performances that used the Theremin; one was at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the group was an accordion virtuoso and a Theremin virtuoso.  There music was very slow, and didn't seem to go anywhere - it was avant-garde, though, you could tell because half the audience left after about five minutes.  The second was a band opening for Air, which consisted of a keyboardist and a Theremin player.  Midway through one of their last songs the Theremin player screamed and fell down on the floor (as part of the act.)  That was also avant-garde.  What really made that great, though, is that one of the guitarists from air had done so many drugs that he also fell down on stage (not part of the act.)

[Liep]

Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

[garbon]

Mariana and The Diamonds - Solitaire
Jill Scott - Prepared

[Savonarola]

Alessia Cara Wild Things

I'm not a huge fan of pop music, but I like this song.  Maybe because it reminds me of:

[Eddie Teach]

Don Henley- Boys of Summer

[Eddie Teach]

Portishead- All Mine. This song definitely feels like a Bond theme.

[PDH]

With snow here yet the trees having buds, I settled for:

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

[Liep]

Tom Waits - Alice

[Norgy]

I've been listening to a lot of sad, sad old Motown lately.

Very little beats Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" and Bobby Bland's "Ain't No Love (In The Heart Of The City)" in terms of making a bad day a bit worse but also better.

[Savonarola]

I've been listening to a lot of sad, sad old Motown lately.

Very little beats Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" and Bobby Bland's "Ain't No Love (In The Heart Of The City)" in terms of making a bad day a bit worse but also better.

I'm sorry you're having a bad day, Norge, but that doesn't excuse calling Bobby "Blue" Bland Motown.   



Bland was actually on Duke records (and then various other labels after Duke was bought.)  Though it's not usually thought of as "The Motown Sound", Motown did actually have blues singers on their labels.  In fact one of Motown's first charting singles was "That Child is Really Wild" by Singin' Sammy Ward.

In any event I hope your day is turning out better.

[The Brain]

Ghost - If You Have Ghosts

[Norgy]

I've been listening to a lot of sad, sad old Motown lately.

Very little beats Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" and Bobby Bland's "Ain't No Love (In The Heart Of The City)" in terms of making a bad day a bit worse but also better.

I'm sorry you're having a bad day, Norge, but that doesn't excuse calling Bobby "Blue" Bland Motown.   



Bland was actually on Duke records (and then various other labels after Duke was bought.)  Though it's not usually thought of as "The Motown Sound", Motown did actually have blues singers on their labels.  In fact one of Motown's first charting singles was "That Child is Really Wild" by Singin' Sammy Ward.

In any event I hope your day is turning out better.

I think I discovered blues and Motown quite late, really. All I had heard was Diana Ross.
Now I can't stop listening to some amazing singers.
I'll check out Sammy Ward as well.

My days usually start out with there being little love in small towns in Norway too, but get better with coffee and some music.
And no, I wasn't dumped by some love interest.

Right now, I'm listening to "The Last Waltz" album by The Band and "The Weight" with a full The Band line-up and The Staple Singers. It's tearjerkingly good.

[garbon]

Jill Scott - Fool's Gold