What Are You Listening To?

[daves87rs]

5 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

After reading of Eddie Money's passing today, I've been listening to his music...always enjoyed him on the radio in the 80s...neat video for 'Shakin', has some Chevy lowriders...

 

https://youtu.be/2tcD_dVcXE4

My Favorite will always be “take me home tonight”... ? 

[balthazar]

^ Very unlike you, 'blu, but I like!
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Noodlin' around :

 

[trinacriabob]

On 9/13/2019 at 4:33 PM, Robert Hall said:

After reading of Eddie Money's passing today, I've been listening to his music...always enjoyed him on the radio in the 80s...neat video for 'Shakin', has some Chevy lowriders...

 

 

No!  I wasn't on U.S. soil when this transpired.  That is really sad.  His landmark hit IMO was "Take Me Home Tonight."  It's a tune that is timeless.

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So, I'm away across the pond and, thanks to the increased popularity of rentable econoboxes with automatic transmissions, trips over there go more smoothly.  Actually, it wasn't a tiny econobox but a Volkswagen Polo 4 door.  The first day I take it out for a spin, I hear the following on the radio ... perfect!  So damn Teutonic!

 

Edited October 8, 2019 by trinacriabob

[oldshurst442]

 

[G. David Felt]

Been this kind of day at work, so glad I am no longer in management, the politics are just so tiring. Not worth the money or responsibilities. 

 

[G. David Felt]

Now Black Sabbath Time

 

[Drew Dowdell]

 

[G. David Felt]

 

[trinacriabob]

 

 

2 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

"Safari" by Japanese jazz guitarist Keiko Matsui

This must have been new when it provided the background music for crossing the upper level of the S.F.-Oakland Bay Bridge in my Cutlass Supreme Brougham 2-door coupe from the East Bay suburbs into the city and catching this on a jazz station.  Any better music to have the vertical cables of the Bay Bridge flickering the Coit Tower, North Beach, and the Financial District as you drive to San Francisco or to the Peninsula/South Bay along the 101?  I can't think of any.

 

Edited November 11, 2019 by trinacriabob

[Robert Hall]

Went  and saw Bob Dylan in concert Saturday night.  Great show.  He has a great touring band, all electric, no acoustic.  Always liked him, had never seen him.  

[oldshurst442]

^^^

I prefer the Queen of Disco's version better.  So much so, I do not even want to quote the post.  

 

24 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

Went  and saw Bob Dylan in concert Saturday night.  Great show.  He has a great touring band, all electric, no acoustic.  Always liked him, had never seen him.  

I do not like his whiny singing voice. But strangely enough, I like listening to his songs.  Weird...

[balthazar]

I thought Dylan was dead.
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[G. David Felt]

2 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

 

 

 

I have her Sapphire album, she is an awesome Jazz Pianist.

[trinacriabob]

5 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Went  and saw Bob Dylan in concert Saturday night.  Great show.  He has a great touring band, all electric, no acoustic.  Always liked him, had never seen him.  

Where did Bob Dylan perform?  I'll have to check if he is in the cluster of musical artists that perpetually put out songs with dour lyrics.  Simon and Garfunkel easily clinch the award for dour lyrics:  'went looking for a job and got no offers ... only a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue ..."  Dour!

5 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

I prefer the Queen of Disco's version better.  So much so, I do not even want to quote the post.  

 

I'm guessing the Queen of Disco is the late Donna Summer.  No other person seems to have held that "title."

3 hours ago, dfelt said:

I have her Sapphire album, she is an awesome Jazz Pianist.

I agree.  As is Joyce Cooling, who was big at about the same time.  I think I already posted her song "South of Market."

Edited November 12, 2019 by trinacriabob

[Robert Hall]

7 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Where did Bob Dylan perform?  I'll have to check if he is in the cluster of musical artists that perpetually put out songs with dour lyrics.  

He was at the University of Akron EJ Thomas Hall.   Nice venue, built in the 70s, the inside reminded me a lot of the Phoenix Symphony Hall which is from the same era. 

[trinacriabob]

A little bit of "freeway music" for me ... and you:

 

[daves87rs]

Pissed right now...

The gage cluster in my Cavalier went on the blink last week, and is completely dead now. Hope I do not need to see how fast I am going, or know how much gas I need...Worse part that burns my behind is that the cluster had a 100% fail rate for all late 2003, 2004, and most 2005 models. Why there is no recall is beyond me. Funny part is that there are no new ones to buy either...GM had most of them trashed.....

Surprised me a bit just based on the fact that the car had less than 25k (stored project car ? ). I really want to do it myself, but the plastic is so damn cheap I’m afraid I will break the dash....

I’m sure someone will tell me that it is a 90s piece of trash and to burn it soon....but hey-I always had a soft spot for Cavaliers, for good reason.... ?

Thanks for listening to my rant.......

Edited November 18, 2019 by daves87rs
Hey-can this be moved to our usual area for this? Didn’t realize where it ended up....

[G. David Felt]

1 hour ago, daves87rs said:

Pissed right now...

The gage cluster in my Cavalier went on the blink last week, and is completely dead now. Hope I do not need to see how fast I am going, or know how much gas I need...Worse part that burns my behind is that the cluster had a 100% fail rate for all late 2003, 2004, and most 2005 models. Why there is no recall is beyond me. Funny part is that there are no new ones to buy either...GM had most of them trashed.....

Surprised me a bit just based on the fact that the car had less than 25k (stored project car ? ). I really want to do it myself, but the plastic is so damn cheap I’m afraid I will break the dash....

I’m sure someone will tell me that it is a 90s piece of trash and to burn it soon....but hey-I always had a soft spot for Cavaliers, for good reason.... ?

Thanks for listening to my rant.......

Loved the Z24 Cavaliers, here is for you!

 

[G. David Felt]

Right now getting some old school tunes on.  

 

 

[ocnblu]

 

 

[ocnblu]

 

 

[balthazar]

 

[trinacriabob]

Music - YOUR music - is very important when on a road trip. 

Having music that you've selected for your library coming in through Bluetooth or whatever medium makes a road trip more enjoyable and it's probably even a good thing for your safety because you're less likely to get bored, distracted, or tired.

[G. David Felt]

Spotify and Sirius XM are my friends for road trips depending on the auto I am driving.

[ocnblu]

 

[ocnblu]

 

 

 

[trinacriabob]

It's still November ... as in "when the gales of November came early"

Fairly haunting and sort of incredible that Lake Superior is akin to the North Atlantic of the Great Lakes.

Edited December 1, 2019 by trinacriabob

[ocnblu]

 

[ocnblu]

 

[oldshurst442]

^^^ Not bad... good and powerful voice.   Nice and soft, as it supposed  to be sung.  

I still prefer the original, though. 

[balthazar]

NIN meets Marilyn Manson :

 

[trinacriabob]

Gotta be in the mood for this one ... sometimes yes and sometimes no.   I looked up the year of its origins - 1979.

 

Edited December 7, 2019 by trinacriabob

[trinacriabob]

 

20 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

^^^ Not bad... good and powerful voice.   Nice and soft, as it supposed  to be sung.  

I still prefer the original, though. 

I'm guessing you are referring to the one by Roberta Flack and which was featured in the movie "Play Misty for Me," sort of the "Fatal Attraction" of the previous decade.

Roberta Flack and this song are symbiotic even though, technically, it's not hers.  It originated in 1957.  And, after Roberta Flack, many other musical artists have taken a whack at it.

[oldshurst442]

Yes.  Roberta Flack.

Her version was a staple on the (Montreal)  radio well into the late 1970s and very early 1980s.  I think I saw the movie Play Misty for Me, although I do not remember if I saw it or not...and Fatal Attraction?  With Michael Douglas?  I saw that movie thrice. Once on VHS when it came out. Another on DVD sometime in the late 1990s and last year I got my hands on it again. But I do not remember hearing the song in the movie...

But yeah...I LOVE this song and her version!

 

Edited December 7, 2019 by oldshurst442

[trinacriabob]

2 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

Yes.  Roberta Flack.

Her version was a staple on the (Montreal)  radio well into the late 1970s and very early 1980s.  I think I saw the movie Play Misty for Me, although I do not remember if I saw it or not...and Fatal Attraction?  With Michael Douglas?  I saw that movie thrice. Once on VHS when it came out. Another on DVD sometime in the late 1990s and last year I got my hands on it again. But I do not remember hearing the song in the movie...

But yeah...I LOVE this song and her version!

 

"Fatal Attraction" had Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.  I forgot who the other stars in it were.  "Play Misty for Me" had Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, and Donna Mills ... and was filmed in the Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur area along the Central California coast.  "Misty" was another great song, where its originator was outdone by country singer Ray Stevens in 1975.  It ripped up the charts in the U.S. and even in the U.K.

[oldshurst442]

My dad HATED Bing Crosby.  

He told me he was a lowlife, drunken deadbeat dad, and wife beating husband.  

He never wanted to hear his songs in the house. But....I on the other hand, LOVE, LOVE his voice.  I do NOT condone his behaviour, but his voice is just...so XMAS-y...

Another voice that I love listening to during XMAS

 

[oldshurst442]

I always listen to Dean Martin's version or Annie Lennox's

 

 

[balthazar]

[Wanders off over the moonscape...]

[Robert Hall]

Enjoying more Big 80s synth pop this afternoon, listening to the Best of Ultravox, incl. this track..

https://youtu.be/PSQWUZ8a2Ho

Edited December 8, 2019 by Robert Hall

[trinacriabob]

100 pages of music discussions ... fine with me ...

Have always liked these ... over the years, I finally came to know the name of the artist and the songs.

 

I don't care how much you like "Stairway to Heaven" or "The Immigrant Song," the craftsmanship in these compositions is still way up there.

Vince Guaraldi, the jazz musician who composed them, died at a fairly young age and is interred in the same cemetery as Joe DiMaggio.  Colma, CA is the "cemetery suburb" used mostly by Catholics and Italians immediately south of San Francisco.

[oldshurst442]

9 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Enjoying more Big 80s synth pop this afternoon, listening to the Best of Ultravox, incl. this track..

https://youtu.be/PSQWUZ8a2Ho

 

I havent heard this song in like...4 ever!!! I had forgotten about it. 

THANK-YOU ENDLESSLY for posting it!!!   And now,  I am dancing with tears (of joy) in my eyes reminiscing about my youth. 

@trinacriabob

If I wasnt Greek, and I didnt love being Greek so much, then my second choice of what Id wanna be, then Id wanna be Eye-Talian. 

Una facia, una razza! 

 

Ill double down on Send me an Angel 

 

 

Edited December 9, 2019 by oldshurst442

[oldshurst442]

OK...now Im all in.

 

 

 

[G. David Felt]

Working on my final project of the year and listening to this:

 

[G. David Felt]

ROFLMAO, after listening to Crazy on you, this comes on, Black Betty:

Love this, The Brunett is SO FREAKIN HOT - Addicted To Love:

 

[G. David Felt]

 

 

[G. David Felt]

 

[daves87rs]

46 minutes ago, dfelt said:

 

My son loves this song.....

[G. David Felt]

Here is a Blonde that is HOTTER than Maryln Monroe

BLONDIE

 

ROFLMAO, The comments are so funny, seems people loose 5lbs watching this Video!  

 

 

[G. David Felt]

How about some Cherry Bomb This morning?  

 

Not your thing, then I give ya some Magic Man.

 

[G. David Felt]

Back to the 80's with a Fun song! Run Runaway