Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

Here’s Crosby with Stills and Nash, joined by Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane on the song Crosby, Stills, and Kantner wrote together, but had never performed together before. This is one of my favourite Crosby songs, all about the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.

David was an inveterate sailor of his 59 foot schooner Mayan, and the final phrase of Wooden Ships make a perfect epitaph for a man who made a massive impact on popular music:

And it's a fair wind
Blowin' warm out of the south over my shoulder
Guess I'll set a course and go

 

In memory of those we've lost.

 

Not seen this version before .

In the comments, a woman says when her husband passed away he wanted this played at his funeral .

The church refused because of Hell .

 

This is a cracking documentary about one of the great bands to come out of the Punk Rock movement with songs informed by the troubles in Northern Ireland...

 

The Reytons straight in at Number One in the album charts. Got mine, on vinyl yesterday, and it’s a cracker.

 

Ah man, this one has hit me hard, the great singer, songwriter and guitarist from the CGBG scene, Tom Verlaine of Television and a long solo career has passed after a short illness...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64442824

Television's first two albums are in my personal top 20 with Marquee Moon probably in the top 5 and have influenced many Alternative Rock bands since.

I can't choose a single track from this masterpiece so this is it in its full glory...

And two favourites from Adventure..

R.I.P Tom...

 

Something for deadline day

 

It doesn't happen very often but I love it when it does... When I find a song I genuinely like on Spotify discover weekly. Today I found this

Quite an old song, but I like it. It has a certain ethereal quality about it and has a really hopeful vibe around it through the lyrics. There's a dance version, but generally I'm not a fan of dance versions of songs... Except the DJ Sammy version of boys of summer. That's great

 

This is a nice little find, I never knew of its existence until now!...

 

So after discovering a new song that I like last week, this week Spotify discover weekly had a song which I not only knew about and discovered about 16 or so years ago when it came out but like and I'm pretty sure is in my Spotify top 100 for at least one year. It was this classic by Kate Nash.

I like the fact that the lyrics so vividly describe a toxic relationship where you end up hating each other but can't bear to end it, perhaps because of your history. Though in the video there is a very visual representation of that relationship finally ending with the socks, tooth brushes etc separating and Kate leaving. I also like the fact that on the door after she leaves you see it says 'don't fall for this' like a warning to not end up in that kind of situation.

Also some pretty great piano music

 

Guessing there's no chance of a reunion tour then!

 

The very wonderful Bonnie Raitt won the Song of the Year Grammy award on Sunday for this. Inspired by the story of a woman who donated her dead son’s organs for donation, and who later meets one of the recipients, it’s just a beautiful song. Interestingly, the Daily Mail described Bonnie, who has won over a dozen Grammies including Lifetime Achievement, as an “unknown blues singer”.

 

Roger Waters really is an appalling human.

Waters continued: “Gilmour and Rick [Wright, the keyboardist]? They can’t write songs, they’ve nothing to say. They are not artists! They have no ideas, not a single one between them. They never have had, and that drives them crazy.”

 

The king of easy listening, Burt Bacharach has passed at the age of 94...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64586383

No apologies for posting this again which proves that a great song and melody can crossover any genre...

R.I.P. Burt...

 

Brilliant interpretation, would have liked to have been at this.

 

Not seen this version before. I wonder what could be on the next card?

 

"Unemployment"?...

 

Either that or "LUTON"

 

I don't know how it happened but this absolute gem of an album Wildflowers by Tom Petty from 1994 has completely passed me by until now and I can't stop playing it.
I really think that it is his best group of songs, here are my favourites from it...

 

So somehow I missed this song at the time but... it was on my 'Best of the Decade for You' in early 2020 and I realised I really like this song.

I like the fact that at the start of the song, the singer/narrator is questioning whether love is meant for her, like whether she is meant to experience love or if that's something for other people but not her and I guess it's easy to think that way when you're single and love seems unobtainable, but then by the end of the song she's clear that "you and me were meant to be", and despite her doubt at the beginning of the song, love is meant for her and her relationship is also meant for her and is like destiny. It's like despite what it may seem, things can turn around... and like the idea of everything happens for a reason