I very nearly kept with the themed mixes of vintage tunes, but thought, "No, it's just not fair to everyone..." I know you (like, both of you) count on me for new music, as well as the old, so I needed to bring it this month. And there's still a good serving of old stuff, but hopefully enough things with "20113 in the year category to make this feel relevant if the last few months have felt dated. If you don't enjoy Paul Brunelle's take on country, or Opus 32s cover of Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again;" you're not invited. But [...]
Hello! Today I again have the pleasure to present you an outstanding mix-version of a very successful song of the 70s. From time to time, when I fly through the www, I find stuff like this, and then I think, this must be posted, it is too good to be ignored. This version of the today's tune was mixed by The Two Mamarrachos, and folks, it's worth it to have a listen. I promise, you'll like it, as I do. Floyd Anderson. Here is the info: [...]
Biz Markie - Just a Friend Yo so my second post which is kind of running with a theme from the first is obviously Biz Markie. Legendary rapper, beatboxer, DJ and at times TV personality. Biz Markie's career began in Long Island, New York in the early 1980s, where he established his reputation for beat-boxing and rapping. MC Shan and Roxanne Shante were part of Marley Marl's Cold Chillin' Records, and Biz beatboxed on Shante's underground hit "Def Fresh Crew" (1986). This lent credibility to his recording career and put Cold Chillin' on the map. In [...]
A whole album of these wacky, stompy versions of the Seventies star's hits is a bit much, so I've picked three tracks you'll really love. Alone Again (Naturally) Ooh Wakkaa Doo Wakka Day Nothing Rhymed
A review of Neil Diamond's "Dreams", an album of covers from artists including Randy Newman, Bill Withers and others.
This weekend at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar, Dublin sees the Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Festival take place from 15th-18th April. There'll be film screenings and Q&As with Gilbert O' Sullivan and the European premiere of Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields . Check out the programme: Gilbert O'Sullivan - Out On His Own - Friday 16th April, 17.00 In the early 1970s, Waterford-born Gilbert O'Sullivan was top of the international pop charts. But in the mid-70s his career began to wane and by [...]
Waterford-born Gilbert O'Sullivan plays the University Concert Hall, Limerick, this Tuesday, March 23rd. He was born Raymond Edward O'Sullivan in December 1946 and moved to Swindon with his family in 1960. There, he became interested in music and moved from the guitar to the instrument for which he later became renowned: the piano. He was [...]
The first entry by a female singer on this chronological overview of my favourite albums from the last ten years is the second Canadian album on my list. Songs of Love and Death (2005) is Emm Gryner's eight album and it was her second full album of cover versions. Her earlier effort, Girl Versions (2001), featured her interpretations of hard rock songs, while this one features eleven versions of songs originally recorded by Irish acts. So, I guess that makes this the second Irish album on my list. I first heard the album when a promo cd turned [...]
I'm off to Killarney tomorrow in advance of a flight to Germany from Kerry Airport the following morning. It's my second time flying from Kerry, although it's a bit of an exaggeration to call it an airport; I've seen taxi ranks that are bigger! It's the only airport I know that's beside the road and where there's more danger of stepping on cow shit than there is of terrorism. On Wednesday, I'll be flying into Frankfurt Hahn where I'll be collected by my friend Pia who has promised to take me on a tour of the beer gardens where I'll [...]
Here we are again with several takes of an old song - and full lyrics too, for one in particular of my legion readers. Today's tune is Alone Again (Naturally), a biggedy hit in 1972 for Gilbert O'Sullivan, who also wrote it. What I like, is the contrast of genuinely sad lyrics, against quite a jaunty, piano-pop song backing; but it's also the thing that makes me yearn for a version with more obvious feeling, one that really explores the emotions behind those lines about suicide, loss, & crashing disappointment. Perhaps bizarrely, I can imagine William Shatner doing [...]
I was thinking a lot about rhyming, in song lyrics & poetry, after a comment here recently. My own preference is very much for it, although I understand how forced it can feel to write with such constraints, and how forced, even trite, it can seem to the listener/reader. In some ways, that difficulty, a maze of hurdles to be negotiated gracefully, is exactly what I enjoy so much; the pleasure of both expected & unexpected rhymes & rhythms is what makes songs, and some poetry, such fine things to discover and revisit. The choice of tune to [...]
I was thinking a lot about rhyming, in song lyrics & poetry, after a comment here recently. My own preference is very much for it, although I understand how forced it can feel to write with such constraints, and how forced, even trite, it can seem to the listener/reader. In some ways, that difficulty, a maze of hurdles to be negotiated gracefully, is exactly what I enjoy so much; the pleasure of both expected & unexpected rhymes & rhythms is what makes songs, and some poetry, such fine things to discover and revisit. The choice of tune to [...]
Aiken Promotions today announced the headline acts to play Live at the Marquee, Cork next June will be Rod Stewart, Christy Moore, Prodigy, Josh Ritter, Gilbert O'Sullivan and Kasabian. The Prodigy - 18th June '09 - On sale Wed 3rd Dec at 9am - €59.40 seated / standing Gilbert O'Sullivan - 20th June '09 - On sale Tues 2nd Dec at 9am - €41.70 €39.20 fully seated Kasabian - 21st June '09 - On sale Tues 2nd Dec at 9am - €33.60 seated/ standing Christy Moore [...]
I typically do not wast my time on these viral-type surveys that seem bombard your email or other social-networking applications, but in this case I have made an exception. Being somewhat new to the blogging scene I felt that this one would help you get to know the contributors to Subservient Experiment a little better -also it was a little fun and nostalgic trying to think back to some of the first albums I listened to to answer some of these. Hope you enjoy. Favourite Song EVER: Rimksy-Korsakov [...]
VERSES FROM THE ABSTRACT A Tribe Called Quest The Low-End Theory Jive : 1991 [Buy It] SUMMER ROMANCE The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue Virgin : 1980 [Buy It] LOVE GETS YOU TWISTED Graham Parker Squeezing Out Sparks Arista : 1979 [Buy It] I DON'T LOVE YOU BUT I THINK I LIKE YOU Gilbert O'Sullivan 1975 Available [...]
Genius. But you knew that... The good news finally came Tuesday night. "Why don't you call this number tomorrow afternoon and I'll patch you through to Mr. Toussaint in New York," said his assistant, who I'd been rescheduling with on an almost every-other-day basis for the last two weeks. Sure enough, Wednesday I was patched through to Toussaint in New York, who speaks in a slow, deliberate manner with a "just enough" tinge of a N'awlins accent. He's been there for the most part since Katrina [...]
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