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What 🎶music are you listening to at this moment?

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I admit nothing!

But I will take credit for prodding you to overcome your fear of youtube.
 
Olorgando said:
Really, really good stuff!


The greatest song to come out of PJ's six films! I definitely rate it above Annie Lennox's Oscar winner (and she's done stuff much better than either!) Like:


(Oh help! SERIOUS goosebumps!) 😵
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Thanks!

That song is actually one of my favourites.
 
Now I’ve gone on (some of) your nerves with my ear-shredding hard rock riff monster songs. So I’ll throw you a curve ball by posting (if I find them) songs by some bands who are normally expected to be at the forefront of ear shredders.
Like Black Sabbath. From their second studio album “Paranoid”, the third song “Planet Caravan”. Where Tony Iommi lets his guitar emit some decidedly different sounds from the band’s usual repertoire.


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Strange thing last late evening: I wasn't getting any audio signals from any links here in the thread anymore, so I decided to take a break from YouTube linking.
The above link worked fine again just now, so I'll now add another unusual title by a band normally associated with a hard 'n' heavy repertoire, Bachman-Turner-Overdrive.
"Looking Out For Number One", seventh song from their fifth studio album "Head On".


I'm also a bit of a Jazz guitar fan, as you may have guessed.
 
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Unfortunately, mentioning BTO returns me to my bad habit of assaulting your ears. It's Randy Bachman's fault, as he had earlier on also been a member of the Canadian band The Guess Who, and this was their ultimate rocker. (There is also a longer version with a soft intro of over a minute, before the hard riff slaps you in the face …)

 
I’m thinking it might be a good idea for Erestor Arcamen to add a new dedicated music thread, like the “Music for Middle Earth” one, for Hard ‘n’ Heavy nuts like me? (Though only if there are several of us).
Suggestions for thread title: “Music for Angband”, “Music for Mordor”, “Music for Barad-dur” (I think I like the last one best).
Why?
Because:

Ram Jam


Another song with just relentless riffing:
The Knack


I'm getting out of control ...
Golden Earring


*gasp* you're in luck, at my age I need a rest fairly quickly after boogieing even when sitting down; my last assault is molten slide guitar lava from Foghat, playing a song by Robert Johnson, without whose songs the entire pantheon of Rock guitar Heros would have a sorely lacking repertoire …

 
This has been my favorite song this week. I listened to the rest of the album and it's not bad either.

 
Squint-eyed Southerner said:
The original:

Another "original"?
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Ah yes, dear ol' Weird Al. 😆
As for The Master, I have a compilation CD of original recordings, probably from his legendary 1937 recording session in Dallas, Texas.
(And two compilation CDs of another Great Master, Elmore James).
And last not least Eric Clapton's 2004 DVD / CD combination "Sessions for Robert J", some of whose songs were recorded at the location of Johnson's 1937 recordings.
(No YouTube links from me this time!)
 
I think you'll find some already posted on the MME thread.

Just as there's some good MME music on this thread!
 
Squint-eyed Southerner said:
I think you'll find some already posted on the MME thread.

Just as there's some good MME music on this thread!
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Oops, my mistake!
I didn't mean to imply that the music should be themed specifically to Middle-earth's "dark side".
That can be posted in MME (I'm not aware that only Lothlórien- or Shire- or Rohan- or whatever-themed music was acceptable there )
I was just guessing that folks here whose musical tastes run more to folk, easy-listening of whatnot might consider my pervious post as containing "Music from Angband" in Middle-earth terms (and I haven't even posted AC/DC's "Highway …" yet!). 😈
I guess I'll just continue to issue my "health warnings" whenever I go into headbanger / pogo territory in my links. ☠
 
A change of pace. But perhaps not conducive to the peace of mind of any active guitar players. My answer to the question "what is a really virtuoso guitar performance?"
It was a bit hard to find on YouTube (this may only be me; probably so). Something to make even the likes of John McLaughlin scratch their heads.
Leo Kottke, from his 1973 live album "My Feet Are Smiling", the instrumental "Busted Bicycle". Take note: this is

One
Six
String
Guitar
Live

 
A couple of bite-sized acapella bits of Spica I came across:

(Timing's wrong on this -- it's only one minute)

And an apparently impromptu performance of "When I'm Gone" at a restaurant somewhere:


Go on -- take a bite. It won't hurt, I promise!
 
Another change of pace. I think this must have been the album, "Bad Benson" from 1974 - and the song, originally by Paul Desmond, alto saxophonist of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the quartet's greatest hit - that got me hooked on George Benson. In one of my musically purist impulses of my younger years (this is all before I reached the age of Hobbit majority, 33, in 1989) I was a bit unforgiving of his "desertion" of Jazz for the - economically much more lucrative - pastures of Soul. One aspect in which I've mellowed ...

 
I have the Brubeck version on CD, but not that one, so thanks.

I always liked the cool sounds of West Coast jazz. Acquired this LP as a teenager, with which I used to play along:


Regret never being able to play this sort of stuff in a group, the band I was in later on sticking to the usual rock and soul covers.
 
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