Music

[Bunnylump]

Well, let's put it this way, most of my friends who had been avidly watching Glastonbury all turned off their TV sets when he came on and did something more interesting instead.

I'm currently catching up with some of the bits I missed. I must say that Gregory Porter is brilliant.

[Scurra]

The thing about Kayne West is that he might actually be as talented as he thinks he is, but unfortunately it's also come with a sense of entitlement that outweighs anything positive he might have achieved (in a very specialist field too.)

[giraffe]

Yes that's exactly how well I know him too.

(edit That was a reply to LAT)

[Laura]

Hello,

I'm looking for some help. I need to find possible songs with a general theme of either "hope" or "waiting" which are suitable for playing in a church (i.e. no swearing or inappropriate content), but that are not hymns or religious songs. Any style will do, but it's one of those things that my mind has just gone completely blank on!

[Bunnylump]

Cor, that's hard!

Depends what sort of "hope" or "waiting" you mean.

If you are thinking along the lines of waiting to see someone who is a long way off... 2000 Miles (Pretenders)?

Or George Michael / Aretha Franklin I Knew You Were Waiting ( For Me )

But if you mean something which is sort of uplifting and life being full of promise from a particular moment, I'd suggest One Day Like This by Elbow.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2xaeXnxlM I just love the lyric "Throw those curtains wide, one day like this would see me right, And only now I see the light."

Or Josh Groban You Raise Me Up ?

On a slightly different tack, what about Somewhere Over The Rainbow? Here's a particularly beautiful version by Eva Cassidy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaVQN-en2A

[Scurra]

No-one except Judy Garland should be allowed to sing Somewhere over the Rainbow. I don't care how good anyone else is.

How about What A Wonderful World? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE

[Bunnylump]

But did you listen to it? It's a very different tune but it works.

[Laura]

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll have a listen and pass them on.

I don't think You Raise Me Up will work - it's been played at so many funerals now that everyone I know just cries when they hear it!!! But I'll see if the others are any good. It's one of those situations where my friend has been asked to organise something with a very vague description, and she's asked me to help because she can't think of anything. And I'm not really sure if even she knows what she wants yet, but the more ideas the better!!!

[SparkOut]

Not exactly a theme of hope, but What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong is poignantly optimistic.

And nobody should ever, under any circumstances, ever be allowed to sing or play a recording of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, by any singer or any version. Not since it was used in an MIT Puzzle Hunt one year. The Pisces puzzle from Puzzlebrains doesn't come close to the trauma.

[maisie ladybird]

Waiting by The Devlins?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2wfHzyeLy0

or I Hope by Dixie Chicks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKGjEvoEOUY

[Laura]

Thanks, I'll check those out as well!

[Bunnylump]

Just been listening to my Spotify list and a couple more sprang to mind,

Joshua Radin Beautiful Day (very positive and upbeat.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jIsMBsrFQQ

And more of a "hope / longing" sort of thing: Maybe Tomorrow (Steroephonics)

[Laura]

Thank you - I'll have a listen to those as well.

[Bunnylump]

I'm trying to psych myself up for tomorrow. I can't quite remember WHY I agreed to go to see...wait for it... King Crimson (for those of you who are uninitiated, they are a 1960s prog rock band... )

The good news is that my friend Lesley's husband is also a King Crimson fan, so she's going too (coincidentally!) So at least we can sympathise with each other in the bar later!

[Bunnylump]

Well, I must say, that proved more enjoyable than I anticipated. I was a bit horrified when we walked in to our seats and there were THREE drum kits set up... But I have to say that it was very impressive, particularly Gavin Harrison on drums. The band were PAINFULLY slow to respond to the massive standing ovation and calls for an encore (talk about milking it!) and they saved probably their best-known pieces for the encore (dangerous strategy, I feel!) which were Twenty-First Century Schizoid Man and In the Court of the Crimson King.

It did make me laugh though, I was saying to Donald "Why do they look familiar?" (referring to Jakko Jakszyk and Gavin Harrison.) It transpired that they gate crashed a party at my house about 25 years ago!

[Bunnylump]

For any Stevie Wonder fans out there, this is priceless...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrvm2XDvpQ

[Wulfruna]

That's fantastic!! I'm not normally a follower of pop music, but Stevie Wonder has always been in a world above all others..... WOW

[kathlyn]

Watched the Hyde Park concert on radio 2 iplayer last night. Very good, especially Rod Stewart. Still some more of it to watch.

[Bunnylump]

I was inspired to have a bit of a listen to some of Jaco Pastorius' work when I realised it was 28 years ago today that he died. What an incredible talent, what an amazing bassist. But what a terrible and tragic end to his life - mental health issues, living on the streets, and finally being beaten up by a bouncer and dying at the age of 35. What a tragic waste of such prodigious talent!

Ignore the first 30 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cpwaq7CxD4

[Bunnylump]

Been to a Nearly Dan concert tonight (AKA "the opposition"! ) Quite an enjoyable night (even though I am not a Steely Dan fan) but I can truthfully say that the standard was no better than that of Stanley Dee!

I must say that there is a definite demographic going on at these concerts...largely people of late 50s, early 60s, and a serious overkill on "double denim"!