Music/Song Suggestions

[Maleah]

I know there's a lot of music that i haven't heard out there....and since we were suggesting BK listen to Keith Urban ;) I was wondering if there is any music or songs in particular that you would recommend to the anyone here. For instance, I just recently listening to Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly" and "Comfortably Numb" and found I liked them a lot! Anything with a cool bass line grabs my attention. Or something bluesy/funky (Jonny Lang, Marc Broussard) rockin country (Wynonna! travis tritt)........pretty much anything!

Bring 'em on guys! I'm ready to download! as I'm listening to Wynonna's "Attitude" 8)

[EasyFeeling]

Oh, I love Pink Floyd. But I don't know these songs, Maleah.

Lately I listen to the older music like Supertramp, Alan Parson, ELO and so on.
I know everybody will laugh at me but I really love the album of TAKE THAT. It's the best album they ever made, IMO. Love every song. And I downloaded an album of Scissor Sisters. She's My Man is a very cool song.

[Maleah]

Hmmm.......I haven't heard any of those EF. I'll have to look for them!

I LOVE the melody of Pink Floyd's "Learning To Fly." I'm not sure why though! :laugh:

So I'd recommend that ;) If anybody likes country.....I'd also recommend Wynonna (I Want To Know What Love Is, Attitude, or others if you're interested), Travis Tritt (Homesick, Put Some Drive In Your Country, Start The Car) and if you like powerful voices.....Martina McBride! :D

Other than that........I'm really enjoying digging up some of Bob Seger's older stuff! LOVE his voice!

[Randy's Girl]

Have you heard Steve Earle and have you heard Gram Parsons? Love them both. Ooh, and CCR and/or John Fogerty. Love his voice

[EasyFeeling]

Here in Germany radio stations are playing one song the whole day: Grace Kelly from Mika. Very cool. Sometimes he sounds like Freddy Mercury in that song. You can find it on Limewire. :wink:

[Freypower]

Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's solo albums. I could write about this for hours. Let me think about this and I will recommend some specific tracks (there is more to them than Sultans Of Swing & Money For Nothing).

[badkitty33]

Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler's solo albums. I could write about this for hours. Let me think about this and I will recommend some specific tracks (there is more to them than Sultans Of Swing & Money For Nothing).

FP -- I LOVE Dire Straits! "Romeo and Juliet", "Industrial Disease", "Skateaway", and "Twisting By the Pool" just to name a few!!!

"Romeo and Juliet" ... everytime I hear it ... takes me back to the early '80s and a boyfriend I had. He loved Dire Straits (introduced me to them). I can't hear that song and not think about him and those days. :cry:

Oh, I forgot about "So Far Away"! Love that one too!

Okay, back to the topic!

[badkitty33]

Well, Maleah, to get back to the topic, have you ever listened to any Avril Lavigne? She's very talented. I love her voice. One of her songs called "Damn Cold Night" is so beautiful! I absolutely love it!!!

Then, of course, there's Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, No Doubt, Chicago, Lynryd Skynryd, just to name a few!! Very different sounds (everyone I just named here). In my opinion, worth listening to.

I could echo EF and say that ELO's stuff is amazing!!! And while we're talking initials, there's always ELP!!

Just some food for thought!

[Maleah]

I haven't heard most of the groups/songs so far, so I'll be busy :laugh:

BUT.......I do listen to Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, and Lynyrd Skynyrd BK. I think i may have heard a couple of Avril Lavigne as well but I don't remember what she sounds like.

[Freypower]

My very brief Dire Straits guide is as follows:

Their masterpiece is Making Movies, which contains Knopfler's greatest ever song, Romeo & Juliet, plus some other classics in Tunnel Of Love, Skateaway and Solid Rock. It's a great pop album. Follow this with Brothers In Arms, not so much for the big hits, good though they are, but for more thoughtful songs like Ride Across The River and The Man's Too Strong, although the title track should be heard by everyone. The first two albums, Dire Straits and Communique, have really good songs like Sultans, In The Gallery & Lady Writer. On Every Street is patchy, despite the wonderful title track, the countryish How Long & the tale of rock'n'roll excess, Heavy Fuel. Love Over Gold is not for Dire Straits beginners. It is worth having for Industrial Disease but most of it just goes on too long.

Knopfler's most commercial album is Sailing To Philadelphia, with the beautiful title track about the Mason-Dixon Line, What It Is, an anthem to Edinburgh, and The Last Laugh with another hero of mine, Van Morrison.

Ragpicker's Dream is very quirky & is not for beginners, but it contains his best solo song, the rousing Why Aye Man, about Geordies working in Germany, as well as Coyote, sung by a sympathetic Roadrunner (really).

Shangri-La is a tour de force of wonderful 'story' songs and as ever, wonderful guitar work. The standouts are 5.15 AM, Boom Like That (about the founder of MacDonalds, Ray Kroc) and the beautiful Trawlerman's Song and Song For Sonny Liston.

If any of this appeals you can then try his album of duets with Emmylou Harris, All The Roadrunning.

[sodascouts]

You should get "The Dance" by Fleetwood Mac - that's what made me love that group. I also recommend Stevie Nicks' latest Greatest Hits collection called "Crystal Visions." If you're going to get something of Lindsey Buckingham's, get "Out of the Cradle."

[Randy's Girl]

Soda, do you ever listen to the original Fleetwood Mac?

[sodascouts]

You mean Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac? Yeah, I have. I like Oh Well Pt. 1, Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Green Manalishi, Stop Messin' Round, and Need Your Love So Bad. I also find Rattlesnake Shake pretty funny.

Post-Green, but pre-Stevie/Lindsey, I ADORE the song Why. I also really like Hypnotized, Did You Ever Love Me, Trinity, Spare Me a Little of your Love, Sentimental Lady, and Get Like You Used to Be.

[Randy's Girl]

They were good, weren't they? Totally different from Stevie/Lindsey Fleetwood Mac, but still good. Albatross is an amazing piece of guitar work.

[sodascouts]

Yeah, they were terrific. Too bad about Peter Green losing it. :(

[badkitty33]

I love Sentimental Lady. I have a version of that by Bob Welch. Was he ever a member of any Fleetwood Mac lineup??? 8)

[Freypower]

He was for a while - no doubt Soda can tell you exactly when. The only song I remember by him was Ebony Eyes - it was a big hit down here.

[badkitty33]

Ebony Eyes? That sounds familiar. I think I might remember that one. Thanks FP.

[glenneaglesfan]

I'm doing a bit of catch up here. Michaela, I haven't heard of Alan Parsons since the late 70's. We had a girl staying in our flat for a short time then who worked for Arista Records, and she was able to get free albums. I got Pyramid by Alan Parsons and Sky 2, the John Williams album. Most of the other artists were quite obscure. Of the new music being played, I like the Scissor Sisters and that Mika song as well. My son also made the comparison with Freddy Mercury.
I recently picked up a free cd (given away with a newspaper) of CSN. It includes live versions of Judy Blue Eyes, Marrakesh Express, Love The One You're With, Wooden Ships and the awesome track Lay Me Down.
FP, I'm with you with Dire Straits, and thanks for that summary.

[EasyFeeling]

Oh really, Kate? I love Pyramid. :D What I also can recommend is the abum I Robot. Very good.
Mika is on top of the charts here again this week. He has an amazing voice.

[sodascouts]

I love Sentimental Lady. I have a version of that by Bob Welch. Was he ever a member of any Fleetwood Mac lineup??? 8)

Bob Welch joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971, after they'd lost both Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer to mental illness (Green after losing his mind due to, according to Mick Fleetwood, bad LSD - Spencer after he joined the Children of God cult). They needed a dynamic lead guitarist and he was who they picked.

He appeared on five albums - Future Games (1971), Bare Trees (1972), Peguin (1973), Mystery to Me (1973), and Heroes are Hard to Find (1974).

Sentimental Lady, his biggest solo hit, actually appeared first on a Fleetwood Mac album - Bare Trees. Another song he is notable for is Hypnotized, off of Mystery to Me.

After he left, Mick Fleetwood went hunting for another charismatic lead guitarist - and he found Lindsey Buckingham. Mick asked him to join, and he accepted on the condition that they also take his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks: "We're a package deal." The rest is history.

There were no hard feelings, though, between Welch and any of the members, old or new, of Fleetwood Mac. They often appeared on his solo albums. Speaking of....

Ebony Eyes was off of his solo album French Kiss, which also includes the version of Sentimental Lady you're familiar with (slightly different lyrics and arrangement). Christine McVie guest-appeared on his album and sang backup on the song. She's the one going "All I need is you" in the chorus. Lindsey and Mick also guested on the album.

Here's a video of Bob Welch performing Ebony Eyes at the 1978 CalJam. Stevie appeared onstage with him - she's rocking out with her tamborine! You go girl! At the end of it, you can see a bit of Gold Dust Woman that she performed on Bob Welch and Friends, with him backing her.

Ebony Eyes with Stevie Nicks - Cal Jam 1978 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHK_FFS7t0A)

She also appeared on it on a "Bob Welch and Friends" special:

Ebony Eyes with Stevie Nicks - Bob Welch and Friends c. 1983 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJ1rqqRX9g)

Probably more than you wanted to know, but you got me going on the Mac, so it's your fault. ;)

[badkitty33]

I love Sentimental Lady. I have a version of that by Bob Welch. Was he ever a member of any Fleetwood Mac lineup??? 8)

Bob Welch joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971, after they'd lost both Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer to mental illness (Green after losing his mind due to, according to Mick Fleetwood, bad LSD - Spencer after he joined the Children of God cult). They needed a dynamic lead guitarist and he was who they picked.

He appeared on five albums - Future Games (1971), Bare Trees (1972), Peguin (1973), Mystery to Me (1973), and Heroes are Hard to Find (1974).

Sentimental Lady, his biggest solo hit, actually appeared first on a Fleetwood Mac album - Bare Trees. Another song he is notable for is Hypnotized, off of Mystery to Me.

After he left, Mick Fleetwood went hunting for another charismatic lead guitarist - and he found Lindsey Buckingham. Mick asked him to join, and he accepted on the condition that they also take his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks: "We're a package deal." The rest is history.

There were no hard feelings, though, between Welch and any of the members, old or new, of Fleetwood Mac. They often appeared on his solo albums. Speaking of....

Ebony Eyes was off of his solo album French Kiss, which also includes the version of Sentimental Lady you're familiar with (slightly different lyrics and arrangement). Christine McVie guest-appeared on his album and sang backup on the song. She's the one going "All I need is you" in the chorus. Lindsey and Mick also guested on the album.

Here's a video of Bob Welch performing Ebony Eyes at the 1978 CalJam. Stevie appeared onstage with him - she's rocking out with her tamborine! You go girl! At the end of it, you can see a bit of Gold Dust Woman that she performed on Bob Welch and Friends, with him backing her.

Ebony Eyes with Stevie Nicks - Cal Jam 1978 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHK_FFS7t0A)

She also appeared on it on a "Bob Welch and Friends" special:

Ebony Eyes with Stevie Nicks - Bob Welch and Friends c. 1983 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJ1rqqRX9g)

Probably more than you wanted to know, but you got me going on the Mac, so it's your fault. ;)

No problem Soda, I'm never one to turn down musical history info!!! I love learning this stuff! Thanks!

You know, "Bare Trees" jumped out at me! I'm quite sure that's where I remember that version of "Sentimental Lady". I don't think I have Bob Welch's solo effort.

And thanks for the link to that video. I'll make sure and check that out. 8)

[Brooke]

I didn't really know where to ask this question, but maybe this will be ok.

I'm a fan of John Mellencamp and in his song "Check It Out" there is a line that says "sung with the Eagles all week long....". Does anyone know if that refers to THE Eagles or is he talking about the BIRDS? I've always wondered about this and if he was a fan of theirs or its just a line with no meaning! Anyone?

[Freypower]

I always thought that line was 'soaring with eagles' & it was a metaphor for being happy or whatever.

[Brooke]

That could be, Fp. I didn't look it up to see if that was the correct line. That's how I always heard it, but I could be wrong. Just wondered. And I liked thinking I was right! :lol:

[Maleah]

So I just started listening to Bryan Adam and I LOVE him! His voice, to me anyway, is similar to Don and John Waite. One of the songs I downloaded was his version of the song that Don and Trisha Yearwood did together, "Inside Out." Anybody else a fan of his?

[janisjoplin]

Yep, I like Bryan Adams - got most of his albums.

His duets with Bonnie Raitt (Rock Steady) and Mel C (When You're Gone) are pretty darn good too.