If You're Listening To Music Right Now III

Three songs from my latest mix:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kXvXV42Qk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPqnxFgCrhg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uaj-JwiS-o[/youtube]

I’d give you a link to 8tracks where I usually upload my mixes, but it seems they’ve completely imploded, collapsed, folded. Not a surprise really, they never were any good. I’m just gonna create my own site to host my mixes, and goddam the copyright!

No one can play the harp as beautifully as the self-taught Harpo Marx… my favourite instrument of all. :romance-inlove:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GArbUV_yv2k[/youtube]

Been listening to a lot of Riff Raff lately. Saw him live in December and got to do a meet and greet. The Neon Icon himself.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niHSDx4Y_zs[/youtube]

Nice pace, thoughtful lyrics, interesting video… the high life.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfSS1e3kYeo[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXsuPkyFQuQ[/youtube]

That little pause at 2:17 is my favorite moment.

Hey Zoot, what is Morpheus trying to tell us at 2:26?

Both good.

Cardi B Coronavirus Remix is the song of the year.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GliJgIoYj-M[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zEAQTnUrU[/youtube]

There wasn’t…

youtu.be/cvPimmVbSg4

youtu.be/vGokQqr8scc

My new musical find: @Trippie Redd

This guy’s as mixed-as, like me, but my English-Germanic is his Irish, my Carib is his Native-American, and my Himalayan is his African-American… cuz? lol

He’s also red skin, like me… probably the reason for the Redd, in Trippie Redd.

Why does he sing so many love songs though… :-s

Eric ‘slowhand’ Clapton. One of the most tasteful of the old blues guitarists. Those little bends and subtle accents.

streamable.com/435nl3

What makes that one of the greatest leads in rock/blues is how it characterizes a kind of dialogue between Sally and the protagonist. The lead carries on as a series of phrases and remains consistent as if in conversation. Talking guitar, as it were. But the tastefulness of that specific lead is in how it almost captures the protagonist’s explaining/pleading to Sally… which is appropriate to the theme. A quirky if awkward defense on the protagonist’s behalf is developed through the guitar’s conversation. There’s a second part as well. But in any case apropos to the blues tradition is making the guitar tell the story, or express the sadness of the protagonist who ‘lost Lucile’ whatever whatever. But in this one Clapton produces a kind of bathos by changing the narrative of normative blues leads. The guitar isn’t crying here, but chattering on about how ridiculous Sally is being by wanting to leave.

gotta plug this Italian gigh right here, not just cause he kinda looks like me.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg3iWo62y0s[/youtube]

This

Wonder why I like the tracks by Bengal Sound, a lot…

Good tracks all round… tunes to chill to, to fall asleep to, but not dream to…

Black Sabbath

youtu.be/0qanF-91aJo

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xnehS30X4[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HGX_l7JVeQ[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeORT3ua2V4[/youtube]

“Hitori No Yoru” is most definitely upbeat and too cheerful for my taste just as well (not a fan of the band myself.)

Here’s some bittersweet music instead:

Empire of the Sun - We Are The People
youtube.com/watch?v=a47Y1lCRHlM

Coldplay - The Hardest Part
youtube.com/watch?v=WAGbq3A9HfA

Phoenix - Lisztomania
youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so
(Armistice is another.)
(Countdown is yet another – my favorite, in fact.)

M83 - Outro (Versailles opening theme)
youtube.com/watch?v=_nTP2eMEPSs

The 1975 - The City
youtube.com/watch?v=UuihJInaeN4

Crystal Fighter - Love Natural (actually, quite cheerful but I can’t help but perceive it as quite sad at the same time)
youtube.com/watch?v=IVzyErnSnFI

Polyenso - Falling in Rain
youtube.com/watch?v=zhNxRtvrSY8

Thanks for the recommendations… the above 3 made the cut. Do you have a favourite/go to genre?

Currently, I have no idea what I’ll be listening to tomorrow… one day it’s Himalayan or Swiss Folk-music, then DJ Urban-music sets the next.

I’m not averse to R&B, as long as it’s sung by a rapper, but not a boyband… as the former’s sentiment is more relatable, the latter’s… usually a one-hit-wonder, to me.