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another youtube appreciation thread. Fun to comb through bands/songs you never heard.
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I'm really getting into this downtempo/hip-hop/drum & bass/R&B thing that seems sort of trendy right now.
@Jeffrey - That's a wild music video!!!
You never heard of erasure! Ok so it' was a UK band from my youth.
They are on a par with:
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Jimmy Sommerville? Bronski Beat? Erasure?
@anataman: are you coming out of the eighties closet???
This one is a personal favourite. Probably off tempo, here, but I thought I'd share it anyway.
This song won the Oscar to Best Song in 2005, and two Baftas the same year, for best song and best film in foreign language.
The film is from Argentina, "Motorcycle Diaries," about young Che Guevara's first trip all over the Southamerican continent, which sort of sealed his destiny as a future guerrillero.
The singer is Jorge Drexler and the song is called "Al otro lado del río." (Beyond the river or on the other side of the river)
One of my favorite African groups......Mafikizolo. ( South Africa)... The genre of music this group makes is called kwaito...( 'slower' house music)....
I posted their song Khona in a previous music thread...so I'll do another one here...
It's called Happiness ...
.... English kicks in later in the song...hahaha
Kia Ora,
Some good ol' Kiwi new wave pub bands of the late 70s early 80s
Oh and because I'm a naturalised Aussie (who lives in NZ)
Metta Shoshin .
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Awesome music so far! loving it.
This is a really cute one that I stumbled across one day. Not my usual style, but it melted my heart right past my stylistic preferences
And this one is quite mesmerizingly beautiful.
Ooh, and just onnnne more :P
Kia Ora,
When visiting some German friends they introduce me to this group back in the early 80s...
Kraftwerk
Autobahn
Metta Shoshin
@Vastmind - Wow! I like it. Pretty chill and upbeat.
@Zayl - \m/
So I know some of you like bluegrass/country (I know I do) - some of you like heavy metal.
How about some Finnish guys in overalls playing a bluegrass cover of Dio's "Holy Diver?!!"
I'm also in a bhangra mood, even if I have no idea what they're singing about and all the songs sound the same
Bamboo flute performed by Kwame Yeboah. (Ghana musician)
This one goes out to @Cinorjer ..
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One of my favourite DJs performing a 50-min live set. Sit back and relax!
KIa Ora,
Metta Shoshin .
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Weird Al's back! 2nd half of the song totally came out of nowhere and really made the song... lol
@dharmamom - I was just a teenager when these bands came out, but was bombarded with this kinda stuff - I just didn't know they were being so gayly abandoned and had to express themselves vocally in the way they did.
Personally, I like music without vocals!
A bit on the heavier side, but really skilled musicianship. And purely instrumental! @anataman, I also appreciate instrumental music. I think it's harder to convey emotions and moods without lyrics and vocals, and so it requires a lot more skill to write a song that does all that without a singer.
^^Saw Tosin Abassi live when he came down to Hobart for a guitar demo, brilliant muso!!
A bit too highly strung for me to begin with but with perseverance got with the vibe after about 90 seconds, then it got a bit intense then - cooooool, but then OOOOOOH!
I think you live on a different life intensity wavelength to me, but live and let live @Invincible_summer ... \ lol / ...