Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
1971
Yeah I know I've been quiet... been away a bit collecting bruises. Great fun.
Turn your clock back 40 years and check it out:
You KNOW it was all better then...
Like that bit at 1:25
Update:
The BBC used to have a policy of deleting old programs. Most of the early Top of the Pops episodes have been lost - including THE ONLY live performance on the show by the Beatles!
Turn your clock back 40 years and check it out:
You KNOW it was all better then...
Like that bit at 1:25
Update:
The BBC used to have a policy of deleting old programs. Most of the early Top of the Pops episodes have been lost - including THE ONLY live performance on the show by the Beatles!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
You Weren't In Love With Me
Classic love song from Billy Field, a Jazz-pop singer from Urana, a small town 578 kilometers southwest of Sydney.
Field is a towering talent. I do not know why we have not heard more from him.
Field is a towering talent. I do not know why we have not heard more from him.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
The Laws have Changed
Great happy song....guaranteed to brighten your Sunday night. Particularly if you're a bloke.
That girl was singing up on stage...? None other than Nicki Clyne - Cally from the new version of Battlestar Galactica.
Fans will know who I mean....
That girl was singing up on stage...? None other than Nicki Clyne - Cally from the new version of Battlestar Galactica.
Fans will know who I mean....
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Gone to Baker Street
Gerry Rafferty has died.
By most accounts he wasn't easy to get along with, but he gave us an immortal song.
I know the sax is the big deal, but I still love how that strat screams.
Seeya Gezz...
By most accounts he wasn't easy to get along with, but he gave us an immortal song.
I know the sax is the big deal, but I still love how that strat screams.
Seeya Gezz...
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Need to chill out?
Puts me in the memory of being in a coffee shop in Kamakura, Japan, in 1995.
Whatever it does for you... it's gotta be good:
Update: I changed the video here because the previous one is gone from YouTube. Same great song though.
Whatever it does for you... it's gotta be good:
Update: I changed the video here because the previous one is gone from YouTube. Same great song though.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Salamat po
A good thing happened to me today... sort of an achievement. And I haven't posted music here for a while.
You all have a good one too.
You all have a good one too.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Last Mile Home
Song by Australian country music singer Troy Cassar-Daley. Very gentle on the mind.
Hope you like it.
Hope you like it.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
One of the best songs ever
Silverfiddle mentioned this in comment on the last post, and I'd been meaning to post it anyway.
No gimmicks here... just great music.
No gimmicks here... just great music.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
September 10th
I will not be posting anything tomorrow... I think people will be thinking of other things.
Whatever the day finds you doing, whatever the tumult, go gently about it all.
Whatever the day finds you doing, whatever the tumult, go gently about it all.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
1588
A bit of an indulgence here... I found this on YouTube.
As our red-haired lass clings onto power but may not keep it... this is the second of two films about another famous red-headed ruler. As a ship nut I love the Spanish Armada scenes. The music is Arirang, which is a Korean folk tune. Strangely, the music and these scenes go perfectly together.
A famous Sci-Fi novel called Pavane decribes an alternate 20th century in a world where Spain had actually conquered England in 1588. It's not a pleasant world.
On the other hand, some of what is bad in ours is not present.
As our red-haired lass clings onto power but may not keep it... this is the second of two films about another famous red-headed ruler. As a ship nut I love the Spanish Armada scenes. The music is Arirang, which is a Korean folk tune. Strangely, the music and these scenes go perfectly together.
A famous Sci-Fi novel called Pavane decribes an alternate 20th century in a world where Spain had actually conquered England in 1588. It's not a pleasant world.
On the other hand, some of what is bad in ours is not present.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Who got the love?
Something to listen to while we sort it out...
UK artist Florence Welch, performing as Florence and the Machine.
UK artist Florence Welch, performing as Florence and the Machine.
Friday, August 13, 2010
High Road to China
One of my favourite soundtracks.
The love theme from High Road to China, composed by John Barry for the 1983 adventure film. The film is based very loosely on a novel by the same name, by Australian author Jon Cleary, born 1917 died 2010.
I've read High Road to China and another Cleary adventure novel called The Golden Sabre. The latter is about revolutionary Russia. I've have been looking for his novel of Imperial Japan called The Phoenix Tree, but that's hard to get. I had to order away for the The Golden Sabre, and that was before the days of the Internet.
The film adaptation of High Road to China is very light entertainment, but also very underrated.
The love theme from High Road to China, composed by John Barry for the 1983 adventure film. The film is based very loosely on a novel by the same name, by Australian author Jon Cleary, born 1917 died 2010.
I've read High Road to China and another Cleary adventure novel called The Golden Sabre. The latter is about revolutionary Russia. I've have been looking for his novel of Imperial Japan called The Phoenix Tree, but that's hard to get. I had to order away for the The Golden Sabre, and that was before the days of the Internet.
The film adaptation of High Road to China is very light entertainment, but also very underrated.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Apsara Dance
Posted for no reason other than the world is an interesting place...
Apsara dance is from Cambodia. Apsara are something like the female woodland faerie of Celtic tradition.
In its Khmer traditions it dates back to about the 12th century. It vanished for 500 years after the Angkor kingdom was sacked during the 15th century by invaders from what is now Thailand.
During the mid 20th century, Queen Sisowath Kosamak Naryrath decided to recreate the dance, which was preserved in temple bas-reliefs, and her granddaughter became the first professional Apsara dancer of the modern era.
It was nearly wiped out again during the murderous rule of the ultra-Left Khmer Rouge regime. In 1995 it was seen again in public for the first time.
Like Western ballet it requires skills that can only be learned by rigorous training.
Here is a related video with some nice images. Song is by an artist named Sen Ranuth and is in the Khmer language.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Good Trek Vibrations
This is an edit of the most recent Star Trek film, with a song by Australian musician Ben Lee. Zoe Saldana's in it a lot, and that's got to be a good thing...
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