What was the last song you heard that made you go :eek: ?
Why haven’t I heard that before :smack: ?
This one did it for me
Zevon
Probably listened to it 20 times in a row when I first heard it.
When a friend played it in front of me a couple years ago, I just fell for Cake’s version of I Will Survive.
Awesome bass line in that!
Yes, that’s one of the best covers ever.
Back to the OP, it’s Chalf Hassan for me.
The Long Winters, “Cinnamon”
Amy LaVere, “Killing Him”
& the Avalanches complete redoing of Belle & Sebastian’s “I’m a Cuckoo”
It seems like once a decade I rediscover Arvi Pärt’s “Fratres,” the 12 cellos version, and play it every day for weeks on end.
Got some links?
“Men” by the Dodos, here.
While it’s not my usual listening; Basement Jaxx’s ‘Oh My Gosh’ made me replay it all the way to and from work for days. (45 mile round trip)
Sorry - cant link, but the video is on you tube - and is a great video - but i didnt see it until much later - the song is great first.
MiM
The most recent? Nick Cave’s “The Mercy Seat” as covered by Johnny Cash : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGSTiDOjKU
Before that, “Seed of Wonder” by Jesca Hoop : http://www.fabulist.org/mp3/03%20Seed%20Of%20Wonder.mp3
And, also, The Romanovs’ cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Scarborough Fair/Canticle”. No legal link to it, alas, but it is gorgeous. Morgan Grace is a siren.
Joe Cocker slam-banging his way through “The Letter” and Patty Griffin’s heartfelt, ethereally beautiful “Heavenly Day” have both stopped me dead in my tracks in the past month. Both are wonderful songs, in very different ways.
I subscribe to Minnesota Public Radio’s song of the day, and when I heard Knights by Minus the Bear, I was immediately taken. I really need to get their album to see if I like anything else of theirs.
Dragonforce “Through the Fire and Flames”
Have had friends who listened to them for years tell me how great they were. Always dismissed em. Never wanted to listen, ever. A few of them made me sit down and listen to that song and Operation.
Jesus…
Carbon Leaf’s “A Life Less Ordinary” will always be remembered
Can we include classical music? When I first heard Handel’s **Dixit Dominus ** I felt I was hearing the first choral music that could give **The Hallelujah Chorus ** a run for its money.
I remember when I was about 8, I was up in my room with a transistor radio with the lights off. I was supposed to be asleep, but I used to sneak a radio into bed and listen to the music for hours. Anyway, lying there in the dark I turned the radio on, and for the first time heard ‘Let it Be’ by the Beatles. They instantly became my favorite band, and still are today. And it’s possibly the most vivid memory of my entire childhood.
Two songs, both heard on NPR, at very different times.
Trout Fishing in America’s Dead Egyptian Blues, the lyrics, and the music both arrested me completely. It was a fun song of a kind I’d not heard in a while. And introduced me to what is now one of my favorite groups. (Sorry, can’t find a free version of the song online.)
Mary Black’s Columbus. First, her voice alone is haunting. So are those lyrics. I can’t say for certain what was intended by the writer, but for me it’s a metaphor about a mentally ill person using some great project to hang onto the shreds of his sanity. And at the time that I heard it for the first time my great project was shredding… (The linked version is free, but not as good as the track from her Collected Album. I prefer the less extravagant version there.)
A few weeks ago, I’d set the DVR to record The Late Show with David Letterman because Jennifer Connelly was going to be on. I half-watched/half-listened to it the next day as I was checking e-mail and whatnot on the web, but at the end, Dave’s musical guest was Nicole Atkins. I’ve very rarely stopped everything I was doing to to pay attention as I did then. And then rewound and watched again. And again.
Good Ford, man, that’s incredible stuff right there - thanks for the link. Very much a torch-ey sort of song.
For something completely different, I’d recommend 10,000 Maniacs “The Latin One” - Wilford Owen’s poem about the horrors of a gas attack in World War 1, set to a poppy 80s beat, and with Natalie Marchant’s voice soaring above it all. Beautiful, haunting stuff.
Good stuff so far,liked almost everything
Had never heard of them before,but really liked the two songs I heard at youtube.Gonna check them out some more.
Never heard of her either.That was pretty damn good.
I don’t want to sound like I’m proselytizing, but the album, Neptune City, follows suit. “The Way It Is” is probably the most dramatic vocal, but there’s plenty more good stuff where that came from, including a couple of more upbeat, “pop”-like numbers. Glad to see a Jersey Shore girl make good.
Back on topic, I was also floored by Aimee Mann’s “Wise Up” during the film Magnolia. That song haunted me for months after I’d seen the movie (of course I eventually bought the soundtrack).