Today it is a song by a group that one of my sons introduced me too.

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - 'Hot Wax'

Here I go again . . .

I just really enjoy finding interesting music and also different interpretations of well-known songs.


"Boys Don't Cry" - The Cure: a cover (in Bob Dylan in a coffee shop style) - Puddles Pity Party

To Akshi2497 » Fri Jun 16, 2017 05:37

I particularly enjoyed 'Stole You' (is that a fair translation?).

I saw a promo for the new movie "Baby Driver" and it has the music of one of my all-time favourite rock songs.

This isn't a particularly good video but it has reasonable sound quality:

Golden Earring - Radar Love (on Midnight Special in 1974)


I also enjoyed the video of the live performance with 1000 drummers!

Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child of Mine as you are not likely to have heard it before.

I think this is an absolutely fantastic interpretation of this song.


"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses Cover ft. Miche Braden with Post Modern Jukebox - YouTube

A little whimsical melancholia from a duo that usually produces raunchy comedy.


My Apartment's Very Clean Without You (Official Video) by Garfunkel and Oates - YouTube

Then Christopher "Rabbit" Bennett became Isabella "Bunny" Bennett and along with twin brother David, and the other musically and artistically inclined automatons, they continue to entertain their fans:

Steam Powered Giraffe - Malfunction

Steam Powered Giraffe - Hold Me - YouTube

This is not from the production-line of mainstream pap, oops pop!

Remembering days of yore.

Cat Stevens - The Boy With A Moon & Star On His Head - YouTube

BouldRake wrote: What date is your birthday in French.wmv - YouTube

A very good way to learn a little basic French; just in case you ever need to ask a Frenchman (or Frenchwoman) the month in which they were born.

If the only version of this song you know is by 'The Animals', you really should listen to this:

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Nina Simone

And if you want to hear more of this quality, then listen to this one:

Sinnerman - Nina Simone

I have no idea what the lyrics are but there is something about Gurrumul's music that touches a place deep inside my being.

Gurrumul Yunupingu - Awaye [SD] ABC RN Breakfast - YouTube

And it is nigh on impossible to listen to a Nick Cave track without needing to listen to another one!

Hallelujah - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - YouTube

BouldRake wrote: Another Aussie....song. I was going to say hit, but I don't know if it was or not.

Redgum - I've Been To Bali Too - promo video 1984 - YouTube

This song made it to the Top 20 on the Australian Singles Charts in the mid-80s and was reasonably popular. It was nowhere near as successful as "I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)", which was essentially a protest song in support of servicemen who were being treated as pariahs because they had fought in the Vietnam war.


Redgum - I Was Only 19 (1983) - YouTube

An Aussie chart-topper from the mid-80s.

Dynamic Hepnotics - Soul Kind Of Feeling (1984) - YouTube

Can anyone tell me where I will find the lyrics for this song? :-J



Boney M Daddy cool - YouTube

BouldRake wrote: Another foreign one in English. Antique are a Swedish-Greek band that have a Greek-Nordic blend, sometimes (like this time) in English. Despite that, I discovered these while I lived in Pais Vasco, just to add to the international mix. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but they're definitely unique, and I like 'em.

Antique - Die For You (Official Video) - YouTube

Eurovision! I found it a lot more interesting and much more enjoyable back when contestants were required to sing in the official language of the country they were representing. I wish they would go back to that rule.

BouldRake wrote: Ah, you're right, thanks for that. She did a gig called "The Secret Concert", and most of the tracks were in English. Since all the others were covers, I've assumed this was also a cover - just an obscure one. But you're right, it was John Themis for her.

Quote:How did you find it?

My username is non-random - that's rake as in reikall, or wanderer. I've lived a lot of places, and that was one of them. Cultural osmosis, I suppose.

Well thank you again. You have passed on some of what you experienced to another corner of the world. Does reikall come from your ethnic origins?

Interestingly, I played several videos of DesiSlava's before seeing the thumbnail on the RHS of the player for

LIVE : DesiSlava - Secret Concert / full tv rip - YouTube

which I have playing at this very moment. It is a pity that performers such as this do not get decent air-play to wider markets. I am enjoying this concert video very much.

BouldRake wrote: Anyone know who wrote/performed this first? The lyrics show up nothing in a search, but since this is English and she isn't, it's still more than likely a cover.

DesiSlava - My Pleasure, My Pain (Live On "Pei s men" - YouTube

Thank you for posting with this song. I enjoy being introduced to music in other languages. How did you find it?

On DesiSlava's official website this song is listed as a single released in 2008 but it does not appear as a track that I can see on any of her albums. I have found that she sings in Bulgarian, Spanish and English.

The music, lyrics and arrangement of "My Pleasure, My Pain" are all by John Themis, the guitarist on stage with DesiSlava and this performance seems to have been the first live performance of the single.


Desislava & John Themis- My pleasures my pain / at Pei s men special - YouTube