The Beautiful Music Thread

[82_28]

I just decided to listen to "No Cities Left" by The Dears tonight for the first time in months (if not over a year?) and as I have become more active around here, I thought I would share their existence with rest of y'all. Absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful music do they make. Check out this song. Check out this band!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbsfs114rTk

Warm and Sunny Days
We've been surrounded
For it was genius
There was no other way
And we know we won't escape
All of our time
Spent on warm and sunny days
From you there's nowhere left
I want to run

Stay
My arms are flailing
Am I a failure
My god the pressure's on
And I still don't have a son
My body's sore from sleeping on the couch because you're gone
These feelings that I have tonight
Waiting for the phone to ring
My stomach hurts, it's tearing us apart

Stay
Stay
There's nowhere left to run
Stay

I get so paranoid
I've got to think of warm and sunny days
Imagining and planning out the course of both our lives
but that is as far
As I am willing to go
Planning out the rest of both our lives
Stay
Stay
There's nowhere left to run
Stay
Stay
There's nowhere left to run

'The Dears' powerful live shows have been described as: "...the sonic equivalent of seeing the face of God."[5]'

"Expect the Worst Cos She's a Tourist" is perhaps one of the most beautiful songs of all time.

Trust me on this guys. Here's a link to that song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTkzREuiMk

What other music we intooz round here?

[82_28]

Which isn't to insult anyone by saying nobody here has heard of them before. I am sure many have. Esp, the Canadians.

[IanEye]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gCvF-EeEx4]whispering dub - Skatalites
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why do you whisper green grass?
why tell the trees what ain't so?
whispering grass, the trees don't need to know

why tell them all your secrets?
who kissed there once long ago
whispering grass, the trees don't need to know

why tell them all the old things?
they're buried under the snow
whispering grass, don't tell the trees
'cause the trees don't need to know...

it's as if Kubrick decided to direct a remake of 'Jamaica Inn' and hired Coxsone Dodd to provide the score...
- - -

( see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOCeBi-Hho)

[brainpanhandler]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFBLZodiYI]
Nobody's Fault but My Own
Treated you like a rusty blade
A throwaway from an open grave
Cut you loose from a chain gang
And let you go
And on the day you said it's true
Some love holds, some gets used
Tried to tell you I never knew
It could be so sweet
Who could ever be so cruel,
Blame the devil for the things you do
It’s such a selfish way to lose
The way you lose these wasted blues
These wasted blues
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own
That it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own
When the moon is a counterfeit
Better find the one that fits
Better find the one that lights
The way for you
When the road is full of nails,
Garbage pails and darkened jails
And their tongues
Are full of heartless tales
That drain on you
Who would ever notice you
You fade into a shaded room
It's such a selfish way to lose
The way you lose these wasted blues
These wasted blues
Tell me that it's nobody's fault

Nobody's fault But my own
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault
But my own
Tell me that it's nobody's fault
Nobody's fault [/url]

[MacCruiskeen]

Two great singers, two great songs about love and loss:

Nina Simone: Ne Me Quitte Pas (Do Not Leave Me).

Kathleen Ferrier in Amsterdam, 1951: Che faro senza Euridice? (What is life without Eurydice?), from Gluck's 'Orpheus and Eurydice'.

[MacCruiskeen]

Another great singer, another great song about love 'n' loss:

Paul Brady: Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore - Same singer, same song, 30 years later, in Gaelic: Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair.

[Luposapien]

Been listening to Andrew Bird's album Noble Beast a lot lately. Gorgeous stuff.

Masterswarm

Come what may, lay your eggs where it's warm
We come here to swarm
Come by sea, swarm like smoke in the dawn

We were the young, we were the swarm
Radiolarians, midges and moths cut from a cloth
We were the young, we were the swarm

Flailing fetal fleas, feeding from the arms of the master
Burrow into me and this is sure to misspell disaster
Oh, and the young in the larval stage orchestrating plays
In vestments of translucent alabaster

So they took me to the hospital, they put my body through a scan
What they saw there would impress them all, for inside me grows a man
Who speaks with perfect diction as he orders my eviction
As he acts with more conviction than I, I, I

Oh, burrow into me, this is sure to misspell disaster
Oh, burrow into me, you're feeding from the arms of the master

We were the young, we were the swarm
We were the young radiolarians
We were the young, we were the swarm
We were the young radiolarians
We were the young, we were the swarm
We were the young radiolarians

Come what may, come what may
Come

[Gouda]

Been listening to Andrew Bird...

I'll second that.

Anonanimal

and

good old Sovay

[82_28]

Third that.

[teamdaemon]

Thomas Leeb - No Woman No Cry

[82_28]

OK. Best song of all time. You all lose! (Moz reference there btw)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INgXzChwipY

There is a light that never goes out

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their Home,
and I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
(But then a strange fear gripped me and I Just couldn't ask)
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere,
I don't care I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...Oh,
I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out

There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out

[polytron]

"Expect the Worst Cos She's a Tourist" is perhaps one of the most beautiful songs of all time.

Trust me on this guys. Here's a link to that song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTkzREuiMk

great song. it sorta reminds me of Dark Side era Pink Floyd. thanks for introducing me to the Dears. here's one of my favorites, 'The Funeral' by Band of Horses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibE7IqEjni4&feature=fvw

[82_28]

Die Jugend Marschiert by Propagandhi

Song and lyrics all in once place!

http://americasarmy.ca/

"Welcome to the offices of Economic and Manpower Analyses here at our historic and sprawling West Point Academy campus! My name is Mindy! It is my distinct pleasure to introduce you to a loving father of three (and a champion of the sanctioned use of armed force in pursuit of policy objectives). Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the project director of our newest recruitment strategy; our mission to staff future combat systems through current technologies. Without any further ado, I give to you Colonel Casey Wardynski!"

(warm applause)

"Thank you! Let me begin with some sentimental appeals to our national myths; assorted clichés coined by the state; the ideological shorthand meant to sweep your private doubts [away] of this virtual training course. This portal; this Trojan Horse that you living idiots paid for and actually rolled into your own kids’ rooms."

(stunned silence)

"Oops, did I just say that out loud? Oh, well, it’s not like it’s something new. It’s just the logical extension of the decades of bilge water that you’ve let us pump into your homes. The pink noise that hums away in the background while you run the gauntlet we force on you everyday. The billowing candy floss that helps to soften the blow. Deep down you’ve always known that your children already belong to us, so why don’t you cut the outraged parent routine, shut your mouth and get back in your seat. Your children already belong to us. What are you? You will pass on. And they won’t know a fucking thing but this 'community,' this real life Ender’s Game. Forget what you think you know."

[Gouda]

Lajko Felix

[HMKGrey]

Anything at all by Peter Broderick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxkgfYhZlY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bItOMitqVfE

Twenty something genius multi-instrumentalist equally at home making gorgeous modern classical pieces as wonderful pop songs. Despite being courted by every major and mini-major label out there, he stays defiantly independent releasing CD-R's and cassettes for fans whenever possible...

I've been in and around the music business most of my life... Broderick is the real deal.