(05-25-2016 07:09 AM)dahbeed Wrote:  

(05-25-2016 01:18 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  I really enjoyed the quality of both the George Michael song and the Cowboy Junkies' cover of the Lou reed tune you posted, WWDog.

Dub Dub Dawg was one of my favorite posters in this thread for a long time. He caused me to buy several songs on iTunes I'd never heard until he posted them here. Then we didn't see him for awhile. I'm glad he's back.

It's why this is by far my favorite thread on this board. No message board smack. Even if it's a song you don't care for I never see anyone dogging someone out for their selection.

There's just so much good music out there we've never heard of. Even the coolest hipster in the world is gonna have some holes in their playlist when looked at by someone else.

This thread is what Rodney King had a dream of.

worth the time, w/o the dime......so many memories coupled with continual learning....

(05-25-2016 04:27 PM)WWDog Wrote:  Glad you enjoyed the Cowboy Junkies. They are a group I found a few years back just surfing the net. This group has been deemed by some as the best group ever to come out of Canada. They have a bunch of songs of their own but the ones I find the most interesting are their remakes of some classics with their own distinctive twist. In particular, Blue Moon Revisited (particularly the live version which can be found on youtube) is my favorite version of the classic song and this song by Patsy Cline which has a heavy blues accent along with some French influence thrown in (the slide guitar is exquisite).

Enjoy!

Cowboy Junkies - Walkin After Midnight

Good God man you're killing me here! Lol. Absolutely beautiful. And caused me to end up in YouTube for 35 minutes listening to several including your aforementioned Blue Moon Revisited and also Sweet Jane and also this:

Cowboy Junkies - Thunder Road





Her voice is beautiful IMO. Really, really good suggestion.

Admit it Dub Dub....you've been secretly working out on your playlist game. Now you're over here throwing jabs like Ali when he was still Cassius. And you're landing head shots amigo.

Good good stuff. Thank you.

(05-25-2016 03:51 PM)WWDog Wrote:  I really love this song and the way it is done Zucchero has the perfect voice for this song when paired with the cellos. My wife is so fond of this song, she wants it in every playlist I make. The following is a short explanation of the merging of the two cello artists and Zucchero to do this one song by Peter Gabriel Stephin Merritt and covered by Peter Gabriel. Followed by the song in it's entirety.

Sorry to be a stickler, but that song "The Book of Love" is so lovely it deserves that the real original songwriter be given proper credit.

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs (everyone would do well to own a copy of this all-time top multi-disc album)
Cut: "The Book Of Love"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





Merritt is as prolific as he is excellent. Seen him live before, and always left wanting more:

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "All My Little Words"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "I Don't Want To get Over You"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records




Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "Come Back from San Francisco"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records






Honestly, I'd post the entire 69 songs if I could. It's that good a work of art.

I couldn't resist. In fact, I'm going to put 5 Magnetic Fields' discs in my cd changer and listen the rest of the evening:

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "Meaningless"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records






Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





"It makes you blind, it does you in
It makes you think you're pretty tough
It makes you prone to crime and sin
It makes you say things off the cuff
It's very small and made of glass
and grossly over-advertised
It turns a genius to an ass
and makes a fool think he is wise
It could make you regret your birth
or turn cartwheels in your best suit
It costs a lot more than it's worth
and yet there is no substitute
They keep it on a higher shelf
the older and more pure it grows
It has no color in itself
but it can make you see rainbows
You can find it on the Bowery
or you can find it at Elaine's
It makes your words more flowery
It makes the sun shine, makes it rain
You just get out what they put in
and they never put in enough
Love is like a bottle of gin
but a bottle of gin is not like love"

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n, baby, D.C."
September 7, 1999 Merge Records




Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "A Chicken With Its head Cut Off"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records

Never heard of the Squirrel Nut Zippers until I met my wife over 16 years ago...

(05-25-2016 03:33 PM)WWDog Wrote:  Thanks for the kind words. I'll try not to be gone so long again.

One of my favorite songs from back in the 70's. The guitar solo alone make it an instant classic. From the album A Space in Time way back in 1971. I wish there was a better version live. Oh well a pretty lady will have to do with this awesome music. Funny how the song seems to fit today's world even though it is 45 years old!

Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World

Great tune. I always liked this one too...

How 'bout some Canned Heat...




I got some happy feet...

I always thought Roger Hodgson of Supertramp was a great song writer. Supertramp's Breakfast In America is an amazing album.

(05-25-2016 09:44 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I always thought Roger Hodgson of Supertramp was a great song writer. Supertramp's Breakfast In America is an amazing album.

I still have that album on 8-track!





remember when good bands' musicians looked like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQVG0Bcu6w

Mother Blues- Ray Wylie Hubbard

Product: Poo~Pourri
Song: "Imagine Where You Can Go"
website: http://PooPourri.com





considering 62% of men and 42% of women don't even wash their hands after using the bathroom


Study: Americans Don't Wash Their Hands Enough
By DANIEL Q. HANEY

Apparently the city that never sleeps is also too busy to wash up. A new survey of public restroom habits in five U.S. cities finds New York commuters are least likely to clean their hands after using the restroom.

The results, released Monday, are the latest installment in the American Society for Microbiology’s effort to cajole folks into following Mom’s most basic hygiene advice.

‘Clean Hands Campaign’ Fails

Four years ago, the society sponsored a study to see how often people take time for soap and water in restrooms. Researchers stood around, endlessly combing their hair or putting on makeup, while watching what people did. Or didn’t do.

They found that about one-third of Americans skipped washing. So the society sponsored a “clean hands campaign” to educate folks about the importance of hand washing in stopping the spread of colds, diarrhea and other infectious diseases.

This month, they did the survey again. The result: Not much has changed. If anything, Americans are even slightly more slovenly than they were in 1996. Especially in New York City, it seems.

Four years ago, 60 percent of folks using the rest rooms at Grand Central and Penn stations washed up afterward. This time, it was just 49 percent.

To the microbiology society, made up of infection control experts, this is serious business. “Fifteen seconds of soap and water and rubbing your hands is a wonderful way to get germs off. We are not making a lot of progress,” said microbiologist Judy Daly of Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, the society’s secretary.

Besides the New York train stations, the observers peeked at bathroom habits at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, the Navy Pier in Chicago, an Atlanta Braves baseball game and a casino in New Orleans.

Among the Findings

Overall, 67 percent of people washed with soap and water and then dried their hands.

The cleanest people were in Chicago, where 83 percent washed, followed by 80 percent in San Francisco and 64 percent in New Orleans and Atlanta.

Women were generally more likely than men to wash. The dirtiest guys of all were at the Atlanta ball game. Just one-third stopped to wash.

In a random telephone survey conducted at the same time, 95 percent of Americans claimed they wash their hands after using public restrooms.

In the survey, about three-quarters of people said they also wash before handling food or after changing a diaper.

Wash Up to Stop the Spread of Colds

Microbiology officials released the data at their annual meeting in Toronto. Without belaboring the obvious, they said that people really should wash up after using a public restroom, no matter what they do in there. It’s just an environment where people are likely to encounter a lot of germs, especially the ones that cause diarrhea.

“It’s cheap, it’s easy to do, and it works,” noted Dr. Julie Gerberding of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “If we were really compulsive about washing our hands, we could have a lot less colds.”

Both years, the survey found similar differences in hand-washing habits in the five cities. However, the researchers are not sure what to make of this. Of course, folks in some places may truly be cleaner than others. But other factors could also help explain the difference, such as how crowded the restrooms are, how clean or filthy they are and how big a rush people are in.

(05-26-2016 10:39 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  I still have that album on 8-track!

Remember the 8-track units mounted under the dash back in the day? Lots of memories driving with my dad as a young lad listening to 8-tracks in the car.

Listening to 8-tracks with my dad reminded me of these...

(05-28-2016 01:24 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(05-26-2016 10:39 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  I still have that album on 8-track!

Remember the 8-track units mounted under the dash back in the day? Lots of memories driving with my dad as a young lad listening to 8-tracks in the car.

At a distant relatives house I had gone into their basement and saw they had a 8track player...the tapes lying around were some Sammy Hagar, Led Zepplin, and some other ones that I can't remember.

My parents had a good "Mowtown" collection of LPs though... not sure when they actualy stopped buying music. They had some Elvis and some soul stuff.

(05-28-2016 05:39 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(05-28-2016 01:24 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(05-26-2016 10:39 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  I still have that album on 8-track!

Remember the 8-track units mounted under the dash back in the day? Lots of memories driving with my dad as a young lad listening to 8-tracks in the car.

At a distant relatives house I had gone into their basement and saw they had a 8track player...the tapes lying around were some Sammy Hagar, Led Zepplin, and some other ones that I can't remember.

My parents had a good "Mowtown" collection of LPs though... not sure when they actualy stopped buying music. They had some Elvis and some soul stuff.

I received a good blend of music influences from both parents. My dad was more into folk/easy listening rock overall and my mom was into jazz/rock blend. Essentially, I listened to everything from Elvis to George Benson growing up.

Speaking of George Benson...

(05-25-2016 06:19 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(05-25-2016 03:51 PM)WWDog Wrote:  I really love this song and the way it is done Zucchero has the perfect voice for this song when paired with the cellos. My wife is so fond of this song, she wants it in every playlist I make. The following is a short explanation of the merging of the two cello artists and Zucchero to do this one song by Peter Gabriel Stephin Merritt and covered by Peter Gabriel. Followed by the song in it's entirety.

Sorry to be a stickler, but that song "The Book of Love" is so lovely it deserves that the real original songwriter be given proper credit.

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs (everyone would do well to own a copy of this all-time top multi-disc album)
Cut: "The Book Of Love"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





Merritt is as prolific as he is excellent. Seen him live before, and always left wanting more:

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "All My Little Words"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records





Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "I Don't Want To get Over You"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records




Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
Cut: "Come Back from San Francisco"
September 7, 1999 Merge Records






Honestly, I'd post the entire 69 songs if I could. It's that good a work of art.

You are absolutely correct! I forgot that it was not written by Peter Gabriel but was popularized by him. Good catch on my mistake.