Music Thread - part 2

More Romanian hits (this time not gypsy)...

No I bloody well don't!


This I really liked. I couldn't find anything about them either.


Given that it has a reggae type rhythm, and I really don't like reggae, this song is good.

Yeah, not bad, I prefer proper electric guitars but this guy was obviously "Plugged in" and I enjoyed your post!

To my ears this is totally and utterly europap dros!



You surprise me, I had you down as a bit of a Rock chick...... you quite like some Hard Rock, some electric Blues and motorbikes!!!
Why do you hate Aerosmith?Is it all about Steve Tyler?

Here's one that might go down well on PF.
Dave Gilmour has a new album out and this has his daughter Romany singing on it and she has a fine voice.

Because they are masters of truly appalling rock ballads.

' I don't want to miss a thing' is one of the most dreadful songs I've ever heard.

Miloslaw "Shrugs shoulders", OK, that is your opinion and I accept your point of view.

When people talk about the British Pop/Rock revolution of the early sixties, they talk about many bands,there were so many of them!
But mainly, they talk about the Beatles and the Stones and forget a truly great band, the Kinks.



But this is the tune that turned most youngsters of that era into Kinks fans, probably the first Hard Rock song ever!

The Kinks used a very cynical humour in their songs.This is a good example;



As a Londoner all of my life, this song really stirs my emotions.......



The Kinks did protest songs too.



I'll end with the original recording of "You Really Got Me"

I'll just mention.... an interesting thing about Romanian music (compared with Poland) is the sheer amount and vitality of folk music. This is largely due to a single figure Maria Tănase as important in Romania as Edith Piaf was in France or Amalia Rodrigues was in Portugal....



While her records won't appeal much to modern audiences (and while she did a lot more than folk music) her presence gave folk music a.... legitimacy it's never had in Poland. there was no figure in Poland in touch with folk traditions and folk became something quaint to put on stage (like the Mazowsze or Sląsk touring groups) and not a vital part of the music scene.

At present folk music exists in a wide variety from very traditional to types that integrate elements of popular music.

Now... getting back to gypsies.... I'll mention Dona Dumitru Siminica.... what's interesting here is cultural synchronicity...

There is a _lot_ in common with flamenco singing (not tourist stuff the real deal) in his vocals....



Culture is so fleeting.... and yet so lasting.

@mafketis

For my ears Maria Tanase is actually painful to listen to.Awful!


He was a bit better, but not much.........still painful to listen to.

I need to find some decent Romanian Rock bands.......

I have just had a good search of Romanian Rock bands and sadly, I have to report that they are bloody awful!
Poland and Hungary blow them away!

I have just searched Bulgarian Rock bands to get a more equal comparison and although they are much better than Romanians I still could not find a Bulgarian Rock song worth posting to this thread.

Tanase is more of historical interest rather than someone people now like listening to... and have you heard real flamenco? it's both surprising and unsurprising how much Romanian gypsy music (of a certain kind) is similar to it.

I don't think rock ever was a thing in Romania... it's a latin country after all and no latin country is really.... rock oriented (supposedly there are some good underground groups in Mexico but Mexico has so much more interesting things going on musically that I've never spent much time trying to find rock there...

Here's a sort of semi-rock song from Mexico (the lyrics are wonderful and hard to translate)

French Fry with no Ketchup!

joke in the beginning.... he tells her he's not going to take her out looking like that, a woman's skirt should be beneath her knees.... she complies but he didn't mean it that way.

Time to change the tone on this thread, because, to be quite honest, it's getting a bit miserable......



Hope this wakes you up!



My last instrumental post tonight, hope it lifted the mood of this thread a bit..... :-)

This is both miserable and jolly, a song from the northern Working Men's Club scene. Only a Yorkshireman (he's from Conisborough, just down the road from Will Hague) can make a song about executions in America sound upbeat.

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@jon357

Oh no! Far too camp for me..... :-)

Crikey. Though to be fair I'd find it hard to come up with one word to describe it.

It's fun and of course his target audience back then in the working men's clubs had spent all day deep underground hewing coal or on their feet in a canteen and wanted to dress up, sink a few beers and watch a bit of classy escapism.

Here's another old one, a bit more elegant. I was listening to it last night in bed but fell asleep and didn't post it here.

The singer, Peter Skellern, died a while ago. He was ordained priest about a week before he died. One if the few serious singers who didn't try to disguise his northern accent

Hadn't heard any of those but I liked all three. Very 70s.


Love Tony Christie!! Didn't know he was a Yorkshireman. My mother always used to play his songs. Him and Mario Lanza. She had quite diverse music tastes.....


I wouldn't have said that.....


I remember him. 'Hold on to love' was another of his songs. Don't recall much else by him though.

No, because you are far more PC than me.
Listen, I know Jon is gay and have no problem with that at all, but it won't stop me saying what I think.And that song was well camp!

No, he isn`t. :):):)

What does whether you think I'm more PC than you have to do with it? I genuinely don't think the song is camp. I'd say so if I thought it was. It's not an unusual song for the times.

And I think it is very camp, so we disagree.

We can agree to disagree then!

Of course! I have many very good friends that I disagree with profoundly on many subjects.

But we remain good friends.

Pure genius...and so effortless...

Elton John grew up in the London suburb where I live, but although he was popular amongst many of my schoolfriends, he never really did it for me.
But he was /Is hugely popular, so maybe I'm out of step here.....

I've always liked him:

Rocket Man

Here is one that we partied to in my college days.