Interactive Poll XIII - Surprise, surprise

Lewian wrote: By the way, do you know of Italian radio shows where good new music is played regularly?

Raff wrote: Lewian wrote: By the way, do you know of Italian radio shows where good new music is played regularly? Unfortunately not. I listened to a lot of radio in the early '80s, but then I started moving around, and for quite a long time I did not listen to any music at all. However, at least when I still lived in Italy, RAI Radio 3 had a lot of good programmes for classical music (which my late mom loved). Here's the link (in Italian): https://www.raiplayradio.it/radio3/ This also sounds interesting, with a variety of themed music shows: http://radiostatale.it/shows/

TCat wrote: Snicolette wrote: For added fun, here is the Portlandia segment I mentioned re the desecration of the bagpipes by Eels in their video.  I am sure no actual harp was damaged in this video. "Why are you suing us?  What kind of vibe is that?"   LMAO

Glad you enjoyed that, Mike!

Now here's a real surprise......if nothing else, you might get a chuckle out of it.

The Neil Diamond song reminded me of something that surprised me.

TCat wrote: Now here's a real surprise......if nothing else, you might get a chuckle out of it.

Snicolette wrote: mathman0806 wrote: The Neil Diamond song reminded me of something that surprised me. At the time I heard this, all I had really known from the Bee Gees was their disco era music. Bee Gees “Odessa” Sad and beautiful….sad they are so more known for “Stayin’ Alive.”<p ="MsonoSpacing" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p>

Not knowing how they evolved into disco Bee Gees, was that gradual or did they just come out with the disco sound? Was disco Bee Gees a surprise at the time as much as hearing 60s Bee Gees was a surprise if you started with disco Bee Gees?

Continuing with the little comments since I left off with Nickie's native drum one in my last lengthy post looking through the choices.

Lorenzo: I don't usually enjoy the song the song Born in the USA, but I liked those versions, especially the second one was great.

Mike: The Steve Miller Band - "Shu ba da du ma ma ma ma". I thoroughly enjoyed that, much more than I expected to too. Excellent.

- The Steve Miller Band - "Jackson Kent Blues". Like that too, but it didn't get me like the "Shooby Doo Shooby Doo Ba Bah Black Sheep MMMBop Mama Mia ma ma how can I resist you have you any wool?" song. Failed attempt at trying to remember the title when typing this out.

Geo: "If Beautiful People In 69..." (also trying to do the song title from memory and failing). Enjoyed that. Very sultry.

-- "Coming to Get You": "Here I come baby", that Hendrix experience.

suitkees: Removable Winkle. I enjoyed that more than I expected to. It was rather Zappaesque thematically.

Samuel: Bruno Pernadas - Spaceway 70. Now this is why I love listening to these. I didn't just like, I absolutely loved that! Wonderful jazzy music, exotica, spacey, love the vocals and style. It's so my thing. I am going to have to get the album it's off. Ah, it's just what I needed. It is my favourite of the entire series of polls thus far. It reminds me of some of my favourite music, only better. Amazing! And that you heard that on the radio, wow. Bliss. For all my melancholic picks, how great a ray of sunshine can be, and that is more than a ray, it is incredibly luminous -- it brought me incandescent joy. Thank you for sharing. Ah, the power of music. Now I recall that I had come across this artist before (at least the album cover and looks familiar and the album name is familiar, was probably doing some album research or maybe you brought it up, even the track name I seemed to have known, but this music would seem unforgettable if I had heard it?) as the music touches on/ incorporates various of my favourite styles/ elements and how well it does it. I am going to get Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them (and what a wonderful album title). Loved it dearly. Sorry for the gushing mess.

Ian: Leonard Cohen - Is This What You Wanted. Speaking of a gushing mess, that rather could fit with some of the lyrics of this song, but he is much better with words than I am or most singer-songwriters. Love quite a bit of Leonard Cohen, but only have his first album. I liked this and didn't know it. I wouldn't have know this was a Leonard Cohen song just by hearing it. Maybe it's been too long I listened to much of him (other than "Suzanne"). Very good.

Lewian - Mona Mur. Very interesting, reminds me very much of a song(bassline) -- Elephant Talk by Crimson or a Talking Heads (something funky/ post punky and New Waveish). The lyrics are a bit too cliche for me with the "this is my rifle, this is my gun". Of course they famously used that in Full Metal jacket (a scene that made me cringe,not that it wasn;t good for the film). Quite an erotic song.
And "Surabaya Johnny" - liked this. Would need more listens when not so tired.

- Leonard Cohen - The Gypsy's Wife. I absolutely loved this. I have heard it but not for so long.. So good.

Scott: Neil Diamond - Be. From a great Diamond album. My dad loved the Jonathan Livingston Seagull novella, and I read it and enjoyed it very much. My brother had the Jonathan Livingston Seagull album in his collection, and I got to know it when very young. Wonderful album, and it's the only Diamond album that I can recall having heard in full. "Be" is an old favourite of mine -- great stuff.

Mike: A Perfect Circle. Yep, I could appreciate this cover, very interesting although the vocals would take me some time to get used to.

Mike: Watched that We Are the Worst video earlier today but only commenting now. Funny, but more than that, I find it so sad. A sad state of affairs.

Geo: Bee Gees - Odessa. I knew Bee Gees were very different earlier than what came later, but I really loved that.   

Nickie: I loved your Bee Gees choice too.

Edited by Logan - July 23 2020 at 00:28

mathman0806 wrote: @Nickie: I had not really listened to the Bee Gees 1st before, but streamed it last night and really like it. Much of it is well-crafted psychedelic pop. Also relistened to Odessa and that is quite a remarkable album. I read it was originally intended as a concept album but there were a lot of internal disagreements on musical direction. It resulted in a double album with a variety of sounds and some nice orchestration with three instrumentals. Even some really good country music influenced pieces. @Greg: I like the creative recollection of the song title. I realize I didn't actual cost band name and song title. Band is Beautiful People. Song title is If 60s Was 90s, which is a direct play on the title of the Hendrix song they reworked.

Logan wrote: Mike: The Steve Miller Band - "Shu ba da du ma ma ma ma". I thoroughly enjoyed that, much more than I expected to too. Excellent. - The Steve Miller Band - "Jackson Kent Blues". Like that too, but it didn't get me like the "Shooby Doo Shooby Doo Ba Bah Black Sheep MMMBop Mama Mia ma ma how can I resist you have you any wool?" song. Failed attempt at trying to remember the title when typing this out.