Musical incongruities which work
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Topic: Musical incongruities which work
Posted By: Dick Heath
Subject: Musical incongruities which work
Date Posted: October 15 2004 at 11:58
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I have this warped appreciation of musicians coming to together from very different backgrounds - and more often backgrounds that have a reputation of not mixing - and producing good and occasionally surprising records. Some examples: St |
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 15 2004 at 14:52
Didn't Aerosmith do something like that with Run DMC in the 1980s - and now we have Rap in the mainstream... 
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: October 15 2004 at 15:36
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I hear Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) is releasing a duet version of his classic "Father and son" with Ronan Keating of Boyzone. Those guys (Boyzone) have ruined the song once already, but seems Ronan want to do so again. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 15 2004 at 18:05
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Jimmy Page's pure hacking of Kashmir for the Sugar Puff Daddy and his Come On tune. Eddie Van Halen and Michael Jackson on BAD (or whatever song that was). I would think the Brits are still pissed at Paul McCartney for his Michael |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 15 2004 at 18:06
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Holy sh*t batman, look at all those underlined green names in my last post. OY!
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: October 16 2004 at 11:21
| Classical mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter and Elvis Costello - love that CD(For the stars). Or Pavarotti, U2 and Brian Eno in the Passengers (Miss Sarajevo). |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: October 17 2004 at 11:50
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Dick Heath Wrote::Stranglers with Robert Fripp and Peter Hammill: Tank (ex. Stranglers & Friends Live) Mr Heath...I love Hammill |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 17 2004 at 11:53
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This old Clown Barfs |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 17 2004 at 12:27
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[QUOTE=gdub411] Dick Heath Wrote::Stranglers with Robert Fripp and Peter Hammill: Tank (ex. Stranglers & Friends Live) Mr Hea |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 17 2004 at 12:51
America the holy place o the TRUTH , yeah the uccking righ of the truth   ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: October 17 2004 at 15:32
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Velvetclown wrote:Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 18 2004 at 07:37
"Beat It" - was that BAD or Thriller??? [QUOTE=danbo] I would think the Brits are still pissed at Paul McCartney for his M |
Posted By: Nizzy
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 04:47
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Agree that Afro Celts are fantastic band. First encountered them just a few years ago during a party in Manchester where some pretty good Detroit techno and the likes of Leftfield (prog dance?) and Underworld were on the stereo. Nobody danced until the |
Posted By: Nizzy
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 04:56
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Sorry, Dick. Didn't actually get around to the topic. How about Tammy Wynette and the KLF and that Justified and Ancient travesty from a few years back. The version of What Time Is Love with Glenn Hughes, ex-of Purple, was a cracker, however. &n |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 07:44
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[QUOTE=Nizzy] Paul Weller on Peter Gabriel III seemed weird to us young punks at the time. Now he works with Robert Wyatt.
Weller interests me and over the last 10 or so years has shown himself to be a real |
Posted By: Nizzy
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 08:04
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Hiya Dick. Right about U2. I remember Bono saying afterwards he had been embarrassed because the old boys said: "Go on then, give us one of your tunes" and he couldn't play any U2 songs with just him and an acoustic. Apparently he wrote Silver And Gold |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 10:52
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Hey Dick, What about Allan Holdsworth on the Level 42 album "Guaranteed?" The only redeeming quality of that recording was the (oh so) short solos. Husband played like a drum machine and Mark Kings bass simply limped along. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 13:07
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[QUOTE=danbo] Hey Dick, What about Allan Holdsworth on the Level 42 album "Guaranteed?" The only redeeming quality of that recording was the (oh so) short solos. Husband played like a drum machine and Mark Kings bass simply limped along. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 13:13
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[QUOTE=Nizzy] Wyatt's a fascinating character who I remember cropping up on Peel loads years ago and for that stunning version of Shipbuilding. The only things I've got him on are Soft Machine Third and Softs 4. His vocals are a bit of |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 13:15
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I did, marvelous. I really was shocked at how innovative Mr. Husband handles the piano. I'd like to hear a due |
Posted By: Nizzy
Date Posted: October 19 2004 at 13:39
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Hi Dick. re Carol Grimes - so now I know! I have seen the Wyatt documentary you mention and he's a fiercely impressive character who obviously has a big heart. The John Martyn and Martin Carthy documentaries in (I think) the same series we |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 20 2004 at 13:16
I did, marvelous. I really was shocked at how innovative Mr. Husband handles the piano. I'd li |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: October 20 2004 at 13:25
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My scheduling is horrendous. So many good things pass me by.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 20 2004 at 18:06
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Further on the path through musical incongruities. The London Times arts section, published the Saturday before last, rated an French Arab - rai???- musician Rachid Taha's new album |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 09:13
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[QUOTE=Dick Heath]Further on the path through musical incongruities. |
Posted By: Nizzy
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 15:12
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DICK HEATH wrote: "But my biggest surprise!????????? Steve Hillage produced it, co-wrote some of the songs and tucked on the end of the Rock The Casbah is some classic |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: October 21 2004 at 15:35
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The ubiquitous Mr Hillage turns up as producer on It Bites' "Once Around The World" ------------- 
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: October 28 2004 at 14:36
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Bite my ............ ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 30 2004 at 05:48
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[QUOTE=Nizzy] DICK HEATH wrote: "But my biggest surprise!????????? Steve Hillage produced it, co-wrote some of the songs and tucked on the end of the Rock The Casbah |