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I really think St. Vincent is one of the best artists around right now. Her two albums, Marry Me and Actor, are two of the best I've heard in the last ten years.

Here's a sampling of her work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ (a very special cover of Nico's These Days which perfectly captures the fragile essence of this song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2eqWeF0 ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGADJ_F1 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoVZ4jNE ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUajb1uo ... re=related

mcq wrote:I really think St. Vincent is one of the best artists around right now. Her two albums, Marry Me and Actor, are two of the best I've heard in the last ten years.

Very good indeed and certainly different....I wonder why she chooses to play "clean" electric guitar instead of an acoustic?

mcq wrote:


And Jamie Muir reminds me of the great Dutch free jazz drummer, Han Bennink. Here's a clip of the man in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWYUnfSYtrs

Wow! that is equally fabulous. Thank you for that Paul :-) BTW glad you liked the KC video too...

not music...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHBQ2fu9 ... r_embedded

Music. The making of The Prodigy's - "Smack my bitch up". Would you like to try a sample? Fascinating stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-Wa ... embedded#!

Ivor, I'll get the hen and the chalk if you do this on the radio!

Fran wrote:Ivor, I'll get the hen and the chalk if you do this on the radio!

you do it and ring in..... I'll take that call!

we'll see what we can do.

Henry Cow performing live in 1976 (sympathetically filmed by Swiss TV with no gimmicky special effects). The kind of thing that would be lost and forgotten were it not for YouTube (praise be!) and a cultural artefact of immense importance (apparently, the only live footage of Henry Cow extant). Amazing singing from the cherub-faced Dagmar Krause (whose singing is directly influenced by Schoenberg's pioneering use of sprechstimme - a kind of speech-singing - in Pierrot Lunaire) and great work from Fred Frith on guitar and Chris Cutler on drums, but really, soloists had no place in a band this good - everybody simply served the music collectively (which probably suited the Marxists in this band). My exposure to Henry Cow was one of the pivotal music lessons of my early teens (along with Zappa) and which opened my mind to many alternative types of music. Initially, a steep learning curve but the rewards have been immense and the musical doorways are still opening for me as a result.

Beautiful as the Moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfpq11-s ... re=related

Terrible as an Army with Banners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi81m4Pu ... re=related

Livng in the Heart of the Beast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl3AXgyzYgs (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EskFhrd1NCQ&NR=1 (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdCAz7sQo3g&NR=1 (Part 3)

No More Songs (originally a song by Phil Ochs):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBptCea ... re=related

mcq wrote:Henry Cow performing live in 1976 (sympathetically filmed by Swiss TV with no gimmicky special effects). The kind of thing that would be lost and forgotten were it not for YouTube (praise be!) and a cultural artefact of immense importance (apparently, the only live footage of Henry Cow extant). Amazing singing from the cherub-faced Dagmar Krause (whose singing is directly influenced by Schoenberg's pioneering use of sprechstimme - a kind of speech-singing - in Pierrot Lunaire) and great work from Fred Frith on guitar and Chris Cutler on drums, but really, soloists had no place in a band this good - everybody simply served the music collectively (which probably suited the Marxists in this band). My exposure to Henry Cow was one of the pivotal music lessons of my early teens (along with Zappa) and which opened my mind to many alternative types of music. Initially, a steep learning curve but the rewards have been immense and the musical doorways are still opening for me as a result.

Beautiful as the Moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfpq11-s ... re=related

Terrible as an Army with Banners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi81m4Pu ... re=related

Livng in the Heart of the Beast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl3AXgyzYgs (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EskFhrd1NCQ&NR=1 (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdCAz7sQo3g&NR=1 (Part 3)

No More Songs (originally a song by Phil Ochs):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBptCea ... re=related

WOW?!?!? Can't wait to see these later. Thanks Paul, you're a genius :-)

Had a quick look at the first one and I can't believe how lovely Dagmar looks in the flesh.My initial rection was, God, she sounds just like our Peter (Hamill)?!?!