Now Listening To (The Resurrection), Musical Musings Options

[treydog]

The Saturday Late Night Random 10:

Funplex- The B-52s

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed- Allman Brothers

The Way- Fastball

Daydream Believer- The Monkees

I Ain't Superstitious- Howlin' Wolf

What I Like About You- The Romantics

Skating- Vince Guaraldi (A Charlie Brown Christmas)

A Sight for Sore Eyes- Tom Waits

Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand- Glenn Miller

Style- U.R. Penetrators

As usual, it really is a random mix, esp. with the Vince Guaraldi in there...

[bbqplatypus]

So, treydog...I take it you're a Tom Waits fan. This is actually a great segue into who I'm listening to right now. It's a woman by the name of Jesca Hoop, who was actually a nanny for Tom Waits's kids for quite a while. Tom actually prodded her quite a bit to put her talents to use. Normally, I don't like weird, arty stuff like what she does, but I saw her open for Mark Knopfler a few months ago, and I was quite captivated by her performance.

Her music has kind of a bewitching hypnotic quality to it, belying an odd combination of innocence and stream-of-consciousness depth. I won't have it on very often, but I like to listen every now and then for a change of pace from the classic rock I normally listen to. It's the sort of thing that I like in fairly small doses when the planets are aligned just right, but I still like it a lot. There isn't anything else in my library that's remotely like it.

Here's a live version of my favorite song of hers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGcyOOIoLwY

This post has been edited by bbqplatypus: Sep 28 2008, 07:00 AM