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Before I Do Start Posting Music Again...
...which is very much what I wanted to be using my journal for, I felt the need to rant about something. It's not about any certain people, or against them, but is instead about me ( Read more... ) -
Crossover...
...sorry for the recent delays - porting this journal across to Dreamwidth has taken a little longer than I might have wanted.
Normal service will be resumed in the coming days. I have so much more to show you. -
Tick, Tick Tock...
...the following is what happens when you put seven guys who really know how to harmonise on the Paris Metro.
Meet Naturally 7, and their rendition of Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight.
This is one of the tightest acapella groups I have ever heard (yes, perhaps Pentatonix have that sewn up, but these guys run the very close). The harmonies are ( Read more... ) -
Shine...
...this has been on my feelgood playlist since it was the outro of Channel 5's cricket highlights package the last time England were winning The Ashes.
This is Shannon Noll. He wants you, and the woman having a bad day in the video, to shine.
There's nothing particularly complex or difficult to this song, which is why it is so accessible and ( Read more... ) -
The Crazy One...
...and while he was by no means the most popular of my characters, the most optimised or the most playable, there was one characteristic that defined Vaexarius Firestorm more than any other.
He was one wild ride. And when he died, there was only one way he was going.
ACDC's Highway to Hell epitomised everything about Vaexarius. It was loud, proud ( Read more... ) -
I Know It's Not Christmas...
...but the way this lot work together is a little bit of genius.
These are The Piano Guys (there will be more of them in the future, oh yes), and their rendition of Angels We Have Heard On High (or Angels From The Realms Of Glory) for eight hands and a piano.
(Yes, I know they recently performed at Trump's inauguration. This was a really bad ( Read more... ) -
Not Sure Whether To Promote...
...the song, or the singers.
These are the Vital Signs - a mixed voice acapella group out of Elon University in North Carolina - and their rendition of Ingrid Michaelson's Over You.
The reason for the title is that the song itself is worth looking up in its original format, being a collaboration between Ingrid (who is a fanastically talented ( Read more... ) -
The Top 30: #30
When I started this set, I originally planned it to be the top twenty, but when I set to to populate the list of my favourite songs, I hit thirty tracks before I had even slowed down. Therefore, it's gotten extended ( Read more... ) -
God's Lead Guitarist...
...may well be Tommy Emmanuel.
The below is just over six minutes of the most light-fingered genius you will ever see.
It's one guy, one guitar. No dubbing or sampling. What he gets out of it almost beggars belief ( Read more... ) -
The Feelgood Playlist...
...is something of a guilty pleasure of mine. I have a list of music that makes me smile at its downright optimism whenever a piece of it plays.
Below is Fisher's Beautiful Life, featuring Kathy Fisher herself, husband Ron Wasserman (no, that isn't Gordon Ramsay), and their then baby son Aron.
As well as the outright optimism of the song, the ( Read more... )
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