YouTube music ramblings

They are a bit Stu.

There is a bit of confirmation bias (smugness ?) with the music I know and like I think but there is a lot of bandwagon jumping now as well.

There are some genuinely good ones - I do like Doug Helvering’s stuff as he looks at songs from a totally different perspective from what I’m used to.

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Only heard this track this morning,seems it surfaced with 2 other songs a decade ago.
Lovely hoax if it isn’t genuine

A cruel twist of humiliation. This singer nails ‘Natural Woman’ whilst being judged by some supposed ‘talent’… Oh and she has to dress as a bumble bee.
Curiously Aretha is often voted no 1 female soul singer, Gladys Night often no 2. Here’s Gladys well past her mid 70’s performing.

Was listening to alladin sane yesterday and gave this version a listen. Recorded at the beeb just 2 days after his Glastonbury performance

Some band he assembled,again
I know nothing about recording,but the sound engineer absolutely nailed this.

https://youtu.be/AD2mDBCVYZg

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After David McAlmont saw this cover on YouTube ,he asked him to join him on tour

https://youtu.be/3bKG0p6Tv9Q

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The film club here’s showing Ali & Ava on Wednesday, so I’ve run the DVD* through to check it plays OK. This song is in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LEmDEZVa5g

If you liked that then here are the two of them doing it live, with two other songs, from their sofa early in lockdown, complete with jumper, and jumper leads

*Yeah, I know, you can’t get it on DVD, but I have one.

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Cheers for posting that Graeme - I love it when artists make things look so deceptively simple and effortless. :ok_hand:

A very different vibe.

I’ve seen a few recent videos of them and it really is a full on seismic wall of sound - I need to see them live.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/26/joan-shelley-the-spur-review-timeless-and-vital-americana

Will buy

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Old but good.

https://youtu.be/HEUIZWyieAk

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Great Album too.

Even though you know what is going to happen it still raises more than the odd guffaw.

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https://youtu.be/vhmSUdN364E

Such a great song.

Well that’s one way to come on stage

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Forgive the quality at the start (and throughout really) of this song by Martyn Jospeh about what Putin is doing to the Ukraine. I just had to grab my camera and press record when I learnt what the song was about.

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https://youtu.be/j6yAjxSMSbE