Just for you, Heart - it's Richard Gene Simmons!

Better Than Ezra - Good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m4XiXLpXDs

Green Day -- East Jesus Nowhere -- great song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKU9MU44tiU

Police -- I can't stand losing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SQrqMoQdcU

Bruce Springsteen -- Going Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarmRLa2p9Q

Rancid -- Time Bomb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwIbb3McVW4...feature=related

JOhnny Mercer - Skylark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHYDafTrpMU...feature=related

Empire State of Mind for my Yankees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8

Oh, she looks just lovely!

(her voice ain't bad, either)

I ran across one of my favorites today,

John Waite
In Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjbWSU86Wso

Still sounds great! From New Orleans too.

Great Bass! I miss that kind of music so much.

Green Day, the whole CD is pretty good really. Nice.

The Police/Sting write so many songs that are contradictory!

Every Breathe You Take
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFKkuzoawM

Then:
If you Love Somebody, Set Them Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U_S_ffmc6A

I'll bet he's a Scorpio:)

I guess us humans are a conflicted lot huh?
Also, you have no idea, unless you've seen them, what kind of stage presence Sting has! I was completely unprepared for that.

Lately, this is my favorite Springsteen Song

Cover Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5klWoMcK0

And for a "crush of beauty" song, the cover of Bruce's song

Tori Amos (watch her play that piano!)
I'm on Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k83xsEAFig

Time Bomb, is that more of the Southern California guitar style? I've forgotten what it's called?

Empire State of Mind= Ah, NYC! What I like about Rap is that you don't have to be able to sing! Alicia Keys carries that part well though eh?
But, my NYC song is
Billy Joel's

New York State Of Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1RdKhsXJg
New York State of Mind

I love listening to her sing just about anything!

Brazilian Girls - Good Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQM5TZqoaUE

Stop Smoking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIykKakGA8M...e=channel\

Def Leppard - Animal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R2GLQDLFtM

Joan Jett -- I Hate Myself For Loving You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYbXTRRi3pI

a song for the week

Boomtown Rats
I don't like Mondays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0

and the same genius, BOB GELDOF
gave us

Do they know its Christmas and Live Aid

In the hopes that I can get this song out of my head (I never can...and why is it such a sexy song anyway?)

Alannah Myles
Black Velvet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEZxtdesraU

And here's Christina Aguilera at age 11 Singing a cover! WHEW she could always sing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HfHXqzLflY

Alannah Myles...and like Joan Osborne, one song so unlike anything else that person sang, that a followup was impossible

and Black Velvet was about Elvis, 1950s Elvis.
Elvis would not have been possible in 2009.

What is it with this Leonard Cohen thing? I know better than to buy this but OH! It's so tempting! I can't seem to escape Leonard Cohen even in my little book business.

This was in my mail box from the American Association of Booksellers vendor list:

Newly-arrived, and in offered in honor of Cohen's current tour:

COHEN, Leonard. THE FAVORITE GAME. New York: Viking Press, (1963).
First edition. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket has
trace rubbing, edgewear. Unclipped. Overall, a bright, clean, sound
and sharp example. Uncommon in this condition. The first novel from
the legendary songwriter and singer, who began his career not as a
musician, but a writer and poet.

$125.00 ppd. (domestic media).

Thank you for your consideration.

brian cassidy, bookseller



I think it's a conspiracy. Stop tempting me!!!

What the heck is in it that it costs so much? Front Row Tickets?

Saw her live on Long Island...

Magical...

A voice like a warm knife cutting through butter...effortless...rich and dreamy...

was she in the round at Westbury?

That she was...did you have the pleasure of attending that stellar performance?

To think...we might have been sitting next to each other...I was about 20-25 rows from the stage on the left...

no, but oddly enough, I love Westbury
It has great sound system there and great sightlines from anywhere
Don't get out there that much as it is a PITA to drive there from NJ, used to go alot more years ago
Saw Roy Orbinson there for one and saw two Christmas shows there I am happy to have seen
Andy Williams who can still hit the notes

and saw the last NY appearance of Perry Como of all people (shh, don't tell anyone)...he was already a little too old he wandered a little.

Used to go with friends to see alot of country shows out there
Don Williams would play there every year

Saw Waylon Jennings with opening act Steve Earle there, etc.

I would love to have seen Andy Williams...his version of Maria from West Side Story is one of the best renderings of any song I have ever heard...

And Roy Orbison's voice is the male version of Aretha Franklin's I think...the depth and richness...the clarity and strength one minute and the soft sweetness the next...

Wow...

No, the front row tickets were way over $200, IF you could get them!

It's quite a find he's got there though huh? I need to go scrounging around for some more books, maybe I'll happen on something like that! Of course, then I would have to be willing to part with it. Given that it's autographed, I probably wouldn't.

You know, I like it! The second one is pretty hot and I love her hair! But, the thing I like is that she doesn't really sing. She talks! She just has a sexy voice and there's a lot of show going on, but she is just talking really. That's kinda cool.

Def Leppard, many good songs there.

The Joan Jett vid is great! She was really something.

Made me think of Suzi Quatro though
Rock Hard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6YOhfHwpLQ

And Lita Ford
Kiss Me Deadly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xag7I3q1pw

Some of my favorite singers are talkers...David Byrne, Lou Reed, Bryan Ferry...

Saw Lita in the 90s in NYC...good show...

one of my 3 favorite songs of 2009
adam
mad world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGBWQdHsyQ

He's really good isn't he G?

I love his cover:

Ring of Fire (how smooth!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwarVUxIPT8

did you see him last night on the American Music Awards?
risque

google Adam American Music Awards to find it as the youtubes have been taken down

He is the first Idol person who IS a star, and was before just no one knew it.

Let's play some Bill Whithers and covers shall we?

Here's Eva Cassidy
Ain't No Sunshine When He's Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJQeuOO-VA

Bill Whither's
Make Love to Your Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOPb-VVZquw

Fiona Apple Doing Great Bill Whithers

Use Me (think it' may cut off, hope not)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVezt2sYj5E

here's a new song from Julian (john's son) Lennon about his childhood friend Lucy, who was the inspiration for Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
Lucy died recently of Lupus
and Julian decided to put out a charity record "Lucy (we still love you Lucy)"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcRXn1A0HQI

I was trying to get to this thread tonight. I kept getting stuck in other areas. I'll listen to that G...I didn't know there was a Lucy that inspired that song.

Hey problemsolver, what's your favorite music? This is where we leave pleasant gifts for one another in the form of music we like. You have anything you particularly like??

This says a lot, and I'm sure some members won't get it, but I still like it.

I just wish I knew who the band was.
It's not one of my favorites, but it does say a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF3mdYn-r9Q

Way to many for this place, but I'll dig up something special just for you.

A gun Control Favorite, with a southern rock sound.

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

Thanks.

What do you like country, rock, alternative, punk, industrial, folk?

From what era?

Heart,
This one is for you.

It's an Eric Johnson tune called Manhattan, and was recorded live while he was on tour with a band called G3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL8aeeSTthQ

There's just something about the guys tone,
And he makes it look so easy

Oh, I'm seriously weird.
I have a huge appreciation for music.

About the only thing I won't listen to is a Soprano Opera Singer.
But I grew up on 70's rock

Close your eyes and relax

Native American Flute Amazing Grace by Jay Red Eagle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOtxGKzo98

Amazing Grace on 2 Native American Flutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_-SvflL5U

I really loved the bagpipes (and the Megadeath/Metallica metal sound was good too), but I found a really nice piper song for ya

Thought you would like the sweet sound in this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5mcLxlSgU

He has such a smooth tone, and he does make it look easy, but I know it's really not easy at all! He's such a good guitarist.

It has a nice beat, but G, it sure seems like he could have put in some other lyrics and varied the beat? But, he does capture his Dad's sound doesn't he. I'm sorry to hear that about the real "Lucy". That was a great song but I was sure it was inspired by serious psychedelics.

Oh that is really beautiful! The video on the first one reminded me of all the places I've been in this country (looking for birds mostly), and then I thought you live out there in the west don't you? The sweetest sounds match the sweetest places in this country and the birds songs in the background kinda make that point.

The second one was even better for sound, but I give that an A+ for talent! I wonder how or why you would learn to play two flutes at the same time. I guess it's kinda like "if you want something done right, do it yourself". Anyway, beauty and talent rolled into one there.

Thank you for your offering of song, and I hope you come back and share some more with us here.

Taz is going to love these two songs.

I think Amazing Grace and Ave Maria are my favorite (hymnal) Christian? Not sure....Liturgical maybe....anyway they are my two favorites.

This is the one place everyone feels the same way you do about music! No matter how heated our debates, this is a place where music is our universal. We play every kind of music here, though Graham likes more country and Taz likes more 80's and I don't think I could describe what I like but I grew up in the 80's like Taz, though the 90's probably holds my attention more. There's no limits on what music you can find in here on any given day.

Bagpipes are a sweet sound that can seem to be haunting you at times.
Very nice.

I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jr9hPbYmBo

and perhaps one of the true great forgoten songs
ED AMES
who will answer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ZurxKJV3o

bing crosby/david bowie
peace on earth/little drummer boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMhSjDqvRs

and this is the best christmas song i heard in years
little drummer boy
bob dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdPUc73zrBw

he sounds like a little boy sitting on top of the steps Christmas morning waiting to run down and see his presents
(well, maybe with a frog in his throat)

Classic Skynard, that doesn't get a lot of air-time.

Red White & Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWijeWY6imQ

A version of "Simple Man" I'll bet you've never heard
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoid=57302897

Just discovered this is an anti-war song and according to Michael Stipe was 'released the week that our country invaded Iraq.' I like the sound of the CD version below better, but the close-up visuals compensate. Great song, opaque in places, but mesmerizing. PLAY IT LOUD.




Where's REM from? Rural red state Georgia?

Kinda brings a tear to my eyes, it always does. That was the first concert I went to without my parents. Actually, I snuck out of the house and paid hell for it when I came home....but that was before the plane crash.

It also reminds me a lot of my recently deceased brother in law.

And, of course, my two teenage sons, one in the Navy and the other about to join.

My favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song is

Tuesday's Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYFj67L0wIc