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10 really beautiful songs u probly never heard

thanx, toze. gettin ready to jump in there; BTW, do you have any Jethro Tull albums? i heard he kin play a flute standin' on one leg....

to the thread starter: i've heard prolly half a dozen of the cuts you mention; good stuff there, and i like the concept of the thread. zeroing in a little, i picked up the Ocean Blue album on tape a while back, and was kinda stunned by it. good pick. also, ms. lang's cover of "Helpless" will raise goosebumps the size of...of....well, BIG goosebumps


tentoze said:
For the record, Mazzy Star is an it, not a she. Hope Sandoval is the voice, and a fine one she has.
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All of the fantasizing about Hope Sandoval got me to thinking about another voice...
Here's a really beautiful song you've probably heard, but in a really beautiful version you probably haven't heard. To Lay Me Down as covered by Cowboy Junkies on the Dead tribute album, Deadicated.

Thumbs up, or thumbs down, 'toze?
 
I'm not familiar with the tune, Mark, but a more general comment about Cowboy Junkies- I'm not familiar with their music overall, but I picked up a pristine copy of Trinity Sessions earlier this year, based on the near-universal regard I've read for it over the years since its release, both from a performance standpoint and sonically.

Well, this will probably get my house fire-bombed, but I didn't get it. Note, please, that I am NOT saying I think it's a bad record. I'm not. The music is in no way objectionable in the least, it's just what I'd call un-engaging to me. And sonically, well, to my old worn-out ears, it lived up to the billing of being recorded in a church- a very big, very empty church.

I reckon I'll go put on some Milk Bone boxers, because I imagine the hounds will be eating my ass up shortly for this heretical opinion.
 
The singer of the band Ours can be compared to Jeff Buckley
check out these songs

Ours - Sometimes
Ours - Dizzy
Ours - Red Colored Stars
 
I agree to some extent on Trinity Sessions. The acoustics and ambience are, umm... interesting, but it's not the best-sounding recording I've ever heard. I am a sucker for Margo Timmins' voice, but the Junkies' barbituates and morphine tempos are something of an acquired taste. I do, however, really like the opening pair of songs on that album, Mining for Gold and Misguided Angel. I usually skip the rest (even the well-known cover of Sweet Jane).

If you get bored one day, 'toze, try their mid-90s studio album Lay it Down and see what you think. It's a bit perkier than some of their efforts. I really like three or four of the songs on that album.
 
Here's a beautiful song which most of you really haven't heard, though it's easily available as the album was recently reissued in CD format on the Sinergia label.

Artist: These Trails
Album: These Trails
Release: 1973
Label: Sinergia

Beautiful Song: Psyche I & Share Your Water Suite

I might be as much taken by Ms Sandoval's vocal stylings as the next guy, but the sound of Margaret Morgan’s haunting vocals on this 1973 Hawaiian classic casts a musical spell.
 
Clannad 'Blackstairs' and (I think the name is) 'hidden place'
Thomas Dolby - Almost any song on the 'Golden age of Radio', .
Pat Benatar - Wuthering Heights (Crimes of Passion album)
Rennaisance - Ashes are Burning - live album better then other, not by much
Claude Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie (The Cathedral Engulfed)
Genesis - 'All in a mouses night'
 
cfranz said:
Clannad 'Blackstairs' and (I think the name is) 'hidden place'
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One of dozens of beautiful Clannad tunes, "Blackstairs" was sung by the first lady of Celtic music Máire Ní Bhraonáin, older sister of the one now known as Enya. The song "Blackstairs" was on Clannad's 1985 album Macalla.
 
This song gives me goosebumps
Capercaillie - Oh Mo Dhuthaich

O mo dhuthaich' stu th'air m'aire
Uibhist chumhraidh ur anan gallan,
Far a faighte na daoin' uaisle,
Far 'm bu dual do Mha 'ic Ailein.

Tir a' mhurain, tir an eorna
Tir 's am pailt a h-uile seorsa
Far am bi na gillean oga
Gabhail oran 's 'g ol an lionna

Thig iad ugainn, carach, seolta
Gus ar mealladh far ar n-eolais;
Molaidh iad dhuinn Manitoba,
Duthaich fhuar gun ghual, gun mhoine.

Cha leig mi leas a bhith 'ga innse,
Nuair a ruigear, 'sann a chithear,
Samhradh goirid foghar sitheil,
Geamhradh fada na droch-shide

Nam biodh agam fhin de storas
Da dheis aodaich, paidhir bhrogan
Agus m'fharadh bhith 'nam phoca
'Sann air Uibhist dheanainn seoladh.

English Translation
Oh My Country

O my country are on my mind
Fresh, fragrant Uist of the saplings,
Where the noble men are found
Who gave their hereditary allegiance to "Mac ic Ailein".

Land of seabed, land of barley
Land of abundance of every kind
Where the young lads will be
Singing songs and drinking beer

They will come to us cunning and wily
In order to entice us from our homes
They will praise Manitoba to us
A cold country with no coal and no peat!

I don't need to say
That when we reach it we'll see it
A short summer and a peaceful autumn
A long winter of bad weather.

If I had riches
A change of clothes and a pair of shoes
And my prayer in my pocket
It is to Uist that I would be sailing.
 
curious, VF, which 5 have you / have you not heard?...I'm very familiar wi Clannad, esp 'Harry's Song', but I knew REAL audiophiles like youse guys woulda already knowed it...years ago I was in an office working wi a buddy and he put a Cowboy Junkies tape on; after 10 minutes he apologized ('I'm sorry, I heard these guys were good'), and I said, 'they ARE good!'...I have Suzanne Ciani on my download list; looking for 'ours' and 'lay me down' as I type this...
 
screenersam said:
curious, VF, which 5 have you / have you not heard?...I'm very familiar wi Clannad, esp 'Harry's Song', but I knew REAL audiophiles like youse guys woulda already knowed it...years ago I was in an office working wi a buddy and he put a Cowboy Junkies tape on; after 10 minutes he apologized ('I'm sorry, I heard these guys were good'), and I said, 'they ARE good!'...I have Suzanne Ciani on my download list; looking for 'ours' and 'lay me down' as I type this...
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Definitely also look for Capercaillie - Oh Mo Dhuthaich
 
mhardy6647 said:
All of the fantasizing about Hope Sandoval got me to thinking about another voice...
Here's a really beautiful song you've probably heard, but in a really beautiful version you probably haven't heard. To Lay Me Down as covered by Cowboy Junkies on the Dead tribute album, Deadicated.

Thumbs up, or thumbs down, 'toze?
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I do prefer the one on 'Reckoning' by the Dead themselves. Great album nonetheless.
-Derek:music:
 
That is a good one too... it is a terrific song; one of the saddest and most beautiful in the Dead's repertoire. I have to admit that the Junkies' version is probably my favorite, though :-P

Reckoning is a great, and great sounding, live acoustic Dead album. The Rhino reissue CD is quite nice, as was the original vinyl (which I don't have, except dubbed to tape).
 
tentoze said:
I'm not familiar with the tune, Mark, but a more general comment about Cowboy Junkies- I'm not familiar with their music overall, but I picked up a pristine copy of Trinity Sessions earlier this year, based on the near-universal regard I've read for it over the years since its release, both from a performance standpoint and sonically.

Well, this will probably get my house fire-bombed, but I didn't get it. Note, please, that I am NOT saying I think it's a bad record. I'm not. The music is in no way objectionable in the least, it's just what I'd call un-engaging to me. And sonically, well, to my old worn-out ears, it lived up to the billing of being recorded in a church- a very big, very empty church.

I reckon I'll go put on some Milk Bone boxers, because I imagine the hounds will be eating my ass up shortly for this heretical opinion.
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agreed. it has been a very long time since i heard that, but i found it completely un-engaging as well. i haven't heard everything by CJ, but WHITES OFF EARTH NOW! is the only one that i like. the trinity sessions made me give up on them - after hearing it about 12 years ago.
 
tentoze said:
I'm not familiar with the tune, Mark, but a more general comment about Cowboy Junkies- I'm not familiar with their music overall, but I picked up a pristine copy of Trinity Sessions earlier this year, based on the near-universal regard I've read for it over the years since its release, both from a performance standpoint and sonically.

Well, this will probably get my house fire-bombed, but I didn't get it. Note, please, that I am NOT saying I think it's a bad record. I'm not. The music is in no way objectionable in the least, it's just what I'd call un-engaging to me. And sonically, well, to my old worn-out ears, it lived up to the billing of being recorded in a church- a very big, very empty church.

I reckon I'll go put on some Milk Bone boxers, because I imagine the hounds will be eating my ass up shortly for this heretical opinion.
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I guess they'll have to fire-bomb my place as well, as I have this record as well and don't get it. Don't get me wrong I like it but I don't get excited to hear it. I like their "Lay it Down" album much better.
 
mhardy6647 said:
... it is a terrific song; one of the saddest and most beautiful in the Dead's repertoire.
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I think the original from 'Garcia' is very haunting as well. He was a weird steel player. I heard a story about how Hunter wrote that song and 'Must've been the roses' in one drunken day in a park in France, reminiscing about past loves. Who knows if its true, but the songs sure have that feel.
-Derek:music:
 
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