post your faves
BIG FAN of Social Distortion.
“Ball and Chain” is a classic IN ANY ERA.
RLTW
I sure do and that is not an example. They chose the wrong actors for the genre, notice the tattoos. Cool? What a joke.
Have no idea what you’re looking for. Something like this?
A Church in Ruins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYV7lqhIaj8
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, we miss you man...
There’s still a lot of cool stuff out there. Problem is that record companies have something less than *zero* interest in promoting any of it. In the end, it’s always about slick pop product, not actual musical substance.
Or smooth jazz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk1yPAMAxBY
Or beat driven?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEpsW3prDAw
Maybe my favorite band, I’ve seen Social D live many, many times. Still waiting for their next album, come on Mike, get in the studio.
99% garbage after 1976.
Maybe something with an edge?
Sex and Candy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqx8ovGCMos
Or
Dai the Flu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okyVSvYeu8
For any fans of the X Files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEhpmuXHmRQ&list=LLxis4ksDmQX5E4C2pLLTYFw&index=454
(Flip side to "Charlie Brown" by the Coasters.
SRV - Little Wing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s
Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1EDKvXRKd0
Black Sabbath - NIB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwLQw_95hX0
ELO - Showdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYhqlOQ1vHY
The music featured in the first two minutes and the final minute of the “Machine Gun Blues” video really was cool—”Walking My Baby Back Home,” a hit in 1931.
opera:
Soave sia il vento
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-wXtUfPI_E
Si mi chiamano Mimi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTagFD_pkNo
I have been listening to the Leningrad Cowboys lately.
Keep on Rockin the Free World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGsUfImawKo
Then for some humor there is The Red Army Choir:
Sex Bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNacQaHJqEs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_When_the_Music_(song)
Harry Chapin
Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire,
For we believed in things, and so we’d sing.
Remember when the music
Brought us all together to stand inside the rain
And as we’d join our hands, we’d meet in the refrain,
For we had dreams to live, we had hopes to give.
Remember when the music
Was the best of what we dreamed of for our children’s time
And as we sang we worked, for time was just a line,
It was a gift we saved, a gift the future gave.
Remember when the music
Was a rock that we could cling to so we’d not despair,
And as we sang we knew we’d hear an echo fill the air
We’d be smiling then, we would smile again.
Oh all the times I’ve listened, and all the times I’ve heard
All the melodies I’m missing, and all the magic words,
And all those potent voices, and the choices we had then,
How I’d love to find we had that kind of choice again.
Remember when the music
Was a glow on the horizon of every newborn day
And as we sang, the sun came up to chase the dark away,
And life was good, for we knew we could.
Remember when the music
Brought the night across the valley as the day went down
And as we’d hum the melody, we’d be safe inside the sound,
And so we’d sleep, we had dreams to keep.
And I feel that something’s coming, and it’s not just in the wind.
It’s more than just tomorrow, it’s more than where we’ve been,
It offers me a promise, it’s telling me “Begin”,
I know we’re needing something worth believing in.
Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire,
For we believed in things, and so we’d sing.