Songs You Came Across On Some Streaming Service And Thought Your Head-Case Buds Might Enjoy Too. No Critical Endorsement Implied. Fuck Vevo etc.

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[Dusty Chalk]

 

[HiWire]

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone

 

[mikeymad]

 

 

[robm321]

 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I'll be in my bunk.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

This vocal performance is amazing.  Her control of dynamics, her vibrato (on the "ng"!  Do you know how hard that is?!?), her range (those lows!), just...(chef's kiss)

 

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[aerius]

On 7/26/2025 at 8:14 AM, Dusty Chalk said:

This vocal performance is amazing.  Her control of dynamics, her vibrato (on the "ng"!  Do you know how hard that is?!?), her range (those lows!), just...(chef's kiss)

 

I think you'll like this one.  A different take on "Now We Are Free" from Gladiator.

 

Regardless of what you think of them, the Russian version of The Voice is stacked with talent.

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[aerius]

Pelegeya is like the Russian Floor Jansen - she can sing pretty much any song in any style and make it sound good.

 

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Every time I listen to this song I think about how very barely I can, in fact, keep it all together. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe that is just the experience of becoming old, jaded and dissolute?

[blessingx]

Or becoming a Knight of Infinite Resignation

[blessingx]

Gangstagrass 

 

[HiWire]

L.S.G. - Into Deep (1999)

Thanks, Dusty!

Superstition Records (Hamburg, Germany) remastered the CD and digital files in 2014 - no vinyl release so far.

 

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[robm321]

Some morning Al

[robm321]

^ Ha, wrong thread.

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Click da link! 🫡

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[Dusty Chalk]

Just so pure and classic.  Makes me think of my vocal teacher from back when.  That vibrato is so gentle and subtle and perfect.

[skullguise]

Very Lovely!  Triggers me to post this.....

 

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[mikeymad]

This came up in my IG feed the other day. 

Thought it was awesome. 

and reminded me of this. 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

9 hours ago, mikeymad said:

This came up in my IG feed the other day. 

Thought it was awesome. 

and reminded me of this. 

 

True story:  Kenji Kawai wanted to use Bulgarian folk singers for that, but couldn't find any (in Japan), so he had the Japanese folk singers (that he worked with before) learn how to sing like that.  (Paraphrasing the rest from memory, so it may not be accurate.)  By the time he was done, he had created a new genre, with Bulgarian harmonies, but distinctly Japanese notes and melodies.

[aerius]

Sarah Slean version of "Julia", performed via hologram with Our Lady Peace

 

[TMoney]

Quite an earworm, this one. Also well done with the protest, lads.

"Midnight Oil again brought the politics of Reconciliation to the fore during their performance at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Then Prime Minister John Howard had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic reconciliation and apologise to Indigenous Australians and members of the Stolen Generations. But he had also said their reconciliation-themed single "Beds Are Burning" was his favourite Midnight Oil song. Midnight Oil performed the song at the ceremony with the word SORRY conspicuously printed on their clothes as a form of apology to Indigenous people for their suffering under white settlement and to highlight the issue to Howard, who was in the audience at the Olympic stadium as an estimated one billion people watched on television. Midnight Oil had consulted with tour mates Yothu Yindi and other Indigenous activists, so that their performance would bring popular protest to the world arena." -Wikipedia

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