Daily Entertainment.

[chrysopteron]

Because apparently I'm too lazy to switch journals.

Music recs day, game-related or not.

http://youtu.be/jvHJPtsBV8Q - Jai Uttal. <3333

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[the_fairest]

Just of my favorites of the moment/last few months/year are Adele, Anberlin, Christina Perri, Dar Williams, Dave Carter & Tracey Grammar, Florence + The Machine, Jewel, Mandy Moore, Mumford & Sons, Rob Thomas, Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, Alannis, Vienna Teng. I have full discographies of all of these.


And fandom/game-related, my favorite thing at the moment is that two days ago the Once Upon A Time contingent only just began amassing a canon-wide soundtrack over in farfar_aways.

[sdelmonte]

Boy, you are really getting a lot of headvoices lately. (We must have the Phantom meet one of my hero-types.)

Anyway...I am always way behind on new music, but I have to note three items from the filk world:

- Sassafrass, an amazing a capella group with a bent towards the mythic. They do some utterly amazing stuff with the Norse myths, among others things.

- Erin Hill,, a very talented and sweet actress and harpist who performed at Lunacon last month.

- Hello the Future, a one-woman guitar-playing band who also played at Lunacon, and who has songs about Dinosaur Comics and Questionable Content.

[ceitfianna]

My current favorites at the moment are older country music that I listened to when I was younger-Tim McGraw, Jo Dee Messina, Kathy Mattea, Mary Chapin Carpenter, newer stuff to me like Rosanne Cash, not easily categorized like Seanan McGuire, Jakob Dylan, Ryan Adams always make me smile and that's all I can think of at the moment.

My music is just a mix and most of what I listen to goes from oh I liked this artist, I want to find more of their stuff.

[sardonicynic]

→ "Full and Empty Hours," The Punch Brothers
→ "Tulip," Jesca Hoop
→ "Poison and Wine," The Civil Wars

[bjornwilde]

That Jesca Hoop song is amazing!

[sardonicynic]

Ahhh, it is. I just caught her live last night at a show, and she is incredible, man. I wish I'd picked up her album after the show, but the merch table was a little crazed; I'mma snag a copy this weekend, for sure.

[bbq_platypus]

I saw Jesca Hoop open for Mark Knopfler once. I found her very enchanting and engaging - far more so than the headliner, if you ask me. I have her first album. She's Tom Waits's former nanny, apparently - interesting fact.

[bbq_platypus]

By which I mean a nanny to his kids, not to the man himself. That would just be weird.

[sardonicynic]

DYING.

Hadn't thought of it that way, but now that you mention it? Being Tom Waits's nanny would be adventures in hilarity. Not to mention surreal.

[sardonicynic]

I was smitten! She opened for the Punch Brothers last night. (I missed half her 30-minute set, though; I had to step outside and take a phone call, grr argh.) I so loved her story about giving her cancer-stricken mom a Smoking Pot: How to Pack a Pipe tutorial over the phone.

She came back out later, and she and the Punch Brothers did an awesome rendition of "Tulip" -- they turned it into this brooding, almost Celtic arrangement. And she also sang harmony with them on "Soon or Never," and that gave me goosebumps. A++, all around.

Ahaha, Tom Waits's former nanny? That is a super fun fact -- I love it.

[bjornwilde]

M83's Midnight City pops into my head from time to time and I really love the video. In fact I've half written a fic in my head based on it; strong echos of Freakangels. I swear that first kid they show (the one in burnt sienna pants) is creepy and up to no good!

I love this old cover of Queen's We Will Rock You featuring Beyonce, Pink and Britney Spears and the video is pretty fun as well.

I also love this mash-up by Robin Skouteris, Dirty Rockk. Awesome video work as well.

[dynastessa]

AUGH M83. LOVE 'EM.

Especially 'Midnight City'.

[bjornwilde]

It just gets in yer head and doesn't leave!

I've already named three of the kids and mapped out one crush.

[dynastessa]

I have been MASSIVELY digging 'Tired Pony' as of lately. (Ex. 'Get On the Road', ft. Zooey Deschanel.)

Also Wolf Gang; ('The King And All of His Men'.)

And LCD Soundsystem; ('Dance Yrself Clean'.)

(I ... have a vaguely schizophrenic taste in music.)

[bjornwilde]

Nice tunes. The first is making me want to listen to The Wolfgang Press.

[dynastessa]

Ooh. I've never heard The Wolfgang Press before!

Investimigating time!

[bjornwilde]

Before you buy anything I would suggest hitting up Youtube as they were very experimental and their sound varied from album to album. One of their biggest hits (and their best song IMOHO) was Cut The Trees.

[dynastessa]

hahaha I don't usually jump into buying music unless I love an artist enough to.

So, don't worry about that.

[hadyougoing]

SECONDING "THE KING AND ALL OF HIS MEN"

[dynastessa]

\o/

[bbq_platypus]

I don't need to go any further than my avatar for some great music. You really can never go wrong with John Martyn. He's a folk singer who often integrated jazz and reggae elements into his work. I'd recommend him highly to anybody. His music makes for great late night listening, and as a heterosexual male, I must admit that his voice is incredibly sexy. John "Sexvoice" Martyn, I call him. Ahem. Anyway.

The title track from Solid Air was dedicated to his best friend, the late Nick Drake, as he was suffering through depression and suicidal thoughts. Sadly, he'd end up losing that battle, but this is, I think, the best expression of one of the things that's easy to forget

May You Never might just be my favorite song of all time. It practically never fails to cheer me up. It's like a hug from a best friend. The whole Solid Air album carries a lot of personal meaning to me, having discovered it at a lean time in my life when (among many other serious things I don't much care to talk about) I nearly ended up having to quit school.

Couldn't Love You More. But hey, it's not all about hardship and friendship. This one's just a love song, pure and simple. Featured rather brilliantly in one episode of Ashes to Ashes.

You Can Discover, featuring Whisperin' Bob Harris on the Echoplex switch. A very intimate and soulful performance even for John.


Apart from this, we have the usual assortment of krautrock (Oh Yeah, by Can) and Peter Fucking Gabriel. Both are awesome, especially Can.

Seriously, guys. Listen to Can. Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood aren't wrong about them. They're awesome, funky, unique, and still ahead of their time 40 years later.



TL;DR: I like John Martyn. Other stuff is good, too.

[bbq_platypus]

Since I'd really rather not repost all these links, the thing that "Solid Air" describes that's easy to forget is that there are people who care about you who are willing to help. We're seldom as alone as we think we are.

[filemyclaim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EB4LGfxgyE - Lisa Bigwood, Guardian