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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“When we first met, I asked how she [Dolly Parton] kept her voice in such good nick. If Parton was ever going to blush, it was then. “Well, I just sing all the time, I guess, cos I just love to sing… ” she said. Today, she is singing with the same vi…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe Kills Cheap and CheerfulMidnight Boom (2008)Art: no title, 2008, Eddie Hara
Read the rest here: Show Your Shark-tipped TeethFooling Around With Guitar
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“When I was a teenager, I used to have a neat sort of formula for writing songs. It worked over and over, and I got about 60 songs out of it. Now it doesn’t work so well, and I am forced to write in all different ways. But what worked for so long was…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingHow healthy are you?I’m just trudging along, you know. I wash every day, I’ve got my own teeth, and I don’t dye my hair. All I do is avoid eating or using any products that involve animals, because I believe if you kill them, they will kill you. I must…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe Helsinki Complaints ChoirFinnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. Music composed by Esko G…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Perhaps becoming aware that this attempt to portray her bedtime routine as boringly normal may not strike a familiar chord with happily married people everywhere, Madonna tries to paint her CrackBerry habit as an essential aspect of Being Madonna: “I …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFemale Artist-Adventurers: Joni, Carly, Carole”They came of age—and to music stardom—in the 60s and 70s: Carole King, the sensual Earth Mother; Joni Mitchell, the bohemian risktaker; and Carly Simon, the glamorous iconoclast. Today they are activis…
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineUnder the weather with the flu (which seems to strike at the Ides of March!). So, a little open poll for you in accompaniment to one of my most favourite clips.
Which scent would you choose as a background for this?
I simply love everything about …
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineUnder the weather with the flu (which seems to strike at the Ides of March!). So, a little open poll for you in accompaniment to one of my most favourite clips.
Which scent would you choose as a background for this?
I simply love everything about …
Read the rest here: The perfect drug?The Mush-mouthed Approach
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAmy’s Circus”I bought Winehouse’s first album, “Frank,” in 2004 at a Heathrow Airport music kiosk. I listened to it on the plane home and dropped it in a garbage can on the way to baggage claim. “Frank” was Winehouse being showy before her vo…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“MUSIC has the power to delight the listener, improve well-being and uplift the soul. But sounds have more malign uses too. The beauty of the music produced by the Sirens of ancient Greek legend drew unwary sailors to their doom on the rocks. And in Br…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFor J.YouTube: Beach Boys God Only Knows (1966) [2.43 min]”The song broke new ground in many ways. It was one of the first pop songs to use the word ‘God’ in its title. The song was also far more technically sophisticated than anything the Beach Boys, …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“To the casual tabloid reader, Britney Spears’ life looks like a train wreck. To the Britney Industrial Complex, comprising everyone from paparazzi to perfume vendors, she is a gold mine. Whether she’s shaving her head or battling for custody of her ch…
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
I really enjoy her singing!
Karin
Battlefield Band meeting Chinese musician and dancers
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThanks to Gordon for finding this interesting clip. It reminds me of when we used to ‘whistle’ with the little angel wings that came off our trees growing up. Of course, we were one note wonders, not like this.
Karin
Believe Me: Listen to Shelby
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingDoing Dusty”“Do you know the difference between the words ‘bringing’ and ‘taking’?” she practically whispered into my sleeve, as if not to embarrass me. “Because you just used one of them incorrectly.” I do know the difference, and thou…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“At the climax of the festival, [Judith] Weir will tell the story of London in her latest work, CONCRETE, commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Inspiration came from the area around the Barbican itself, which was the site of ancient Londinium’s f…
Read the rest here: CONCRETE COMPOSERCéline Dion: Metal on Estrogen
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Psychology and philosophy today often question whether there is such a thing as the core self, or only a shifting social self-reassemblage, ‘bricolage with no bricoleur.’ Céline’s blankness simulates that model musically: her songs disclose little pe…
Read the rest here: Céline Dion: Metal on EstrogenRetro: Rock-me-Amadeus
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingYouTube: Rock-me-Amadeus (1986) by Falco (3.20 min.)Original video-releaseFalcoworldWikipedia: Amadeus (the movie)Art: Mozart 4 you, not dated, Nataly Kimmel
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingDailyMail: Hundred of Holidaymakers spend Christmas stranded in hotels after fog causes travel chaos, December 25, 2007Youtube: Beatbox Christmas Carol Singing (1.15 min.)
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comGo Blue! (my alma mater)
Karin
Ross Laughs
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe inimitable Diana Ross (September 15, 1973)Wikipedia: Diana RossYouTube: It’s My Turn (January 17, 2007, live)YouTube: Home (the Wiz)YouTube: Theme From Mahogany (1979 live)YouTube: Touch Me In the Morning (live)YouTube: Upside Down (with Michael J…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingCéline Dion and Democratic Criticism”Dion is the Antichrist of the indie sensibility, an overemoting schmaltz-bot who has somehow managed to convert the ethos of Wal-Mart into sine waves and broadcast them, at kidney-rupturingly high volume, directly …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The title Lonh, meaning far away or distant, comes from the old Provençal language, in which the text is sung. The text itself, a poem about love from afar, famous among scholars of mediaeval poetry, is attributed to the mediaeval troubadour Jaufré …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingPost-Patty Punk MinimalismYouTube: No Wow - The Kills, added by MazarinWikipedia: The KillsWikipedia: Garage Rock
Read the rest here: No WowRejoice o daughter of Jerusalem, from the Messiah
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comLynn Dawson has a magnificent voice.
Karin
Reflections, Morning
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingSunday morning, praise the dawningIt’s just a restless feeling by my sideEarly dawning, Sunday morningIt’s just the wasted years so close behindWatch out, the world’s behind youThere’s always someone around you who will call It’s nothing at allSunday…
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from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comI love, love, love this song, first heard in the movie theater as part of the advertisements.
Karin
Oh What Fun We Had
from Lou @ Moving and Shakingpicture: Madness, 1979MADNESS - Baggy Trousers (1980)Youtube: Madness, Baggy Trousers added by MadSugar, November 26, 2006Baggy Trousers: LyricsWikipedia: MadnessSee also: 2 ToneSka
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Doherty provokes wild swings from optimism to pessimism. Being a paid-up Doherty fan must be painful, like following some erratic lower-division football club, emotions lurching from ecstasy to the pits of despair. Babyshambles make a tight, tuneful a…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingMarlene Dietrich to Noel Coward, April 3, 1952″My gilded cage life goes on quite hopelessly… Anybody else but I would be on an analyst’s couch by now, faded and frustrated, but every time I want to rebel I tell myself that all this [her r…
Read the rest here: Get On With Living And Enjoy ItUjjaini-Aishwarya Chup gayye sare nazaare
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Ujjaini-Aishwarya in Jaan meri jaa rahi
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comThis is a very pretty song, I think. I wish I could speak the language.
Karin
Autumn Wind sung by Arik Einstein
from Karin @ SavvyThinker.comWords by Yekhiel Mohar and melody by Yokanon Zarai.
He has a wonderful voice.
Karin
Mysterious Fun: Who Is Sonny J?
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingCan’t Stop MovingThere is no information available about Sonny J. He (or they) seem to reside in the UK. Music and clip are full-blown late seventies, early eighties retro - think Fame: energetic kids in decidedly unpornified dance gear; fresh, unprofe…
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