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I don't have it at my fingertips but I listened to the 2Cellos version of U2's With or Without You. It is quite interesting and entertaining to see what they pull off with just their cellos. Their version of ACDC's Thunderstruck is cool, too.
 
Some more traditional cello music from a guy I met many years ago when he was just a talented local teen. His accompanist at the time was a pianist at our church and brought him in to play one Sunday. Never realized that he would go as far as he has now. Cameron now plays with major orchestras and has a Stradivarius on loan from the Canada Council. The piece is a movement from of Bach's Unaccompanied Suites for Cello, which rank (for me, at least) as some of the finest music ever written for any instrument with four strings and a bow.

 
Were these 2 Cellos the two young cello guys who appeared playing their two cellos together one season on AGT?
 
Jae said:
Were these 2 Cellos the two young cello guys who appeared playing their two cellos together one season on AGT?
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Not sure. These two are Europeans. The With or Without You cover I saw (I'll post it below) was from a concert filmed in the hometown of one of them in Croatia.

 
Musi-que of Celeste ... sometimes comes across from Google as pi An Oz ... ever meet a piano man? One with keys to the kingdom of relaxation therapy!
 
Another one gone. Not as famous as Bowie or Cohen, but a great musician nonetheless, Sharon Jones has left the world after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.




RIP
 
Okay, how many here remember"Friday" by Rebecca Black? It was a big hit on YouTube a few years ago but was also much derided for heavy use of autotune and general vapidness. I kind of wrote Black off after that... until today.

She has teamed up with musician/producer extraordinaire Kurt Hugo Schneider for a cover of the lovely "Scars to your beautiful" by Alessia Cara and knocked that sucker out of the park. With Autotune out of the picture and a few more years under her belt (but she is still only 19), Ms. Black reveals a solid, assured singing voice that I never suspected was there.


And this acoustic performance of one of her own songs is pretty good, too:

 
You know, I'm generally not a big fan of hip hop, but every now and then a song comes along in the genre that makes me bend that rule. Bad Things is one such song.

 
A new voice captures at the beginning of his (I hope) rise. Since CBC first discovered Jordan Hart, he's signed with a major producer and a manager.

One of his own tunes:


A cover of a standard made popular by Nat King Cole:

 
Some folks don't like everything and thus opposition to God that some say is" everything to me" but they don't particular-lately understand ... tis a con sequence of things lost and forgotten in profound space .. adepts 've IT! Sort of aesthetic and dark as a good rest ...
 
Time to get some music going again. Some nice person has strung together a bunch of old TV clips of folk classics from the sixties. The second segment in this one really got me. It's Leonard Cohen with Julie Felix singing Cohen's Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye. It appears to be from Felix's TV show, which ran in the UK from 1968-70. There's also performances by Simon & Garfunkel and others.

 
The soundtrack of my childhood, in some ways; interestingly interspersed with opera and classical music. Thank you.
 
BetteTheRed said:
The soundtrack of my childhood, in some ways; interestingly interspersed with opera and classical music. Thank you.
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Some can't see the classic nature tho' ... at church as teenagers we were taught it was the devil speaking ... and thus the Allah Gore ...

Love can be a bloody awful thing to deal with responsibly ...

Omah haw ... stop and think about it ...

Somewhere between here and Quebec we have St Louis de Ha Ha ... it's out there!
 
The Buggles (Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes) were a one hit wonder, but what a hit. I had forgotten what a great little song "Video Killed the Radio Star" was until I stumbled across this live version of it. Based on the Wiki article on the band, this is from a Prince's Trust event in 2004 and was only the second time they'd performed it live.


And note that lovely keyboard solo at the end. After the Buggles, Downes went on to play keys for Yes (on one album which also featured Horn on vocals) and Asia. "Only Time Will Tell" by Asia features one of his most memorable keyboard riffs, a bold, brassy fanfare that kicks off the song.

 
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