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I'm kinda shocked that no one liked the Mongolian stuff...really? I think it is truly fine and certainly far away from the cookie-cutter re-hash of auto-tune blandness that is churned out of the music factories of today.  Please give this post a listen...at the very least The Hu Band...it's worth a try, really:  http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=23324&page=400&do=findComment&comment=6664602

 

Moving south out of Mongolia a bit to China and a more traditional Western sound, Faye Wong.  She started out in the 90s and is hugely popular in the Chinese speaking countries.  She has a crystal clear clean soprano voice.  Lots of her stuff, especially her work in the 2010s, leaves me cold as it seems kind of tepid and more TV Special or lounge-ish.  But much of her earlier stuff has more pizzazz. This is my fav song from her...it has a kind of Swing Out Sister feel to it.  At any rate it is a far cry from the Khoomei I posted last.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatmzSlxBgg

 

ratz...I can't get it to link directly from the forum.  I guess the poster monetized his YouTube acct so stopped hot-linking and wants you to watch and listen from YouTube itself....just click the underlined "Watch this video on YouTube" link within the footprint of the dialog box and that zips you to YouTube itself.

Edited January 11, 2019 by ByeByeBye

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My ears are bleeding.  This is a little too frenetic for me...yikes.  I would use this if I ever needed to break a lease. :)  I like some of the guitar work, and loved the beginning, but it is a very difficult piece to hear with all that is going on in it.  I admire the verve and artistry that went into making it, but it just gets too overwhelming for me to actually enjoy as it moves into it's resolution.  I guess I'm just not ready for it yet.  Thanks for the introduction to it though.

 

*when you're in nam' and you get a letter from your beloved*

 

 

 

I never thought of this as a song about Nam...live and learn I guess.  Interesting how they pulled out the vocal tracks with some sort of audio wizardry. It sounds way more modern as a sparse vocal. The Letter was one of my fav songs from '67...I played the 45 (it was a 7" vinyl record) so may times that I wore it out and had to buy a new one.  I opted for the full album on the second go-around.  Just for grins and reference, the unaltered version is in the spoiler 

 

 

CooperO posted:

 

 

 

Sorry, I messed up the multi-quote trying to put in spoilers.  Anyway I really like this.  So effective with the words/messages in front of you and his music as more background...clever.  This also seems very sincere and is very touching.  I look forward to following this guy on his walk...promises to be interesting...the YouTube and techno world opens a little wider as artists like this guy find new ways of expression using media and tecnology.  We live in a glorious age. Thanks for posting this.

Edited January 11, 2019 by ByeByeBye

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Legit I want to throw myself out of the nearest window every time one of these three songs comes on.

 

 

 

 

All three are...arrgghhhhhhh....I hate them! Always on the radio, 24/7.

 

Donae'O makes me laugh though. Would've made a better comedian or something in my opinion.

[Merovingian 656]

[smokeyh2 1,512]

ah the 70s

what a brilliant decade that was

in my teens and long hot summers

and my passion for motorbikes

 

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[CooperO 7,956]

I'm kinda shocked that no one liked the Mongolian stuff...really? 

I definitely like it, their songs have been showing up in my recommended list on YouTube recently. I was just a bit behind on listening to the music here, all caught up now..;p

 

Legit I want to throw myself out of the nearest window every time one of these three songs comes on.

 

All three are...arrgghhhhhhh....I hate them! Always on the radio, 24/7.

And you purposely put us through the same? Gee, thanks :rolleyes:

 

 

 

 

[Hancho 3,902]

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[ByeByeBye 1,747]

Namewee is from Malaysia.  His music is not even close to traditional Malaysian but this song is really funny, especially if you have ever traveled in Japan.  This guy got famous for making the Malaysian National Anthem into a satirical rap song...naughty.

 

Anyway, this song tickles my funny bone.  To really get it you probably need to turn on the closed captioning (click the "CC" at the bottom of the embedded YouTube thingie) because the lyrics run by quickly and the Japanglish is kinda hard to grasp (just like in real life).

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by ByeByeBye

[smokeyh2 1,512]

a great great band

the first ever single i bought was by this band

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCslrwyvjJg

[smokeyh2 1,512]

actually i'm wrong

this was the first single i ever bought

the chicago single was bought for me by my older sister

 

this is just the greatest peice of guitar music ever played

the one and only jimi hendrix

 

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Ew the drop just ruined the song

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IDK what they are saying. but I wish American rap was more like this xD

 

[ByeByeBye 1,747]

a great great band

the first ever single i bought was by this band

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCslrwyvjJg

 

Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago's original name) was one of my very favorite albums of the late 60s, then they changed their name to just Chicago and came out with the sliver album (2) ...a little more commercial and mainstream friendly, but still an absolute musical masterpiece.  Chicago 3 was pretty good, but honesty I was disappointed...I just passed it off as too hard to improve upon their brilliant first two albums.  The subsequent bazillion albums they released were all bland and insipid even though the latter albums generated most of their fame, I found the new direction of their music boring.  Chicago holds my personal record for being letdown by a band.

 

That being said, all the tunes on Chicago 2 are great....25 or 6 to 4....great.  Here is one more from the sliver album.  The beginning is Make me Smile then transitions into other stuff.  Make Me Smile starts to come back in at 9:59.  The record company tied these two segments together to make the Make Me Smile single.  The build to the restatement of Make Me Smile that starts at 9:59 is a brilliant brass ensemble segment and follows a lovely and haunting ear worm flute passage..hot rocks stuff.

 

 

 

actually i'm wrong

this was the first single i ever bought

the chicago single was bought for me by my older sister

 

this is just the greatest peice of guitar music ever played

the one and only jimi hendrix

 

 

 

You know the Chicago sounds a bit dated but the Hendrix seems as powerful, exciting, and dramatic as the day it was released...perfect music.  Interestingly, Hendrix thought the guitar player from Chicago (Terry Kath) was great...He even insinuated that Kath was a better guitarist than him.  I think time has cast it's vote for Hendrix no matter how accomplished Kath was.

 

I think you made a wise choice for your first investment in 45s  :)

Edited January 13, 2019 by ByeByeBye

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Ew the drop just ruined the song

Yeah, it sort of bottoms out and loses its momentum doesn't it.  Too bad.  But...with repetitive listening, my guess is that the oddness and seemingly out-of-place-ness of that segment will grow on me.  Even the "I am" sung too many times will become acceptable and even pleasurable.  The dropped drop does make a nice transitioning vehicle for his dynamic voice on the verse.  Overall I liked it even first time through...thanks for the post :)

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In love with her voice

Tell me about it. One of my favorite vocal samples ever is the intro humming she does on the Halcyon album. It is the main element in "pound cake", top1 hip-hop beat in my humble opinion. Really like the song you posted as well, although it is guilty by association for working with a criminally bad movie.

 

 

I literally discovered that a day before this post :o

 

 

 

 

Couldn't post anything else as my main song thingy after getting back into her music. It's an Ellie post now.

 

 

 

 

 

I have no idea what kind of style that beat is but it's just something different. She does her thing and it matches really well. Just dope stuff

 

 

The Pound cake beat! well there are like 20 different versions of it, my favorite being the 10-hour loop... no, but really for some reason the sample feels like massage to my brains, I could actually listen to it atleast an hour straight without compromising my chill.

 

 

Ok, one non-Goulding song. Shake was brought to my attention this summer and she really stole Kanye's  "Ye" album for herself with a unique voice and very natural singing. Beyond that, I'm a huge fan of her melodic rapping. She does have a lot of that teen energy/feeling in her tracks, but since I do fall into them demographics I'm not really bothered by it.

 

 

 

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Glad to hear you liked them, you really got me paying attention to that "hairball" noise, I am pretty sure it's a default trashcan sound in some platform, it has always sounded distantly familiar to me.

 

I'm kinda shocked that no one liked the Mongolian stuff...really? I think it is truly fine and certainly far away from the cookie-cutter re-hash of auto-tune blandness that is churned out of the music factories of today.

It's not exactly easy listening. I had actually gotten into some of that stuff before out of pure interest, but I just find it way too leftfield to listen to in any situation where I'm not just there for the song. Get's me feeling like I'm engaging in some primal act of purification when I'm washing dishes or look for the nearest rabbit to hunt when I'm just on a walk. I do find it enjoyable in that same way I find things like heavy metal or gangsta rap enjoyable. Just kind of have to go with the flow and forget who you are for a minute.

I can imagine hiking in the middle of some Mongolian plains and stopping for a night of sleep in some local yourt. When the evening comes they offer you hot soup, freshly hunted rabbits (probably from my last walk) and warm blankets. I lay back with a full stomach, exhausted by the miles of the day fade into a trance... as the locals sing by the fireplace.

 

Well that all is for the first song. I can see what the Hu are doing with adding some not so traditional elements to make it more listenable in a normal context, but I do think that the traditional approach is what makes the singing actually work in full effect.

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