OT: ABC's of Music

[JDuro]

Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd

 

[Bigboote]

I'll do I and J in one: Janis Ian -- Janey's Blues, the finale on her first album. Amazing how she'd already hit upon the beautiful depressing song by the time she was 15.

 

[Purduke]

I'll do I and J in one: Janis Ian -- Janey's Blues, the finale on her first album. Amazing how she'd already hit upon the beautiful depressing song by the time she was 15.

I was looking for an opportunity to post one of her songs about a week ago but the letters just didn't work out. I was thinking about her music a couple weeks back and the fact that just about every song she recorded seemed to have this fog of depression surrounding it and wanted to find out whatever happened to her. In truth I was thinking I would find out that she probably offed herself by her thirties.

Instead I found the attached commencement speech that she gave at Berklee Music a couple years ago. Just a great mix of insight and self effacing humor. Worth a listen. So now I think of her music as being wrapped in a fog of self -insightfulness instead of depression. And I'm glad that she is still around.

Janis Ian's Speech at Berklee College of Music

Janis Ian gives a speech at Berklee College of Music.Subscribe to the channel: http://smarturl.it/JanisSubJanis Ian on iTunes: www.smarturl.it/JanisIanListen...

www.youtube.com

 

[ClifSpliffy]

instant karma go huskies, beat illin noise!

 

[ClifSpliffy]

avril Lavigne complicated

 

[ClifSpliffy]

my sharona the knack

 

[JDuro]

Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie

 

[JDuro]

Overkill - Men At Work

 

[ClifSpliffy]

dang, I just was posting to get to this song. I ain't waiting, even if its a doubleshot. heck, I just deleted 'panama red' nrps cuz someone was fasster on the n.
eve 6 inside out.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

pork and beans friggin wheezer

 

[JDuro]

Queer - Garbage

 

[JDuro]

R & S

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

 

[JDuro]

These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs

 

[Beemer]

U "Undun" by the Guess Who

 

[Bigboote]

I was looking for an opportunity to post one of her songs about a week ago but the letters just didn't work out. I was thinking about her music a couple weeks back and the fact that just about every song she recorded seemed to have this fog of depression surrounding it and wanted to find out whatever happened to her. In truth I was thinking I would find out that she probably offed herself by her thirties.

Instead I found the attached commencement speech that she gave at Berklee Music a couple years ago. Just a great mix of insight and self effacing humor. Worth a listen. So now I think of her music as being wrapped in a fog of self -insightfulness instead of depression. And I'm glad that she is still around.

Janis Ian's Speech at Berklee College of Music

Janis Ian gives a speech at Berklee College of Music.Subscribe to the channel: http://smarturl.it/JanisSubJanis Ian on iTunes: www.smarturl.it/JanisIanListen...

www.youtube.com

I haven’t seen that (I will watch it), but have a few DVDs of hers, one of which includes a documentary mini bio. She’s a fascinating person, warm and not maudlin at all, at least in her 60’s. It’s hard to believe that when “At Seventeen” came out, she’d been in the limelight for ten years, including being institutionalized, and she was only 25.

 

[nwhoopfan]

pork and beans friggin wheezer

I think that requires this:

 

[ClifSpliffy]

van halen panama 'what's that sound?' big hair, screaming axes,david lee-perfection.

 

[bantamlaker]

my sharona the knack

The best thing about My Sharona was it led college student Al Yankovic to write his parody My Bologna which got him started on his long career.
Weird Al Yankovic - My Bologna

 

[ClifSpliffy]

you get what you give new radicals 'this world is gonna pull thru-you got the music in you'

 

[bantamlaker]

MeXico by James Taylor

 

[Scud49]

Y - make it for the Steve Miller gem "Your Saving Grace":

 

[JDuro]

Zac Brown Band - Colder Weather

 

[JDuro]

Aaliyah - More Than A Woman

 

[Beemer]

B " Baby I'm A Want You" by Bread

 

[Scud49]

C - Christine's Tune - the great live version from the Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris Hillman on the lead: