Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Iota]

Gotye: Somebody That I Used to Know (Performed by CDK Company, The Netherlands). Catchy song, inventive choreography.

-Bruce

Excellent!

[Henk]

King Hannah - Big Swimmer

Good. Raw but also calm. Soft, sweet voice. King Hannah.

[NumberSix]

The Beatles: Yesterday and Today

[SimonNZ]

[KevinP]

Good one.

[NumberSix]

George Harrison: All Things Must Pass

[NumberSix]

Styx: Crash of the Crown (2021)

[brewski]

After the final show on Sunday of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, the closing bows and remarks. I saw the original production in 1981, which was dismaying, to say the least, and gave no hint of what was to come. As the years have gone by, it is now recognized as a great, bittersweet observation on how relationships grow, ebb, and change.

-Bruce

[Pohjolas Daughter]

A good friend of mine has been on the lookout (for a number of years) for an SACD copy of "Sticky Fingers".  When I think of it and am in a record store, I look for him too.

PD

[SimonNZ]

Speaking of the Stones...playing now:

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Continuing on with this set:

Frank Zappa: Over-Nite Sensation (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition - Disc 2)

[Henk]

Energetic. Very skillful musicians. Great album.

[DavidW]

Gotye: Somebody That I Used to Know (Performed by CDK Company, The Netherlands). Catchy song, with inventive choreography.

-Bruce

Nice video.  I consider that song a masterpiece.  Gotye takes in elements of all types of different music to make it.  He didn't want to become a celebrity and walked away.  He doesn't even take royalties on the song.  He gives it to Kimbra.  I've often listened to his albums, and he is a brilliant musician.  Here is a video analyzing the song and demonstrating all the layers to it:

[Karl Henning]

George Harrison: All Things Must Pass

I've always loved this album.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Continuing on with this set:

Frank Zappa: Over-Nite Sensation (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition - Disc 3)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I've always loved this album.

I assume you know about the plagiarism issue of My Sweet Lord!

[Karl Henning]

I assume you know about the plagiarism issue of My Sweet Lord!

Of course. And Harrison made a joke about it in "This Song" on the 33 and a third album.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Of course. And Harrison made a joke about it in "This Song" on the 33 and a third album.

I didn't know about "This Song." I will check it out. It's unfortunate that My Sweet Lord is a near-total copy of He's So Fine. George should have changed some melodies.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

I assume you know about the plagiarism issue of My Sweet Lord!

Why is it okay to steal in classical music, but isn't okay in popular music? Anyway, if you remember on the title track of Steely Dan's album Gaucho, Fagen and Becker lifted a lot of the melody and rhythmic structure from Keith Jarrett's song Long as You Know You're Living Yours from his album Belonging. Fagen and Becker had to give Jarrett a songwriting credit as part of the legal settlement between Jarrett and Steely Dan. I wonder why The Chiffons didn't sue Harrison on behalf of Ronnie Mack? Sounds like a missed opportunity.

[AnotherSpin]

It doesn't seem to me that Harrison deliberately stole the song that became My Sweet Lord. As it usually happens, he just picked up the theme out of thin air, literally out of nowhere. Perhaps before that, some song that Harrison had no idea about was playing for a few seconds from somewhere out of the open window of a passing car...