As the human pork product Rush Limbaugh is discovering, you can’t demean and shove women around like it’s still the 1950’s.
To recognize their strength and power that won’t be diminished by obese neanderthals, this week’s music theme is about women. Women singers, composers and songs about women.
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves – Eurythmics (and Aretha Franklin)
I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
Bad Reputation – Joan Jett
Think – Aretha Franklin
Great song, from a great film—Cabaret–Liza Minnelli;
Much love for my ladies of hip hop and R&B too.
Eve – Love is Blind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm3wsHstlAc
TLC – Waterfalls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4
Kellee Maize – Third Eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uny5DPn23Jk
Lauryn Hill – Everything Is Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_dOWYHS7I
Lady Sovereign – Tango (I call the Boehner mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhWQT55AP3o
Love the chorus because it could be a totally parody of Boehner as well as the typical UK chav.
“[Chorus]
What network are you on, ORANGE,
Colour of your bathwater, ORANGE,
Your favourite fruit must be an ORANGE,
Bitch, did you know your ORANGE, [x2]
Slap bang goes on your fake tan,
Bitch you look like the tango man
Woodeeyy wooo, do the tango,
Wooodeeyy wooo, do the tango [x2]
Its the gone wrong salon”
Love R&B, but just can’t get into rap or Hip Hop.
Probably an age thing. jk jk
Most of today’s stuff is just commercial crap but the old school and ’90s stuff was pretty powerful and real.
Kathrine Tate did a great character who was part of the chav culture in the UK. It was hilarious. “I’m not bothered”.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chavs
I imagine some of it is good. And I think it may be an offshoot of the Beat’s spoken word with a jazz back round, which I do like.
I don’t care for the drum machines and forced rhyme, and so much of it is pretty negative, lyrics wise. I don’t care much for many rhyming poems either. Just a personal thing. Each to his/her own.
Yup it’s all personal preference. Though I even like the ’90s techno. The ’90s really was a good decade for music. Not the 60’s or early 70’s but pretty good.
There’s also allot of positive messages in hip hop like from Common, Mos Def, the Roots, the Spooks, etc that was not mainstream commercial like the gansta rap. Even though I liked some of the honest gansta rap when it reflected reality too.
I don’t really judge music by what decade it grew out of. I’m pretty eclectic in my tastes. If it is done well, with real musical talent, I usually like it. I think good music is timeless.
I never cared much for Opera, but when I heard the very young teen aged Jackie Evancho sing, I was blown away. I even like the classic oldies that reigned in my father’s time. Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett…etc. I love the original jazz musicians like Miles Davis, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Chet Baker, and the great female jazz singers like Billy Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald…etc.
Oh I think music is many things including sort of a timeline and time capsule of our lives. When I hear songs from the 60’s and 70’s I think of my youth and old friends for example. It’s just part of the fabric of my life. Though I think there were better and worse eras of music as well for various reasons. The 90’s was really the end of the album era of music so that’s probably a big reason why I’m nostalgic for music from that era. Now that we’re in the MP3 and YouTube age with the iPod and satellite radio music is all one big mix tape where most people buy individual songs instead of albums. But I guess that fits our short attention span society well.
It’s funny I like most music but I’m not a big opera, twangy western fan or show tunes. Depending on the mood I’m in I listen to about everything else. If you put a gun to my head I would probably say 70’s progressive rock and electric blues guitar along with rock are my favorites.
KQ, no doubt that music can illicit time travel, for sure. Music can bring back instant memories, good ones and not so good ones.
Many times I can listen to music in the present tense without ruminating about the past. Usually when I hear something I haven’t heard before. Like Imelda May, a great talent who loves rockabilly, and I’m not a huge rockabilly fan, but when she is involved I just love it and it is due to her immense talent as a singer/musician. She does other styles as well and can take a song by someone else and truly make it her own. Cassandra Wilson can do the same thing. Talk about sexy voices. Her’s is so soulful and sultry, I get great enjoyment from listening to her.
Can’t have a lady’s thread without this little Irish ball of fire! Imelda May and Jeff Beck;
Heart–Barracuda;
Then of course there is no greater power on earth than a woman scorned.
Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcyTyilmYY&ob=av2e
She was great in concert too.
Lina Ronstadt–Blue Bayou;
Love this song.
It’s so soothing. Gives truth to the old saw, “music soothes the savage breast!” (or is that “beast?) 😉
Sade sultry and sexy lady power.
Sade Live – No Ordinary Love
One of the sexiest voices I ever heard.
Absolutamente!
Melissa Etheridge–Like I Do;
Here’s one for all those good ole boys who like keeping their wimmin in their place with special thanks to Gov McDonnell; VA, Sen Blunt, MO; John Boehner for effort; Rush Limbaugh; and any voting official who lies or jokes about issues important to women. Add Brietbart for calling anyone an animal for exercising their freedom of speech.
“I’m Not Ready to Make Nice” by some women who know
This one goes out to Rush Out-on-a-limb-dog:
You’re No Good – Linda Ronstadt
She was great and this is a great pick.
Nora Jones – Come Away With Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Za5YHLyJ0&feature=related
Tina: Live! – What’s Love Got To Do With It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAlN_9pbMLg
Whitney Houston – Waiting to Exhale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHGeCtv0BjM&feature=related
Mary J. Blige – Not Gon Cry
Too perfect.
Ayria – Bad List
I wasn’t kidding.
Pat Benatar, Blondie, Heart,……this thread is rocking, lol
I’ll turn it up a notch further.
Veruca Salt – Volcano Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVSKydUxKk
The Breeders – Cannonball (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGXE7AF_sK4
4 Non Blondes – What’s Up
I still have crushes on pretty much all those girls. Ah, the 90s…
I love ladies who can rock too.
Out of the 100’s of concerts I’ve been to, only time I ever saw a band booed off stage was when an unfortunate top 40 lounge band got picked to open for Patti Smith at the height of punk in the late 70’s
I think they may be the most successful “Girl Band” around, and they can really rock. Heart doing Zeppelin.
Zenith, I saw them do this live. They were great in concert.