Certainly new to me Lex - thanks once again

Mattanja Joy Bradley is another strong but perhaps not so well-known female vocalist by whom I have an album Wake Me Up: this is one of the tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUBWW30X7Ek

,,,and another old Fleetwood Mac album which may be of interest https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/produ...t_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I love the first review on the latter link Lex; will definitely check it out.

Cover versions have come up throughout this thread, so I thought I would share the following cover bands, amongst my favourites and who have their own distinctive take on their interpretations. Maybe there will be something new for you
Post Modern Jukebox do swing/big band versions of all sorts of songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZpdXgsI6C0
Nouvelle Vague by comparison do sultry versions of punk and new wave songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4efME9Vnlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qBWvA6H7Zg
And for a choral take there is Scala and Kolacny brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ILM2CLgdEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5D8DOe77k

Interesting stuff all new to me - I was particularly entertained by Post Modern Jukebox, and Scala and Kolacny Brothers were beautifully melodic: thank you for the links!

As always I was scrolling through what else cropped up on the youtube pages and saw a Jackson Browne track which was new to me Barricades of Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7923AHiJ_U8 - I have always liked a couple of the hits but was unfamiliar with any albums, so duly explored: the greatest hits was a bit of a disappointment, but I really like Looking East from 1996 and the recently released Downhill From Everywhere (both now duly ordered)

I'm way behind here. I'll have to do some catching up!

One final cover indulgence.
Even if you don't like the Toto song, this version of Africa is worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c9-poC5HGw
Am enjoying Downhill From Everywhere and the things that pop up on the side bar. Especially Tom Petty, nothing linked, but he was arguably underestimated.

I always liked Tom Petty.

That Toto Cover is fantastic! I like the original, too.

This one just popped up in my head, and he hasn't been mentioned yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoAO0851FwA&t=7s


And the incomparable Joan Baez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8&t=30s

Thank you for all those. The choir doing Africa is great and elsewhere I found them performing it with some audience participation on America's Got Talent.
I love that Joe Cocker Track: I think I have it somewhere on my iPod, along with another from the same stable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4mcRpWAyRM
- and here's a classic bit of Tom Petty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA (with an interesting band line-up)

I was thinking back to my earliest musical memories and what was played on the old wind-up HMV gramophone with the big horn: my parents mostly played classical but there were a couple of other albums, in particular Beneath the Cuban Moon by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Happy Music from Italy by Marino Marini, although later an album by the Kingston Trio was added, also an early Cliff Richard album (I think the first one with any orchestral backing - Cliff Sings). https://www.discogs.com/release/1986698-Lecuona-Cuban-Boys-Beneath-The-Cuban-Moon and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO_3YD5bREI and https://www.google.com/search?clien...rio+tom+dooley&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 (much that stuff is too old to have made it onto youtube)

When my parents retired from Africa, I was buying early Shadows singles and then I discovered the Stones, while my sister and I were also both pretty keen on the Monkees and I can remember each of us having a copy of I'm A Believer playing in different parts of the house at the same time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9YIsKIEbA

Fast forward and this is one of the songs that still always quickens my pulse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWijx_AgPiA

I've always has a soft spot for this tom Petty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5i7j0VhEHw

It came out just as I went through a massive life upheaval and it always reminds me of that time.

Lex, my parents were strictly classical but my childhood friend's father was a Kingston Trio fan, so I was familiar with a lot of their music when I was a kid.

I always loved that Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks song.

Okay, every now and then I click on a random song just to see if I can find anything good. That's how I discovered Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux.

This one stood out. Never heard of her before. Must look up some more of her music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8glZ-efMg

A couple of very cool links for which thanks.

I have always liked that Tanita Tikaram song but had never heard anything else by her, so I did a little exploring and found a range of music which seems to indicate that she struggled to find a niche after a very successful first album (including that song), but I quite like what I think is her third album Everybody's Angel (almost, but not quite enough to buy it)

That is a great video of Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty et al, all impossibly young and at the top of their game!

Saw this Playing For Change song which I had not heard previously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QpjR6-Uuks

...and this is something a bit different which someone sent me earlier today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

I have my eye on a new album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss due out later this month.

I have the first RP/AK album. At first I thought it was a bit of a snorefest, but after a few listens I really started to appreciate it. I'll look forward to the next one.

I have songs rather than albums by RP/AK, so have likely cherry picked the ones I like but will certainly check out anything new. I think their voices work well together.
The Petty/Nicks track has always been a fav, and the AC/DC cover is certainly something!
Tanita Tikatam I had completely forgotten about, much like this other performer it brought to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigqKfLWjvM
Early musical memories include lots of percussion (I can still see some of the album covers, the records played on one of those 'chest' pieces of equipment that had a radio built in), then things like Beatles, Glen Campbell, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis and my mum's favourite Val Doonican Early Bee Gees is probably my earliest personal remembrance of something I listened to that wasn't of my parents.
I was trying to think of the first album I ever bought myself and it might have been either of two soundtracks - Jesus Christ Superstar (movie) or American Graffiti. First solo artist or band I bought might have been The Sweet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqketmsRz1E

My first alum would have probably have been the Monkees. The second was Their Satanic Majesties, which I bought at the age of 13 in Mombasa for some reason (probably to annoy my parents). My 11-year old self and my 13 year-old self were two very different people.

I think I bought Goats Head Soup to get the poster for the same reason!

Interesting to see the age differences not resulting in huge change: I was always pleased (although a little surprised) at how far my children largely embraced my musical tastes rather than rebelling against them, although of course they also had their own younger favourites...

My first Stones album was Out of Our Heads, their third UK album, which I think was slightly repackaged and retitled in some other countries: I think my parents bought it for me one Christmas, although I also recall them not being thrilled at the hair and behaviour! Apart from Sticky Fingers, my favourite Stones albums would be Let It Bleed, Aftermath, and Beggars Banquet, although after a bit of a less inspiring period I was quite impressed with A Bigger Bang and Blue and Lonesome - interestingly the latter title was already taken by what I think is a better blues album by Billy Boy Arnold with TS McPhee and the Groundhogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SRrGz08SyU

By the way there is a quite good extended version of Goats Head Soup including some good live material, although rather expensive unless you get it as a download (as I did)

Moving in a different direction, a couple of slightly oddball albums which I like are An Awesome Wave by Alt-J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg6BwvDcANg and Beautiful Freak by Eels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yy141q8HQ - I think those were first albums in each case and I was not as taken with their later material

...and another great artist who I don't think has had a mention here yet, Gerry Rafferty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeC0-PO2BVw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqh9A6M5rs and of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM



...and as an afterthought a cover for flotsam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlw4NohB678

I haven't thought about Gerry Rafferty for so long! He has quite the distinctive voice.


I stopped listening to music for a long time through the 80's and 090's, really until the Ipod showed up with [blip] big music library, so naturally my favourite Stones albums are in the first two decades. Same with Led Zeppelin.

Love the cover version Lex. I have several Cranberries albums amongst the vinyl. Here is a link to an acoustic version by Delores of one of their classics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxbtgLXn4bY

I agree with you about Beautiful Freak and look forward to checking out the other links.

LIke a lot of bands, I discovered the Stones mid-seventies and eventually made my way backwards. Ditto Led Zeppelin (I think Houses of the Holy was the first album of theirs I owned).

Did you have the toilet cover on BB or the plain alternative? I think the latter might have been an American release They certainly had some excellent album covers, Some Girls amongst them (a topic for another day perhaps). And I checked out the expanded version of GHS and might have to ask santa for a copy

I think if asked I would have said Baker Street was the only Gerry Rafferty song I knew but I had no idea he was in Stealers Wheel. The things you keep on finding out.

And hagatha, I am happy to put together a list to start catching you up on the 80s

Dolores shares my surname.

I don't think I knew about the toilet seat cover on Beggars Banquet, and my old vinyl copy had the plain outer cover with the nicely scripted title opening out into a debauched feast sequence.

Gerry Rafferty & Stealers Wheel Collected is a great compilation album produced in Holland and quite possibly in breach of copyright but an excellent showcase for his talents including early tracks by the Humblebums (which featured Billy Connolly as well as Gerry Rafferty).

Another oddment worth a look is Flamingo a solo album by Brandon Flowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

Over the weekend, while searching for something else I came across two interesting compilation/cover albums which may or may not be new to any of you:

Best of Kokua Festival by Jack Johnson and Friends - very laid back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNH4qBTkiyQ

Enjoy Every Sandwich: the songs of Warren Zevon by various well-known artists - not always quite so mellow! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJomp47BliE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYyMRsSE7Qc

Springsteen and Steve Earle - whats not to like! I am aware of Zevon but not familiar with a lot of his music, and must seek some more of it out.
Thanks

For me, Warren Zevon had always just been the great Werewolves of London, but I was impressed with him on David Letterman's show shortly before his death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Mirkd3CT4 and of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1PFz56XWQI and something a little different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m31P_yMIw4M - quite a guy!

Somehow today I found myself listening to Thick as a Brick. I hadn't even thought of it for decades, but I always did love Jethro Tull. I went by bus with a group of friends to see him in Buffalo back when I was in High School. Man could put on quite the show back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X15PsqN0DHc


After that I listened to The Cinema Show, which I love, and that led me to Supper's Ready, which is epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiW302FICE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJq1lwnkNw

Probably not to everyone's taste, but I guess I do still appreciate older Genesis, after all. Some of it is pretty bombastic, though -- a function of having a young Peter Gabriel as a frontman.

I guess I was in a prog rock mood!