Currently Listening To.... mark IV 2015

Love Neil Diamond "Stones " for me. My favourite :

Jenny
great words which I know by heart now

 

Another blast from my past....................

 

Personally, I prefer the Leonard Cohen version

 

This has been playing on my local radio for the past few weeks now: classic!

He touches my soul in a fair number of songs ...

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Not to forget, he beat Paul Simon in incorporating African music into contemporary pop ...

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And this ... heard the music; read the book; heard the music, felt the soul!
This moves me in ways nothing else does

 

The suns out so its Soca time :-) plus there is nothing like a bit of soca to cheer you up and help forget your problems

 

I like anything with a bit of rhythm in it, some more some less. That soca is well diluted, like a lot of "ethnic" songs today...but still very nice parts in the tune. In terms of exotic music my favourites have to be: merengue, cumbia and, changing continent: soukous.

 

Oh i agree that one is diluted i just happened to scroll down my itunes and press play and thats what came on.

I prefer bashment and dancehall to soca myself

 

i seem to be in a lets listen to songs with a dance instruction in them mood

so spanning genres and decades

bit of sam cooke twisting the night away



Bit of elephant man - willie bounce was always standard on a night out



and than my all time favourite because it includes snapping and walking it out and was my tune in the club and was a big song when i was at uni.

 

I'm listening to 'Rumer' at the moment - she has a new album 'Into Colour'. She's an English singer/songwriter based in the USA. Good to see that she has used the correct spelling of 'Colour' in her album title . Reminds me very much of Karen Carpenter - excellent for chillaxing .

 

I was listening to The Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush the other day and blow me if there wasn't two programs on BBC Four about her last night...............