MUSIC ... what do you like?

That's weird. FC posted a tune by Chicken Shack, 'I'd Rather Go blind', originally done by Etta James...

 

I too prefer the Chicken Shack version. I think a lot depends on which version one hears first

 

I was hoping some AC/DC would come along...nice one Freddy

 

I've got to stick my two penneth in

 

I saw a programme a couple of weeks ago with Roland Gift from Fine Young Cannibals,can't for the life of me remember what it was , maybe Jules Holland?? but reminded me how much I used to love their version of Suspicious Minds

 

The cd I can't stop listening too at the moment though is The Script, love every song on the album but especially this one

 

I always have to be different to everyone else.. but Mediterranean music, Ive brought myself up with it for most of my life... there's a story behind it, but unless you want to know, it's not worth boring everyone

 

Hi Stephen ... I will do it for you, querido ... it's called Fado here.

Deolinda de Jesus is someone we have met and I have her CDs and I 'think' this may be the music you are talking about ... not to everyone's taste to be sure, but we like her, enjoyed her performance and her company and meeting she and her husband the next day (and she then was in jeans and an anorak ... ) ...

 

Not really my thing, but I love the instrumentals. I've probably posted this before, taken from what is, imo, a wonderful film, Captain Corelli's Mandolin....

 

Yes Victoria, I'm familiar with Fado, well the music type anyway, I'm also fairly familiar with Afro-Portuguese and Brasilian Fado (I dont know if it has another name though)

Interesting, Pelagia is a shared Greek/Italian name.. Pelagia as a latin name, and Pelagia as a Greek name (ie Agios pelagia), so it's quite apt given Captain Corelli's Mandolin was set in Kefalonia. Not surprising though as Kefalonia has seen alot of cultural changes from italians and Greeks. Corelli's Mandolin is a good film though!

Here's a song from Greece; by a singer called Anna Vissi (shes quite a famous singer in Greece, shes been going since about 1979!) The song is called 'Eleni', it's quite a sad song, it's about her niece, Eleni, who died, and she sings this song to honour her.. obviously it's in Greek, there is a translation on the comments part under the song..

 

My last gig was seeing this genius;

 

Reggae is one of my favourite genres..