New Years Eve Playlist (and digital mischief) from Warrigal Mirriyuula
You’re sitting there happily listening to music, perhaps a favourite track or piece you like, and on cue you shiver, delightfully, or pensively, at that same spot in that same way.
What is that?
I don’t have a clue but the following article offered some insight.
www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~creel/COGS160/…/GreweChillPhys07.pdf
The following tracks make me shiver all over the place. I wonder; do any of them affect you in the same way?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kutbRyAG0Lw
“Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying”, Jerry & The Pacemakers
or alternatively
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozrf-dMdWdw
“Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying”, Gloria Estefan with a little help from Eric Satie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGORPUzLxtU
“Midnight Cowboy, Main Theme”, John Barry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTbX2LYZx2A
“Meeting Across The River”, Bruce Springsteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRQjzltaMQ
“The Way It Is”, Bruce Hornsby and The Range
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRbF80NKDU
“Rainy Night In Georgia”, Brook Benton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Lh4MFiw08
“Neither One of Us” Gladys Knight & The Pips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ6Tp-nna9I
“Walk Away” Matt Munro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-5rO8b67I
“Tammy”, Debbie Reynolds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDeTu6rpN-4
“Sierra” Boz Scaggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWc5kD6Fa_c
“Everyone’s Gone To The Moon”, Jonathan King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odl3jCbVAic
“Ghost Writer” Garland Jeffries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7sXslD8lac
“I Can’t Find The Time” Hootie & The Blowfish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q05wB6F1UMk
“Hasten Down The Wind” Warren Zevon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKLnmMacEB4
“The Game Of Love”, Michelle Branch and Carlos Santana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwCWCJLm6M0
“Lucky Man”, Emerson Lake & Palmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoGlk4-T-o
“Lalena” Deep Purple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUJGPBmiLE
“Walk Away Renee” The Four Tops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjCbKnzDzQ
“Tell It Like It Is”, Aaron Neville, Greg Allman and Bonnie Raitt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4lb6fMVu6Q
“The World I Used To Know”, Glen Campbell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIunm_XxH_I
“Goin’ Back”, Dusty Springfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5uxQElYu68
“Life In A Northern Town”, Dream Academy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIDLdgeP9Bw
“Tar and Cement” Verdelle Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
“Ain’t No Sunshine”, Bill Withers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvDxSW8mzvU
“Driving Home For Christmas” Chris Rea (Christmas having come and gone, this is simply my favourite Christmas song. I know its not much of a song really but there’s something about it that just gives me the shivers.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfDmu5WB_0
“A Fool Such As I”, Raul Malo (Just this particular performance. I don’t know….?)
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Are Mongrel and Runt making a comeback?
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The first link doesn’t work!! Just sayin
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Try this one Hung:
Click to access GreweChillPhys07.pdf
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This is a very interesting article by the way.
I didn’t read the whole lot but I will do so slowly, bit by bit, in the future.
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hph, I’m doing the same…our little office upstairs gets a bit too warm on these hot days for me to stay here too long….
Indeed, an interesting article.
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Just clearing out a lot of stuff. I spotted this on one of my email alerts… http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-02/an-toys-for-nauru/5182568?section=australianetworknews
Now I know what to do with the favourite old ted.
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No no no – Jules. Keep Ted. I am sure he is as precious as mine (had him since I turned one). He’s on the couch in my office space.
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I have an extra chair here in the office, I donated toys and books to charity ,but left the nicest teddy bear and put it on that chair. The other day Milo climbed on it to keep eye on us…and to sleep next to the cuddly bear….it is his now, can’t give it away.
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Music by cocky!
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…And dance like a doe…
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That parrot talks more sense than any politician.
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Hilarious !
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Easy Rider – a beauty – especially if you love bikes.
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Good easy rendition this Leningrad Cowboys show.
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Rockin’ Helsinki !!!
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Love the song, love Paris…kisses and hugs for the cowboys…are they now urban cowboys…? Thanks hph 🙂
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America – 1989
Helvi, that’s how I discovered Aki Kaurismäki 🙂
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hph, emmjay/Thereze/Mike actually gave us this one by Kaurismaki on DVD, I had seen some of his other work, he’s very creative…
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Best of Aki Kaurismaki movies
http://www.imdb.com/list/HWykRGadw5k/
My favourites:
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
The Man Without a Past
La vie de bohème
I Hired a Contract Killer
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He had quite a following in Europe, he’s different…I seen at least one of his movies on SBS.
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hph, great gift. The song and the clip are intriguing. Now I will follow through to look for those movies. Thank you hph. Have a happy and safe new year.
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Hey Was, that pitcher is so ewe
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Since my mother’s funeral, I’ve doodled a few songs on Microsoft ‘sticky notes’. I don’t know why, maybe to play, or choose a song for my own funeral. I didn’t know whether I could cut and paste from sticky notes, however, apparently I can
+z SONGS :
Carpenters: calling occupants of interplanetary ect
Steely Dan: Ricky dont lose that number
Roy Orbison
Simple Minds
Smiths; Bob Dylan
C Stills N &Y
The Who
Van Morrison
Back Street Boys: I want it that way
Harold Melvine and the blue notes: Dont leave me this way
Honey Bobby Goldsboro
MIchael Bolton 1 song
Blood sweat & tears
Lonley boy Andrew Gold
100cc, I’m not in love
Candle in the wind.
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The Back Street Boys? Surely not.
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Door??
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Maybe the Pet Shop Boys?
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Anything in particular?
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Yes, it’s an odd one. I don’t know why, but I’ve always liked the melody and harmony. Same as Steve Miller: I just love his style and mood.
I’m not making any points, I was just making a list. I’d add, ‘Both sides now’., from either Joni or Judy (Collins). The organist played it at our wedding in the church at Winchester.
Where does one stop?
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At the vomit bowl perhaps? Look JL I don’t agree with your political views but your music taste is usually impeccable. I’m just gob smacked I guess. I mean next you will admit to liking Robbie Williams or even worse attending one of his concerts.
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No, I’m not keen on him. he’s a good performer though. I also like MacArthur’s park.
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Judy Collins was recently on RockWiz – as good as ever. Fantastic.
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I think you mean ‘Joni Mitchell’, and, I’m with Hung, gayest f*&^ing song in the history of pop music.
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It was Judy Collins.
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Ermm – it was exactly recently, it was in July 2012 – seemed like a few months ago !
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Here http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/11833411915/ doing duet with Freedman.
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Yes, I though that it was understood that Joni, is Joni Mitchell the auothor.
One of my wife’s favourite songs actually Big. My wife has a fabulous voice and can do a fair rendition. She prefers Judy Collinses version.
Play it only if you are (or have been) in love. A bit hard for the equality movement, who are only interested in peoples dangly bits.
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Yes, I am in love.
Mrs M played this today. It has possibly the most boring, almost childish melody of any song ever written. The lyrics are essentially doggerel.
As for the ‘equality movement’. It has nothing to do with ‘dangly bits’ and everything to do with love.
For something that really moves the spirit, try Aaron Copeland, Vivaldi or Holtz. Probably a bit sophisticated for you!
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“Probably a bit sophisticated for you!”
and “gayest f*&^ing song in the history of pop music.”
Was that aggressiveness really called for?
Never mind. . .Usual sour crap.
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I loved MacArthur Park when it came out and even to this day. Music so good. I don’t care if a song is gay or not. Some of our best singers are gay. Same goes for a lot of the various artistic avenues. I’ve got a couple of Who albums – one called Live at Leeds. Pity I can’t play them as player is stuffed.
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Sorry, Cariz, forgot you were homophobic.
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Homophobic? no, I’m not afraid of queers. Many of my gay friends in London were homosexual.
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‘Homophobic? no, I’m not afraid of queers. ‘ Perhaps you are afraid of gay marriage?
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‘usual sour crap’ Over the last year you have told Algernon, Viv, GO, HO and myself that we are all idiots and fools…where does the ‘sour crap’ originate??
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It’s a music blog.
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odd answer
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Viv, the Judy Collins Tim Freedman video is wonderful. Thanks for the tip.
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Funeral for a Friend. Candle in the Wind was for Marilyn Monroe and then some new words here and there for Princess Di – I think it is taken.
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Yes the words were appropriate for Princess Di. Let’s hope that Kate has a better life.
Vinyl is back in now, BTW. my son in in England, has just bought a new turntable and stylus. JB Hi Fi is selling them.
I was listening on ABC (CoastFM) to a fellow called Richard Hart (record exchange or something), his knowledge was embarrassingly fabulistic compared to mine. He explained to callers how much old LPs were worth and spoke about the history. Some Aussies phoning in had pristine sets of old vinyls. He knew every one.
I am shipping my 1000, back to my son in Hampshire. They’ve been in boxes for too long now. I bought them over from the UK in 1988.
Worth a quid, however the joy of giving them to my son is priceless.
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I did think about getting a new turntable and speakers (the old ones are stuffed too) but the cost was, I thought, unreasonable. A lot of my LPs are a bit worse for the weather – little scratches and god knows what here and there. I had a selection of them put to CD and have also bought some new CDs of the old stuff. Trouble is that we don’t have any more slightly sozzled dance parties and the need is barely there.
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Vinyl never went away. Companies like Rega (British), Thorens (German, I think), and, more recently, ProJect, have been making turntables, styli, etc, for decades. JB has had a ‘vinyl section’ ever since they opened.
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What is missing is the intensive industry in the reproduction of that form of audio where a vendor specialised in a fabulous range of turntables and cabinets as pieces of furniture or came around to your home and fitted custom built speaker systems. The current market in new turntables is now in converters that I knew of. They can be used to only play vinyl too. The market in turntables that are second hand and cabinets has stayed active and specialist and the production of the stylus cartridges has never stopped to my knowledge. I had boxes as well of new plastic sleeves that I bought ready to replace tattered ones or refit missing sleeves when I was trading in vinyl. Streams of people came to talk about vinyl, sell and sometimes insist on giving them to me. Film makers or sound specialists wanting music for scores and effects engage your ear. It is a fun industry and hobby. The price of 2nd vinyl has stayed pretty stable although that is not to say that in a direct transaction and the right buyer found the return might not be great. Then the market was buoyant everywhere. Certain items will accrue value for their covers. You learn covers processing vinyl as to where ordinary wear and tear marks will appear on specific albums and how frequently the album has been handled and so the value of covers including for their look, appeal, popularity.
2nd hand vinyl is like any market in collectibles that someone would buy a specific item (album) for its asking price whatever that is regardless condition. Decent vendors don’t take advantage.
Your collection of a thousand, Carisbrooke, is a great slice of sentiment for your son. He will sure have fun with those.
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“Be honest Gerard, you love Tammy”, Helvi told me. True, it brings me back to a period playing tennis on a court in East Balmain, part of a huge mansion that belonged to AC/DC. We were friends with the local doctor who was friends with partners/ wives of the group as well as John Morris who at the time was a friend of my brother John and a true blue labour supporter as well. John Morris was running the Nuclear Medicine facility in NSW. Not that you would know, a most humble man and quick on the court, as was Murray Simes who we met up with some years back in Bowral. Sadly he passed away. Anyway, before getting into big noting, while playing tennis with all those Balmainians we used to have music playing, and…Tammy was often put on. Perhaps we all shared a fondness for that classic piece. “If you knew what I knew , I am so in love…Tammy, Taahemmy, I am so in love”. Did she not sing that while looking at her reflection in a pond?
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I just listened to first one, “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying”, Jerry & The Pacemakers….and I’m crying…three year old Thomas said to me once: Oma, you laugh and cry very easily….observant little boy…
Listening to Chris Rea’s Christmas song always makes me homesick for real Christmas trees and all that beautiful white snow, and the times past when getting a pair colourful, striped hand knitted socks and gloves was the best thing in the world…
I need more coffee now………..before more tears and shivers…..
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Here’s my funeral songs H, can you help me decide?
or
Just can’t make up my mind!!
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Never been to an accadacca concert, Hung. What HAVE I missed ! Amazing power and drive and Angus’ guitar, simply fantastic. Thanks for the clip.
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Hungie, as you are not going to Hell, I have an excellent suggestion ; Stairway to Heaven, by the Finnish group Leningrad Cowboys and the Russian Red Army choir. They might even cheer up the mourners by the way they are dressed, their funny shoes and hairstyles… 🙂
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Leningrad Cowboys 🙂
They are cool…
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H, absolutely brilliant. My real request is for a little known Joe Walsh song
Theme from Boat Wierdos, oh and one of my favourite movies is the Leningrad Cowboys go to Memphis
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Although this version includes the prelude Inner Tube but this sums up me.
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Shivers me timbers, H. What an absolute blast !
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Lovely – an amazing range.
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That Brook Benton version of Rainy Night in Georgia is my favourite version ever, is one of my favourite listening numbers ever, ever, ever.
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Just noticed Rainy night in Georgia by Brook Benton which I just managed to play (the same I might add) a couple of hours ago. Seriously smooth tune. Notice a few of your faves Waz here too.
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Outrageously good list, Waz. I really like “Walk Away Renee” – and also Billy Bragg’s authorised and unauthorised versions. Life in a Northern Town- an unexpected gem too. Many thanks. Cheers. Emm.
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Well there’s some absolute rippers there Waz thanks very much for this. Hope the New Year finds you well
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Mmm, 100%. You must be a Libran, or on some similar intellectual plane.
I don’t know how since I am a capitalist and you are a socialist (small s). However there are just some songs that shiver the timbers.
I met Chris Rea, a few times, back in the 70s. A good down to earth bloke.
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