Underplayed Classics

[Moo]

Shake your Head – Was (Not Was)

The video has Kim Basinger (really) & Larry from the Three Stooges (not really) in it.

[imposs1904]

Just stumbled across this band the other month. A modern classic:

[Moo]

Thanks, Imposs1904. That was beautiful to listen to (especially at this time of year).

[Moo]

Silver Star – Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

(Sung by the drummer: Gerry Polci)

[ZJW]

This is much closer to my own idea of an ‘underplayed classic’. Arrigo Barnabé at the Teatro Pixinguinha in São Paulo, 1979, exhibiting a marriage of popular music and the dodecaphonic series (Schoenbergism).

Or, the same song many years later, and much much less crudely:

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[Moo]

Monsters and Angels – Voice of the Beehive

[Moo]

MacArthur Park – Donna Summer

[ZJW]

And when is the last time you heard this great piece of music? (And I have do mean ‘music’, not lyrics. I don’t know or care what they are.)

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[Moo]

All ‘Bout the Money – Meja

A catchy pop song that has a socialistic message.

[rodshaw]

Have Chumbawamba been on before? I hadn’t realised at the time they were described as anarcho-communists. Some of the lyrics will resonate with WSM members.

[Moo]

– Rod Shaw

No, they haven’t.

Here’s a great, short-ish video chronicling the history of Chumbawamba:

This video was made in 2012 (when the band broke-up), however: ‘a mail-order EP, In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher, was released on 8 April 2013. The CD had been recorded around 2005 and made available for pre-order at gigs and on the group’s website, to be issued upon the death of Margaret Thatcher.’ – Wikipedia.

[imposs1904]

There’s not enough German hi-energy euro-pop on this thread.
Posting this unironically. This is a stone called classic.

Anyone recognise the tune they’ve *cough* lifted.

[rodshaw]

Moo: ‘Here’s a great, short-ish video chronicling the history of Chumbawamba:’

I’m going to have to listen to them a bit more. I hadn’t paid much attention to them at the time, except for when the delightfully self-styled Danbert Nobacon tipped a bucket of water over John Prescott’s head at the 1998 Britpop awards.

Whether they should be described as hard left like in the video is moot though – they looked to be against capitalism of the left, right or centre.

[rodshaw]

I bought a lute a couple of years ago and I’m slowly learning to play it. Many lute tunes are underplayed classics (except in lute circles of course). Here’s a really nice one from the 16th century, except it’s played on a vihuela, which is tuned the same and very similar in sound.

[Moo]

– Imposs1904

Reminds me of early Kylie Minogue. Is the sample: ‘Shout to the Top!’ by the Style Council?

– Rod Shaw

The only loot songs I know are ‘Greensleeves’ & ‘Green Grow the Rushes, O’. That piece of music you posted was very soothing; thanks for sharing.

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