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bob daktari

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:56:04 +1300

I'm sure there are gender differences to some songs, the welsh miners I'd say not one of them

We just watched Pride this weekend with the younger chaps in our clan – there are a few moments that one wells up, the song being a very emotional moment

Its a…

Hilary Stace

Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:59:03 +1300

The Johnny Cash biography I read recently describes the recording of that clip. Quite moving and something very redemptive about it – two old mates (note Rosanne comes in at one point) at the end of eventful lives. I'm a great fan of Johnny Cash (even though he wasn't very…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:57:53 +1300

fade to grey...
Pix from Steve Strange's funeral last week...
makes me feel old, oh hang on...

Sacha

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:37:16 +1300

I wonder if there are gender differences?

How did you respond to the Johnny Cash clip above? I wonder if there's something about the emotional life of men in it that resonates with me like Robert Bly's poetry does.

Hilary Stace

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:55:56 +1300

I wonder if there are gender differences? When the Welsh miners' women sing the feminist anthem Bread and Roses in the movie Pride it's a bit teary

Russell Brown

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:36:38 +1300

two from me, both from people who knew what was happening at the time:

Hi Hamish., thanks for coming by. Key Public Address tip: if you just paste in the URL of a YouTube or Vimeo video (not the embed code) it will automagically embed when you save the comment.

Rob Hosking

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:16:12 +1300

Spike Milligan has a piece in one of his war memoir books about being on home defence in the early part of the war, and sitting in a pillbox with his mates and a record player listening to tunes, with one eye out for the German invasion and the other…

hamisht

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:41:48 +1300

two from me, both from people who knew what was happening at the time:

Warren Zevon and Glen Campbell

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:54:32 +1300

Looking forward to seeing Sharon van Etten at a sold-out Wunderbar tonight.

Putting a different spin on things, it kinda makes you weep when the Eagles are still zimmer-framing their stuff, to 75,000 this weekend in Akl. What does the Dude think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlmvtAHhnc

Hard to believe Joe Walsh was for…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 08:31:28 +1300

Chris Knox’s hair!
Rock Follicles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD7rMl0W9ho

Rich Lock

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:04:40 +1300

philipmatthews

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:35:57 +1300

Chris Knox's hair!

Hilary Stace

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:24:50 +1300

Some famous faces in that clip – looking very youthful.

Paul Campbell

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:31:40 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j50HDbZ2NY

This completely undid me, I'd moved to the US in '84 and it was like NZ had fallen off the edge of the earth, someone sent me the EP, we didn't have a record player, it sat around for weeks, I had no idea what it was about, a…

Peter Hoar

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:57:33 +1300

This is quite tearful music. Best heard in a dark or semi-dark room. Alone.

Istvan Marta – Doom. A Sigh (Kronos Quartet)

Mike O'Connell

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:49:51 +1300

Not wanting to sound like a cliche but Aldous (Hannah) Harding does a marvellous version of the Roy Orbison standard. I've seen her sing it half dozen times and it never fails to stir the emotions. Couldn't find a video but there's an audio at the Wireless [[http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/live-session-aldous-harding | Live…

Russell Brown

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:21:04 +1300

I like the way this thread is going!

andin

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:33:27 +1300

John Lennon covered by an All stars US band brought together for this festival years ago and luckily recorded for posterity. Does steven joyce cry? I guess he'd have to listen first and imagine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V7Tz8Ho3Mc

bob daktari

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:51:08 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgB-88d9I1k

Sacha

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:50:48 +1300

Sometimes just the recording is enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l95D7leeU3w

Rob Hosking

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:30:22 +1300

Yeah, I saw that Pratchett quote too...I hope he went the way he wanted to.

Paul Kelly has done a couple of songs which have choked me up: saw him stun a hall with 'How To Make Gravy' . Wasn't the only one with a bit of surprise ocular leakage.…

B Jones

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:21:30 +1300

Words can get you too. I found myself running at the eyes at breakfast this morning over this:

I...vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in…

william blake

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:39:58 +1300

Unfailingly renders me helpless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAU620FgR_w

philipmatthews

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:22:09 +1300

Songs that make people cry. Well, this one gets me anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mDVvMcqhjY

Grant McDougall

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:08:57 +1300

Technically Shayne did two gigs at Taste Merchants, a 6pm and an 8pm (I was at the latter).

Graeme Downes opened both, just him and an electric guitar; it was excellent. He did about eight songs, most from the forth-coming Verlaines' double album (!).It was neat to hear just his…

Deborah

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:04:28 +1300

I heard Beethoven's 5th live for the first time ever last year. I sat there with tears of joy rolling down my face through those dramatic opening chords, and through much of the first movement.

As for the duet in The Pearl Fishers. It was a three hanky moment when…

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Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:04:28 +1300

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