The best music you WON'T hear on the radio

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Theme from The Long Good Friday – Francis Monkman

‘You can’t go crucifying people outside a church – not on a good Friday!’

Spem in alium – The Tallis Scholars

Not performed often – requires 8 choirs of 5 voices each.

The Last Time – The Andrew Oldham Orchestra

Andrew was the Stones’ manager. The string arrangement might be familiar.

Aerial – Kate Bush

Eccentric duet with a blackbird.

 

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Alex Harvey sings Jacques Brel: ultimate acquired tastes?

‘Also sprach Zarathustra’ - The Portsmouth Sinfonia. For true music lovers everywhere.

 

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Bonkers over-production, but unforgettable.

Clare originally got £30 to come in one Sunday night, sing this and go home.

 

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Treat, from Santana's first - just a little album track, but blueprints jazz / latin / rock fusion they were aiming for.

 

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Freddie King - only ever needed two strings to do this sort of thing.

 

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Hotel California: the Gipsy Kings make it theirs. The Dude abides.....

 

[timsk]

When it comes to cover versions of great songs, this takes some beating: Shinedown's cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Simple Man'. Oh to be able to sing like Brent Smith!

 

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Portishead - Sour Times.
Beth Gibbons, emotionless despair in a voice we don't hear often enough. No idea what she's singing aobut, but you know its going to end badly.

 

[Mr. Charts]

http://flagstheband.com/main.html

Click on the grey box to listen to their music - Gypsy Jack is the best.

 

[montmorencyt2w]

Theme from Day for Night/Nuit Americaine

I've posted this before, but any excuse to have another look at Jacqueline Bisset:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqfhjt-Gg8&feature=related

Opening credits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT4RoDfJtQU&feature=related

Ending:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmm9KEx82Zg&feature=related


And if you like the French film, my favourite ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs1NmsA-n-Y&feature=related

The gorgeous blonde is Catherine Deneuve, still gorgeous.
Music by Michel LeGrand.

(If the French had made Brief Encounter, I think it would have been a lot like that 🙂 )

The bittersweet ending:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObVG9o2xWI&feature=related

 

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