I like the PMJ version. Hate the original.

It was used in an ad for online bingo recently. “All About The (something)” Ugh.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The songs that are reviewed are regularly interrupted to get around copyright laws.

FYI:

The term torch song comes from the expression “carrying a torch” for someone. Here’s a definition of the expression: “Carrying a torch” for someone is a figurative expression that means to harbor strong, often unrequited, feelings of love or admiration for a love interest. It implies a devotion and passion that burns brightly, like…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
As teenager I’ve heard the terms ‘Torch Song’ and ‘Torch Singer’ but didn’t know what they meant. I didn’t recognize anything I was familiar with in those terms. And I didn’t care enough to ask anybody. But when I went to see Woody Allen’s movie ‘Annie Hall’ and watched Diane Keaton sing, I was moved.

I think I broke my own…[Read more]

First, the original song. It has over 2-1/2 billion views so far:

Now the PMJ rearrangement, with two of…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
And you are laghing! I can’t judge it if you keep inserting your idiotic opinion every 5 seconds.

OK, I didn’t predict this. I completely understand where you’re coming from. I would feel the same way sometimes, if I hadn’t watched the original version first. In this case, I’ve heard the Puddles/PMJ version so many times, a…[Read more]

Rory inspired me to drink a half a bottle of Jameson and do a line of coke.

More seriously, Rory was a monster on guitar, though looking at PB’s conditions, to remind you:

1. Gives (you) goosebumps and or teary eyes almost every time.
2. (You) can learn something musically deep, technical, or explanatory wrt why (you) really like it.

You…[Read more]

Rick Beato has pointed out how shortsighted this is.

The Warning has taken the opposite approach to the extent that I’ve seen reactors play a song all the way through and react to it afterward,…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
This version?

Thanks for posting that Reg.

I still don’t like it, but it doesn’t piss me off like the constantly interrupted version did.

Just look at the guitar and you will hit the play button 🙂

https://youtu.be/kLBaNDQ6Ng8

People ain’t no good.

I can’t find the Mad World vid with the clown.

When I was doing photography of women I invented some categories of beauty and, bizarrely, I can illustrate the three most common ones using the three sisters comprising The Warning. These are the three main types of beauty, then: there is hot, which is Daniela/Dany; cute,…[Read more]

However, long term. the one I keep coming back to is “Here With Me” by Dido.

I confirmed its place in my heart when I played it just now and found myself weeping.

The combination of a great song, a singer with a very special voice, and a genuine cleancut…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Do you want the music or someone else’s reaction to the music?

Either’s fine. I’m just hoping for some explanation of why it’s extra-special to you and consistently at the very top of your list. It can be written by you and/or verbalized by a reactor made available with a link.

(I find it difficult to NOT post a bunch more of my f…[Read more]

I hope to keep this topic sacred in terms of presenting only our absolutely favorite music. Your criteria may vary, but…[Read more]

Natural Selection is a bitch for all species and we’re no exception, but fortunately, it usually works real slow, slow enough for us to come up with solutions.

Not exactly. It’s the failure of natural selection that leads to extinction. Adaptation occurs too slow and can’t keep up with a rapidly changing environment. I read scientists think that 2…[Read more]

Natural Selection is a bitch for all species and we’re no exception, but fortunately, it usually works real slow, slow enough for us to come up with solutions.

Meanwhile, if you have some excess Carbon Dioxide, send it along to SodaStream. Mind you, don’t blow into a balloon and send it. 😁 But if you have ways to reclaim CO2, I’m sure…[Read more]

Sorry, I just cannot speak with all of the authority you claim.

You see, as of yesterday, I died because it was Friday the 13th, of all the gruesome methods Jason Voorhees could dream up!

Four years back, I died when the FCC repealed “Net Neutrality” and Internet access became charged by the hour and by the e-mail and TV streaming…[Read more]

This may not be new to some of you, but it’s new to me, and if it’s new to you also, I just had to share it. And if it’s not new to you, at least it’s here to provide a break from today’s pick-and-choose crazy-makers:

Symphony of Science
https://www.symphonyofscience.com/

It is the words of today’s greatest scientific…[Read more]

Yet another Metal Band throwing down the jam against religious tyranny!

Revenge at All Costs
The Iranian metal band Confess was charged with blasphemy and anti-government propaganda in 2015, before fleeing to Norway. Their latest album documents this experience.
C.J. CIARAMELLA | FROM THE MAY 2022…[Read more]