Friday night music is the greatest song ever written night

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Such a shame we can only have one!

 

[Accy cyclist]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Hmmm, tough one.

Bowie or NIN? BOWIE OR NIN?!?!??

 

[slowmotion]

I like this one. Young and in love...what's not to like?

The Last Bus Home, The Boyfriends.

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View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXD5wpD8JhY
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[MissTillyFlop]

Bowie wins by powers of uplifting:

 

[germanicdogman]

i give you led zeppelin stairway to heaven

 

[TheDoctor]

This wins EVERYTHING EVER

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Love Dirty Old Town, Shipbuilding and I Fought the Law. Here are a couple from some of the greatest songwriters ever, with the perfect singer for the song:

Dionne Warwick, Walk on By (Bacharach and David):

(I also love this TV performance - very white, Ivy league dancers backing a totally magnificent black woman)

From that brief period when country music threatened to become something better than the clichéd blandness that it is these days, a unashamedly lush and romantic number - Glen Campbell, Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb):


Sinatra done by Billie Holiday, at her lowest ebb - I'm a Fool to Want You (from Lady in Satin). Just hearing her voice like this near the end of her terribly short life breaks your heart. It's almost unlistenable, but also the most perfect and beautiful expression of human suffering.

 

[MontyVeda]

good shout @Flying_Monkey, Bacharach and David are the greatest songwriters of all time (Bacharach on his own aint so great)... IMHO of course

 

[MontyVeda]

I give you the musical genius, humour, and pure downright eccentricity of my secret favourite artist, Moondog:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dLPsw3i_P8&list=PL826431789FD58787

note to self... buy some Moondog.

 

[TVC]

This wins EVERYTHING EVER

If it's girls with ukes you like then these are the Gods

 

[MontyVeda]

Bird's Lament is the one I'm familiar with. Moondog is featured on 6Music's Freakzone occasionally... I've just never gotten round to getting hold of some

 

[vernon]

You can close the thread now. Everything else is inferior.

A serious contender. Read the background to the song here

 

[palinurus]

I give you the musical genius, humour, and pure downright eccentricity of my secret favourite artist, Moondog:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dLPsw3i_P8&list=PL826431789FD58787

I managed to get this and 'your girlfriend is a daffodil' playing simultaneously just now.

 

[Roadrider48]

Some more Clash....

View: http://youtu.be/UpkX1Cnw8wQ