Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard.....love their music, but never listened to much of her solo stuff unless I ran across it in a movie. Thanks for the link!
Nice. I just listened to Dead Can Dance for the first time last night while sampling the darkwave genre.
Rise Against - Anywhere But Here
In late August 1963 Mahalia Jackson lead about 150,000 of us in singing of this song. Joan Baez is heard above and Mahalia below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmR1YvfIGngOdetta sang "On My Way" just before Rev. King spoke of his dream. I can`t find a link that works-sorry
Green Day and The Cribs in that order. Some of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Honorable mention goes to Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer.
"1952 Vincent Black Lightning" - Richard Thompson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVv8SlxKxg
The Jeff Buckley version of "Hallelujah"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88
"Brides of Neptune" - Cracker
An oldie, but a goodie for sure.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4
This guy's piano version is amazing as well.
Konstantine, by something corporate
Looks like we were thinking alike, bud!
Majesty Snowbird by Sufjan Stevens
Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead
Hmmm.. darkwave? I had to look it up and was shocked to find most of my favorite bands were listed as "darkwave". I won't question the validity of the term for those 80s bands, but I was perplexed that Dead Can Dance was lumped in there.
From their Wikipedia article:
"Assigning a musical genre to Dead Can Dance is difficult, as its style is particularly eclectic. However, its early work could be considered a mix between post-punk and goth rock. In its later work, starting with The Serpent's Egg, Dead Can Dance would take ancient or various musics from around the world as primary sources, with Gerrard singing glossolalia, giving it a very distinctive style. As a result, the duo's later albums sound quite different from the first three. Various sources have labeled those latter releases as neoclassical, ethereal, or dark world music."
Honestly, to me (I have all DCD CDs) if I had to classify them, I'd call them a mix of post-punk and world music. Having seen them live in the early 90s, the instruments on stage were hammered dulcimer, lots of drums and a variety of other ethnic-specific ones. Just because DCD was released on the 4AD label with other bands like Clan of Xymox and Cocteau Twins, doesn't mean they're the same genre.
Sorry to pick on your comment, glad you like DCD.
Huh, didn't know Ed Grimley was in Radiohead.
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Warmth of the sun: Melissa Manchester.
10,000 Miles by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Eighteen Seconds wrote:
Surprise! wrote:A lot of Sigur Ros' stuff is sung in a made up language.
I would say something by Sigur Ros, Explosions or Mogwai would be my choice.
To your post... they get angry when people say it is a made-up language. It's not like he sat down and thought of some dorky, made-up language like elvish or something, he just uses his voice as an instrument, not unlike many English-language singers.
Actually, pretty much all their songs except for those on the album, ( ), are sung in Icelandic. Their documentary-esque film Heima is mesmerizing and beautiful. I've probably watched it 30 times but it is so powerful; I just feel better when I watch it.
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber