🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵
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BreukelenAnima
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MisterChillax
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Day 27: A song that calms you down
vagrantx
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Day 27: A song that calms you down
Album charts are very Euro- and Amerocentric. If I asked you to rank some of the best selling female artists of all time, most of you would probably name drop people like Whitney Houston, Britney, and Madonna. And you wouldn't be wrong, but, the Asian market is enormous and almost always left out of charts.
Faye Wong had, 30 years ago, already been crowned the Queen of Chinese/Cantonese pop. With a dozen million albums sold back then, she'd easily rank in the top now, yet her name is almost completely unknown here. It's unfortunate, because she is absolutely incredible. With a style that places her somewhere alongside Björk and Enya, quirky yet gorgeous, her music soothes me.
Somewhere around 2000, after a meteoric rise to fame, she vanished. Gone. No word of retirement, no word of what she'd do next, not a sign of life for a decade-and-a-half, until she dropped a new album in 2015 before vanishing yet again.
Like Enya, she enjoys her privacy, I reckon.
Faye Wong - 匆匆那年
(Tsongtsong nà nién. Sorta, kind of. A stressful year)
Album charts are very Euro- and Amerocentric. If I asked you to rank some of the best selling female artists of all time, most of you would probably name drop people like Whitney Houston, Britney, and Madonna. And you wouldn't be wrong, but, the Asian market is enormous and almost always left out of charts.
Faye Wong had, 30 years ago, already been crowned the Queen of Chinese/Cantonese pop. With a dozen million albums sold back then, she'd easily rank in the top now, yet her name is almost completely unknown here. It's unfortunate, because she is absolutely incredible. With a style that places her somewhere alongside Björk and Enya, quirky yet gorgeous, her music soothes me.
Somewhere around 2000, after a meteoric rise to fame, she vanished. Gone. No word of retirement, no word of what she'd do next, not a sign of life for a decade-and-a-half, until she dropped a new album in 2015 before vanishing yet again.
Like Enya, she enjoys her privacy, I reckon.
Faye Wong - 匆匆那年
(Tsongtsong nà nién. Sorta, kind of. A stressful year)
aussiegeekygal
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Day 27: A song that calms you down
The Strain - Blockhead
The Strain - Blockhead
PassionatePanther
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Day 27: A song that calms you down
Take Care by Yo La Tengo
Take Care by Yo La Tengo
MindYaBitness
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Day 27: A song that calms you down
This song is musical Xanax
Come as You Are-Nirvana
This song is musical Xanax
Come as You Are-Nirvana
LeBaronSamedi
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Perfect choice! Two great Welsh voices.
orangecurious
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
R.E.M. - Find The River
Stipe always does great vocals, but so do the others. For this, Bill Berry and Mike Mills were told to do "aaahhhh" type backing at certain points, what they didn't know was how Stipe had sung the main lines OR what each other was doing, so those wonderful harmonies were done "blind". There is a point where MS sings "i have got to find the river" that the harmony is so beautiful i well up each time. Death never sounded so sweet.
R.E.M. - Find The River
Stipe always does great vocals, but so do the others. For this, Bill Berry and Mike Mills were told to do "aaahhhh" type backing at certain points, what they didn't know was how Stipe had sung the main lines OR what each other was doing, so those wonderful harmonies were done "blind". There is a point where MS sings "i have got to find the river" that the harmony is so beautiful i well up each time. Death never sounded so sweet.
LeBaronSamedi
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
Joss Stone - Fell In Love With A Boy
I love when cover songs are in a totally different genre. Joss's vocals are so warm, sultry and mature. Hard to believe she was only 16 when she recorded the song.
Joss Stone - Fell In Love With A Boy
I love when cover songs are in a totally different genre. Joss's vocals are so warm, sultry and mature. Hard to believe she was only 16 when she recorded the song.
English_Oak
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
I know it's a cover but I was left speechless the first time I heard this, the combination of the Orchestra and Pinks simply stunning vocal is just spot on and hits hard
I know it's a cover but I was left speechless the first time I heard this, the combination of the Orchestra and Pinks simply stunning vocal is just spot on and hits hard
lavendersilk
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
Barbra Streisand - People
Barbra Streisand - People
BrendaBear
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
I love listening to Ann Wilson sing, and when her sister Nancy sings harmonies? I love that.
Heart - Dog & Butterfly
I love listening to Ann Wilson sing, and when her sister Nancy sings harmonies? I love that.
Heart - Dog & Butterfly
I love Freddie’s voice and I think others do too. Chose the classic Bohemian Rhapsody.
https://youtu.be/fJ9rUzIMcZQ?si=F1Nab4becBTYlKu3
https://youtu.be/fJ9rUzIMcZQ?si=F1Nab4becBTYlKu3
Whiskeyjack
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
Have to go with Diana Damrau's "Der Hölle Rache" aria from Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte."
This is one of my go-to rebuttal songs for people who think opera is boring.
Have to go with Diana Damrau's "Der Hölle Rache" aria from Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte."
This is one of my go-to rebuttal songs for people who think opera is boring.
Bry1313
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Day 25 - an uncool song I love. Liza Minelli probably is in that category
Day 26 - A song that makes you want to fall in love
Sing it Roberta
Day 27 - A song that calms you down
What’s more calming than a ripple on still water
Day 28 - A song with great vocals
Freddie Mercury sings the hell out of this song
Day 26 - A song that makes you want to fall in love
Sing it Roberta
Day 27 - A song that calms you down
What’s more calming than a ripple on still water
Day 28 - A song with great vocals
Freddie Mercury sings the hell out of this song
hotoldrguy
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
Unchained Melody Righteous Brothers
UnquietDreams
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
The Swedish metal band Amaranthe likes to mix things up. They mix styles, and genres, but plenty of bands do that. What sets them apart is the vocals. Rather than one lead singer, they have three. First is Elize Ryd, who has a beautiful, pure soprano. The second singer is Joacim Lundberg, who performs as "Jake E". He has a compelling voice, with a nice, clear tone, so much so that they describe is position in the band as "Clean Vocals." Which leads us to Andy Solveström, who sings in a more grindcore, rough style. It shouldn't work with the other two, but it really kind of does, and sets them apart from most other power/symphonic/"pop" metal bands.
I like to use this song to introduce metal to people who say they hate metal. "Amaranthe," in this case, means "unfading or ageless" and it is also the theme to the song.
"Amaranthine," Amaranthe.
The Swedish metal band Amaranthe likes to mix things up. They mix styles, and genres, but plenty of bands do that. What sets them apart is the vocals. Rather than one lead singer, they have three. First is Elize Ryd, who has a beautiful, pure soprano. The second singer is Joacim Lundberg, who performs as "Jake E". He has a compelling voice, with a nice, clear tone, so much so that they describe is position in the band as "Clean Vocals." Which leads us to Andy Solveström, who sings in a more grindcore, rough style. It shouldn't work with the other two, but it really kind of does, and sets them apart from most other power/symphonic/"pop" metal bands.
I like to use this song to introduce metal to people who say they hate metal. "Amaranthe," in this case, means "unfading or ageless" and it is also the theme to the song.
"Amaranthine," Amaranthe.
curious_slut
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
Sam Smith - No God
onanismaddict
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
Young Rob!
"Said in the cosmos is a single sonic sound
That is vibrating constantly
And if we could grip and hold on to the note
We would see our minds were free..."
Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver
Young Rob!
"Said in the cosmos is a single sonic sound
That is vibrating constantly
And if we could grip and hold on to the note
We would see our minds were free..."
Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver
PassionatePanther
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Day 28: A song with great vocals
Another cover song. I love the original by Elliott Smith but the vocals on this one are gorgeous.
Madeleine Peyroux - Between the Bars
Another cover song. I love the original by Elliott Smith but the vocals on this one are gorgeous.
Madeleine Peyroux - Between the Bars
Bry1313
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She has such a great and distinctive voice
