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MetaBob said:
Circling back to the source ... they stream for free but are listener-supported.

Radio Paradise (through Apple Music): http://stream.radioparadise.com/aac-128

They also have three other mixes: https://radioparadise.com/listen/channels
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The problem with listening to Radio Paradise is that sometimes something comes on that makes me drop everything. A couple days ago it was Don't Change by INXS, a sing I'd heard before but not for a long time and had never learned the name of. That led to a deep dive into Oz music of a certain sort, and a playlist -- no more than two songs from any one band. Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Divinyls (especially Boys in Town), AC/DC, The Church, etc. Any suggestions in the same vein?

Today I'm down a Nick Drake rabbit hole after hearing Three Hours, which I'd never heard before. I'm flyin'.
 
Beatles/Billy Preston-Get Back "Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner." Oh, wait is Jojo not jo jo. Some hear, "Jojo was man who thought he was a woman"
 
MetaBob said:
The problem with listening to Radio Paradise is that sometimes something comes on that makes me drop everything. A couple days ago it was Don't Change by INXS, a sing I'd heard before but not for a long time and had never learned the name of. That led to a deep dive into Oz music of a certain sort, and a playlist -- no more than two songs from any one band. Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Divinyls (especially Boys in Town), AC/DC, The Church, etc. Any suggestions in the same vein?

Today I'm down a Nick Drake rabbit hole after hearing Three Hours, which I'd never heard before. I'm flyin'.
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From the aforementioned rabbit hole, a few Nick Drake covers:
(from Glen Hansard of the lovely film "Once")
(by coincidence, a commenter mentions hearing this on Radio Paradise)
(Paul McCartney. Yes, that Paul McCartney).
 
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MetaBob said:
The problem with listening to Radio Paradise is that sometimes something comes on that makes me drop everything. A couple days ago it was Don't Change by INXS, a sing I'd heard before but not for a long time and had never learned the name of. That led to a deep dive into Oz music of a certain sort, and a playlist -- no more than two songs from any one band. Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil, Divinyls (especially Boys in Town), AC/DC, The Church, etc. Any suggestions in the same vein?

Today I'm down a Nick Drake rabbit hole after hearing Three Hours, which I'd never heard before. I'm flyin'.
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Three Hours was the first song I heard from Nick Drake, thanks to the Late Night Tales of Cinematic Orchestra. Went down a similar rabbit hole. After hearing Cello Song, was hooked. Takes me places I never thought were there.


 
Alitaptap said:
Three Hours was the first song I heard from Nick Drake, thanks to the Late Night Tales of Cinematic Orchestra. Went down a similar rabbit hole. After hearing Cello Song, was hooked. Takes me places I never thought were there.


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I heard some of Nick Drake's music in films like Serendipity without it registering:

I know I looked him up years ago after The Dream Academy had their one hit, Life in a Northern Town, which they'd written about him:

I don't think his profile was ever high before the 1999 Volkswagen commercial featuring his Pink Moon, but that seemed to jumpstart his legend, and is a damned fine ad besides:

Now Choir! Choir! Choir! has made a video of them singing Pink Moon:

It's my second favorite song of theirs, after only Colin Hay's Overkill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZKAxDoUwE

Speaking of the rabbit hole, and of onscreen treatments of great songs, here's Colin Hay's Overkill used in an episode of Scrubs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8LBifGHqI
 
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Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (clips from Black Lagoon)


Schubert - Ave Maria (cover by Sofia Shkidchenko)​


"The Sword of Arei"
 
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MetaBob said:
I heard some of Nick Drake's music in films like Serendipity without it registering:

I know I looked him up years ago after The Dream Academy had their one hit, Life in a Northern Town, which they'd written about him:

I don't think his profile was ever high before the 1999 Volkswagen commercial featuring his Pink Moon, but that seemed to jumpstart his legend, and is a damned fine ad besides:

Now Choir! Choir! Choir! has made a video of them singing Pink Moon:

It's my second favorite song of theirs, after only Colin Hay's Overkill:

Speaking of the rabbit hole, and of onscreen treatments of great songs, here's Colin Hay's Overkill used in an episode of Scrubs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8LBifGHqI
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Yeah, probably wasn’t actively listening before and heard his work sooner than I thought. Most likely embedded somewhere deep in my subconscious.

Didn’t know Dream Academy’s Life in a Northern Town was about him! Mind blowing.

And Colin Hay. Goosebumps - both with the Choir! Choir! Choir! version and of course, his original. Definitely a new rabbit hole to get into. Now bookmarked and saved. Never heard Overkill before or any of his work (never watched a full ep of Scrubs since I don’t watch much TV). Haha, here I go again!

Thanks for this @MetaBob ! Was just wondering if there were more artists like Nick and you answered my question before I had a chance to ask. Thank you!!
 
Alitaptap said:
Yeah, probably wasn’t actively listening before and heard his work sooner than I thought. Most likely embedded somewhere deep in my subconscious.

Didn’t know Dream Academy’s Life in a Northern Town was about him! Mind blowing.

And Colin Hay. Goosebumps - both with the Choir! Choir! Choir! version and of course, his original. Definitely a new rabbit hole to get into. Now bookmarked and saved. Never heard Overkill before or any of his work (never watched a full ep of Scrubs since I don’t watch much TV). Haha, here I go again!

Thanks for this @MetaBob ! Was just wondering if there were more artists like Nick and you answered my question before I had a chance to ask. Thank you!!
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Yeah, goosebumps at the very least, for me, too. Three more shallow dives down holes I've previously been deep down:

As wonderful as Colin Hay is, he isn't the first person I would think of as an artist "like" Nick Drake ... there are so many genius songwriter / performers who come out of nowhere and make music their own unique thing, some of whom make it and some of whom, like Nick, don't. I can't but be grateful that some left one or more wonderful things behind to remember them.

Jackson Browne, Kate Bush, Alex Chilton (sort of), Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Tweedy, and so many others made it. Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Nick Drake, Lowell George, Gram Parsons, and too many others didn't. If I had to pick one person, though, it would be Elliott Smith.

Like Nick Drake, Elliott has his filmmaker admirers, including Gus Van Sant, who used several Elliott Smith songs in Good Will Hunting, including Angeles, Miss Misery, Between the Bars, and more.

Between The Bars is my personal favorite of Elliott's songs (I even excerpted a few lyrics from it into one of my stories here), but that may be as much because so many good covers of it (including one I just now found by Choir! Choir! Choir!, who also covered at least one more of his songs) have been recorded, of which my favorite is from Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric, a band I like a lot:

Here's Metric doing one of their own songs in a vid I find utterly charming (as well as it being a great song):
Emily and James also do an acoustic version. And yes, they've also gotten some good attention from indie film; it doesn't hurt that Emily's part in that song was covered by an actress (Brie Larson) who later won an Oscar.

My favorite Elliott Smith performance, though, is a cover of an Alex Chilton song (skip over the pushy crowd yelling requests to about 1:05, when someone requests "Wonderwall" to many laughs, including from Elliot, then hardly anyone seems to recognize the song he starts playing, but everyone quickly goes dead quiet):

What that song says to Elliott's too-short life breaks my heart.

One more before I start to work on pulling myself up out of this damn rabbit hole I've been lost in for the past several days, riffing on the subject of a band holding an audience absolutely spellbound into silence, and not accepting anything but silence, for what seems like far too long, except it's really just magical. Wilco's Reservations:

I've been down the Wilco rabbit hole far too often in recent months.
 
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For the past few days I've been binge-listening to everything I have by New Order.
Before that, the last specific song I played was L L Cool J, Rock the Bells, 12" single version.
 
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