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24 Feb 19 - 05:02 PM (#3978810) Subject: What pushes your From: keberoxu You may disregard this entire thread if you deny having an "Oh Goodie!" button. No need to single you out. You know who you are. Bye bye. The rest of us, some commercial/pop-music performances get our attention (they are designed to do that, after all) by making us perk up and bark "Oh Goodie!" like pet dogs who are well-enough-trained to know what the human means when the human spells out W-A-L-K. I have got one of those buttons, and it isn't hard to push it. Maybe, what pushes my "Oh Goodie!" button is different than what pushes yours. Would you care to confess what, in the pop music bag-of-tricks, pushes yours? Me, after all these decades I STILL can't get enough of "Shout!" with the Isley Brothers, in fact most anything with the Isley Brothers will get an "Oh Goodie!" out of me. I'm partial, as well, to the even earlier Mills Brothers. What do they have in common? Choral harmony, up-tempo beat, swinging rhythm, and non-verbal vocalizing. That diabolical studio producer, Nile Rodgers, is especially good at pushing my "Oh Goodie!" button, and one of the best examples is the chorus on "(It's Time to Take the) Pressure Off". |
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24 Feb 19 - 09:15 PM (#3978855) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Helen Thanks keberoxu, I always wondered what that response is called. LOL My first thought is that there are too many songs to count, and where would I start, and do you only want pop songs, but then my next thought was this: Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day And this one, especially at 4 minutes into the track where you can hear the whole audience singing: Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet (Live At Sydney Opera House) |
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25 Feb 19 - 01:36 PM (#3978991) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Helen Looks like you and I are the only 'Catters with Goodie buttons, keberoxu. Maybe the others won't admit that they like pop music. LOL I thought of this song yesterday: Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now |
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25 Feb 19 - 01:56 PM (#3978994) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Mrrzy Creedence. |
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25 Feb 19 - 01:59 PM (#3978995) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Senoufou I understand completely keberoxu. I have quite a few songs I regularly play on Youtube which push my 'Oh goody' button:- Vindaloo by Fat Les always cheers me up. These Days by Rudimental (makes me sob, but also a 'goody' song as it's therapeutic) Any song by George Formby (Window cleaner, Leaning On A Lampost etc) ditto by Alan Smethurst the singing postman The Wellies song by Billy Connelly |
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25 Feb 19 - 02:23 PM (#3979002) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Jos Buddy Holly |
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25 Feb 19 - 02:30 PM (#3979004) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Jos And a few non-pop examples: Kathleen Ferrier, Bach's solo cello suites, Chopin's four piano Scherzi. |
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25 Feb 19 - 03:27 PM (#3979017) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Helen Nights in White Satin/Moody Blues White Room/Cream A Whiter Shade of Pale/Procul Harum Now I'm showing my age. It's a coincidence that three songs that I love from that era have the word "white" in the title. |
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25 Feb 19 - 03:46 PM (#3979020) Subject: RE: music: what pushes yr 'O Goodie!' bttn ? From: Joe Offer I like to think of myself as non-sexist, but there are still some lines a can't cross. To me, saying "O Goodie!" bout be self-emasculating. I can't go there. But what really push my "Wow" button, are female close harmony groups, like Herdman, Hills, and Mangsen; and the Witches of Elswick; and Parton, Harris, and Ronstadt. |
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25 Feb 19 - 05:25 PM (#3979034) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: fat B****rd Loads, in particular the first few bars of Johnny B Goode/I Say A Little Prayer (Aretha) Anything by The Savoy Family/Balfa Brothers The swirly intro to The Ride of the Valkyries and many many more Nice Thread, Keb |
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25 Feb 19 - 05:43 PM (#3979041) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Tony Rees Mike Silver calls it that "certain something" and wrote a song about it... the subject was James Taylor in that instance. For me I think it's a certain soulful, heartfelt feeling in the vocals - as exemplified by Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt (on their better selections) and many others. Paul Simon as well, on his more acoustic offerings. And that guy who sang "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone"... That's mostly from the vocals aspect. As far as rhythm/groove goes, Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" has to be up there among the top contenders for me! Cheers - Tony |
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25 Feb 19 - 06:12 PM (#3979048) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,keberoxu Tony Rees, "that guy" was Bill Withers. He also sang "(keep on using me until you) Use Me (up)." |
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25 Feb 19 - 07:03 PM (#3979056) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,Sol Back in the day, "Sugar Baby Love" by the Rubettes always gave me a lift for some unknown reason. |
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25 Feb 19 - 09:37 PM (#3979069) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Mrrzy Kodachrome (almost any song) also has heartwarm to it... |
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26 Feb 19 - 02:32 AM (#3979089) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Jos I am with Joe in that 'Oh Goodie' is not an expression that would readily come to mind, especially not when it comes to a piece of music that I really like. However, another, which I rarely heard on the radio even at the height of the record's popularity, is the few bars of fiddle music that introduce 'Come On Eileen'. Why did so many DJs leave the best bit out? |
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26 Feb 19 - 04:13 AM (#3979107) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: The Sandman THE SONG OF THE PRUNE |
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26 Feb 19 - 05:18 AM (#3979120) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Andy7 Buddy Holly Beach Boys Byrds (the early stuff) Neil Diamond Monkees Carpenters Abba |
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26 Feb 19 - 05:21 AM (#3979122) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Andy7 Oh, and The Every Brothers |
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26 Feb 19 - 07:38 AM (#3979145) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Jos Rhythm of the Rain by the Cascades - for the magical way it transports me to a little house in the South of France in early summer in the 1960s. I daren't listen to it often or the spell will be broken and it will only remind me of where I am now. |
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26 Feb 19 - 12:42 PM (#3979186) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Mrrzy Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album Boston's first album The Beatles, pretty much anything |
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26 Feb 19 - 01:14 PM (#3979196) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,henryp The Byrds - the years with Clarence White! |
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26 Feb 19 - 02:32 PM (#3979213) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Tony Rees Thanks, Keberoxu, Yes, Bill Withers, wrote/sang "Ain't no sunshine..." Just found this amusing snippet on Wikipedia - more there if anyone cares to look: "For the song's third verse, Withers had intended to write more lyrics instead of repeating the phrase "I know" 26 times, but then followed the advice of the other musicians to leave it that way: "I was this factory worker puttering around," Withers said. "So when they said to leave it like that, I left it." Withers, then thirty-one years old, was working at a factory making toilet seats for 747s at the time he wrote the song. On the American Top 40 program of November 6, 1976, Casey Kasem reported that when the song went gold, the record company presented Withers with a golden toilet, marking the start of his new career." |
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06 Mar 19 - 01:44 PM (#3980577) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,keberoxu The first ten seconds -- all instrumental -- of "I've Just Seen a Face" from the Beatles' Rubber Soul |
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06 Mar 19 - 02:04 PM (#3980580) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,HiLo Aerial by Kate Bush, cheers me up every time. Lass of Loch Royal, Silly Sisters, Siege of Deli, Marin Carthy. Talk To Me of Mendicino, Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Laura by Natasha Khan . Dark Eyes, Bob Dylan, Is that All There is, Peggy Lee. Glow worm, The Mills Brothers.....oh so many. |
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06 Mar 19 - 02:33 PM (#3980587) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Jos Bobby Goldsboro, Summer (The First Time) "It was a hot afternoon, The last day of June, And the sun was a demon. The clouds were afraid - One-ten in the shade, And the pavement was steaming ..." I know of nothing else that conveys summer heat the way that song does. |
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07 Mar 19 - 09:59 AM (#3980745) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: leeneia Yodeling |
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07 Mar 19 - 02:56 PM (#3980804) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: John P Thick as a Brick Come Together White Room |
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07 Mar 19 - 05:11 PM (#3980819) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: The Sandman Leenia how about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM61Q_QDoLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryBkSWFhBNw |
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08 Mar 19 - 10:54 AM (#3980940) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: leeneia Thanks, Sandman, I like them both. I think I'll learn to play the first one. |
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09 Mar 19 - 06:06 PM (#3981176) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: keberoxu "Shotgun" by Junior Walker and the All Stars this performance is LIVE all the way |
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10 Mar 19 - 12:08 PM (#3981303) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: keberoxu The session guitar player, I forget his name, on the studio recordings where Al David and Burt Bacharach had their songs performed with Dionne Warwick: "Oh, could they make a song happen!" I Say A Little Prayer |
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10 Mar 19 - 01:23 PM (#3981320) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Phil Cooper Even though I usually think thoughts of celtic music stylings, if I'm in the grocery store and hear The Bangles singing, If She Knew What She Wants, I listen till the song is done. I don't like when the intercom comes on to interrupt the song, either. |
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10 Mar 19 - 01:57 PM (#3981328) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Dave the Gnome How do you turn a duck into a soul singer? Put it in the oven until it's Bill Withers. Sorry :-) |
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10 Mar 19 - 02:11 PM (#3981332) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: gillymor lol DtG, I'm gonna borrow that one. My goodie buttons are being pushed by The Shins, The Pogues and Rockpile today and it's giving me the juice to do my house-cleaning chores. |
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10 Mar 19 - 07:29 PM (#3981371) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Steve Shaw Summer in Siam. Rainy Night in Soho. Pair of Brown Eyes. Life On Mars. Dancing Queen. Symphony (Clean Bandit). Queen at Live Aid. Beatles from soup to nuts. The Emperor Concerto. The Pastoral Symphony. Mozart Piano Concerto 21. Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in D. Another hundred things by Mozart. Schumann piano music, any of it. Beethoven last three piano sonatas, plus the Waldstein, plus the little Op78 sonata. Beethoven late string quartets. Beethoven Diabelli Variations. Dvorak cello concerto. Anything you like by Ravel, Gershwin and Bernstein. Bach B Minor Mass. Everything by Woody Guthrie. Nothing by Dylan. |
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11 Mar 19 - 12:56 PM (#3981505) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: keberoxu The banjo part on Doobie Brothers' "Listen to the Music." |
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21 Mar 19 - 06:39 PM (#3983727) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: keberoxu Bizet's "Carmen" ! Never mind plot and characters and whatever, I mean the music. The music is simply a miraculous piece of architecture. There is a sense of proportion and balance and pacing. I'm not saying this very well, but the music is better music than people realize. There are so many moments when the next number of music begins and it's, Oh, I'd forgotten this and it's wonderful! The changing of the guard, with the playful children (boys). The cigarette factory workers singing about smoke -- Brahms went back to performances some two dozen times just to see how Bizet managed those rhythmic "hemiola" passages. (And then Brahms put them in his waltzes.) Carmen defying the police to arrest her (tra la la la la la la la) The smugglers in the tavern planning their next heist. (we can't do it without the ladies ...) The smugglers coming over the hills (take care, mind where you step) ... and so many others. |
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21 Mar 19 - 08:06 PM (#3983736) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Stewie Losing my religion Texas Vanz Kant Danz Here's a classic for Leeneia and her yodeling button: Arizona yodeler --Stewie. |
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23 Mar 19 - 10:31 AM (#3984122) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: keberoxu The Wrecking Crew's instrumental intro, with acoustic double-bass AND Carole Kaye's electric bass guitar, to "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'." |
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23 Mar 19 - 10:41 AM (#3984128) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: leeneia Stewie, thanks for noticing that I mentioned yodeling. I listened to the DeZurik sisters (your link) once again. I especially noticed how sweet their high notes are in the exposition. Another thing I like to do is find and play good pieces of country music. June Apple, Midnight on the Water, Seeing Nelly Home, Sally in the Garden Assisting Sam are a few of them. I just discovered the varsovienne and will be posting two examples today. |
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23 Mar 19 - 10:59 AM (#3984133) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,gillymor Heard this great old tune covered by Canned Heat (on a commercial) while watching March Madness yesterday- Let's Work Together Bob Hite was such a good singer, I guess he wasn't pretty enough to be a considered a Rock God. |
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23 Mar 19 - 04:02 PM (#3984187) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,Some bloke Other than groaning (many things make me groan, not just Dave’s duck joke, as bad as it was) it takes something musically special to “float my boat every time.” A few might be (ask tomorrow and get a completely different list) Janos Starker playing Bach’s cello suite John Eliot Gardiner’s take on Vivaldi’s Gloria Martin Simpson’s interpretation of Plains of Waterloo Now... Last month I was in Thailand with my son (who lives in China,) and in a bar in Chiang Mai, they were daft enough to let me control the YouTube providing the music. Jilted John, Birdy Dance, Really Free.... My lad walked out of the bar during Hunting Tigers etc by The Bonzo Dog Doo Daa Band. If that doesn’t fit the bill, nothing will. |
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23 Mar 19 - 04:26 PM (#3984192) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: GUEST,keberoxu Hun- ting Ti- gers OUT in IN - di- Yah. OUT in OUt in OUT in IN - di - Yah. YAH. yes indeed … |
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23 Mar 19 - 04:33 PM (#3984194) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Jos Anything by Garbutt |
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23 Mar 19 - 04:35 PM (#3984195) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Jos [totally unreliable laptop] Vin Garbutt |
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24 Mar 19 - 03:24 AM (#3984229) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: The Sandman yes martins interpretation oif that tune is very good |
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24 Mar 19 - 03:45 AM (#3984232) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Will Fly "In The Morning" (original version) - Dixie Hummingbirds "I'll Take You There" - The Staple Singers "Chinkapin Hunting" - Chris Norman "Dixie Chicken" - Little Feat Anything by Våsen... |
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24 Mar 19 - 06:53 AM (#3984285) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: gillymor Hamnataing by Fiddler's Bid I'm also a Vasen enthusiast, they do my favorite version of Josefin's Waltz. |
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24 Mar 19 - 11:41 AM (#3984355) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Will Fly Their version of Josefin is, of course, the original, written by Roger Tallroth, their 12-string guitar player. I heard them in concert locally last year, and they entranced me with their musicality - wonderful tunes played superbly. It's a tune that we play in our ceilidh band. I did a scratch, off the cuff, duet with Ian, my guitar maker, last autumn - to test out his latest custom tenor guitar. If you're interested, you can see and hear it here: Ian Chisholm & Will Fly: "Josefin's Waltz" |
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24 Mar 19 - 11:48 AM (#3984357) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: gillymor Excellent, Will. Thanks for posting that. |
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25 Mar 19 - 02:13 AM (#3984465) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: Mr Red I have a whole subset of "Goodie" buttons. Classical - Salut d'amour, Pictures at an Exhibition - et al Pop - Everly Brothers, Beatles, etc. But see Sturgeon's Rule Folk Everley Brothers Barabra Allen, Unquiet Grave and anything played well. Jazz - Dave Brubeck Take Five, Mood Indego, Rhapsody in Blue |
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25 Mar 19 - 05:18 AM (#3984489) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: The Sandman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItcBocS_x_M |
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26 Mar 19 - 07:38 AM (#3984602) Subject: RE: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ? From: John MacKenzie Fado |