Weekend Tunes Thread

Saturday, June 27, 2026

Wide open music thread this weekend. What ever floats yer float. Post it and comment on it if you want to.

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Tune linked in the title comment ...

Aimee Mann - The Moth (2002)
www.youtube.com

Aimee Mann, formerly of 'Til Tuesday ("Voices Carry") fame ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-27 12:27 AM | Reply

MIKA - Grace Kelly (2006)
www.youtube.com

One of the comments mentions a resemblance to the late Freddie Mercury.

I do not disagree.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-27 12:44 AM | Reply

Michael Murphey - Wildfire (1975)
www.youtube.com

en.wikipedia.org(Michael_Martin_Murphey_song)

... The lyrics are those of a homesteader telling the story of a young Nebraska woman said to have died searching for her escaped pony, "Wildfire", during a blizzard. T

he homesteader finds himself in a similar situation, doomed in an early winter storm. A hoot owl has perched outside of his window for six nights, and the homesteader believes the owl is a sign that the ghost of the young woman is calling for him.

He hopes to join her (presumably in heaven) and spend eternity riding Wildfire with her, leaving the difficulties of earthly life behind.

The song has a piano intro and outro which was edited out for radio.

The introduction is based on a piece, Prelude in D-flat, Op. 11 No. 15, by the Russian classical composer Alexander Scriabin. ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-27 01:09 AM | Reply

Zappa-Porn Wars Deluxe
Extended remix by FZ of selected bits from the PMRC hearings cut with Mothers tunes.
www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 01:24 AM | Reply

The Mothers/Flo and Eddie-"Billy the Mountain" '71 Fillmore East.
Fun fact-Frank and the guys reworked Billy for every city they did it in, finding bits of local interest from newspapers and employees of whatever venue they were in.
www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 01:32 AM | Reply

Toumani Diabat and the London Symphony Orchestra - Cantelowes Dream
www.youtube.com

#6 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 01:45 AM | Reply

Johnny Guitar Watson - Space Guitar
www.youtube.com

#7 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 01:49 AM | Reply

King Charles-"Bop Cat Stomp"
www.youtube.com

#8 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 01:51 AM | Reply

Wild Jimmy Spruill
Kansas City March-www.youtube.com
Drafted (Wilbert Harrison)-www.youtube.com

#9 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 02:00 AM | Reply

Mdou Moctar - Tarhatazed (Live on KEXP)
www.youtube.com

#10 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 02:04 AM | Reply

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Two
www.youtube.com

#11 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 02:08 AM | Reply

Song popped in my mind yesterday and had to play it:

NRPS, "I Don't Know You"

www.youtube.com

#12 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-27 04:49 AM | Reply

About 12 minutes of beauty from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, German TV 1972:

1. Steal Softly Thru Snow
2. Click Clack: 3:26
3. Golden Birdies: 7:06
4. I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby: 9:03

www.youtube.com

#13 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-27 04:51 AM | Reply

Gary Burton (v) and Larry Coryell (g), 1967

Considered among the first jazz fusion recordings (but don't hold that against it):

www.youtube.com

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-27 04:59 AM | Reply

5. I spent a few hours sometime back reading up on Flo and Eddie and was amused to find out that Flo (or Eddie) finished out his career teaching music marketing at Butler University in Tennessee, which turns out tons of highly trained church musicians.

#15 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-27 05:01 AM | Reply

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Petrushka, Igor Stravinsky (1911)

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-27 05:31 AM | Reply

Luca Prodan, "Going Up the Country" - 1980
youtu.be

#17 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-27 08:16 AM | Reply

#17 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

He took writer's credit for that? Really? No wonder comments were closed.
Bull-Doze Blues-www.youtube.com
Canned Heat-www.youtube.com

#18 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-27 12:21 PM | Reply

If he did he was way off, e.g. "Blue Doze Blues" in 1928.

#19 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-27 12:28 PM | Reply

www.youtube.com

wait for the BG jam near the end

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-27 08:25 PM | Reply

"Under The Spell of You"

MonoNeon

www.youtube.com

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 01:59 AM | Reply

"Invisible"

MonoNeon

www.youtube.com

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:02 AM | Reply

"i wish our party would've last"

MonoNeon opening for Primus in North Carolina

www.youtube.com

#23 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:13 AM | Reply

Jaco Pastorius

www.youtube.com

#24 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:20 AM | Reply

SRV

www.youtube.com

#25 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:26 AM | Reply

"Walk On Hot Coals"

Rory Gallagher

www.youtube.com

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:30 AM | Reply

Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers - Ships In The Night

www.youtube.com

#27 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:39 AM | Reply

Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers - Maid In Heaven

www.youtube.com

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:43 AM | Reply

BeBop Deluxe

Sister Seagull

www.youtube.com

#29 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:46 AM | Reply

BeBop Deluxe

Fair Exchange

www.youtube.com

#30 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:47 AM | Reply

Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song / The Boys Are Back In Town - Live in Germany 1981

www.youtube.com

#31 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 02:51 AM | Reply

Panic in the World (Live at Metropolis Studios) Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers ...
Bill's guitar break after the sax solo just slays me. Taste, tone and chops.
www.youtube.com

#32 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-28 05:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

The Pogues/Joe Strummer - I Fought The Law, London Calling Live
www.youtube.com

#33 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-28 06:23 PM | Reply

@#33

The Pogues and Joe Strummer are individually great to listen to. Together they put on an excellent performance.

One from The Pogues ...

Pogues - A Rainy Night In Soho (1986)
www.youtube.com

#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-28 08:10 PM | Reply

Lucky enough to have seen BeBop Deluxe (twice) and The Clash (1980)

#35 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-28 10:53 PM | Reply

Felix Da Housecat, The Poptarts, Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green & Chloe Sevigny - Money, Success, Fame, Glamour

#36 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-06-29 10:25 AM | Reply

Ry Cooder on Big Joe Williams-"Sloppy Drunk".
www.youtube.com

#37 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-29 01:41 PM | Reply

#35 | Posted by LegallyYourDead
Regrettably, BeBop was always somebody else's opener when they came to KC. Someone I didn't think enough of to catch a ride from LFK to KC. Nazareth, Thin Lizzy, somebody like that that I had already seen as someone else's opener. The Clash didn't come until after Mick Jones had left. OK, but, ...

#38 | Posted by morris at 2026-06-29 07:04 PM | Reply

Oh, same. Opened for Santana and Golden Earring .
For the Golden Earring show, after BeBop left half the crowd did, too.

#39 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-29 10:08 PM | Reply

The Clash was the Give Em Enough Rope tour, the opener was No Diddly

#40 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-29 10:09 PM | Reply