What are you all listening to?
I've got Tom Petty going here
The guy was a boss!
You?
Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers recently claimed their second No.1 album in the UK to go along with their other dozen top 10s (surprisingly, never made a significant dent in the charts outside the UK). Politically charged melodic rock - here’s two tracks from The Ultra Livid Lament:
Happy Bored Alone: -
https://youtu.be/Akjgg-WeRak
Orwellian: -
https://youtu.be/smImSentyaI
First link is unavailable...I really hate when that happens with Youtube!
The second link is fine, it even represents the MC experience to some degree
Oops - is this one any good?
https://youtu.be/mV-eUf2ioCY
Yah, it works.
And here is Shirley Bassey singing a song written for her by Manic Street Preachers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UySLgPH2XWE
The Girl From Tiger Bay has more of a ring than The Girl From Splott
shareWhat an absolutely super song! Classic Manics meets Bond!
shareIt is from her 2009 album (I assume this video is from around that time) 'The Performance' featuring songs written by a variety of people/bands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Performance
2009 also marks her last full length concert (at BBC Proms). Ever since then she just performs a medley of three or four songs at various charity or other events.