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The Down Home Shake Down! – Big Mama Thornton

I AM ABOUT TO LIBERATE YOU WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!

Holy crapolahs peoples! Big Mama is back!! It’s got harmonicas, a beat and a strummin’ bass and it makes you want to get moving. The flat-footing days of the south have been preserved for our era… And I’m loving it!

I tell you what, if I could go back in time, I would go back to the days of this kind of music! So freakin’ awesome.

I love this Down Home Shake Down because of Big Mama’s voice in the background – it makes chills go down your spine.

If you want to feel like dancing, I strongly shove you in the direction to watch this:

You don’t have to thank me. Thank the Mama, Dr. Ross, Shakey Horton, John Lee Hooker and the other AMAZING musicians of this genre and time for making incredible, outstanding and really, really cool music.
Jodie.

Hound Dog – Big Mama Thornton

Her voice is stronger than Aretha Franklin’s and her stage presence is as breath taking as… As somebody who has a lot of stage presence…

But this song will get you dancing and longing for the fifties!! As well as longing for a singing voice as strong as Big Mama’s… You just can’t sing along to this song unless your voice measures up to her’s. You just can’t.

I actually prefer the lyrics to this song than Elvis Presley’s because Big Mama doesn’t sing about catching rabbits… I never really got that line anyway…

Jodie.

Por una Cabeza – Carlos Gardel

This is a fantastic classic.

After watching this scene (tango scene in Scent of a Woman) I wanted to take tango lessons! Yet, I don’t think it was the visuals, but the song that made me fall in love with the scene.

Por una Cabeza (“By a Head”) was written in 1935 by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera. Originally with lyrics, it tells a story about a gambler who compares his love of women with his addiction of betting on race horses.

I think it’s the whining instruments that makes the piece sound like it’s yearning for something, like the song is telling a story of losing somebody… I don’t know. It’s awfully touching though!

This is the best version I have found, I think it’s the French accordion that completes it.

I hope you enjoy it just as much as I do!

You can read my review to Scent of a Woman here. Including the trailer.

Jodie.

Twist and Shout – The Beatles

Umm… So this is only the BEST SONG EVER COVERED BY THE BEATLES!

If you’re feeling down, put this record on and scream along to it. So friggin’ awesome.

Cool fact: You can totally hear John Lennon’s sore throat in this recording!! Apparently he struggled to sing throughout the entire recording of the album, Please, Please Me. Naw… Good ol’ Lennon…

Jodie.

Tighten Up – The Black Keys

I have only recently discovered this song. But it is a wicked sound, for sure!!

It is a song that’s easy to dance to, yet its underlying tone of anxiety makes you want to scream the words along with the singer!!

If you like The Black Keys already, you’ll love the band Cold War Kids. Their similarity isn’t obvious until you compare the two singers’ voices. Yet, their sound is still totally new

and unique. Will definitely recommend some good Cold War Kids songs soon!

Jodie.

Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again – Broken Social Scene

If you’ve watched The Time Traveler’s Wife, you would have heard this song.

I love this cover of Joy Division’s original song. It’s so relaxing, yet this is another emotional song that makes you feel almost sad as soon as you hear the first three piano chords.

I couldn’t help but learn the chords on the piano after hearing this. It’s quite a simple song, but it’s still so enjoyable. The guitar is quite quick paced, where as the vocals and piano are slow and prolonged, and by these two speeds playing at the same time, it tells a story within itself.

Jodie.

O’ Children – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

HP & Deathly Hallows pt1 dance — This scene was perfect for this song!

If you have seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, you would have heard this epic.

Sure it’s long, but it is a song so full of emotion and such an incredible deep story that is being told that you end up using up all of your internet allowance listening to it on repeat.

It kind of has a gospel sound which I really enjoy. It makes you feel the pain they’re trying to portray, and like there’s an urgency to get a statement across to somebody. I’m not sure what it is, but the emotion of this sound really comes through.

I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do. If you don’t have a lot of time to listen to it, try skipping about half way through it. That’s where the magic begins.

Jodie.