Battle of the Bands Results: The Times They Are A Changin' and Tori Amos won a shutout

 Tori Amos won the Battle of the Bands 2-0 over Blackmore's Night. We celebrate winners here.

I first became aware of Tori Amos from a girl in California I was crushing on the time. She introduced me to a song called "China"

I got sucked into her "Little Earthquakes." A song a little later on I really like was "1000 Oceans"

What is your favorite Tori Amos song? Share in the comments.

Battle of the Bands: Battle of the Bands: The Times They Are A Changin' 9 years later

 Sometimes I get the idea to use a tune that I have already used in a Battle before. Most recently this happened with Good Rockin' at Midnight luckily I picked completely different covers. This time around I am using a Bob Dylan song "The Times They Are A Changin'" which I used in July of 2017.

I am going to skip with sharing the original song and dive right in with the contenders....

                                                             Contender One: Tori Amos

Contender Two: Blackmore's Night

Let me know which one you liked best in the comments and I will count up the votes and announce the winner in a week or so. Thanks for the visit and welcome to March!

A toZ Challenge: Hotel Songs

The travel and service industries are having a hard time these days. I thought I would celebrate hotels  through song!


Elvis Presley had the "Heartbreak Hotel:

The Eagles sang of "Hotel California"

Tori Amos had her "Hotel"

Eric Burdon and The Animals sang about "Hotel Hell"

I'll leave you at "The Grand Hotel" by Procol Harum

See you next time!

Battle of the Bands #4: Creep

I'm back for my forth installment of Battle of the Bands. This time I will try to do a better job of audio quality. Anyway here is how it works:

Listen to the song clips in the blog post. In the comment section vote for the one you like the best. Feel free to explain why you voted the way you did. The battles take place on the first and 15th and winners will be announced on the 7th and 21st. I will normally post the winner in the comments. Of course have fun and enjoy!

If you are still looking for more musical fun after you vote, you can check out these sites for more battles:

Far Away Series

Your Daily Dose

DiscConnected

Tossing It Out

STMcC Presents "Battle of the Bands"

A Writer's Life in Progress

Curious as a Cathy

The Creative Outlet of StratPlayer

Please visit them and vote! I visited them all but I was very bad at the voting last round. My apologies my three ring circus called life had me very busy away from the blog world.

Today's song is "Creep" by Radiohead. I wanted to put Prince's version on here but any live songs of him last about 30 seconds on youtube which is a shame. Anyway today I will pit Tori Amos against Moby with the song. Here is Tori Amos doing it live a couple of weeks ago..

Here is Moby's cover of "Creep."

Not in the competition but for a point of reference. Here is Radiohead performing the song...

Enjoy, vote, comment, and have fun! Thanks for stopping in and I will have a new post soon! 

Happy Birthday Tori Amos!

Today is the birthday of Tori Amos. I can't believe she turns 51 today! I became a fan of hers through a friend. She shared the lyrics to "China" and I was hooked especially after listening to Little Earthquakes.

Here is China

This next song is simply beautiful and might be my favorite song by her. Check out 1000 Oceans..

I will confess I didn't like her with a band. Tori in my opinion is best with just her pianos or a guitarist accompanying her. But she is the artist and follows her own muse. Her latest album is more like the old, great stuff I liked the best.

Any way happy birthday and I look forward to more music!

A to Z Challenge: Nirvana

Recently Nirvana was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sadly their lead singer Kurt Cobain killed himself to join "the 27 Club."

Unlike the kid who said "Kurt Cobain made the band" time has certainly been good to fellow Nirvana band mate Dave Grohl who has had tremendous success with The Foo Fighters and recently sames to have a midas touch in Rock.

I do like the way how Nirvana has regrouped recently with singers who are vastly different from Cobain so there is no comparison or competition with the late singer.

Like when they regrouped with Paul McCartney..

No one is going to compare Paul McCartney and Curt Cobain they contrast so much in generation, style, and music. At the Hall of Fame they let the girls sing..

Or Lorde..

Bringing new textures and connecting the band with their former generation and today's generation.
I was always partial to Nirvana being interpreted by other artists like Tori Amos..

but this is in tribute to..

Well I hope you enjoyed your visit come back tomorrow as the challenge continues with an O!

November Album Releases!

One of the article I wrote was about upcoming album (CD) releases. You can read the article here. I guess I could have mentioned the upcoming Carrie Underwood album but I didn't.

I focused on Them Crooked Vultures, the CD I am most looking forward too! I will probably buy it on the 17th. It features Dave Grohl, from the Foo Fighters, on drums (what he used to play in Nirvana). It also features legendary Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age on vocals and guitars.

Dave Grohl is busy as his band, The Foo Fighters release their Greatest Hits collection this month.

The popular bands such as Bon Jovi and John Mayer also get mentioned in my article. I also mention the seasonal release by Tori Amos.

Some great new music is headed out this month!