Yellow Ledbetter – Pearl Jam

The song Yellow Ledbetter is a great song that was cut from the album Ten, but later showed up on the album Lost Dogs. This live version is my favourite version of the song though.

I don’t know where it’s from but it’s a really soft version, with Eddie Vedders voice almost cracking up. Great stuff!

When The Night Feels My Song – Bedouin Soundclash

Pop reggae/ska from Canadian Bedouin Soundclash.

Spotify.

Next Year – Foo Fighters

This song always makes me think of a warm late summer evening with the pale yellow sun light gently warming your face while making the roads shine and lakes sparkle. The slow guitar really sets the tempo low for this song, but it is still quite energetic and promise of exciting things to happen.

Youtube (embedding disabled) and Spotify.

Man Needs A Maid / Heart Of Gold – Neil Young

This song, from a 1971 Neil Young concert, combines two awesometastic Neil Young songs, Man Needs A Maid and Heart Of Gold. Spotify.

Den Ena Handen Vet Vad Den Andra Gör – Blå Tåget

Briljant progg.

Eller Spotify.

Vara Vänner – Jakob Hellman

Jakob Hellman had a brief life in the limelight in Sweden at the end of the 1980’s with his 2 hits from the album “…Och det stora blå”, with Vara Vänner (would translate to Be Friends) being one of the hits. Vara Vänner is a song about a guy who’s having more feelings for a female friend than just friendship. He wants to tell the friend how beautiful she is but he can’t because, as the chorus would translate to, “we can talk about anything because we should just be friends”. It’s a very sad song, sung in a very happy and upbeat tempo, which makes it more difficult to place. It’s not a song you would listen to when you’re happy because it would bring you down, and when you’re feeling like in the song it actually weighs even heavier on your shoulders, in the sort of “if I was more ignorant I would be happier” kind of way.

Ifrån mig själv – Dundertåget

Dunder Tåget is a new Swedish band rising in The Great Hellacopters Wake. The singer, Robert Dahlquist, actually played guitar in the Hellacopters, but now he has also taken on the singer and songwriter roles. He does it really well too. The songs, which are written by Robert together with singer/songwriter Stefan Sundström, actually sound quite rock’n'rolly even though they are in Swedish.

(spotify)

Have A Cigar – Pink Floyd

 

Pink Floyd, a band with such an incredible and amazing mystique. It must have been excellent to be a part of that music scene. I wonder what the likes are in todays music. What current bands could possibly be as musically brilliant, be so creative and psycadelic, and still make a huge following and fantastic stage shows. Anyways, todays song is from their Wish You Were Here album, and it’s called Have A Cigar.

The video below plays Have A Cigar and use clip from their movie The Wall.

Kilometer – Sebastien Tellier

My interest in Sebastien Tellier has been reignited since I saw him live at Debaser Medis in Stockholm a couple of days ago. So today I’m picking a song of his that’s been going under my music radar until the live performance. The song is Kilometer. That’s all I know about it. Check it out at Youtube.

L’Via L’Viaquez – The Mars Volta

 

Mars Volta was named “Best Prog-Rock Band” by The Rolling Stones magazine in 2008. I haven’t listened a lot to them yet but I love their song L’Via L’Viaquez. It exists in a number of versions, with the album version being more than 12 minutes long and featuring 3 guitar solos and at least one piano solo.

(link and Spotify Radio Edit and Spotify Album version)