The great and beautiful Carly Rae Jepsen of Canada!
The great and beautiful Carly Rae Jepsen of Canada!
Hand Up!
Stevie Wonder - 'They Won't Go When I Go'
If you prefer live stuff, check out the great Nina Simone covering '70s mother-lode sap 'Feelings' in front of a dull, flat and unresponsive Swiss audience. Breathtaking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5ZE3N8cxU
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Nina also performed the best version of 'After You've Gone'.
Today was a bit of a rough one for me but I'll have a smile on my face nonetheless.
Burton Cummings puts a whole world of energy into this one, particularly from 2:55 on:
But number one for conveying emotion in a song, of course, has to be Freddie Mercury.
Oops, forgot the chicks. How about some Dusty Springfield?
I like the high-energy ones, and they don't get more emotionally powerful than Laura Nyro - a truly astonishing talent as both a singer and a songwriter.
Bonus Laura Nyro!
Yes, Laura Nyro wrote this ... and the previous one and Stoned Soul Picnic and Wedding Bell Blues. They were covered by other artists, but only Marilyn McCoo (The 5th Dimension) does a better job (with Wedding Bell Blues). Barbra Streisand comes close on Stoney End, but can't quite match this raw emotion and crystal clear voice:
John Gallagher wrote:
James Brown ... Listen to his live versions of its a mans world
Morrissey listen to I know it's over live
Bo diddley..... Hey bo
Black Francis from the pixies.... Listen to caribou or where is my mind
Agree with this list!!
Might add Morrissey asleep live and pixies hey
El Keniano wrote:
If you prefer live stuff, check out the great Nina Simone covering '70s mother-lode sap 'Feelings' in front of a dull, flat and unresponsive Swiss audience. Breathtaking!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5ZE3N8cxU/thread because I won!
I forgot about Simone. I mentioned Janis Joplin but Simone's range is incredible. Her emotion comes through whether she's loud, soft, grits her teeth or stamps her foot.
You're right
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James Brown
The video helps with expressing the emotion on this one, but ol' Adam can sure make you feel uplifted and depressed at the same time in many of his songs. Never could decide whether he wanted that jacket on or off, could he?
coach wrote:
Janis Joplin ex. Piece of My Heart
Ball’n’chain
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1LAphWvPwIslripe111 wrote:
coach wrote:
Janis Joplin ex. Piece of My Heart
Ball’n’chain