From the album Rockferry
I heard this song on my radio and I thought it was a great modern update to the female R&B singers stylings of the 60s. Imagine my surprise to find this Welsh woman in her early 20s who looks like she'd be more likely to be Disney's latest pop star, than a R&B songwriter.
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Duffy rocks!
Hi Nicole,
I was ready to dislike this song very much, just from your description. Then I listened to it. And again. And loved it. Then I listened to it a third time, watching the video more closely, and then I sent it to three close friends. Wonderful!
Duffy, don't change.
When I create my time machine and drop 30 years and 50 pounds, I'm coming back to offer you a little bit of mercy... but not enough to satisfy. ;)
If you like this, you really must go to http://www.iheartmusic.com/cc-common/ondemand..., and listen to her performances in the Stripped Music section. She really works it!
(I hate going to a ClearChannel website, but some of the stripped performances are really great).
Northern soul dancing is so coooool KTF
I heard 'Mercy" a couple of months ago and went looking for more right away; my favourite is this live studio cut of "Syrup and Honey", just one guitar and that amazing voice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fawOrelje7k
(The sound quality isn't the best, but this is a really cool video...)
Didn't Amy WInehouse bring back this sound?
Yep.
I loved the "Warlock mount hooves" effect on the dancers near the end!
Great tune and a great voice. Thanks Nicole!!
Proof that you don't have to show skin to be S-E-X-Y!!!
The lady has Soul, Soul, Soul. Thanks for clueing me into this. Obama brought me hope for America. Duffy gives me hope for music.
Am I the only one who wonders why these great videos are not complied and sold as DVDs? They just disappear, and that's a waste of incredible stuff.
The rest of the album's pretty good, too. There are quite a few good retro soul singers out there (Sharon Jones, Nikka Costa), and Wales has a great singing tradition.
i am proud to say that before i ever heard of duffy on the radio, on tv, on any other blog, or anywhere else for that matter, i discovered her on youtube and featured her on skippy's late nite music club w/this video.
there's a great resurgence of 60's soul-type sound coming out of britain these days, including duffy, as well as james hunter, adele, and i would grudginly add amy crackhouse.
You may have to watch a 30 second Saab ad, but it's well worth it.
Duffy "Mercy" acoustique
me-oww!
Good song, but Duffy better enjoy her 15 minutes. There's no real soul or authenticity there, just an attempt to fill a commercial void left by Amy Winehouse's self-destruction.
No offense Nicole Belle but where have you been the last year? DUFFY is huge in the UK and Europe.
[We're all here in the US. Where she hasn't been huge for the past year-Sitemonitor]
We have been jazzercising to this song since this past summer. GREAT SONG! (and BTW if you like to dance and want to find a new exercise plan jazzercise is a blast!)
I don't agree with J.C. I can't even sit still with this song on. Yah, yah, yah. Oh well. we all are entitled to our tastes and our opinions.
I said it's a good song, right? The first two words of my post are "good song." I'm just saying there's nothing very special about Duffy and she doesn't have much chance of having any kind of career longevity, partly because NOBODY has a career anymore, but also because she's riding a fad (60's neo-girl-group-soul or whatever it's being called) that will flame out by Wednesday.
By the way, what is "new" about Jazzercise? Do you not know it's been around since the 1970's, well before anyone had even termed it "aerobics"?
Christina Aguilera: Candy Man
me-oww!
LES RITA MITSOUKO - Marcia Baila
RIP Fred Chichin.
me-oww!
bought it a few months ago and LOVE it!
BAC
Cat Power - Cross Bone Style
me-oww!
I'm almost 60. I heard this song months ago. I searched all over. All I knew was Mercy and Duffy.My Grand kids couldn't help me. Then I found her on google.Then Walmart finally got the cd.But when I saw her on SNL, she blew me away. What a beautiful girl. No Fake crap.Just a stunning girl with a beautiful voice.I remeber looking like her in the 60's. Oh to be young again.
Feist - My Moon My Man
me-oww!
I love it when C&L goes global on the LNMC. It is quite true that Duffy has been a phenom for atleast a year. But in the U.S., not so much. It's always interesting to see the difference in the chart toppers across the pond. A few years ago, this severely talented UK rapper, Lady Sovereign, was on every single "one to watch" list out there. Watching her, you might have to ignore the fact that she looks like she's ten and listen to her sorta mind-blowing talent. Eminem needs a showdown with this chick. Notice how many hits this video has gotten.
Lady Sovereign - Love Me Or Hate Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ILUic7aN0&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EEh8iaqWg4
what you think!
Avenue D - Do I Look Like A Slut
And in case the title doesn't give it away, not safe for work, around kids, or the easily offended.
me-oww!
Country Joe McDonald
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX70HiOl0V4
I'm a tiny bit addicted to Lykke Li, the child of Swedish avant-garde
globe trotters. She's been on the one to watch list for two years in Rolling Stone, among a lot of other publications.
At first take she will look and sound like typical pop, but it's not. She rocks. I want her shoes in the second video.
Lykke Li-Little Bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUC0ezAlHwE
Lykke Li - Breaking It Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQQ6Qed024&fe...
Paul Simon - Duncan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErvS_U83SZE&fe...
Paul Simon - Papa Hobo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf_lbSKhWOU
Paul Simon - Run that body down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzg-8x1hX-Q&fe...
Don't cry now, just smile later.
Speaking of not giving a shit songs.
Lean like a Chola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlTRvY8V5Zo
Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello - "I Want You"
me-oww!
Yusuf (Cat Stevens) - The Wind - Live in Naples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0VP01JauQ&fe...
Cat Stevens - Hard Headed Woman (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ojNhtQOsHk&fe...
Leon Russell / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sMSSm0x2A&fe...
Joe Cocker - Delta Lady (Mad Dogs & Englishmen, 1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOz6Mt2t084&fe...
Bird on a wire suite - Joe Cocker / Rita Coolidge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w03ZHWTxRnw
Some of the best lyrics per usual from this amazing artist:
Tori Amos - Crucify
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPTF-m2n8XU
Ram Jam "Black Betty"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo
Leadbelly "Black Betty"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REHxlwqeIKc
If you listen to Leadbelly's version, it's very reminiscent of Moby's sampling.
The song itself is controversial due to the title itself seeming racist but the wikipedia's iformation is extremely differing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUxbDEPFiM
feat. Shirley Bassey History Repeating
me-oww!
Wow!
Make no motto of love that worships war
For Miss Kitty. Thanks for all your great songs tonight.
les Rita Mitsouko (Y'a d'la haine) RIP Frédéric chichin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgx3AZCi0lw
It's one of my faves for sure! :)
me-oww!
Tim Hardin "Bird on a wire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpzsMlE12R8&fe...
Tim Hardin - Simple Song Of Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uVcr7LIusc&fe...
Marianne Faithfull- reason to believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD3sW20BrGU
poetry man, thought you might like this one:
Women in Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
Classic.
Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoApELfgWcg
Hope you dig it, L.G.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_PKV397WQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7b07zVTds
gna
You have posted some nice songs tonight.
Don't take this song too literally! OK
cat stevens Wild World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXpnZi9Hzs&fe...
James Taylor - You've Got A Friend '71
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vY1peG8gHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNjLUPqckWY
James Taylor - Mexico ( Two-Lane Blacktop ) The VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikiYvalrhS4
I was gonna post that anyWAY, but I found your comment right before where I was gonna comment, so I had to make it a response. :-)
It's great to be with friends like U (and sphinx, etc.), lg.
and getting the puck outa here!
On the road again - Canned Heat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heRyBhKi3kA
She sounds like she is copying Sonique's style
Sonique is prob one of the best female singers out there at the moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpWqxsj1ydI
Shakira is pretty darn close tho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4cLH8HIpc
Remember Youtube has shitty audio on its videos, they do some horrible watermarking which guts the audio of its quality.
I got this debut album almost a year ago. She's still in my CD changer. Also check out her newest song "Rain on your parade" (which does not feature on the album).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cfu9ojyCJw
Imagine my surprise to find out it wasn't Amy Winehouse, who got there a couple years before her.
Of all the British new wave of blue-eyed soul singers, my favorite is Alice Russell
Munkaroo
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=a...
High up on the Hook
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=a...
with Quantic
http://video.fc2.com/content.php?kobj_up_id=2...
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