http://www.metafilter.com/tags/nowsound Posts tagged with 'nowsound' at MetaFilter. Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:47:20 -0800 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:47:20 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67204/Here%2DToday%2DIs%2DThe%2DNow%2DSound%2Dof%2DYesterday <a href="http://www.officenaps.com/2007/01/now-sound.html">The Now Sound</a> of the Sixties is what's <a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/list/monocle/grooviness_squared__the_now_sound_of_yesterday/">groovy</a>, baby! Even <a href="http://www.spaceagepop.com/lpbignow.htm">Big Bands</a> and <a href="http://fivebucksonbytor.blogspot.com/2007/11/pete-schofield-and-canadians_15.html">Canadians</a> are getting <a href="http://easymusic-georgy.blogspot.com/2007/11/tony-mottola-warmwild-wonderful.html">warm, wild, wonderful</a> with the crazy sounds of that <a href="http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/Exhibit.jsp?AlbumID=70">love generation</a>. Check out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiea8g6SqvQ">Ella Fitzgerald singing Sunshine of Your Love</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg2vZ3oFbs4">Lord Sitar's I Can See for Miles</a>. Sergio Mendes &amp; Brasil '66 do <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdyFL681Wyg">Wichita Lineman</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjGMTE60D1g">Day Tripper</a>, while lounge act Jackie &amp; Roy do a rare cover version of the Beatles' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtfxrc3q7sk">The Word</a>. The Alan Copeland Singers can't stop <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Or3EMSePTI">Goin' Out of My Head</a>, but the Back Porch Majority looks like an outtake from A Mighty Wind with the hippie anthem, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XgZ19lU6HU">Get Together</a>. But the hippest hep daddy of them all is Bing Crosby, who has both a <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1dhbb_beatles-medley_music">Beatles medley</a> and another <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ygje_bing-crosby-j-feliciano-d-ross-supr_parties">medley of hit '60s tunes</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67204 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:47:20 -0800 Beatles BingCrosby cheese easylistening EllaFitzgerald jazz music nowsound SergioMendes sitar jonp72