I'm listening to Scala radio. Currently the composer Luci Holland is playing us her choice of video game music.

This is incredible. Felt the need to share.

Dream On - Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James (Aerosmith Cover)

That's damned cool! Thanks!

You're welcome. It's a sad reflection on our culture that talent like this goes mostly unnoticed and crap like Bieber gets all the airplay.

If you liked that, I'd recommend checking out the other Postmodern Jukebox covers on youtube. There are some absolute gems amongst them.

Here's another jaw-dropping one to get you, er, going:
Creep - Vintage Postmodern Jukebox Radiohead Cover ft. Haley Reinhart

Boris Brejcha - yeah, it's probably "rave" music but I love listening to it while working.

It's a matter of taste, I'd say. All the musicians might be very talented, but I still don't like the end result...
I like this:
Talent is a Vampire

I do not like Bieber (Justin).

Even when I attempt to interpret cheap stuff, myself, one of my difficulties is to detect, what a song *needs* in contrast to what possibilities it *offers*. Lacking talent, I use to put the question aside quickly and struggle on as best as I can.

Here is an illustration of what I want to say:
Sultans of Swing - Gabriella Quevedo
The guy who writes that “everything about this is absolutely hypnotizing” did not get it, to say the least, although I perceive a pattern in these exaggerations. There is even two-hand-fretting, but do not call it “spectacular”, please.

It is just played correctly. All that I dream of.

The other song

But do not get her wrong.

^ This just smacks of old men drooling over a pretty young woman who knows how to play their favorites...
Yuck.

Me, I'm watching the 3rd season of Westworld and noticed a peculiar connection to my musical world.

I always like a heroine that breaks free of her male oppressors, taking full & exact revenge on them.
It gives me pleasure.

This is a strong theme throughout Westworld (the new series; can't speak to the old movie or the books).
Conrasting with a somewhat opulent era backdrop.
Another strong theme is, of course, the puppets revolting against their masters. I like the hi-tech hi-fidelity incarnation of Westworld, but this is a much older theme.

I found hints of all this in Siouxsie & the Banshees Juju album, particularly these two songs:

Arabian Knights
and

Monitor
Those two songs describe the story & athmosphere of Westworld so well, I'm almost sure Siouxsie must've been inspired by it (the first movie or the books).

Musically, her angry ecstasy reflects in the band's intensity - both songs take a step up around the middle, which always gives me shivers. Yes, Siouxsie, shout it out! Show them your contempt! We're with you!

Last but not least, John McGeoch's guitar playing is outstanding, extraordinary, melodic and noisy...

Should call himself the drunken critic. Can't evaluate his drinking capabilities, really. :P

Not sure I understand.
What's my post got to do with alcohol consupmption? Nothing, I assure you.
Or was that supposed to be some sort of mild insult / ad hominem?
I remain unphased.

That comes across a little dismissive of the difficulty involved in "just playing correctly". I don't think there's anything "just" about it. I'd be over the moon to be able to do what she just did. I can do some basic finger picking patterns, but that's way beyond my current abilities.

And yes, sad/lonely guys fawning over the pretty girls is a thing on youtube, the wider internet, and life in general for that matter, so the exaggerated praise is to be expected. Doesn't take anything away from what she just did however.

The funny thing is I've been watching Gabrtiella Quevedo videos for around 2 years now and I actually thought "Sultans of Swing" was not very good by her standards or mine. It is by no means "played correctly" whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. Music is Art and subjective. It is not a sporting contest or a Math quiz, and here's the qualifier, at least to me. I've never seen scoreboards at concerts and there can be no doubt that the Music Business is NOT a Meritocracy.

I've personally known friends, like Danny Gatton often billed as "The Greatest Guitar Player You've Never Heard", who fired a bullet into his brain for exactly that reason. It seriously got to him, for example, that Nirvana was hugely popular (He didn't like them, I do) while Lenny Breau, who actually changed what even could be imagined on guitar was living in a "cold water flat" and gigging in a pizza joint, strung out, just before he died under odd circumstances.

Back to Gabriella, one of her best renditions, IMHO, can no longer be heard because Don Henley is a control freak jerk and had her take down her superb rendition of "Hotel California". Thankfully there are others from her that are also superb but Sultans of Swing has flawed timing, and especially for her who commonly recreates even spicy little aside details, whole sections are just missing. Granted, she's playing basic accompaniment and by nature pretty much has to leave out some lead parts because only a very few can play rhythm and lead at the same time and only in some arrangements. She really should've done Sultans as a duo. It's good as it is, with just a few technical flaws but it is neither "correct" nor "spectacular"... and yeah, she is pretty and that's just frosting on the cake for any guy thinking with the "correct" head. Some idiots do gush over female musicians and that's just embarrassing and wrong, but it is the entertainment facet of The Music Biz. Whaddayagonnado?