ONE HUNDRED PLUS (Now 200 plus !)
Favorites from MYSPACE (ms), and YOUTUBE (yt)
The WORLD’S FIRST ‘TOP FORTY’ LIST!
MYSPACE has become the world’s biggest and best record company. YOUTUBE is not far behind as the world’s best video company. Between them there’s a lot of great music and undiscovered talent. Here are my best favorites. And these are just discoveries from the last year!!! As far as I know this is the WORLD’S FIRST WORLDWIDE BEST NEW MUSIC LIST.
Some are pure music, some are a fun mix of music and video, all IMO are VERY GREAT and better than what you hear as mainstream music. I think about 90% of these would make #1 Singles.
Note these are from every continent and from all over the world. They includes EVERY type of music. I looked for good songs that had melody and rhythm. I also looked for a variety of styles and anything that showed originality. And finally I looked for things that are in some way magical – that enticed me to hear the music over and over.
Most of these are indies, but I’ve also included some of the best of classic music and even some mainstream artists. Also note that many are women. After all I am a guy and nothing is sexier than woman performing great music.
Some are only youtube videos, or only myspace pages, or both. So check both. Investigate any that appeal to you. I think you too will discover great new music.
Best Classical orchestra: Giovanni Allevi (ms) “Whisper” (ms).
Best Classical voice: Paul Potts “Nessum Dorma” (yt).
Best Classical guitar: Filomena Moretti “Asturias” by Albeniz (yt).
Best Performance of the Oldest Written Piece of Music , Michael Levy “Odessa Bulgar” (yt).
Best Saxophone quartet, Clazzical Saxophone Quartet “Prelude and Fugue in E Minor” (ms).
Best Classical Single Saxophone, Emma “Phil Woods Sonate II” (ms).
Best Composer for Keyboards, Inventor of Modular Art Music, and Best Composer for Vocal Music, Stefano Vagnini (Zoo) “Amaltea”, “Via Crucis”, “Arachne” (ms).
Best Impressionistic Piano Composer, Geoff Orr “Dance of the Dark”, “An Old Photograph of You” (ms).
Best Flamenco Version of Beethoven, Kelly Valleau “Fur Ludwig” (ms).
Best Opera Duo, Operababes “Apres Un Reve” (ms).
Best Theatrical Performance, Klaus Nomi “Cold Song” (ms).
Best Old Type Chanting in a New Style, Mediaeval Baebes all (ms).
Best Duet, Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman “Time To Say Goodbye” (yt).
Best Video Showing Music Notation, Stephen Malinowski ”Clair de lune” (yt).
Best Musical Instruction Video, Shawn Cheek “Nutcracker Theme 2″ (yt).
Best Classical Experimental, Common Sense Composer’s Collective “Marc Mellits Lunacy” and “STIC” (ms).
Best Blind Musician instrumental, Jose Feliciano “Malaguena” (yt).
Best Open Call for All Orchestra Players, London Symphony Orchestra for their idea for the Youtube Orchestra (yt).
Best Movie Soundtrack, assorted artists “A Man and a Woman” (yt)
Most Heartfelt Voice, Eva Cassidy “Autumn Leaves” (yt).
Best Movie Song, Noel Harrison “Windmills of Your Mind” Thomas Crown Affair (yt).
Best Movie Instrumental , Troubleclef “Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso” (yt).
Best Jazz Singer/ Piano Performance, Radka Toneff “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” (yt).
Best Vintage Dance Band, Johnny Crawford Orchestra “Sweepin’ the Clouds Away” / “Look What I’ve Got” (ms).
Best Big Jazz Band, One O’Clock Lab Band ” “Side Effects” by Neil Slater (yt).
Best Big Band Song, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band “Sing Sang Sung”
Best Jazz / Classical Flute, Andrea Ceccomori “Goviana” (ms).
Best Pop Classical Song – Voice and Piano, Francisca Valenzuela “Vuelvo” (ms).
Best Vocal of a Russian Sex Kitten, Sophie Milman “My Heart Belongs To Daddy” (yt).
Best New Version of Misty, Cleve Douglass “Misty” (ms).
Best Jazz version of a Burt Bacharach song, Stan Getz “Walk on By” (ms).
Best Jazz Guitar, Alexis Lafargue Duran “La cuerda floja” or “Roberto” or “Africa mia” (ms).
Best Smoky Joint, Romantic Jazz Piece, Pat Metheny “Lonely Woman” (yt).
Best Video Showing the Flying Notes of Coltrane on his Classic “Giant Steps” from dancohen (yt).
Best Smooooooth Jazz , Dave Sereny “Luxury of Love” AND best Jazz version of a Michael Jackson song, “Give It To Me Baby” (ms).
Best Vocal and Trumpet Duet, Kate Ceberano and Mark Isham “My One and Only Love” (ms).
Best Vocal For These Hard Times, Al Jolson “Brother Can You Spare A Dime” (yt).
Best Rock and Roll Instrumental That’s Little Played, Bill Haley and the Coments, “Rudy’s Rock” AND Best Dance Performance of a Rock Song, Rhythmically Challenged “Rudy’s Rock” (yt).
Best Salute to a TV Show, Marie Digby “Ugly Betty” (yt).
Best Song From TV ( “Ugly Betty”) That is a Monster Hit, “Brett Dennen, “Ain’t Gonna Loose You” (yt).
Best TV Show Opening Theme Song Classic, “Dobie Gillis” (yt).
Best Classic 70’s Song Updated, Stephen Bishop “On And On” (ms).
Best Composer’s Version of His Classic Song Made Into A Hit By Another, AND Best Love Anthem, Todd Rundgren “Love Is The Answer” (yt).
Best Retro Sex-OHHH! Marilyn Monroe, “My Heart Belongs To Daddy” 5 minute version (yt).
Best Sinatra Song Redone By Frank And Sammy Cahn For Ringo’s Wife Maureen and issued in VERY VERY VERY limited edition, ”The Lady Is A Champ” (yt).
Best Lounge, Best Bachelor Pad Music, and Best Incidental Music, Juan Garcia Esquivel, “Musical Office” Video by Ernie Kovacs, or ALL songs (yt).
Best Big Band Song That Got Lost in the Shuffle , Bobby Darin’s original tune ”That Funny Feeling” (yt).
Best Pop Video and Song, Feist “1234″ (yt).
Best Motownish Pop Song, Camera Obscura “French Navy” (ms).
Most Intoxicating Hula Hoop Performance on the Planet, Wendy Daugherty, “The Sedona Hula Hoop at Sunset” (ms).
Best Pop Single Monster Hit, that wasn’t … yet, Lisa Loeb, “Fools Like Me” (yt).
Best Pop Girl Group Song and Video, The Pipettes “ABC” (yt).
Best TV Show Opening Theme Song /Video Contemporary “Mad Men” (yt).
Best Chorus On a Rock and Roll Song AND Sexiest Choreographed Video, Wonder Girls “Nobody” (yt).
Best I-Don’t-Know-Why Songwriting. It’s quirky but classic too, King Curly And The Doomsday Piano “Familyman”, “Lullaby”, “Ghost Train”, or “The Bumblebee Has No Home” (ms).
Best French Pop Classic, France Gall “Laisse Tomber Les Filles” (yt).
Best Bubblegum Music, Annemarie “Bubblegum I See” (ms).
Best French Pop New, Monsieur Dame “Boitacious” (ms).
Best Romantic Pop, Ingrid Michaelson “The Way I Am” (ms).
Best One Like the Song Listed Before This One, Laura Gibson and the Portland Cello Project “Hands in Pocket” (yt).
Sexiest Song Recorded on Planet Earth, Dusty Springfield “The Look of Love” (yt)
Best Lounge Ballads, Jane Fraser “Don’t Mean a Thing” / “About a Boy” (ms).
Best Lounge Vocalist, Bev Lee Harling, “I’m For You” / “Life Won’t Wait” (ms).
Best Beatnik Vibe, Lauren Field “It’s a Jungle Out There” (ms).
Best Clear Strong Voice, Josh Gray “Tonight Tonight” (ms).
Best Actual Good Corporate Art Song , LeAnn Rimes “What I Cannot Change” (yt).
Best Acoustic Guitar – tie, Everything From: Monte Montgomery (yt) / Tommy Emmanuel (yt).
Best Solo Electric Guitar Performance, Brian Setzer “Sleepwalk” (yt).
Best Electroacoustic Song, Julia Crowe “In a Dark Woods” (ms).
Best “Rhythm” Guitar, Andy McKee “Drifting” (yt).
Best Two Guitar Necks at Once Performance, Justin King “Knock on Wood” (yt).
Best Original Guitar Composition, Filippo Corbella, “Patchwork”, (ms).
Smoothest Guitar Playing, Pete Huttlinger “A Felicidade” (yt).
Best All Over The Place Fingerpicking Guitar Playing, Erick Turnbull “Bomba Checka” (ms).
Best Ten String Guitar, Dominic Frasca “Impossible Guitar” (yt).
Best Short and Sweet Guitar Lead, Hovak Alaverdyan “Arm Solo Part” (ms).
Best Nick Drake Song, Nick Drake, “Pink Moon” (ms).
Best Elliott Smith Song, Elliott Smith “Angeles” (ms).
Most Joyous Django Reinhardt Piece, Troubleclef “Improvisation #2″ (yt).
Best Harpist and Singer, Joanna Newsom “Sawdust and Diamonds” (yt).
Best Electrified Ukulele in a Surf Music Instrumental, Mad Tea Part “Big Noise from Krekel” (ms).
Best ukulele performance of a Beatle song by a non Beatle, mbwanderer ” Goodnight” (yt)
Best ukulele performance by a Beatle, Paul McCartney “Ram On” (yt).
Best Early Beatle Song by another Group, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas “I’ll Keep You Satisfied (yt).
Best Mersey Beat Classic You May Have Missed, Gerry & the Pacemakers “It’s Gonna Be Alright” (yt).
Best Beatle New Songs, The Fireman (Paul McCartney) “Two Magpies” / “Sing The Changes” (yt).
Best Song that Sounds Like A Beatle Classic but isn’t, Peter Lacey “Many Moons Ago” (ms).
Best Beatle Cover Band, Spongetones (ms).
Best Rolling Stone Cover AND Best Use of Violins, Sara Hickman “Mother’s Little Helper” (ms).
Best Old and New Video, Donovan and ZouZou “Cherchez l’Erreur” (ms).
Best Rock Classic Cover, “You Were On My Mind” originally by the We Five, by Jamie Hoover (Jamie Hoo-Ever CD / ms)
Best Bob Dylan Video AND Best Romantic Video, “When The Deal Goes Down” With Scarlett Johansson.
Best Dylanesque Song, Guru Monkey, “Cosmic Curtain” (ms).
Best New Found Demo, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, “Marrakesh Express – 1969 Demo (ms).
Best Classic Rock Song Sung Live, Neil Diamond “Cherry Cherry 2005″ (yt).
Best 60’s Classic Love Song You Haven’t Heard, Uniques “All These Things” (yt).
Best Back-To-Basics, Guitar – Voice – Songwriter, Billy the Kid Solo “If I was”, “Love Me Once, Love Me Again”, “Already Forgotten Your Name” (ms).
Best Live Cover Song, Breanne Duren “Come Down In Time” (yt).
Best In Home Performance, George Wirth “Diner” (yt).
Best Ambient Folk Music, Jen Gloeckner “Only 1″ and “Nothing Personal” (ms).
Best Song Biography, Jack Collins “You Might Know Jack” about the writer, Jack Saunders, (ms).
Best Voice From the Past, Connie Converse “One by One” / “Father Neptune” (ms).
Best Old Timey Made Fresh, Joe Dinkins “Red Robin” (ms).
Best Love-Lost Folk Song (Female), Laura Marling “Ghosts” (solo OR group video) (yt).
Best Love-Lost Folk Song (Male), Iron and Wine “Belated Promise Ring” (ms).
Best Thank-The-People-That-Paid-For-The-Record-In-The-Lyrics Song, Jill Sobule “The Donor Song” (ms).
Best Autobiographical Folk, John Lyle “I Know Who I Am” (ms).
Best Folk Rock Fiddler Instrumental, Martine Lund Hoel “Jackobites Live from Tour” (ms).
Most Original 80’s Remake, Andrew Paul Woodworth “Fight For Your Right” (yt).
Best Musical Cartoon, Warner Brothers “Three Little Bops” (yt).
Best Nest of Singer/ Songwriters, The New York Songwriters Circle, Produced by Tina Shafer; including Mieka Pauley, Gillian Grassie, John Schmitt, Caleb Hawley, and Under the Elephant (ms).
Best World Anthem, Bai Kamara Jr. “Citizens of the World Unite” (yt).
Best Christian Rock, Crystal Lewis “Lord I Believe In You” (yt).
Best Protest Song AND Best Peace Anthem AND Best Song By a Collective group of Musicians from a City, Boston; Sgt. Maxwell’s Peace Chorus “End War Now” (ms).
Best Political Video, Harry Shearer “935 Lies” (yt).
Notable Song About The Impact of the War, Michael Vincent “Fire Fight” (ms).
Best Non Protest, Protest Song, John Mayer “Waiting On the World to Change” (ms).
Best List of 3,000 Protest songs, NeilYoung.com (many on ms/yt).
Best Videos showing famous musicians playing with the same guitar strap I own: Elvis “Trouble”, Jimi Hendrix “Star Spangled Banner” – both (yt).
Best Guitar Lick Fleetwood Mac “Oh Well” (yt).
Best Thrash Version of Michael Jackson, Jameson “Beat It” (ms)
Best Classic Sixties Album no one Knows, Love “Forever Changes”. (yt).
Best and Most Emotional Singer/composer/performer From the 60’s that you haven’t Heard of, Laura Nyro “Captain For Dark Mornings” (yt).
Best Hippie Anthem, Animals “Monterey” (yt).
Best Flower Power Music, Sweetwater, “In a Rainbow” (ms).
Best Spiritual Folk Music, The Levins, “Dropping Keys” / “World of Peace”
Best 1,000 Voices Sound, The Gravitons “All I Really Want” (ms).
Best Merry Melodies and Joyous Noise, Mount Righteous “When the Child Awakes” / “You! The Magic Number” (ms).
Best Rare Album, Mellow Candle “Swaddling Songs” – All songs (ms).
Best Phil Spector Song No One Knows, Sonny and Cher “Why Don’t They Let Us Fall In Love” (yt)
Best Autobiographical Album Lyrics, Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billy Joe” Album (ms).
Best One Person Band, Theresa Andersson “Birds Fly Away” / “Na Na Na” (yt).
Best One Singer and Guitar Covers, Matt Tutor “Beginnings” / “Black Water” (yt).
Best Animated Short about One Man Bands, Pixar “One Man Band” (yt).
Best Novelty song from Doctor Dave’s 3-D House of Novelty Songs (ms), Shirley Ellis “Clapping Song” or “Name Game” (yt).
Best Band That’s All Machines with No Humans, the Trons Self Playing Robot Band (ms).
Best Fill In The Blanks Video, Kutiman, “Mother of All Funk Chords” (yt).
Best Kid’s Song, Bill Harley “Fireflies” (ms).
Best High School Video /Song, Kids of Widney High “Pretty Girls” (yt).
Best Lullaby, Dano “Lovely Dreams” (ms).
Best Beatbox Champ, Julia Dales “Wild Card Audition” (yt).
Best Tap Dancer for Rhythm Song, Tilly and the Wall @ the Granada Theater (yt).
Best Travelogue, Little Majorette “London” / “Let’s Get Drunk” (ms).
Most Quirky All Around, Micachu & The Shapes “Calculator” (yt).
Best Electronica Ambient Track, Alterra “Media Mind Design” (ms).
Best Blues Singer / Best Contemporary Lyricist, Amy Winehouse (yt).
Best Blues, James Reeser And The Back Seat Drivers “Opener in C” or “Kick’n You Out” (ms).
Most Soulful New Blues Singer, Olivia Pierson, “Don’t Ever Leave Me” / “Nobody’s Fault But Mine” (ms).
Best Tribute to Ray Charles in song, Fuzzbee “Brother Ray” (ms).
Best Doo-wop A cappella, The Emeralds “My Juanita” (ms).
Best Introspective Blues Song, Chicago Red “In This Life” (ms).
Best Shuffle King, Freddie King, “Blues Band Shuffle”. “Goin’ Down” (yt).
Best Soul, Gnarls Barkley, “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” (ms).
Best Bluegrass Female Voice, Amber Cross “Black Eyed Susan” (ms).
Best Roots Music Banjo, Diane Sanabria, Banjo Queen “Medley in D Minor” (ms).
Best Country, Billy Joe Shaver “Rolling Stone”, AND Best Gospel “If You Don’t Love Jesus” (ms).
Best Classic Country Song Like They Used to Do It, Johnny Paycheck (Donny Young), AND Best Lip Synching by Dusty Sorg. “Shakin’ The Blues” (yt).
Best Texas Rock, Delbert McClinton “Giving It up For Your Love” (ms).
Best Recitation To Music, Luckenbach Texas “Luckenbach Moon” poem by Hondo (ms).
Best Two Sided Country Rock Single, “John Rhett Barrett “My Horse Laid Down / Give A Little More” (ms).
Best Hi-Octane Rockabilly, The Dempseys “Back to the Dog House” / Wine Spo Dee O Dee (ms).
Best 50’s Type Love Song, Charlie Thompson “Kathaleen” (yt).
Best Sun Records Classic You Missed, Carl Mann “Pretend” (ms).
Best Classic Surf Music, Dick Dale “Nitro” (ms).
Most Dynamic Drummer, Sandy Nelson and The Sin City Termites “Back Fire” or “Bizerk Beat” (ms).
Best Folk / Roots Toe Tapper , Le Vent du Nord “Rosette” (ms).
Best Tribal Folk Rock, The Acorn “Flood Part 1″ (ms).
Best Folk Rock Duo and Best Muppet Video, The Weepies “Can’t Go Back Now” (ms).
Best Dream Song, Salim Nourallah “Dreaming” (ms).
Best A cappella Group, Down 4 The Count , “Whirlybird” (ms).
Best Choral Thunder Storm, Perpetuum Jazzile “Africa” (yt).
Best A cappella Version of When The Saints Go Marching In, Les Poukissotes “Owenzesains pour de rire” (ms).
Best Swing, Stolen Sweets “Easy on the Eyes” (ms).
Happiest Song of the Last Decade, Seth Bernard and Daisy May “We Are” (yt), AND Best Overall Undiscovered, Deserves Major Fame, Talent, Daisy May (ms).
Best Trippy Band (Folk Rock) , Dark Captain Light Captain “Jealous Enemies” (ms).
Best Party Poet Set to Music, Will Dockery and The Shadowville Allstars, “The Ride (Combat Zone” (yt).
Best 60’s Spirit in a New Group, The Unconventionals “Strawberry Sunshine (ms).
Most Carefree Indie Pop Song, The Yolks “Why” (ms).
Best Electro Love Song, Vink “All Your Smiles” (ms).
Best Pre Rock Classic, Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (ms).
Best Rock Organist, Voodoo Organist “The Revenge of the Black Widow” (ms).
Best Live Rock Band Performance on Video, Rory Gallagher “Cradle Rock 4/7″ (Live Madrid 1975) (yt).
Best Video Effects, Erykah Badu “Honey” (yt).
Best Smooth Funk, Gruve Nitro “Seasons” (ms).
Best Instrumental like Frank Zappa Would Do, Harrison Fjord “Pimp Shirt” (ms).
Best Surrealist Jazz Comedy Orchestra, The Incomprehensible Danny Midnight Orchestra, “The Pedestrian” (or anything he does) (ms).
Best Moog-ish Music, Neon Indian, “Deadbeat Summer” (ms).
Best Confessional, Mary Magdalan “Debbie” (ms).
Strange Alternative Pop, Fishboy “Minus Two” (ms).
Most Out There Experimental Guitar, L D Hamrock “Organic Liquid” (ms).
Best Rock Polka, Brave Combo “Down At The Friendly Tavern” (ms).
Best Gothic Video/Song, Kerli “Walking On air” (yt).
Best Gothic Guitar (and Voice), Michael Cardenas “Witches Chorus” by Verdi, or original song “Privet” (ms).
Best Romantic Gothic Recitation, Poetica “Finding My Wings” (ms).
Best Dark Songstress, Lykke Li “Little Bit” (2 person back up band is best) (yt).
Best Siren Song, Ladis Lao Robles “Moon” / “Secret Guiding Light” (ms).
Best Acted Song, Amy Walker “Judy’s Over the Rainbow” (yt).
Most Festive Video, Macaco “Moving” (yt).
Best Bossa Nova Classic Classic, Astrud Gilberto “Fly Me To The Moon” (yt).
Best Bossa Nova by a male, Giuseppe Cuce “La Ballata di un Flore” (ms).
Best Bossa Nova by a female, Roberta Campos “Felicidade” (ms).
Best Originator of Art Revolutions, Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar, (yt).
