Good morning #JukeboxFridayNight I was distracted and busy yesterday but your #Simplicity playlist is still complete and available:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZe9K6g9lwnToikgMtuL_vaWDaMH3aEc3
#simplicity
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Brothers Osborne - (I'm Good for Some but) I'm Not For Everyone
(simple theme about tolerance. Cool video - FYI @joncounts )
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - "It’s Your Own Body And Mind" (Audio only)
Doesn’t it seem quite obvious?
Doesn’t it seem unwise?
Nothing else can be taken from you
It’s your own body and mind
One hand holds the candle
The other one holds the flame
Infinite with its guiding light
Illuminating all things the same
She's doing her own thing
#JukeboxFridayNight the #Simplicity of the 'binary solo 00010000011'
Flight of the Conchords - Robots
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#Simplicity
A decade before Portishead, Massive Attack, and Morcheeba, INXS released this proto-triphop:
Hallucinate
Desegregate
Mediate
Alleviate
Try not to hate
Love your mate
Don't suffocate on your own hate
Designate your love as fate
A one world state
As human freight
The number eight
A white black state
A gentle trait
The broken crate
A heavy weight
Or just too late
Like pretty Kate has sex ornate
INXS - Mediate
https://youtu.be/Pr-Vfnd7Yno?feature=shared
• Déjà la nuit – Anouar Brahem
'A tempo passed on to me by the movement of a tree I could see from my window, swaying in the breeze'
https://song.link/y/XlageI95ef4
cover photo: André Kertész, Paris, 1928
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#JukeboxFridayNight has been on for a while in NZ, where it originates. I'll chime in, though it's a few hours till night where I am. The theme is #Simplicity: simple tunes (simple structure, pared-back performances) and simple topics.
Your Song / Elton John
"I know it's not much
but it's the best I can do.
My gift is my song and
this one's for you.
And you can tell everybody
this is your song.
It may be quite simple but
now that's it's done..."
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Oh, I thought of another one for #JukeboxFridayNight and #simplicity
Made for you this little song -by Caspar Babypants
"I made for you this little song
And it's just one minute long
It has guitars that I did strum
And a really simple little drum"
Jukebox Friday Night for 11 July 2025 is working with "Simplicity": simple tunes (structure, pared-back performances) and simple topics.This early polyphonic music with its deceptive simplicity directly influenced some 20th century music, like this piece –
Steve Reich, "Proverb" (1995; 14:09)
This takes a 1946 text by Ludwig Wittgenstein, "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life!" and develops a polyphonic concept similar to those of 12th-13th century composer Pérotin, using mixed time signatures. Simple, yet complex …
Performed by Theater of Voices with members of The Steve Reich Ensemble, Paul Hillier conducting, in June 1996.
Chris Stapleton - Starting Over
(like lots of country music, this is mainly a singer with a guitar and a song with a simple theme)
Well the road rolls out like a welcome mat
To a better place than the one we’re at
And I ain’t got no kind of plan
But I’ve had all of this town I can stand
And I got friends out on the coast
We could jump in the water and see what floats
And we been saving for a rainy day
Let’s beat the storm and be on our way
And it don’t matter to me
Wherever we are is where I want to be
And honey for once in our lives
Let’s take our chances and roll the dice
And I can be your lucky penny
You can be my four leaf clover
Starting over
Ram Jam - Black Betty
(good instrument use around a simple melody line)
Quite simply one of the best contemporary pianists out there.
Hania Rani - Live from Studio S2 in Warsaw
Jukebox Friday Night for 11 July 2025 and is working with "Simplicity": simple tunes (structure, pared-back performances) and simple topics. Early music has been suggested …
"Belial vocatur (Conductus Motet)" (Codex Las Huelgas; 13th century, Spain)
Performed by Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel conducting, at the Chapel of Cistercian Abdij Marienlof, Belgium, October 9-11, 1992.
Replied to Kay 
@Kay There’s also this wonderful cover version!
Steve ‘n’ Seagulls - Thunderstruck
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
(simple song and idea with added beat to get people dancing)
Van Halen - Jump
(complex bridge and some fancy guitar work around a simple idea)
I get up, and nothing gets me down
You got it tough, I've seen the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you feel
You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real
Oh, can't you see me standing here?
I got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Oh, can't you see what I mean?
Ah, might as well jump (Jump!)
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
(complex guitar but otherwise fairly simple, and many people remember it best for the riff and the shouts of Thunder!)
Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow
(simple delivery with a powerful voice)
Eva Cassidy - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Eva Cassidy - People Get Ready
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold (audio only, best version of this simple song. Sad Eva died so young. Gone at 33YO.)
