We seem to have developed an ongoing "avant-garde" thread (OK, so it's mostly me and Anesthetise) and that has reminded me of some lost loves of my misspent youth and opened me up to some new sounds to like or not like in pretty much even quantities. New topic. Which two pieces of music ro...

Avant-garde or not...one of my favourite live bands from when I still went to gigs - Hawkwind and a live version of "Sonic Attack" from Stonehenge in '84. :obscene-smokingweed: [BBvideo 425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe64trLKKE[/BBvideo] And now for something completely different,...

Avant-garde acoustic folk music. The more I play this the more I like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfcmugvDd-c

Bernard Manning covers The Smiths, and there's not really anything I can add to that except to say that unless you're British and "of a certain age" this probably won't be as amusing to you as it is to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5cS0bZiJ1Q

Jeff Beck - Emotion & Commotion. A couple of nice guest spots from Joss Stone and Imelda May plus a very "ordinary" version of Nessun Dorma. I suppose I was just expecting a Beck-ised treatment with a lot more fireworks but it's a very straight version. I think I'll have to dig my Jeff...

Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEkMquG8Irk

Gram Parsons.

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

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Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird.