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So :
Search Robin Archer sings Brecht
Ute Lemper- Berlin Cabaret Songs
Lotte Lenya- Three Penny Opera and Theatre Songs
Marianne Faithfull - Twentith Century Blues
Thersa Strauss - Seven Deadly Sins

Things i would consider cabaret

Leonard Cohen - Field Commander Cohen
Stephen Merrit - 69 love songs
Momus- Little Red Song Book
Marriane Faithfull- Broken Englsih

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lou Reed - 'Transformer', 'Berlin'

― dave q, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When Becker and Fagan were touting their tunes round New York in the late '60s they were told by either Jerry Leiber or Mike Stoller that said songs were more like Brecht/Weill cabaret tunes that pop hits. L or S was (sort've) wrong, as it turned out, but this comment has always struck me as actually a pretty sharp insight, and maybe goes some way to explaining just why Steely Dan seem so - removed? - from the pop mainstrean.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Abba's "I'm a Marionette" is pretty Brechtian

― dave q, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Replacements, "Nightclub Jitters" (maybe even "Androgynous"); Bowie, "Time"; the quiet bit in Nirvana's "Lithium"; Iggy's "Nightclubbing"; Mothers of Invention, "American Drinks and Goes Home"; George Michael, "Kissing a Fool"; the Clash, "Broadway"...

― scott, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rufus Wainwright.

― Sean, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jacques brel's amsterdam is cabaret-ish, i'd consider ute lemper's latest depression-cabaret, and some of the eel's stuff hyper- cabaret...amybe.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the white stripes have a bit o' cabaret in their better songs: st james infirmary, apple blossom. i read that their first single was a cover of a marlene dietrich song or something.

rufus wainwright is obviously trying to cabaret it up a bit, but I don't know his stuff well enough to say if it's any good.

would you consider some of belle & sebastien as cabaret? elliot smith?

van dyke parks? early randy newman - "something new under the sun?"

tom waits, esp. "black rider"?

Can anyone recommend some good starting places for Kurt Weill?

― fritz, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lotte Lenya.
She ahs the most gothic haunted almost rasp, works really well for his music. The two i mentioned above i think . Ute Lemper as well, Her Three Penny Opera on Phillips is good.

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's that Kurt Weill tribute LP called "Somewhere Under the Stars" or something like that that has Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, bunch of other people, and unfortunately, Sting, singing Weill songs... never heard it though.

― Sean, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No sting but Elvis Costello and William S Burroughs. A great album because it does not try to do anything "funky".

― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, Rufus Wainwright. Some music makes you want to kill yourself. I have redirected these impulses in his case -- his music makes me want to kill him. Slowly, with great relish and malice aforethought.

If Marc Almond hasn't been mentioned yet -- well, now I've mentioned him. The list of song/album choices is endless, but I'd suggest the recent website only live album from 1992, just him and piano...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Queen - "My Melancholy Blues"

Actually, "We Will Rock You" could be Brecht doing Leni Riefenstahl or vice versa

― dave q, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's funny you ask, Anthony, since I'm working out this concept of "Americana Cabaret", which is sort of scruffier, countrified cousin of the European variant. Obviously Tom Waits fits in here but I sense this sensibility is more common than is readily apparent. Tav Falco's Panther Burns come to mind - that type of thing. And it's interesting that someone mentioned the Replacements, who, for me, at least, always had that "noir" je ne sais quoi that saved them. Influenced by Alex Chilton, who is also a bit cabaret himself, American style.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grant Lee Buffalo-The Whole Shebang from the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack.

And I know I just said I loathed them on another thread, but the Doors "People Are Strange" is a great song in this vein.

I love Rufus but I think I love Ned's Rufus-bashing even more. Git 'im!

― Arthur, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For Brecht/Weill (also Brecht/Eisler) see also Dagmar Krause (of Slapp Happy and thus partially associated with Henry Cow). Damn it, I wish I had put that album in one of the two boxes I brought with me first when I moved.

― Josh, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My aunt Laurel.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Laurel, in real cabaret style, makes sport of local Newport Rhode Island movers n shakers between songs (I don't know her lineup but it's sassy). so much so that the City Council of Newport (home of the Jazz fest and Folk fest) agreed that she was banned from singing! Well Laurel got some lawyer friends together and they reminded the City Council that there was this weensy little thing called the FIRST AMENDMENT. The Council wuz like "oh yeah" and decided to put a ban on amplification in that club ONLY. So Laurel cd still "communicate her message" just not thru speakers. Even tho there was a metal band that played on the patio of the bar across the street.

Laurel learned how to use her voice to fill a room. She sang with a piano and a stand-up bassist (no mic) for three months, to packed houses at Muriel's. Eventually her vocal cords started to wear. She wrote a letter to Buddy Cianci, the self- promoting mayor of Providence (and convicted felon), asking to be included in Providence's "Jazzmasters" fall music fest, since Newport, well, didn't seem interested in cutting-edge cabaret acts. Buddy responded like a prince, offering her a spot in the fest, and signing (I have seen the letter) with a huge flourish. And now Laurel lives in Providence.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mary Hopkin / Paul McCartney's "Those Were The Days" = English retirement home cabaret.

― Robin Carmody, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sigh. Mary Hopkin. Sigh again. Robin, you've finally given me a chance to exclaim about one of my favorite "cabaret" albums--her "Postcard." And "Earth Song Ocean Song" can make me sigh, if not weep, too.

― X. Y. Zedd, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damn. I thought this would be a Cabaret Voltaire thread.

― bnw, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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