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What are you listening to? Part III
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Funny how those Philip Glass CDs all have this - sort of, specific - appearance.
Now, @mobilehaathi: and I write this as someone who loves Philip Glass, and proudly possess a few CDs which look almost exactly like that, although, these days, many of them - indeed, almost all of them - have found space on my iTunes Library, and, from thence, to my iPod.
When you listen to Philip Glass, are you already in the kind of mood to want to listen to his stuff, or, do you just fancy some music, your hand alighting on Philip Glass, and think, ah, yes, this is cool.
In other words, does listening to his work serve to reinforce an already existing mood, or, does your mood change while listening to his music if you have chanced upon it inadvertently?
It can go either way. I actually really enjoy listening to minimalist music while I work (program/write/solve math/plot and edit figures). I find it extremely relaxing in that it is both engaging and unobtrusive.
While I like minimalist music, I find that Philip Glass either puts me into a particular mood, or, sometimes, I play his music to put myself into that mood, or, I am in that mood and wish to hear Philip Glass to reinforce it further.
For writing, revising, planning, or thinking, - as background music - I tend to prefer something less.......intense (but preferably instrumental).
Air, funk jazz, Yann Tiersen, Mozart, Mike Oldfield, along with some others - a sort of fusion trad, - they all work well for me in such circumstances.
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Psyché Rock (1967), Pierre Henry, which the "Futurama" theme song was heavily inspired by.
The soundtrack (which blew me away at the time, audit is still astonishingly good, as it has aged extremely well, written by Vangelis) from the superb series "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan.
Listening to Bernard Cornwell (The Warlord Chronicles) "The Winter King," "Enemy of God," and "Excalibur."
What a great album. Of course I do dig them.
Currently listening to:
HorrorPops - Walk like a Zombie
Ah, Bernard Cornwell.
How do you like "The Warlord Chronicles"? That is a series I haven't read, and nor have I heard any kind of feedback whatsoever.
Now, I have read quite a few of the "Sharpe" chronicles, and liked them a lot. Moreover, I hugely enjoyed the "Grail Quest" series (set during the Hundred Years War), and the found the "Saxon Stories" both enjoyable and very interesting.
In my opinion, "The Warlord Chronicles" are at the top of the reading / listening pleasure scale, compared to "Sharpe" and "Saxon," both of which I enjoyed. I was hooked from the very beginning. It was hard to stop listening. It is that engrossing. I like the narration of Jonathan Keeble. I also have narration by Edmund Dehn, who I think does better job with the phrase timing and subtle nuances of Cornwell. The latter narration is harder to find as it was only offered on cassette, if I am not mistaken. The former is available on Audible.com The trilogy gets high marks from many readers / listeners.
I think you would thoroughly enjoy it, Sceptical.
Needing to pick up my studio after designing with abandon this afternoon... so... with more focus on hasty determination and less on abandon:
Marching Song -- Pointed Sticks, album Vancouver Complication
Marching Song -- Pointed Sticks, album Vancouver Complication
Pop Muzic (1979), M, which has a very similar melody to Huey Lewis' "New Drug" and Ray Parker Junior's "Ghostbusters". Hoverer, it came out four and five years earlier, respectively.
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An oldie - a goldie, and yes, something of a classic: An album called 'Days Of Future Passed' by The Moody Blues.
I don't know whether of not there was a movie (film). If so, I have neither seen nor heard of it (until this post).
But the album is regarded (rightly, to my mind) as a classic.
I'm still lost and don't get it.
To be honest, I never heard of that movie either.
Days of Future Passed
Days of Future Past
I'm suprised you haven't seen the X-men films. Quite good if your ever stuck for an option.