Oh, I didn't spot that pun.
Actually, I haven't seen a movie in a cinema for a few years; the last one I watched on a CD (a gift from Other Brother) was Grand Hotel Budapest which I hugely enjoyed.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Oh, I didn't spot that pun.
Actually, I haven't seen a movie in a cinema for a few years; the last one I watched on a CD (a gift from Other Brother) was Grand Hotel Budapest which I hugely enjoyed.
I have to really want to see a movie to see it at the cinema (like the Star Wars movies). I find what with the chatting, texting and general eating crap from the other people, I have little patience for it.
Well, I'm one of those who are partial to art house movies, (serious stuff) and love art house cinemas, nice and often more than half empty.
In recent years I'd always wait until the end of the film run before seeing a movie, so it was more like 4/5ths empty.
Well accept for SW which I saw on opening night, because my other big hate is spoilers.
(well for sure what I'm not listening to is Zappa's Valley Girl... random reference to something in another thread) 
So what does fill the room now is some French pop, currently Patrick Bruel - "Je fais semblant" from his album "Des souvenirs devant..." perfect for a summer night when all I'm looking for is a little distraction from the heat. We're not used to the day's heat lasting into the wee hours around here, but that's what's been happening. Bruel's fun to listen to now and then.
So what does fill the room now is some French pop, currently Patrick Bruel - "Je fais semblant" from his album "Des souvenirs devant..." perfect for a summer night when all I'm looking for is a little distraction from the heat. We're not used to the day's heat lasting into the wee hours around here, but that's what's been happening. Bruel's fun to listen to now and then.
Actually, I never heard of this group, but the font, colours and design almost suggest a psychedelic era CD from the sixties.
It's an anthology album, but the songs date from the 70s. It's definitely psychedelic (soul/funk), and absolutely groovy as ****.
Sounds like my sort of thing: This is because I like soul, love funk, and have a soft spot for psychedelia.
Okay.. I'm going to make an incredible admission that will shock everyone.
Okay.. here goes.
I really despised the Beatles.
Yeah. I said it. I thought the Beatles were crap. complete, total crap.
Note that all of that was past tense. See, growing up, music held the least importance in my mind (hey, I was a kid, and wanted to go outside and play with my Transformers, play dodge ball, etc.. all the boy things!), and especially music from before my time (especially since being black, it was a very tumultuous time in the world). I just wanted to avoid the doomy, gloomy, drug infested haze that was music back in the 60s, and stay with the happy tunes I had as a kid in the 80s. Even in school then, we had kids songs like Yellow Submarine, which I sure as hell didn't know was the Beatles. I knew a few songs from them, but never put one and one together. Paul McCartney? I knew him from duets with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. Ringo Starr? Thomas the Tank Engine. George Harrison? Travelling Wilburys. John Lennon? Didn't he write some Christmas music?
Anyway, you get the point.
35 years later, I'm finally starting to come around, and again, it's taking my children and a recently premiered show on Netflix to do it.
that said, I just picked up the soundtrack of this for my children, and while the die-hards will always say that the originals are better, keep in mind that I'm looking at this with the innocent eyes of a 4 and 6 year old child. If you have Netflix, I think even as adults you'd enjoy the shows, but the music is great for what they are doing.
With that, here's Beat Bugs, an original kids show incorporating more than 50 songs from the Lennon/McCartney ïNorthern Songs' catalog and features covers by world-leading music artists.
BL.
Okay.. here goes.
I really despised the Beatles.
Yeah. I said it. I thought the Beatles were crap. complete, total crap.
Note that all of that was past tense. See, growing up, music held the least importance in my mind (hey, I was a kid, and wanted to go outside and play with my Transformers, play dodge ball, etc.. all the boy things!), and especially music from before my time (especially since being black, it was a very tumultuous time in the world). I just wanted to avoid the doomy, gloomy, drug infested haze that was music back in the 60s, and stay with the happy tunes I had as a kid in the 80s. Even in school then, we had kids songs like Yellow Submarine, which I sure as hell didn't know was the Beatles. I knew a few songs from them, but never put one and one together. Paul McCartney? I knew him from duets with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. Ringo Starr? Thomas the Tank Engine. George Harrison? Travelling Wilburys. John Lennon? Didn't he write some Christmas music?
Anyway, you get the point.
35 years later, I'm finally starting to come around, and again, it's taking my children and a recently premiered show on Netflix to do it.
that said, I just picked up the soundtrack of this for my children, and while the die-hards will always say that the originals are better, keep in mind that I'm looking at this with the innocent eyes of a 4 and 6 year old child. If you have Netflix, I think even as adults you'd enjoy the shows, but the music is great for what they are doing.
With that, here's Beat Bugs, an original kids show incorporating more than 50 songs from the Lennon/McCartney ïNorthern Songs' catalog and features covers by world-leading music artists.
BL.
Heh, that's cute. Although I can't help thinking the licensing fees must have been astronomical...
Good point.. but I kid you not here, with no word of a lie.
My wife just called me, and in the background, I hear my 4-year old singing I am the ebman, I am the walrus, ku-ku-kachu! (she can't quite pronounce eggman yet).
BL.
Good point.. but I kid you not here, with no word of a lie.
My wife just called me, and in the background, I hear my 4-year old singing I am the ebman, I am the walrus, ku-ku-kachu! (she can't quite pronounce eggman yet).
BL.
That is a charming story; and what a wonderful way to introduce one's children to the Beatles.
The company of Mr Mozart on a Friday evening - now, could anything be better than that?
Yes, it is wonderful, like always. The next will be Chopin - Complete Nocturnes (with Brigitte Engerer, unfortunately she died 4 years ago).
Enjoy Chopin's Nocturnes. Not something I have heard in a good while, so I must listen to them again sometime soon.
I have quite a lot from the supremely gifted Mr Mozart on my iPod, but very little by Frédéric Chopin. (My set of the Nocturnes - bought from an outstanding music store in the days when such things existed - took the form of a superb boxed set of LPs).
That is blasphemy! But I know lots of folks who do not like them. Me I really like them, a lot. I like there later stuff more though. The experimental stuff if you will! Another soundtrack you might want to pick up or listen to is the one from "Across The Universe" there are some really good covers of the songs that I actually like more than the original version.