Yes, very much agree.
Gojira's previous albums are much better, but still give them cred for a few tracks on their new one as you stated.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Gojira's previous albums are much better, but still give them cred for a few tracks on their new one as you stated.
All of the 2Tone bands were excellent. A product of their times.
However, I tend to listen to most of their work as individual songs or as part of compilations. For some reason "Keep Moving" is an exception, one of several albums that just work for me better as a whole. If I catch a track I need to listen to the whole thing. They're my "Lay's potato chips".
Others:
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Manu Chao - Proxima Estacion Esperanza
Skaface - Mamooska
Squeeze - Singles 45 and Under
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.
Squeeze of course is itself a greatest hits album, but it just flows beautifully. The newer, extended, versions of their GH compilation don't have the same effect on me.
EDIT: I think Manu Chao will be my morning's soundtrack. Thanks @Scepticalscribe!
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My pleasure, and I have a surprising number of the CDs you have just listed. An excellent selection.
Enjoy Manu Chao - to me, this is sunshine music.
Listening to early English opera on this snowy morning: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas - the one with Dame Janet Baker as Dido. Anthony Lewis / English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart’s harpsichord continuo; a remastered edition of the 1961 recording.
I’ve another recording of this as well, with period instruments - the one w/ Anne Sophie von Otter as Dido. Lynn Dawson is great as Belinda in this one. Trevor Pinnock / English Concert & Choir; Pinnock is also the harpsichordist.
I like both recordings. There are a lot of others I’ve never heard, some fairly recent... I should round up a few more from Apple Music (which lists quite a few) and give them a fair hearing sometime, make a whole day of it!
I’ve another recording of this as well, with period instruments - the one w/ Anne Sophie von Otter as Dido. Lynn Dawson is great as Belinda in this one. Trevor Pinnock / English Concert & Choir; Pinnock is also the harpsichordist.
I like both recordings. There are a lot of others I’ve never heard, some fairly recent... I should round up a few more from Apple Music (which lists quite a few) and give them a fair hearing sometime, make a whole day of it!
Back to the Renaissance with David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London tonight.
Both are excellent, to my mind.
In a mood for more Baroque and Renaissance music this evening.
At the moment, "Tenore de Zefiro" by Guido Balestracci is playing. (The album is "L'Amoroso" by Guido Balestracci).
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Hadyn London Symphonies earlier today...
The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Pt. 1
The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround Pt. 1
'Sticky Fingers' by the Rolling Stones is playing in the background as I read my book.
A particular album that strikes me as having been very much of its day, but with an intense sense of time and place.
Haven't heard it in an absolute age; one of my brothers & I went through a brief Stones when we were teenagers, but we both concluded that we preferred the Beatles.
How does it sound today?
Great choice.
I remember listening to "Street Fighting Man" a year or two ago, and it reminded me of nothing so much as a late 1960s soundtrack, performed to a backdrop of some of the extraordinary events of 1968. it is a soundtrack to the viewing of a reel of history, something I never get from the music of the Beatles, as their music seems to be contemporary - or timeless - in a way that of the Stones isn't.
But, I hope you enjoyed it.
Daniel Hope, wow. Sad when the Beaux Arts Trio came to an end with his departure.
I'm watching a docu on You Tube based on an idea of his - The Secrets of the Violin.
I'm watching a docu on You Tube based on an idea of his - The Secrets of the Violin.
Ah, excellent: I have that CD - it is wonderful.
Now, you may just have given me an idea of the sort of music that might be listened to this very evening......
[doublepost=1480111057][/doublepost]Well, @mobilehaathi - what do they say? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
So, it is ludicrously easy to guess what I am listening to.......not least, because I have been listening to Renaissance or Baroque music for the past few nights......
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Well, what can I say? Other than it is a brilliant album, not much. Highly recommended. (And yes, I am listening to it at this very minute...)
Listening to PostModern Jukebox's version of 'Blurred Lines'.
I love The Dome in particular... the little bits of crazy synth stuff (with the chromatic passages) always gets me. Goldsmith had a way of making discordant soundtrack music that puts the viewer in the scene, but is also disorienting yet great. Goblin are the only other soundtrack composers who can nail that for me...
"Logan's Run"?
That is a movie I have heard of, but never saw.
Mind you, I did like the soundtracks to "Midnight Express" and - obviously - "Blade Runner".
The German TV series (also movie) "Das Boot" also had a brilliant soundtrack - Germans, and German culture (Kraftwerk, and so on) mastered good quality synth style music from the 80s; it was very popular there.