Felt the need to listen to the other Canadian band. Saw these guys many years ago in Baltimore, (with Mountain) and it was a really great show, (even though I got hit dead in the eye by one of their lasers).
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What are you listening to? Part III
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I heard some people on a syndicated radio show talking about this. Apparently Bob Segar did a song with them at one point on the tour. That would be something to see!
Bob Seger wrote Heartache Tonight with Glenn Frey. Then he turned it down, thinking it wasn't going to be a hit...
Oops.
BL.
Yeah they mentioned that. Bet there was a heartache that nightBob Seger wrote Heartache Tonight with Glenn Frey. Then he turned it down, thinking it wasn't going to be a hit...
Oops.
BL.
I don't mean to harp on about 52nd Street, but....
Up to this point I was mostly familiar with the singles Big Shot, My Life, Honesty.... but recently the other songs have jumped out at me.... Zanzibar, Stiletto, Rosalinda's Eyes, Half a Mile Away, 52nd Street ......amazing summer listening!!!
Up to this point I was mostly familiar with the singles Big Shot, My Life, Honesty.... but recently the other songs have jumped out at me.... Zanzibar, Stiletto, Rosalinda's Eyes, Half a Mile Away, 52nd Street ......amazing summer listening!!!
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Great song, (and I love it), but I have (idly) wondered to what extent it may have been influenced by the superb Jethro Tull song "We Used To Know"?
You mentioning Jethro Tull got me digging through the albums, thanks.
Well, I am rather partial to Jethro Tull, and love their music.
Listening to several songs from the always wonderful - and, musically, at least, quite immortal - David Bowie.
Great album. Especially love the long intro in The Firth of Fifth track in that one, and the ensuing pedal points in the thing.
Vivaldi’s L’oracolo in Messenia, an opera composed for the autumn Venetian carnival season of 1738. So many wonderful works were written for these festivals. So much work. So great that many of these "tossed off" gems have survived. Nifty to bump into them on Apple Music; I like thinking of Vivaldi sharing a hangout with rockers and rappers and the likes of Eilen Jewell with all of them homing in on love and betrayal.
Europa Galante / Fabio Bondi
Ann Hallenberg Franziska Gottwald, Julia Lezhneva, Magnus Staveland, Romina Basso, Vivica Genaux, Xavier Sabata
Virgin Classics (EMI 2012)
Love Vivaldi operas, and can listen to them while doing other things. That’s not at all meant to be rude, either... as when some suggest that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto grosso 500 times. Just sayin’ that with a Vivaldi opera, I don’t generally find myself standing in the kitchen or mudroom with a mop in hand and transfixed for minutes on end, as can happen to me when listening to, say, Anna Netrobka singing Rachmaninoff’s Zdes' khorosho, Op. 21, No.7.
with all of them homing in on love and betrayal.Europa Galante / Fabio Bondi
Ann Hallenberg Franziska Gottwald, Julia Lezhneva, Magnus Staveland, Romina Basso, Vivica Genaux, Xavier Sabata
Virgin Classics (EMI 2012)
Love Vivaldi operas, and can listen to them while doing other things. That’s not at all meant to be rude, either... as when some suggest that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto grosso 500 times. Just sayin’ that with a Vivaldi opera, I don’t generally find myself standing in the kitchen or mudroom with a mop in hand and transfixed for minutes on end, as can happen to me when listening to, say, Anna Netrobka singing Rachmaninoff’s Zdes' khorosho, Op. 21, No.7.
Vivaldi’s L’oracolo in Messenia, an opera composed for the autumn Venetian carnival season of 1738. So many wonderful works were written for these festivals. So much work. So great that many of these "tossed off" gems have survived. Nifty to bump into them on Apple Music; I like thinking of Vivaldi sharing a hangout with rockers and rappers and the likes of Eilen Jewell
Europa Galante / Fabio Bondi
Ann Hallenberg Franziska Gottwald, Julia Lezhneva, Magnus Staveland, Romina Basso, Vivica Genaux, Xavier Sabata
Virgin Classics (EMI 2012)
Love Vivaldi operas, and can listen to them while doing other things. That’s not at all meant to be rude, either... as when some suggest that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto gross 500 times. Just sayin’ that with a Vivaldi opera, I don’t generally find myself standing in the kitchen or mudroom with a mop in hand and transfixed for minutes on end, as can happen to me when listening to, say, Anna Netrobka singing Rachmaninoff’s Zdes' khorosho, Op. 21, No.7.
Oh, yes, I know that feeling of standing there, transfixed, arrested in mid activity by what you are hearing.
And, when you hear the sort of piece of music that has that effect on you for the very first time, it is electrifying.
Complete switchup today in the service of dodging a dive into the news. Some Apple reggae playlist called Slow Morning: Dancehall. Sounded about right for me on a morning I decided to forego reading the papers at dawn. It's fun, but from experience I know I can't read a newspaper and listen to reggae at the same time so this will last about as long as it takes me to finish my current cuppa covfefe.
