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What are you listening to? Part III
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Good idea, putting Mr. Davis on now.
Another legend for me: A gentleman by the name of Leonard Cohen.
One more awesome song before this day is over.
Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster
Freakin' love this song, could listen to it over and over...
Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster
Freakin' love this song, could listen to it over and over...
Link Wray ("Rumble! The Best of Link Wray"): Sometimes, this is just exactly the sound you need to hear in your ears.
I just got back from 2+ weeks in Israel. My timing turned out to have been musically... disadvantageous in that I was staying with VERY religious family during a long holiday where folks are supposed to abstain from among other things, music. That doesn't preclude people from singing, apparently, but I didn't ask details. Being that it's impossible for music when I'm many public spaces, there is flexibility in overhearing music during the course of the day, but you're supposed to if you're at best as possible. That's what I was told, anyway. That's all I know since I've learned to roll along with their rules but not ask questions last I just got in a cascade of religious explanations.
What's this have to do with your post?
A month before my trip, I stumbled upon a fellow forum member elsewhere who happens to live in Tel Aviv. She was kind enough to recommend three music stores there. Being just a half hour away by train, two days before my return I wrangled my somewhat militant nephew and hauled him to that much more secular city. He doesn't say much and he's at that age where everything has a cynical edge. More so with him. Nevertheless it was a good day of 7.75 miles walking in exhausting heat to buy few albums and to exuberantly share a little musical trivia this boy has learned how to clandestinely binge watch torrented seasons of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD smuggled in on his Android phone. He knows I frown on piracy but to me its more important that he's evenly remotely testing waters of the culture outside his deeply restrictive bubble.
Oh, your post?
I fully expected to see all the usual "classic rock" and modern pop staples in all the stores but I didn't expect to also find Link Wray at all three. In fact, one of them even had a placard with his name and four or five discs in that section.
Did I bury the meager lead deeply enough?
Anyhow, it's nice to finally have access to the actual Internet again I'm not just a few sites where I can lurk'n'like. Time to catch up on email and PMs... or wade back into PRSI... have I missed anything in the last three weeks?
Yes, but your post doesn't tell me whether you actually like Link Wray. (I have to assume that you do, given what you described; and no, sullen teenagers are not for me, I was one myself and have no desire to return to those days, even as a tourist of mind and memory).
Now: I seem to be in a mood for that sort of dark American music tonight, as I have left Link Wray (brilliant) behind and have graduated to several albums by Los Lobos. Wonderful stuff......
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Like? Leave it to me to leave that out. I also forget punchlines when telling jokes. I just walk away.
I'm embarrassed to only know "Rumble." Great tune that warrants more exploration... when I get to it.
I picked up one item at each store (plus one at a fourth store that's an entirely different story that goes nowhere). The two I'm most excited about are Gabrielle y Rodrigo's 11:11. I bought the download years ago but besides now having lossless access, this version came with a DVD with some exclusive recordings.
I also indulged in my fourth copy of another album.: Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. As a sullen teenager, I bought the lousy CBS/Columbia edition. I passed on the remaster but found a used copy of the British edition on Harvest Records (same muddy transfer). Five or six years ago I stole $40 from my wallet for the hi-res SACD remaster with an even newer remaster and a surround sound mix, too. Shortly after that, a 5-disc deluxe version was announced. $150 SRP was too rich for my blood. Occasionally my price trackers have found good used deals but for such an unwieldy box I did t trust used. This store had it new for those used prices and I thought it'd be a good curio to share, what with its silly three marbles, scarf, stickers and ponderous coasters. The kids were curious, my sister had a secular memory surge, and I couldn't play a second of it. Well worth it. I've removed it from my tracker. I'll add Link Wray, who'll be queued right behind the double CD of Stax singles. Then I'll rip the three CD's and fix the tags while finally hearing the original quad mix. Then I'll listen to the live stuff and the extended alternate version of the title track with Stepahane Grappelli in violin. Then I'll listen to the 5.1 mix and decide if I have the patience to sell my SACD (which now fetches online what I just paid for the box).
Do I like this album? The title track and the opening/closing suites muchly but not so much the record industry gripes in between. I guess that averages out to "like". Wonder how crotchety old Roger'd feel if I asked him to autograph it with its Israeli sticker still on the cellophane. Complicated little country, that.
Right now I'm in a decidedly American greasy dive, wondering if I'll find where I stashed my travel cash or if I accidentally donated it to the TSA at Newark airport, when half asleep, I emptied everything and my shoes into a bin. Too tired to care (much) at the moment. The song playing in the tinny ceiling speaker here is "Stuck in the Middle with You" by Steeler's Wheel. Stealers? I forget. I think if Van Gogh lived to see Reservoir Dogs this song would traumatize him. Yeah, time for a nap.
"Rumble" isn't the only good track that Link Wray recorded.
Though I will happily admit that this exact track was how I came to discover Link Wray for myself, as I loved it when I first heard it on the soundtrack of "Pulp Fiction".
In fact, that track was one of the main - maybe even the main? - motivations behind my purchase of the CD with that soundtrack, in Bosnia, in 1997, where I was monitoring, observing and supervising elections shortly after the war.........ah, memories, memories, memories...
Great choice.
I have now just emerged from two hours of Los Lobos (gosh, they really are brilliant) and has progressed to listening to the wonderful Arthur Lee (Love Forever Changes).
This lot amongst others.
But thanks to my Devine QC35 I didn't have to listen to everyone else at the station or on the trains. I turned the noise cancellation off at one point just to see what it was like. I couldn't believe how noisy it was without them.
Get to trial them on the plane tomorrow.
But thanks to my Devine QC35 I didn't have to listen to everyone else at the station or on the trains. I turned the noise cancellation off at one point just to see what it was like. I couldn't believe how noisy it was without them.
Get to trial them on the plane tomorrow.
Some Britpop from the 90s: Blur, with two excellent albums, "The Great Escape" and "Parklife".
I will have to listen to them. Thanks.
I like them - they made a sort of classy pop with some very memorable tunes.
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
This is my favorite of Prokofiev's piano concerti and one of the best Russian concertos after the Rach 2 & 3.
This is my favorite of Prokofiev's piano concerti and one of the best Russian concertos after the Rach 2 & 3.
Agreed. It is an outstanding and astounding piece of music.
And agree, too, re Rachmaninov. Terrific choice.
A group called "The Divine Comedy", their album "Casanova" and a song with the name of "Songs of Love". (That particular song was the theme tune to the comedy series "Father Ted", by the way).