Agreed. Every track is excellent - the whole album stands the test of time (and taste). Actually, it is one of those albums that one can listen to again and again; one simply never tires of it.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Agreed. Every track is excellent - the whole album stands the test of time (and taste). Actually, it is one of those albums that one can listen to again and again; one simply never tires of it.
A strangely memorable piece of music called 'Raquel' by a (German) group named Bau. Actually, I first heard this some years ago while watching the brilliant movie 'Hable Con Ella.' - for it formed part of the soundtrack.
The new album by David Bowie: "The Next Day". The man is a genuinely creative genius; he crafts wonderful songs which manage to remain relevant, fresh, melodic and - in some cases transcendental - and has managed to do so for the best part of half a century.
Reviews praised the album highly, and, listening to it, I have to agree. Not many artists can produce work of such a consistently high - and original - quality over such a period of time.
Reviews praised the album highly, and, listening to it, I have to agree. Not many artists can produce work of such a consistently high - and original - quality over such a period of time.
totally into 'Electro Swing' as a genre right about now. it's like several of my favorite bits all rolled into one. epic.
so anyway, really like the artist 'Caravan Palace' and found a video of a guy dancing to it. can't quit watching. makes me smile even if i don't feel like it. amazing stuff. now have two little boys dancing around the house trying to copy the moves.
so anyway, really like the artist 'Caravan Palace' and found a video of a guy dancing to it. can't quit watching. makes me smile even if i don't feel like it. amazing stuff. now have two little boys dancing around the house trying to copy the moves.
Yes, I do indeed remember Ian Dury......brings back memories.
More memories. Tonight, another vintage, immortal, and yes, timeless, classic was played: 'Stairway to Heaven', by Led Zeppelin. This is a song I had not listened to in ages, and it is as brilliant, as ageless, and as mesmerising as ever. Sheer class.
Danny Brown's new album, CHVRCHES new album, Lorde's album, Krewella's new album, Avicii's new album.
Another classic, and here, it is clear that I am showing my age: "The Boxer", by Simon & Garfunkel.....sheer, sublime. class,....
One of those instrumental classics I have always loved, a tune which was the epitome of cool when I first heard it, and yes, I have to say that I still love it: "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MGs.....
This is of course is the real music that defines cool.
It was my mothers favourite song.
I played it Friday night and the memories came flooding back, since then I have listened to it quite often.
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Another classy instrumental that I always loved, and that is: "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams. Great stuff.
Once upon a time, oh, some time ago, in an era we might term somewhere in the past, I hunted this track down, in one of those old specialist record shops where you spent hours and hours after class on a Friday or Saturday afternoon in your late teenage and/or student years just.........rummaging, and rummaging. Anyway, I found it. And bought it. And loved it.
The record was what we called in those days a 45rpm........in other words, the old 7" single.....(and yes, I was the sort of nerd who timed this speed of rotation using the second hand of my watch......)
Once upon a time, oh, some time ago, in an era we might term somewhere in the past, I hunted this track down, in one of those old specialist record shops where you spent hours and hours after class on a Friday or Saturday afternoon in your late teenage and/or student years just.........rummaging, and rummaging. Anyway, I found it. And bought it. And loved it.
The record was what we called in those days a 45rpm........in other words, the old 7" single.....(and yes, I was the sort of nerd who timed this speed of rotation using the second hand of my watch......)
Been on a huge Trivium kick lately, after seeing them live for the first time. Vengeance Falls may not be their best album, but a solid listen for fans of metal, I'd say.
I have written elsewhere (the movie thread to be precise) of my liking (no, more than liking, sheer admiration, love, almost) for Lee van Cleef and the slightly decadent, but utterly sublime, movie art form known as the spaghetti western, with its arid landscapes, baroque operatic violence, arch melodrama, deep dark humour, murky morality, and haunting music.
One of the things I have always loved about the spaghetti western was the music, memorable - nay, haunting - and quite specifically appropriate to this time, place and setting. Even as a child, I thrilled to this strange, gripping, slightly sinister music, music that had melody, yet bore it with an insouciant, almost tongue in cheek macabre humour while yet remaining incredibly, ineffably atmospheric.
Ennio Morricone is justly famous, and needs little introduction, and yes, of course, I love his music. However, this evening, in homage to Lee van Cleef, I shall offer you instead an amazing piece by Marcello Giombini, from the movie 'Sabata' which is called 'In the House of Stengl'. The aforementioned Stengl, perhaps, not surprisingly, was one of the movie's many, many, antagonists.......
One of the things I have always loved about the spaghetti western was the music, memorable - nay, haunting - and quite specifically appropriate to this time, place and setting. Even as a child, I thrilled to this strange, gripping, slightly sinister music, music that had melody, yet bore it with an insouciant, almost tongue in cheek macabre humour while yet remaining incredibly, ineffably atmospheric.
Ennio Morricone is justly famous, and needs little introduction, and yes, of course, I love his music. However, this evening, in homage to Lee van Cleef, I shall offer you instead an amazing piece by Marcello Giombini, from the movie 'Sabata' which is called 'In the House of Stengl'. The aforementioned Stengl, perhaps, not surprisingly, was one of the movie's many, many, antagonists.......
And, some 70s stuff, instrumental music of the sort that was popular in countries such ad France at the time......but I loved it, too....
Jean-Michel Jarre and 'Oxygene'.
Jean-Michel Jarre and 'Oxygene'.