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What are you listening to? Part III
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Favorite decades for music
1980's
1960's
1970's
1990's
1940's
1950's
2000's
2010's
Every decade is great to me. I listen to 19th century classical music. At night, I listen to the Andrew Sisters radio on Pandora. You gotta have the range.
But on my iPhone playlist, the 80's and 60's dominated. The 60's had like 2-3 minute songs. I love the mini skirts and hairstyles. The 60's was divided into two. By 1966, it became hippie and drug-infused.
The 80's was the greatest decade for one-hit wonder pop music. New wave and power ballads ruled. This was the beauty of the 1980's.
Dennis Miller, HBO.
My TFF song over the ones that were on Donnie Darko and over "Shout" which I also adore. It's one of my all-time favorite songs and it probably doesn't even rank in my Top 10 for that decade alone. That's just how great 1980's music is.
The "ugly" sister from Charles In Charge, Josie Davis.
Even the 80's intros were great...
Favorites
Perfect Strangers
Growing Pains
Disney's Gummi Bears
The World of David the Gnome
Reading Rainbow
Dinosaucers (obscure 80's cartoon)
@KingslayerG5
Dinosaucers was my favorite!
I actually have two playlists, one with all sitcom intros and one with all the cartoons i used to watch growing up. They make for a great guessing game on road trips
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My favorites themes also include:
Cheers
Ducktales
Growing Pains
Ghostbusters
Moonlighting
Thundercats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1980's cartoon)
Coincidentally, I was listening to the 'Perfect Strangers' theme earlier today.
Cheers
Ps> i reckon there should be a new thread for tv themes
Dinosaucers was my favorite!
I actually have two playlists, one with all sitcom intros and one with all the cartoons i used to watch growing up. They make for a great guessing game on road trips
.My favorites themes also include:
Cheers
Ducktales
Growing Pains
Ghostbusters
Moonlighting
Thundercats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1980's cartoon)
Coincidentally, I was listening to the 'Perfect Strangers' theme earlier today.
Cheers
Ps> i reckon there should be a new thread for tv themes
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Missing Manhattan, so.... Billy Joel - 52nd Street
I can go along with that, playing it while drinking a beer.
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Welp, for me, Nothing says Christmas like these two:
Christmas music? Think I'll pass! Especially in November!Welp, for me, Nothing says Christmas like these two:
Thanksgiving pretty much the beginning of Christmas music here. So, yeah. Our school secretary starts playing it over the PA so at least I've influenced her too...
Listening to Alexandre Tharaud’s performance of Poulenc’s eight piano nocturnes. Here is his 1996 recording with a score for the entire set.
They are so very French, and they have everything, in less than 20 minutes: tranquillity, shock and awe, doubt and certainty, simplicity, intricacy, thematic development and a few moments of studied carelessness, as if suggesting “… or one could do something with this idea sometime…” [and sounds to me like maybe Prokofiev did, or vice versa, who knows: they were contemporaries although I’ve no idea if they ever even met, but sometimes when I listen to Prokofiev’s 7th Sonata I get flashbacks to a few bits of these Poulenc works].
Poulenc called these nocturnes but really they’re nocturnal sketches structured into a cycle like Schumann’s Kinderscenen or Fantasiestücken, but in miniature. He even gave a few of them subtitles to suggest their thematic content. I was surprised to learn they’d been written across the span of a decade, as they do seem to hang together, and he evidently meant them to be considered together when he tacked onto the title of the final nocturne “pour servir au coda du cycle”. When I listen to these little nocturnes, I usually make a playlist and let it repeat for an hour or so, and don’t tire of them even then; there is so much to discover in them.
They are so very French, and they have everything, in less than 20 minutes: tranquillity, shock and awe, doubt and certainty, simplicity, intricacy, thematic development and a few moments of studied carelessness, as if suggesting “… or one could do something with this idea sometime…” [and sounds to me like maybe Prokofiev did, or vice versa, who knows: they were contemporaries although I’ve no idea if they ever even met, but sometimes when I listen to Prokofiev’s 7th Sonata I get flashbacks to a few bits of these Poulenc works].
Poulenc called these nocturnes but really they’re nocturnal sketches structured into a cycle like Schumann’s Kinderscenen or Fantasiestücken, but in miniature. He even gave a few of them subtitles to suggest their thematic content. I was surprised to learn they’d been written across the span of a decade, as they do seem to hang together, and he evidently meant them to be considered together when he tacked onto the title of the final nocturne “pour servir au coda du cycle”. When I listen to these little nocturnes, I usually make a playlist and let it repeat for an hour or so, and don’t tire of them even then; there is so much to discover in them.
And, odd as it may sound, neither have I, for that matter.
On fact, I have never set foot in the US, and I write as someone exceptionally well travelled, who has worked in three continents and well over a dozen - if not a score - of different countries.
@pachyderm @Scepticalscribe
A tangent....
This is such a cliche which I was adamant not to partake in, but.... I did "fall in love" with Manhattan(from the perspective of a tourist). It's not easy to describe.
I highly recommend a visit.
A picture I took while on the Staten Island Ferry....
A tangent....
This is such a cliche which I was adamant not to partake in, but.... I did "fall in love" with Manhattan(from the perspective of a tourist). It's not easy to describe.
I highly recommend a visit.
A picture I took while on the Staten Island Ferry....
I am loving that ECM Records now has their music available for streaming ... I own dozens of albums and CD’s, most digitized and/or imported to my music library, but so great to be able to stream across platforms and listen on demand ... and also hear things I don’t own.
RIght now listening to the album ‘Ring’ by the Gary Burton Quartet featuring Eberhard Weber. Gorgeous ...
RIght now listening to the album ‘Ring’ by the Gary Burton Quartet featuring Eberhard Weber. Gorgeous ...
Someday, someday, in the future, I shall manage a visit Across The Pond.
Now, music, a few instrumentals to kick off the night.