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What are you listening to? Part III

I favor Black most highly of all the tracks on Pearl Jam’s pretty dark Ten album, the one that eventually catapulted them into the sunlight for better or worse. Possibly Black is also the track with the most varied of the frequently incorrectly transcribed lyrics of Pearl Jam’s offerings; :rolleyes: everyone has his own take on a couple of Eddie Vedder's your-guess-is-good-enough half-buried line endings. You can prowl around and find a lot of those guesses online. But no matter, it’s the feeling that got nailed here. It’s perfect for anthemic rock: the primal pain of love gone awry in some unfixable way.



If somehow you’ve never heard it, 21 million listens of just this one upload of the track weren’t logged by a bunch of paid trolls, but even if that had been the case, you haven’t lived until you’ve cranked this track up sometime. You don’t even have to wait for a dark day to savor it.
 
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Hello everyone, Im Jasper - a newbie. I know everyone has different choice their music's style. To me, I like pop and rap. It's very popular. What about u?
 
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My roughly biennial listen to Alan Hovhaness' 2nd Symphony (Mysterious Mountain). He is said not to have cared for it, and to have walked out of at least a few performances. But Fritz Reiner liked it enough to include it in the repertoire of the Chicago Symphony while he conducted those guys, and I liked it well enough to rip the CD to mp3 format early on after iTunes appeared on the planet. I still have that CD somewhere and keep meaning to rip it lossless now. Another bucket list item I'll probably never get around to, but I really dislike mp3 compared to AAC, so I should at least do myself the favor of fishing the thing down from Apple Music.

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mobilehaathi said:
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Incredible.


LizKat said:
I had heard of "the old Ethiopian Washington taxi driver"... from a jazz fanatic friend but didn't know much about his background and only had heard one track of his music, so thanks for posting that and causing me to scout around for more info.. Bumped into a review of his Lala Belu album that filled in some blanks... what an amazing guy.

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Thanks for sharing. Absolutely fascinating.
 
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AustinIllini said:
After watching Dunkirk and hearing the soundtrack, I cannot decide if I like Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer's take on Elgar's Nimrod as the main theme.

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In comparison, the soundtrack variation comes off to me as somehow more enclosed, at least in the early going. The soundtrack string players get more free rein later in the piece, maybe too much, even leaving aside creative choices in the film's variation on the Nimrod theme. I haven't seen Dunkirk yet; I've heard the Elgar themes were put to good use.

The performance by Sir Adrian Boult and the London Symphony seems ever-expanding. Perhaps no one can top a Boult take on an actual Elgar work anyway. It's fascinating that Elgar themes have turned up in the Dunkirk film. His music has been rather underplayed in the concert halls, so it's not like Boult has ended up with a lot of competing interpretations nor Elgar with many adaptations.

I did listen to both of those posted offerings twice, parking my display on an empty desktop the second time around in trying not to be influenced by the beautiful video created for the Boult Elgar; thanks for posting that in particular.
 
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Some Francis Cabrel: Les Gens Absents track, from the album Les Beaux Dégâts




J'ai passé l'hiver
En attendant un mot
C'est comme le désert
Sans une goutte d'eau
La barque à l'envers
Posé sur les tréteaux
On voit au travers
Elle sert aux oiseaux

J'ai vu le printemps
Descendre l'horizon
Les bêtes et les gens
Sortir des maisons
Les oiseaux chanter
Sans qu'on sache pourquoi
Et j'étais toujours
Sans nouvelles de toi

Autour des maisons
Un autre été flamboie
Quelques oisillons
S'envolent déjà
Fragiles flocons
Face à l'apesanteur
Dans le bleu profond
Des grandes chaleurs

En haut des pylônes
Les oiseaux voyageurs
Attendent l'automne
Comme des guetteurs
Les fleurs et les hommes
En perdent leurs couleurs
Et toujours personne
Sur le répondeur

Les gens absents
C'est bien ça l'ennuyeux
Ils tournent tout le temps
Là devant nos yeux
On croyait défaire
L'étreinte d'un coup sec
Et puis finalement
On se réveille avec

Juste une question
Est-ce que ça dure toujours
Ces manies qu'ils ont
De tourner autour?
On parle en dormant
Est-ce que c'est bien normal?
Les gens absents
Tout leur est égal

'ai passé l'hiver
...
C'est comme le désert
...
Le coeur à l'envers
...
On voit au travers
...

C'est quoi ces histoires
De fleurs, de saisons
D'oiseaux bizarres
Qui viennent et qui vont?
Ce sont des détours
C'est pour que tu comprennes
Que je m'accroche
Aux choses qui reviennent


The absent ones
I've spent the winter
Waiting for a word
Its like a desert
Without a drop of water

The row boat upside down
stored on trestles
We can see through it
It’s of service just to birds

I saw springtime
Climb down the horizon
Creatures and people
Getting out of their houses
The birds singing
Without knowing why
And still I was
Without news of you

Around the houses
Another summer is blazing
Some fledglings
Soar already
Frail flakes
Facing weightlessness
In the deep blue
Of the heat waves

Atop of the pylons
Traveling birds
Wait for autumn
like lookouts
Flowers and people
lose their colors
And still nobody
On the answering machine

Absent ones
That's the bother
They spin all the time
Here in front of our eyes
We thought we could unmake
The link with a snap
But in the end
One wakes up with it

Just a question
Does it last forever
That habit they have
To hover around ?
We speak in our sleep
Is that even normal ?
The absent ones
What do they care ?

I've spent winter...
It's like a desert...
The heart upside-down...
We can see through it...

What about those stories
Of flowers, of seasons
Strange birds
Coming and going ?
Those are digressions
It's for you to understand
That I'm clinging
To things that return.
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Apple fanboy said:
Eye of the Tigar, Blondie, billie jean.
I'm struggling to recall all the tracks as it was background music to working. No doubt I'll listen to the rest this evening.
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Eye of the Tiger I remember, and I always liked Blondie.

During my previous stint abroad, I vividly recall a group of (British) police officers, all holding relatively senior ranks (mostly chief inspectors, a few inspectors, a few superintendents - a few were female but most were male) dancing furiously and with uninhibited pleasure to a selection of 80s music in our small bar.

Yes, they had partaken of the products of the grain, and were more than happy, but what struck me was that this was the music that had been popular when they were young and it resonated with them.
 
I've always (well since I was ten so for 25 years now, but you get the point) had a soft spot for grunge and (almost) all the bands from Seattle of that genre. It really all started with me hearing Alice In Chains' debut album Facelift, an album that's still played almost on a weekly basis at my place, and hasn't really let go of me since. After AIC I got to know and love Pearl Jam (among others*), but it took quite a while for me to really listen to the band that had musicians from both those two bands, namely the superb Mad Season. The vocalist is none other than the much too soon departed Layne Stayley, and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam -fame is on the guitar. Also involved on the record are people such as Barrett Martin (drums) and Mark Lanegan (vocals) of Screaming Trees and and John Baker Saunders on bass.

*Quick TOP 4 ranking of "the 90's" Seattle bands before we continue:

1) Alice In Chains
2) Pearl Jam
3) Soundgarden (tied with Temple of the Dog)
4) Sir Mix-a-Lot (I might or might not be kidding)​

Bubbling Under: Nirvana, which I never really "got".

Anyway, back to Mad Season. When you consider who actually sings this song and how that person ended up the lyrics become quite heartbreaking really. Great album, great musicians and just great stuff. A piece of trivia you might (and even more probably won't) find interesting is that the day Layne Stayley died is actually the only celebrity death that I can remember exactly what I was doing when I first heard about it. 'Twas not a good day.

But this is what I'm listening to at the moment. While rambling on MR.

 
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Mefisto said:
After AIC I got to know and love Pearl Jam (among others*), but it took quite a while for me to really listen to the band that had musicians from both those two bands, namely the superb Mad Season.

Great album, great musicians and just great stuff.
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Fantastic (and under-the-radar) music. Thanks for bringing it up, I haven't listened to Mad Season for +years+. :cool:
 
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Fantastic (and under-the-radar) music. Thanks for bringing it up, I haven't listened to Mad Season for +years+. :cool:
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Glad to be of service! The reason I like threads like this is you sometimes stumble on bands / genres you have all but forgotten about and then just like that you have something "new" to listen to.

And since there was talk earlier in the thread about the 80's, new wave and whatnot, that's what I've been listening to this evening. I love me some grunge, rock, metal, electro, and combinations of any of those, but sometimes you just need something a bit more upbeat. When that mood hits, there's just nothing quite like the old and trustworthy The Fixx!

Incidentally this is one my favorite music videos of all time. Sheer insanity, I would have paid a handsome sum of money to be able to attend the meeting where they put this together and greenlit it for filming.

 
The Stranglers: Golden Brown, Walk On By, Strange Little Girl, Waltzinblack, La Folie, Who Wants The World, Don't Bring Harry, No More Heroes, Duchess, Get A Grip On Yourself, Peaches, Cruel Garden and several others.
 
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The Stranglers: Golden Brown, Walk On By, Strange Little Girl, Waltzinblack, La Folie, Who Wants The World, Don't Bring Harry, No More Heroes, Duchess, Get A Grip On Yourself, Peaches, Cruel Garden and several others.
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Golden Brown would be a track I have found memories off.

Queen this morning. Imagine Dragons this afternoon for me.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Golden Brown would be a track I have found memories off.

Queen this morning. Imagine Dragons this afternoon for me.
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Golden Brown is a brilliant track - and I remember the stunning and gripping video.

Mind you, I also remember having being blown away the first time I heard No More Heroes - that amazing instrumental section - not to mention the lyrics which appealed to me as a kid mad about history.

Just listening to Golden Brown as I write. Great song.
 
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