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What are you listening to? Part III

Yesterday afternoon I finally got some new speakers for the living room. Let me tell you, if there's ever an instance of you needing to actually experience something for yourself and not reading what others have to say about it, it's when selecting speakers. I get that it isn't always possible, but I spent far too long reading what some self professed "audiophiles" said music and, well, sound should sound like, and at the end I was ready to be content with just listening to the pipes rustle in my building and be done with it.

But I digress.

Today being the first day to really fire them up, I spent some time going through the CD collection and landed on an artist I have the utmost respect for as a musician, but one that also I haven't really listened to in ages. I've only gotten to see her live on one occasion, and that was about ten years ago. One of the better gigs I've ever seen, and I can't wait for the next opportunity.

 
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Mefisto said:
Yesterday afternoon I finally got some new speakers for the living room. Let me tell you, if there's ever an instance of you needing to actually experience something for yourself and not reading what others have to say about it, it's when selecting speakers. I get that it isn't always possible, but I spent far too long reading what some self professed "audiophiles" said music and, well, sound should sound like, and at the end I was ready to be content with just listening to the pipes rustle in my building and be done with it.

But I digress.
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lol.. sometimes listening to trees does make it more relaxing.
 
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Cinema Paradiso Soundtrack
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pachyderm said:
Brothers In Arms came up on my iPod on the way to work this morning.

A good ride into work.


Right now some recently released remastered Kinks tunes:

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Brothers In Arms is brilliant - one of my favourite tracks from Dire Straits.

As for Lola, there was a summer, (an uncharacteristically hot summer) in my undergrad days (no, not the 60, the 80s), when my brother and I seemed to listen almost non-stop to that track and a few others.
 
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Today I've been mostly listening to tunes and artists / bands that were, to me at the time, most important in forming and crystallizing my musical tastes and at the same time layed the groundwork upon which basically everything I listen to nowadays has been built. I was around ten or eleven years old when I first started to consciously and really "listen" to music and what the musicians played as opposed to just having something playing on the radio. It certainly helped that around the same time I started playing my first instrument as well, so that had definately an effect to the way in which I experienced music in general.

One of those bands was Led Zeppelin, so here's one of the greatest groupings of talented musicians ever playing (a fairly recent live version of) one of my absolute favorite tracks of theirs ever. Granted, Bonzo's been gone since 1980, but his son is doing a pretty spectacular job on the drums. A real tribute to good old dad.

 
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Cinema Paradiso Soundtrack
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Lovely soundtrack; I have had the privilege of hearing Ennio Morricone play live - I attended a concert he gave a few years ago, a Christmas present from my brother.

Currently listening to the soundtrack of the TV series "Wolf Hall" (based on the books Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel) by Debbie Wiseman.
 
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