Heh, wonderful.
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Yeah, this whole album is quite good.Got this on heavy rotation. Pasting it wherever I (still) have an account.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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I did just switch to putting all of Songlines into a playlist on repeat. Just right for the day and the season now that summer has rolled in here more or less on time for once.
It’s takes no one special to understand or appreciate Pachelbel’s Canon. So, with that said...
Jethro Tull. Just going through the albums.
LOL way to disprove your own (weak?) case. But thanks for putting that up.
Here Trace is playing with echos.
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day was my favorite of them.
I thought so! I usually introduce people who've never heard of Jethro Tull with Ian Anderson's brilliant flute solo. Though, admittedly, for every ten good artists I listen to, there is always one that usually causes people to raise an eyebrow. For example, I really like Ali Campbell and got a chance to meet him many years ago. Nice enough guy.
The flute solo is brilliant.
For that matter, I am also very enamoured of the music of Steeleye Span.
That got a healthy "who?" from me. Maybe @decafjava can indulge us with a bit of light bouzouki one day. Too much?
If you like Jethro Tull, the chances are that the music of Steeleye Span will also appeal to you.
Bananarama came back in vogue a year or two ago. That was... neat. I'd love to see Duran Duran again. And again. And again. We saw Neil Diamond back in 2012 which was a blast. I regret not getting tickets again in the years following since he announced his retirement from touring this year. Wise decision given his age and the pressure from touring. Legendary man.
Tchaikovsky's pensive Souvenir d'un Lieu Cher Op 42 Melody in E Flat Major arranged for piano... and banjo:
Oddly, I can’t not sometimes hear strains of Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” in this melody. Since I love this recording and am indifferent to that one it can be distracting.
Oddly, I can’t not sometimes hear strains of Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” in this melody. Since I love this recording and am indifferent to that one it can be distracting.
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The morning started with 1999 by Prince care of the radio.
Then a mixture of
Guns and Roses
Imagine Dragons
Alanis Morriset
At work.
Then a mixture of
Guns and Roses
Imagine Dragons
Alanis Morriset
At work.
And why not as long as others aren't disturbed?
Blur might be interesting this evening.
One of my favorite sounds is a breathing pianist whose foot can be heard tapping a pedal between the expressively varied striking of keys. Squeaky tack pianos slightly out of tune, too. Can’t find a video for the thought but found one for another. That wet echoing sound of a piano overheard from the distance so that the architecture and environment mix the reverberations, lapping against the musical intent.
Another is frailty in a voice revealing the mysterious emotional swirl when singing by muscle memory brushes against actual memories in performance. It’s all about the undertow... and sometimes the eyes.
Sympathetic harmonies, too; sisters accompanying each other on piano and guitar on a song you’ve known half your life so you grimace when a line is pointlessly changed giving animus to the sun... yet you are far more moved to hear new, more emotive bends in the vocal melody than lurched out of the original.
Then there’s pretty much any version of the Nocturne below. Coincidentally in E-Flat, like my previous post. I’m not technicutrained so I get the drift of that but not much more. I chose the recording from the film where it went, for me, from classical noodling to timeless and moving.
Think I’ll grab lunch soon. Someplace overlit with a jumble of phatic noise and a randomly generated zombie playlist overhead blocked out by my earbuds. The years are short as the days are long.
Another is frailty in a voice revealing the mysterious emotional swirl when singing by muscle memory brushes against actual memories in performance. It’s all about the undertow... and sometimes the eyes.
Sympathetic harmonies, too; sisters accompanying each other on piano and guitar on a song you’ve known half your life so you grimace when a line is pointlessly changed giving animus to the sun... yet you are far more moved to hear new, more emotive bends in the vocal melody than lurched out of the original.
Then there’s pretty much any version of the Nocturne below. Coincidentally in E-Flat, like my previous post. I’m not technicutrained so I get the drift of that but not much more. I chose the recording from the film where it went, for me, from classical noodling to timeless and moving.
Think I’ll grab lunch soon. Someplace overlit with a jumble of phatic noise and a randomly generated zombie playlist overhead blocked out by my earbuds. The years are short as the days are long.
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Well it drowns out the noise, and I wasn't feeling sociable.
Blur does sound like a good choice indeed!
That's an excellent choice of music. My computer died and I haven't yet replaced it. This means I can't finish any work from home after hours, and I have been very busy. I'm also chronically disorganized, which is a bad combination. I also don't log in from work, and the mobile site never works well for me.
And because life is also fun, funny, and needs more lifeguard whistles and covers of songs made famous by Muppets. (Yes, theirs is also a cover of this 1968 song... not to mention the first Muppet version was actually this one on Sesame Street in 1969)
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It was about 15 to 20 years ago that I first heard the name Diamanda Galás. The piece I read on her (I forget where it was), in retrospect, was grossly sensational and the whole piece was at best misleading, at worst a 100% false, but still reading about a possibly possessed operatic singer / pianist was enough to get me to look her up and give her music a listen.
She has a particular track, Judgement Day, that has the same melody as a (possibly, may be much older) 13th century Catholic hymn by the name of Dies Irae. A beautiful piece of music that, I think, for the first time caught my attention when I, at the time far too young secretly watched a copy of The Shining my parents had a VHS tape of. The beginning features an electronic rendition of the hymn as the Torrances' car drives on the winding mountain roads heading for Overlook hotel. Foreboding doesn't even begin to describe the feeling I still get from it all these years later.
Dies Irae:
Judgement Day:
She has a particular track, Judgement Day, that has the same melody as a (possibly, may be much older) 13th century Catholic hymn by the name of Dies Irae. A beautiful piece of music that, I think, for the first time caught my attention when I, at the time far too young secretly watched a copy of The Shining my parents had a VHS tape of. The beginning features an electronic rendition of the hymn as the Torrances' car drives on the winding mountain roads heading for Overlook hotel. Foreboding doesn't even begin to describe the feeling I still get from it all these years later.
Dies Irae:
Judgement Day:
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