Spent some time listening to an old favourite from the 70s
.an album called "Selling England By The Pound" by Genesis, which has some wonderful tracks.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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A track I have always liked a lot by the British group 'Coldplay'. The track is called 'Clocks'.
Listening to a cover of "Say Something" that was originally performed by A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera. This is by a group called Pentatonix.
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Someone kindly posted the new Bigelf on Youtube. Of seven songs I've listened to, I really like one and sort of like another. That's been my history with these guys though. Love a song or two from an album and can skip the rest.
Someone kindly posted the new Bigelf on Youtube. Of seven songs I've listened to, I really like one and sort of like another. That's been my history with these guys though. Love a song or two from an album and can skip the rest.
Sheer class, there. Have you listened to his latest album? To my mind, it is excellent.
For myself, I am currently listening to a soundtrack from the 1980s; the music from the British TV series 'Robin: The Hooded Man' with a haunting soundtrack from the Irish group, Clannad.
Indeed, I remember buying this as a LP, and virtually wearing it out, I played it so often ..
To my mind, it is a genuine return to true form on the part of David Bowie. The guy can still write exceptionally good music. Yes, I recommend it.
Anyway, the album is called 'The Next Day' and there are a few excellent tracks on it. Personal favourites of mine include 'Love Is Lost', 'Where Are We Now?' 'I'd Rather Be High', 'You Feel So Lonely You Could Die'.
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Delighted we share a liking for this track.
I'm glad; I think you'll enjoy it.
Meanwhile, a selection from Madness are accompanying my browsing 'Night Boat To Cairo', 'Our House', 'Embarrassment', 'Shut Up', 'Tomorrow's Just Another Day', 'The Sun And The Rain', 'The Prince' and so on...
The "Blink" track, from Sonic Youth album The Destroyed Room (2006)
The album fascinated me, being a collection of b-sides and assorted early experiments, some of which got tuned up (or upside down maybe) in the band's later works. This is perhaps my favorite track from that album.
The background for Kim Gordon's vocals in the "Blink" track is compelling. It has all these pedal points and odd samplings with bits of percussion creating the sense of being in motion through three dimensions. You feel like you're in a submarine that's having an extremely intimate encounter with a sunken warship or something, with water starting to pour in, but a few minutes later you're pretty sure you're just in the NYC subway system on some wicked curve in the Lexington line.
All in all the track does sound like it belonged where it once ended up, as part of the soundtrack for the controversial film Pola X. The music was produced by Scott Walker and the soundtrack was released in Japan and France.
The film, featured at Cannes in 1999, was based (um... loosely) on Herman Melville's novel Pierre: or, the Ambiguities and the film title itself was derived from an acronym of that title in French: "Pierre ou les ambiguïtés". The X represented the roman numeral 10, a script draft version reference. The director was Leos Carax (more anagramming) aka Alex "Oscar" Christophe Dupont.
The closest I have gotten to that film has been the Sonic Youth track. The movie I'd possibly find either too pretentious or too dark and overwrought, even though I have generally liked Catherine Deneuve's work, and I did like Guillaume Depardieu in Tous les Matins du Monde.
Melville's novel itself was widely and roundly criticized over both its constructions and moral considerations. Reviews of the film as well vary from "trite and boring" to "decadent" to "ludicrous" and etc., with a few more favorable takes on it. But then what to expect of mainstream American reviews of a French film featuring some anti-hero with a domineering mama, a financée he pretends is his sister and a sister he pretends to be married to while he stashes himself away in a warehouse so he can write something wonderful while a bunch of terrorists practice some metal music in their spare time between plots... and "pretend" may not portray enough of the actual behavior there. Anyway one reviewer summed it up along the lines of "by the end, you'll know you've had an experience." Right. Maybe I'll watch it this summer. Maybe I'm not old enough, and maybe I'm too old to invest the time.
Meanwhile I've settled for a great piece of music from Sonic Youth and so may leave the book and film to others. I was sad when that band broke up; their evolutions -- or leaps-- had been eclectic and inspiring.
The album fascinated me, being a collection of b-sides and assorted early experiments, some of which got tuned up (or upside down maybe) in the band's later works. This is perhaps my favorite track from that album.
The background for Kim Gordon's vocals in the "Blink" track is compelling. It has all these pedal points and odd samplings with bits of percussion creating the sense of being in motion through three dimensions. You feel like you're in a submarine that's having an extremely intimate encounter with a sunken warship or something, with water starting to pour in, but a few minutes later you're pretty sure you're just in the NYC subway system on some wicked curve in the Lexington line.
All in all the track does sound like it belonged where it once ended up, as part of the soundtrack for the controversial film Pola X. The music was produced by Scott Walker and the soundtrack was released in Japan and France.
The film, featured at Cannes in 1999, was based (um... loosely) on Herman Melville's novel Pierre: or, the Ambiguities and the film title itself was derived from an acronym of that title in French: "Pierre ou les ambiguïtés". The X represented the roman numeral 10, a script draft version reference. The director was Leos Carax (more anagramming) aka Alex "Oscar" Christophe Dupont.
The closest I have gotten to that film has been the Sonic Youth track. The movie I'd possibly find either too pretentious or too dark and overwrought, even though I have generally liked Catherine Deneuve's work, and I did like Guillaume Depardieu in Tous les Matins du Monde.
Melville's novel itself was widely and roundly criticized over both its constructions and moral considerations. Reviews of the film as well vary from "trite and boring" to "decadent" to "ludicrous" and etc., with a few more favorable takes on it. But then what to expect of mainstream American reviews of a French film featuring some anti-hero with a domineering mama, a financée he pretends is his sister and a sister he pretends to be married to while he stashes himself away in a warehouse so he can write something wonderful while a bunch of terrorists practice some metal music in their spare time between plots... and "pretend" may not portray enough of the actual behavior there. Anyway one reviewer summed it up along the lines of "by the end, you'll know you've had an experience." Right. Maybe I'll watch it this summer. Maybe I'm not old enough, and maybe I'm too old to invest the time.
Meanwhile I've settled for a great piece of music from Sonic Youth and so may leave the book and film to others. I was sad when that band broke up; their evolutions -- or leaps-- had been eclectic and inspiring.
What a wonderful review, beautifully written and fantastically interesting to read. Thank you for a lovely, thought-provoking post.
Thanks, you are kind.
I have often so enjoyed your posts here on MacRumors.Today I've left Sonic Youth (and Sonya Kitchell) behind, and am revisiting tracks from Jeffrey Foucault's Ghost Repeater and Stripping Cane albums. I was for almost four decades strictly a classical-side listener, with the odd foray into some jazz and Latin American music. Then when I started coming upstate on weekends, trying to make my place habitable for winter life later on, a couple of my bros and some carpenters from the hills 'n' hollers here opened my ears to other options.
Some of those discoveries stuck! And some, of course, did not. I used to cut tapes for those guys, with bait like the 'Precipitato' movement of Prokofiev's 7th Piano Sonata, or maybe the "in taberna quando sumus" from Carmina Burana, hoping to corrupt them in retaliation for what they were doing to me with their country-oriented offerings.
Occasionally one of them would ask if they could get the rest of a work I had excerpted on some tape. So maybe I made one or two converts in ten or fifteen years of part time house renovations. I hope so, because they sure dented my classical armor meanwhile. Some of the stuff from my old Musical Heritage Society acquisitions would be quite dusty if still in the form of LPs...Now listening to Foucault's 'One Part Love' from Ghost Repeater. The guy has a way with words. ".. and I dreamed they burned the city with a suitcase and a pen" has certainly stuck in my head since I first heard him sing it.
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Glad to hear you are enjoying it; I thought it excellent. Another artist who (relatively recently - my brother drew my attention to it) released an excellent album is Bryan Ferry with 'The Jazz Age'; yes, it is a sort of homage, but beautifully done.