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What are you listening to? Part III

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SandboxGeneral said:
There was the Four Seasons, some Don Giovanni and a few other various pieces which I don't recall specifically this morning now. All good stuff though.
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Several years ago, I attended a performance of Don Giovanni in the Estates Theatre in Prague where it had received its first performance/world premiere in 1787 - it was brilliant.

Re The Four Seasons, I think it has suffered bit bit from over-exposure - especially the First Movement (which is still wonderful when you haven't listened to it for a while). However, I love Winter, and quite like Summer.
 
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Spent my day listening to Eric Church's new album, "Desperate Man" on a loop. It's just that damned good. All of his albums have been great, and his last one, "Mr. Misunderstood" was a masterpiece. The new one is a solid new country album rooted in the Blues and tinged with a bit of rock. There is not a single throwaway song on the entire album. The entire thing is just solid as a rock! I recommend this one to anyone with a taste for country/blues/rock.



 
Scepticalscribe said:
Cannot go wrong with Queen. Ever.
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I want to see the film Bohemian Rhapsody (Nov 2 release here), when it ever gets to streaming. Not sure what to expect from it, although at least the music is actually Queen's, but it's on my watch list anyway.

The music — and vocals — in “Bohemian Rhapsody” are Queen, but before filming started, Mazzello, Lee, and Ben Hardy, who portrays Taylor, spent several weeks taking music lessons, learning to play their respective instruments. Malek, meanwhile, studied Mercury’s mannerisms, working with a movement coach to imitate the singer’s exaggerated gestures and stiff-legged strut, and he watched hours and hours of concert footage.

“Collectively, I think we’ve seen the majority of the archival footage that exists. I’d watch some guy’s camcorder recording from 50 rows back at a concert in Japan in the ’70s,” says Malek. “I studied Freddie almost the way you’d go to school and dissect an animal.”

On the first day that the actors performed together as a band — re-creating Queen’s remarkable performance at the 1985 benefit concert Live Aid — May and Taylor showed up on set.

“They wanted to see us play,” says Mazzello, laughing. “We were a little nervous.”
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/20...-big-screen/tYbj7AYi8OV5c7sORVXctN/story.html​
 
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I don't know why I have never listened to this band before. I have heard of them, didn't dismiss them, but had other things I was listening to. Now in coming back to it, how the hell I overlooked this is beyond me.

I started to get back into neoclassical guitar, something I've played, and then finally branched out into symphonic metal, combining two of my favourite genres of music: Classical/Symphony and metal. And the pinnacle of this is this Finnish band called Nightwish. The singer in this band, Floor Jansen, is operatically trained and simply angelic. I'll say this: It starts around the 8:25 mark of this clip, but you'll need to watch the whole thing to hear it build up; if you do, you will experience your very first Floorgasm (not my words; that's what their fans call it when she hits a note that brings tears to your eyes).

There has been only one song that has ever brought tears to my eyes.. This is #2. This is Ghost Love Score, live at Wacken.


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