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Stealers Wheels

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Found this delightful light picker-upper through Tidal Discovery. Looking it up for this post the video makes it even better. Makes me laugh.

 
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Believe it or not, I've actually never listened to any Messiaen until now. I love it! This is EXACTLY my kind of classical music.
Actually, your post reminded me of how I remember when I first heard - the very first time I had ever heard it - what I now know is Gymnopédie No 1, by Erik Satie, as a teenager.

It had been used as the soundtrack to a documentary about the poet W B Yeats - and, much though I loved the writing of (mid and late) Yeats, (which is why I had been watching the documentary) - I was absolutely bowled over by - haunted by, seized by - that powerful, compelling, that magnificent, music.

Bear in mind, that this was in the days before Sony Walkmans, or iPods, were available, or any sort of library of private music (apart from LPs, and personal cassette tapes). Anyway, it took me quite some time to find a recording - a good quality LP recording.
 
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Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex

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Not my favorite of Steven Wilson's solo work thus far, but I'm trying to give it time to grow on me. Favorites so far are Actual Brutal Facts and Rock Bottom. For context, my favorite solo album of his is To the Bone, closely followed by Hand. Cannot. Erase.
 
it's SO GOOD.
It sounds a bit different (based on the lyric videos posted on YouTube), but I really like it, especially "Style" and "Out of the Woods." Note that "Wildest Dreams" is actually not all-new, since that TV version song came out back in 2021 after it was used in the preview for animated feature Spirit Untamed.

(Note: 1989 (Taylor's Version) can't sound exactly like the original release in order for Taylor Swift to get the copyright on the new release. That's why you can clearly hear subtle changes in "Welcome to New York," "New Romantics" and "Shake It Off.")
 
The Man in the Brown Shorts™ just dropped this off from a young artist called Laufey, who is picking up Disney/Jazz/Pop styles and incorporating it into her COVID/Internetz style.

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Then, 30 minutes later, I see Adam Neeley did an hour-long EweTube on why she isn't really jazz, but he had some very interesting history to discuss too.


I haven't listened to the Laufey disk yet, it will be replacing the latest Louis Cole CD that's been in the car the past month, who's another youngster taking old styles in a new direction.

The kids are all right.
 
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