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What are you listening to? Part III
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This is a great album for those not familiar with XTC ...
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I love this LP.
A lot of XTC fans that I know aren't as crazy about it though.
And if you are familiar with the history of this one you'll know about the riff the band had with producer Todd Rundgren.
From I've read and seen lately, from both Partridge and Rundgren, it all seems forgiven now.
I love XTC; some of their tracks are timeless.
Actually, I really love that song - an absolutely brilliant song, (the video is excellent, also).
Actually, the (XTC) song that those particular lyrics are taken from is called "Dear God", which is what I thought you were referring to.
I suggest that you watch the video.
Yes, timeless.
I remember when D.G. was first released.
As some things were, not really appreciated until decades later.
Like F.H.'s Dune...
splifin “He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought” gate
Hans Zimmer's score to "Blitz." Absolutely fascinating soundtrack. No idea how he writes like he does.
This is a fantastic Freddie Hubbard album (in two sets/volumes) - "The Night of the Cookers"
Spoiling more of our choir concert on Friday. It must be a really good day to be a soprano, singing that top “the whole sky” line at the end. We’re having only three soloists sing it, which gives it extra delicacy. Actually, our director is having us sing that last phrase piano (how it's written, I believe), then diminuendo to pianissimo (double p), and then triple p when the soloists enter. For sure quieter, and more delicate, than they do in this recording. Gives me goosebumps every time we rehearse the end. I trade off between Tenor 2 and Bass 1, since my voice is right in the middle.
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Well said.
And yes, I am in agreement with you on what you have written.
Actually, I have been meaning to return to this post, as I believe that some of the points you have made are worth considering, and you have articulated some of my own thoughts.
Personally, I love - and have long loved - this thread, and, for a very long time, it was one of the first places I visited on this site each day.
Moreover, I love music, - and have done since childhood, and those teen years, - many of us can recall some of the musical (musical and philosophical journeys, journeys of identity fuelled and informed by the music you were listening to as an adolescent and young person, music was incredibly important to us).
However, increasingly I have come to dislike it - to dislike even dropping in, fleetingly, just to see what is being discussed and explored in musical matters - precisely for the reasons that @Clix Pix has outlined, namely, the clutter of video links - sometimes, as many as three or four in a single post.
This means that by the end of a page, the bottom of a page - a page containing up to 25 posts each with some, or several, video links - visiting this thread has become an exercise in frustrated endurance and sheer torture (which does not put anyone - certainly not me - in any sort of receptive mood to listen to, explore, appreciate, or enjoy, new - or familiar - music).
Not only do these make loading the page an absolute pain - it can take an age to load, which is very irksome, tiresome, and trying, and is also something that serves to reduce any pleasure I amy take in visiting this thread - but, worse, some of the people who load several videos per post never think to add text to let us know who the artist is, (I don't know much popular music, and will never listen to something that is simply linked without any further discussion as to why it might be worth listening to) why they like (or recommend) this particular song, group, or album, and why this particular recording may be of interest to viewers, listeners, visitors to this site and thread.
While I know that I can block individual posters, I would prefer not to do that (and it is not something I do - at the moment, I think I may have only one person on 'ignore'), and, as I do like this thread, and do like to see what people are listening to, I would prefer not to have to reach for this solution.
Failing that, - if posters feel compelled to post links - might I please plead with, beseech, entreat, beg, people who post here to confine themselves to posting (only) one or two video links per post.
And to please, please, add a few words of text; this is because some of these links do not make at all clear who the artist is, let alone what the song title is.
In any case, I have to say that I am strongly tempted to ask the staff whether there is a way of excluding those links, or, if there is any way of avoiding those video links, on posts.
I apologize and will find another way to post YT links without the graphics. Maybe just one visual link and the rest simple text links. I did not mean to offend or inconvenience anyone.
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Now, of course, I may run the risk of sounding like (or, appearing as) an awful hypocrite, given what I have written earlier.
My brother sent me a link (but that was by email, not in this thread) which ran for all of twenty-five minutes, and which depicted three takes by The Beatles of their timeless track "Hey Jude", filmed in April 1968, (broadcast in September 1968) for The David Frost Show.
And then - after I wrote back to thank him - proceeded to send me another Beatles (yes, I love The Beatles) link, this time to their track "Revolution", which appeared on their (brilliant) "White" album.
My brother sent me a link (but that was by email, not in this thread) which ran for all of twenty-five minutes, and which depicted three takes by The Beatles of their timeless track "Hey Jude", filmed in April 1968, (broadcast in September 1968) for The David Frost Show.
And then - after I wrote back to thank him - proceeded to send me another Beatles (yes, I love The Beatles) link, this time to their track "Revolution", which appeared on their (brilliant) "White" album.
Beatles are in my all time favorite top 3. I can sing 90% of their tunes by heart. They are the only complete music catalog I have in my huge playlist collection. Dean Martin is also in my top 3.😊
This is probably my favorite Paul McCartney and Wings tune, from the Venus and Mars album...
Letting Go (Remastered 2014)
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