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What are you listening to? Part III
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A Dirty Loops track I hadn't seen before; they're all smokin' of course, but that drummer!! 
Just listened to Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 and Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2, by Lang Lang, and Sir Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic and enjoyed it. I think that was my first time hearing it.
I'm now listening to Shostakovich; symphonies 5,6,8 with Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Yevgeny Mravinsky. It's stunning.
Listening to a few tracks from the 1990s, a group by the name of INXS: By My Side, Mystify, Never Tear Us Apart, Disappear, and Original Sin.
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This popped up on my ewetube this afternoon, first time seeing it:
I had access to MTV during those days, and I absolutely hated the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Then, at one point, my buddy and I decided to sample some of what was popular with the "kids" (we were in our late twenties by then) so I bought Blood Sugar Sex Magic and he bought Nirvana's Nevermind, and we traded cassettes so we both could listen to them. I didn't really care for Nirvana either, but the more I listened to BSSM, the more I liked it; funky!
So, this was fun to watch. They're wearing more than socks, er, A sock, so its SFW.
I had access to MTV during those days, and I absolutely hated the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Then, at one point, my buddy and I decided to sample some of what was popular with the "kids" (we were in our late twenties by then) so I bought Blood Sugar Sex Magic and he bought Nirvana's Nevermind, and we traded cassettes so we both could listen to them. I didn't really care for Nirvana either, but the more I listened to BSSM, the more I liked it; funky!
So, this was fun to watch. They're wearing more than socks, er, A sock, so its SFW.
And now, I have graduated to listening to a few tracks from another group of a similar vintage, namely, Seal.
Actually, I bought this CD when I was in Bosnia, - one of many CDs I bought there, then, another was the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction - in a town called Brcko, in 1997, - from a somewhat dodgy, strange, slightly shifty - but, surprisingly well-stocked - stall that sold CDs in the town market - when I was monitoring one of the very first elections held there after the war.
The selection - and quality - of the CDs available were astonishing. Some of them (well, many of them) were bootleg, - copyright laws don't tend to be enforced when a country is engulfed in cvil war - but all of them were of superb quality (the formerly state-owned recording facilities for music in the former communist world were superlative, and, by the 1990s, in the absence of state support, with the collapse of - and bankruptcy of - several of the governments in the region, - and, in the case of Bosnia, emerging from the civil war which followed the implosion of the former Yugoslavia, complete state collapse - the staff of such places were scrambling to find ways to make a living from some of the best music recording equipment in the world).
Membership of the EU (the suppression of this flourishing black market in music was a condition of EU application) put paid to this practice in the Balkans (at the time, both Bulgaria and Romania had thriving music black markets of invariably excellent quality), and, as a result, the equally thriving black market bootleg stuff in the former Yugoslavia also died a death as well.
Nowadays, while the quality of the music remains excellent, for different reasons to do with the way the marketing and recording and sale and ownership of the means of recording and distribution of music has changed - been transformed - in the decades since the late 1990s (first, with the invention of iPods, then, the evolution of the Cloud, streaming, the rentier model of music, the difficulty in finding CDs) other than the suppression of the black market, all music in the Balkans is on an entirely legal footing.
Anyway, that is simply by way of background: I vividly remember that scruffy and slightly sleazy market where I bought that Seal CD, on a wet, cold, day in November 1997.
The tracks I am currently listening to are: Kiss From A Rose, Crazy, Future Love Paradise, Show Me, Out Of The Window, Prayer For The Dying, and Fly Like An Eagle.
Actually, I bought this CD when I was in Bosnia, - one of many CDs I bought there, then, another was the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction - in a town called Brcko, in 1997, - from a somewhat dodgy, strange, slightly shifty - but, surprisingly well-stocked - stall that sold CDs in the town market - when I was monitoring one of the very first elections held there after the war.
The selection - and quality - of the CDs available were astonishing. Some of them (well, many of them) were bootleg, - copyright laws don't tend to be enforced when a country is engulfed in cvil war - but all of them were of superb quality (the formerly state-owned recording facilities for music in the former communist world were superlative, and, by the 1990s, in the absence of state support, with the collapse of - and bankruptcy of - several of the governments in the region, - and, in the case of Bosnia, emerging from the civil war which followed the implosion of the former Yugoslavia, complete state collapse - the staff of such places were scrambling to find ways to make a living from some of the best music recording equipment in the world).
Membership of the EU (the suppression of this flourishing black market in music was a condition of EU application) put paid to this practice in the Balkans (at the time, both Bulgaria and Romania had thriving music black markets of invariably excellent quality), and, as a result, the equally thriving black market bootleg stuff in the former Yugoslavia also died a death as well.
Nowadays, while the quality of the music remains excellent, for different reasons to do with the way the marketing and recording and sale and ownership of the means of recording and distribution of music has changed - been transformed - in the decades since the late 1990s (first, with the invention of iPods, then, the evolution of the Cloud, streaming, the rentier model of music, the difficulty in finding CDs) other than the suppression of the black market, all music in the Balkans is on an entirely legal footing.
Anyway, that is simply by way of background: I vividly remember that scruffy and slightly sleazy market where I bought that Seal CD, on a wet, cold, day in November 1997.
The tracks I am currently listening to are: Kiss From A Rose, Crazy, Future Love Paradise, Show Me, Out Of The Window, Prayer For The Dying, and Fly Like An Eagle.
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As a student, I loved Madness, and I still love their music.
The next few tracks come courtesy of Madness - such sublime stuff: Night Boat To Cairo, Embarrassment, Shut Up, It Must Be Love, Grey Day, Driving In My Car, House of Fun, The Prince, and Our House.
The next few tracks come courtesy of Madness - such sublime stuff: Night Boat To Cairo, Embarrassment, Shut Up, It Must Be Love, Grey Day, Driving In My Car, House of Fun, The Prince, and Our House.
I'm still enjoying some classical, this morning I have Mozart Piano Sonatas Nos. 10, 11, 17. By Alfred Brendel
I'm now listening to some Debussy. The Complete Debussy Preludes pour solo piano. Anna Tsybuleva
Mozart is transcendental, isn't he?
My personal favourite of the Piano Concertos is Piano Concerto No 20 in D Minor (K 466); sublime.
I am also exceedingly partial to Serenade No 10 in B Major (K 361 "Gran Partita").
Yes and I very much enjoyed listening to him this morning. Thanks for the references, I'll be sure to look them up.
If you like Debussy (and I do), you may also like the music of Camille Saint-Saëns - my mother was very partial to his music, especially The Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre.
And, of course, there is the sublime Erik Satie, whose works I love.
Thanks for this! Never heard of Camile-Saint-Saens, so it will be good to look this up. I have heard of Satie, but as yet not explored. Thanks for the references again.