One of my all time faves of that era!
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What are you listening to? Part III
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I'm on to The Stranglers now, Black and White. It's grand. Super happy to have discovered something new to me. I knew they existed, but had never stopped and listened.
One of the things I have long loved when listening to The Stranglers is the spell-binding keyboard playing of (the late, great) Dave Greenfield.
Listen to No More Heroes, (that song electrified me when I first heard it), and the superlative Golden Brown (simply awesome), among many, many others.
I'm like @Scepticalscribe ...more of a first wave punk and post-punk listener than later stuff. So if you're interested in starting points, here are some ideas:
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Black Flag: the Damaged album ("as a parent, I found it an anti-parent record").
Minor Threat: Complete Discography
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
The Avengers: The Avengers (compilation)
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UK Subs: Crash Course
Wire: Pink Flag
X-Ray Spex: Oh Bondage Up Yours! (single)
The Slits: Cut
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Once Upon a Time/The Singles
So you can take a Sharpie and cross out the “Never”?
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(Now you’ve made me want to go and dig up my copy)
Wow! Thanks for sharing this! I've heard of "The Black Page," but never actually listened to it or dug into it all that much. Here's a video by Shawn Crowder (who I believe is Adam Neely's drummer) about the piece:
If you’re interested, The Cure has gone through several phases. Pornography is part of a “doom trilogy” of sorts, comprising Seventeen Seconds, Faith/Carnage Visors, and Pornography. The first album, Three Imaginary Boys, isn’t too different (trivia: it was stealthily recorded very late at night using The Jam’s equipment after The Jam had finished their recording sessions for the day!) but you’re in for a surprise if you put on, say, The Head on the Door, expecting something like “Primary”.
A good overview that goes up through The Head on the Door is the compilation Standing on the Beach.
And something related: in a goth music—and hair product—marriage made in heaven, Robert Smith was a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees for awhile. The highlight, I’d say, is the live Siouxsie album Nocturne.
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ETA: just saw this on The Cure’s Discogs page…talk about an epic sampler single!
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Re punk era good music, have you ever listened to XTC?
Making Plans for Nigel, Dear God, Generals and Majors are just three of their excellent tracks.
PBS had a performance by the Metropolitan Opera of The Marriage of Figaro on TV tonight. Watched it with my dad. Wow! I’ve never seen the complete performance before. Would love to see it live sometime!
I've got some Chopin this morning. I started off with a bit of Vivaldi, but the whole Baroque thing was not for me this morning. Some nice piano now. It's Chopin's Nocturnes, by Arthur Rubinstein.
Fantastic, a brilliant opera, possibly Mozart's best.
Several years ago, I had the privilege and pleasure of being able to attend a live performance of Don Giovanni, in the Estates Theatre, Prague, the very venue where it had been first performed in 1787. Absolutely awesome.
The Mass in B Minor has got to be one of my favorite Baroque-era pieces. Philippe Herreweghe is definitely my favorite version:
Bach: Mass in B minor - Herreweghe
Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor Johannette Zomer, Véronique Gens - soprano Andreas Scholl - alto Christoph Prégardien - tenor Peter Kooij, Hanno Müller...
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Also his four other Lutheran masses "Missa Brevis" - BWV 233-236. I'd highly recommend checking those out, too!
Bach: Masses, BWV 233 - 235 & Sanctus, BWV 238
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We had just watched Supertramp - Live in Paris '79 and 2 days later he was gone. RIP Rick Davies.
