Bazza Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 Forever Now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 "Good Times" by INX with Jimmy Barnes on The Lost Boys Soundtrack best thing on that single is that Tim Farris is credited with "Fishing". He missed the recording session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 "The Raven That Refused to Sing (Orchestral Version)" by Steven Wilson (of the band Porcupine Tree). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Michael Hopcroft Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Dimitri Shostakovich had one of the most dangerous careers of any classical composer. He happened to be in the generation of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and instead of fleeing the country as many more established musicians did he remained behind and had to work for the Communists, writing propaganda pieces for them because it was the only work he could get. Undeniable talent hardly meant safety in Stalin's Russia -- quite the opposite in fact, because the regime viewed practically anything as threatening. Shostakovich was given many propagandistic commissions and played his part well, but the ever-changing whims of the authorities put him in censorship trouble -- and frequently made him fear for his life and that of his family. Take, for example, a recent discovery I made on Rhapsody -- The Golden Age. From his early career in the 1920s, this is a comedic ballet about what happens when a Soviet soccer team visits the West. Evil industrialists (and in Communist writing all industrialists are evil by definition) abuse, threaten, manipulate and finally imprison the heroes, only to be overthrown by the inevitable Worker's Revolution. Unfortunately for Shotakovich, you had to have your sense of humor surgically removed to work in the Soviet cultural bureaucracy. The ballet was a considerable success until the authorities closed it down after 16 performances. the full ballet has not been performed since, but Shotakovich's complete score survives and has been recorded by a Scottish orchestra. The music is humorous, provocative and cheeky. There is a lovely bit of satire when Shostakovich uses the then-popular Broadway hit "Tea for Two" as a symbol for the banality of American popular culture. the Soviets didn't care about American copyright laws for the better part of the Soviet era. The story has a somewhat happy ending. even with all his troubles, Shostakovich outlived Stalin for a good twenty years and was even welcomed into the good graces of the Party in the later part of his life. He and Sergei Prokofiev (who died the same day as Stalin) are the two principal Soviet-era composers whose work survives in the repertoire regardless of politics. Today he is appreciated for his emotional sweep and sense of drama -- even though his attempts at drama rarely ended well for him personally (The opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District was another work that drew the ire of censors, and is now considered one of his masterpieces). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BlueCloud2k2 Posted November 9, 2013 Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 My son is watching Sesame Street on Netflix... One of these things is not like the others... one of these things doesn't belong... Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 9, 2013 Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 Wonderful Land by Mike Oldfield from his disk QE2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted November 9, 2013 Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhdLC_ZZPOU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 10, 2013 Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xicsALcqoN8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned-kogar Posted November 10, 2013 Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOYMzdh_Io Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2013 Report Share Posted November 10, 2013 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (full 17-minute-plus studio version) from Iron Butterfly. Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 The Grand Illusion album, by Styx. Just finished "Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)", starting into "Superstars" Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 "Three to Get Ready" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (off of Time Out) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/siouxsie_and_the_banshees_lysergic_home_movie_1984 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 "Close to the Edge" by Yes. (2013 5.1 surround mix by Steven Wilson) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 Football games, muted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 18, 2013 Report Share Posted November 18, 2013 "Stereotomy" by the Alan Parsons Project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlbdaxJEv6U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 The late Ray Charles performing his signature piece, Georgia On My Mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaze9999 Posted November 21, 2013 Report Share Posted November 21, 2013 "The Might of Rome" Music from the Motion Picture GLADIATOR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted November 22, 2013 Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBoL-1rmPnQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted December 6, 2013 Report Share Posted December 6, 2013 Bruce Springsteen performing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land", and only Bruce would choose to cast that song into a minor key. The performance by the Weavers, made 30 or 40 years earlier, is unabashedly upbeat in a major key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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