Cancer Posted November 2, 2018 Report Share Posted November 2, 2018 Petrification. Sort of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 3, 2018 Report Share Posted November 3, 2018 Close, sort of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Michael Hopcroft Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 One more French classic, from a brilliant artist and creative polymath who was cruelly ignored during his lifetime. This is one of the greatest protest songs in history, telling the story of a man who would rather risk prison or death than take up arms again. You should look up the translated lyrics if you (like me) are not fluent in French. The song was banned from broadcast in France almost immediately after it was written, At the time France was engaged in disastrous and futile wars to hold onto their crumbling colonial empire in "Indochina" (modern Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos) and Algeria. Both were crushing, demoralizing defeats that had profound influence on modern France and, by extension, all of Western Europe. The French would eventually lose their entire colonial empire, and would cause much grief both in those countries and on the home front in their futile efforts to hold on. I can;t blame the protagonist, who holds no grudge against the Vietnamese, from wanting nothing to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bubba smith Posted November 4, 2018 Report Share Posted November 4, 2018 music choice solid gold oldies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 5, 2018 Report Share Posted November 5, 2018 I remember one of my nannies singing this when I was little. For some reason the song has been stuck in my head lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 10, 2018 Report Share Posted November 10, 2018 maximum bombast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 10, 2018 Report Share Posted November 10, 2018 I want one of those outfits (but in blue). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 16, 2018 Report Share Posted November 16, 2018 "Legacy (12" mix)" by the Art of Noise, from the new deluxe release of In No Sense? Nonsense! I had backed this 2 CD album on Pledge Music several months ago, and it arrived yesterday, complete with signatures from Anne Dudley and J.J. Jeczalik on the cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 King of the Road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Michael Hopcroft Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 As a side note, last week I attended two great classical concerts from lesser-known ensembles in Portland. One was a youth symphony, and the other was an orchestra that played in a church chapel that wasn't full. I got to speak to the interim director of the latter because his orchestra's program for the evening included a 21st-century work -- a four-movement piece about Ernest Hemingway. The piece was raw, visceral, and powerful -- just like Hemingway. And what I told him was that I want to go to a concert someday wearing a button that reads "Mozart wrote New Music". The youth concert had a tone poem by a young composer -- I think he's still in university or conservatory -- conducted by the said young composer. It was riveting. There is a notion that the symphony died with Shostakovich. I don't believe that's true. And I'm hoping that the younger generation of composers will return new music to prominence in the orchestral field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 I feel like Steve Howe is channeling Robert Fripp in a few places here. Ternaugh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 How about a little more Drama? Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted November 23, 2018 Report Share Posted November 23, 2018 I'm listening to my Edge City Campaign Soundtracks. Currently one of the gang (The Orphans) themes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2018 Report Share Posted November 23, 2018 A signature piece It begins and ends with one of the greatest keyboard riffs in all of rock, and goes for seventeen minutes inbetween. Many, many phonograph styli were worn out on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted November 23, 2018 Report Share Posted November 23, 2018 "Mad Man Moon" by Genesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ternaugh Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Dark Side of the Moon (Alan Parsons Quad Mix) by Pink Floyd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YlNNG_1Z8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 This is the new work I heard two weeks ago at the orchestral concert in the church chapel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Christmas music the only ones I mute so far are the chipmunks which I;ve outgrown and' Baby it's cold outside which for some odd reason reminds me of sexual harasment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted November 28, 2018 Report Share Posted November 28, 2018 14 hours ago, bubba smith said: Christmas music the only ones I mute so far are the chipmunks which I;ve outgrown and' Baby it's cold outside which for some odd reason reminds me of sexual harasment Oh, it's worse than that. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is something Bill Cosby would have said to reassure his victims -- he even gives "the Mouse" (the female voice) a roofie, which is already having an effect as it goes on ("Say, what's in that drink?") So it's not just harassment -- it's rape. The question of why anyone ever found the Chipmunks funny (whose records were made by speeding up human singers who sang very slowly -- normalizing the tempo to match the other tracks but driving the pitch way up) is as great a mystery as the hula-hoop Alvin craved. (Now that I think about it, it's an early example of the capabilities of the then-new technology of multi-track recording. As much as they may have cringed at the content, musicians and producers were definitely paying attention.) If you need a remedy for some of the kitsch of the holiday, I present Malinda Kathleen Reese, master of mistranslation. Joe Walsh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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