What Are You Listening To Right Now?

[Pariah 6,884]

This morning on the way to school, actually.

 

 

[Cancer 6,250]

Petrification. Sort of.

[Pariah 6,884]

Close, sort of.

 

 

[Ternaugh 1,986]

 

[Michael Hopcroft 1,522]

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.

[Scott Ruggels 803]

 

[Ternaugh 1,986]

 

[bubba smith 293]

music choice solid gold oldies

[tkdguy 2,970]

I remember one of my nannies singing this when I was little. For some reason the song has been stuck in my head lately.

 

 

[Cancer 6,250]

maximum bombast

[Michael Hopcroft 1,522]

I want one of those outfits (but in blue).

 

[Ternaugh 1,986]

"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.

[Cancer 6,250]

King of the Road

[tkdguy 2,970]

 

[Michael Hopcroft 1,522]

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.

[Pariah 6,884]

 

I feel like Steve Howe is channeling Robert Fripp in a few places here.

[Ternaugh 1,986]

How about a little more Drama?

 

 

[Weldun 48]

I'm listening to my Edge City Campaign Soundtracks. Currently one of the gang (The Orphans) themes:

 

[Cancer 6,250]

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.

[Ternaugh 1,986]

"Mad Man Moon" by Genesis.

[tkdguy 2,970]

 

[Ternaugh 1,986]

Dark Side of the Moon (Alan Parsons Quad Mix) by Pink Floyd.

[Michael Hopcroft 1,522]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YlNNG_1Z8

[Michael Hopcroft 1,522]

This is the new work I heard two weeks ago at the orchestral concert in the church chapel.

[bubba smith 293]

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