BigJackBrass Posted March 6, 2022 Report Share Posted March 6, 2022 After telling myself (repeatedly) that I absolutely did not need it and certainly would not be buying it, I gave in and treated myself to the mammoth box set Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time by The Divine Comedy, an enormous collection of remastered albums, demos, live performances and juvenilia. And it's glorious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 7, 2022 Report Share Posted March 7, 2022 One of the great revenge stories in popular music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ternaugh Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 A Trick of the Tail (5.1 Mix) by Genesis Title Track: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 9, 2022 Report Share Posted March 9, 2022 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote symphonies, concertos, quartets, solo sonatas for multiple instruments, and was in short a musical polymath. Yet perhaps the legendary composers' greatest contribution was to opera. He wrote many that have become not only staples of the repertoire but are viewed as nearly perfect musically as much as is humanly possibly. And interestingly, the play and film Amadeus has the tragic antihero Salieri view Mozart's progress (and the failure of his efforts to quash it) through his operas. Don Giovanni, in particular, is an interesting case. The theme was the adventures of the fictional seducer Don Juan, a Spanish nobleman with a massive appetite for sex with as many women as possible -- will they or nill they. Most of his conquests blurred the line between seduction and outright rape. In the opera, Don Giovanni and his reluctant servant Leporello indulge in numerous exploits, and in one of them he kills the father of one of his victims, a well-connected former soldier. The man was so admired that soon after his death they erect a monument to him, a statue which Giovanni mockingly invites to supper. On a night when his "lovers" and enemies are converging on him, Giovanni has a lovely meal and ponders a way out. Then this happens: One can only imagine how shocked audiences in 1787 must have been to see an admittedly dark comedy end in such a viscerally horrifying way. They were unprepared for it. The opera added luster to his reputation anyway, which has only grown with time and advances in stagecraft. Acting in opera has advanced as well, as each generation brings stars that come ever closer to the Platonic ideal of the singing actor.. What Samuel Ramey playing Don Giovanni is doing is very difficult! Pariah and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Michael Hopcroft Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 7:08 PM, Cancer said: IK've said this before -- Alice Cooper is a truly great rock songwriters, although his stagecraft overshadowed his musical gift. And apparently, now that he wrestled his demons to a stalemate, a truly charitable man who devotes a lot of his time (now that he doesn;t tour much) to hands-on philanthropy. Although given the album cover shown here, I half-thought this would be a cover of this great song by the Ramones (whose hard-driving style might well have done it justice). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted March 11, 2022 Report Share Posted March 11, 2022 Warning: a bit of language near the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 11, 2022 Report Share Posted March 11, 2022 On 3/8/2022 at 1:00 PM, tkdguy said: I would love for him to comment on British folk music and its 'revival' as British folk-rock, and also Hildegard of Bingen who is from the 12th century (IIRC). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted March 11, 2022 Report Share Posted March 11, 2022 Same person above, singing a more modern song Ternaugh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ternaugh Posted March 12, 2022 Report Share Posted March 12, 2022 My co-worker at the other office had very little trouble identifying most classic rock songs. The new co-worker, not so much. I played the song below, and he identified the band as AC/DC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted March 13, 2022 Report Share Posted March 13, 2022 When Sauron steps onto the dance floor: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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