Music was my first love...

[Nearly Sane]

Two of my faves, Rhiannon, seen the Specials many times, and Lloyd and I have shared a pizza

[Rhiannon]

Two of my faves, Rhiannon, seen the Specials many times, and Lloyd and I have shared a pizza

Terry Hall's done some great stuff. As for the pizza thing, we seriously need a 'green with envy' emoticon.

[Nearly Sane]

Philadelphia All Stars



https://www.youtube.com/watch?spfreload=10&v=C1T6A1fFq-Y

[SweetPea]

Thought we must mention the passing of Ben E King. He was interviewed on BBC Breakfast 2yrs(?) ago and I couldn't get over his humble persona. He was so appreciative of those that loved his music.

That wonderful song....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, sung by the delightful Lani Hall. Lani was the lead vocalist, the group had a succession of "second" female singers, who were pretty much there simply as totty. Some things don't change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0fr0Z5HUQU

[Rhiannon]

Have some superior folk from Show of Hands.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn4ecFuEeZY

And that rather sweet ditty from The Lumineers, which for some reason our electricity supplier plays on a loop when they put you on hold.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4

[Rhiannon]

Do we need some Peatbog Faeries? I rather think we do.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1OHcsb_nw

[Rhiannon]

And the lovely Kate in her not-quite-there catsuit.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjPivYmV7Y

[Humph Warden Bennett]

I came across this strange little number whilst on an idle trawl. I do vaguely remember this group, what is perhaps most bizarre is that everything looks & sounds like some time in the fifties, it was actually the latter part of 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3zl9PrrD0Y

[Nearly Sane]

Off to see the great Siobhan Parr on Saturday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymW7vC7YlQ

[Dicky Underpants]

Sorry I can't help more than this. Though a classical buff Strauss (Johann II) isn't really my thing (whereas Richard is).

Phew! (Wipes brow with relief)

[Dicky Underpants]

I am not a classical music buff by any means but this moves me to tears and then some.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwr46veZW3Q

His Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is somewhat in the same richly melodic, meditative vein. As is his 5th Symphony (inspired by 'Pilgrim's Progress') *.

However, relating to what Shaker said of RVW's attitude to the "Wrong-note School", you should try his 4th Symphony - full of fury and dissonance. Of this the composer said "I don't know if I like it, but it's what I meant"


*I wonder if our dear BA would ever understand how an agnostic like RVW could respond to such 'spiritual' themes?

[Dicky Underpants]

People were sniffy about him in his lifetime - he once said something along the lines of "Apparently being able to write tunes is considered old-fashioned these days" (this was when he was a very old man and in the era when lots of very young men - Stockhausen, Goehr, Birtwistle and all the rest of that sort of pretentious, unlistenable wankery - were writing music that almost nobody ever listened to and even fewer genuinely liked).

I'm dredging the memory here but that was the essence of it.

Shaker

As I've said to Rhiannon - and you no doubt know perfectly well - RVW himself was perfectly capable of writing extremely dissonant music if the mood took him (as in the 4th Symphony).

In (reserved) defence of serialism and atonality, I have to point out the virtual cul-de-sac that music seemed to have backed itself into at the end of the 19th century, especially as a result of the increasing chromaticism of Wagner's* music. Musicians seemed to think that all the harmonic changes had been rung, and so new directions had to be found.

*All praise to this great artist (and less great man) BTW. Years ago, you indulged in an interesting discussion on music and morals. Maybe "Music, morals and meaning" might be a subject for a new thread.
I go  with Stravinsky on the above BTW.

[Shaker]

However, relating to what Shaker said of RVW's attitude to the "Wrong-note School", you should try his 4th Symphony - full of fury and dissonance. Of this the composer said "I don't know if I like it, but it's what I meant"

The same with parts of Job. Not overdone though - in fact beautifully done. In other words, still music.

*I wonder if our dear BA would ever understand how an agnostic like RVW could respond to such 'spiritual' themes?

See also Verdi. And Delius

[Rhiannon]

I am not a classical music buff by any means but this moves me to tears and then some.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwr46veZW3Q

His Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is somewhat in the same richly melodic, meditative vein. As is his 5th Symphony (inspired by 'Pilgrim's Progress') *.

However, relating to what Shaker said of RVW's attitude to the "Wrong-note School", you should try his 4th Symphony - full of fury and dissonance. Of this the composer said "I don't know if I like it, but it's what I meant"


*I wonder if our dear BA would ever understand how an agnostic like RVW could respond to such 'spiritual' themes?

Yes, I know the first. I'm not a buff but I'm intelligent enough that when I like something I try to find more of the same.

At one point my babies had RVW playing as their bedtime lullaby.

[Dicky Underpants]

However, relating to what Shaker said of RVW's attitude to the "Wrong-note School", you should try his 4th Symphony - full of fury and dissonance. Of this the composer said "I don't know if I like it, but it's what I meant"

The same with parts of Job. Not overdone though - in fact beautifully done. In other words, still music.

*I wonder if our dear BA would ever understand how an agnostic like RVW could respond to such 'spiritual' themes?

See also Verdi. And Delius

Yes, Shaker. In fact the 19th century has a host of agnostics, 'extremely unwilling believers', atheists, who were still capable of responding to Christian texts and ideas. Berlioz can certainly be added to the two you mentioned. And Wagner himself drew much of his early inspiration from Christian myths and ideas. Last of all, of course, he turned to a kind of Christian/Buddhist amalgam in Parsifal (which drew an amused and cynical response from Nietzsche).

[Nearly Sane]

Seems appropriate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hUKwBeJe78

[Rhiannon]

Some indie electro pop from Lowell.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNBvLN8HSw

[Nearly Sane]

A little bit of Rachid Taha


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGD1heHnCuA

[Nearly Sane]

The gentle Rio from Mike Nesmith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tpkxKZS4fc

[Sassy]

sting and Robert Every breath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMUiKzblcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnQtSUbgFL0

Chances are..

Chances are you'll find me, somewhere on your road tonight
Seems I always end up driving by
Ever since I've known you, it just seems you're on my way
All the rules of logic don't apply

Long to see you in the night
Be with you 'til morning light

I remember clearly how you looked the night we met
I recall your laughter and your smile
I remember how you made me feel so at ease
I remember all your grace and your style

And now you're all I long to see
You've come to mean so much to me

Chances are I'll see you somewhere in my dreams tonight
You'll be smiling like the night we met, oh
Chances are I'll hold you and I'll offer all I have
You're the only one I can't forget, baby, you're the best, I've ever met

And I'll be dreaming of the future, oh babe
And hoping you'll be by my side, oh
And in the morning I'll be longing
For the night, for the night

Chances are I'll see you somewhere in my dreams tonight
You'll be smiling like the night we met, oh
Chances are I'll hold you and I'll offer all I have
You're the only one I can't forget, baby, you're the best I've ever met

[Sassy]

One of my favourite pieces of instrumental music ever....

Loved this from the very first moment I heard it...

Chi Mai

Up there with the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-0UhCjwUeg

[Nearly Sane]

So it came on randomly on a TOTP2 but it may be the song I have sung must in my head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqDTQOFvf0

[Rhiannon]

So it came on randomly on a TOTP2 but it may be the song I have sung must in my head.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqDTQOFvf0

One of my first downloads to my iPod. 

Here's another:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDm1xD_Kwyc

[Nearly Sane]

Heisenberg and uncertainty in a song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBfKJhVeo94