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eddot98 wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 3:31 pm I listened to my own station on LiveXLive (formerly Slacker) based on XTC. It was heavy on XTC, but also had some Til’ Tuesday (I really like Aimee Mann), Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Marshall Crenshaw, Devo, Buzzcocks, Joe Jackson, Big Country, World Party, The Smiths, Social Distortion, The Go-Go’s, The Pretenders, etc.
I am so stuck in the past when it comes to what I listen to.
I’m familiar with Talking Heads, Devo, The Go-Go’s, The Pretenders, and Buzzcocks (one song only) and I like these bands, the others I don’t know. Like you I’m mostly living in the past.
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Nicolas wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:33 am Count Basie: Ken Burns Jazz Just what I need to perk me up in the morning. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Nice! Haven't listened to Basie in a long time. Music really engages the brain in so many ways. :beer
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Nicolas wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:38 am
eddot98 wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 3:31 pm I listened to my own station on LiveXLive (formerly Slacker) based on XTC. It was heavy on XTC, but also had some Til’ Tuesday (I really like Aimee Mann), Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Marshall Crenshaw, Devo, Buzzcocks, Joe Jackson, Big Country, World Party, The Smiths, Social Distortion, The Go-Go’s, The Pretenders, etc.
I am so stuck in the past when it comes to what I listen to.
I’m familiar with Talking Heads, Devo, The Go-Go’s, The Pretenders, and Buzzcocks (one song only) and I like these bands, the others I don’t know. Like you I’m mostly living in the past.
In case you are interested, I find World Party’s music haunting and soothing.

World Party - Making It All Come True
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1PUR5mr7qU
Ship of Fools

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=onHjhu5tCDU

Aimee Mann - Save Me

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0V8CpT0Iow
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Sarah Jarosz at Shrewsbury Folk Festival.

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eddot98 wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 9:49 am In case you are interested, I find World Party’s music haunting and soothing.

World Party - Making It All Come True
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1PUR5mr7qU
Ship of Fools

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=onHjhu5tCDU

Aimee Mann - Save Me

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0V8CpT0Iow
Good tunes, thanks. I’d never heard these artists before.
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Foo Fighters, of course!
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Beck-Ola
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Lounge Lizards (self-titled)
& Queen of All Ears
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Birth of the Cool— Miles Davis

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Nicolas wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:42 am King of the Delta Blues Singers — Robert Johnson
Nice! :beer
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Survivor by Destiny’s Child - again!

We listened to Malagueña at dinner tonight - Spanish classical guitar.
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AnnetteLouisan wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 9:08 pm Survivor by Destiny’s Child - again!

We listened to Malagueña at dinner tonight - Spanish classical guitar.
I’m fond of classical Spanish guitar. I saw Andrés Segovia in concert once.
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Nine Inch Nails' album "Ghosts V: Together". Have been listening to a ton of Brian Eno lately and this is a nice way to continue listening to Brian Eno without listening to Brian Eno.
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Nicolas wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 2:44 pm Shake Your Moneymaker: The Best of the Fire Sessions — Elmore James
Excellent! :beer
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heartwood wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 12:09 pm
rage_phish wrote: Sun Feb 20, 2022 11:09 am Orville Peck. Been almost all I have listed to lately. Very good through back old school country music

He’s absolutely worth a listen
I really liked his 2019 album Pony. Thanks to you I see he has a new 2022 EP of4 songs called Bronco: Chapter One
I'm listening to Bronco: Chapter Two. Four songs that came out about 3 weeks ago. Spotify has Chapter Two listed as Disc 1. The main heading is for Bronco: Chapters 1 & 2.

"Being released in three installments, the fifteen track album will be released in full and available globally via Columbia Records on April 8th."
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I heard this on my local radio station, then found it on the internet.

Duetto buffo di due gatti (Cat Duet)

If you follow opera (or hate opera), watch the video. Absolutely hilarious.

Wikipedia: Duetto buffo di due gatti
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Several county/reel dances on and off today and right now the Duke of Perth, before that, it was the Eightsome Reel. I am going to a wedding tomorrow and the music will be traditional country/reel music/barn music. I use to be pretty good, but that I am old, I'll be lucky to be able to dance the Hole in the Wall. Perhaps I'll try the Duke of Perth. If I am really lucky, the Eightsome Reel. Then I will fall flat on my face. For those not familiar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbB4b0HfEgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPCUL-CMBGs

To see Queen Elizabeth dancing the Eightsome Reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byWrelwQK8o

I'm not Scottish, so I will forgo the kilt. If the Queen Mother can do it there is hope for me.
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LadyGeek wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:19 pm I heard this on my local radio station, then found it on the internet.

Duetto buffo di due gatti (Cat Duet)

If you follow opera (or hate opera), watch the video. Absolutely hilarious.

Wikipedia: Duetto buffo di due gatti
Alas, no closed captioning!
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Just listen. The entire aria is repeating one word that a cat can understand.
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LadyGeek wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:19 pm I heard this on my local radio station, then found it on the internet.

Duetto buffo di due gatti (Cat Duet)

If you follow opera (or hate opera), watch the video. Absolutely hilarious.

Wikipedia: Duetto buffo di due gatti
LOL. :D :happy
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Listening to Robert Johnson on Philadelphia's XPN blues show :beer

Haven't listened for a while. Excellent DJ. The Blues Show with Jonny Meister.

https://xpn.org/xpn-programs/blues-show
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^^^ Same here. :wink:

Dont' forget Blue Dimensions follows at midnight (Philly local time).
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Carpenter Brut - Leather Terror

Just came out yesterday. Listen on some good headphones or stereo, a masterpiece IMO. I’m not really into electronic/synth type music but this album is awesome.


Also a lot of old Corrosion of Conformity, Tool, and Mastodon.
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LadyGeek wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 7:38 pm ^^^ Same here. :wink:

Dont' forget Blue Dimensions follows at midnight (Philly local time).
Thanks! Will try to remember that also. :happy
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Peter Gabriel - So

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BesY5Do ... 7Bdu8Ourta

I haven’t heard this album in a long time - my only Peter Gabriel album. I got to thinking about all the great musicians that came out of Genesis: Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett, etc. I didn’t care for Genesis’ progressive era, but warmed to their music on And Then There Were Three. I only put So on because I heard In Your Eyes while waiting for DW as I was sitting on a bench in an outside shopping center on a beautiful early spring day in New England.
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Volare — Bobby Rydell
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Nicolas wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:20 am Volare — Bobby Rydell
On our last pre pandemic European trip, we visited Polignano e Mare in Italy, the hometown of the writer and original singer of Volare. We had no clue about this before stopping there in the late afternoon on our way back to our hotel in nearby Fasano. There were Volare signs and lyrics hung on banners across streets all over the city center and we wondered why. It was late November and there was a Christmas fair going on. It was magical. Highly recommended.

https://www.travelswithcharie.com/2018/ ... e.html?m=1
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The Yes Album

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6oPS4aLk8

Although Yes is referred to as a progressive band and, normally, I’m not a big fan of that genre, I really like this album. Back when it came out in 1971, I must have listened to it hundreds of times. Yes went through a lot of iterations, but this one (with Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye, and Bill Buford) was my favorite.
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Nicolas wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:20 am Volare — Bobby Rydell
RIP Bobby
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eddot98 wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:30 am
Nicolas wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:20 am Volare — Bobby Rydell
On our last pre pandemic European trip, we visited Polignano e Mare in Italy, the hometown of the writer and original singer of Volare. We had no clue about this before stopping there in the late afternoon on our way back to our hotel in nearby Fasano. There were Volare signs and lyrics hung on banners across streets all over the city center and we wondered why. It was late November and there was a Christmas fair going on. It was magical. Highly recommended.

https://www.travelswithcharie.com/2018/ ... e.html?m=1
Interesting, I didn't know the song’s origin. Tony Clifton does a really bad version, I don’t recommend it! :D However, Dean Martin’s is great.
But then pretty much everything he did was great.
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Essential Little Walter

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Little Walter, I think he’s great. I downloaded this album from Apple Music onto my iPhone, then I beam it over to my car stereo as I’m tooling down the road. I like him a lot, his harp playing is so good. I read that he was second only to Muddy Waters at Chess Records.
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https://youtu.be/9lCFaSL9aSE
Mother- Roger Waters; COVID session
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"8," by Madhouse. I didn't know until now that Prince made a jazz album.
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Today, while doing some Spring raking on a dreary, damp, raw day, I went to YouTube to listen to the John Mayall Hard Road album with Peter Green on guitar.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvpcYyb3wpE

It’s a good listen. Peter Green didn’t have the best life. Informative article from Rolling Stone on him.

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/pe ... 34049/amp/
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Tanqueray by Johnnie Johnson with Keith Richards, no less!
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Nile Rodgers & CHIC Good Times NYE Concert London HD on YouTube.
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eddot98 wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:31 am The Yes Album

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6oPS4aLk8

Although Yes is referred to as a progressive band and, normally, I’m not a big fan of that genre, I really like this album. Back when it came out in 1971, I must have listened to it hundreds of times. Yes went through a lot of iterations, but this one (with Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye, and Bill Buford) was my favorite.
Thanks for the link - listening to it now.

Like you, I've listened to most of the songs from the album hundreds of times, but never owned the album. I bought their live album, Yessongs sometime in 1974, and it included most of the songs, and it was one of my favorites for years.

In a weird twist, we went to the St. Louis Symphony a few weeks ago when they were performing Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. A recording of the closing section of the suite is the first thing you hear on Yessongs before they segue into Siberian Khatru from Close to the Edge.
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Artful Dodger wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:39 pm
eddot98 wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:31 am The Yes Album

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6oPS4aLk8

Although Yes is referred to as a progressive band and, normally, I’m not a big fan of that genre, I really like this album. Back when it came out in 1971, I must have listened to it hundreds of times. Yes went through a lot of iterations, but this one (with Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye, and Bill Buford) was my favorite.
Thanks for the link - listening to it now.

Like you, I've listened to most of the songs from the album hundreds of times, but never owned the album. I bought their live album, Yessongs sometime in 1974, and it included most of the songs, and it was one of my favorites for years.

In a weird twist, we went to the St. Louis Symphony a few weeks ago when they were performing Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. A recording of the closing section of the suite is the first thing you hear on Yessongs before they segue into Siberian Khatru from Close to the Edge.
You’re welcome for the link. Since I used it also, it was easy to do.

That’s the Rick Wakeman influence as he took piano lessons from a young age and at one time wanted to be a concert pianist. Apologies if you knew this.
Glad that you were able to get out to the symphony. We still haven’t done anything like that since Covid-19. We are going to restaurants, but try to go at off hours to avoid crowds.
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New Pink Floyd song Hey Hey, Rise Up! released today April 8.

Featuring Andriy Khlyvnyuk sing), David Gilmour (guitar), Nick Mason (drums), Nitin Sawhney (keyboards), Guy Pratt (bass).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saEpkcVi1d4
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Sundown — Gordon Lightfoot
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Tower of Power - love the vocals and great horn section.

Wow! Great Tiny Desk concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDksWTzZQ2c
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Clear Spot — Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Oar — Skip Spence
An interesting musician, he played with the early Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and helped found Moby Grape. He wrote the superb songs “My Best Friend” and “J.P.P. McStep B. Blues” that JA recorded on Surrealistic Pillow. This was his only solo album. He died in 1999.
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All of you Micheal Hedges fans, if you have not heard of this guy check him out...new to me until now, amazing stuff!
Mike Dawes & Tommy Emmanuel - Somebody That I Used to Know (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bx9vTF8x2s

Mike Dawes - Jump (Van Halen) Solo Acoustic Guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKbrycmEGjU


Fixated with this keyboardist Valeriy Stepanov...guy is too good and Jay Stave is a beast on bass:
Valeriy Stepanov, Jay Stave, Paul Kholodyanskiy | The Chicken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGf62-MG014


This tune by The Pocket Exchange was recommended by a friend and I really like. Colab with Philip Lassiter:
Pass the Funk (feat. Philip Lassiter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cxxa0WQj3w

Cheers!! :sharebeer
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A few of Mozart's later symphonies (again!):

Haffner — No. 35
Linz — No. 36
Prague — No. 38
Jupiter — No. 41

The Linz symphony has been my favorite musical piece for quite some time, and I often have short (or longer) motifs as earworms that I thoroughly enjoy.
OTOH, decades ago, as a college freshman in some introductory music class, the instructor pretty much beat the Jupiter symphony to death. To this day, it's painful to listen to it, although it does seem that that effect is finally disappearing (somewhat, anyway).

I LOVE classical music and always have. I grew up with it playing in the background just about every moment someone was awake, unless we were needing to watch/listen to something else (such as Rocky and Bullwinkle, of course).

But they destroyed Mozart's Jupiter symphony and also some of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. Alas, I can't imagine the damage done to those who were hoping to be (or were hoped to be) introduced to the enjoyment of classical music.

Also, our occasional accompanist for our opera lessons gave a brilliant live Bach recital on Wednesday night. Thank goodness the Conservatory really tries to get almost everything of note (oooh... pun not intended) on Zoom these days.
Then we switched to a live Zoom faculty performance from Juilliard, with quartets by Mozart and Brahms.
Ahhhhhh! :happy

But it's not the same as having great seats to be there for the performances. We really miss those.

ETA to add Symphony numbers, courtesy of Nicholas

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ResearchMed wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:12 pm A few of Mozart's later symphonies (again!):

Haffner
Linz
Prague
Jupiter

The Linz symphony has been my favorite musical piece for quite some time, and I often have short (or longer) motifs as earworms that I thoroughly enjoy.
OTOH, decades ago, as a college freshman in some introductory music class, the instructor pretty much beat the Jupiter symphony to death. To this day, it's painful to listen to it, although it does seem that that effect is finally disappearing (somewhat, anyway).

I LOVE classical music and always have. I grew up with it playing in the background just about every moment someone was awake, unless we were needing to watch/listen to something else (such as Rocky and Bullwinkle, of course).

But they destroyed Mozart's Jupiter symphony and also some of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. Alas, I can't imagine the damage done to those who were hoping to be (or were hoped to be) introduced to the enjoyment of classical music.

Also, our occasional accompanist for our opera lessons gave a brilliant live Bach recital on Wednesday night. Thank goodness the Conservatory really tries to get almost everything of note (oooh... pun not intended) on Zoom these days.
Then we switched to a live Zoom faculty performance from Juilliard, with quartets by Mozart and Brahms.
Ahhhhhh! :happy

But it's not the same as having great seats to be there for the performances. We really miss those.

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Very nice. I’ve listened now to each of these symphonies but first had to look up their numbers as I did not have them memorized. The Linz I think is also my favorite of these, it has a certain sweetness, followed by the Jupiter which is the one I’m most familiar with.

Haffner — No. 35
Linz — No. 36
Prague — No. 38
Jupiter — No. 41
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Best of "Billie Holiday"
"As Time Goes By"
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Lawnmowers running outside. It is that time of the year!

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Nicolas wrote: Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:45 am
ResearchMed wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:12 pm A few of Mozart's later symphonies (again!):

Haffner
Linz
Prague
Jupiter

The Linz symphony has been my favorite musical piece for quite some time, and I often have short (or longer) motifs as earworms that I thoroughly enjoy.
OTOH, decades ago, as a college freshman in some introductory music class, the instructor pretty much beat the Jupiter symphony to death. To this day, it's painful to listen to it, although it does seem that that effect is finally disappearing (somewhat, anyway).

I LOVE classical music and always have. I grew up with it playing in the background just about every moment someone was awake, unless we were needing to watch/listen to something else (such as Rocky and Bullwinkle, of course).

But they destroyed Mozart's Jupiter symphony and also some of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. Alas, I can't imagine the damage done to those who were hoping to be (or were hoped to be) introduced to the enjoyment of classical music.

Also, our occasional accompanist for our opera lessons gave a brilliant live Bach recital on Wednesday night. Thank goodness the Conservatory really tries to get almost everything of note (oooh... pun not intended) on Zoom these days.
Then we switched to a live Zoom faculty performance from Juilliard, with quartets by Mozart and Brahms.
Ahhhhhh! :happy

But it's not the same as having great seats to be there for the performances. We really miss those.

RM
Very nice. I’ve listened now to each of these symphonies but first had to look up their numbers as I did not have them memorized. The Linz I think is also my favorite of these, it has a certain sweetness, followed by the Jupiter which is the one I’m most familiar with.

Haffner — No. 35
Linz — No. 36
Prague — No. 38
Jupiter — No. 41

Apologies! I should have followed Boglehead protocal and given the ticker number as well as the name. :happy
I'll try to remember in the future.
(I'll edit my original post to add the numbers. Thanks.)

Yes, that Linz... there's just something about it....! SomeTHINGS about it!
Perhaps someday I'll tire of it, but that's not even close now. I could have it repeat and repeat (and I admit I've occasionally done so...)

RM
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