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What Are You Listening To?

I've been exploring the back catalogue of Mitch Benn. For those who don't know, he does mainly humourous songs with very clever lyrics. I've put together a playlist called BOMB.

Over time he has satyrised Elvis, T. Rex, The Smiths, Iron Maiden, Elton John, Ed Shearon, The practice of digging up old demo tapes to create a new Beatles record, Lloyd Webber musicals, Boy bands, you name it.
 
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I've been exploring the back catalogue of Mitch Benn. For those who don't know, he does mainly humourous songs with very clever lyrics. I've put together a playlist called BOMB.

Over time he has satyrised Elvis, T. Rex, The Smiths, Iron Maiden, Elton John, Ed Shearon, The practice of digging up old demo tapes to create a new Beatles record, Lloyd Webber musicals, Boy bands, you name it.
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And it looks like he’s done a live session with his kid? “You’re so old/young.” Thanks for the pointer. I enjoy a bit of satire & parody.
 
Axis Of Awesome also did a boy band parody How To Write A Love Song. There is a TV ad for Amazon that uses Pachabel's Cannon in D as background music. This piece of music is over 300 years old but is still influential due to the chord progression. This is demonstrated by a song called Four Chords by Axis Of Awesome where they play short bursts of random songs over the same four chords. The canon itself is great too as it starts off very simple and gradually adds more and more complexity until by the end it's counterpoint heaven.
 
Chris Hobson said:
Axis Of Awesome also did a boy band parody How To Write A Love Song. There is a TV ad for Amazon that uses Pachabel's Cannon in D as background music. This piece of music is over 300 years old but is still influential due to the chord progression. This is demonstrated by a song called Four Chords by Axis Of Awesome where they play short bursts of random songs over the same four chords. The canon itself is great too as it starts off very simple and gradually adds more and more complexity until by the end it's counterpoint heaven.
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That reminds me of Paul McCartney writing 'Silly Love Songs' in response to Lennon's sniping at him: it got to Number 1 in the US and Number 2 in the UK.
 
Something different I have listened to is Dame Maggie Smith teaching Carol Burnett to speak cockney. Their comic timing is perfect and her use of gottal stops and a sentence where she drops all the h's is brilliant. Think Judi Dench and Sheila Hancock are the only senior dames left.

 
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Red - "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed into words, and makes your heart ache because of it."
A fantastic bit of music.....
 
@pjgtech Mozart is brilliant. I remember singing his requiem and have been to special performances. I studied the original play by Beaumarchais for French A level. What a lovely recording.
 
I only saw this recently, a moving story, this young lady (15 at the time of recording) has a rare stomach disease, she cannot eat, has to be fed through a tube in her stomach, but she wants to be a singer, and boy, what a singer she is!
The conductors intro gives a bit of background on her....
I found this performance very moving. Its sung in French, and the lyrics are apparently about a person who has a dream, so very apt, enjoy....
 
Paul Di'Anno, who fronted Iron Maiden during their first two albums, died today. He lives on in his music.

 
Bit of an old school raver me (back in the day)
 
Frankie goes to Hollywood Welcome to the pleasure dome A real throwback to the 80s. It got banned and I just had to have it Can u remember the Frankie says t-shirts I went to Gt Yarmouth and got one printed that said Frankie says F*** Me I got into trouble for that
 
I've been listening to:

Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation
And now spinning a vinyl copy of The Pentangle's Solomon's Seal album that I found in a local shop today.
 
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