What Are You Listening To?

[Contused]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer — Fanfare For The Common Man

 

[Carlos]

This reminded me of Iron Maiden's eponymous song about the battle of Paschendale

This is a fan made video, using footage from the movie All Quiet on the Western Front, based on the book of the same name by a German soldier. Both the song and the book highlight how war destroys people not just in the physical sense.

 

[Contused]

Peter Gabriel (ft. Kate Bush) — Don't Give Up

 

[Matt Cycle]

 

[Lanny]

Because I’m feeling whimsical today, being happier & more hopeful because of the warmer Spring weather, I’m posting Madonna’s Dear Jessie.😉

It’s been a pretty tough Winter for me with a lot of illness & injury pushing my BS & insulin doses up & up.

Today I’ve just started on reducing my insulin doses with falling BS readings!

I’ve been listening to this song for years & years & have never seen this official music video before & I find it simply DELIGHTFUL!😛😎🙂

 

[Lanny]

Also, another whimsical one I’m posting is Paul McCartney’s Frog Chorus We All Stand Together.

 

[Contused]

Primal Scream — Sad And Blue

 

[Seabreeze]

 

[Seabreeze]

 

[Lanny]

Just heard this stirring piece on Classic FM Beehoven’s Symphony no 5 the first movement. I’ve posted it before & it’s probably the most famous 4 notes in all of Classical Music.😛😎

So much so, my parents referred to it as da da da da!, the famous fate knocking at the door 4 notes, Music during my teens. They weren’t into it at all: they didn’t like the one & only Classical Music album of Mozart’s Night Music I bought them for Christmas once! THEY were into Cantonese Opera which I thought was high pitched screeching which I, in italics, referred to as dok dok chan music: a joking reference that after each line of dialogue is sung there’s an accompanied 3 notes on the Chinese percussion instrument that sounds like dok dok chan! They didn’t get my love of Classical Music & I didn’t get their love of Cantonese Opera: to each their own!😱

I would say “They’re listening to dok dok chan music again” & leave then to it on the hifi in the living room; they said “ Lanny’s listening to da da da da! music again” when they heard the loud strains of Classical music through my closed bedroom door!😱

Classical music HAS to be heard through speakers & NOT earphones! If for no other reason than practical: I put it quite simply as annoying to have to keep turning up the volume for the quiet bits & turning down the volume for the loud bits through earphones: no need for that palaver with speakers!

 

[Contused]

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli — Minor Swing

 

[Pine Marten]

The Be Good Tanyas, which came up on YouTube after I played the White Stripes' Jolene...

 

[Lanny]

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli — Minor Swing

Oh, yeah!😛 That got me swinging!

 

[Contused]

This one takes me back to my schooldays during the late 50's and early 60's…

Dutch Swing College Band — Tiger Rag

 

[Carlos]

Just heard this stirring piece on Classic FM Beehoven’s Symphony no 5 the first movement. I’ve posted it before & it’s probably the most famous 4 notes in all of Classical Music.😛😎

So much so, my parents referred to it as da da da da!, the famous fate knocking at the door 4 notes, Music during my teens. They weren’t into it at all: they didn’t like the one & only Classical Music album of Mozart’s Night Music I bought them for Christmas once! THEY were into Cantonese Opera which I thought was high pitched screeching which I, in italics, referred to as dok dok chan music: a joking reference that after each line of dialogue is sung there’s an accompanied 3 notes on the Chinese percussion instrument that sounds like dok dok chan! They didn’t get my love of Classical Music & I didn’t get their love of Cantonese Opera: to each their own!😱

I would say “They’re listening to dok dok chan music again” & leave then to it on the hifi in the living room; they said “ Lanny’s listening to da da da da! music again” when they heard the loud strains of Classical music through my closed bedroom door!😱

Classical music HAS to be heard through speakers & NOT earphones! If for no other reason than practical: I put it quite simply as annoying to have to keep turning up the volume for the quiet bits & turning down the volume for the loud bits through earphones: no need for that palaver with speakers!

I love Beethoven, his music is timeless, doesn't age, sounds as surprising and fresh today as it must have done 200 years ago.

As for his use of dynamics, the fourth movement of the ninth is an absolute rollercoaster.

One of my favourite pieces of music, up there with Hallowed be thy name.

 

[Lanny]

I love Beethoven, his music is timeless, doesn't age, sounds as surprising and fresh today as it must have done 200 years ago.

As for his use of dynamics, the fourth movement of the ninth is an absolute rollercoaster.

One of my favourite pieces of music, up there with Hallowed be thy name.

Oh yes! One of my favourite pieces I hum often: Ode to Joy!

Amazingly, he was almost completely deaf when he composed this: didn’t matter as he could HEAR the music in his head!😱😎😛

 

[Carlos]

Oh yes! One of my favourite pieces I hum often: Ode to Joy!

Amazingly, he was almost completely deaf when he composed this: didn’t matter as he could HEAR the music in his head!😱😎😛

Not just that. He conducted the orchestra the first time it was played, and allegedly had to be turned around to see the reaction of the audience, as he couldn't hear the applause.

 

[Lanny]

Not just that. He conducted the orchestra the first time it was played, and allegedly had to be turned around to see the reaction of the audience, as he couldn't hear the applause.

Thanks for THAT little nugget of info, @Carlos 🙂 I didn’t know that & it’s COOL!😎 He conducted it himself!😛

 

[Lanny]

This is sublimely serene ~ I could listen to it all night through. The video is amazing too.

WL

Have you ever seen this danced in ballet? Saint Seans’ Carnival of the Animals The Swan aka in ballet The Dying Swan. It’s heartbreakingly beautiful!😛

Edited to add:-* I love that bit in the middle where she arches her back with one leg stretched out behind: the lines are SO swanlike!😛

 

[Lanny]

Nightingale Serenade ~ another wonderful piece of music from Andrè Rieu ~(Toselli's Serenade)
Just beautiful.
WL

Love this with the video & the sounds of the birds!😛😎