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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 7, 2024 19:34:35 GMT
So I dipped my toes into the South African rap scene today and listened to Die Antwoord's EP, Ekstra.
There's lots of interesting beats and musical motifs, but like with most rap I cannot connect to the lyrics. Most of the songs are about fast money, fast drugs, and fast women and I have no desire for any of those things.
Ok, more money would be nice... but I wouldn't be spending it on what they're spending it on.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 8, 2024 15:44:03 GMT
Well that was a treat!
Today I listened to Mon y Sus Trombones, a greatest hits album for Latin Jazz artist and Puerto Rican folk singer Mon Rivera.
Now as an English speaker, I'm sure most of the subtleties of some of the politically charged lyrics were lost to me, but as a fan of big band jazz this really was right up my alley.
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Post by bonehead on Feb 8, 2024 15:51:57 GMT
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees. Summer 1984. Absolutely brilliant, thank you very much.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 9, 2024 17:01:33 GMT
Queensryche - Sign of the Times: The Best of (Rarities disc) & American Soldier
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Feb 13, 2024 6:43:15 GMT
Off in a couple hours to see 1 of the legendary German thrash metal bands tonight.. Been a fan since 1989.. Touring in support of album no #17.
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Post by iainmclaughlin on Feb 13, 2024 17:49:55 GMT
Highyway 61 Revisited... possibly the best alvum ever and IMHO definitel Dylan's best (though he has many other brilliant albums). Think I'll rock things up with Back in Black later. Can't beat a bit of AC/DC.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 13, 2024 22:59:08 GMT
I stumbled upon Dave's Music Database and found their list of Top 1000 Albums through out history, and I thought it a fun challenge that gives me something to do at work.
First 'album' on the list is "Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)" by Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, composed in 1562.
Now, we have written down mass services predating this one by several hundred years so I'm not quite sure what the criteria is for starting with this particular work. Unless we're only talking about reproduced music, and this would have been after the invention of the printed press. But even that was still a hundred years before so... *shrugs*
Anyways the work is nice enough. I like medieval and renaissance choir music so this was a pleasant, if not particularly unique, afternoon experience.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Feb 13, 2024 23:11:07 GMT
I stumbled upon Dave's Music Database and found their list of Top 1000 Albums through out history, and I thought it a fun challenge that gives me something to do at work. First 'album' on the list is "Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)" by Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, composed in 1562. Now, we have written down mass services predating this one by several hundred years so I'm not quite sure what the criteria is for starting with this particular work. Unless we're only talking about reproduced music, and this would have been after the invention of the printed press. But even that was still a hundred years before so... *shrugs* Anyways the work is nice enough. I like medieval and renaissance choir music so this was a pleasant, if not particularly unique, afternoon experience. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_StargateGive this a gander if you like medieval/renaissance music. This artist is coming back to Oz in a couple months time .
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 14, 2024 1:25:23 GMT
I stumbled upon Dave's Music Database and found their list of Top 1000 Albums through out history, and I thought it a fun challenge that gives me something to do at work. First 'album' on the list is "Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)" by Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, composed in 1562. Now, we have written down mass services predating this one by several hundred years so I'm not quite sure what the criteria is for starting with this particular work. Unless we're only talking about reproduced music, and this would have been after the invention of the printed press. But even that was still a hundred years before so... *shrugs* Anyways the work is nice enough. I like medieval and renaissance choir music so this was a pleasant, if not particularly unique, afternoon experience. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_StargateGive this a gander if you like medieval/renaissance music. This artist is coming back to Oz in a couple months time . Oh cool. I'll have to add that to my list of stuff to check out.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 14, 2024 16:44:50 GMT
Queensryche - Dedicated to Chaos (Standard and Special Editions)
Queensryche - The Warning (Original planned Sequence)
Queensryche - Promised Land (Alternate Fan Sequence)
Queensryche - Tribe (Reddit Fan Sequence)
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 14, 2024 22:24:29 GMT
So continuing on from Top 1000 Albums, today I listened to Spem in Alium, Motet for 40 Voices by Thomas Tallis from 1607.
At only roughly 10 mins long, one has to ask if this work would retroactively qualify as an 'album'? I guess if both EPs and LPs are being considered then this would fit an EP.
As for the music itself it's more lovely choir music in the vain of a Georgian chant, but more elaborate as we're now out of the Renaissance and moving to the Baroque period.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Feb 14, 2024 22:32:02 GMT
Queensryche - Dedicated to Chaos (Standard and Special Editions) Queensryche - The Warning (Original planned Sequence) Queensryche - Promised Land (Alternate Fan Sequence) Queensryche - Tribe (Reddit Fan Sequence) Geoff Tate did a solo tour in Oz last year, he played "Empire" in full and also if memory serves me "The Warning" (?). I was in perfect position- that voice , it just goes through you- such power and operatic brilliance.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 15, 2024 22:45:09 GMT
Third on the list is the opera L’Orfeo (Orpheus) by Claudio Monteverdi which premiered in 1607.
While not the first opera, or even the oldest surviving opera, it is considered by historians as being the first opera to popularize the genre and is still regularly performed to this day.
It's alright. As a good example of the transition from the Renaissance to Baroque, it's a pretty piece of background music, but as with most operas there's a bit of disconnect as I can't follow the story. And I say this about every opera, even the ones in English.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 16, 2024 22:23:52 GMT
Another piece by Monteverdi. This time it's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin composed in 1610.
I much preferred this to the opera. No story to distract from the lovely music.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 17, 2024 21:38:48 GMT
Canzoni et sonate by Giovanni Gabrieli. Written in 1612 but published in 1615 after the composer's death, is a collection of 16 canzoni and 5 sonate. Which makes this the first album on the 1000 list to not be choir music or an oprea.
This one might be my favorite one so far. The brass and wind ensembles remind me of Christmas music you hear in various Christmas Carol adaptations, even though this has nothing to do with Christmas and predates the Victorian era by over 200 years.
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 21, 2024 4:38:38 GMT
Madrigals of Love and War by Claudio Monteverdi yet again.Published in 1638. More or less I have the same opinion of this as his other works so far. (Sadly things have changed at work and I won't be able to listen to one album a day planned. This is going to go a lot slower than anticipated.)
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Post by bonehead on Feb 21, 2024 10:43:07 GMT
Madrigals of Love and War by Claudio Monteverdi yet again.Published in 1638. More or less I have the same opinion of this as his other works so far. (Sadly things have changed at work and I won't be able to listen to one album a day planned. This is going to go a lot slower than anticipated.) I can sympathise with that. My job would be so incredibly enjoyable if we were allowed to listen to our own music, I can't even begin to tell you. But no, 'the rules' dictate we must listen to the sound of industrial machinery all day instead ☹️
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 22, 2024 16:43:36 GMT
Queensryche - Dedicated to Chaos (Standard and Special Editions) Queensryche - The Warning (Original planned Sequence) Queensryche - Promised Land (Alternate Fan Sequence) Queensryche - Tribe (Reddit Fan Sequence) Geoff Tate did a solo tour in Oz last year, he played "Empire" in full and also if memory serves me "The Warning" (?). I was in perfect position- that voice , it just goes through you- such power and operatic brilliance. Since he was removed from Queensryche, his voice has improved so much. He's back to using all of it. its amazing
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 22, 2024 16:45:38 GMT
Metallica - 72 Seasons
Metallica - S&M2
Metallica - Helping Hands....Live at the Masonic
Crawlers - The Mess WE Seem to Make (Deuxe)
Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale
HarpistKT - Rock Echoes
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Post by bethhigdon on Feb 23, 2024 0:51:49 GMT
The fourth and last piece by Claudio Monteverdi that's featured on the Top 1000 Albums list; L’incoronazione di Poppea or The Coronation of Poppaea. It's another opera that premiered in 1642 and was one of his last works. Listening to this I remembered another reason why I don't particularly care about opera, despite loving musicals, ballets, and classical music in general. Not only is there often a language barrier, it's also way too freakin' long! The complete version on audio was over four hours. Far more interesting was this modern performance I found on Youtube that not only translated the lyrics into English, but also rearranged the instrumentation to sound like an 80s rock opera, upping the tempo on a lot of songs and reducing the runtime to a more reasonable two hours without having to cut much.
youtu.be/vyFgncA-VbY?si=VcKBB8JhHbAVaN0h
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