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Post by bonehead on Apr 18, 2024 13:41:51 GMT
Frighteningly, it's forty-four years since The Cure released their second studio album Seventeen Seconds. I'm listening to it now, and still absolutely love it's low-key, gloomy atmosphere. Possibly their best, in fact.
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 19, 2024 18:06:17 GMT
And 236 years ago Mozart wrote his Symphony No. 41 in C major which was the next album on the Dave's Music Database top 1000 Albums
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Post by timleschild on Apr 19, 2024 18:11:44 GMT
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
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Post by mrperson on Apr 19, 2024 20:19:58 GMT
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine NIN - The Fragile (left side) NIN - Downward Spiral.
You may have noticed I'm on a bit of a NIN kick. Been a while. This is how many of my preferences for food and types of entertainment rotate. A few months of loving computer games. Several months of doing my art again. A few months of mixing in heavy reading with some art. Even if it's something I've loved before, a bit of a break and I'm on full blast all over again.
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Post by mrperson on Apr 19, 2024 20:26:32 GMT
Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E flat major
How do you feel about the horn concertos? I love 'em.
(Though for me, the pinnacle is the first recording - there are multiple - of Yo Yo Ma playing the unaccompanied bach cello suites. Just.... godly. I used to have this little thought when I was younger, that if there were some divine creature and I was called on to defend humanity from an intended erasure, I would simply let that recording play, saying nothing of my own)
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 19, 2024 20:29:46 GMT
Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E flat major
How do you feel about the horn concertos? I love 'em.
(Though for me, the pinnacle is the first recording - there are multiple - of Yo Yo Ma playing the unaccompanied bach cello suites. Just.... godly. I used to have this little thought when I was younger, that if there were some divine creature and I was called on to defend humanity from an intended erasure, I would simply let that recording play, saying nothing of my own)
I would have to give those a re-listen sometime. I think only the piano concertos made the list I'm working my way through.
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Post by bonehead on Apr 20, 2024 14:58:32 GMT
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland.
It took me a while to get into this when it was released all those hundreds of years ago. The persistant rhythm and doomy synths and guitars won in the end though, and I like it all the more for that. A slow-burner for sure, almost a concept album, and undoubtedly Sisters of Mercy's real classic.
"I hear the roar of the big machine."
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 22, 2024 18:02:21 GMT
Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 23, 2024 13:44:44 GMT
Double bill extreme death metal concert tonight- just got home. PHEW. 1 of the Original bands that helped define a genre, touring in support of their 11th (?) album. Not bad for a high school band in the 80's from Centreach, New York. In 2012 they were inducted into the Long Island New York Hall of Musical Fame for their far reaching style/influential blue print. All music is valid- this relaxes me ever so much..
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Post by timleschild on Apr 23, 2024 14:56:02 GMT
Double bill extreme death metal concert tonight- just got home. PHEW. 1 of the Original bands that helped define a genre, touring in support of their 11th (?) album. Not bad for a high school band in the 80's from Centreach, New York. In 2012 they were inducted into the Long Island New York Hall of Musical Fame for their far reaching style/influential blue print. All music is valid- this relaxes me ever so much.. Not, the Long Island New York Hall of Musical Fame! lol
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 23, 2024 22:44:16 GMT
I was able to find an English version of Cosí Fan Tutte by Mozart, so I was actually able to understand the plot of the opera.... but man what a dumb plot! All the pretty music in the world can't save this stupid misogynistic piece of trash.
The first real clunker on the list.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Apr 23, 2024 23:33:38 GMT
Double bill extreme death metal concert tonight- just got home. PHEW. 1 of the Original bands that helped define a genre, touring in support of their 11th (?) album. Not bad for a high school band in the 80's from Centreach, New York. In 2012 they were inducted into the Long Island New York Hall of Musical Fame for their far reaching style/influential blue print. All music is valid- this relaxes me ever so much.. Not, the Long Island New York Hall of Musical Fame! lol Music is all about personal emotion so yes.. duck season rabbit season duck season duck season !
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 24, 2024 18:19:02 GMT
Mozart's Requiem in D minor.
You would think the man's literal funeral music that he died while composing would be the last we would hear from the guy, but no, there's at least three other works of his still on the list.
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 25, 2024 18:30:15 GMT
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 26, 2024 22:33:46 GMT
Mozart's Magic Flute; one of the better operas on the list thus far
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 27, 2024 19:32:11 GMT
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major
And that I've finally finished the last Mozart work on the list
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Apr 29, 2024 15:57:05 GMT
The Black Crowes: Amorica, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (30th Anniversary) & Shake Your Money Maker (30th Anniversary)
Against the Current: Complete Discography
Emma Blackery: Complete Discography
Elton John: Made in England & The Big Picture
Elton John: Empty Sky to Caribou (including various Deluxe and Anniversary Editions and Live albums)
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Post by bethhigdon on Apr 29, 2024 17:50:03 GMT
Franz Josef Haydn's Symphony No. 104 in D major.
It wasn't anything super outstanding but at least it was something different from Bach and Mozart.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Apr 30, 2024 15:52:19 GMT
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (Deluxe edition)
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Post by bonehead on Apr 30, 2024 16:17:19 GMT
I'm probably not the only one who resists the desire to listen to a particular album every day, and only plays it as a 'treat' so not to become too familiar with it - to still allow it to surprise. With John Foxx's Metamatic abum, I've been practising this for forty four years! And it still impresses. John's in his 70's now, and still producing extraordinary music, but Metamatic remains my first experience of his stuff - too alien to be effective as other music is effective, but warm enough not to chill the heart like some of his 'New Romantic' contempories. A tremendous trip, a timeless, minimalist, haunting album. Just love it. You don't just listen, you become immersed. Entirely its own beast.
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