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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 4, 2024 15:52:08 GMT
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 4, 2024 18:11:25 GMT
Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major (The Great)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2024 17:38:09 GMT
Age of Plastic by The Buggles.
There once was a song called Video Killed the Radio Star. It was the first song to be played on MTV. This was at the tail end of 1979, just before synthesisers, drum machines and New Romantics swept through the charts, causing many musicians championing more traditional instruments to lament the 'death' of popular music. I remember it well. The Buggles' debut single sang about the questionable triumphs of new technology over old, and dressed it in a beguiling, catchy (even, as writer/producer Trevor Horn described it, slightly irritating) verse and chorus. This was the first song I actively loved. Very clever, very slick and very 80's, even before the 80's became a thing (Horn became a prolific producer during this time, often known as 'the man who created the Eighties). The following album The Age of Plastic spawned three further, lesser selling hits, but each of the 8 songs featured here I played to death (and still sometimes do). A sci-fi, Ballardian masterclass, tipping a hat to the mainstream, but really carving out a uniqueness of its own. Monorails, soundwaves, technology, metal friends, consumer friendly nightmares and more plastic than you could shake a stick at. Welcome to the future.
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 5, 2024 19:00:44 GMT
Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 6, 2024 20:10:06 GMT
Bellini's Norma
Which was literally just background music as once again I could not understand anything because it wasn't an English.
And it's not that I can't listen to songs in other languages, it's that operas are made to have a plot to follow and you can't follow it, sometimes not even when it's in language you do speak.
Right now I listening to the Heathers soundtrack and it's like night and day. Not just the fact that it's in another genre or in English, but like they actually enunciante in musicals compared to operas.
Like why? Why can't opera not only translate lyrics more often in localized performances but also why can't the singers enunciante more?
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 7, 2024 20:14:49 GMT
Felix Mendessohn's Violin Concerto in E minor
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 10, 2024 21:16:29 GMT
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto
This next part of the list is going to be a long slog through a bunch of operas
So once again I turned to a musical to compare to: I Could Sing All Day Long; Judy Garland's last movie.
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 11, 2024 18:12:12 GMT
Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata (The Fallen Woman)
Reading the plot on wiki, this apparently is where Moulin Rouge got it's story.
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 12, 2024 21:27:40 GMT
Richard Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde
I'm not a Wagner fan by any means and his operas are way, way too long for as little plot that they hold, but it was still preferable to listen to than my nasty co-workers. Which is ironic given Wagner's history with the far-right.
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 13, 2024 18:11:29 GMT
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2024 15:53:01 GMT
Unlike most people my age, I never really enjoyed Ultravox until lead singer John Foxx left. No slight on John - he functions much better as a solo artist as far as I'm concerned and he'll always be my favourite singular musician. When the Vienna album came along, the first two singles (both excellent - Sleepwalk and Passing Strangers) didn't do too much to raise peoples' awareness of them. Then the title track was released in the midst of the New Romantic 'boom', and they became big news. The album, produced by Conny Plank, who was an ideal fit for them, remains my favourite Ultravox album, with Rage in Eden a very close second. Those screeching guitars, soaring synths, Warren Cann's mighty drumming, songs of loss and longing, doom and remembrance; the band's image at that time, all thick eyeliner and 1920's style, is still a shining example of why the very late '70s/early '80s remains the very best musical era for me.
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 14, 2024 17:52:03 GMT
Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 17, 2024 23:10:43 GMT
the opera Aida was the next on the list
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 18, 2024 22:55:02 GMT
Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky
possible my favorite thing on the list so far
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 19, 2024 18:03:08 GMT
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jun 21, 2024 15:59:29 GMT
Bon Jovi - Forever, Burning Bridges, 7800 Fahrenheit, Slippery When Wet, New Jersey & What About Now
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Heavy Soul
Foreigner/Styx - Renegades and Jukebox Heroes The 2024 Tour
Marillion - A Hour Before Its Dark: Live in Port Zelande 2023
Black Country Communion - V
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 21, 2024 18:12:56 GMT
Yesterday I listened to The Valkyrie and right now I got Siegfried playing in the background.
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 25, 2024 20:21:55 GMT
Finally finished Wagner's The Ring Cycle yesterday with the Twilight of the Gods.
That should be the last of Wagner on the list but certainly not the last opera. We still got a handful more of those
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Post by bethhigdon on Jun 26, 2024 21:05:26 GMT
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 27, 2024 11:07:41 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil_(band)#DiscographyAlbum #20 from Canadian heavy metal legends "Anvil" was just released - the band that influenced "The Big 4 of Metal" so that includes the mighty Metallica who can sell out stadiums at any time with no new album.. Not bad for a band that started in the late 70's - doing it for the love of the music. Overall no huge surprises- after 20 albums you pretty much know what you are going to get. Solid anthemic fist pumpin' foot stompin' guitar based music.
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