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Your favourite listenings......

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby TrimTheKing » 30 Mar 2016, 23:01

I like a LOT of different songs, artists and styles and really don't focus on one, but if I had to pick one then 'rock' is probably my go to genre.

To name a few favourites, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Nirvana, Killers, Oasis (idiots but good music), Elvis Presley, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age.

On the flip side we had a party at Trimble Towers at the weekend and took turns as DJ. We were singing, dancing and generally clowning around to such a diverse range as The Jackson 5, Rose Royce, Bruno Mars, Pharell, Daft Punk, Pat & Mick, The Stone Roses and this masterpiece…

[youtube]u7DN5d6PRvs[/youtube]

:lol: :lol:

Ignore the lovely lady dancer and the song/style/genre are all great fun. The song is El Caballito de palo by Joseph fonseca.

If you don't immediately hate it from that then here's his official video. It's definitely one for being drunk and daft dancing, but on a serious note I have really taken a shine to much of this South American style music since we holidayed in Mexico a number of years ago...

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I am also oddly partial to a little bhangra when the mood takes :eusa-dance: You might remember this one from a good few years ago…

[youtube]qp5HGsgY-dU[/youtube]


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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Mike G » 30 Mar 2016, 23:22

Yeah, I was going to mention Queen. They were brilliant for a while.........I'm thinking Night at the Opera, Day at the Races, Queen 11, and so on, but produced some unmitigated trash too. Jazz (inc Fat Bottomed Girls) almost undid all the good they achieved with their first 3 or 4 albums. Tie Your Mother Down, though, makes up for quite a lot of the lightweight commercial singalongs they made.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby TrimTheKing » 30 Mar 2016, 23:24

Did someone mention Jazz?

Anyone for a little Death Jazz?

[youtube]AQMgXPFzdg8[/youtube]

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby TrimTheKing » 30 Mar 2016, 23:36

Also, Parov Stelar. This guy I like a LOT!!!

[youtube]Eco4z98nIQY[/youtube]

[youtube]5ueJ4-lTa1s[/youtube]

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 31 Mar 2016, 00:13

Hey Mark, you're the Govna and you do the banning ;)

Some cool choices there although not familiar, but I do like 'Lady dancing with a broom' 8-)

Hmmm Jazz... I don't mind a bit of jazz, especially when it's full throttle and manic within a smokey boozy room.

I'm sorry chaps, but I'm now in the mood for a bunch of Londoners who call themselves 'Iron Maiden'

What's the name again.........??

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby TrimTheKing » 31 Mar 2016, 12:46

[youtube]vReyGUiLDhs[/youtube]

You're welcome! :eusa-clap:

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Andyp » 31 Mar 2016, 15:30

No one mentioned The Who yet

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby RogerS » 31 Mar 2016, 17:44

Here's another of my favourite bands - Blood, Sweat and Tears. They were never mainstream and I'm wondering how many of you have heard of them before?

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And, of course, The Moody Blues.

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 31 Mar 2016, 18:37

Andy, I was thinking The Who only last night - honest! And I see you're a Genesis fan. I grew up hearing Genesis pouring out from my brother's bedroom. I was close to posting one of their classic tracks as an opener to this thread.

Anyway, The Who - another legendary band. Here's Roger (Not RogerS - sorry dude) doing a class act for the excellent film 'McVicar' - the theme song and 'Free Me'.

[youtube]OgkNkqlKMTw[/youtube]

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 31 Mar 2016, 18:42

I haven't heard of Blood, Sweat & Tears. Cool name and the chap has a very nice voice.

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 31 Mar 2016, 18:47

I do like Mark's JSM. I thought it was me dancing as a younger chap!!

Oh yes, I was a reet mover in me time you know! :obscene-drinkingcheers:

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 31 Mar 2016, 20:05

Sorry chaps - me again. :|

I keep thinking of great songs and get a bit carried away.

U2.

Here are a couple of blinders...

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[youtube]bkQ_gN1ybrA[/youtube]

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Andyp » 31 Mar 2016, 20:24

I remember buying U2's Joshua Tree at the same time as I bought a new amp, speakers and headphones. I was living in a small flat at the time, middle floor, middle fat so I had neighbours either side and above and below. Wanting to test out the headphones I plugged them in, put them on, placed the record on the deck and ramped up the volume as far as it would go and laid down on the floor. After about 15 mins I remember placing my hand on top of one of the speakers, it was vibrating. I took off the headphones and was horrified to discover that the speakers had to be switched off when the headphones were plugged in.

I never had any complaints, but then if someone tried banging on the door I would not have heard them.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Robert » 31 Mar 2016, 23:19

TrimTheKing wrote:
I am also oddly partial to a little bhangra when the mood takes

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Our assembly shop at the factory was mainly staffed by Asian workers and they would often have their own music playing. One day they had an amazing collection of Beatles tunes in their own language played by a bhangra band. Made such an impression on me I still regret not finding out more about it or even asking for a copy. really fun sound :)
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Rod » 01 Apr 2016, 12:58

Sandy Denny
Mott the Hoople
Nick Drake
The incredible String Band
Peter Green
Fleetwood Mac
Keb Mo
Leonard Cohen
Johnny Cash
Jo Cocker
Alison Krauss
Neil Young
Etc etc

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby RogerS » 01 Apr 2016, 13:39

Andyp wrote:.....
I never had any complaints, but then if someone tried banging on the door I would not have heard them.


:D Been there! I remember buying one of the first AV type Macs...the one with a proper colour screen, full sound and on first boot up a young Steve Jobs IIRC walked into view from the bottom of the screen. Light years ahead of Windows at the time which was still on DOS.

I had some demo war game. I racked up the speaker volume in my flat. I sent in the riflemen....I sent in the machine gunners. Looking at the options in the pulldown menu, I saw 'artillery barrage'...yup, we'll have some of that in four minutes time....fighter bomber...oh yes...send them in 20 seconds after the artillery barrage.

Let's whack the volume up, send in the grenade throwers ...oh, this is fun. Let's whack that volume up a bit more...what else is there ....KERRRRUMPPHHHH....the artillery barrage opened up and the room erupted...bloody hell, I thought..that's a bit loud....Oh Christ....the fighter bombers... frantically reaching for the volume control as the windows nearly blew out!!
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 01 Apr 2016, 20:27

Well, you boys are very silly ain't you - tut tut.

I'm not a huge fan of Wolfie, but his last work was awesome and he apparently wrote, "I fear I am writing a requiem for myself." Indeed he did, but finished by his apprentice.

I saw this live about 17 years ago and it was stunning.

[youtube]s8BJo3ca5O8[/youtube]

Some Baroque on the way - J S Bach.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 01 Apr 2016, 20:58

On to Mr JS in a bit.

I just stumbled across a recording of (apparently) Rachmaninov playing his own Piano Concerto No 3 - 1st movement.

Very special chap.

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby StevieB » 01 Apr 2016, 21:03

Aye, it is good, but I prefer Faure when it comes to requiems to be honest.

Top 3 classical music pieces:

Beethoven Emperor piano concerto 2nd movement
Philip Glass, violin concerto no 1, 2nd movement
Shostakovitch piano concerto no 2, 2nd movement

Got a thing going for quiet music at the moment, stuff I can listen to and get lost in. Having said that, I will listen to anything with a heavy beat at the gym, Iron Maiden (Fear of the dark - top tune) etc when the mood takes me and pretty much any other genre except country music - just the same dirge over and over. I also repeatedly try and fail to get into jazz - just doesn't seem to do it for me.

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 01 Apr 2016, 22:25

If you're not familiar with Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony, check this out.

A Polish chap with extreme inspirations, but, we have the imagination to make it whatever we want.

Beautiful music.

[youtube]rmDuqL23gN0[/youtube]
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 01 Apr 2016, 22:40

A bit of JS. Beethoven was apparently inspired by this man.

I am going put a hammer through this blinkin iPad in a minute!

The vid is a bit suspect, but a nice example of Cello Suite 01.

[youtube]GAwojkL708Y[/youtube]
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby RogerM » 03 Apr 2016, 10:59

Comfortably Numb from The Pulse tour. IMHO the definitive performance, and a visual feast as well.

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Followed by "Run Like Hell" to close the show.

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Then there is the lovely, sultry and ethereal "Sonja Christina" from Curved Air from the early 70's.

[youtube]mUnjMI81vAA[/youtube]

In the 60's Saturday night TV always included a variety show of some sort - Billy Cotton, Black and White Minstrels and even Lulu. There would always be a guest spot, normally by someone like Max Bygraves, Perry Como, or Buddy Greco. Even by the standards of the time it was dull, DULL, DULL. Then on one famous occasion Lulu had Jimi Hendrix as her guest, and the plan was that he would play "Voodoo Chile", and then follow up with "Hey Joe". Then according to the plan, Lulu would join him to duet the 3rd verse of "Hey Joe", and that's what was rehearsed. If that sounds like a bad idea now, it sounded even dafter then.

These shows always went out live, and showing Jimi Hendrix live was always going to be brave. Anyway, Voodoo Child went OK and Hey Joe followed as planned. However, so far as Lulu's duet was concerned Hendrix was having none of it. He stopped abruptly after the 2nd verse before Lulu could join him and launched in to an impromptu "Cream" tribute as they had broken up that week. At this point, the show being live, he was told the plug was about to be pulled.

I was 15 at the time and remember it well, and it was as much as I could do to stop my father turning it off! I had to stand between him and the screen. There was talk of nothing else at school on the Monday. Video tape was very expensive and after the show they were normally wiped for re-use, but fortunately the cameraman recognised that he had something of real significance and made a private copy which didn't re-surface for years.

Sadly Hendrix was dead inside 18 months, along with Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, and the other 2 - bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell - died in recent years at no great age.

The whole thing used to be on YouTube, but has been removed, so here are 2 of the 3 tracks concerned separately.

[youtube]Lw3UZ_XEkiA[/youtube]

[youtube]4jgAdeWK9mU[/youtube]
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 05 Apr 2016, 20:17

Cool compilation Roger and your story is grand - I likes it. I was born in the 60's so sadly, I don't remember that far back. I do remember from may lifetimes ago though when I was....... only joking - just being an * as usual.
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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 05 Apr 2016, 20:21

This one holds dear to my heart and soul.

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Re: Your favourite listenings......

Postby Pinch » 07 Apr 2016, 20:03

Some more J S Bach... Cantate 208 - choral and piano

I prefer the choral.

Both beautiful.

[youtube]VzaCZH1zGvw[/youtube]

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