I don't often turn on my TV, but I caught an old episode of Miami Vice with this song. and stayed to listen.

Bob Dylan- Mr Tambourine Man

Good one! How about this one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sDGTZRdQdw

In order to lure McB back to us...

Sorry, not as good as this:


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKlfTlx0oY6BiCH7Qvabrhg



Nothing beats Ladybaby!!!!

So very relaxing...

Counter it with a vid I made myself; Setsuna's Wake:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWmznE_-db8...eature=youtu.be

Eh, it's nice, but there's something about it that rubs me the wrong way. I've got pretty sensitive ears, and that low note kind of irritates somehow.

I blame Youtube!

I don´t know. One of the girls had too much beard and chest hair for my tastes...

He is Ladybeard, a cross-dressing wrestler from Australia; and just totally makes that vid! I mean, adorable Japanese girls singing - I've never seen a Japanese girl that I didn't think was adorable, especially when they are singing; but to have a cross-dressing wrestler from Australia roaring in your face next to them and dancing like them - That has to place Ladybaby above any other Babymetal or J-Pop (imho) :

I thought the girls were Korean...

Anyway, they´re really adorable, just like you say


But to further get McB here again...



I must say, this stuff is good!

Not according to their bios, lol. But yes, very cute!

Tina Cousins!!


Green Day - Know Your Enemy

Gods, do I love this song:

Drops of Jupiter

Great song/lyrics!

Gosh blubb me, if I still don´t love this song!!


And just for bonus...


Edit: The Refreshments - Miss you miss Belinda & Here we are (LIVE)



Thought I´d start actually typing in what song and artist I link to...

Muse - Resistance
Muse - Uprising
Muse - Time is running out

The CD from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. Seriously, give it a listen, it's pure genius!

Shinedown - Second Chance

This is the kind of music my son plays on his guitars all the time. If he could sing like this too, I'd push him onto the stage, lol.

He's an old school rocker then. Good boy!

Now listening to The Simpsons Sing The Blues - Look At All Those Idiots!

BWAAHAA!

Hel - Eldsjäl


Love this!!

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a place on earth
Shakira - Whenever, wherever

Yeah, a small estrogen kick there...


But don´t worry! Here´s some Offspring!

I LOVE Shakira!!! And Alejandro!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KO3CEMt-Lw

Rachel Platten - Fight song

Love this one

Bonus: Show me heaven, Lili and Susie!!

Must cleanse palate ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzZH_WBJHY

Sometimes this feels like a good Persephone song, but I think it fits Blondie better: Bon Jovi - Santa Fe

*Aces High
*The Trooper
*Wasted Years
*Alexander the Great
*Mother Russia
*Hallowed Be Thy Name
*Fear of the Dark
*Caught Somewhere in Time

And yes, I did just listen to all of them. My air drumming was awesome!!!


And now, some Paula Abdul with Straight Up! But only because it reminds me of That Special Girl™....

Been listening to some Avril Lavigne albums while doing some sudokus. Curiously enough, they actually seem to help...

WOO HOO! I LOVE Suokus!

I've not felt up to much serious listening since the onset of my current health concerns over a week ago. That said, I felt sufficiently well yesterday afternoon to get in a decent listening session.

YouTube currently houses most if not all of Andras Schiff's wonderful lecture-recital series on the Beethoven piano sonatas. I chose to hear again the one devoted to sonata no 11 opus 22, a sonata I knew not at all until purchasing Roland Brautigam's complete Beethoven sonata set on SACD late last year. I quickly grew to love its opening movement, and enjoy the other three. Schiff's insights help me better appreciate what Beethoven does with the piece, and his played examples are as always about as well executed as one can hope for.

Following the lecture I had an irresistible hankering to hear the sonata uninterrupted. For that I chose an in-concert recording by Maurizio Pollini, whose Beethoven interpretations almost never fail to please me.

Just prior to becoming sick I had been listening to Brautigam's Beethoven, in particular disks 4-6, containing sonatas 12-25. Much to treasure here. If forced to pick favorites I'd single out his interpretations of the Pastorale (no.15) and Hunt (No.18). Disk six remains for me the set's one disappointment. For whatever reason his interpretations of sonatas no.21 (Waldstein) and 23 (Appassionata), long-time favorite works, just don't speak to me. (On the other hand, a live-filming of Brautigam performing the Waldstein, available on YouTube, is one of my preferred performances of that work.) It doesn't help that sandwiched between the two is sonata no.22, the one Beethoven piano sonata I've not yet developed much liking for. Eep! I almost forgotten to mention the unnamed sonata no.16, another work with which I was totally unfamiliar until acquiring the Brautigam. Not only is it now a favorite, but to my admittedly retched ears is one of those pieces that, all else being equal, sounds better on a fortepiano such as Brautigam uses than a modern concert grand.

Some days ago, during another period of feeling relatively well, I listened to my favorite performance of Saint Saens' third symphony, the so-called "Organ", an old radio broadcast by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. This is a piece I became acquainted with early into my love-affair with classical music. I loved the work unreservedly then. I do so now. Due to its source sound quality isn't the best, but adequate to convey the interpretation.

Yesterday after supper I listened to disk eight of Brautigam's Beethoven Sonata SACD set, containing sonatas no.28, 30, 31, and 32. I'd not heard this disk in some time and had forgotten what a fine job he does with no.32 (the final sonata). With no.28 my allegiance remains firmly with Maurizio Pollini's commercial studio recording, which I own on CD.

This afternoon I listened once again to the Jasper String Quartet's filmed in-concert performance of Beethoven's Quartet Op.59 no.3 (the third Razumovsky). With the symphonies and piano sonatas I like best whichever I'm in the mood for at any given moment. With the string quartets, while I love them all, I've been particularly partial to Op.59 No.3 since first hearing it in mid-to-late 1970s. It's not one of Beethoven's most profound or groundbreaking works, but strikes all the right chords for me. I return to it time and time again. The Jasper performance linked above has become my preferred rendition, nuanced yet suitably extrovert as needed. I'm particularly taken by rather cello-centric slow second movement. The Jasper's cellist plays it for all it's worth. That she is a ravishingly lovely young lady ices the cake.

When first discovering this thread I was disappointed to find no discussion the work for which it is named. To remedy that I link the final minutes of Gustave Mahler's second symphony (The Resurrection). This is another of my favorite musical utterances, heard in a favorite rendition.

Many thanks to Decrepit for finally bringing some class into this thread


What´s your take on Figaro´s Wedding, btw?

I like it right well. I own it on DVD in the Jean-Pierre Ponnelle filmed performance. Stellar cast. Solidly traditional sets and costumes. (I deplore the current practice of updating older operas to modern times, though I'm all for innovation when used to better depict the creator's vision.) My favorite Mozart operas are The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni. Marriage isn't far below those in my esteem. I also enjoy the other opera based on those same characters, Rossini's Barber of Seville.

As to recent listing, it has again been Beethoven sonata centric. Highlights included Brautigam's Hammerklavier, which I became so mesmerized with I could not force myself off the sofa and was 40min late preparing lunch. Another highlight, Brautigam's rendition of Op.10 No.3, which I heard immediately after tonight's supper.

Recent listen has been, as per my recent norm, Beethoven piano sonata centric. No sense detailing all I heard. I will mention that part way through The Tempest (sonata Op.31 No.2) my SACD began mistracking badly. Examining the disk's surface reveals no obvious faults. Not sure what's up, but it can't bode well for the old sarge.

Either yesterday or the day before I developed a strong craving for Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony, the so-called Pathetique. I own several fine interpretations on disk, but wanted something new to me. At YouTube I found a filmed concert performance by the Seoul Philharmonic (Orchestra) under Chung Myung-Whun. It fit the bill perfectly. Here are the final two movements from that performance, the exhilarating allegro molto vivace (a march) and the slow, heart rending adagio lamentoso.

Even though I normally don´t listen to classical music I do have an appreciation for a big symphony orchestra. It´s really impressive when you think about it, I mean it´s not just six or seven people coordinating their instruments. It´s an army!


Of course I have an entirely new appreciation for the big orchestra with their introduction to movies and games. Just the intro to Oblivion is awesome! And man, when I saw that youtube video where they played the Morrowind theme, I almost stood up and applauded them myself!

Listening to one of my favorite Counting Crows songs - Four Days

I've not done a heck of a all of listening lately. Saturday, I believe it was, I listened to a CD of Ronald Brautigam play Mozart's final four piano sonatas on fortepiano. While I enjoy Mozart's piano sonatas, and find gems amongst them, they just don't speak to me the way most of Beethoven's do.

One of those gems is, for me, the final movement of sonata No.11 in A major, KV331, the well known 'rondo alla turca', which is not on the disk I heard. Here it is played on a modern grand piano in what I consider a more-or-less common interpretation.

Here it is again, in what is now my favorite interpretation, played by a young lady on fortepiano. Liberty is taken with tempo and embellishments to give the work a more exotic 'eastern' feel, which I find highly appropriate in that 'rondo alla turca' translates as Turkish Rondo. (The movement is also referred to as Turkish March.) What's more, this particular fortepiano has a built-in Janissary (percussion) stop, all the rage back in the day, which the performer makes full use of!!!!

Also listened to was a recording I return to time and time again, Nathalie Stutzmann performing Schubert's lied (song) 'Death and the Maiden'. First time I heard her hit the final vocal note it floored me.

Something less refined than Decrepit´s contributions...


La Cream: You and Say Goodbye


"Say Goodbye" was filmed at the famous ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi and according to the singer, she basically froze her butt off filming the video. One can nothing but understand that...

Not a lot of listening on my end, or rather not much worth mentioning. Yesterday I listened for the umpteenth time to disk three of Brautigam's Beethoven piano sonata SACD set, which begins with the Pathetique and ends with No.11 Opus 22. I mention my enthusiasm for Op.22 in an earlier post. No sense regurgitating it here.

At YouTube I heard yet again what I consider one of the best Schumann fourth symphony interpretations on record, the 1953 Berlin Philharmonic / Wilhelm Furtwangler studio recording. Furtwangler's handling of the transition passage between movements three and four has in my opinion few near equals and no betters. Here is the performance starting fairly far into movement three so that one can experience the transition and on to the end of the work. Sound quality isn't the best but not bad for the source material's age.

An interpretation new to me, the Orchestre de Paris under Christof Eschenbach performing Mahler's third symphony. The third and I go way back. I've four renditions of it on CD, one on LP, one on DVD (a disappointment), and heard it performed live by the LA Philharmonic during the 70s or early 80s. As to what I heard this morning, I quite enjoyed it. Here are its final eightish minutes, beginning with the quiet passage leading up to the soft brass-dominated chorale.

On the 18th of December, after posting that day's thread contribution, it came to me that I had totally forgotten to honor Beethoven's birthday two days prior. To remedy that I searched YouTube for the recording of B's 'Eroica' Symphony which served as the music-track for a BBC film depicting, with much artistic license, that work's first airing. I'm particularly keen on this performance, the more so as the musician play 'period' instruments, the instruments of Beethoven's day or reproductions thereof. Of all the Beethoven's symphonies, I feel the Eroica benefits most from the sound of a top-notch period instrument ensemble. Horns play a key role in the Eroica. It seems to me that Beethoven wrote for them with the sound of valveless instruments in mind, a sound that often comes across as overly refined on modern horns rather than appropriately brazen. That's my take in any case. Others can and do disagree.

Here is the final five minutes of that interpretation, beginning at the wind dominated quiet Poco Andante and on through the Presto to the end. (Being a music track, the orchestra occasionally seen on film is not actually performing, though many of the musicians belong to the group who recorded the track.)

Meatloaf- Bat Out of Hell.

What? It's part of a rock compilation. Don't give me that look

Deep Purple- Smoke on the Water

Now you're talking!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGMCSCFoKA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0UDi1kD3Q



And have to have some Ozzie too:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0siYUjV9UM



** By the way, am I the only one that thinks the "Bat Out of Hell" album videos were all shot in a Crowswood (ESO) timewarp?

Aargh! I can't check out the vids. I'm cutting it pretty close to the datacap this month. I'm down to like 600Mb until the 27th. I'll check them out then, I promise.

The first two are Meatloaf = "Bat Out of Hell" and "Won't Do That." The third one is Ozzie - "Mama I'm Coming Home."

I’m listening to my son sing along to hammered dulcimer Christmas music on the stereo while he plays Fallout 4 with the sound turned all the way down.

I'm listening to a cd that I got for christmas: Wardruna- Gap Var Ginnnga

It's awesome.

Weird Al time!!

Don´t wanna be a Canadian idiot
Tacky
Sir Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye (featuring astrophysics black guy! )
Word crimes


Bouns song: Ebay parody! I sort of recognize myself here...

DragonForce: Three Hammers