Freiheit - When I Dance With You...

McB, welcome back!
I see your Dance and raise you a bunch of rednecks with an amazing gift for poetry and guitar solos.

McBadgere! (said the bishop to the actress...)


Hey, that's one of Valens' themesongs, from the Aela fic!

I see your Outlaws and raise you The Moody Blues!

Hey guys... ...

H.E.R.!!!...Loved that song the last time you put it up... ...Proper Epic... ...

Love their version of Ghost Riders In The Sky too...Booyah!!...Yipeee-ay-eyyy!!...

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Subrosa!!!... ...I do loves The Moody Blues...Awesome band...

This is one of my absolute faves of theirs...

Meet Me Halfway...



Also in the news...Davie Bowie...Bless him!...Admittedly I was never his biggest fan...But all sympathies to his family...

I am, then, also listening to this during this dinner break...

Strangers When We Meet...

Hey! This is not the real McB!!!



If it is, where are the Korean girls!???

Moonage Daydream

Apologies...As you were... ...

Now we´re talking!


Edit: I actually had a little trouble getting into this song, but now I´m currently at replay number 237 238 239...



Sorry..

Now listening to...

Only You

This song always brings back great memories when I was still a party animal, lived during the nights and went to sleep at sunrise. While I have good memories of those times, I prefer my life as it is now - more or less a calm sea with just occasional partying tsunamis.

Listening now to the OST of Assassin's Creed 2. God, but is this one of the best tracks I've ever heard!

Link or it didn't happen!

The Total Annihilation soundtrack.

It's awesome.

Fair dues...Am a big fan of the Brotherhood and ACIII soundtracks, personally...Though all of the AC soundtracks are good...Except for this last one for Syndicate...That was execrable...

Anyways...Pray, be upstanding for one of the finest hits that never was...

Slade - Universe...

9Muses again... Tried to stay away and I did.. For a week or so.. Now I click repeat over and over yet again..



I BLAME MCB FOR THIS!!


And for the record, I blame mALX for Ladybaby !


But I can only blame myself for finding Wagakki...

Since my latest hearing deterioration I've done comparatively little music listening. I've not abandoned it all together, but sessions are few and far between and tend to be short-lived. I mention this not to garner sympathy -- life is what it is -- but so that you understand why I do not contribute to this thread as often as I once did.

In another thread I mention my pleasure with a recent purchase of the silent film Wings on DVD. One of its salient features in the restoration of the movie's original music score, performed by full orchestra with occasional solo piano interludes. The score borrows (very effectively) from Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream for much of its aerial combat footage. Dream is a long time favorite. Hearing bits of it in the film caused me to seek out a suitable performance of not only the overture but also excerpts from the incidental music Mendelssohn added years later. I found what I think is a marvelous live in-concert video filming of the piece at YouTube. Both video and audio (in so far as I can judge such things nowadays) quality is top notch, as is the interpretation. I would consider buying this for myself on DVD, but as is so often the case with classical music, no such disk is available. Here it is.

Also, yesterday I listened to the final movement of Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata in what I now consider my preferred interpretation of the work. I consider the Hammerklavier one of the greatest achievements of human existence, but admit it took me to sixty-four years to 'get it'. Oh well, there's something to be said for later bloomers. (There's also something to be said for no bloomers, but I could never convince any female acquaintances of that.)

Youth of the nation - P.O.D

Thanks to Sharpe's Rifles, John Tams - Over the Hills and Far Away

I just wanted to re-post this playlist because someone posted something at Bethsoft that instantly triggered it!

Enjoy...

BESTie - Love Options


These Korean girls will be the end of me!!

Dragonforce- Symphony of the Night

Decadent U.D.O

Heavy Metal doesn't get much more straightforward than this. BLess you UDO for providing us with straight pounding balls up metal for over 4 decades

Dirt Boys - Kohh, Dutch Montana, Lootah

I heavily relate to the lyrics in this song. Reminds me of the stupidity I did when I was in High School, haha

Oh My Girl - Liar Liar

Speaking of Liars

Speaking of Ken

LOVE this one !!!







This is AWESOME !!!

I really did not expect that when I clicked the link

I keep listening to this - Deep

Yeah, I´m completely into K-pop girl groups now


Edit: Oh My Girl - Cupid

Michael Jackson - Leave me alone and Speed Demon

I see your Oh My Girl, and raise you My Girl

Sorry, that video cannot be showed in my country because of licensing crap

Edit: Neither Oh My Girl nor BESTie worked tonight. Had to resort to 9Muses...

BESTie - Hot Baby

Decent enough song with a good bass and the girls are as nice as ever though I really think Haeryung is much better with blond hair..

Meatloaf- Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Listened to a cover of Thin Lizzy's "Emerald" by Ace Frehley and Slash. Not bad at all.

Due to faulty hearing I've done no pure music listening to speak of these past some months -- until day before yesterday. To my surprise, I find that my hearing on a 'good' day still allows to to enjoy smaller scale works, provided they are recorded with ample presence. (Too much is lost to me in more recessed recordings.)

I started out with my favorite filmed recording of my favorite Beethoven sting quartet, Op.59 No.3 (the third Rasumovsky quartet), that by the Japser Quartet performed during the WQXR Beethoven Quartet Marathon. (I likely already linked it at some point, but so what?)

This prompted me to seek out an acceptable complete set of Beethoven string quartets available at YouTube. My criteria is as follows:

... Must be video recordings of musicians in concert as opposed to a pure audio recordings. (I own several fine audio-only performances of the quartets on LP / CD.)
... Must be recordings I can hear sufficiently enough to enjoy.
... The performances must of course be musically up to snuff.

I've not yet found satisfactory (by the above criteria) performances of every quartet. Thus far I've tentatively settled on these:

Op.18 No.1 Ariel Quartet.
Op.18 No.2 Attacca Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.18 No.4 Ying Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.18 No.6 Belcea Quartet. This is the series I really like but often find a tab too recessed for my ears.
Op.59 No.1 American Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.59 No.3 the above mentioned Jasper Quartet.
Op.74 Danish Quartet (debating this choice)
Op.95 Ariel Quartet (debating this choice)
Op.127 Onion Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.132 Ariel Quartet.
Op.135 Ariel Quartet.

All silliness, but what can one do?

I´m so glad we have Decrepit here who can bring some class and style to this community


It´s unfortunate your hearing is failing on you, Decrepit. I hope it won´t get worse so that you will be able to enjoy your music for many years to come

The highlight of these past two days worth of listening has been getting more acquainted with the Ariel Quartet's performance of the Op.95 string quartet, the so-called "Serioro". What a wonderful work it is, and the Ariel plays it to the hilt. I'm especially drawn to its closing movement, when starts out 'larghetto espressivo', morphs into a spirited 'allegretto agitato', nearly fades to calm nothingness in what gives all indication of being the end, then WHAM, we're hit with an effervescent, virtuosic brief 'allegro' passage to close out the work. Here is the Ariel playing the movement in question. (I enjoy this video for visuals almost as much as the interpretation. The players are so obviously into the music, especially the two females. It's a joy to watch them.)



That is my hope too, forlorn as it might be. I've known my hearing is fading for a good many decades. I tell myself that I am resigned to eventually losing it past the point of no return. To some extent I am, but it can be rough going at times. I suspect that if/when it actually happens it'll be harder to cope with yet. Maybe by then I'll be to bloody senile to notice/care.

Recently started to like Drama with 9Muses more than I did before.

Fastball - The Way



I have always liked this song but until today I thought it was performed by Weeping Willows


Good song nonetheless

Bon Buns Jovi - Keep the Faith

Some really great lyrics in that one.

Leave's Eyes - The Waking Eye

I didn't care as much for this song as I did the awesome video running in the background of it!

Babymetal - Doki Doki Morning



I like the song but I do have a serious problem with their videos. You really can´t have it all, can you?

I had another 'better' hearing day yesterday. In celebration I watched/heard what has become my favorite rendition of Beethoven's 'Les Adieux' sonata, a live filming of Ronald Brautigam, playing a fine sounding fortepiano (as opposed to a modern grand piano). Later on I listened to disc two of my SACD set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, again performed by mr Brautigam. This disc contains sonatas No's 4 thru 7. Of these No.7 is my overall pick of the litter, though I'm also quite taken by the very brief closing presto of No.6, heard here performed by Daniel Barenboim (on modern piano).

Also heard/watched, a recital/lecture on 'Les Adieux'. No, not the one by Andras Schiff. I found the lecture portion interesting, but was not in sympathy with the lecturer's performance of the work itself.

Maybe you need to flush your ears? Did wonders for me recently

During supper tonight and continuing on afterward I listened to disc 3 of Brautigam's Beethoven piano sonata set. It contains sonatas 8-11, those being Op.13 ("Pathetique"), Op.14 No.1 & No.2, and Op.22. The first and last are particular favorites. Op.22 is one of the ones I did not know at all until acquiring the Brautigam SACD set last year. Its second movement in particular seems ideally suited to the sound of Brautigam's fortepiano.

Ladyhawke - Love Song...Good album this...Very recent rediscovery...


EDIIIIIITTTTAH!!!...(Sometime next morning...)...

The thoroughly awesome Dave Edmunds and his Slipping Away chooon...*Sighs happily*...The vid's a bit quiet, so you'll have to crank it up... ...

Was in the mood for the Archduke, which I'd not listened to in some years. None of the several YouTube offerings I first sampled quite did it for me, nice as a couple were. Then I found a recording by the Castle Trio on period instruments. I like it so well I immediately ordered what I hope is the exact recording on CD off Amazon. (I also pre-ordered a soon to be released recording of two Beethoven violin sonatas on period instruments.)

^ Well that's all kinds of nice... ...Only did the first five minutes, but definitely gorgeous stuff...


The Travelling Wilburys (Or in this particular case, basically George Harrison and Jeff Lynne...) - Heading For The Light...