@scouttheairedale

[facepalm]*

@FaeGrl – I loved that Songify the News! Its excellent!

thanks @Scouttheairedale – with Camper Van Beethoven its odd; I know the melody but not the song!

How is that?

or am I being thick and its a really famous melody they’ve incorporated..?

and thanks – there’s a cluster of birthdays in my family in February, so we all meet up and spoil my niece!

oh, and @fatmaninabox – I am being completely rude to millions of people.

I’d forgotten about the Italians (how could I forget Parisse?).

tsk.

Obviously, there is a ton of Italian opera and classical music to choose from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw26fLW_gg4

enjoy!

blimey – was away for a few days over the weekend (family birthdays) and lots to listen to!

@fatmaninabox – that French Ska reminded me as it was playing of music from Africa. Not sure why – maybe my lazy ear hearing French and a reggae rhythm…? Thanks for that one!

However, there’s no excuse for Marillion. 🙂
I watched it again out of…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox – I’d like to thank you for keeping this thread neutral.

you are a gent.

Jenkins heh?

go for it 6thers!!

Prove us wrong!!

🙂

(by “us” I mean the rather shocked kids who’d grown up week after week with previous Doctors, had got used to them and their idiosyncratic ways, had suffered regenerations and ‘our’ Doctors going and then saw… erm…

“what’s he doing? And… Peri – !!?!!“)

oh – as GLC was mentioned…..

C’MON WALES!!!!*

YOU KNOWS IT!

[ahem]

[*Wales are playing France in 6 nations rugby. This forum is obviously neutral in such an international occasion.]

@ScouttheAiredale – thanks for that Wall of Voodoo.

It reminded me that I hadn’t posted something about the passing of Bob Casale a few days ago.

interesting piece of music @FaeGrl – seems to suit a theme of a global Journey, if I’m correctly picking up bits of saharan/ eastern music*.

very atmospheric!

(* you’ll tell me “no, its set on the subway in NY” 🙂 )

But I have been listening to the classical pieces on this thread too – honest!

Thanks to you guys for sharing, especially the multiple versions of the same piece – I’ve listened to two but the GLC kinda interrupted proceedings.

[ahem].

Loving Colourbox’s tribute to Glass @Fatmaninabox ! Almost Vangelis, or what I imagine Tangerine Dream to…[Read more]

@ScouttheAiredale – omfg – Goldie Lookin’ Chain

“You knows it!”

Brings back good memories – plenty of swearing, silly humour, drug references, ripping off of melodies….

You know’s it, clart!

B)

Hi @purofilion – really sorry to read you had a rough night.

Too late to act as a balm, but here’s something beautiful (which I don’t think I’ve used before, unlike the Eno/ Penguin Cafe I was initially thinking of).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jza_Ctm0i8

ooohhh, I’m loving all this – don’t have ability to listen right now, but really looking forward to these classical pieces!

[btw I re-read my earlier post about not listening to classical as a kid and on re-reading it sounded to me like a comedy “you lucky bastards – in my day all we had to listen to were the sound of blaring cars and swearing…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension – yegads its just black & white for you!

🙂

I tried to get from curling to Who… but [hangs head] I guess its a Rose & Crown memory, but I was only a kid, so wasn’t thinking of the pub!

@ScouttheAiredale – ooooh, you’ve brought back a memory for me with the word “hurling”.

I was between 7 or 10 and stood on the edge of a pitch with my dad, as the players ‘warmed up’ before the start of the first match I’d ever seen. ‘Warming up’ basically constituted walking/trotting around, elbowing each other.

Then one player just in front…[Read more]

@faegrl – don’t worry, I’m only kidding – I’m bound to call you “FaeGirl” at some stage!

😉

Hi @Purofilion – not sure why you’re beating yourself up over what you said – seems perfectly fine to me! Yes, I’d heard of Glenn Gould but never (bothered to) listen to him (more fool me!).
So thanks for the prompt and giving me somewhere to start (half the battle with getting into anything new, whether classical or dubstep, is where to start!)…[Read more]

@Arbutus – if you’re wearing hippie skirts then I think I may be calling you a hippyster!

And totally understand where you’re coming from in terms of the emotional resonance of Reich and Part above the intellectual response. I’d mistakenly always thought of Reich as being mainly intellectual (“Come out” was one of the first pieces of his I’d…[Read more]

Hi @faeGrl (“Whilst” is a good one – I often get “whist”! darn predictive text! 😉 )

Thanks for the Candyman clip – I hadn’t realised Glass had done the score for it!

And yes, it was Philip Glass I meant; here’s a clip of his score for a great film called Mishima (I’m sure that the film plays fast and loose with what the actual writer Mishima…[Read more]