Just back from holiday and caught up with episode 9, and what a corker it was. I loved this. Taking the fairy tale right back to its grizzly folkloric roots. (I really enjoyed your post detailing the fairy tale elements @bluesqueakpip.)

I can’t believe how quickly my reservations about this series have melted.

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Thank you v3ry much! I liked the 2nd one the best. You can see them all having fun. I have no clue to understanding this music as I mainly like punk, rock 80s rock and then the people from the 50s but this is very interesting music. My head is nodding 🙂  Yeah, it’s nodding! And my foot too!

@whisht

Happy dreams dude.

Thane

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I’m going to head the frogism off at the pass:

And, just to the actual Human League in..

@pedant

On Heaven 17 Lookee! It’s Justin Beiber time travelling with eyeliner.

Well, no, not really, as that’s offensive to musicians.

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Great doco!  @Cathannabel I think I posted a comment on the Sofa or Pub about Human League/Wikipedia/Bowie etc. But I could have imagined posting it (that happens a bit).

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And possibly ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’?

@whisht Surely Slayer too!

@rob me too! Last week and lost the whole hog. Luckily, a mate had brought me a new (very small, mind) coffee plunger with a sweet bean. I had just come home and fancied a good brew. So, rob it calmed me down. We have merlo coffee here? And if you purchase a large tin of it (as I did about 3 months ago) they give you a free coffee AND a $5 voucher…[Read more]

@whisht

Let’s go s little more oblique:

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if you mean that short click at about 2.10, I like to think it is the sound of Morricone’s baton accidentally striking the stand. Thus imagined, it positively enhances the live performance feel of it all!

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You could go all Bletchley Park and have Station Whisht…

@blenkinsopthebrave @whisht Ha ha thanks for the props. Idiot Heights would be far more apposite but what’s the point of the internet if you can’t dress yourself up with a bit of fictional grandeur? How about Whishtminster Palace? 🙂

@mudlark A bit late, but I just want to add my voice to those wishing you well. Hope your nose is causing no…[Read more]

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Well, this time I’ll be Capt Obvious

I’ll that THAT as a challenge…

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Ah, the Eastern vibe 🙂 Yes, absolutely you can hear some non-Western tonal music. Some of it reminds me of the Javanese Kacapi with its particular range/compositions as well as ‘idiomatic’ modes generally not favoured by rock’n’roll but enjoyed by jazz fusion artistes nonetheless.

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Things are a bit stupidly chaotic here in Savon Manor. If I had time to spare, I’d be able to explain why I started out fearing I might hate this new series, but have now really started to get into it.
In bullet points…

• The new music has grown on me.
•  None of the companion characters wear their heart on their sleeve à la Moffat. But t…

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@whisht – i’m not as well-versed in jazz as i’d like to be, so i can’t spot the parkerisms either! but the pups sound closer to funk and rock to me, than to traditional jazz or be-bop. and not as improvised. i think the more structured nature of their tunes is part of why i love them, i don’t have to work as hard to follow what’s going on! 😀

@geoffers Thank you for that!! I wasn’t exactly ‘myself’…..In my gut, hind-brain (or maybe I’m thinking from the proverbial rear-end) Snarks reminds me of Bela Fleck and The Flecktones  -the mode & the Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker-isms. It’s a beautifully tight performance at 4:00 onwards till just after 5.00 where the vocal accompaniment didn’t…[Read more]

@whisht  Love those songs you’ve added for ‘Rosa’ and others. I believe a class were listening to these odes nearing exam block & having completed the Rock’n’Roll as History unit   😉

You express yourself very well whisht.

T<i>hen there were a few parps of brass around half way… they’re coming into the home straight(!) as you say the cre…

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Stan Lee of Marvel died  🙁  I might be new to this news.

@whisht 6/8 time can do it. Reminds me of a few great Beatles songs.

sweeping up-lift in the choral ‘backing’ as well the music modulating upwards with each set; overtones are also used;  a lovely crescendo leading to —–>  ff (fortissimo) and symmetry within the percussion, strings and…[Read more]