Music - What are you listening to?

[deyana]

Billy Joel- Just the Way You Are

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Andrea Bocelli - Por Ti Volare

[rattler]

Sept 4, 2010 23:12:15 GMT -5 @aguadulce said:

Andrea Bocelli - Por Ti Volare

Incidentally (do we have a mind reader here? ) last night went to a long awaited, and probably truly historic concert here in Palma de Mallorca (in the stadium of my RCD Mallorca), Elton John and Andrea Bocelli together (with the Balearic Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Untiversity of Palma), a TRUE BLAST!!!!(of cause,"por ti volare" was in the mix... ) and, while it is not my type of music in general, the performance and the actors createted a memorable event, unrepeatable....!!). 25000 spectators, and I guess not one repented having gone and paid the 165 Euros...!

All rights reserved, so no vids yet, just the report from this mornings news (Spanish speakers, dont dispair if you dont understand much, the article is in "mallorquin"):



It was expensive, but well worth the money...

Rattler

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Sept 5, 2010 5:09:16 GMT -5 rattler said:

Incidentally (do we have a mind reader here? ) last night went to a long awaited, and probably truly historic concert here in Palma de Mallorca (in the stadium of my RCD Mallorca), Elton John and Andrea Bocelli together (with the Balearic Symphony Orchestra and the Choir of the Untiversity of Palma),

No mind reading My friends to a train+bus all the way from heartland of Espana then a boat for the event. Turing it into a long long weekend in Mallorca.

[rattler]

Sept 5, 2010 9:54:53 GMT -5 @aguadulce said:

...Turning it into a long long weekend in Mallorca.

Next time plz dont be shy to ask me before you come (I feel embarrassed and almost insulted that you didnt, so little people make it to here, and then from our forum? I would have provided mobility and "alojamiento" on the island for free), your guys also, after the gig, probably missed one of the best "fiestas" on the island every year,our village fiesta in S´Arraco (20 min from Palma to the SW) with a bull to eat and many widows to dance to until 0300, then open hunt for all the beautifull unmarried Palma ladies until 0700 (when finally the Guardia Civil turned up and stopped the orchestra from playing)...

JFTR, the bull was already cold when we arrived from the Palma concert, but as it was sold for chairty we all had a plate anyway. The widows disappeared at around 0200 (contrary to what had to be expected, no stamina anymore or no fresh widows this year?), and then we had a lot of hunt and fun (one, at least, guess who ;D, ascertained on his prey ;D - or vice versa?-) up to the early morning hours, as a metropol guy I say: No better fiesta possible, not even in Berlin, Londres or Paris...

Anyway, hope you guys coming here enjoyed yday night about half as me, pity we didnt meet (still angry, kindof ).

Anyway, you missed this gig (not the vid, but the music, 3 of the guys live here: We are a Music Genious Village - see my other threads about fiestas on various other forums or ask admin)."Save the horse-riding cowboy"...(no prob here in Spain, he is all-presentin the villages, and without needing reigns):

il.youtube.com/watch?v=FePwkE1Uwys

Rattler

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Sept 5, 2010 10:04:37 GMT -5 rattler said:

Sept 5, 2010 9:54:53 GMT -5 @aguadulce said:

...Turning it into a long long weekend in Mallorca.

Next time plz dont be shy to ask me before you come (I feel embarrassed and almost insulted that you didnt, so little people make it to here, and then from our forum? I would have provided mobility and "alojamiento" on the island for free)

Not I, Not I, I'm still on this side of the pond. If I were going, you folks would have known by now, didn't I mention my friends instead of "I and my friends". I will however be in Amsterdam during the Marathon weekend (no, not running the marathon)

[rattler]

Sept 5, 2010 10:17:27 GMT -5 @aguadulce said:

Sept 5, 2010 10:04:37 GMT -5 rattler said:

Next time plz dont be shy to ask me before you come -snip-

Not I, Not I, I'm still on this side of the pond.

Ok, you´re pardonned and you just made good with me again . Anyway, edited (as always) my previous post, direct your friends here to they see what they missed...

Contact my friend Henk for Amsterdam: www.warandtactics.com/smf/profile/?u=3

Rattler

[deyana]

Sometimes I like to listen to some nice rockabilly music.

Here's Eddie Cochran -Three steps to heaven:

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I am listening at at this hour, Mahler: Symphony #5 - Zubin Mehta conducting for New York Philaharmonic.

I just realized: As we keep adding youtube links the thread really crawls to a slow halt. Not a good thing if someone is on a slow link or on the road traveling

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Long time ago, I decided to become totally portable. I now carry my whole music collection of few 100 old LPs/45s plus CDs with me On my ipod video, which is old by toldays standards.

This Labor Day morning I am listening to Evelyn "Champagne" King, the R&B and Soul singer from Da Bronx

"I'm in Love" Evelyn "Champagne" King

[deyana]

I've found that MP3 players are just great for storing and listening to music of your choice as well. I can even plug mine in to my car, I really like it.

I just realized: As we keep adding youtube links the thread really crawls to a slow halt. Not a good thing if someone is on a slow link or on the road traveling

I've noticed that too, agua. Maybe we should start a part two of this thread. Also, if you don't mind not having the video that goes with the song, Grooveshark is a good alternative, it won't slow things down as much.

Link: listen.grooveshark.com/

[deyana]

What are you listening to lately?

Rod Stewart - Downtown Train

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Alice In Chains -

Check My Brain

[deyana]

I've also made it so that only 20 posts will be displayed per page instead of the 30 something it was. So that should make it a little faster too now.

[rattler]

Sept 6, 2010 10:11:15 GMT -5 @delta said:

Alice In Chains - Check My Brain

Now,*that* is some new music soundwise, revolutionary take on rock, indy but swishy and glammy at the same time, glad we reached this stage...

Myself, I always was a bit in love with the singer of this band here (her voice gives me goose bumps, and its a pity I cannot find a vid to have you look at her, the album cover doesnt render sufficient tribute;low level recording, so turn it up a bit!), German, along the same line of exceeding the traditional Rock limits, a bit weird maybe, but after three times listening to it it will turn into an ear worm...:

Stella - Extralife (late-into-the-night club music poetry in musical motion)



Rattler

[rattler]

More (true!) poetry in musical motion, for the Londoners/Parisiennes/NewYorkers/Berliners from before the wall crumbled, a pity they broke the mold after this music was conceived, so glad I still have my Thorens and my Vinyl...(lyrics and then song):

"Sleeper in Metropolis":

As a sleeper in metropolis
You are insignificance:
Dreams become entangled in the system...!

Environment moves over the sleeper:
Conditioned air,
Conditions sedated breathing,
The sensation of viscose sheets on naked flesh
Soft and warm,
But lonesome in the blackened ocean of night...

Confined in the helpless safety
of desires and dreams
We fight our insignificance.
The harder we fight,
the higher the wall...!

Outside, the cancerous city spreads.
Like an illness.
It's symptoms
In cars that cruise to
inevitable destinations.
Tailed by the silent spotlights
of society-created paranoia

No alternative could grow
where love cannot take root
No shadows will replace the warmth of your contact.

Love is dead in metropolis!
All contact through glove or partition,
what a waste...

The city - a wasting disease.

"Our Darkness":

Through these city nightmares you'd walk with me
And we'd talk of it with idealistic assurance
That it wouldn't tear us apart..

We'd keep our heads above the blackened water,
but there's no room for ideals
in this mechanical place...
And you're gone now...

Through a grimy window that I can't keep clean
Through billowing smoke that's swallowed the sun,
You're nowhere to be seen...!?

Do you think our desires still burn?
I guess it was desires that tore us apart...?
There has to be passion!!!

A passion for living, surviving...,
And that means detachment.

Every-body has a weapon to fight you with
To beat you with when you are down,
There were too many defences between us...

Doubting all the time
Fearing all the time
Doubting all the time
Fearing all the time
That like these urban nightmares
We'd blacken each other skies...

When we passed the subways
we tried to ignore our fate there
of written threats on endless walls
Unjustified crimes carried on stifled calls...

Would you walk with me now
through this pouring rain
It used to mingle with our tears
then dry with the hopes we left behind.

It rains even harder now .

"Poets Turmoil":

Keep me back in the real world
From which we try to run
Music and words don't mean anything
Through the barrel of a gun

A poem cannot heal a wound
Books won't help you find
That something which you're searching for
But just add questions to the mind

Tell me now in black and white
What you're supposed to do
When fists and knives and sticks and boots
Come raining down on you?

A painted picture on a wall
Can't justify a life
When the weak and poor cannot escape
Their ugliness and strife

The actor is a bridge of words
Leading us to nowhere
Dressed in costumes to disguise
The reality of despair

The poets turmoil strikes again
As once more words, they fail me
Another bomb has just supplied
The cross on which to nail me .

Rattler

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Damn it I forgot to switch off Grandfunk railroads still playing....

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took out that CD, inserted simon Gurfunkel's Rose Mary & Thyme, hit the play button put on the timer....

[rattler]

Just now got the news:

An early member of 1970s British rock group ELO was killed in a "freak" accident when his van was crushed by a bale of hay, police said.

Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died instantly in the accident on the A381 in Halwell, Devon, on Friday.

Police believe the 600kg bale fell from a tractor on nearby farmland before rolling on to the road.

Mr Edwards was identified using photos and YouTube footage. He was with the Birmingham band from 1972 to 1975.

R.I.P.!



Rattler

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Lisa Stanfield, You Get Me.