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I started a thread on this on the Opera board but only Soundwave replied  That'll learn me  Anyway, guilty pleasures: Mario Del Monaco recordings Ute Lemper Bruce Springsteen Lucia di Lammermoor Celia Cruz I think I've embarrassed myself enough... |
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Steve Miller Band circa 1969, early Incredible String Band.
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I might as well own up to being the Carpenters fan Ian mentioned at the beginning of this thread, but perhaps I should also mention that it was Ian who performed an impromptu piano transcription of "Yesterday Once More" (or was it "Close To You") in my presence. Well, I never said anything to deny that I might have a vague interest as well  Bonzo Dog Band: oh yes. Now, now, there's faux-naff which actually isn't naff at all... |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #18 on: 18:24:22, 02-03-2007 » |
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I don't think I feel guilty about anything much, but I won't always admit to enjoying Mary Poppins. I don't feel a bit guilty about not enjoying certain composers - most of Stravinsky, for instance. I've also decided after a long flirtation that I'm not mad about Wagner, but then it's easy to make that into a virtue  |
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A large preponderance of Bonzo Dog fans.... how do we feel about their fellow-travellers, "The Alberts", and "The Temperance Seven"? (I remain convinced that the Bonzo Dog track "Dr Jazz" is an affectionate but detailed satire of "the Temps", as it has all the strange hallmarks of their style... a cornet solo that stays out of the upper register... a bass clarinet solo (presumably intended to be Swainston-Cooper)... a tubular bells riff (surely only the Temps ever really included those?)... and that mad modulation jump into a last chorus complete with foreshortened melody-line and fake endings? And, of course, a title which can be read two ways...
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They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
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i have always liked the music in the decadent sixties therefore like Velvet Underground Pink Floyd Jefferson Airplane as well as Bob Dylan Tangerine Dream and many others... always think good to have alternative interest to classical music or else interest will go stale ...oh yeh miles davis and john coltrane ultra....  |
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« Reply #21 on: 11:43:14, 03-03-2007 » |
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OK, I don't mind climbing aboard the Carpenters bandwagon as well. Ouch!  Not un-related to that, Burt Bacharach songs in general (EXCEPT Magic Moments) 1980s/90s American garage bands such as The Dead Kednnedys and the Butthole Surfers Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, ChittyChitty Bang Bang Everything Stevie Wonder has ever written, sung, played (especially harmonica) or done. Phew! It feels good, doesn't it?! |
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« Reply #22 on: 11:45:28, 03-03-2007 » |
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Tangerine Dream! YES! Did you ever see the American show "Street Hawk" with a theme by them?
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« Reply #23 on: 12:44:56, 03-03-2007 » |
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I forget to mention being a lifelong Elvis Costello fan (with the exception of "Il Sogno") Me too, reiner (and with the same exception - though I also don't much like North, or indeed anything much he's done in the last 4 or 5 years ... which leaves a lot though ...)! Especially like the country & western covers on Almost Blue. What else? Oh, a lot of 'Velvet Goldmine'-type 70s stuff and 80s neoromantics - some of this more 'respectable' than others, I suspect - Bowie, Roxy Music, T-Rex, Duran Duran, ABC (Lexicon of Love). There've been a few moments in my life when the S Club 7 song Reach for the Stars has made me very happy. Ahem. And yes I do have the CD. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #24 on: 13:07:41, 03-03-2007 » |
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There've been a few moments in my life when the S Club 7 song Reach for the Stars has made me very happy. Ahem. And yes I do have the CD.
I think this soars so far and above anything else yet in this thread that it will inaugurate a whole new ironic retro-cult. |
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« Reply #25 on: 13:49:57, 03-03-2007 » |
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I've never felt any guilt at all about being a Bonzo Dog Band fan. I fear that one may have to be disqualified from this thread.
I hope I can get some points for Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick though.
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« Reply #26 on: 14:02:33, 03-03-2007 » |
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Given this is also unusual musical pleasures.......
Klezmer (both traditional and modern)
Czech Folk Music (and actually anything East European)
Balalaikas
Accordian Music
Cimbalons
Russian Choirs a la Red Army Chorus and the Don Cossacks
Loose Tubes
And in my youth I also listened to a lot of...
Fripp
Eno
which I'm sure still be pleasurable.
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« Reply #27 on: 14:12:13, 03-03-2007 » |
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Fripp Ah, Fripp. Only discovered him week before last! Love the spontaneity of it (Let the Power Fall), even though I wonder whether he semi-planned much of it before setting it down. After centuries of directional diatonic harmony, and not forgetting all the innovations of the 20th century, there's something about not knowing what note is going to come next - or precisely when - which is rather refreshing. (If I've misrepresented his style or intentions, please correct me.) |
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They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
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« Reply #29 on: 14:29:25, 03-03-2007 » |
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Cossack Dancing Giraffes! Now there's a thing I never thught I'd see. Thank you Reiner, you have made my life complete Eternally grateful, Tommo |
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