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thompson1780
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« Reply #60 on: 13:24:26, 07-03-2007 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 09:54:25, 07-03-2007
Now I'm stuck with that tune again.....

Aren't we all........

<sarcasm> Thanks </sacrasm>

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« Reply #61 on: 18:01:14, 07-03-2007 »
Has anyone mentioned 'Queen'..? I have to say some of their songs, especially the slushy ones are mesmorising for me  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes  eg 'Those were the days of our lives' 'Love of my life'

Anyone agree? or had I better remove the post in shame? !!

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« Reply #62 on: 18:17:38, 07-03-2007 »
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« Reply #63 on: 19:01:27, 07-03-2007 »
I have a guilty and unusual prejudice against Queen for performing concert(s) in South Africa late in the apartheid era. The MU fined them a paltry £2000. They should have been chucked out of the Union.
OK, I'll b****r off to the Grumpy Old Rant Room.
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« Reply #64 on: 22:35:07, 07-03-2007 »
Many of my guilty pleasures have already got a mention...


...but I don't THINK we've had Chris Barber's Jazzband, preferably with vocalist Ottilie Patterson, have we? I blame early exposure from me dad's Pye black box...

Kathryn Tickell?

Robert Johnson and many other 78rpm blues artists, several others also confusingly called Johnson. Particulary Lonnie J, and his No more troubles now which - despite the title - is quite the most miserable song I know. Seriously.

And on a lighter note, a special plug for Is that a monkey you got? by 'Jazz Gillum as Bill McKinley'.
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« Reply #65 on: 23:39:43, 07-03-2007 »
Quote from: autoharp on 19:01:27, 07-03-2007
I have a guilty and unusual prejudice against Queen for performing concert(s) in South Africa late in the apartheid era. The MU fined them a paltry £2000. They should have been chucked out of the Union.
OK, I'll b****r off to the Grumpy Old Rant Room.

Grrrrrrrrrrr - I didn't know that. A good reason for continuing to boycott their records right now (as if the music wasn't reason enough).
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« Reply #66 on: 10:22:33, 08-03-2007 »
Don't agree there!  Queen were excellent.  I didn't know about the South African trip but it won't affect my opinion of the music.
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« Reply #67 on: 16:39:19, 09-03-2007 »
Quote from: roslynmuse on 11:57:09, 07-03-2007
Talking of folk music...

I remember hearing about an examiner who heard a Grade X candidate sing some Schubert in inappropriately casual style; his comment was "she really folked that up..."

(perhaps you have to hear it...)

Oh....I was going to say something about my love of folk music....but I've already been more or less expelled from LIEDER-L for that.... Cheesy
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« Reply #68 on: 16:40:35, 09-03-2007 »
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« Reply #69 on: 22:18:08, 28-03-2007 »
Searching through my video collection found another guilty (embarrassing) pleasure namely the film Doctor Doolittle staring Rex Harrison Anthony Newley etc ...probably one of the worst musicals on film with hammy acting and terrible songs and my guilty secret is i love it  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #70 on: 10:38:45, 29-03-2007 »
Since we are here to offer support to each other and not laugh in these Bring and Show sessions I would like to mention the Kodo Drummers of Japan. Thank you for letting me share that.
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« Reply #71 on: 17:39:58, 31-03-2007 »
George, are The Kodos a good sequel to the Drummers of Burundi? I sometimes use the latter to test speaker bass output and rhthmic coherence. Or that's my excuse... Wink
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« Reply #72 on: 00:12:13, 20-04-2007 »
Sorry for late reply, FMJ.

If you can find the Sheffield Lab Kodo: Heartbeat Drummers of Japan (Sheffield CD-Kodo) then you may get more than you bargained for.

Track two, O-DAIKO (Big Drum) does exactly what it says on the tin, with a transient so fearsome that I have seen equipment expire at an exhibition where someone had no idea what was coming and set the levels way too high... (you should have seen the knowing glances between those who did know what to expect, and the restrained smiles once the obvious had happened).
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« Reply #73 on: 21:02:12, 20-04-2007 »
Quote from: George Garnett on 09:54:25, 07-03-2007
I'm quite fond of Into the Woods (or 'Into The Woods, Der Der, Der Der' as I tend to think of it), not least because my daughter directed a production, but, um, the second half does go on just a bit doesn't it? (No, how dare you! Not just in her production.) I know it would remove the whole conceit of the thing but I usually have the sacriligious thought about half way through the second act that you could just stop at the interval, still have had a good evening out, and get home a bit earlier.

Now I'm stuck with that tune again.....
Could work George, but there's a psychological darkness that I think you have to stay with. To me  its the antidote to all things
pollyanna, and I'm sure your daughter's production sparkled in that deeper way.  My guilty pleasures,er...soundtrack to Jacques
Tati films, Adge Cutler and The Wurzels, James Last orchestra's version of Brahms 3 3rd  mvt a la haunted ballroom.
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« Reply #74 on: 21:34:40, 20-04-2007 »
Quote from: marbleflugel on 21:02:12, 20-04-2007
My guilty pleasures,er...soundtrack to Jacques Tati films ...

ah! M Hulot's Holiday!! Vibraphones!!!  Grin
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