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« Reply #75 on: 21:48:09, 20-04-2007 » |
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In 24 hours time I will be watching the world's greatest rock band live on stage: And while I realise it's unusual for a Radio 3 listener, I'm afraid I don't feel at all guilty about it  |
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« Reply #76 on: 21:50:22, 20-04-2007 » |
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My guilty pleasures,er...soundtrack to Jacques Tati films ... ah! M Hulot's Holiday!! Vibraphones!!!  That brings it all back... vibraphones, yes, and the weird sound of the swing doors between kitchen and restaurant... |
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Isn't it wonderul how he underplays and just observes. The music complements that so well-"tres drole". Do you
know if he ever met (aged) Poulenc or Millhaud? Auric I suppose from a film scoring background. I'm thinking what they could have come up with in collaboration.
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #78 on: 00:02:55, 21-04-2007 » |
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Isn't it wonderul how he underplays
Not when he's playing ping-pong though.  |
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #80 on: 05:44:09, 13-05-2007 » |
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Speaking of film music, I am willing to admit that I really like Yo-Yo Ma's disc of Ennio Morricone hits (turn off the spaghetti-spigotti). True art makes no concessions.  |
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« Reply #81 on: 08:42:53, 13-05-2007 » |
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Schockstakovitsh's Eighth Symphony (the Member Grew please note)...
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« Reply #82 on: 22:37:19, 06-06-2007 » |
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Oh gosh, this is a blusher - but I actually think Joni Mitchell's Blue album is a work of minor genius. Just got it buzzing in the background now.
'Oh but when he's gone, me and the lonesome blues collide -
The bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide...'
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« Reply #83 on: 23:36:02, 06-06-2007 » |
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Not a blusher at all martle! I don't think so anyway.
For me, it's one of the most affecting and poetic albums I've ever heard.
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« Reply #84 on: 23:37:02, 06-06-2007 » |
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Anyone like her album Mingus?
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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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Yes, at least I did the last time I heard it (over twenty years ago).
I seem to remember at the time it got rather short shrift for not being one thing or the other, mixing up jazz and rock elements. It's definitely a long way from the world of Blue - but this was a nice prompt anyway to get a copy of the cd. I'd be interested to listen to it again.
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« Reply #86 on: 21:54:07, 08-06-2007 » |
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I'll speak up for the Blue album.
Anyone prepared to relieve my guilt about thinking that The Hissing of Summer Lawns is just as good, though very very different in style, and way above most of JM's other albums as far as consistency goes?
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« Reply #87 on: 22:35:40, 08-06-2007 » |
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FMJ, I'll do that. Very good indeed. But I prefer Blue, for its total consistency, its economy (JM singing and playing guitar and piano only) and the purity and honesty of the material. Not one whiff of pretension.
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« Reply #88 on: 10:00:48, 09-06-2007 » |
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Not one whiff of pretension.
Pretention? Elle, la belle Joni?? Surely not!?!  |
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« Reply #89 on: 09:38:23, 17-06-2007 » |
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I'll put in a vote for Hissing of Summer Lawns, too, though I might countermand it immediately for Don Juan's Reckless Daughter - that Jaco Pastorius detuned bass first entry is one of the greatest hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck-raising moments of my whole music collection....
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