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krj
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NP #4: Music to Conference By
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Jul 9 04:50 UTC 1999 |
The tedious, yet popular, item for listing what music you are listening to
*at this very moment*! No cheating, now!
To keep things interesting, write a line or two about the album or song
you are naming, especially if it's at all obscure.
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krj
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response 1 of 503:
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Jul 9 04:55 UTC 1999 |
Mara, SEZONI. Mara is an Australian folk & world music band I've been a fan
of for about 12 years. This time they are doing a program solely of Balkan
music, with a women's choir, and this time the album comes out on the
Real World label, in the USA, so I won't have to troll for someone in Australia
to send it to me.
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md
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response 2 of 503:
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Jul 9 14:33 UTC 1999 |
The Schubert string quartet called "Death and the
Maiden," 3rd movement. The whole piece is great,
but this one movement sounds like something that
already existed and Schubert simply plucked it out
of the air.
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gnat
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response 3 of 503:
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Jul 9 16:21 UTC 1999 |
Is that good or bad? :)
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mcnally
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response 4 of 503:
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Jul 9 18:11 UTC 1999 |
Allow me to be the first to cheat in this incarnation of the item.
I was just listening to Astor Piazzola's "The Rough Dancer and the
Cyclical Night" but the CD's no longer playing at this exact moment.
The opening tango is still going through my head, however..
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md
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response 5 of 503:
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Jul 9 20:26 UTC 1999 |
Re #3, I meant it as good. I meant the music is so
inevitable-sounding it's almost as if Schubert didn't
write it, he found it.
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gnat
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response 6 of 503:
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Jul 9 23:22 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, a lot of his stuff sounds like that. The C Major Quintet,
for instance... the first movement especially.
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md
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response 7 of 503:
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Jul 10 13:04 UTC 1999 |
How does he *do* that, anyway?
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gnat
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response 8 of 503:
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Jul 10 14:08 UTC 1999 |
He was a very clever guy. :)
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orinoco
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response 9 of 503:
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Jul 13 15:32 UTC 1999 |
"Sharkey's Night" by Laurie Anderson.
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mcnally
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response 10 of 503:
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Jul 13 17:03 UTC 1999 |
Hey, Kemosabe! You connect the dots! You pick up the pieces!
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krj
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response 11 of 503:
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Jul 13 17:54 UTC 1999 |
I really love those first two major-label Laurie Anderson albums,
but I've rarely been able to connect with her since then.
Emmylou Harris, WRECKING BALL.
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gnat
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response 12 of 503:
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Jul 13 18:40 UTC 1999 |
Robyn Hitchcock, "Jewels for Sophia" (promo copy)
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mcnally
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response 13 of 503:
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Jul 14 00:44 UTC 1999 |
I presume by "first two major-label Laurie Anderson albums"
you mean "Big Science" and the "Home of the Brave" soundtrack.
I also liked "Strange Angels" and think that a fair amount of
USA I-IV is good (though listening to it straight through would
be an ordeal..) I agree, though, that most of what she's done
lately hasn't wowed me.
According to the kiosk outside of Hill Auditorium she's scheduled
to come there sometime early next year and do four nights' worth
of performances having something to do with Moby Dick (!) Anyone
know anything about that?
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krj
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response 14 of 503:
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Jul 14 01:39 UTC 1999 |
"Big Science" and "Mister Heartbreak," please! :)
I read something about Laurie Anderson's MOBY DICK, and all I
recall right now is that the University Musical Society co-commissioned
the work.
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orinoco
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response 15 of 503:
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Jul 14 15:20 UTC 1999 |
I fell in love with Mister Heartbreak the first time I heard it, and I've been
looking for other albums of hers that are as good. "Big Science" had a few
good tracks, but none of it really stood out. "Home of the Brave" was the
same way. "Mister Heartbreak" is the only album I've heard where she gets
the repetitiveness of the music to work - where it's catchy rather than
boring. And I checked out a more recent album of hers from the library, but
it was too soft-rock for my taste.
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otaking
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response 16 of 503:
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Jul 14 15:40 UTC 1999 |
I liked "Strange Angels" desipte the fact that it had more of a soft-rock
sound to it. Has anybody watched any of the Laurie Anderson videos?
Currently I'm listening to "The Kick Inside" by Kate Bush. I enjoy all of her
albums because I like her etherial voice. "Wuthering Heights" is still a song
I can listen to repeatedly after all these years.
I just wish she'd release CDs more than twice a decade now.
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mcnally
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response 17 of 503:
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Jul 15 04:30 UTC 1999 |
How ironic.. We finally get a more-than-a-few-responses discussion
going in the music conference and it's stuck in the "What are you
listening to" list item..
Whoops.. Forgot about "Mr. Heartbreak". Perhaps I should check it out
again, all I remember right now is that I didn't like it nearly as much
as "Big Science" at the time and that a lot of it was shared with either
"Home of the Brave" or "USA I-IV"
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orinoco
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response 18 of 503:
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Jul 15 21:19 UTC 1999 |
Should I make a Laurie Anderson item?...
Mr. Heartbreak shares one song - Sharkey's Night - with Home of the Brave.
I don't know about USA I-IV, since I've never found a copy of it.
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krj
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response 19 of 503:
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Jul 15 23:11 UTC 1999 |
(I wish Picospan had a better facility for picking up a discussion and
transplanting it, like a tender perennial, to a new garden bed.)
Two albums a decade for Kate Bush? I guess so, I just looked it up:
"The Sensual World" in 1989 and "The Red Shoes" in 1993.
Kate Bush, like Peter Gabriel, is moving into the category of
"former pop star." :)
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orinoco
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response 20 of 503:
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Jul 16 00:40 UTC 1999 |
Transplant complete...check out item:198
(did I do that right? I can never remember...)
Anyway, I'm gonna be in Canada for the next few weeks, but go talk about it
while I'm gone! Please! :)
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tpryan
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response 21 of 503:
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Jul 16 17:03 UTC 1999 |
Last year's Phobe Snow album. Her remake of Janis Joplins "Little
Piece of My Heart". She also does a good version of "Never Neverland" on this
CD.
It's all part of 5 CD shuffle going on now to a new track.
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tpryan
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response 22 of 503:
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Jul 16 17:05 UTC 1999 |
Hum... "Weird Al's" Truck Driving Man.
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goose
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response 23 of 503:
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Jul 17 03:40 UTC 1999 |
Def Leppard -- Love Bites. Actually the whol Hysteria album. My cheese
factor just went up about 100 fold.
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tpryan
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response 24 of 503:
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Jul 17 15:57 UTC 1999 |
Blues from the Lowland leading into Folks Like Us on WDET.
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