To start with, here’s the long-promised sea shanty from Midnight Fiddler. This is one of my favorite shanties. At Fiddler’s suggestion, we all sang it at the end of a very pleasant Kokonvention with Lady Bunniful and Midnight Fiddler and her parents at Red-tailed HAWK’s house.
Fiddler, that is simply lovely. I shall applaud now. {Applauds.}
This is making me want to take the dulcimer down from the mantel…
Yes, I play the dulcimer–the plucked dulcimer, to be specific. Not very well, but I do play. I would play more if I had sheet music for something I particularly like. I have access to some Christmas carols, folk songs, and hymns. They’re fine, but they don’t give me a lot of range, and some of them are downright depressing. I wonder if I can find Queen songs for the dulcimer, or something of that ilk. The closest that I have found is “Songs of The Beatles for the Dulcimer”, which isn’t what I want. The Beatles bore me. (Please, please, don’t start yelling at me. I respect The Beatles. I do. I just happen to find most of their songs repetitious, depressing, or both.)
In case you are unfamiliar with the dulcimer and are wondering why sheet music is hard to find, I will explain some: The dulcimer is a string instrument with sixteen frets, numbered zero through fifteen. Traditional sheet music for the instrument will read something like: 0…14…3…7, not as typical note symbols. Some people can look at “universal note” sheet music and translate that into the “Language of the Dulcimer”, but I can’t, so I have to use sheet music intended for use with the dulcimer. It isn’t a very common instrument, so it’s hard to find music at all, let alone zippy music.
I open a fire door to four lips – none of which were mine – kissing &
Tied my belt around my hips where your hands were missing &
Stepped out into the cold colour high under the slate grey sky &
The air was smoking & the streets were dry & I wasn’t joking when I said
Goodbye
Just happened to be listening to some Ani this morning… (It’s poetry. It’s not really music. It’s sung poetry. You don’t get that very often, anymore.)
Has anyone else heard the song “Canadian Please”? I heard it last Thursday and I think it’s probably my favorite song of all time. It’s on YouTube and iTunes both, if anyone wants to check it out…
Oh! It’s posted! Thanks Grady and CO (and Robert, y’know).
Not to undermine the “that’s awesome” comments (which I really appreciate) but upon re-listening there are a few rough spots. :/ Meh.
5.2~ Yeah, but I haven’t taken the time to learn how, and in this case I didn’t do the set-up thing so it would be in the key I was singing in, etc. (Honestly, I never know what key I’m singing in or what the time signature should be. Often I don’t even know what key I’m playing an instrument in. Yes, I’m pathetic.)
like i asked on the last thread, for those that drive do you have songs that you like to listen to in the car? or any songs that help you with creative things, and so on.
I keep my huge CD case in the car, so it’s my main music listening place.
The Amelie soundtrack helps me with stress. As soon as I put it on I can think clearly. I want to get more Yann Tiersen music.(anyone who likes classical/instrumental- you will love him! look him up!)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers help me get excited.
I like jazz, rock, and some types of classical. Basically, I’m cool with everything except country.
You know what I hate about movies? If the main character plays an instrument, it’s guitar or drums. Whatever happened to the saxophone? Or the French horn? How about bassoon or oboe? Of course, there’s always flute and clarinet, or trombone, bass clarinet, and tuba. Oh! Don’t let me forget strings!
WHY GUITAR??? THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN ROCK!!
Replying from across the void of time…I am! (MuseBlog is like time travel! Heck yes!) I overplay them quite a bit and have to take long breaks, but I will ALWAYS LOVE THEM.
I just rediscovered what might be the most mindworm worthy song I’ve ever heard…
Too Much by Bonaparte.
Go listen to it. Share the mindworm…
Also, I just started listening to Mumford and Sons on youtube. They are good!
For the Spanish learners/speakers, I’ve been listening to Julieta Venegas a lot lately. :]
1.3 (Cyrulean)~ Thank you! I have a long-abandoned dulcimer as well. I generally just play tunes by ear, and simple ones at that. I have a friend who is basically the God of the lap dulcimer, which is rather intimidating.
I have a book of dulcimer tab somewhere. Thing is, I read normal music, and tab is confusing to me, alas.
7 (Axa)~ I’m not sure how legal it is to drive listening to music through earbuds, but I do it because I haven’t a radio or CD player or anything in my car because my car is a ’92 POS that’s been cannibalized probably more than once in its life. Generally in such cases I just put the iPod on shuffle and skip things if I’m not in the mood. Basically driving doesn’t affect my music-listening habits. Stuff with lyrics are good though because then I can sing along with is either good because it gives me something to do or bad because then I think about singing instead of driving.
@6 – Honey, if you’re singing sea shanties, you don’t generally have to or even necessarily want to be worrying about that kind of thing. That sort of music generally remains structureless.
Argh. I have not been able to just watch a movie since I was six. I’m always thinking about the background music and how they directed and filmed it. Is this normal? Does it only happen to musical people?
14 (Grady)~ I know, I was just explaining why I hadn’t cleaned up the rough patches in the recording. With sea shanties I shouldn’t even be playing an instrumental accompaniment or singing harmonies, especially in the whole thing instead of just the chorus. But this one is so pretty that I couldn’t resist taking a few liberties….
Hmm. Thought. Anyone want to do a Museblog series of covers? We have so much talent here… I’m thinking traditional songs would be fun, but I wouldn’t want to limit it to that!
(I’ve just gotten onto the idea of covering and am coming into my own as a cover artist in my local writing community… >.< I did Shop Vac (Jonathan Coulton), which Jadestone showed me, and also Eres Para MÃ (Julieta Venegas), one crappy but entertaining version of Hotel California (The Eagles, of course), and also Granger Danger (Darren Criss and maybe also that AJ guy from AVPM)… I've been thinking of trying The Parting Glass recently, but I'm not sure how I'd go about it.)
Oh- let it be known that I certainly have no problem with doing originals; it's just I don't know if anyone has any material for us to work with.
19- Sure! Sounds fun.
Also Granger Danger is an amazing song.
20- CHOPIN’S NOCTURNES yesyesyesyes. I want to play some of those.
I’m playing Beethoven, Bach, AND Brahms right now! All three of the Great Bs! (That’s what I call them xD) A Beethoven sonate (Op. 2 No. 3), a Bach Invention (No. 8 I think), and Brahm’s Hungarian Dance. Also I’m keeping up with Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen which is an excellent piece, and I’m learning Lizt’s Liebestrom which is gorgeous.
Dude! My orchestra is too!
Another Hungarian Dance(no. 6), Sheep May Safely Graze(very pretty, but kinda boring and counting takes a lot of effort), and the inevitable Fifth Symphony(I love my conductor).
At the camp I used to go to, there was an amazing pianist (who happened to be blind, although that’s somewhat irrelevant). Every night we’d have something called Campfire, which was when the whole camp would go to the Lodge and someone would read stories, or counselors would do skits, or we’d have multicultural presentations or the camp play or a magic show. It was a togetherness moment to end the day. Then the pianist would start playing Sheep May Safely Graze and we’d all quietly walk back to our cabins, preserving the music in the silence.
If I were to have the opportunity to play that piece, I would probably not be able to make it through without crying. It’s such a significant memory from my childhood.
I’ve been listening to a lot of band music recently, meaning pieces written for a wind band + percussion. It’s a little bit like classical music, because it’s all instrumental, but at the same time it has a really different texture due to the instrumentation and modern time of composition.
“Equus” and “October” by Eric Whitacre
“Hebrides Suite” by Clare Grundman
“Hounds of Spring” by Alfred Reed
“Mannin Veen” by Haydn Wood*
“Blue Shades” and “An American Elegy” by Frank Ticheli
“Molly on the Shore” by Percy Grainger
“In the Spring, at a Time when Kings Go off to War” by David Holsinger
“Slava” by Bernstein
“Short Ride on a Fast Machine” by John Adams
“Exultate” and “Ride” by Sam Hazo.
“Symphonic Movement” by by Vaclav Nelhybel
*This is my favorite piece of music of all time. We played it in band last year and it’s absolutely beautiful.
I can’t remember what part “Alla Breve” is. Is it the part that sounds a little bit like “Tis A Gift To Be Simple?” That part is great. Also, the whole thing is great, actually. My entire grade in band adores that piece. We are without a doubt going to vote it our Senior Song next year. Do you have the organ part at the end covered?
October is another piece of sheer musical brilliance. I really want to play it. My friend Adam (the one who was helping me out with all the music theory/transposition stuff on the MuseBlog Music Project thread) has gotten to play it twice, the lucky clarinet (once at a camp and once at all-district). I think our school played it a couple of years ago, too, while I was still in middle school. There are a couple of beautiful oboe solos that I would give anything to play. Eric Whitacre is an absolute genius. (We played Equus last year.)
I think I’ve actually heard a few movements of Lincolnshire Posy before. When I was sick a couple of weeks ago, I spent most of the day on the concertbandland channel of Youtube, and I think I stumbled across it. It’s beautiful; I’m listening to it again now.
Alla Breve is the transition from the first part to the faster paced second part. It’s essentially a clarinet soli in cut time, going up and down. (Right before the Gift To Be Simple part.)
Unfortunately for us, we have no organ, or even oboes! So our oboe solos are played by flutes, clarinets, or a college student.
I’ve sung and played Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque. It’s so beautiful!
We played movements 1,2, and 6 of Lincolnshire Posy at a band/orchestra camp I went to over the summer. It’s really hard. (Doesn’t 2 sound a bit like the beginning of Mannin Veen?)
I now know exactly which part you’re talking about. Our clarinet section was pretty awesome there too.
The oboe solos in Mannin Veen… Ugh. I only started last year, and there were only two of us. YY never practiced oboe, because his primary instrument was clarinet. By the second semester chair test I beat him, but I let him stay first chair because I was two years younger and had been playing for only a few months. Then he proceded to screw up the Mannin Veen one-measure solos every. single. time. until the actual concert (at which point I was crossing my fingers tightly). I couldn’t have done it either but at least I would have practiced it!
The second movement of the Hebrides Suite sounds a little bit like Mannin Veen too.
Current Youtube playlist, it’s the longest it’s ever been.
Millionar: Die Prinzen (German)
Tik Tok parody: Midnight Beast (?)
The Hammer Song and the Tower of Pain: Bump of Chicken (Japanese)
Toxic: Local H
RIP: 3OH!3
Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger: Daft Punk
Piano Man: Billy Joel
Your Love Will Surely Skyrocket: Vocaloid/Mgpoid GUMI (Japanese)
Bad Apple: ? (Japanese)
I’ll Make A Man out of You (multilanguage): Mulan
Little Lion Man: Mumford and Sons
30 Minutes: taTu
Straight to Video: MSI
All These Things That I’ve Done: The Killers
She’s A Lady: Forever the Sickest Kids
Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends: FOB
Fairytale Gone Bad: Sunshine Avenue
Fuhen: Rin (Japanese?)
Make This Go On Forever: Snow Patrol
The Delicious Tomato Song (Romano’s Song/Buono Tomato!) cover: crystalkei14 (Japanese)
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot: Brand New
Do Better: Say Anything
HetaOni Douga: ? A NND user (Japanese)
You Could Be A Hero: Superchick
The Only Exception: Paramore
Flaming Ice: Kato Kazuki (Japanese)
Naughty Boy: Killer
Jar of Hearts: Christina Perri
She’s So Lovely: Scouting For Girls
Black Cat: Mayday Parade
…looking at this now I feel slightly ashamed of myself… *Siiiighhhhhh* I used to have a lot of Danish and Italian music, but that playlist I accidentally deleted so this is kind of new…
zinc– HAHAHA I’M MAD REAL BAD BUT DON’T TELL MY MOM AND DAD
the best
also bump of chicken is one of my favorite japanese band names
tesseract- those all sound really interesting, i will look into them. our local classical station occasionally effuses with praise for john adams, so i am very curious.
We’re going to be playing in Carnegie Hall in about a month, and man, do we sound horrible. We did a play-through on Friday, and I spent the whole entire rehearsal grimmacing. The songs aren’t even that hard, but we can’t seem to get our act together. I think part of it is that none of us are too enthusiastic about the songs. None of them are too impressive; we’re doing Amazing Grace, for god’s sake. The other songs are very new, and are, in my opinion, just cheesy. We don’t do anything classical, it’s all of this new cake. *stress*
does anyone have thoughts on the grammys? i don’t understand how they make their nominations. or rather, i can’t take them seriously because of how they seem to come about :/ mumford and sons was definitely only on because little lion man got popular, but if it hadn’t they would still be just as talented as a band. how do they quantify these things? and i enjoy some of katy perry’s music when i’m in the car with friends but a nomination for best album? really? on what grounds, people know who she is?
i know that awards shows are usually shams anyways, but with the academy awards the nominations have a BASIS in talent and are then influenced by money/campaigns. here it just seems like “let’s pick the highest grossing albums and that’s that”
also the fact that mumford and sons (and florence + the machine) are listed under new artist is annoying to me, since they’ve both been active since 2007. MAYBE IF I READ THE ACTUAL REQUIREMENTS i would feel better, but it seems like “oh now they are popular” so they get the nomination. RAGE.
i’m glad arcade fire won for album of the year because at least they actually MAKE their own music. i’m not trying to bash pop music and cry sparkling indie tears, because i recognize the talent and work it takes gaga or katy perry to do what they do and i respect that but SERIOUSLY, TEENAGE DREAM GOT A NOMINATION?
i think i just have more of a problem with quantifying music with awards than i do with movies. i know it’s all a popularity contest but UGH
I was just in music class today, and we had to write a rap song so I came up with: ” you my name is (name) and I can’t rap, which is why this rap sounds like….cake.”
I like:
Beatles
Who
Clash
Gorillaz
Steeleye Span
They Might Be Giants
Fred Small
+ any old musicals, Russian classical music, or youtube parodies of anything
Last night my friend and I made a recording of Niska Banja. It’s not super great, but it’s cute. Can I email it to a GAPA so it can be posted on here?
There is both of us doing a Croatian verse (I don’t know what it means.) Then Angela counting in Croatian, then both of us in Spanish, then me in Russian, then both of us doing the verse again.
Angela is awesome at all kinds of string instruments. She plays the prim and the bogaria (sp?) and a bunch of other stuff. She played them on our recording.
Right now I am listening to the entire discography of Jeremy Messersmith. He really is a great artist, and all his music is free from his personal website.
Do it like a Dude (Jesse J)
Le Long de la Route (Zaz)
Shut up and let me go (Ting Tings)
Evelyn Evelyn (Amanda Palmer)
Born this Way (monster mama gaga)
Wow, I can get sexual too (Say Anything)
The Wicked Flee (true grit soundtrack)
Paris (Grace Potter and the noctournals)
Wonderwoman (Leaf)
Sex Changes (Dresden Dolls)
36 (Robert)~ Very much so, even when they’re well put together. Their biggest fault in my mind is that many artists change, and each of their CDs have completely different feels, sometimes it’s subtle, other times it’s very pronounced. A best of album doesn’t capture that very well. It can show you the range, but not the subtleties within the range.
I have discovered the Frankenstein musical. The music is brilliant and I hear that it follows the book closely compared to the majority of movies. Aargh. I need money so I can buy it and the Jekyll soundtrack. But now, I need to finish Frankenstein.
Well, music. Recently discovered buckethead and his bucketheadland. Talent plunged into some of the most twisted humor I’ve ever enjoyed. I can appreciate them, but they get darker and darker…
I just heard The Strokes’ single Under Cover of Darkness from their upcoming album Angles and it is amazing.
Their first album, Is This It, was playing during an important moment in my life, and I don’t know if Angles will be able to top that, but this song is so good.
I just rediscovered/looked up the music of a girl who’s the daughter of the lady who sat next to me in choir last night. If you followed that, congratulations. Anyway, the daughter sang with the choir for one or two concerts. She got a solo on one of the songs (one of my favorites) and didn’t get it right (it was a super easy rhythm thing that she consistently screwed up) until the night of the performance. The ONLY time she sang it correctly was in the concert, which was good, but extremely annoying to me.
Meh. Anyway, I’d heard that she had her own band and CDs out and whatnot. (Makes sense, as her dad’s in the recording business.) So I looked her up awhile ago and wasn’t terribly impressed. She’s a fair banjo player and had good musicians around her, and her songwriting was good I suppose, but her singing is rather scary, even for old time/bluegrass.
So or whatever reason was led to look her up again today, listened to some music, had somewhat more compassion this time, but I’m still not terribly impressed.
What I am impressed with (and very envious of, not going to lie) is that she’s gone out and done it anyway. She has several CDs out, she plays locally and has gone on tour, has people listening to her music and is generally doing what I only wish I could.
Kind of the same with a friend of a friend’s (who I stumbled upon accidentally, actually) who’s actually a really good singer/songwriter/overall musician, but she’s out there doing what she wants to do. And then Intern, he’s a completely fantastic musician who plays open mics and gigs and everything.
I wish I could do that. I love playing music, and I really wish I had people to play with, but I can’t seem to find anyone. I suppose I could try to make connections in [nearby town that aforementioned girl is from], because they have a pretty thriving folk music scene. I could be oblivious to the whole “everyone’s welcome to join our jam sessions….as long as you’re in our crowd already” kind of mentality at the general store and try to get in there. I get hired to play 18th century fiddle tunes at people for events sometimes, which is nice, but mostly I just end up playing by myself in my room, sometimes along with CDs to pretend like I have someone else there.
I also sometimes wonder if I’m just not good enough to warrant any attention for my playing/singing.
Oh well. Hopefully it’ll change when I get to college? More people and all that. And at both places I’m applying there seems to be a fair amount of music, one of them has a music program every Friday where there are no classes scheduled and you can just go listen to other students perform, or you can perform whatever. All levels are welcome, and from what I understand you don’t have to even be studying music to play, which is cool. At the other college (my first choice) there are weekly contra dances, and I’m willing to bet there’s a fair amount of Appalachian, folk, old time, bluegrass, you name it there. So I guess that’s promising.
I also need to learn how to improvise more when playing with other people. *sigh*
By the way, Fiddler, a friend just told me that your first-choice college holds summer music camps and week-long gatherings for assorted ages, instruments, and music styles. I don’t think you’re going to have any problem finding people to play with.
44.1 (Robert)~ Yes I know, but a big part of my problem is I can’t seem to find a way to do them, as much as I want to. I’m sure that I could learn how to improvise and play with better with others if I just did it, but it’s the getting to do it that’s the problem in the first place.
You’ll probably join or form a group in college. Performing regularly in front of others is a huge motivator, in several ways. And depending on where you go to school, there may be some good festivals nearby.
Rebecca & Robert~ Thanks guys. *hugs and choklit* I actually got a call from one of the professors at the college (from the history dept., but he also plays music) and he mentioned that there’s a lot of music there, with a lot of folk, old time and bluegrass. My despair was premature, apparently.
P.S.
Yesterday when aforementioned professor called I was on the way to choir rehearsal, so I called him back today and we had a rather more in-depth conversation about history and why it’s the best and music and why it’s the best, and that anthropology is also the best.
Anyway, the music minor there is really strong and good and they actually have a minor in “traditional music” which is all the kinds of music I want to do. EEEE!
Basically it sounds kind of like an extended Country Dance and Song Society camp only for college credit and also with other cool stuff happening. OH EM GEE.
And to make this kind of more relevant to what we usually talk about on this thread….I’ve been listening to Johnny Cash lately and have decided that I need to get more of his music because he is awesome. I’ve always known this, I’ve just decided that action needs to be taken.
I also have a stack of Dad’s CDs that I stole the other day that I need to put into iTunes. Woody Guthrie, K.D. Lang, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi…..
Anyone else here know of Joanna Newsom? I’m not very familiar with her music, but I’ve heard some of her songs. A friend of mine really likes her. She’s got a very interesting voice, I find it both captivating and very hard to listen to.
For various reasons, with various contexts, there are several:
“Sunshine” by Patrice
“Hurt” by Johnny Cash
“Inuyasha Soudanshi” by Kaoru Wada
“Behind Blue Eyes” by the Who
“April Come She Will” by Simon and Garfunkel
“A Long Fall and No One to Catch You” by the Monroe Transfer
I think the reasons for this are mostly personal, but one song that can really put a damper on my mood is Stars and the Moon. My mom sang that song at a concert when I was 7 and it haunts me still.
My MP3 player’s contents at this moment in time consists of:
23.5% Cirque du Soleil songs (AlegrÃa, Corteo, Dralion, Kooza, Ka, Sillon des Reves, La Nouba, Mystere 1994, Mystere Live 1996, “O”, Saltimbanco, Totem, Varekai DVD soundtrack)
19.8% songs from Cats the musical in various languages (English DVD [full soundtrack], English Broadway [full soundtrack], English London, English Australian, German in all its different translations, Spanish Mexico, Spanish Spain, French Paris, Dutch, Hebrew, Polish, Norwegian, Portuguese Brazil, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Hungarian, Finnish, Czech, Esperanto)
14.4% Putamayo world music (Afro-Latin Party, Arabic Groove, Brazilian Groove, Colombia, French Cafe, India, Turkish Groove, ¡Baila!, Turkish Groove, Salsa Around The World)
10.4% Greek bouzouki
8.1% other musicals’ soundtracks (Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, My Fair Lady)
6.9% capoeira songs (Mestre Bimba archives, A Poeisa de Boca Rica, some Mestre Bimba tribute CD)
5% Gipsy Kings songs (¡Volare!)
4.5% Jacques Brel songs (Ne Me Quitte Pas, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris)
2.4% Edith Piaf songs (The Best of Edith Piaf)
2.3% Israeli/Mediterranean stuff (Israeli-Mediterranean Hits’ second CD)
1.8% the Beatles (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Plus the theme song of the city of Morelia in Michoacan, Mexico.
I have kinda odd taste in music…. Anyone know any of the above stuff?
Yay! I like Edith Piaf, her songs were more or less the first French music my mom introduced me to… And I think it’s probably a Muser requirement to have something Beatles. XD
When I was working in DC shortly after college, I sometimes visited a French bistro in Georgetown which featured a jukebox that played Piaf, Brel, and others. There was just something indefinably, utterly delicious about being able to listen to “Je ne regrette rien” and “La vie en rose” on. a. jukebox. Like living in an alternate universe.
I think i’ve figured out why I love listening to Japanese/Spanish(sorta)/Russian/Greek/other-language-I-don’t-understand music. When you listen to music in a language you know, the meaning of the lyrics has an impact on how you perceive the song. When it’s a language you don’t know or one you have to really work to understand, the lyrics just become part of the music. You can’t judge it on the lyrics, just the music and how they fit together.
Try Prisencolinensinainciusol for universally unintelligible lyrics.
And also, yes. For part of a history report, we had to find four artists from the country we researched; I discovered Farhad Darya, an Afghan singer and peace activist. I’ve been listening to his music a lot lately; he incorporates a lot of traditional Afghan style into his music, and that’s something I just haven’t heard a whole lot of. It’s refreshing.
Plus, you’re right–the fact that I don’t understand the lyrics makes them a collection of sounds, instead of something with a specific meaning, and I can appreciate it as such without the distraction of a set message.
Nothing as of yet, but I actively listen to Mucc, Nightmare, the Pillows, various Vocaloids, and some random anime soundtracks. Mostly via Pandora, which is a truly wonderful invention.
AWESOME I’ve been listening to Mucc a lot recently, as luck would have it Love the Pillows as well…I am well acquainted with Nightmare but haven’t listened to them much.
It depends what you’re looking for. If you’re more into visual kei a la Nightmare, then I’d recommend Gazette, maaaybe alice nine, older Dir en Grey stuff, Hyde’s solo things…
also, Sendai Kamotsu is nightmare’s “alter ego” band, so you might find them funny
Also Miyavi! He’s not really vk anymore but he is always my favorite.
I have 439038923 other bands if you’re more interested in indie stuff too, but yeah. Sorry for talking your ear off, I rarely meet other people with an interest haha…sighhh
I’ll Make A Man out of You (multilanguage)- Mulan
A Man’s Gotta Do (etc.)- Dr. Horrible
Don’t Unplug Me- ALL CAPS
The Bells of Notre Dame (multilanguage)- Hunchback of Notre Dame
Soldier Side- System of A Down
All These Things That I’ve Done- The Killers
Trainers In Love- ALL CAPS
I Won’t Say I’m In Love (multilanguage)- Hercules
Perfect Day- Miriam Stockley
Zero To Hero (multilanguage)- Hercules
Better (acoustic cover)- Guns n’ Roses, cover by Chris Zabriskie
Little Lion Man- Mumford and Sons
My Girl’s Ex-Boyfriend- Relient K
Just Around The Riverbend (multilanguage)- Pocahontas
You Could Be A Hero- Superchick
Istanbul Not Constantinople- They Might Be Giants
Unlike Me- Kate Havnevik
House Song- Ministry of Magic
Part Of Your World (multilanguage)- Little Mermaid
L’Italia di Piero- Simone Cristicchi
This Is Halloween (multilanguage)- Nightmare Before Christmas
Piano Man- Billy Joel
Hide And Seek- Imogen Heap
Savages (multilanguage)- Pocahontas
Jar Of Hearts- Christina Perri
Mr. Cellophane- Chicago (musical)
God Help The Outcasts (multilanguage)- Hunchback of Notre Dame
Slipping- Dr. Horrible
Seven Nation Army- The White Stripes
Lovely- Kim Jong Kook
Forever Young- Youth Group
Empty Spaces- Air Traffic
This Is Not The End- The Bravery
Once Upon A December (multilanguage)- Anastasia
Seasons Of Love (multilangauge)- RENT
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot- Brand New
Uninstall (english cover)- Meiko, cover by GeekyFanDubs
The Scientist- Coldplay
Goodnight My Angel- Billy Joel
Dreaming With A Broken Heart- John Mayer
The Plagues (multilanguage)- Prince of Egypt
I’ll Quit Singing- Megurine Luka
Very Good Advice- Alice in Wonderland
Zinc — colors of the wind is my favorite multilanguage, i love them all though they make me feel so hopeful
cromwell — i have always wanted to be a decemberists fan but I’ve never really listened to them enough. would you recommend their earlier stuff then? i just read recently that they’re on hiatus indefinitely after they tour for their new album (which according to said article is very good!)
i am currently enjoying radiohead’s new album, the king of limbs.
I am officially obsessed with Fiddler on the Roof… again. A few days ago I realized everyone in the library was staring at me because I was singing “Anatevka” under my breath. Also Galileo by the Indigo Girls.
And, of course, the LotR soundtrack. I generally read while practicing the violin, and I often accidentally begin to play the theme from whatever part of the book I’m reading. I’ll have even more problems in this regard when The Hobbit comes out.
I never post on this thread. There is a reason for that. I don’t really listen to a lot of music. Despite this, I have managed to become obsessed with this French song “Tais Toi Mon Couer”. And the music video. I have been listening/watching it most of today. And yesterday.
I feel obligated to post here because I have a young music obsession with the band ‘He is We’. Oh, god. Her voice, the singer… it’s perfect <3. Her voice seriously makes me cry, it's so pure and clear and pretty. Their lyrics aren't bad either. Check them out :3
I’m listening to them as I type this, and I must agree with you. The stuff they do generally isn’t my sort of thing, but the singer’s voice is so beautiful I can’t stop listening
Has anyone heard a piece of music that you later learned was in something, which you then saw/played only for the music?
That happened with Still Alive and Portal. Now it has happened again, with Tubular Bells. It’s really freaking awesome and I am going to see The Exorcist for the sole purpose of hearing it again.
Musicians/bands that I love right now:
-Mumford & Sons
-Johnny Flynn
-Bombay Bicycle Club
-Swear and Shake
-Noah and the Whale (hoping to see them in June. The show is 16+ and you need to show ID, so I figure I’ll have my mom buy the tickets and then use my school ID to get in, since it doesn’t show age, and I look 16. I mean, I’ll only be four months short at that point.)
-Ben’s Imaginary Band
-Horse Feathers
-Bobby Long
-Pinkle
-Freelance Whales
-Grizzly Bear
By the way, my friend auditioned for the Juilliard precollege summer program for opera, and got called back three times, so she’s probably getting in. She’s beyond amazing.
My “playlist” (Music I listen to on a regular basis)
Rikudim by Jan Van Der Roost
Opening from Glassworks by Philip Glass
Floe by Philip Glass
Islands by Philip Glass
Rubric by Philip Glass
Facades by Philip Glass
Closing from Glassworks by Philip Glass
Jurassic Park Theme by John Williams
Olympic Fanfare and Theme by John Williams
Animal Crackers Vol. I & II by Eric Whitacre
little tree by Eric Whitacre
i thank You God by Eric Whitacre
With a Lily in Your Hands by Eric Whitacre
What If by Eric Whitacre
I’m listening to What If right now. It’s from Whitacre’s Techno Opera Paradise Lost
You yearn to soar
So?
But we don’t have wings any more
But there must be another way!
1. Death Cab for Cutie. Every day. All day. Love it!! (I haven’t gotten the new album yet – I think it came out May 31st? Anyway, I should probably listen to it some more. I’ll get on that soon.)
2. Coldplay – I used to listen to a lot of Coldplay – I lovelovelove their song Swallowed in the Sea, it’s repeat on my iPod right now – but then I sort of stopped listening to it, and now I’m back on it again.
3. U2. U2. U2. U2. U2.
4. Old school Jesse McCartney. A little embarrassing, I guess, but honestly…Jesse McCartney was kind of the Justin Bieber-esque phase I think all little girls have to go through. I absolutely loved Beautiful Soul waybackwhen.
5. Linkin Park
i saw that death cab has a new album out! like the decemberists they are band i always mean to listen to but never do for some reason. tell me if you like it!
Anyone else excited for the release of Taking Back Sunday’s new album? Less than a month away. The leaked tracks are amazing so far, especially Best Places To Be A Mom.
The two pop songs that sound best in concert/symphonic band are Poker Face and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Wake Me Up When September Ends (yeah, we did a Green Day medley) HURTS on the trombone. And I make it sound like death so I just slide sync half the way through it.
(It’s mostly holding out notes on the high C and I’m not so awesome on the high notes, FYI)
Once my band instructor, who obviously hates us trombones, gave us a song in which we had only two different notes, both of which were high, and no note shorter than a whole note. It was terrible.
“us” by regina spektor CONTINUES TO SLAY ME
UUUUUUUUUGHHHHHH
other than that i have been listening to Foals a lot but all of my favorite songs by them are like six minutes long and emotionally draining. SO GOOD THOUGH.
Soundtracks are criminally underappreciated. I’ve been listening to the ones from Doctor Who and Katekyo Hitman Reborn all day and it’s wondrous.
(Favorites: ‘This is Gallifrey’ for the first and ‘Drifting Clouds of Solitude’ for the second.)
Also, has anyone (probably Axa, heh) heard of Exist Trace? They’re an all-female visual kei band that I discovered recently and they are pretty awesome.
omg exist trace! i’ve only heard one of their songs i think but props to them forever. like you would actually not believe the level of misogyny in the vk fan community (despite the fact that 90% of the fans are girls…sigh)
hmm i think there was another all female band…*googles* DANGERGANG haha that was it okay
Soundtracks form, if not half, at least a good fraction of the music I listen to.
Actually, LotR is playing right now. I think those are some of the most listened to tracks on my iPod.
Along with Star Wars, Incredibles, and some various Disney.
Emilie Autumn anyone? One of my friends recommended her to me a really long time ago and I completely forgot about that until yesterday. She describes her genre as “victoriandustrial”, with some awesome violin thrown in. Total approval.
Right now I’m listening to the Homestuck album based off of the The Felt.
Not only were The Felt some of my favorite villians ever, but now they have music! And one piece (Broken Clock) is in 13/4 (Posoc should be freaking out right now)
ugh this mashup of coldplay and sufjan stevens is killing me it’s so good and layers SO WELL. if anyone likes either of them i would google it (you can find it pretty easily)
WHEN THE LIGHT’S OUT
IT’S LESS DANGEROUS
HERE WE ARE NOW
ENTERTAIN US
BLARGLE NARGLE
HARGLE DANUS
HERE WE ARE NOW
ENTERTAIN US
Yup, trying to learn SLTS on guitar. It’s actually not that hard, but the switch on both strings and frets during the “heys” after the chorus are really hard to do right.
Also, if anyone wants a good laugh, google They Might Be Giants’s cover of it.
I’ve mentioned them several times on MB, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Fleet Foxes lately. They’re a folk band from Seattle. They have some interesting vocal harmonizations, and their lyrics actually make you think, which is a refreshing change from most other music. Even though I’ve been listening to their albums on repeat nearly non-stop for a week or so, I haven’t gotten tired of them yet.
Bon Iver’s pretty good too (indie/folk), and Animal Collective (which Wikipedia lists as neo-psychadelia/experimental rock (it’s complicated)), and Schneider TM (indie/electronica), and Manu Chao (mainly reggae-ish).
i’ve heard nothing but good things about fleet foxes!
i realized a little while ago i’ve been saying bon iver the wrong way what songs/albums of his do you like best? i only have one from a compilation album
we should do music rec posts or something. i think you’d like sufjan stevens a lot, iron & wine if you don’t already listen to him.
Bon Iver’s newest album (called, astonishingly, Bon Iver) is really good.
Some of my friends are really into Iron & Wine, so I think I’ll have to check him out.
I haven’t bought all of Set The World On Fire (Black Veil Brides), but I’m loving Fallen Angels. The message in that song really resonates with me. The only bad thing about it is there’s no screaming!
We scream (We scream)
We shout (We shout)
We are the fallen angels!
We scream (We scream)
We shout (Ohhh)
WAOH
To those who sing alone
No need to feel this sorrow
We scream (We scream)
We shout (ohhh)
We are the Fallen Angels!
I’ve been on a sort of break from my usual metal playlists and am enjoying some other stuff. Right now I’m really liking Driftless Pony Club’s newish cd Buckminster, especially the song “House of 1982 Built Like a Ship.” I’d recommend it.
You were my first experiment/too bad I’m prone to failure
What are ya offerin’, are ya offerin’, is it free?
I just thought of this list for no reason, but I have to post it.
SONGS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE HUNGER GAMES MOVIE
Uprising-Muse
Crushcrushcrush-Paramore
Disturbia-Rihanna
Blow-Ke$ha (I KNOW THE SONG’S AWFUL, I just think it would be funny if it played when Katniss blows up the food supply.)
Last Leaf-OK Go (for the credits)
88- Haha I have been on a supernatural binge all day, have watched like 5 eps and will probably watch another 2.
Speaking of youtubers as I was in my last comment… I have been listening to a lot of Alex Day (nerimon) today. I really enjoy it, sort of light and sweet.
Bert Jansch. ♥ ♥ ♥ Stars in my eyes…. I am soooooooooooooo in love. Ahhhhhhh but seriously. Beautiful beautiful beautiful stuff. Y’all should all listen now so I can have someone to rant to about his amazingness.
I only have four songs from Thirteen Down though. I don’t know where they came from, but I feel cheated. That’s NINE SONGS I’m missing. If I didn’t already have the four, I’d buy the album off iTunes, but I don’t want to spend 8.91 on nine songs, when the entire album is only 9.99. But I don’t want to buy the whole album and have duplicates of four songs. The version I have has cooler cover art anyway. WHAT TO DO WHAT TO DO. Also, I’m out of free iTunes money since I spent my last gift card on The Best of Bert Jansch.
The best album I’ve bought throughout the entire year by any measure is caoimhin o raghallaigh and mick obriens duet album “kitty lie over”. actually check this one out. obrien is a fantastic uillean piper and caoimhin is one of the best young fiddlers in the buisness, not to mention that the album contains the combination of hardanger fiddle and the pipes which is pretty fantastic. does anyone else own this one?
other cool new pickups: georgian polyphony, cape breton stuff, an ancient 17th century traditional wassail called “la guignolee” that is still practiced in saint genevieve missouri. cool stuff
92-I’ve been listening to Still Got Legs all day and it hasn’t ceased to be awesome. I think Sound of Drums and Nightmares are my favorites, but I love them all.
This is just a random thought I had, but autotuning is a really, really strange thing. Once Kesha and, say, Hatsune Miku (a Vocaloid. Look ’em up, they’re cool) sound equally human to my ears I know technology is going weird places.
Hah! I’m listening to Still Got Legs right now! I love Sound of Drums and Nightmares too, as well as Silence and The End of All Things and their version of the theme was great. I like that it’s not so obviously about Doctor Who, not as mush as their first album. “The worst part is, it’s actually kind of tasty”
*listening to stereo, hearing weird scratching and clicking noises*
“Is there something wrong with the CD? It sounds like it’s skipping.”
*vocals kick in*
“No, wait, it’s just the opening track. Ah, Modest Mouse.”
worst concert experience i’ve ever had, but the show definitely made up for it
we basically stood out there in the outdoor venue for hours on end in the pouring rain (and apparently a severe thunderstorm warning) waiting for it to let up. and then once it did, the opener (clutch) went on and freaking on. apparently they’re also big-ish but i was not impressed. certainly not enough to forgive them running offstage as soon as it started sprinkling again about ten minutes later.
fortunately flogging molly were awesome and gave no pies about the noise laws (which say concerts are supposed to end by 11) so they went until around midnight. somebody will probably be fined which is unfortunate but it was an absolutely fantastic show
i did not go in the actual push-everyone-around-like-crazy-people-circle (it was behind me) because there was significantly more alcohol and general fighting shenanigans than you see at, say, metal shows (have i mentioned how freaking NICE metalheads are?) BUT i did mosh and i was front and center in the pit the whole time and it was glorious. jaw is extremely sore and i probably have a slight bruise or two on my back but other than that i am extremely injury-free which is nice
also easily the most moving moment of the show came during one of the talking bits. so for those of you who aren’t aware there is a big rivalry between ohio state and the university of michigan that a LOT of people in columbus take way, way too seriously. so they were having a talking bit and he was like “we were in detroit, michigan” and some people started booing, and he went “HEY! ya never boo people when t’ey’re down, ya give ’em a hand and help ’em get back up” (APOLOGIES FOR BAD ATTEMPT AT DIALECT BUT DUDES HE WAS SUPER IRISH) i was so happy he said that, everyone who had been booing just looked so (rightly) ashamed, i cheered super loudly for that and one guy gave me a weird look but pffft.
…also that bit where they played that really fast song with the fiddle OH WAIT THAT’S ALL OF IT IT WAS GLORIOUS
anyway. i need sleeps, i slept badly last night (last few nights, actually), had terrible cramps all morning, stood in the rain for hours, saw the show, then walked (across downtown in the middle of the night, ps that’s probably a bad idea kids) to the ohio theater where they were showing fight club which is where my brother and another friend had gone after they bailed (i had other friends there so it was all good) and watched the last bit of the movie before getting a ride home
basically the whole evening was spent running on straight-up adrenaline, first from the concert, and then from the “OH GOD IT IS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT I AM DOWNTOWN MY PHONE IS DEAD I HAVE NO MONEY I REALLY HOPE MY BROTHER IS AT THIS MOVIE LIKE HE SAID HE’D BE OR LIFE WILL BE BAD” panic
oh god SFTDP but i just realized i’m going to the state fair tomorrow with people and i am being picked up at 11 which means i am not sleeping in which means another day of being tired as pie
sunday i can sleep in a bit but i am going to see adventures of robin hood (at that same theater that showed fight club) ((the errol flynn version because it’s baller)) at 2pm and i want to have everything done before that so i can hang out on campus because i have some friends in town visiting. so i’ll have to be up at a decent time sunday as well
and you can go ahead and sleep is for the weak at me but guys srsly i have been running on a grand total of no energy it is a problem. i need to catch up D:
WHICH LEADS ME TO WONDER WHY I AM STILL HERE, GOODNIGHT
Basshunter – Camilla introduced them to me through Spelar Lite DotA a couple months ago, so I can now say that the closest thing to pop music I listen to is Swedish techno. XD *is such a geek*
I like their music, some songs other than others, but… does it annoy anyone else, this take-the-same-tune, change-the-lyrics-and-the-language, and-call-it-a-new-song thing which apparently enables you to only have to think up half as many song arrangements as you would have to otherwise? It was okay with Boten Anna/Now You’re Gone, but I just discovered that there’s another version of DotA with English lyrics, All I Ever Wanted. It doesn’t even work that well with the meter, and in my mind DotA is way too iconic to suffer a lyrics rewrite on a completely different topic. Do all the Swedish songs about gaming and internetz that they write become English songs about love at one point? How does that even work? >.<
Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently that I reccomend. It’s Homestuck music, but it hasn’t appeared in comic yet (and much of it probably won’t ever) but it’s still AWESOME!
Earthsea Borealis
Alternia
The Beginning Of Something Really Excellent
Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence
Raggy Looking Dance
Center Of Brilliance
Core Of Darkness
Swing Of The Clock
Savior Of The Waking World
Savior Of The Dreaming Dead
Even In Death
Requiem Of Sunshine And Rainbows
At The Price Of Oblivion
And I’ve been writing music for themes for characters.
I should probably get started on a commission I took.
Anybody want:
a) Advice on how to write modern classical music?
b) A piece written for them? (Possibly with GAPA transactions?)
c) Information on my music?
In the realm of Homestuck music I’d also recommend The Broken Clock. It’s already a cool piece of music, but it’s in 13/8. Weird time signatures are my favorite.
A random junior in my math class just asked me over Skype what my favourite song was. I’m tempted to reply with ‘The Song of the Earth by Mahler’ just to see his reaction when he looks it up…
After we got home from the marching band festival at 12 last night (we kicked butt), I decided to take a mental health day today.
So that gives me time to write about music even more.
My banjo playing is going really, really well. I can play a few songs rather well. It’s so relaxing, you know?
Anyway, this is when I go into bands.
Laura. Marling. is. amazing. That’s all I can say. She sounds like an angel. Her voice is haunting.
Freelance Whales is really good too- their songs are like stories. Darren Criss’s brother is the banjoist.
Radical Face is the most neglected band ever. Nobody knows about them, and it’s horrible. I can’t even describe it. Listen to “Doorways”, and then “Welcome Home, Son.” They’re very similar to Freelance Whales.
If you’ve never listened to Arcade Fire, then a;sdlfkj.
Oh, and the Decemberists are really good.
Beirut is Balkan inspired music.
Bon Iver is god. Seriously. So is Sufjan Stevens.
Oh, and Two Door Cinema Club is so good. It’s very upbeat.
Emmy the great is pop-y folk-y, and very mellow. Hrrm.
Oh, Fleet Foxes, is really mellow, and so is Iron and Wine and Horse Feathers.
I’m still ridiculously in love with Johnny Flynn. He’s absolutely amazing it makes me want to a;lsdkfjjkldsfkdas.
King Charles is just amazing, he’s sort of rock-y, indie folk-y. And he has the coolest hair.
The Avett Brothers, Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons. Some of my classic favorites.
I have 1566 songs in my iTunes library.
I just love music so much.
That is all.
Wait, what?
Whoa.
On a music-related note, I can play the violin bit at the end now(the part that begins as Dave and Rose come out of the Green Sun) on my own violin. Learned it by ear.
Music-related question: What (if any) online radio stations/websites do people use? Last.fm? Pandora? Grooveshark? I’ve been using Pandora for a while, but I’m getting fed up with it. It seems like it doesn’t have much music that interests me. I tried Grooveshark earlier today, typing in three artists that Pandora didn’t have; Grooveshark had all of them.
Anyway, yeah: what do you use, what do you recommend?
Spotify, or Grooveshark because Spotify only gives you 10 hours a month. YouTube, occasionally (does that count?). I only listen to music online some of the time though, most of the time it’s not.
…YouTube. I’m pretty picky about my music, and the websites like Pandora which will start giving me random “you might like this” (but probably won’t, and oh, you can’t skip them either) songs almost immediately just don’t work for me. Yeah, it’s a little more awkward and it won’t stream songs at you unless you’re using someone else’s playlist, but if you find a band you like it’s a hecka lot easier to find more of their songs. And you don’t have to listen to things you don’t like.
I’ve just recently started using Grooveshark. I like Pandora, and used it for a bit while I was in the US, but it isn’t available out of the US, so. So far I like Grooveshark quite a lot.
For the record, I’m listening to Owl City right now. <3
I’ve been recording myself improvising, and have gotten some pretty good recordings. GAPAs, may I send in a few recordings and if I may, which address should I send them to?
Does anyone know of any steampunk music or bands which they could recommend to me?
I really haven’t been able to find anything much. Abney Park seems to have almost eclipsed everyone else, and they seem to me more like a punk band with a steampunk aesthetic than anything else. I’m looking for actual music which is steampunk, i.e. Victorian-inspired in more than just the lyrics.
I suppose I had in mind something like the Victorian style of music — music-hall stuff, maybe classical-ish — but with some more modern instrumentals. (Add electric guitar to any traditional genre of music and it automatically becomes ten times awesomer.) It would be quite interesting to try and see what steampunk instruments would look and behave like — automatic accordions? Would steam power actually make much of a difference to music?
Oh man. The Cog Is Dead is so awesome. I think that’s quite a lot more what I had in mind. Thanks for the recommendations…. I gotta check the other ones out sometime, but right now I am in a mindspace brought on by listening to A Letter To Michelle about ten times and I don’t particularly care to alter it. *bliss*
Well, I was given a vereh, vereh nice book called The Steampunk Bible for Christmas; it talks about Steampunk music. I’ll tell you the bands they list, but I’ve not listened to all of them, so I can’t tell you many opinions.
1) Abney Park (You mentioned them.)
2) ArcAttack
3) The Clockwork Quartet (Lizzie mentioned them.)
4) The Dresden Dolls (Whom I knew about already, and really like. I’m listening to their “The Sheep Song” right now. I recommend “Coin-Operated Boy” particularly. If you like the sound of Amanda’s voice, know that I get a kick out of her non-Dresden song “Leeds United”; the music video is filled with nifty costumes.)
5) Dr. Steel
6) HUMANWINE–Humans Underground Making Anagrams Nightly While Imperial Not-mes Enslave
7) The James Gang
8) The Lisps
9) Rasputina
10) Voltaire (Who I know–I like “When You’re Evil” fine, but am otherwise lukewarm.)
Quick poll: Has anyone else ever heard of Mannheim Steamroller? I’m trying to judge their actual popularity because my view of them is probably quite skewed because Jackson Berkey is an acquaintance of mine. Mannheim Steamroller is a sort of New Age group with a lot of classical influences, but they’re best known for their Christmas albums. I guess I grew up listening to a couple of those Christmas albums, but a few years ago my piano teacher introduced me to Jackson Berkey and I’ve had a few lessons with him. One lesson was very interesting because I happened to be playing a piece that he had written. (Strangely, that wasn’t the first time I’ve worked on a piece with the piece’s composer.)
Does anyone know anything about a song called “Flagpole Sitta?” I’m trying to figure out why it has been attributed to Green Day (who seem to have called it Paranoia) and Blink-182 (they called it I’m Not Sick But I’m Not Well), even though it seems to have actually written by Harvey Danger.
If you mix together Grenade and Just the Way You Are with the right timing, they’re the same song. They have the same BPM, the same key, the same length if you put them together the right way, and the lyrics fit. For example, when he’s singing “had your eyes wide open/why were they open” he comes in on the other song with “her eyes, her eyes/make the stars look like they’re not shining”. It’s actually kind of freaky. I’m honestly wondering whether it was intentional or not.
Oh my gosh you guys go to Philip Glass’ website and find the Glass Engine (it’s under “music”)
This is absolutely beautiful and nothing can hurt and I’m listening to Knee Play 5 from Einstein on the Beach and I’m counting and these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends the night should be a time of peace and tranquility. We have need of a soothing story to banish the thoughts of the day.
Impossible, you say? Yes and it is just as impossible to say how much I love this.
this is so soothing i cant even use capitals anymore its so wonderful all of Philip Glass on my fingertips am I in heaven this is perfect
Ok, guys. I’m buying a new amp. The two I’ve used recently I really enjoyed. One was an unknown Fender model and the other a Line 6 Spider III. I checked ebay for the Spider, but I’m still not sure how good it really is. I’ve got no experience with amps, the only one I’ve got is a crappy little Silvertone.
Are any of you familiar with amplifiers? If so, what would you recommend? I’m looking for good quality overall, good distortion and good clean tones. As are we all.
Does anyone know where I could find guitar sheet music (melody, not chords) for Les Miserables? I’ve been reading the treble cleff (sorry if that’s spelled wrong) part on my sister’s piano music, but it isn’t the same.
Stairway To Heaven. Has anyone else thought the same thing I have? All the websites that give the lyrics say that, in the last verse, he sings “There walks a lady we all know/ Who shines with light and wants to show/ How everything still turns to gold”. To me, though, it’s always sounded more like “Who shines white light and wants to show/ Out in the day she’ll turn to stone”.
In the context of the lyrics, it doesn’t make sense, but listen to it (6 minutes and 53 seconds into the song).
It makes sense when it’s not paired with the rest of the lyrics, because Plant is a Tolkien fan and a lot of other Tolkien references are scattered throughout Stairway and countless other Zeppelin songs. But tell me what you guys think. It does NOT sounds to me like he says “gold”.
For those seeking truthfulness
Or seeking simple style
Come right in, pour a drink
And we’ll talk a while
–
Tell me what you’re looking for
Tell me what you’ve lost
Talk about the things you’ve kept
And of the things you’ve tossed
–
Chorus:
Enjoy your drink, it could be your last
Stay up, wake up, break your fast
But hurry it up
I haven’t got all day
–
Do you believe in miracles
Tell me if it’s true
If Moses parted the Red Sea
Then Hitler saved the Jews
–
I can tell you what your future holds
If you’ll only stay a while
I can tell you if you’re doomed to die
Or if you’ll live to raise a child
We played Blue Shades by Ticheli in one group I’m with! It was soooooo hard.
Next season we’re playing the Hindemith Symphony in Bb which is absolutely insane and atonal, as well as the Ives Symphony 1, and Copland’s Outdoor Overture. And some other stuff that’s also pretty cool.
Yes, “Ascend” is great. It’s got tons of syncopation.
Oh yeah, Ticheli’s awesome, too. We’re playing “Cajun Folk Songs” in band right now, and the trombones get to use straight mutes. (Which almost makes up for the fact that he gives all the fun parts to the first trombone. We second and thirds are offended!)
Enc- Oh, I love atonal stuff! We almost played ‘Old Churches’, but our flute section gave up.
Oh wow, we’re playing Old Churches this year with a hyperflamablamablous flute section.
Tess- I think the reason is that I had a super great audition and got into the top youth ensemble at the conservatory.
Reccomendation from music I’ve played-
“Music For the Funeral of Queen Mary” AS ARRANGED BY STEVEN STUCKY (the arrangement is very important- it’s originally 1600’s hymns that have been… altered.)
Oh, and in other news, it seems that ’tis the season to be Grieg- in two completely unrelated groups, we’re playing his Funeral March and his Symphonic Dances (both of which are WONDERFUL look them up RIGHT NOW)
Yes, “Ascend” is great. It’s got tons of syncopation.
Oh yeah, Ticheli’s awesome, too. We’re playing “Cajun Folk Songs” in band right now, and the trombones get to use straight mutes. (Which almost makes up for the fact that he gives all the fun parts to the first trombone. We second and thirds are offended!)
Enc- Oh, I love atonal stuff! We almost played ‘Old Churches’ by Michael Colgrass, but our flute section gave up.
The piece we played was Vesuvius. We didn’t pull it off too well but it was still great. Right now we have Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Morning Noon and Night in Vienna, and Whatsoever Things. My favorite piece is still Mannin Veen.
PLEASE JUST GIVE US THAT MUSIC PLEASE.
I’m in Chamber Choir at the middle school I go to, and the teacher who directs it showed us one of the song we’re going to be singing for the Spring Choral Concert. It’s an arrangement of Imogen Heap’s Hide And Seek (I think it’s done by the King’s Singers), and it’s like torture waiting for it.
Adele! Quickly! Sing some more and top the charts again so people can see that you don’t need to hide your voice behind auto-tune and overproduction to be popular!
Yesterday I saw Itzhak Perlman perform with the Rochester Philharmonic at the Eastman School of Music.
Then a few hours later I saw Anamanaguchi in this tiny venue called the Bug Jar.
Two incredibly different concert experiences, but both were awesome. I’m not sure I can even compare.
Itzhak Perlman I saw a few years ago and am going to see again in March. Anamanaguchi I haven’t seen live (yet). Perlman gives a pretty good concert, doesn’t he?
Funny, because I tried that the other day, and I kept trying to sing all the songs, so I would start accidentally writing down the words to the village green preservation society instead of my history notes…
So a while ago, I stumbled across this BBC radio play of the HG2G (which by the way is completely AMAZING and the voice for Marvin is just the best thing ever) and it has this intro music that sounded like it was written just for Douglas Adams. It was bouncy and almost goofy sounding but also sort of futuristic and hollow, and it was simply the most Douglass Adamsish music I have ever heard, and I had been trying to figure out what it was for a really long time. It turns out that it’s the middle section of Journey of the Sorcerer by the Eagles, whic turns out to be an even better song than I thought. Just go listen to it, and think of the HG2G. It is AWESOME.
You realize that Hitchhiker’s started out as a radio show and the novels came later, right? Adams personally chose that music for the show, so it makes sense that it would seem fitting for him.
To start with, here’s the long-promised sea shanty from Midnight Fiddler. This is one of my favorite shanties. At Fiddler’s suggestion, we all sang it at the end of a very pleasant Kokonvention with Lady Bunniful and Midnight Fiddler and her parents at Red-tailed HAWK’s house.
(Sorry that this took so long, Fiddler. Your MP3 file was too big for me to upload, so I had to compress it.)
This is flamablamablous. In no uncertain terms.
-A
This is beautiful.
Fiddler, that is simply lovely. I shall applaud now. {Applauds.}
This is making me want to take the dulcimer down from the mantel…
Yes, I play the dulcimer–the plucked dulcimer, to be specific. Not very well, but I do play. I would play more if I had sheet music for something I particularly like. I have access to some Christmas carols, folk songs, and hymns. They’re fine, but they don’t give me a lot of range, and some of them are downright depressing. I wonder if I can find Queen songs for the dulcimer, or something of that ilk. The closest that I have found is “Songs of The Beatles for the Dulcimer”, which isn’t what I want. The Beatles bore me. (Please, please, don’t start yelling at me. I respect The Beatles. I do. I just happen to find most of their songs repetitious, depressing, or both.)
In case you are unfamiliar with the dulcimer and are wondering why sheet music is hard to find, I will explain some: The dulcimer is a string instrument with sixteen frets, numbered zero through fifteen. Traditional sheet music for the instrument will read something like: 0…14…3…7, not as typical note symbols. Some people can look at “universal note” sheet music and translate that into the “Language of the Dulcimer”, but I can’t, so I have to use sheet music intended for use with the dulcimer. It isn’t a very common instrument, so it’s hard to find music at all, let alone zippy music.
are you kidding me!!!! that is amazing! *is duly awed*
That is brilliant, Fiddler.
I am almost music illiterate- I can’t learn a piece at all unless I listen to it, although once I hear it everything clicks.
Just happened to be listening to some Ani this morning… (It’s poetry. It’s not really music. It’s sung poetry. You don’t get that very often, anymore.)
-A
Has anyone else heard the song “Canadian Please”? I heard it last Thursday and I think it’s probably my favorite song of all time. It’s on YouTube and iTunes both, if anyone wants to check it out…
Yup! I have.
Oh! It’s posted! Thanks Grady and CO (and Robert, y’know).
Not to undermine the “that’s awesome” comments (which I really appreciate) but upon re-listening there are a few rough spots. :/ Meh.
It really is awesome, though.
Also you should teach me stuff sometime.
There are ways to fix rough spots like that in Garage Band.
5.1~ Thank you and yes.
5.2~ Yeah, but I haven’t taken the time to learn how, and in this case I didn’t do the set-up thing so it would be in the key I was singing in, etc. (Honestly, I never know what key I’m singing in or what the time signature should be. Often I don’t even know what key I’m playing an instrument in. Yes, I’m pathetic.)
like i asked on the last thread, for those that drive do you have songs that you like to listen to in the car? or any songs that help you with creative things, and so on.
I keep my huge CD case in the car, so it’s my main music listening place.
The Amelie soundtrack helps me with stress. As soon as I put it on I can think clearly. I want to get more Yann Tiersen music.(anyone who likes classical/instrumental- you will love him! look him up!)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers help me get excited.
!!! this makes me want to watch amelie, but alas i think my brother has it…
great movie
I like jazz, rock, and some types of classical. Basically, I’m cool with everything except country.
You know what I hate about movies? If the main character plays an instrument, it’s guitar or drums. Whatever happened to the saxophone? Or the French horn? How about bassoon or oboe? Of course, there’s always flute and clarinet, or trombone, bass clarinet, and tuba. Oh! Don’t let me forget strings!
WHY GUITAR??? THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN ROCK!!
Is anyone else perpetually in love with Simon and Garfunkel? Because I am.
Replying from across the void of time…I am! (MuseBlog is like time travel! Heck yes!) I overplay them quite a bit and have to take long breaks, but I will ALWAYS LOVE THEM.
Same. I never get tired of listening to them, which I’ve been doing for well over 13/14 of my lifetime.
I just rediscovered what might be the most mindworm worthy song I’ve ever heard…
Too Much by Bonaparte.
Go listen to it. Share the mindworm…
Also, I just started listening to Mumford and Sons on youtube. They are good!
For the Spanish learners/speakers, I’ve been listening to Julieta Venegas a lot lately. :]
9 – I like a lot of their stuff but Paul Simon occasionally gets too drippy for me. I like Garfunkel’s stuff a lot better.
Lately my current obsession is Joan Baez. Such a gorgeous voice.
I doubt anyone on the blog shares my tastes, but I’ll try.
Emo, anyone?
My Top 5 (not in order)
Thrice
A Thorn For Every Heart
Taking Back Sunday (though their latest album was more pop-punky)
Brand New
Thursday
Other bands:
Suicidal Tendencies
Blink-182
These two are relatively well known compared to the other bands.
1.3 (Cyrulean)~ Thank you! I have a long-abandoned dulcimer as well. I generally just play tunes by ear, and simple ones at that. I have a friend who is basically the God of the lap dulcimer, which is rather intimidating.
I have a book of dulcimer tab somewhere. Thing is, I read normal music, and tab is confusing to me, alas.
7 (Axa)~ I’m not sure how legal it is to drive listening to music through earbuds, but I do it because I haven’t a radio or CD player or anything in my car because my car is a ’92 POS that’s been cannibalized probably more than once in its life. Generally in such cases I just put the iPod on shuffle and skip things if I’m not in the mood. Basically driving doesn’t affect my music-listening habits. Stuff with lyrics are good though because then I can sing along with is either good because it gives me something to do or bad because then I think about singing instead of driving.
9 (Piggy)~ Yes.
@6 – Honey, if you’re singing sea shanties, you don’t generally have to or even necessarily want to be worrying about that kind of thing. That sort of music generally remains structureless.
-A
I’ll just put in another plug for Carbon Leaf. Anyone heard them? Anyone heard of them?
=sighs= Honestly, best band in the whole universe; nothing compares.
-A
Yes! I have one of their CDs! (Because you told me about them.)
I have! Admittedly, through you, but I still listen to them! Did so the other day in fact. And introduced a friend or two.
Fiddler- That was lovely!
Do like!
Axa- I do! But I will talk more about them when I am not limited to a 10 minute study break!
Argh. I have not been able to just watch a movie since I was six. I’m always thinking about the background music and how they directed and filmed it. Is this normal? Does it only happen to musical people?
14 (Grady)~ I know, I was just explaining why I hadn’t cleaned up the rough patches in the recording. With sea shanties I shouldn’t even be playing an instrumental accompaniment or singing harmonies, especially in the whole thing instead of just the chorus. But this one is so pretty that I couldn’t resist taking a few liberties….
Hmm. Thought. Anyone want to do a Museblog series of covers? We have so much talent here… I’m thinking traditional songs would be fun, but I wouldn’t want to limit it to that!
(I’ve just gotten onto the idea of covering and am coming into my own as a cover artist in my local writing community… >.< I did Shop Vac (Jonathan Coulton), which Jadestone showed me, and also Eres Para MÃ (Julieta Venegas), one crappy but entertaining version of Hotel California (The Eagles, of course), and also Granger Danger (Darren Criss and maybe also that AJ guy from AVPM)… I've been thinking of trying The Parting Glass recently, but I'm not sure how I'd go about it.)
Oh- let it be known that I certainly have no problem with doing originals; it's just I don't know if anyone has any material for us to work with.
-A
I really love Chopin’s nocturnes. just as a general statement.
19 (Grady)~ I’d be game to try.
19- Sure! Sounds fun.
Also Granger Danger is an amazing song.
20- CHOPIN’S NOCTURNES yesyesyesyes. I want to play some of those.
I’m playing Beethoven, Bach, AND Brahms right now! All three of the Great Bs! (That’s what I call them xD) A Beethoven sonate (Op. 2 No. 3), a Bach Invention (No. 8 I think), and Brahm’s Hungarian Dance.
Also I’m keeping up with Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen which is an excellent piece, and I’m learning Lizt’s Liebestrom which is gorgeous.
Dude! My orchestra is too!
Another Hungarian Dance(no. 6), Sheep May Safely Graze(very pretty, but kinda boring and counting takes a lot of effort), and the inevitable Fifth Symphony(I love my conductor).
At the camp I used to go to, there was an amazing pianist (who happened to be blind, although that’s somewhat irrelevant). Every night we’d have something called Campfire, which was when the whole camp would go to the Lodge and someone would read stories, or counselors would do skits, or we’d have multicultural presentations or the camp play or a magic show. It was a togetherness moment to end the day. Then the pianist would start playing Sheep May Safely Graze and we’d all quietly walk back to our cabins, preserving the music in the silence.
If I were to have the opportunity to play that piece, I would probably not be able to make it through without crying. It’s such a significant memory from my childhood.
Awww…
A piano version… sounds cool, actually. I can hear it in my head.
I’m actually learning Hungarian Dance No. 2 too.
19 – That’s a cool idea.
I’ve been listening to a lot of band music recently, meaning pieces written for a wind band + percussion. It’s a little bit like classical music, because it’s all instrumental, but at the same time it has a really different texture due to the instrumentation and modern time of composition.
“Equus” and “October” by Eric Whitacre
“Hebrides Suite” by Clare Grundman
“Hounds of Spring” by Alfred Reed
“Mannin Veen” by Haydn Wood*
“Blue Shades” and “An American Elegy” by Frank Ticheli
“Molly on the Shore” by Percy Grainger
“In the Spring, at a Time when Kings Go off to War” by David Holsinger
“Slava” by Bernstein
“Short Ride on a Fast Machine” by John Adams
“Exultate” and “Ride” by Sam Hazo.
“Symphonic Movement” by by Vaclav Nelhybel
*This is my favorite piece of music of all time. We played it in band last year and it’s absolutely beautiful.
We’re playing Mannin Veen in a wind ensemble!
DON’T YOU LOVE IT
YES
OUR CLARINETS ARE BRILLIANT AT “ALLA BREVE”
(And I’m first horn! Squee!)
WE ALSO PLAYED “OCTOBER”
(But failed miserably. Clarinets got notes wrong in the performance! D: )
Oh, and I reccomend you look up “Lincolnshire Posy”. It’s a six movement piece by Grainger, and it’s pretty awesome.
I can’t remember what part “Alla Breve” is. Is it the part that sounds a little bit like “Tis A Gift To Be Simple?” That part is great. Also, the whole thing is great, actually. My entire grade in band adores that piece. We are without a doubt going to vote it our Senior Song next year. Do you have the organ part at the end covered?
October is another piece of sheer musical brilliance. I really want to play it. My friend Adam (the one who was helping me out with all the music theory/transposition stuff on the MuseBlog Music Project thread) has gotten to play it twice, the lucky clarinet (once at a camp and once at all-district). I think our school played it a couple of years ago, too, while I was still in middle school. There are a couple of beautiful oboe solos that I would give anything to play. Eric Whitacre is an absolute genius. (We played Equus last year.)
I think I’ve actually heard a few movements of Lincolnshire Posy before. When I was sick a couple of weeks ago, I spent most of the day on the concertbandland channel of Youtube, and I think I stumbled across it. It’s beautiful; I’m listening to it again now.
band band band ♥
Alla Breve is the transition from the first part to the faster paced second part. It’s essentially a clarinet soli in cut time, going up and down. (Right before the Gift To Be Simple part.)
Unfortunately for us, we have no organ, or even oboes! So our oboe solos are played by flutes, clarinets, or a college student.
I’ve sung and played Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque. It’s so beautiful!
We played movements 1,2, and 6 of Lincolnshire Posy at a band/orchestra camp I went to over the summer. It’s really hard. (Doesn’t 2 sound a bit like the beginning of Mannin Veen?)
band ♥ band ♥ band ♥
I now know exactly which part you’re talking about.
Our clarinet section was pretty awesome there too.
The oboe solos in Mannin Veen… Ugh. I only started last year, and there were only two of us. YY never practiced oboe, because his primary instrument was clarinet. By the second semester chair test I beat him, but I let him stay first chair because I was two years younger and had been playing for only a few months. Then he proceded to screw up the Mannin Veen one-measure solos every. single. time. until the actual concert (at which point I was crossing my fingers tightly). I couldn’t have done it either but at least I would have practiced it!
The second movement of the Hebrides Suite sounds a little bit like Mannin Veen too.
Current Youtube playlist, it’s the longest it’s ever been.
Millionar: Die Prinzen (German)
Tik Tok parody: Midnight Beast (?)
The Hammer Song and the Tower of Pain: Bump of Chicken (Japanese)
Toxic: Local H
RIP: 3OH!3
Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger: Daft Punk
Piano Man: Billy Joel
Your Love Will Surely Skyrocket: Vocaloid/Mgpoid GUMI (Japanese)
Bad Apple: ? (Japanese)
I’ll Make A Man out of You (multilanguage): Mulan
Little Lion Man: Mumford and Sons
30 Minutes: taTu
Straight to Video: MSI
All These Things That I’ve Done: The Killers
She’s A Lady: Forever the Sickest Kids
Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends: FOB
Fairytale Gone Bad: Sunshine Avenue
Fuhen: Rin (Japanese?)
Make This Go On Forever: Snow Patrol
The Delicious Tomato Song (Romano’s Song/Buono Tomato!) cover: crystalkei14 (Japanese)
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot: Brand New
Do Better: Say Anything
HetaOni Douga: ? A NND user (Japanese)
You Could Be A Hero: Superchick
The Only Exception: Paramore
Flaming Ice: Kato Kazuki (Japanese)
Naughty Boy: Killer
Jar of Hearts: Christina Perri
She’s So Lovely: Scouting For Girls
Black Cat: Mayday Parade
…looking at this now I feel slightly ashamed of myself… *Siiiighhhhhh* I used to have a lot of Danish and Italian music, but that playlist I accidentally deleted so this is kind of new…
I actually know one of those songs. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot is beautiful.
Oh! You know it too? I’m surprised; no one else I’ve ever met has…
I was surprised too; your other songs aren’t emo.
That’s emo? I guess…
The band is. The song isn’t one of their most emo ones. And Deja Entendu isn’t their most emo album. Your Favorite Weapon is much more emo.
… *feels dreadfully out of her element*
I love 3OH!3!!!
zinc– HAHAHA I’M MAD REAL BAD BUT DON’T TELL MY MOM AND DAD
the best
also bump of chicken is one of my favorite japanese band names
tesseract- those all sound really interesting, i will look into them. our local classical station occasionally effuses with praise for john adams, so i am very curious.
Good night sweetie sleep well! SHUT MUM I’M ON MSN!
Axa – Let me know what you think!
This is an additional plug for Appalachian Spring in case anyone hasn’t heard it yet, because it is pure wonderful.
We’re going to be playing in Carnegie Hall in about a month, and man, do we sound horrible. We did a play-through on Friday, and I spent the whole entire rehearsal grimmacing. The songs aren’t even that hard, but we can’t seem to get our act together. I think part of it is that none of us are too enthusiastic about the songs. None of them are too impressive; we’re doing Amazing Grace, for god’s sake. The other songs are very new, and are, in my opinion, just cheesy. We don’t do anything classical, it’s all of this new cake. *stress*
does anyone have thoughts on the grammys? i don’t understand how they make their nominations. or rather, i can’t take them seriously because of how they seem to come about :/ mumford and sons was definitely only on because little lion man got popular, but if it hadn’t they would still be just as talented as a band. how do they quantify these things? and i enjoy some of katy perry’s music when i’m in the car with friends but a nomination for best album? really? on what grounds, people know who she is?
i know that awards shows are usually shams anyways, but with the academy awards the nominations have a BASIS in talent and are then influenced by money/campaigns. here it just seems like “let’s pick the highest grossing albums and that’s that”
also the fact that mumford and sons (and florence + the machine) are listed under new artist is annoying to me, since they’ve both been active since 2007. MAYBE IF I READ THE ACTUAL REQUIREMENTS i would feel better, but it seems like “oh now they are popular” so they get the nomination. RAGE.
i’m glad arcade fire won for album of the year because at least they actually MAKE their own music. i’m not trying to bash pop music and cry sparkling indie tears, because i recognize the talent and work it takes gaga or katy perry to do what they do and i respect that but SERIOUSLY, TEENAGE DREAM GOT A NOMINATION?
i think i just have more of a problem with quantifying music with awards than i do with movies. i know it’s all a popularity contest but UGH
I was just in music class today, and we had to write a rap song so I came up with: ” you my name is (name) and I can’t rap, which is why this rap sounds like….cake.”
I like:
Beatles
Who
Clash
Gorillaz
Steeleye Span
They Might Be Giants
Fred Small
+ any old musicals, Russian classical music, or youtube parodies of anything
Last night my friend and I made a recording of Niska Banja. It’s not super great, but it’s cute. Can I email it to a GAPA so it can be posted on here?
There is both of us doing a Croatian verse (I don’t know what it means.) Then Angela counting in Croatian, then both of us in Spanish, then me in Russian, then both of us doing the verse again.
Angela is awesome at all kinds of string instruments. She plays the prim and the bogaria (sp?) and a bunch of other stuff. She played them on our recording.
Unintended Pun sent us this rousing multilingual performance:
UP’s notes:
Right now I am listening to the entire discography of Jeremy Messersmith. He really is a great artist, and all his music is free from his personal website.
Top 10 most played on my ipod:
Do it like a Dude (Jesse J)
Le Long de la Route (Zaz)
Shut up and let me go (Ting Tings)
Evelyn Evelyn (Amanda Palmer)
Born this Way (monster mama gaga)
Wow, I can get sexual too (Say Anything)
The Wicked Flee (true grit soundtrack)
Paris (Grace Potter and the noctournals)
Wonderwoman (Leaf)
Sex Changes (Dresden Dolls)
I am currently obsessed with the Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer. Rather fond of obscure music (Tub Ring, anyone?)
one of my friends loves amanda palmer! i’ve heard one of her songs in her car repeatedly, don’t know what it’s called…*searches* Leeds United?
Neil Gaiman is a fan, I hear.
but of course! that’s actually how i know her…there’s a joke in here somewhere about being bookish, but i can’t find it
Well, he’s married to her…
He is a very lucky man.
I got two CDs yesterday, one of Bob Dylan and the other of the Grateful Dead. That is all.
Which albums?
I’ve recently started listening to my favorite songs played backwards. Not listening for subliminal messages, but I just like how it sounds.
Evila llits!
Though I get the impression that song would be really creepy played backwards.
Apparently it says “Fear Linux” and “Go to sleep with a grenade on your head”.
I once listened to Revolution 9 backwards, but I couldn’t get past the “turn me on, dead man” bit. *shudders*
34.1 (Robert)~ Skeletons from the Closet and the Best of Bob Dylan, or something like that.
I have a love-hate relationship with “best of” CDs.
I know what you mean. On the one hand, they give you a lot of good music for your money. On the other hand, they’re sort of inorganic, aren’t they?
36 (Robert)~ Very much so, even when they’re well put together. Their biggest fault in my mind is that many artists change, and each of their CDs have completely different feels, sometimes it’s subtle, other times it’s very pronounced. A best of album doesn’t capture that very well. It can show you the range, but not the subtleties within the range.
Exactly, and well put.
Aside from the sheet music, I now have the Pride & Prejudice soundtrack! *happy dance*
I have discovered the Frankenstein musical. The music is brilliant and I hear that it follows the book closely compared to the majority of movies. Aargh. I need money so I can buy it and the Jekyll soundtrack. But now, I need to finish Frankenstein.
New favorite song?
HoppÃpolla by Sigur Rós. It’s perfect for walking or thinking or living.
Well, music. Recently discovered buckethead and his bucketheadland. Talent plunged into some of the most twisted humor I’ve ever enjoyed. I can appreciate them, but they get darker and darker…
Listening to Poison and Mrs. Robinson alternately is fun.
I just heard The Strokes’ single Under Cover of Darkness from their upcoming album Angles and it is amazing.
Their first album, Is This It, was playing during an important moment in my life, and I don’t know if Angles will be able to top that, but this song is so good.
I just rediscovered/looked up the music of a girl who’s the daughter of the lady who sat next to me in choir last night. If you followed that, congratulations. Anyway, the daughter sang with the choir for one or two concerts. She got a solo on one of the songs (one of my favorites) and didn’t get it right (it was a super easy rhythm thing that she consistently screwed up) until the night of the performance. The ONLY time she sang it correctly was in the concert, which was good, but extremely annoying to me.
Meh. Anyway, I’d heard that she had her own band and CDs out and whatnot. (Makes sense, as her dad’s in the recording business.) So I looked her up awhile ago and wasn’t terribly impressed. She’s a fair banjo player and had good musicians around her, and her songwriting was good I suppose, but her singing is rather scary, even for old time/bluegrass.
So or whatever reason was led to look her up again today, listened to some music, had somewhat more compassion this time, but I’m still not terribly impressed.
What I am impressed with (and very envious of, not going to lie) is that she’s gone out and done it anyway. She has several CDs out, she plays locally and has gone on tour, has people listening to her music and is generally doing what I only wish I could.
Kind of the same with a friend of a friend’s (who I stumbled upon accidentally, actually) who’s actually a really good singer/songwriter/overall musician, but she’s out there doing what she wants to do. And then Intern, he’s a completely fantastic musician who plays open mics and gigs and everything.
I wish I could do that. I love playing music, and I really wish I had people to play with, but I can’t seem to find anyone. I suppose I could try to make connections in [nearby town that aforementioned girl is from], because they have a pretty thriving folk music scene. I could be oblivious to the whole “everyone’s welcome to join our jam sessions….as long as you’re in our crowd already” kind of mentality at the general store and try to get in there. I get hired to play 18th century fiddle tunes at people for events sometimes, which is nice, but mostly I just end up playing by myself in my room, sometimes along with CDs to pretend like I have someone else there.
I also sometimes wonder if I’m just not good enough to warrant any attention for my playing/singing.
Oh well. Hopefully it’ll change when I get to college? More people and all that. And at both places I’m applying there seems to be a fair amount of music, one of them has a music program every Friday where there are no classes scheduled and you can just go listen to other students perform, or you can perform whatever. All levels are welcome, and from what I understand you don’t have to even be studying music to play, which is cool. At the other college (my first choice) there are weekly contra dances, and I’m willing to bet there’s a fair amount of Appalachian, folk, old time, bluegrass, you name it there. So I guess that’s promising.
I also need to learn how to improvise more when playing with other people. *sigh*
Patience, Grasshopper. The way to learn to do these things is to do them — which is fun.
By the way, Fiddler, a friend just told me that your first-choice college holds summer music camps and week-long gatherings for assorted ages, instruments, and music styles. I don’t think you’re going to have any problem finding people to play with.
44.1 (Robert)~ Yes I know, but a big part of my problem is I can’t seem to find a way to do them, as much as I want to. I’m sure that I could learn how to improvise and play with better with others if I just did it, but it’s the getting to do it that’s the problem in the first place.
You’ll probably join or form a group in college. Performing regularly in front of others is a huge motivator, in several ways. And depending on where you go to school, there may be some good festivals nearby.
Never fear, Fiddler: your destiny is clear.
Rebecca & Robert~ Thanks guys. *hugs and choklit* I actually got a call from one of the professors at the college (from the history dept., but he also plays music) and he mentioned that there’s a lot of music there, with a lot of folk, old time and bluegrass. My despair was premature, apparently.
P.S.
Yesterday when aforementioned professor called I was on the way to choir rehearsal, so I called him back today and we had a rather more in-depth conversation about history and why it’s the best and music and why it’s the best, and that anthropology is also the best.
Anyway, the music minor there is really strong and good and they actually have a minor in “traditional music” which is all the kinds of music I want to do. EEEE!
Basically it sounds kind of like an extended Country Dance and Song Society camp only for college credit and also with other cool stuff happening. OH EM GEE.
And to make this kind of more relevant to what we usually talk about on this thread….I’ve been listening to Johnny Cash lately and have decided that I need to get more of his music because he is awesome. I’ve always known this, I’ve just decided that action needs to be taken.
I also have a stack of Dad’s CDs that I stole the other day that I need to put into iTunes. Woody Guthrie, K.D. Lang, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi…..
Anyone else here know of Joanna Newsom? I’m not very familiar with her music, but I’ve heard some of her songs. A friend of mine really likes her. She’s got a very interesting voice, I find it both captivating and very hard to listen to.
See a sea anemone
The enemy
See a sea anemone
That’ll be the end of me
i am enjoying andrew bird a lot recently
What’s the saddest song you’ve ever heard?
For various reasons, with various contexts, there are several:
“Sunshine” by Patrice
“Hurt” by Johnny Cash
“Inuyasha Soudanshi” by Kaoru Wada
“Behind Blue Eyes” by the Who
“April Come She Will” by Simon and Garfunkel
“A Long Fall and No One to Catch You” by the Monroe Transfer
Casmir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens
Casimir*…sigh
I love that song! I fall asleep to it almost every night.
“Me and a Gun”, by Tori Amos.
SFTDP, but “Comfortably Numb” (Pink Floyd) is also up there. And(wow I’m a nerd sometimes) “Bratja”, from the FMA soundtrack.
I think the reasons for this are mostly personal, but one song that can really put a damper on my mood is Stars and the Moon. My mom sang that song at a concert when I was 7 and it haunts me still.
It feels like buying a dud from an infomercial.
There is a multilanguage version of The Bells of Notre Dame!
Life=complete.
Warning, slightly long post ahead….
My MP3 player’s contents at this moment in time consists of:
23.5% Cirque du Soleil songs (AlegrÃa, Corteo, Dralion, Kooza, Ka, Sillon des Reves, La Nouba, Mystere 1994, Mystere Live 1996, “O”, Saltimbanco, Totem, Varekai DVD soundtrack)
19.8% songs from Cats the musical in various languages (English DVD [full soundtrack], English Broadway [full soundtrack], English London, English Australian, German in all its different translations, Spanish Mexico, Spanish Spain, French Paris, Dutch, Hebrew, Polish, Norwegian, Portuguese Brazil, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Hungarian, Finnish, Czech, Esperanto)
14.4% Putamayo world music (Afro-Latin Party, Arabic Groove, Brazilian Groove, Colombia, French Cafe, India, Turkish Groove, ¡Baila!, Turkish Groove, Salsa Around The World)
10.4% Greek bouzouki
8.1% other musicals’ soundtracks (Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, My Fair Lady)
6.9% capoeira songs (Mestre Bimba archives, A Poeisa de Boca Rica, some Mestre Bimba tribute CD)
5% Gipsy Kings songs (¡Volare!)
4.5% Jacques Brel songs (Ne Me Quitte Pas, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris)
2.4% Edith Piaf songs (The Best of Edith Piaf)
2.3% Israeli/Mediterranean stuff (Israeli-Mediterranean Hits’ second CD)
1.8% the Beatles (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Plus the theme song of the city of Morelia in Michoacan, Mexico.
I have kinda odd taste in music…. Anyone know any of the above stuff?
I have the same Piaf album. And Sgt. Pepper. On vinyl, tu comprends.
Yay!
I like Edith Piaf, her songs were more or less the first French music my mom introduced me to… And I think it’s probably a Muser requirement to have something Beatles. XD
When I was working in DC shortly after college, I sometimes visited a French bistro in Georgetown which featured a jukebox that played Piaf, Brel, and others. There was just something indefinably, utterly delicious about being able to listen to “Je ne regrette rien” and “La vie en rose” on. a. jukebox. Like living in an alternate universe.
For some reason my parents, between the two of them, have five copies of Sgt. Pepper’s on vinyl.
I think i’ve figured out why I love listening to Japanese/Spanish(sorta)/Russian/Greek/other-language-I-don’t-understand music. When you listen to music in a language you know, the meaning of the lyrics has an impact on how you perceive the song. When it’s a language you don’t know or one you have to really work to understand, the lyrics just become part of the music. You can’t judge it on the lyrics, just the music and how they fit together.
True that. I listen to almost no music in English…. XD
Try Prisencolinensinainciusol for universally unintelligible lyrics.
And also, yes. For part of a history report, we had to find four artists from the country we researched; I discovered Farhad Darya, an Afghan singer and peace activist. I’ve been listening to his music a lot lately; he incorporates a lot of traditional Afghan style into his music, and that’s something I just haven’t heard a whole lot of. It’s refreshing.
Plus, you’re right–the fact that I don’t understand the lyrics makes them a collection of sounds, instead of something with a specific meaning, and I can appreciate it as such without the distraction of a set message.
music in other languages: opera is always a good counter to anyone who says it’s stupid to listen to foreign language music
shadowfire, can i ask you which japanese bands you have?
Nothing as of yet, but I actively listen to Mucc, Nightmare, the Pillows, various Vocaloids, and some random anime soundtracks. Mostly via Pandora, which is a truly wonderful invention.
AWESOME I’ve been listening to Mucc a lot recently, as luck would have it
Love the Pillows as well…I am well acquainted with Nightmare but haven’t listened to them much.
I got to them via Death Note, decided they were cool, and proceeded to listen to them while drawing/exercising.
Any bands you’d recommend?
It depends what you’re looking for.
If you’re more into visual kei a la Nightmare, then I’d recommend Gazette, maaaybe alice nine, older Dir en Grey stuff, Hyde’s solo things…
also, Sendai Kamotsu is nightmare’s “alter ego” band, so you might find them funny
Also Miyavi! He’s not really vk anymore but he is always my favorite.
I have 439038923 other bands if you’re more interested in indie stuff too, but yeah. Sorry for talking your ear off, I rarely meet other people with an interest haha…sighhh
No, I appreciate the ear-talking-off.
And I’m quite happy to find new music, I’ll look into them. Thanks!
I can’t stop listening to Little Shop Of Horrors music. Is this natural? I’m obsessed with this musical now.
I can definitely say that “Dentist” is good after a checkup on the braces.
43-I heard the single, it was pretty good, but I didn’t like the album.
I anyone here a decemberists fan? New album-pretty, good, but not as good as the first two.
And I’m talking about the band, not the Russian revolutionaries.
Yeah – I agree album-wise… I really love The Crane Wife especially.
SFTDP – just realized that this is posting very very far after the original post – I hadn’t checked and wasn’t really thinking straight. Sorry!
Current YT playlist! At 43 songs~
I’ll Make A Man out of You (multilanguage)- Mulan
A Man’s Gotta Do (etc.)- Dr. Horrible
Don’t Unplug Me- ALL CAPS
The Bells of Notre Dame (multilanguage)- Hunchback of Notre Dame
Soldier Side- System of A Down
All These Things That I’ve Done- The Killers
Trainers In Love- ALL CAPS
I Won’t Say I’m In Love (multilanguage)- Hercules
Perfect Day- Miriam Stockley
Zero To Hero (multilanguage)- Hercules
Better (acoustic cover)- Guns n’ Roses, cover by Chris Zabriskie
Little Lion Man- Mumford and Sons
My Girl’s Ex-Boyfriend- Relient K
Just Around The Riverbend (multilanguage)- Pocahontas
You Could Be A Hero- Superchick
Istanbul Not Constantinople- They Might Be Giants
Unlike Me- Kate Havnevik
House Song- Ministry of Magic
Part Of Your World (multilanguage)- Little Mermaid
L’Italia di Piero- Simone Cristicchi
This Is Halloween (multilanguage)- Nightmare Before Christmas
Piano Man- Billy Joel
Hide And Seek- Imogen Heap
Savages (multilanguage)- Pocahontas
Jar Of Hearts- Christina Perri
Mr. Cellophane- Chicago (musical)
God Help The Outcasts (multilanguage)- Hunchback of Notre Dame
Slipping- Dr. Horrible
Seven Nation Army- The White Stripes
Lovely- Kim Jong Kook
Forever Young- Youth Group
Empty Spaces- Air Traffic
This Is Not The End- The Bravery
Once Upon A December (multilanguage)- Anastasia
Seasons Of Love (multilangauge)- RENT
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot- Brand New
Uninstall (english cover)- Meiko, cover by GeekyFanDubs
The Scientist- Coldplay
Goodnight My Angel- Billy Joel
Dreaming With A Broken Heart- John Mayer
The Plagues (multilanguage)- Prince of Egypt
I’ll Quit Singing- Megurine Luka
Very Good Advice- Alice in Wonderland
why yes I like multilanguage videos huhuhu
Zinc — colors of the wind is my favorite multilanguage, i love them all though they make me feel so hopeful
cromwell — i have always wanted to be a decemberists fan but I’ve never really listened to them enough. would you recommend their earlier stuff then? i just read recently that they’re on hiatus indefinitely after they tour for their new album (which according to said article is very good!)
i am currently enjoying radiohead’s new album, the king of limbs.
Sburban Jungle, from the Homestuck soundtrack, is the best thing ever.
Better than Muse?
errr…
Depends on when you’re listening/reading.
Wow. That must be really awesome.
Find it on Youtube. Better yet, read Homestuck all the way through. (Be careful not to break your brain.)
Band pieces I am currently obsessed with: Slalom and An American Elegy.
I am officially obsessed with Fiddler on the Roof… again. A few days ago I realized everyone in the library was staring at me because I was singing “Anatevka” under my breath. Also Galileo by the Indigo Girls.
And, of course, the LotR soundtrack. I generally read while practicing the violin, and I often accidentally begin to play the theme from whatever part of the book I’m reading. I’ll have even more problems in this regard when The Hobbit comes out.
I never post on this thread. There is a reason for that. I don’t really listen to a lot of music. Despite this, I have managed to become obsessed with this French song “Tais Toi Mon Couer”. And the music video. I have been listening/watching it most of today. And yesterday.
I feel obligated to post here because I have a young music obsession with the band ‘He is We’. Oh, god. Her voice, the singer… it’s perfect <3. Her voice seriously makes me cry, it's so pure and clear and pretty. Their lyrics aren't bad either. Check them out :3
I’m listening to them as I type this, and I must agree with you. The stuff they do generally isn’t my sort of thing, but the singer’s voice is so beautiful I can’t stop listening
Right!! I love… too beautiful, pour me out, pardon me, i wouldn’t mind, and radio. Top five favorites.
Pardon Me is the first one I heard, and I think it’s my favorite so far.
I also just discovered they’re from Tacoma. Cool Washington musicians!
Yeah. I love 90% of it, there are some bad things
Has anyone heard a piece of music that you later learned was in something, which you then saw/played only for the music?
That happened with Still Alive and Portal. Now it has happened again, with Tubular Bells. It’s really freaking awesome and I am going to see The Exorcist for the sole purpose of hearing it again.
Musicians/bands that I love right now:
-Mumford & Sons
-Johnny Flynn
-Bombay Bicycle Club
-Swear and Shake
-Noah and the Whale (hoping to see them in June. The show is 16+ and you need to show ID, so I figure I’ll have my mom buy the tickets and then use my school ID to get in, since it doesn’t show age, and I look 16. I mean, I’ll only be four months short at that point.)
-Ben’s Imaginary Band
-Horse Feathers
-Bobby Long
-Pinkle
-Freelance Whales
-Grizzly Bear
bombay bicycle club A+ musical taste
By the way, my friend auditioned for the Juilliard precollege summer program for opera, and got called back three times, so she’s probably getting in. She’s beyond amazing.
Bach Cello Suite ♥
My “playlist” (Music I listen to on a regular basis)
Rikudim by Jan Van Der Roost
Opening from Glassworks by Philip Glass
Floe by Philip Glass
Islands by Philip Glass
Rubric by Philip Glass
Facades by Philip Glass
Closing from Glassworks by Philip Glass
Jurassic Park Theme by John Williams
Olympic Fanfare and Theme by John Williams
Animal Crackers Vol. I & II by Eric Whitacre
little tree by Eric Whitacre
i thank You God by Eric Whitacre
With a Lily in Your Hands by Eric Whitacre
What If by Eric Whitacre
I’m listening to What If right now. It’s from Whitacre’s Techno Opera Paradise Lost
You yearn to soar
So?
But we don’t have wings any more
But there must be another way!
What if
All this
Came true
Pure Bliss!
What if
Your voice
Set free,
Rejoice!
Things I’ve been listening to lately…
1. Death Cab for Cutie. Every day. All day. Love it!! (I haven’t gotten the new album yet – I think it came out May 31st? Anyway, I should probably listen to it some more. I’ll get on that soon.)
2. Coldplay – I used to listen to a lot of Coldplay – I lovelovelove their song Swallowed in the Sea, it’s repeat on my iPod right now – but then I sort of stopped listening to it, and now I’m back on it again.
3. U2. U2. U2. U2. U2.
4. Old school Jesse McCartney. A little embarrassing, I guess, but honestly…Jesse McCartney was kind of the Justin Bieber-esque phase I think all little girls have to go through. I absolutely loved Beautiful Soul waybackwhen.
5. Linkin Park
i saw that death cab has a new album out! like the decemberists they are band i always mean to listen to but never do for some reason. tell me if you like it!
I think the band Coldplay are HG2G fans. They have a song called “Don’t Panic” and another called “42”.
The band Coldplay is great!
starr- you should never give up on Coldplay
COLDPLAY!
Anyone else excited for the release of Taking Back Sunday’s new album? Less than a month away. The leaked tracks are amazing so far, especially Best Places To Be A Mom.
The two pop songs that sound best in concert/symphonic band are Poker Face and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Wake Me Up When September Ends (yeah, we did a Green Day medley) HURTS on the trombone. And I make it sound like death so I just slide sync half the way through it.
(It’s mostly holding out notes on the high C and I’m not so awesome on the high notes, FYI)
Once my band instructor, who obviously hates us trombones, gave us a song in which we had only two different notes, both of which were high, and no note shorter than a whole note. It was terrible.
“us” by regina spektor CONTINUES TO SLAY ME
UUUUUUUUUGHHHHHH
other than that i have been listening to Foals a lot but all of my favorite songs by them are like six minutes long and emotionally draining. SO GOOD THOUGH.
Soundtracks are criminally underappreciated. I’ve been listening to the ones from Doctor Who and Katekyo Hitman Reborn all day and it’s wondrous.
(Favorites: ‘This is Gallifrey’ for the first and ‘Drifting Clouds of Solitude’ for the second.)
Also, has anyone (probably Axa, heh) heard of Exist Trace? They’re an all-female visual kei band that I discovered recently and they are pretty awesome.
omg exist trace! i’ve only heard one of their songs i think but props to them forever. like you would actually not believe the level of misogyny in the vk fan community (despite the fact that 90% of the fans are girls…sigh)
hmm i think there was another all female band…*googles* DANGERGANG haha that was it okay
Half my iPod consists of film scores. LOTR, Inception, Jurassic Park, and Up are among my favorites.
Soundtracks form, if not half, at least a good fraction of the music I listen to.
Actually, LotR is playing right now. I think those are some of the most listened to tracks on my iPod.
Along with Star Wars, Incredibles, and some various Disney.
I cry when I listen to certain songs from DW and Final Fantasy X. I love soundtracks.
Emilie Autumn anyone? One of my friends recommended her to me a really long time ago and I completely forgot about that until yesterday. She describes her genre as “victoriandustrial”, with some awesome violin thrown in. Total approval.
Looooove Emilie Autumn! I have actually played some of her songs on the violin with a friend on the Cello.
Right now I’m listening to the Homestuck album based off of the The Felt.
Not only were The Felt some of my favorite villians ever, but now they have music! And one piece (Broken Clock) is in 13/4 (Posoc should be freaking out right now)
I’m listening to it right now. So awesome.
ugh this mashup of coldplay and sufjan stevens is killing me it’s so good and layers SO WELL. if anyone likes either of them i would google it (you can find it pretty easily)
IT FITS SO WELL. I CAN’T DEAL WITH IT GSDKJSH
ITS JUNE 28TH TAKING BACK SUNDAY’S NEW ALBUM IS OUT OMG
I heard from another student that my trombone teacher recorded with Taking Back Sunday, or played with them in a session, or something like that.
LUCKY
I AM EXCITED
CAN YOU TELL?
YES QUITE
I don’t even know the band, but Nym mentioned it to me and I knew you’d be interested
WHEN THE LIGHT’S OUT
IT’S LESS DANGEROUS
HERE WE ARE NOW
ENTERTAIN US
BLARGLE NARGLE
HARGLE DANUS
HERE WE ARE NOW
ENTERTAIN US
Yup, trying to learn SLTS on guitar. It’s actually not that hard, but the switch on both strings and frets during the “heys” after the chorus are really hard to do right.
Also, if anyone wants a good laugh, google They Might Be Giants’s cover of it.
I went to a Jethro Tull concert! It was TOTALLY AWESOME! *flute-playing nutcase squee*
Haha, I did too a week ago :). The fluting was probably my favorite part.
I was probably the only squeeing 14-year-old girl there amongst all the people about my parents’ age. XD
I was too, methinks. It was awesome anyway.
Shakira should really have stuck to completely Spanish music. She was much better at it.
I’ve mentioned them several times on MB, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Fleet Foxes lately. They’re a folk band from Seattle. They have some interesting vocal harmonizations, and their lyrics actually make you think, which is a refreshing change from most other music. Even though I’ve been listening to their albums on repeat nearly non-stop for a week or so, I haven’t gotten tired of them yet.
Bon Iver’s pretty good too (indie/folk), and Animal Collective (which Wikipedia lists as neo-psychadelia/experimental rock (it’s complicated)), and Schneider TM (indie/electronica), and Manu Chao (mainly reggae-ish).
i’ve heard nothing but good things about fleet foxes!
i realized a little while ago i’ve been saying bon iver the wrong way
what songs/albums of his do you like best? i only have one from a compilation album
we should do music rec posts or something. i think you’d like sufjan stevens a lot, iron & wine if you don’t already listen to him.
Bon Iver’s newest album (called, astonishingly, Bon Iver) is really good.
Some of my friends are really into Iron & Wine, so I think I’ll have to check him out.
Stephen Colbert on Bon Iver’s new album name: “I think that’s terribly egotistical, by the way.”
Or something along those lines.
I haven’t bought all of Set The World On Fire (Black Veil Brides), but I’m loving Fallen Angels. The message in that song really resonates with me. The only bad thing about it is there’s no screaming!
We scream (We scream)
We shout (We shout)
We are the fallen angels!
We scream (We scream)
We shout (Ohhh)
WAOH
To those who sing alone
No need to feel this sorrow
We scream (We scream)
We shout (ohhh)
We are the Fallen Angels!
We’re bored to death in heaven and all alone in hell,
We only want to be ourselves.
I’ve been on a sort of break from my usual metal playlists and am enjoying some other stuff. Right now I’m really liking Driftless Pony Club’s newish cd Buckminster, especially the song “House of 1982 Built Like a Ship.” I’d recommend it.
You were my first experiment/too bad I’m prone to failure
What are ya offerin’, are ya offerin’, is it free?
loving the karen o + trent reznor cover of “immigrant song”
VALHALLAAAAA I AM COMINGGGGGG
Okay. Anyone who hasn’t seen Castle in the Sky, go to Youtube right now and search “Castle in the Sky (main theme).” Then go rent the movie.
JOE HISAISHI
YES
HE IS AMAZING
If watching Supernatural has done one good thing for me, it has reawakened my love of Kansas.
I just thought of this list for no reason, but I have to post it.
SONGS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE HUNGER GAMES MOVIE
Uprising-Muse
Crushcrushcrush-Paramore
Disturbia-Rihanna
Blow-Ke$ha (I KNOW THE SONG’S AWFUL, I just think it would be funny if it played when Katniss blows up the food supply.)
Last Leaf-OK Go (for the credits)
Yeah…kind of a diverse list.
88- Haha I have been on a supernatural binge all day, have watched like 5 eps and will probably watch another 2.
Speaking of youtubers as I was in my last comment… I have been listening to a lot of Alex Day (nerimon) today. I really enjoy it, sort of light and sweet.
Bert Jansch. ♥ ♥ ♥ Stars in my eyes…. I am soooooooooooooo in love. Ahhhhhhh but seriously. Beautiful beautiful beautiful stuff. Y’all should all listen now so I can have someone to rant to about his amazingness.
I only have four songs from Thirteen Down though. I don’t know where they came from, but I feel cheated. That’s NINE SONGS I’m missing. If I didn’t already have the four, I’d buy the album off iTunes, but I don’t want to spend 8.91 on nine songs, when the entire album is only 9.99. But I don’t want to buy the whole album and have duplicates of four songs. The version I have has cooler cover art anyway. WHAT TO DO WHAT TO DO. Also, I’m out of free iTunes money since I spent my last gift card on The Best of Bert Jansch.
still got legs
YES
but i was a teenage rebel
and that stayed the same
The best album I’ve bought throughout the entire year by any measure is caoimhin o raghallaigh and mick obriens duet album “kitty lie over”. actually check this one out. obrien is a fantastic uillean piper and caoimhin is one of the best young fiddlers in the buisness, not to mention that the album contains the combination of hardanger fiddle and the pipes which is pretty fantastic. does anyone else own this one?
other cool new pickups: georgian polyphony, cape breton stuff, an ancient 17th century traditional wassail called “la guignolee” that is still practiced in saint genevieve missouri. cool stuff
92-I’ve been listening to Still Got Legs all day and it hasn’t ceased to be awesome. I think Sound of Drums and Nightmares are my favorites, but I love them all.
This is just a random thought I had, but autotuning is a really, really strange thing. Once Kesha and, say, Hatsune Miku (a Vocaloid. Look ’em up, they’re cool) sound equally human to my ears I know technology is going weird places.
Hah! I’m listening to Still Got Legs right now! I love Sound of Drums and Nightmares too, as well as Silence and The End of All Things and their version of the theme was great. I like that it’s not so obviously about Doctor Who, not as mush as their first album. “The worst part is, it’s actually kind of tasty”
*listening to stereo, hearing weird scratching and clicking noises*
“Is there something wrong with the CD? It sounds like it’s skipping.”
*vocals kick in*
“No, wait, it’s just the opening track. Ah, Modest Mouse.”
FLOGGING MOLLY
worst concert experience i’ve ever had, but the show definitely made up for it
we basically stood out there in the outdoor venue for hours on end in the pouring rain (and apparently a severe thunderstorm warning) waiting for it to let up. and then once it did, the opener (clutch) went on and freaking on. apparently they’re also big-ish but i was not impressed. certainly not enough to forgive them running offstage as soon as it started sprinkling again about ten minutes later.
fortunately flogging molly were awesome and gave no pies about the noise laws (which say concerts are supposed to end by 11) so they went until around midnight. somebody will probably be fined which is unfortunate but it was an absolutely fantastic show
i did not go in the actual push-everyone-around-like-crazy-people-circle (it was behind me) because there was significantly more alcohol and general fighting shenanigans than you see at, say, metal shows (have i mentioned how freaking NICE metalheads are?) BUT i did mosh and i was front and center in the pit the whole time and it was glorious. jaw is extremely sore and i probably have a slight bruise or two on my back but other than that i am extremely injury-free which is nice
also easily the most moving moment of the show came during one of the talking bits. so for those of you who aren’t aware there is a big rivalry between ohio state and the university of michigan that a LOT of people in columbus take way, way too seriously. so they were having a talking bit and he was like “we were in detroit, michigan” and some people started booing, and he went “HEY! ya never boo people when t’ey’re down, ya give ’em a hand and help ’em get back up” (APOLOGIES FOR BAD ATTEMPT AT DIALECT BUT DUDES HE WAS SUPER IRISH) i was so happy he said that, everyone who had been booing just looked so (rightly) ashamed, i cheered super loudly for that and one guy gave me a weird look but pffft.
…also that bit where they played that really fast song with the fiddle OH WAIT THAT’S ALL OF IT IT WAS GLORIOUS
anyway. i need sleeps, i slept badly last night (last few nights, actually), had terrible cramps all morning, stood in the rain for hours, saw the show, then walked (across downtown in the middle of the night, ps that’s probably a bad idea kids) to the ohio theater where they were showing fight club which is where my brother and another friend had gone after they bailed (i had other friends there so it was all good) and watched the last bit of the movie before getting a ride home
basically the whole evening was spent running on straight-up adrenaline, first from the concert, and then from the “OH GOD IT IS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT I AM DOWNTOWN MY PHONE IS DEAD I HAVE NO MONEY I REALLY HOPE MY BROTHER IS AT THIS MOVIE LIKE HE SAID HE’D BE OR LIFE WILL BE BAD” panic
oh god SFTDP but i just realized i’m going to the state fair tomorrow with people and i am being picked up at 11 which means i am not sleeping in which means another day of being tired as pie
sunday i can sleep in a bit but i am going to see adventures of robin hood (at that same theater that showed fight club) ((the errol flynn version because it’s baller)) at 2pm and i want to have everything done before that so i can hang out on campus because i have some friends in town visiting. so i’ll have to be up at a decent time sunday as well
and you can go ahead and sleep is for the weak at me but guys srsly i have been running on a grand total of no energy it is a problem. i need to catch up D:
WHICH LEADS ME TO WONDER WHY I AM STILL HERE, GOODNIGHT
Oh my gosh Homestuck The Wanderers Album.
This is pure awesome. I love the semi folksongy techno feel.
Favorite track: Raggy Looking Dance or Mayor Maynot
HERE’S THE MAIL IT NEVER FAILS
HERE’S THE MAIL IT WAGS MY TAIL
I’m a big fan of Litrichean Rioghail myself.
Vagabounce Remix is another favorite.
Basshunter – Camilla introduced them to me through Spelar Lite DotA a couple months ago, so I can now say that the closest thing to pop music I listen to is Swedish techno. XD *is such a geek*
I like their music, some songs other than others, but… does it annoy anyone else, this take-the-same-tune, change-the-lyrics-and-the-language, and-call-it-a-new-song thing which apparently enables you to only have to think up half as many song arrangements as you would have to otherwise? It was okay with Boten Anna/Now You’re Gone, but I just discovered that there’s another version of DotA with English lyrics, All I Ever Wanted. It doesn’t even work that well with the meter, and in my mind DotA is way too iconic to suffer a lyrics rewrite on a completely different topic. Do all the Swedish songs about gaming and internetz that they write become English songs about love at one point? How does that even work? >.<
a piano version of no surprises just came up on my pandora station afdkjgjn it’s my classical station too…omg pandora y u know everything about me
I finally gave in and bought the rest of Sigh No More.
Well, now I know what the best album of 2010 is.
Frank Turner!
REM BROKE UP
IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND I DON’T FEEL FINE
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Here’s what I’ve been listening to recently that I reccomend. It’s Homestuck music, but it hasn’t appeared in comic yet (and much of it probably won’t ever) but it’s still AWESOME!
Earthsea Borealis
Alternia
The Beginning Of Something Really Excellent
Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence
Raggy Looking Dance
Center Of Brilliance
Core Of Darkness
Swing Of The Clock
Savior Of The Waking World
Savior Of The Dreaming Dead
Even In Death
Requiem Of Sunshine And Rainbows
At The Price Of Oblivion
And I’ve been writing music for themes for characters.
I should probably get started on a commission I took.
Anybody want:
a) Advice on how to write modern classical music?
b) A piece written for them? (Possibly with GAPA transactions?)
c) Information on my music?
In the realm of Homestuck music I’d also recommend The Broken Clock. It’s already a cool piece of music, but it’s in 13/8. Weird time signatures are my favorite.
If I were a bunny, I would be terrified right now.
Actually, it’s 13/4. Arc numbers and all.
You would really write music for one of us?
Have you heard Maplehoof’s Adventure?
If you want to write something for oboe, I’d totally play it.
If you write a piece for me I will cry with joy and send you mind-squid.
Black Rose-Green Sun might be one of the creepiest pieces of music I’ve ever heard.
Two words: Sara Bareilles.
Okay, I have officially fallen in love with Coldplay.
WE DID IT AT THE SAME TIME
And I just instantly fell out of love…
WHY, COLDPLAY, WHY? WHY RIHANNA?
A random junior in my math class just asked me over Skype what my favourite song was. I’m tempted to reply with ‘The Song of the Earth by Mahler’ just to see his reaction when he looks it up…
After we got home from the marching band festival at 12 last night (we kicked butt), I decided to take a mental health day today.
So that gives me time to write about music even more.
My banjo playing is going really, really well. I can play a few songs rather well. It’s so relaxing, you know?
Anyway, this is when I go into bands.
Laura. Marling. is. amazing. That’s all I can say. She sounds like an angel. Her voice is haunting.
Freelance Whales is really good too- their songs are like stories. Darren Criss’s brother is the banjoist.
Radical Face is the most neglected band ever. Nobody knows about them, and it’s horrible. I can’t even describe it. Listen to “Doorways”, and then “Welcome Home, Son.” They’re very similar to Freelance Whales.
If you’ve never listened to Arcade Fire, then a;sdlfkj.
Oh, and the Decemberists are really good.
Beirut is Balkan inspired music.
Bon Iver is god. Seriously. So is Sufjan Stevens.
Oh, and Two Door Cinema Club is so good. It’s very upbeat.
Emmy the great is pop-y folk-y, and very mellow. Hrrm.
Oh, Fleet Foxes, is really mellow, and so is Iron and Wine and Horse Feathers.
I’m still ridiculously in love with Johnny Flynn. He’s absolutely amazing it makes me want to a;lsdkfjjkldsfkdas.
King Charles is just amazing, he’s sort of rock-y, indie folk-y. And he has the coolest hair.
The Avett Brothers, Noah and the Whale, Mumford and Sons. Some of my classic favorites.
I have 1566 songs in my iTunes library.
I just love music so much.
That is all.
The Decemberists are more than really good, they’re made of pure awesomeness.
Have you read Wildwood?!
I am planning to!
YES THIS THIS YES THIS
sufjan 4ever
based on these bands i think you’d like andrew bird a lot, if you haven’t already listened to him!
I love S.P.O.C.K.. “Never, ever ever, trust a Klingon, you will never forget it!”
Kooza soundtrack = best thing ever. ♥
Seriously, does anyone else know Cirque du Soleil music? If not, you need to go check it out immediately. Like now.
This is going to be a somewhat cryptic comment, but I’ve been listening to Cascade all day and I don’t intend to stop. Especially the bit at the end.
Not cryptic at all. I totally understand why you would do that.
I love the part that uses Flare.
And the destruction of the Green Sun
Heh heh. It wasn’t destroyed.
Watch again. It was created.
Oh duh.
Hurr durr.
Hopy cake, the Volume 7 album cover was HUUUUUUUGE foreshadowing.
Wait, what?
Whoa.
On a music-related note, I can play the violin bit at the end now(the part that begins as Dave and Rose come out of the Green Sun) on my own violin. Learned it by ear.
I learned that by ear too! It is definitely one of my favorite parts of the whole piece.
And the foreshadowing: See that faint red-and-blue glow behind Derse’s moon? And the triangle-shaped thing that looks like a timer?
Music-related question: What (if any) online radio stations/websites do people use? Last.fm? Pandora? Grooveshark? I’ve been using Pandora for a while, but I’m getting fed up with it. It seems like it doesn’t have much music that interests me. I tried Grooveshark earlier today, typing in three artists that Pandora didn’t have; Grooveshark had all of them.
Anyway, yeah: what do you use, what do you recommend?
I use Grooveshark. I used to use Pandora about a year ago and then I just sort of forgot about it, I guess.
I use Pandora simply because I’m entirely confident about its legality.
Spotify.
Spotify, or Grooveshark because Spotify only gives you 10 hours a month. YouTube, occasionally (does that count?). I only listen to music online some of the time though, most of the time it’s not.
…YouTube. I’m pretty picky about my music, and the websites like Pandora which will start giving me random “you might like this” (but probably won’t, and oh, you can’t skip them either) songs almost immediately just don’t work for me. Yeah, it’s a little more awkward and it won’t stream songs at you unless you’re using someone else’s playlist, but if you find a band you like it’s a hecka lot easier to find more of their songs. And you don’t have to listen to things you don’t like.
I’ve just recently started using Grooveshark. I like Pandora, and used it for a bit while I was in the US, but it isn’t available out of the US, so. So far I like Grooveshark quite a lot.
For the record, I’m listening to Owl City right now. <3
I’ve been recording myself improvising, and have gotten some pretty good recordings. GAPAs, may I send in a few recordings and if I may, which address should I send them to?
Does anyone know of any steampunk music or bands which they could recommend to me?
I really haven’t been able to find anything much. Abney Park seems to have almost eclipsed everyone else, and they seem to me more like a punk band with a steampunk aesthetic than anything else. I’m looking for actual music which is steampunk, i.e. Victorian-inspired in more than just the lyrics.
So, no electronics, no amplification? That’s an interesting idea. What might it be like? Brass bands? Gilbert and Sullivan? Barbershop quartets?
I suppose I had in mind something like the Victorian style of music — music-hall stuff, maybe classical-ish — but with some more modern instrumentals. (Add electric guitar to any traditional genre of music and it automatically becomes ten times awesomer.) It would be quite interesting to try and see what steampunk instruments would look and behave like — automatic accordions? Would steam power actually make much of a difference to music?
Well, it did produce the steam calliope. But I’m not sure whether that was a blessing or a curse.
Vernian Process? The Cog is Dead? I like both of their stuff.
Also the Clockwork Quartet, can’t believe I forgot them, and Unextraordinary Gentlemen
Thank you for this! I’m listening to The Cog is Dead now – so marvellous.
Oh man. The Cog Is Dead is so awesome. I think that’s quite a lot more what I had in mind. Thanks for the recommendations…. I gotta check the other ones out sometime, but right now I am in a mindspace brought on by listening to A Letter To Michelle about ten times and I don’t particularly care to alter it. *bliss*
Electric guitars? Please, I prefer eclectic basses.
Well, I was given a vereh, vereh nice book called The Steampunk Bible for Christmas; it talks about Steampunk music. I’ll tell you the bands they list, but I’ve not listened to all of them, so I can’t tell you many opinions.
1) Abney Park (You mentioned them.)
2) ArcAttack
3) The Clockwork Quartet (Lizzie mentioned them.)
4) The Dresden Dolls (Whom I knew about already, and really like. I’m listening to their “The Sheep Song” right now. I recommend “Coin-Operated Boy” particularly. If you like the sound of Amanda’s voice, know that I get a kick out of her non-Dresden song “Leeds United”; the music video is filled with nifty costumes.)
5) Dr. Steel
6) HUMANWINE–Humans Underground Making Anagrams Nightly While Imperial Not-mes Enslave
7) The James Gang
8) The Lisps
9) Rasputina
10) Voltaire (Who I know–I like “When You’re Evil” fine, but am otherwise lukewarm.)
Tomb of the Ancestors is awesome.
In this world there is no
Place for people like you
I’ll extermin8 you
With my spider8ite​!​!​!​!​!​!​!​!
I just had this terrifying image of Mindfang meeting a Dalek.
I’m sure someone’s written that already.
It’s funny because thirty seconds ago I didn’t know what to draw.
Spider-eight-ite?
Quick poll: Has anyone else ever heard of Mannheim Steamroller? I’m trying to judge their actual popularity because my view of them is probably quite skewed because Jackson Berkey is an acquaintance of mine. Mannheim Steamroller is a sort of New Age group with a lot of classical influences, but they’re best known for their Christmas albums. I guess I grew up listening to a couple of those Christmas albums, but a few years ago my piano teacher introduced me to Jackson Berkey and I’ve had a few lessons with him. One lesson was very interesting because I happened to be playing a piece that he had written. (Strangely, that wasn’t the first time I’ve worked on a piece with the piece’s composer.)
GAPAs don’t count, I suppose. I listened to their Fresh Aire albums in the 1970s but haven’t followed them much since then.
Pish, GAPAs count double.
heard of them, never listened to anything by them that I know of
Never heard of them.
I love their version of “Deck the Halls”. My brother has dubbed it “the version astronauts listen to”.
I love them.
Does anyone know anything about a song called “Flagpole Sitta?” I’m trying to figure out why it has been attributed to Green Day (who seem to have called it Paranoia) and Blink-182 (they called it I’m Not Sick But I’m Not Well), even though it seems to have actually written by Harvey Danger.
…that song. I’ve been looking for that song for AGES. THANK YOU.
I love that song. It is the best
Pseudo! I’ve moved in our chess game, and I’d really appreciate it if you would.
Sorry!
Moving right now.
If you mix together Grenade and Just the Way You Are with the right timing, they’re the same song. They have the same BPM, the same key, the same length if you put them together the right way, and the lyrics fit. For example, when he’s singing “had your eyes wide open/why were they open” he comes in on the other song with “her eyes, her eyes/make the stars look like they’re not shining”. It’s actually kind of freaky. I’m honestly wondering whether it was intentional or not.
Oh my gosh you guys go to Philip Glass’ website and find the Glass Engine (it’s under “music”)
This is absolutely beautiful and nothing can hurt and I’m listening to Knee Play 5 from Einstein on the Beach and I’m counting and these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends the night should be a time of peace and tranquility. We have need of a soothing story to banish the thoughts of the day.
Impossible, you say? Yes and it is just as impossible to say how much I love this.
this is so soothing i cant even use capitals anymore its so wonderful all of Philip Glass on my fingertips am I in heaven this is perfect
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Ok, guys. I’m buying a new amp. The two I’ve used recently I really enjoyed. One was an unknown Fender model and the other a Line 6 Spider III. I checked ebay for the Spider, but I’m still not sure how good it really is. I’ve got no experience with amps, the only one I’ve got is a crappy little Silvertone.
Are any of you familiar with amplifiers? If so, what would you recommend? I’m looking for good quality overall, good distortion and good clean tones. As are we all.
Does anyone know where I could find guitar sheet music (melody, not chords) for Les Miserables? I’ve been reading the treble cleff (sorry if that’s spelled wrong) part on my sister’s piano music, but it isn’t the same.
My favorite bands are … Owl City and Coldplay? I really don’t listen to music that much, though …
Stairway To Heaven. Has anyone else thought the same thing I have? All the websites that give the lyrics say that, in the last verse, he sings “There walks a lady we all know/ Who shines with light and wants to show/ How everything still turns to gold”. To me, though, it’s always sounded more like “Who shines white light and wants to show/ Out in the day she’ll turn to stone”.
In the context of the lyrics, it doesn’t make sense, but listen to it (6 minutes and 53 seconds into the song).
It makes sense when it’s not paired with the rest of the lyrics, because Plant is a Tolkien fan and a lot of other Tolkien references are scattered throughout Stairway and countless other Zeppelin songs. But tell me what you guys think. It does NOT sounds to me like he says “gold”.
Every time I listen to a Counting Crows song I haven’t heard before, I’m reminded why I like the band in the first place.
Tsuji Ayano. She is not on iTunes.
I have no more computer time. If needed, I will explain who she is some other time.
For those seeking truthfulness
Or seeking simple style
Come right in, pour a drink
And we’ll talk a while
–
Tell me what you’re looking for
Tell me what you’ve lost
Talk about the things you’ve kept
And of the things you’ve tossed
–
Chorus:
Enjoy your drink, it could be your last
Stay up, wake up, break your fast
But hurry it up
I haven’t got all day
–
Do you believe in miracles
Tell me if it’s true
If Moses parted the Red Sea
Then Hitler saved the Jews
–
I can tell you what your future holds
If you’ll only stay a while
I can tell you if you’re doomed to die
Or if you’ll live to raise a child
OH MY GOSH I have a tune for this.
Yeeeeeees? (Imagine me saying that much the way a 400-year old door creaks open)
Uhm. It would kind of have to be sung by a blustering Irish fellow to work, though.
Aye.
23(Tesseract)- I LOVE Sam Hazo’s stuff! We played “Ascend” at All-County and I’ve had it stuck in my head ever since.
I’m so jealous! We’ve never played anything by Hazo. Our last concert had October and a Ticheli piece though, so that was cool.
We played Blue Shades by Ticheli in one group I’m with! It was soooooo hard.
Next season we’re playing the Hindemith Symphony in Bb which is absolutely insane and atonal, as well as the Ives Symphony 1, and Copland’s Outdoor Overture. And some other stuff that’s also pretty cool.
Yes, “Ascend” is great. It’s got tons of syncopation.
Oh yeah, Ticheli’s awesome, too. We’re playing “Cajun Folk Songs” in band right now, and the trombones get to use straight mutes. (Which almost makes up for the fact that he gives all the fun parts to the first trombone. We second and thirds are offended!)
Enc- Oh, I love atonal stuff! We almost played ‘Old Churches’, but our flute section gave up.
Oh wow, we’re playing Old Churches this year with a hyperflamablamablous flute section.
Tess- I think the reason is that I had a super great audition and got into the top youth ensemble at the conservatory.
Reccomendation from music I’ve played-
“Music For the Funeral of Queen Mary” AS ARRANGED BY STEVEN STUCKY (the arrangement is very important- it’s originally 1600’s hymns that have been… altered.)
Oh, and in other news, it seems that ’tis the season to be Grieg- in two completely unrelated groups, we’re playing his Funeral March and his Symphonic Dances (both of which are WONDERFUL look them up RIGHT NOW)
Yes, “Ascend” is great. It’s got tons of syncopation.
Oh yeah, Ticheli’s awesome, too. We’re playing “Cajun Folk Songs” in band right now, and the trombones get to use straight mutes. (Which almost makes up for the fact that he gives all the fun parts to the first trombone. We second and thirds are offended!)
Enc- Oh, I love atonal stuff! We almost played ‘Old Churches’ by Michael Colgrass, but our flute section gave up.
Our flute section is pretty much like “What the cake is going on I have to MAKE IT UP AS I GO ALONG”
Same here. Now whenever they’re failing at reading a piece somebody shouts out, “Old churches!”
Enc, you get to play amazing stuff!
The piece we played was Vesuvius. We didn’t pull it off too well but it was still great. Right now we have Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Morning Noon and Night in Vienna, and Whatsoever Things. My favorite piece is still Mannin Veen.
Ingrid Michaelson. Holy cake.
Good or bad?
I kind of like her music… so I hope good?
Oh, very good. Amazing.
Very true.
Have you heard any of her new songs? I particularly liked ‘End of the World’ and ‘Blood Brothers.’
PLEASE JUST GIVE US THAT MUSIC PLEASE.
I’m in Chamber Choir at the middle school I go to, and the teacher who directs it showed us one of the song we’re going to be singing for the Spring Choral Concert. It’s an arrangement of Imogen Heap’s Hide And Seek (I think it’s done by the King’s Singers), and it’s like torture waiting for it.
Adele! Quickly! Sing some more and top the charts again so people can see that you don’t need to hide your voice behind auto-tune and overproduction to be popular!
<3
And quit smoking! It’ll ruin your voice! Which actually sounds pretty nice!
Yesterday I saw Itzhak Perlman perform with the Rochester Philharmonic at the Eastman School of Music.
Then a few hours later I saw Anamanaguchi in this tiny venue called the Bug Jar.
Two incredibly different concert experiences, but both were awesome. I’m not sure I can even compare.
Oh my gosh you saw Itzhak Perlman.
I worship him.
What did perlman play?
Itzhak Perlman I saw a few years ago and am going to see again in March. Anamanaguchi I haven’t seen live (yet). Perlman gives a pretty good concert, doesn’t he?
Everyone – HE WAS AMAZING.
Lizzie – He played Tchaikovsky, my program says “Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35.”
I just did my math homework while listening to The Kinks. Fun? Yes. Productive? No comment.
Funny, because I tried that the other day, and I kept trying to sing all the songs, so I would start accidentally writing down the words to the village green preservation society instead of my history notes…
She walked up to me and she asked me to divide
I asked her her name and in a voice full of pride
She said Zero, Z-E-R-O, Zero, Z-Z-Zero
Well, I’m not the world’s most mathematical guy
But when she showed me trig she nearly broke my sine
Oh my Zero, Z-Z-Zero…
…you’re my favorite.
Aww, thanks.
So a while ago, I stumbled across this BBC radio play of the HG2G (which by the way is completely AMAZING and the voice for Marvin is just the best thing ever) and it has this intro music that sounded like it was written just for Douglas Adams. It was bouncy and almost goofy sounding but also sort of futuristic and hollow, and it was simply the most Douglass Adamsish music I have ever heard, and I had been trying to figure out what it was for a really long time. It turns out that it’s the middle section of Journey of the Sorcerer by the Eagles, whic turns out to be an even better song than I thought. Just go listen to it, and think of the HG2G. It is AWESOME.
You realize that Hitchhiker’s started out as a radio show and the novels came later, right? Adams personally chose that music for the show, so it makes sense that it would seem fitting for him.
I did not know that.
I did not either, but that would make a lot of sense. I am still, however, impressed that such Adamsy music existed on it’s own.