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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 29, 2021 5:44:01 GMT -5
How lovely to have your own flautist playing Bach.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2021 5:53:45 GMT -5
- Phar, The Monkees are fun. For a long time it wasn't cool to like the Monkees, everyone said they were a fake made for TV band, that the Beatles were better, but I've always liked them and frankly am a little sick of the Beatles.
- tucano I like BBC 6 a lot too, but somehow have never come across her show (sounds like that's ok). I don't listen to it often enough to know the djs except for Stuart Maconie on Sunday, who always plays interesting stuff.
- river, that's superb
It's not even 6 a.m. yet, so no music yet at this point. The radio last night was great, they were playing all kinds of weird music from the early 80s.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 29, 2021 7:14:14 GMT -5
This band performed at the Australian High Commission party in Honiara, Solomon Islands on Australia Day.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2021 8:09:00 GMT -5
Ah yes, "Land Down Under" is a fun song. It was super popular on US radio back in the day.
I'm in a Mood this morning and am thinking of listening to "Tristan und Isolde," though.
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Post by weeg on Jan 29, 2021 8:43:16 GMT -5
Whilst I can't post it here, I am enjoying listening to PG practising the flute this morning - he by now knows exactly when my break is between 2nd and 3rd lessons, and picks up the flute then so that it isn't annoying my students in the background. We have a few Bach pieces on the playlist today! I have a flautist too! My next door neighbour plays professionally, and I can hear her practice from my office. No idea what any of the musoc is though.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2021 9:29:59 GMT -5
All these flautists are lovely! Our former neighbor was learning piano, which wasn't quite as nice because she wasn't particularly good at it. (They also had a tendency to play Celine Dion loudly with the windows open. Lovely people, though.)
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Post by tucano on Jan 29, 2021 10:27:08 GMT -5
Friday afternoon tune. God I miss dancing.
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Post by Phar Lap on Jan 29, 2021 12:01:24 GMT -5
Who remembers Journey? And those jeans! Oh my, whatever happens, don’t stop believing!
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2021 14:23:14 GMT -5
I do remember Journey, of course
I had my phone on shuffle on the way to the grocery store, and it decided it wanted to hear Neutral Milk Hotel, which is a highly celebrated band that I had never heard of until I read about it on YC lo these many years ago:
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Post by riverhorse on Jan 29, 2021 15:47:53 GMT -5
I have a flautist too! My next door neighbour plays professionally, and I can hear her practice from my office. No idea what any of the musoc is though. Goodness, I'd forgotten all about it till I read your post, weeg,but I used to live in a big old house the first time round in Germany, and the owners who lived downstairs would let a neighbour practise in the cellar. She was a professional opera singer, and couldn't practice in her own apartment because the other residents would complain. From down in the over 100 year old cellar, the sound would travel up the old, bricked in chimneys up to our apartment, you could hear it faintly coming through the walls. We used to call her The Singing Ghost.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2021 17:00:13 GMT -5
Wow, I would love to live near an opera singer!
Though they'd probably object to me singing along. "Cut it out, Isolde, you're off key"
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 29, 2021 20:40:11 GMT -5
Wow, I would love to live near an opera singer! Though they'd probably object to me singing along. "Cut it out, Isolde, you're off key" You don't really. Or not in lockdown. We have a neighbour we call 'Opera Woman' who lives on the top floor and it can get very tedious. Maybe it is because she isn't a professional, just a hobbyist? But there place has been on the market for ages and I keep on hoping they sell soon and move out!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 29, 2021 20:40:54 GMT -5
Whilst I can't post it here, I am enjoying listening to PG practising the flute this morning - he by now knows exactly when my break is between 2nd and 3rd lessons, and picks up the flute then so that it isn't annoying my students in the background. Flute would be better than a rooster crowing!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jan 29, 2021 20:53:05 GMT -5
Ah yes, "Land Down Under" is a fun song. It was super popular on US radio back in the day. I'm in a Mood this morning and am thinking of listening to "Tristan und Isolde," though. Land down under is even more fun played on Solomon Islands panpipes.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 29, 2021 21:14:30 GMT -5
Wow, I would love to live near an opera singer! Though they'd probably object to me singing along. "Cut it out, Isolde, you're off key" You don't really. Or not in lockdown. We have a neighbour we call 'Opera Woman' who lives on the top floor and it can get very tedious. Maybe it is because she isn't a professional, just a hobbyist? But there place has been on the market for ages and I keep on hoping they sell soon and move out! Ok, that's fair... any noise that isn't just occasional gets tedious.
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Post by riverhorse on Jan 30, 2021 1:39:20 GMT -5
Wow, I would love to live near an opera singer! Though they'd probably object to me singing along. "Cut it out, Isolde, you're off key" You don't really. Or not in lockdown. We have a neighbour we call 'Opera Woman' who lives on the top floor and it can get very tedious. Maybe it is because she isn't a professional, just a hobbyist? But there place has been on the market for ages and I keep on hoping they sell soon and move out! Yes, the fact that we could only very faintly hear the opera singing wafting through the walls was probably a godsend!
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 30, 2021 6:45:03 GMT -5
Plus I'd occasionally get like I want to bang on the wall and make a request. "Hey! Do Liu's death scene from Turandot!"
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 4, 2021 5:49:36 GMT -5
The past couple of days I've been back in the late 1980s, listening to the Pixies and Sonic Youth. Thrashy intense music is what keeps me going from day to day:
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 4, 2021 18:22:22 GMT -5
I’d forgotten about this until last night when the tune entered my head nd I started singing it. Alas the actual visuals I loved best I could no longer find, but this one will do the trick. Enjoy.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 5, 2021 3:21:37 GMT -5
I still find Little Boxes singing in my head in some circumstances.
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Post by tucano on Feb 5, 2021 4:41:13 GMT -5
This is quite mellow and lovely. Trying to work out who it reminds me of.
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Post by riverhorse on Feb 5, 2021 5:33:59 GMT -5
Not that I can post it here but at the moment I'm listening to some annoyingly upbeat saxophone track on the helpdesk of my Australian bank, as I'm trying to do an international bank transfer and Computer Says No.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 5, 2021 6:31:53 GMT -5
Whoa I'm going to be listening to the radio a lot today -- Thom Yorke is DJ'ing on BBC6 this morning (US morning), and then it's International Clash Day on KEXP Seattle
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 5, 2021 6:49:16 GMT -5
Heard a really good Carl Cox mix when driving back from Mum's place today.
And Liiiisa, not sure if this is something you'd like but the album of the week on fbi is by Black Country, New Road. Makes for rather different radio listening.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 5, 2021 7:52:09 GMT -5
You're right Hal, I just heard a track by Black Country, New Road on BBC6! I really liked it, kind of shouty guy with electronified swirly stuff going on in the background. Off to find more of it on Bandcamp. ETA: ah yes, just the kind of ponderous stuff I like, thank you. ETA again but this one track is sort of a bit too much Final verdict: this is great stuff but the lyrics make me wonder if this guy is ok
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Post by tucano on Feb 5, 2021 9:41:43 GMT -5
Fair warning this will probably give you a headache but it reminds me of going to drum n bass raves in my teenage years.
(Just played on the radio)
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 5, 2021 20:30:48 GMT -5
Hey I've been alternating between the Clash and the Pixies all day, surely a little drum 'n bass isn't going to do any harm.
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Post by jimm on Feb 6, 2021 5:56:56 GMT -5
Spent an hour or so being blasted back to 1968 - started with this -
- then went down the YouTube rabbit hole. I liked this version:
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Post by scicaro on Feb 8, 2021 3:22:16 GMT -5
Singing along to Grace Petrie on the guilty feminist podcast.
I always sing along to this loudly in the car:
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 8, 2021 6:14:51 GMT -5
I'll have to check that out when I get to my desk, sci.
I woke up with "The Guns of Brixton" in my head; not sure what that bodes for a Monday morning.
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