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Haffner

#2160
October 30, 2007, 05:36:22 AM
Quote from: Scriptavolant on October 24, 2007, 06:22:07 AM


This is the first AC/DC album I bought when I was about 16, and I still love it much more than, for example, Back in Black.
The only album that could challenge it in my taste is probably "Highway to hell".




"C.O.D"!!!!


Because I'm so horribly burnt out on the best Ac/Dc (HtH, BiB) today I only listen to the WAY underrated "Flick of the Switch"...

karlhenning

#2161
October 30, 2007, 05:40:56 AM
Good morning, Andy! Petrituri te salutamus!   ;D

Haffner

#2162
October 30, 2007, 05:43:03 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on October 30, 2007, 05:40:56 AM
Good morning, Andy! Petrituri te salutamus!   ;D





E tu, maestro Karl. Still waiting for Verizon to fix my damn computer, so i must say hello and wish best blessings to all, and then get the h*** out of this dumb library.

rockerreds

#2164
October 30, 2007, 08:57:28 AM
R.E.M.-Document

Solitary Wanderer

#2165
October 30, 2007, 11:16:11 AM
Quote from: Muriel on October 29, 2007, 11:47:29 AM
Lady in Satin,Billie Holiday.Very sexy.

A chilling masterpiece.
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Lady Chatterley

#2167
October 30, 2007, 11:35:27 AM
Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on October 30, 2007, 11:16:11 AM
A chilling masterpiece.

Chilling ? It always warms me up.

Solitary Wanderer

#2168
October 30, 2007, 11:56:07 AM
Quote from: Muriel on October 30, 2007, 11:35:27 AM
Chilling ? It always warms me up.

Chilling in the sense of her fragile state of mind when she recorded it in '58.  :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Solitary Wanderer

#2169
October 30, 2007, 01:43:07 PM
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Solitary Wanderer

#2170
October 30, 2007, 02:29:38 PM
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

KevinP

#2171
October 30, 2007, 02:31:35 PM
Billie Holiday fans are very divided over Lady in Satin, either loving in hating it. Sorry, but to me, it is the absolutely worst recording by one of the greatest singers who ever existed.

Lady Chatterley

#2172
October 30, 2007, 02:54:10 PM
Quote from: KevinP on October 30, 2007, 02:31:35 PM
Billie Holiday fans are very divided over Lady in Satin, either loving in hating it. Sorry, but to me, it is the absolutely worst recording by one of the greatest singers who ever existed.

"Absolutely worst recording" because why? You didn't like the singing,the strings,the tunes,the orchestration,you didn't like the dress,the fact that she was stoned?What?

sidoze

#2173
October 30, 2007, 04:45:35 PM Last Edit: October 30, 2007, 04:49:56 PM by sidoze


the best Piazzolla CD I've heard, most suitable for late night listening too

KevinP

#2174
October 31, 2007, 03:59:18 AM
Quote from: Muriel on October 30, 2007, 02:54:10 PM
"Absolutely worst recording" because why? You didn't like the singing,the strings,the tunes,the orchestration,you didn't like the dress,the fact that she was stoned?What?

Her voice was completely shot by then. She never did have a pretty voice, nor did she ever need one. She could make it, well, sing. She could get inside a song and turn it inside out. Most of the songs she sang I learned from her, and if I ever heard it later by another singer, I often found myself saying, 'Oh, so that's what the song is really supposed to be about.' (And I mean that with the utmost respect to Lady.) The early, swing-era sides she cut for Columbia are among the best recordings in my rather vast collection. 'Strange Fruit' is one of the most daring songs ever written, especially for 1939. But by the end of her life, her voice was gone, leaving only the naked pain. And that's what some people like about it and what some people don't. I hear the pain; I just don't find it musical. (And yes, the orchestration is pretty bad. The tunes are okay to great. And the dress....I never noticed it before now. I do find her some of the B&W pictures of her in the remaster CD rather attractive though, at least the ones where she's actually singing.)

When the album was released in 1959, it was pretty widely panned I believe. It is only with time, and with Lady's iconisation, that it's taken on the status it has, leaving people like me behind. Part of what bugs me is that some people hold it up as an example of 'Look what white society does to blacks, pushing them to drugs, etc.' These are people (and I'm not saying you're one of them or anything like that) who have some need to see her as a victim, as if it somehow puts the black American experience into a neat little box that they can understand. Screw the music. Now they can hear the pain of victimisation. It's the musical equivalent of her ghosted autobiography and the even more fictionalised movie of the same name. I don't want her to be an icon. I don't want her to symbolise anything that overshadows her music. She's not Elvis or James Dean. Nor was she an athlete dying young.

I'll readily admit that perhaps I've only ever met one person like that, whom I met early on, and that I may transfer his feelings to others who like the album.

I hope nothing I say pinches the joy you get from it. Believe me: if you like it, I envy you. Lady is not just my favourite singer of any genre but also one of the most important, with only Bessie Smith and Mahalia Jackson approaching in both aspects, and I would love to love this album. I take it out every now and then to see if my feelings have changed. Phil Schaap, writing the liner notes of the remaster, notes that for decades he could never understand what people saw in this album, and then, while unearthing the a cappella 'End of a Love Affair,' he suddenly had an epiphany and understood it all. I envy him too.

All that said, I should retract my 'absolute worst' comment and apply that honour to the album that came next, with the unoriginal and confusing title of Billie Holiday, recorded for MGM. It's really much the same, just worst. And there's no dispute about that between lovers and detractors of Lady in Satin.

And I'm going to listen to it right now.

Solitary Wanderer

#2175
October 31, 2007, 06:13:22 PM
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

KevinP

#2176
November 01, 2007, 02:02:13 AM Last Edit: November 01, 2007, 02:08:02 AM by KevinP
A new-to-me CD (mini-LP)  by the first pianist I ever saw live.


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He's not well known outside of Chicago, but it's the rest of the world's loss.

A relaxed style that he somehow manages to sustain even in the most intense moments, beautifully voiced chords in the piano's upper register....man I wish I had had the nerve to ask him for lessons. I hear he's living out his days in a southside retirement home now.

He recorded very infrequently but can be heard on several Von Freeman albums. Also his trio did an album for Delmark.

KevinP

#2177
November 01, 2007, 02:04:20 AM Last Edit: November 01, 2007, 02:08:39 AM by KevinP
Okay, how do you hyperlink a picture? Neatly, I mean. Not with the links visible like I did above.

If I'm going to hotlink a picture that's not from Amazon or some other mega-corporation, I'd like to at least make sure the clicker can visit their website.

71 dB

#2178
November 01, 2007, 02:14:29 AM
Quote from: sidoze on October 30, 2007, 04:45:35 PM


the best Piazzolla CD I've heard, most suitable for late night listening too

Please, tell us more about this CD. What is it and why is it the best Piazzolla you have heard.
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rockerreds

#2179
November 01, 2007, 06:53:14 AM
Belly-King
Neil Young-Chrome Dreams 2
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