What Are You Listening To - The Reckoning

[Leeds Wire]

This one is for Futtocks.

 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Leeds Wire said:

This one is for Futtocks.

 

One of my favourite songs ever. Written in 1969 and shows it's a longstanding complicated problem. However, it's something I try to help with both financially and practically wherever I can.

If I can, I always try to chat with genuine homeless people (there are frauds aplenty) and not just ignore them. Not sure there's a worse feeling than being cold, alone scared and invisible. 

[Ullman]

16 hours ago, Oxford said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LakJJgGOl2I&ab_channel=TheHousemartins-Topic

 

Love that tune.

[Ullman]

A track off what is probably my favourite metal album of the year. Not often you say that about a French band.

 

[Oxford]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJlGpWRiqxE&ab_channel=PegLegHowell-Topic

[Oxford]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0M_8q0eEKo&list=PLimNnO9QMA0Z6kQS5G4cOBmbI4lVN7TE-&ab_channel=dpMUSICcapebreton

[Phil]

 

[Phil]

 

[Oxford]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDiUjdVWPjo&ab_channel=TheTurtles-Topic

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

This is a bit different from much of the music on here, I will be the first to concede!

As at each Christmas, I have just been listening to Jean Mouton's setting of the seasonably relevant text, Nesciens Mater;  "Knowing no man, the Virgin mother bore, without pain, the saviour of the world..."  Here are Voces8 singing it:

Don't worry; you don't have to be a fervent Christian to (a) be moved by the beauty of this music or (b) admire the composer's incredible skill. 

Regarding (b), what Mouton (d 1522) has done here is create a two-part canon in, collectively, eight vocal parts.  Not only that, but the second four-part choir, when it joins in does so a fifth above the first four-part choir.  In the wrong hands, such compositional dexterity could be dry and lifeless.  But Mouton is clearly a master and his skill (not to mention spiritual and emotional fervour) shine through here.  Brilliant stuff!

I should love to sing in a choir performing this one day, but sadly probably never will: for one thing, my choral ability, such as it is, would be stretched to the absolute limit; for another, there would be seven other parts to fill!

[Guest]

On 18/12/2021 at 19:51, Ullman said:

A track off what is probably my favourite metal album of the year. Not often you say that about a French band.

 

I can hear a bit of early Carcass in some of this. And a bit of Dream Theatre. 

[Oxford]

 

[Ullman]

17 hours ago, Johnoco said:

I can hear a bit of early Carcass in some of this. And a bit of Dream Theatre. 

Also struck me as a nod to Roots era Sepultura.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Ullman said:

Also struck me as a nod to Roots era Sepultura.

Yeah I would agree with that too. 

[Oxford]

 

[Robin Evans]

Gordon Lightfoot 

[Oxford]

2 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

Gordon Lightfoot 

Is he?

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Robin Evans said:

Gordon Lightfoot 

I knew you were. I could read your mind. 

[Robin Evans]

6 minutes ago, Johnoco said:

I knew you were. I could read your mind. 

[voteronniegibbs]

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Edited August 2, 2023 by voteronniegibbs

[Guest]

1 minute ago, voteronniegibbs said:

A beautiful reply

I'd like to say his thoughts told a right tale. But I'd be just making it up. 

[Phil]

It’s 19 years today since Joe Strummer died, consequently my play list today is almost exclusively The Clash 

[voteronniegibbs]

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Edited August 2, 2023 by voteronniegibbs

[Phil]

2 minutes ago, voteronniegibbs said:

Strewth 19 years. I remember one of the blokes in the factory I was at telling me. 

Heard it on the radio in the works canteen, really affected me, I had to go outside to compose myself 

[Irish Saint]

Just danced around the living room floor.