Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: alan on 27 November, 2008, 02:33:57 pm
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This thread is inspired by having just watched the video of Shakespears Sister's
"Stay".
An excellent piece of sound & vision to tell a story.
Any more with any more?
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Psuedo Silk Kimono - Marillion
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Kindertotenlieder - Gustav Mahler
Especially no 4 "Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5N23uwhNdac&feature=related)
"I often think: they have only just gone out, soon they will be coming back home. The day is fine! Don't be dismayed! They have just gone for a long walk! Yes indeed, they have just gone out, and now they are making their way home. Don't be dismayed, the day is fine! They have simply made a journey to yonder heights. They have just gone out ahead of us, and will not be thinking of coming home. We go to meet them on yonder heights! In the sunlight! The day is fine on those uplands!"
That one actually makes me cry most times that I listen to it.
Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss
Especially "Im Abendrot". Has to be the Gundela Janowitz version (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6YD_8E4ZVxY).
Anyone of a number of cantatas - JS Bach
Loads of them are pretty heartbreaking.
Dido's Lament (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tAnQQ4_Jpd8&feature=related) - Henry Purcell
"Ah Belinda" isn't bad either.
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This thread is inspired by having just watched the video of Shakespears Sister's
"Stay".
An excellent piece of sound & vision to tell a story.
Any more with any more?
That Marcella Detroit has an extraordinary voice. To quote a Samuel Beckett line "a semitone higher and she was inaudible"
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She has a good voice but not extraordinary. She is a soprano which is rare in the pop world but many classical singers can hit the same notes. Not that Marcella isn't a fine singer, wrote some top songs too including having a big hand in "Lay Down Sally" if I remember correctly.
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Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk
Listened all the way through it is powerful and deeply relaxing.
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
Again, listened throguh from start to finish it is an album that always draws me into cruising through the streets of London, late at night.
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YouTube - Classical/guitar, Jim Greeninger, Recuerdos de la Alhambra (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzKsNIRrV4)
Yes, it is only the one guitar playing.
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YouTube - Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nLBgmbXBOb8)
Damon.
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Sigur Ros - Glosoli
YouTube - Sigur Ros - Glósóli (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ)
I have no idea what the song or the video is about - but the combination is haunting...
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Just remembered this. I think it fits the bill.
YouTube - Boards of Canada - Macquarie Ridge (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl79r2npdpg)
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I may not agree with his politics but he could write music
You Tube - Richard Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral March (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=20RldhK9354)
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Anything by This Mortal Coil, but here's one of my favourites - Song To the Siren
YouTube - This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren "Cocteau Twins" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM)
Anything by Cocteau Twins, here here's one of my favourites - Ice Blind Luck
YouTube - Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5EqjtRuGU&feature=related)
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
YouTube - Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (High Quality) (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_lEsLcGB7Vo&feature=related)
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Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss
Especially "Im Abendrot". Has to be the Gundela Janowitz version (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6YD_8E4ZVxY).
I'm having Im Abendrot at my funeral, sung in German but with full translation distributed for non-speakers. I'll also have the Trauermarsch from Gotterdammerung, as mentioned by Cyclops.
If there's a dry eye in the house after that, I'll want to know why.
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Sigur Ros - Glosoli
YouTube - Sigur Ros - Glósóli (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ)
I have no idea what the song or the video is about - but the combination is haunting...
I love that one, but I love this one even more - both for the tune and the video:
YouTube - vidrar vel til loftarasa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akYuy2FMQk4)
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Anything by This Mortal Coil, but here's one of my favourites - Song To the Siren
YouTube - This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren "Cocteau Twins" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM)
You saved me having to find that one. :thumbsup:
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Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony is another favourite of mine and it's the very definition of an emotional rollercoaster - over its ~45 minutes, it takes you to the highest highs and the lowest lows.
The adagio lamentoso final movement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0dk6r3I9lA) is perhaps the gloomiest piece of music ever written - no wonder he committed suicide after completing it!
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Sigur Ros - Glosoli
YouTube - Sigur Ros - Glósóli (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ)
I have no idea what the song or the video is about - but the combination is haunting...
I love that one, but I love this one even more - both for the tune and the video:
YouTube - vidrar vel til loftarasa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akYuy2FMQk4)
Actually, now I'm not so sure - just watched Glosoli again and it is utterly beautiful. Saeglopur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBTH2E5QPEE) is also a fantastic song/vid combination, as is Hoppipolla (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxMQaMqsig), although the song has been slightly ruined for me by overexposure on TV.
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Psuedo Silk Kimono - Marillion
I agree any lyrics by Fish, my favs are Script for a Jesters Tear and from his solo CD Internal Exile the title track, but this is as I can follow the route and it includes, a line about the Edinburgh paper that is much commented on in this forum!
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YouTube - Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nLBgmbXBOb8)
Damon.
I agree I have this on the IPOD and play it loads
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Roads - Portishead
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Anything by This Mortal Coil, but here's one of my favourites - Song To the Siren
YouTube - This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren "Cocteau Twins" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM)
You saved me having to find that one. :thumbsup:
Just don't check out the George Michael version. Aaarrrrgggghhh!
I'd go along with the Boards of Canada & Sigur Ros suggestions too.
I'll add Lowlife - 'Ramafied' (http://www.last.fm/music/Lowlife/_/ramafied) - it's one of the few 'goosebumps-on-first-hearing' tracks I've ever heard.
Here's the YouTube version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9MuVa_lA9A) - not a great recording as it's live (& the text is annoying)
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Tony Christie has covered the Human League's 'Louise' (from Dare) on the Made in Sheffield albulm.
If you get the chance to listen to it, do so. It is on Listen Free at Last FM.
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Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola K.364 - but only the second movement. The first and third are just upbeat baroque stuff, but the second is heartbreaking.
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Anything by This Mortal Coil, but here's one of my favourites - Song To the Siren
YouTube - This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren "Cocteau Twins" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM)
You saved me having to find that one. :thumbsup:
Just don't check out the George Michael version. Aaarrrrgggghhh!
Oh dear...no, no, no :sick:
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Four Last Songs - Richard Strauss
Especially "Im Abendrot". Has to be the Gundela Janowitz version (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6YD_8E4ZVxY).
I'm having Im Abendrot at my funeral, sung in German but with full translation distributed for non-speakers. I'll also have the Trauermarsch from Gotterdammerung, as mentioned by Cyclops.
If there's a dry eye in the house after that, I'll want to know why.
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I have just watched a version of this on youtube with English subtitles. Blimey,it really gets you doesn't it? Wonderful but perhaps not the best choice for a drab monday morning.
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Eric Bogle - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI&feature=related)
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Ne Me Quitte Pas - either Jacques Brel or Nina Simone (bad pronunciation notwithstanding) - is so affecting every time.
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Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
(classical cliché, I know ...)
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Ne Me Quitte Pas - either Jacques Brel or Nina Simone (bad pronunciation notwithstanding) - is so affecting every time.
Oh yes, definitely.
Les Vieux is also utterly heartbreaking:
Les vieux ne rêvent plus, leurs livres s'ensommeillent, leurs pianos sont fermés
Le petit chat est mort, le muscat du dimanche ne les fait plus chanter...
Amsterdam, too - albeit for a different kind of emotional response.
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Elgar "Enigma" Variations: Number 9 "Nimrod" - played at my Mum's funeral. I can't listen to it without a lump in the throat.
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Where do I start?
Myfanwy.
Trio from Cosi fan Tutte. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gMY3Ou9L5xE)
Slow movement from J.S. Bach's D minor double violin concerto.YouTube - Heifetz & Eric Friedman - Bach Double Concerto (2nd mvement) (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uXRlnO3K3hk&feature=related).
Slow movement from Haydn String Quartet "The Lark".
Lots of bits of Beethoven. Try this. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MKyKNCiiuF8)
The recording someone had on Desert Island Discs a few years ago of the Welsh rugby crowd at the old Arms Park singing Cwm Rhondda unaccompanied in 4-part harmony in a 1950s match.
But probably the biggest tear-jerker is YouTube - Final chorus of st.matthew's passion - J.S.B (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mR8gc7WFiCc) although I think that particular performance is too fast and matter-of-fact. Sir Roger Norrington's performance of it at the Proms in 2000 (250 years after Bach's death) was marvellous and the first time I listened to the entire work from start to finish..
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Sigur Ros - Glosoli
YouTube - Sigur Ros - Glósóli (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ)
I have no idea what the song or the video is about - but the combination is haunting...
+1 for this.
The video involves the sun disappearing, or something, then changes to a dream sequence half way through (signified by the change in hue), followed by a bunch of kids flying off a cliff. The little one appears to fall, but don't worry, he makes it.
It really is awesome. If you don't like the slow start to the song, stick with it as it builds to a grand finale.
Even better is the video for Von by Sigur Ros, from Heima where the perform live to a family audience. Just looking at the enraptured expressions of the audience is lovely.
Maybe I'm just a big softy.
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Ah, I forgot "Jerusalem". A family funeral special that one. Brings a lump to your throat.
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Some vicars ban it because it's not a proper hymn >:(
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Some vicars ban it because it's not a proper hymn >:(
We were not allowed it at our wedding
(we met at the Proms)
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Thoughts Of Time, written by Peggy Seeger for Ewan MacColl. Gets me every time.
YouTube - Peggy Seeger - Thoughts of time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzjWqkucecs)
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Which brings us back to that old favourite.
YouTube - Play misty for me - The first time ever I saw your face (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ypSPbIAApuQ)
This is the original album version used by Clint Eastwood which revived Ewan MacColl's song.
Damon.
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Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lTry1yKvxZM) about the death of her friend (and perhaps lover she has never told) Gram Parsons. She's still singing this song with as much emotion 30 years later (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-tw8ZxsQy5Q&feature=related).
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I'm loving this thread but it really should have been called, "The Christmas Present List".
For some reason this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-hffcyJ1GAg)one always gets me, it just conjures up a bond that you know will always endure.
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I'm not a Johnny Cash fan. But his rendition of Hurt is an amazingly emotional piece by a man close to the end of his life. Hard to listen to without a tear in your eye.
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Blue Nile - Easter Parade, and some other stuff from that album.
Bits of Mozart's Requiem, particularly as he was dead not long after he wrote it.
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
YouTube - Scarlet Ribbons - Doris Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEJz-2J_No)
Damon.
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June Tabor's version of The Band Played Waltzing Matilda:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=swviwHDJQoM (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=swviwHDJQoM)
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Thanks for that. I listened to the Eric Bogle one earlier and it reminded me that some people can write songs and some people can sing them.
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It broke my heart the first time I heard it on (probably) John Peel's show.
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Handels Overture in D Minor (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jiBqi5jTlPA) arr Elgar (note this is an old recording, I can't find a better one on youtube).
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Peter Gabriel - Biko; already referenced in this thread (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10404.msg180731#msg180731).
Gives me chills.
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I heard a guy called Dave Walters sing "The Band played Waltzing Matilda" at the Southend Folk Club in about 1976. Dave went to my college and became a professional folk singer and he was bloody good. You could have heard a pin drop at the end.
I've just found this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx8_mv7CzTg). I remember it when it was on the telly when they first recorded it. I heard Jacqueline du Pre play at the Festival Hall when I was very young - at one of the old Robert Mayer Children's Concerts. I think it may well have been her concert debut. She was only about 17 at the time.
Daniel Barenboim conducted the East-West Divan orchestra when we were at the Edinburgh Festival a few years ago. There are just so many reasons to admire this man.
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So much of what I would select, such as the Bogle, Brel, Portishead, Tabor, Emmylou and so on has already been posted here.
So I will add:
Bogle: No Man's Land (obviously), plus "Singing the Spirit Home" and "Little bits of Paper" (unsure of the title), which contains the hook line "My father died in Summer..."
Neil Young: Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
Mahler: Symphony number 6, especially the last moments. Essentially, Man goes through life being kicked by fate. Every time things look good, it is merely fate lining him up for another kick, so eventually he says "no more, I quit, I.m just lying down and giving up"
So it puts the boot in on the ground.
Beethoven: Symphony number 7. The greatest shout of pure joy ever written.
Oysterband: Coal not Dole running into Bells of Rhymney
Sibelius: Symphony 3 for its opening and finale, 5 for its warmth, and 4 for its devastatingly bleak soundscape. You think Tchaikovsky 6 is sad?
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I've just found this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx8_mv7CzTg). I remember it when it was on the telly when they first recorded it. I heard Jacqueline du Pre play at the Festival Hall when I was very young - at one of the old Robert Mayer Children's Concerts. I think it may well have been her concert debut. She was only about 17 at the time.
It wasn't. She made her debut in 1961 aged 16 at Wigmore Hall and her concerto debut at The Royal Festival Hall in 1962 playing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Schwarz (I am currently reading an autobiography of her). Must have been one of her very professional first concerts though. Your a lucky man WoW. There was a period when I had to listen to her recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto every day.
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Peter Gabriel - Biko; already referenced in this thread (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10404.msg180731#msg180731).
Gives me chills.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Heard this live 4 or 5 times, including one of the Amnesty gigs at Wembley. Awe inspiring. Wallflower from the same album is also chilling.
Another one from This Mortal Coil, "I come and stand at every door" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZ0KgLifjI&feature=related (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6vZ0KgLifjI&feature=related)
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Oysterband: Coal not Dole running into Bells of Rhymney
As someone who grew up in Nottinghamshire in the 80's, and now lives in South Wales, that does it for me, too. :thumbsup:
As do no end of other Oysterband numbers...
ETA: And prescient:
Will it become like sacred ground?
Foreign tourists gazing round.
Asking if men once worked here,
Way beneath this pit-head gear (http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/bigpit/)
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The junior choir of my daughters school sang "The Sound of Music" at the Autumn concert.
The best part of 150 voices under 11 singing perfect multi-part harmony.
You had to have been there.
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PhilO, I recall the Happy End - with the divine Sarah Jane Morris - singing that. In Sheffield. Moving. Very very moving.
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I went to a funeral recently for my neighbour and his widow put on Roberta Flack The First Time and stood there. It was the most eloquent and emotional thing I think I have ever listened to. I can't hear it now without weeping.
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Oysterband: Coal not Dole running into Bells of Rhymney
As someone who grew up in Nottinghamshire in the 80's, and now lives in South Wales, that does it for me, too. :thumbsup:
As do no end of other Oysterband numbers...
ETA: And prescient:
Will it become like sacred ground?
Foreign tourists gazing round.
Asking if men once worked here,
Way beneath this pit-head gear (http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/bigpit/)
Am I the only person who associates
YouTube - Ashford & Simpson - Solid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC4FqV7YCk4)
with the Miner's Strike, it was no 3 in January 1985, a couple of months before the end and I have always felt that the lyrics fit the support of the miner's wives, the use of the word 'Solid' echoing the strike and the personal relationships.
Damon.
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Oysterband: Coal not Dole running into Bells of Rhymney
As someone who grew up in Nottinghamshire in the 80's, and now lives in South Wales, that does it for me, too. :thumbsup:
As do no end of other Oysterband numbers...
ETA: And prescient:
Will it become like sacred ground?
Foreign tourists gazing round.
Asking if men once worked here,
Way beneath this pit-head gear (http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/bigpit/)
I lived in the same village as the author of that one, Aylesham in Kent.
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Every time I hear 'Aylesham' I can't help adding 'Snowdown, Shepherdswell, Kearsney, Dover Priory and Dover Marine'.
Anyway, back OT.
I have to mention Wozzeck.
Peter Grimes too.
Oh Caroline - Robert Wyatt (and Shipbuilding, of course)
Oh heck, there's far too much. Time for bed.
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Thomas Tallis - Spem in alium (I have this recording, it's superb, but listen to it on headphones with good spatial separation for the full effect).
Linn Records - Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium
(http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-thomas-tallis--spem-in-alium-sacd.aspx)
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June Tabor's version of The Band Played Waltzing Matilda:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=swviwHDJQoM (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=swviwHDJQoM)
indeed
Plus always raises a lump in my throat
YouTube - Kate Rusby .- Underneath the stars (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iaN8M0pDOeM)
Plus still makes me very very angry
YouTube - Peter Gabriel Biko Live 1986 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-8Jxi5aE)
I really should read all the way through threads ::-) :-[
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I can get misty-eyed over some of John Barry's music,
eg: YouTube - Beyondness by John Barry (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIrAXZlSx8)
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Vaughan-Williams' "Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis" (used in the Master And Commander film).
Maybe next year's Swindon Ride could go through Down Ampney, Vaughan-Williams' birthplace? It always stinks of gas around there though.
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
YouTube - Scarlet Ribbons - Doris Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEJz-2J_No)
Damon.
I like this version by Sinead O'Connor http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4)
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For me, it has to be Allegri's Miserere (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x71jgMx0Mxc). One of the most beautiful and evocative pieces of music ever written. I defy anyone to listen to it and not be moved. Turn the lights off, lean back in your chair and turn the volume up.
I have had the great privilege of hearing it sung in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week and was almost in tears by the end of it. It is best sung in Latin but I think the greatest recording in English I've ever heard is the 1963 recording from the choir of Kings College Cambridge, conducted by Sir David Wilcocks and with Roy Goodman as the solo treble. It is haunting.
The story behind it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)) is quite interesting as well...
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Thanks Regulator, beautiful , and has made me put some Tallis on.
I think we've had this tread before, possibly at the old place... this song was mentioned. I played it and teared up. Mike Hardings "Bombers Moon" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUK7Dm-IPI (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mpUK7Dm-IPI)
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And I reckon for those of us 'of a certain age' then Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika (http://www.anc.org.za/audio/iafrika.wav) also has quite an emotional tug as well.
I even quite like the new version (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKur2FAN7g).
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Possibly doesn't fit the rest of the thread but it's a good song, and she's beautiful...http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg&feature=related (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg&feature=related)
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Spem in alium is truly divine. I chose Tallis's O Nata Lux (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aVnt3jj7ko) to kick off our wedding ceremony, which is also lovely.
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God Moving Over The Face of the Waters - Moby
YouTube - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters - Moby - Time Lapse (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=he-r9ZspsEU&feature=related)
For those who have seen the film Heat, this is the music played at the climax of the film. This is also one reason why I love Moby.
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Quatuor pour la fin du temps (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia_9nUMpm8) (Quartet For the End of Time)- Olivier Messiaen
Composed in prisoner of war camps and premièred in Stalag VIII-A January 15, 1941. Haunting, one of the masterpieces of 20th century music with it's chilling dedication:
'In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse, who raises his hand towards Heaven saying: "There shall be no more time"'.
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I first heard the Sparklehorse version,but this gets me every time: (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUPCfIihQ4&feature=relatedGlen Campbell - Galveston[/url)
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
YouTube - Scarlet Ribbons - Doris Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEJz-2J_No)
Damon.
I like this version by Sinead O'Connor http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4)
Too much post-phrasing and she's quite obviously mad.
Damon.
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
YouTube - Scarlet Ribbons - Doris Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEJz-2J_No)
Damon.
I like this version by Sinead O'Connor http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4)
Too much post-phrasing and she's quite obviously mad.
Damon.
Absolutely beeautiful.
Being mad these days in the music industry is a compulsory requirement ;)
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Quatuor pour la fin du temps (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia_9nUMpm8) (Quartet For the End of Time)- Olivier Messiaen
Composed in prisoner of war camps and premièred in Stalag VIII-A January 15, 1941. Haunting, one of the masterpieces of 20th century music with it's chilling dedication:
'In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse, who raises his hand towards Heaven saying: "There shall be no more time"'.
Definitely. A great piece of music.
Reminds me of many years ago when I used to try and play the clarinet part.
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Quatuor pour la fin du temps (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia_9nUMpm8) (Quartet For the End of Time)- Olivier Messiaen
Composed in prisoner of war camps and premièred in Stalag VIII-A January 15, 1941. Haunting, one of the masterpieces of 20th century music with it's chilling dedication:
'In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse, who raises his hand towards Heaven saying: "There shall be no more time"'.
Definitely. A great piece of music.
Reminds me of many years ago when I used to try and play the clarinet part.
I heard Messiaens "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum" (I await the resurrection of the dead) performed by the Hilliard Ensemble at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, earlier this year. Absolutely stunning.
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
YouTube - Scarlet Ribbons - Doris Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEJz-2J_No)
Damon.
I like this version by Sinead O'Connor http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VjVeOGYV4)
Too much post-phrasing and she's quite obviously mad.
Damon.
Very probably, but what a voice...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1916518.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2 (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1916518.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2)
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I heard Messiaens "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum" (I await the resurrection of the dead) performed by the Hilliard Ensemble at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, earlier this year. Absolutely stunning.
The Hilliard Ensemble? Blimey. With all the brass, gongs, tam tams and stuff? I'd have thought it would have been a bit noisy for them. Impressive!
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Quatuor pour la fin du temps (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia_9nUMpm8) (Quartet For the End of Time)- Olivier Messiaen
Composed in prisoner of war camps and premièred in Stalag VIII-A January 15, 1941. Haunting, one of the masterpieces of 20th century music with it's chilling dedication:
'In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse, who raises his hand towards Heaven saying: "There shall be no more time"'.
Radio 3 this (today Sunday) evening:
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17:00–18:30
Discovering Music
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Stephen Johnson explores Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.
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18:30–20:00
The Choir
Messiaen Programme
Aled Jones considers the choral legacy of Olivier Messiaen.
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I heard Messiaens "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum" (I await the resurrection of the dead) performed by the Hilliard Ensemble at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, earlier this year. Absolutely stunning.
The Hilliard Ensemble? Blimey. With all the brass, gongs, tam tams and stuff? I'd have thought it would have been a bit noisy for them. Impressive!
:-[ That'll teach me to post after a good session in The Swan!
It was Ensemble 10/10, the subset of the Liverpool Philharmonic that specializes in "modern" stuff!
Hilliard Ensemble were on the same programme, singing The Dream of the Rood, Viderunt omnes and Closing Time
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Barber's Adagio for Strings (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CA93ybVGCeg) always brings to mind the film 'The Killing Fields'. It is a piece that seems to be used often to underline the futility of war and it now seems intrinsically linked with war films.
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I prefer music in war films to be anchored in the period. Good Morning Vietnam, did that well, a much underrated film.
YouTube - Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m1tl0RNuvQo)
Damon.
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Barber's Adagio for Strings (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CA93ybVGCeg) always brings to mind the film 'The Killing Fields'. It is a piece that seems to be used often to underline the futility of war and it now seems intrinsically linked with war films.
I watched The Killing Fields just the other day, but don't recall Adagio for Strings being used in it. It was certainly the soundtrack to Platoon though. I think the piece itself was inspired, if that's the word, by the American Civil War.
I remember watching an interview with David Puttnam about the choice of using John Lennon's 'Imagine' in The Killing Fields. He felt that given the fact that 'Imagine' was number one in the charts at the time in 1979, that it was quite likely to have been playing on a car radio during the final scene of the movie in the refugee camp in Thailand.
However, unlike Platoon, I wouldn't say The Killing Fields is a war film. More a film about a friendship spanning cultural boundaries set against the backdrop of war.
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IIRC the Adagio for strings is used as the background music during the evacuation from the embassy in The Killing Fields.
The Killing Fields was the first of the 'conflict' movies to use this piece - and then others followed. As well as being used in Platoon, it was also used in Hamburger Hill.
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I can get misty-eyed over some of John Barry's music,
eg: YouTube - Beyondness by John Barry (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIrAXZlSx8)
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I'll add some Bjork. This moves me in so many ways...
YouTube - Björk Jóga Live on Later with Jools Holland (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P6a4GVt_T8g)
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I can get misty-eyed over some of John Barry's music,
eg: YouTube - Beyondness by John Barry (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1yIrAXZlSx8)
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I'll add some Bjork. This moves me in so many ways...
YouTube - Björk Jóga Live on Later with Jools Holland (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P6a4GVt_T8g)
Oh, and from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (in this case sung by David Gilmour)...
YouTube - Hushabye Mountain - David Gilmour in Concert (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MsD70-jdA)
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Barber's Adagio for Strings (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CA93ybVGCeg) always brings to mind the film 'The Killing Fields'. It is a piece that seems to be used often to underline the futility of war and it now seems intrinsically linked with war films.
I'm sure it was in Pontoon.
I watched that, but never got the bank.
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YouTube - Rodrigo y Gabriela on Later with Jools Holland (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tUYQMslOobw&feature=related )
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IIRC the Adagio for strings is used as the background music during the evacuation from the embassy in The Killing Fields.
The Killing Fields was the first of the 'conflict' movies to use this piece - and then others followed. As well as being used in Platoon, it was also used in Hamburger Hill.
Well I just had to check :) . I've got the DVD boxset here as it's one of my favourite films. Can't find any trace of the Adagio for Strings on it, although there's two other classical pieces: Nessun Dorma - while Schanberg is watching news from Cambodia on TV, and an amazing requiem during the evacuation of Phnom Penh which I don't recognise, but album notes indicate it is called 'The Year Zero' by David Bedford. Leaving the embassy is 'Pran's Departure', by Mike Oldfield, who did most of the score. Many 80s movie scores sound incredibly dated now, but the kind of terrifying industrial clamour he conjures up is still as effective now as when I first heard it.
I wish they hadn't used 'Imagine' though.
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Barber's Adagio for Strings (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CA93ybVGCeg) always brings to mind the film 'The Killing Fields'. It is a piece that seems to be used often to underline the futility of war and it now seems intrinsically linked with war films.
I'm sure it was in Pontoon.
I watched that, but never got the bank.
It was certainly in Platoon and also the Elephant Man.
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IIRC the Adagio for strings is used as the background music during the evacuation from the embassy in The Killing Fields.
The Killing Fields was the first of the 'conflict' movies to use this piece - and then others followed. As well as being used in Platoon, it was also used in Hamburger Hill.
Well I just had to check :) . I've got the DVD boxset here as it's one of my favourite films. Can't find any trace of the Adagio for Strings on it, although there's two other classical pieces: Nessun Dorma - while Schanberg is watching news from Cambodia on TV, and an amazing requiem during the evacuation of Phnom Penh which I don't recognise, but album notes indicate it is called 'The Year Zero' by David Bedford. Leaving the embassy is 'Pran's Departure', by Mike Oldfield, who did most of the score. Many 80s movie scores sound incredibly dated now, but the kind of terrifying industrial clamour he conjures up is still as effective now as when I first heard it.
I wish they hadn't used 'Imagine' though.
EMI Music Notes indicate that it was used in the Elephant Man, The Killing Fields, and Platoon as well as a variety of other films and TV shows (including the Simpsons and Red Dwarf). Interestingly, on several of the versions of the soundtrack for the Killing Fields that have been released, a number of tracks have been ommitted or not referenced, including Imagine, Band on the Run and Nessun Dorma.
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I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FqOfXumI18A)
Damon.
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Just spent 20 minutes at the piano, and finished with Chopin Prelude No 20 in C minor (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdso4VZok1E&feature=related)
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I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FqOfXumI18A)
Damon.
That is one of my favourite Xmas songs.
That particular video stirs the emotions with the contrasting images of war & family towards the end.
I enjoyed the close ups of fretting & plucking(try saying that with some Christmas spirit in you ;D)
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EMI Music Notes indicate that it was used in the Elephant Man, The Killing Fields, and Platoon as well as a variety of other films and TV shows (including the Simpsons and Red Dwarf).
It's been used in so many films and TV shows that it's become a bit of a cliche, which is a shame because it's a stunning piece of music. It's even in Kevin & Perry Go Large, ffs.
One of my favourite uses is in the Seinfeld episode when Frank Costanza relives his days as an army cook in the Korean War, having a flashback and flipping out when Eddie Sherman chokes on a piece of his food. Utter genius, though perhaps not in the best possible taste. There's also another episode of Seinfeld where they parody the end of Midnight Cowboy with Nilsson's Everybody's Talking, another great emotive track.
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Here's another one that always makes me :'(
YouTube
- Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue‏
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I&NR=1&feature=fvwp)
eddie graces buick got 4 bullet holes in the side
charlie delisle sittin at the top of an avocado tree
mrs storm'll stab you with a steak knife if you step on her
lawn
i got a half pack of lucky strikes man come along with me
lets fill our pockets with macadamia nuts
then go over to bobby goodmansons
and jump off the roof
hilda plays strip poker
and her mamas across the street
joey navinski says she put her tongue in his mouth
dicky faulkners got a switchblade
and some gooseneck risers
that eucalyptus is a hunchback
there's a wind up from the south
let me tie you up with kite string
and i'll show you the scabs on my knee
watch out for the broken glass, put your shoes and socks
on and come along with me
lets follow that fire track
i think your house is burnin down
the go down to the hobo jungle and kill some rattle
snakes with a trowel
we'll break all the windows in the old anderson place
and steal a bunch of boysenberrys
and smear em on our face
i'll get a dollar from my mama's purse
and buy that scull and crossbones ring
and you can wear it around your neck on an old piece of
string
then we'll spit on ronnie arnold
and flip him the bird
and slash the tyres on the school bus
now don't say a word
i'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials in my arm
and i'll show you how to sneak up on the roof of the
drugstore
I'll take the spokes from your wheelchair
and a magpies wings
and I'll tie em to your shoulders and your feet
i'll steal a hacksaw from my dad
and cut the braces off your legs
and we'll bury them tonight out in the cornfield
put a church key in your pocket
we'll hop that freight train in the hall
and we'll slide all the way down the drain
to new orleans in the fall
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Just spent 20 minutes at the piano, and finished with Chopin Prelude No 20 in C minor (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdso4VZok1E&feature=related)
One piece I love to play, that gets my neck hairs up, is Wild Hills o' Wannie
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This thread is inspired by having just watched the video of Shakespears Sister's
"Stay".
An excellent piece of sound & vision to tell a story.
Any more with any more?
Queen's These Are The Days Of Our Lives makes me sob like a child every time I see it.