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What are you listening to? Part III
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Punk was punk, - and while some of it was excellent - (and some of it was awful), yet, what really drew me to it was that I loved that distinctive and quite special keyboard sound of The Stranglers, which lifted the best of their tracks to an entirely different level.
And Dave wrote Golden Brown which was brilliant then, (almost 40 years ago) and is still absolutely brilliant.
Interesting that he cites Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman as his main influences. Two giants that I was fortunate to see in my mid to late 1970's concert going days in Montreal. Great times.
Two of my favourite Stranglers tracks too. SSD news indeed.
And the videos, (especially of Golden Brown), wonderfully atmospheric - redolent of simmering and stifling heat, the tropics, that louche, somewhat dissipated and slightly seedy world of Empire in the era between the mid nineteen thirties and the mid nineteen fifties.....
Oooof: I caught a few of the last, flickering, lingering - almost faint - echoes of that world a few years ago, a world of tropical twilights (non-existant), twirling overhead fans, massive almost regal beds, mosquito nets, large villas, crickets chirping noisily at night, turbo-prop planes - with spinning propellors - landing in airfields where red earth comprised the run-way and air-socks told you the direction of the wind...
And another superlative and powerfully moving piece of music from Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: A stunning and superb track: Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World.
Babaji - Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments - 1977
I went for a drive today and listened to this entire symphony (coincidentally the symphony finished as I was pulling into the driveway). 😁
Yeah, super band! One song I will always remember is "Under Pressure", as it was featured in the excellent series "The Americans":
Very, very appropriate song for that series.
And here is it live:
A few classics from Jethro Tull: Bouree, We Used To Know, Reasons For Waiting, and Living In The Past.
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 by Martha Argerich and Rotterdam Philharmonic - never gets old and she's nearing 80!
Meanwhile, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra struggled to keep up alongside her:
I was fortunate enough to attend the latter concert.
Meanwhile, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra struggled to keep up alongside her:
I was fortunate enough to attend the latter concert.
Beautiful Handel aria, maybe my favorite (along with Ombra mai fu).
A few from Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno; Come On Eileen; There, There My Dear; Tell Me When My Lights Turn Green; Teams That Meet In Caffs, among others.
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