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What are you listening to? Part III

Framed - Jerry Reed (1971)

It's not my kind of song, but the lyrics fit the moment.

In the sports world, there are some referees who are inexperienced (at best) or biased (at worst). They sometimes call players for fouls they didn't commit. In hockey those players are put in the penalty box for a while. I can easily identify with those players.
 
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Even though my (mostly unused) teaching degree is in English & history, these Polish music students are very high on my short list of heroes.

Stanislaw Moniuszko School of Music Orchestra, in Bielsko Biala, Poland.

A YouTube Comment: "Are they school students? I thought they are professional orchestra!"

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Ravel - Bolero


Two more YouTube comments:
•OMG, more than 4000 drum beats. Drummer acted clearer than metronome. Bravo.​
•I respect and admire the talent and self-discipline of these young people. Bolero is, in some sense, an exercise of organized passion. But it has to be accurately organized. It forgives no mistakes. Well done everyone.​
 
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I wish we had at least a couple of feet of pure white snow (the legal kind..) here come December, but it's not looking too good. But when it comes to cool music videos and just absolutely amazing artists Nick Cave always delivers.

 
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Madhatter32 said:
I also never heard of this song. I do not know why as it is quite good in my opinion. I'm a sucker for melancholy music I guess.
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I think it could easily have succeeded if it had been released as a single. I also love melancholy music. Shortly before you posted your comment I had already decided (more or less) what my next post will be, and it's one of the most beautiful "melancholy" songs in my list of all-time favorites.
 
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I think it could easily have succeeded if it had been released as a single. I also love melancholy music. Shortly before you posted your comment I had already decided (more or less) what my next post will be, and it's one of the most beautiful "melancholy" songs in my list of all-time favorites.
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Here's one I really like in that genre -- Autumn Leaves. It is usually played with a more upbeat feel and tempo. But in this version, a live performance, Eva Cassidy just plays it so beautifully and understated -- one of the most melancholy versions I ever heard.

 
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I consider this moody, melancholy song to be one of the most mesmerizing I've ever listened to. I first heard it late one Sunday night in 1988 or 1989 on South Dakota Public Radio. When it began I think I was writing some fiction on my 1st Gen 128K Mac (modded for use with an external HD). I had been very deeply into whatever I was writing, but this song took it all out of me. I just had to lie down on the couch and listen.

Deuter - Petitie Fleur (1988)


It almost sounds like 1960s scary/romantic movie soundtrack.
 
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I consider this moody, melancholy song to be one of the most mesmerizing I've ever listened to. I first heard it late one Sunday night in 1988 or 1989 on South Dakota Public Radio. When it began I think I was writing some fiction on my 1st Gen 128K Mac (modded for use with an external HD). I had been very deeply into whatever I was writing, but this song took it all out of me. I just had to lie down on the couch and listen.

Deuter - Petitie Fleur (1988)


It almost sounds like 1960s scary/romantic movie soundtrack.
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Yes. Quite haunting. Lovely. I listened to it and in the recesses of my mind, buried deep, I thought I had heard something similar from somewhere. After some thought, I can up with ... a Clint Eastwood movie believe it or not. It is not the same but it is somewhat similar to the Watch Chimes in A Few Dollars More -- at least to my untrained ear. Strange how the mind works -- I haven't seen that movie in years.

 
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Madhatter32 said:
Yes. Quite haunting. Lovely. I listened to it and in the recesses of my mind, buried deep, I thought I had heard something similar from somewhere. After some thought, I can up with ... a Clint Eastwood movie believe it or not. It is not the same but it is somewhat similar to the Watch Chimes in A Few Dollars More -- at least to my untrained ear. Strange how the mind works -- I haven't seen that movie in years.

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That is amazingly similar. I wonder if Deuter was thinking of it, either subconsciously or consciously, when he composed "Petite Fleur." I wonder if that's why I have always thought, since I first heard it in 1988-89, that it sounds so familiar, and also why it has always seemed like a movie soundtrack. I don't remember that part of "A Few Dollars More," but maybe I was remembering it subconsciously. If Deuter did copy it without realizing it, he certainly did it justice.
 
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