What music are you listening to now?

[Jafele]

Greensleeves

[warspite1]

As a kid growing up I was bombarded with the classical music my mum (and to a lesser extent my dad) loved.

Some of it stuck, I appreciated it and I have a modest classical collection. But many pieces I liked at the time and have long since forgotten but - if I knew their names - would buy them now.

Its really good every now and then to hear once again a quality piece - instantly recognise it (as though transported back in time to my mum's front room, and needle in the grove, an old 33 going around on the record player) - and, armed with the title, can buy it.

I was at a concert my little warspite was playing in yesterday and saw in the program that they were going to play the first movement of a Schubert symphony - the 8th. It meant nothing to me. Then they started playing and..... there was that instant transportation back in time... what a ball-bouncingly, stonkingly brilliant piece of music. Schubert's unfinished 8th Symphony duly added to the classical collection [:)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhkiivKYFvA

[durangokid]

The Chain by The Show Ponies. It's a great cover version of the Fleetwood Mac. It's not better but it's very good and well worth a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=504tvZzoT-c

[shunwick]

Guilty Pleasures 2

Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tWhPv2U6aQ

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II Mountains Beyond Mountains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wu3bimO6_o

Best wishes,
Steve

[Orm]

Listening to Scotch and Falco again.

Scotch-Primitive man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAYuYlpw_WQ

Falco - Jeanny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urw-iutHw5E

[RFalvo69]

Rush Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. One of his best works (for a great movie, incidentally).

[Zorch]

So that's why Warspite likes them. [;)]

'Abba exhibition to look at how group lifted Britain in bleak times'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/ ... leak-times

It was 1974 and the UK was a grim, pessimistic nation of strikes, mass unemployment, three-day working weeks, power cuts, football hooligans, nylon sheets and Vesta chow mein. But at least there was Abba.

The moment when four unknown, brashly dressed Swedes suddenly became superstars by winning the Eurovision song contest at the Brighton Dome will be celebrated in Super Troupers, an immersive exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre later this year.

Details have been announced of a show that organisers hope will be more than a just tribute to the music of Abba, although there will be plenty of that.

“It will be a different take on Abba we hope,” said producer Paul Denton, who tells the band’s story in a wider political and cultural context. “In 1974 Britain economically was not doing that well … what was it about Abba that actually caught the imagination of the public?

“If you look at pop music across the decade, the huge shifts in musical tastes and the emergence of punk – if you look at the charts, Abba were a mainstay in the album and singles charts and there is something about that which is worth celebrating, and we will show what it was about them which captured hearts and minds.”

Super Troupers will be a finale to the centre’s year-long celebration of Nordic arts and culture and will follow a model set by two immersive and hugely successful exhibitions previously staged there, Adventures in Moominland and The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl.

Those exhibitions took items from archives and embedded them in a theatrical, narrative setting with small groups guided through the story.

Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus visited Adventures in Moominland and liked the approach. Organisers will borrow items from the Abba museum in Stockholm as well as private archives to chart the rise to fame and legacy of Björn, Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.


Key moments will include the night in April 1974 when Abba, with their song Waterloo, beat the Eurovision favourite Olivia Newton-John, who was representing the UK with Long Live Love.

Visitors will feel like they are in the Brighton Grand hotel suite where Abba celebrated their life-changing victory in the competition. It was the Napoleon suite, the same suite occupied 10 years later by Margaret Thatcher on the night of the IRA bombing.

Items in the room will include the medal won by the band, while on the TV will be their performance, conducted by a man in a Napoleon costume and watched by audience members in dinner jackets and posh frocks. Other settings will include the band’s recording studio and a 1970s disco.

Denton and his team have had access to the Abba museum and its stores and will borrow unseen sketches and drawings for the band’s look as well as personal photographs, album artwork, costumes and instruments.

“We are looking at archive material which has a story,” said Denton. For example, on display will be Frida’s water-stained cape from a 1977 tour of Australia, worn on stage in Sydney as it chucked it down.

The show will also explore the musical context of Abba: who influenced them? Who was the competition?

The exhibition at the Southbank Centre, London, will explore Abba’s influences and their competition. Photograph: Torbjorn Calvero © Premium Rockshot

Denton said there was far more to Abba’s music than is sometimes imagined. “People often think of it as carefree pop but lyrically and musically it is really well crafted. If you, for example, break Dancing Queen down, it is so beautifully done.”

Abba lasted as a band only until 1982 but they have never gone away – perhaps, above all, because the songs were fun and so easy to dance to. “It is weird doing this exhibition,” said Denton. “You know all the words to the songs, somehow they are embedded in our consciousness.”

There was a time when no one in their right mind would admit to being an Abba fan. “Now people with abandon say how much they like Abba and how much they influenced them. People are happy to say ‘yes, I’ve got all the Abba albums.’ There has been a shift in the acceptance of how much influence they have had.”

Abba’s Lyngstad said the group was thrilled to be supporting the exhibition, particularly because it was at the Southbank Centre, “which is just a few short steps away from Waterloo – this connection brings to mind very happy memories of the song that started our great success in Britain.”

She was echoed by Ulvaeus, who said: “Since our songs, which were written in the 70s, are still being played today it’s particularly interesting that the Southbank Centre exhibition is placing them in the temporal context in which they were created. We recorded Mamma Mia in 1975. What happened that year in the UK and in the world? One thing is for certain: it seems unbelievably long ago!”

• Abba: Super Troupers is at the Southbank Centre from 14 December to 29 April 2018. Tickets go on sale from Tuesday 4 July.

[servicesp12]

im looking for some cool new music..any ideas?

[shunwick]

ORIGINAL: servicesp12

im looking for some cool new music..any ideas?

That depends on how cool you want it...

Terje Isungset & Lena Nymark - A Glimpse of Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QosfSaE0q7c

Best wishes,
Steve

[warspite1]

Right time to fire up the Panzer IV and head east....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZskQIEMHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbRVPSkx3-s

Such intense music.

[warspite1]

...and sticking with the German theme, I think its time for another top 10. So here's a taster. Beautiful... just beautiful

Blutengel - Silent Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FkJ39vE2lo

[warspite1]

..and another. Just wow.

Bluetengel - Silent Tears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzHPCVq1U0

[steffcheriff]

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name

Old but Gold! Yeah! [:D] [:D] [:D]

[warspite1]

Couldn't get Blutengel down to a top 10 - top 12 was the best I could do.

So to kick off we have

No.12 Reich mir die Hand - Tranenherz (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1G-9WUgptY

[warspite1]

Next up we have:

No.11 Wonderland - Angel Dust (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Ii1FDHxn8

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Right time to fire up the Panzer IV and head east....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZskQIEMHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbRVPSkx3-s

Such intense music.

If you are gonna fire up your Pz IV, you should atleast utilize the only usable part of the movie Battle of the Bulge, and play Panzerlied

[terje439]

But if German is what you are after, you could always go with
Rammstein - Ich Will , or
ManoWar's german version of Heart of Steal - Herz aus Stahl.

Right now I am listening alot to Dylan;
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Don't think twice it's all right
Tangled up in blue
Hurricane
Just like a woman
Melancholy Mood
With God on our side

[warspite1]

Well that's a pain. I can only find a live version of No.10. This doesn't quite get over how good this toon (especially the intro) is but at least you get a flavour.

No.10 Der Spiegel - Seelenschmerz (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBuJ2BZzDwc

[Orm]

Listening to the Bluetengel top list.

[Orm]

Gloria Estefan - Here We Are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9DYeePLJY