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Clodfobble · 10-31-2008, 01:11 PM

Oh man, I saw Yo-Yo Ma perform a piece off his new album on TV the other day... wow did I hate it. It was this experimental thing with a woman playing bagpipes and screaming every once in awhile, and it was just terrible.

smoothmoniker · 10-31-2008, 03:19 PM

philistine.

Clodfobble · 10-31-2008, 03:24 PM

Yeah. I thought it was dumb when we played that piece in 7/5 time in high school, too.

classicman · 10-31-2008, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Oh man, I saw Yo-Yo Ma perform a piece off his new album on TV the other day... wow did I hate it. It was this experimental thing with a woman playing bagpipes and screaming every once in awhile, and it was just terrible.

Holy shit - Is that who that was??? I saw that too!! Worse than terrible. As bad as that chili joke I posted.

Pie · 10-31-2008, 03:42 PM

The interview was okay (Colbert) but the performance was like listening to a catfight. One where both cats actually die at the end.

Crimson Ghost · 11-01-2008, 12:02 AM

Ignite - Fear Is Our Tradition

TheMercenary · 11-01-2008, 12:41 AM

Death Magnetic - Metallica

DanaC · 11-01-2008, 07:05 PM

MGMT

I'm listenin to their debut album. I am ever so impressed.

elSicomoro · 11-01-2008, 08:17 PM

I've been listening to a lot of Ministry lately. I'm going to miss Al Jourgensen and the gang, but if McCain gets elected, he might wind up coming out of retirement.

Ibby · 11-01-2008, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

MGMT

I'm listenin to their debut album. I am ever so impressed.

MGMT are okay, but i personally recommend Black Kids, White Rabbits, Cajun Dance Party, etc a little more.

Undertoad · 12-04-2008, 12:29 PM

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

This is in the heart of the American cultural DNA. Somebody said it was coming up on the 50th anniversary of it so I fetched it.

I have never listened to the whole thing in real-time, but I've surely heard everything on it just by accident and since mama is a deep classic jazz fiend and since it influenced everything that came after it.

Since I have not yet achieved my own 50th anniversary this work is not revolutionary in my lifetime. It strikes me that my understanding of its musical language is largely due to Vince Guaraldi's awesome Peanuts soundtrack work, which began 5 years after Kind of Blue. We didn't realize it at the time, but you didn't grow up in the Peanuts generation without being exposed to quality jazz.

So, to me, Kind of Blue is simply good music, and not the extraordinary accomplishment that it's always heralded as. But for the same reason, it sounds... modern somehow, not like a 50-year-old recording.

dar512 · 12-11-2008, 04:40 PM

Are You Hep to the Jive - Cab Calloway

Good music. Still sounds hep.

DanaC · 12-11-2008, 05:52 PM

I love Miles Davis. Kind of Blue was the first jazz cd I bought when I went through my jazz fad last year. I'd heard most of it, like you say, accidentally; my Dad was a jazz fan.

glatt · 12-12-2008, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by dar512

Are You Hep to the Jive - Cab Calloway

Good music. Still sounds hep.

I threw a department party on Tuesday, and had trivia. One of the questions asked "What big band leader and scat singer is best known for his 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher?" Only half of the teams got it. Sad. So very sad.

Griff · 12-12-2008, 03:47 PM

We need music education in this country.

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11-01-2008, 07:05 PM	#1493
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	MGMT I'm listenin to their debut album. I am ever so impressed.

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elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	I've been listening to a lot of Ministry lately. I'm going to miss Al Jourgensen and the gang, but if McCain gets elected, he might wind up coming out of retirement.

12-04-2008, 12:29 PM	#1496
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Miles Davis - Kind of Blue This is in the heart of the American cultural DNA. Somebody said it was coming up on the 50th anniversary of it so I fetched it. I have never listened to the whole thing in real-time, but I've surely heard everything on it just by accident and since mama is a deep classic jazz fiend and since it influenced everything that came after it. Since I have not yet achieved my own 50th anniversary this work is not revolutionary in my lifetime. It strikes me that my understanding of its musical language is largely due to Vince Guaraldi's awesome Peanuts soundtrack work, which began 5 years after Kind of Blue. We didn't realize it at the time, but you didn't grow up in the Peanuts generation without being exposed to quality jazz. So, to me, Kind of Blue is simply good music, and not the extraordinary accomplishment that it's always heralded as. But for the same reason, it sounds... modern somehow, not like a 50-year-old recording.

12-11-2008, 04:40 PM	#1497
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Are You Hep to the Jive - Cab Calloway Good music. Still sounds hep. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

12-11-2008, 05:52 PM	#1498
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I love Miles Davis. Kind of Blue was the first jazz cd I bought when I went through my jazz fad last year. I'd heard most of it, like you say, accidentally; my Dad was a jazz fan.

12-12-2008, 03:47 PM	#1500
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	We need music education in this country. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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