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Started by The Brain, March 10, 2009, 12:32:23 PM

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viper37

Listen to your heart, covered by Leo Moracchiolli and Violet Orlandi.
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Savonarola

Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins – John Lennon and Yoko Ono (1968)

Yes, but is it art?

This is the album equivalent to a Warhol film.  John Lennon records the ambient noise of his house and Yoko shrieks from time to time.  It's kind of like John Cage, except I doubt even John Cage would have used Yoko Ono as a vocalist.  The album is probably more famous for its cover featuring a picture of John and Yoko naked (it had to be sold wrapped in brown paper.)  The album actually charted in the United States (at 124), though not in the United Kingdom.
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Josephus

Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

mongers

Quote from: Josephus on March 04, 2021, 04:10:46 PM
Pink Floyd The Division Bell

:cool:

Thanks for the reminder Jos, not heard that one in years; wanders off to find it.
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Josephus

King Crimson--Lizard (1970).
The difficult third album. Most members would leave after this one, again. Leaving Fripp to reinvent itself again for the difficult fourth album.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

The Minsky Moment

Teddy Wilson - Brunswick & Columbia Recordings (1935-1941) 

Austin, TX born Wilson was the Jackie Robinson of American music, when he joined Benny Goodman's group in 1935 to play piano trio pieces with Benny and Gene Krupa, forming the first integrated group with a public profile. Wilson is also known for being hand-picked to accompany Billie Holiday in her 30s-era recordings organized by John Hammond, arguably her best.

These recordings are basically everything Wilson did in the late 30s other than for Goodman or Holiday.  Wilson is mostly forgotten by now even among many jazz listeners, but he was a big deal back then and was able to organize top tier sidemen on his projects, including Goodman and Ellington alumni like Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Cootie Williams, Krupa, Goodman himself, Harry James, and others, including one date with a then little known teenage singer named Ella Fitzgerald.  There are also a number of impressive solo piano pieces in the Harlem stride style - Wilson had the speed to match the top stride players, but he was also well educated and brought a technical mastery unrivalled by most others save maybe Earl Hines.

Columbia was and is a quality label and Brunswick was at the time a very solid label in the second tier so sound quality is mostly very good for prewar recordings with exceptions on some tracks.

That said I wouldn't recommend this CD based set to any but collectors. The Holiday-Wilson recordings are easily accessible through Spotify as are reasonably good selections of Wilson's early solo , small group, and big band work.  One can also stream his 50s era trio recordings with Verve, which have better sound quality - Wilson never changed his style with the times so it much the same stuff as in the 30s,.
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Syt

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The older semesters here may remember Rick Springfield's 1981 banger "Jessie's Girl": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkbTyHXwbs&ab_channel=RickSpringfieldVEVO

What I did not know is that Coheed & Cambria have made a sequel, feat. Rick Springfield, "Jessie's Girl 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTGo-JHuCGc&ab_channel=CoheedandCambria

:D

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Admiral Yi

Just learned that Shocking Blue (Venus) were Dutch.  Were there any other Dutch contributions to popular music?

Josephus

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 13, 2021, 02:15:22 AM
Just learned that Shocking Blue (Venus) were Dutch.  Were there any other Dutch contributions to popular music?

Golden Earing--Radar Love and Twilight Zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4

Focus --Hocus Pocus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Admiral Yi

Nice pulls.

Very impressive if you just knew that.

Josephus

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 13, 2021, 07:47:28 AM
Nice pulls.

Very impressive if you just knew that.

I did  :lol:

But I'm really into music
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Maladict

Quote from: Josephus on March 13, 2021, 07:32:00 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 13, 2021, 02:15:22 AM
Just learned that Shocking Blue (Venus) were Dutch.  Were there any other Dutch contributions to popular music?

Golden Earing--Radar Love and Twilight Zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4

Focus --Hocus Pocus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q

I'll add When the Lay Smiles (Golden Earring)
with this classic video that certainly couldn't be made today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ixPD3LP8Hs

More recently some 90s nonsense (2Unlimited) and DJs like Tiesto and Armin van Buuren.

Syt

There's also Grendel (industrial), Clan of Xymox (dark wave), Heidevolk (folk metal), The Gathering (prog), God Dethroned (death metal), Legion of the Damned (death/thrash)... maybe a bit niche for most here. :P
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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