What are you listening to now ?

This thread is still going? Well, I've been playing a rhythm game over the past 6 months and gathered some tracks in multiplayer I really enjoy 'playing' :D. DnB all the way!




These are just some of the ones I like that aren't Japanese either...
 
Some more not so alive performers ... but here Jon Vickers comes close to Beniamino Gigli (but not quite)

 
I met Janet once. Spring of 1991. She was trying to get a discount for buying two $900 27" Sony TV's.

She was on a three record $40M deal.

 
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I met Janet once. Spring of 1991. She was trying to get a discount for buying two $900 27" Sony TV's.

She was on a three record $40M deal.

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Ha, ha, I was a store manager for Circuit City in the 80s and often encountered the same thing. That's how rich people stay rich ;-)
 
Oginsky's polonaise on an acoustic guitar


"Farewell to Slavs" (also on a 7-stringer)


"The dunes of Manchuria" (it takes a while for him to sit down)


and ending with a four handed Tico Tico

 
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"31st of June" was a 1978 Soviet film based on the book of JB Priestly. That was the disco era and the Soviets didn't feel like lagging behind. In the shot is Natalia Trubnikova and, in some shots, the soon to be defecting Aleksandr Godunov (whom I met once, in LA). Trubnikova's career was ruined because the Soviet authorities didn't want to promote the potentially defecting ballet dancers.


This came out in 1976, a Soviet version of "Hustle" called "Stop the music". (Tynis Myagi is an Estonian singer)



Some of the older folks may recognize this 1980 song ... in English ...


From the Angela Davis look-alike Lyudmila Barykina, "Daddy, buy me a doll"


A "Student song", 1976. Performed by Igor Ivanov.


That was the 1970's. Dance music became more popular, as the censorship relaxed after Gorbachev's rise to power.
 
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Paint Your Wagon has been so unfairly maligned over the years. Sure it’s a bloated mega “event” movie when that form was dying on its last legs in the late 60s, but there’s some great stuff in there. “Wand’rin’ Star” is one of those highlights. I remember seeing this as a kid having no idea as to the history and being just blown away by Marvin in this gentle, vulnerable moment. It’s really quite lovely.
 
Not many people went to see Damien Chazelle’s First Man but the score by Justin Hurwitz is really something. There are two repeating central themes and the climax of the film brings them together as Neil Armstrong pilots the lunar lander to the surface of the moon. The Eagle has separated from the Columbia command module and as Armstrong and Aldrin begin their descent “The Landing” kicks in with a bold, startling strength. This bottled up man who could never express his emotions & personal tragedy and instead continuously pushes himself further into such a dangerous profession is captured in the sad but driving rhythm. There’s a series of interplay’s and passages that riff off the main rhythm that are almost threatening yet too timid to overtake the thrust of the theme. A couple minutes in the passion and scope of the endeavor finally explodes through at a crucial moment that breaks symphonicly into the other main repeated musical theme throughout the film, and it wells up with emotion as the strings are all brought to the forefront. In the film this is the moment that the tiny lander is faced with a huge crater it must get past with dwindling fuel if the astronauts are ever to survive this folly. Finally as we are making it to the end the horns of old fashioned Hollywood grandeur and bravado kick in just enough to make us all share in mankind’s greatest achievement.

I thought Hurwitz wrote the best score of 2018 but it wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar. “The Landing” is the most emotionally satisfying track for me as it essentially sums up the entire film in five lovely, driving minutes.

https://youtu.be/ohEOPFY-ngw
 
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Agreed. He certainly learned the lesson of the repeated rhythm. At least he made it his own instead of blatantly ripping off Glass as Hans Zimmer did with Interstellar. That was frankly horrifying.
 
Not many know that Alfred Hitchcock dabbled in music videos.


And a bit of Jule Styne ans Sammy Cahn, the Best Song Oscar winner.

 
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