Late night music thread. What are the Du'ers listening to?

I am listening to Duke Ellington "At Newport." I dig it. Before that, the new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. It's gotten some pretty lame reviews but I think it is great.

I'm listening to 'Jerk It Out' by the Caesars. Great song.

that's one of their best songs

Carlos Kalmar conducted a program of Brahms, Rossini, the original Engelbert Humperdinck, and another South American composer I'm to lazy to look up in the program which is in another room.

Anybody else like classical music?

I just love love love classical music....and we are NOT alone..

There are others as well.....

Your concert sounded wonderful...BTW.....


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Nice to know we share at least THREE things in common.

Being up at night is the first.

And living on the West Coast is #2.

Now, here's #3 -- classical music -- which I love from afar right from childhood, because I consume it on CD, cassette tapes, and radio. I don't play an instrument, although both my parents did. Dad on the violin, Mom on the piano -- and lots and lots of radio and records to accompany my afternoons when they were both at work.

I listen to classical music most of the time, except when I listen to jazz -- we have both represented on non-commercial radio stations here in Portland. Only listen to talk radio when I want to raise my blood pressure several points.

Who's your favorite composer?
Tchaikovsky is mine -- love almost everything he wrote. Kind of plebian tastes for the Russians -- Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, etc.

Favorite classical piece?

Used to be Debussy's "Clair de Lune" -- now I like Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin".

Or maybe it's Mendelsohhn..spelling? I love especially the Classical/Romantic composers, though I also love folks like Copland, too...

And the same goes for favorite piece..too many .......But nearly anything from the above-mentioned composers.....

I especially love the big pieces...the symphonies, the concertos..

Le Tombeau de Couperin makes me get up and dance about my study! But so do many other works.....

Like yourself, I too grew up with classical music. And I'm doubly blessed because my husband plays the piano..classical and jazz...

:pals:

me to the symphony and can recognize some classical themes now that I've been playing recordings of them for him for 33 years. I have all the Beethoven symphonies, but my favorite is the Dance Symphony, #7. I forgot. (This is a fun site -- the top 100 list from WCRB, the classical station in Boston, with brief excerpts...)

http://140.239.61.3/cgi-bin/univ/univ.pl?page=essential.html&station=wcrb

But my husband is a whiz at plumbing, electrical work, software, mathematics, including bank by mail, travel arrangements, and he's pretty good at gardening, horseback (trail) riding, walking and talking, garage sale-ing, and, of course, other unmentionable physical activities --if you know what I mean, jelly bean...

When I was divorced in the early 1970s, I had a fling with a millionaire who had been dumped by two wives. He played the piano SO beautifully and frequently played when I visited him in his magnificent home in South Miami, Florida. He was excellent in the lovemaking department and I remember he had a closet with the most gorgeous clothes, running from "white" to "black" along a whole wall. He also did drugs to some degree, hashish as I remember, and that was rather worrisome (I don't -- and didn't).

He also had a younger woman who was interested in him -- I think her name was Laura. Regrettably, he had four children from the two divorces, and didn't want anything to do with my youngsters, who were just tiny kiddos. We dated for a while, and then he told me he was paying for Laura's college and the relationship was over.

But, oh, that piano music on a warm night in Florida with the moon out above the palm trees. I often wonder what happened to that fellow. He has such a common name that I'd never find him in a million years on the Internet...

Well, my hubby's taking me to Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii in October. We'll sit in some piano bar and someone else will play...

Good night in peace,

Radio Lady

Song: gone

by the jam

I like your musical taste more and more. Are we related?

are your genes blue?

Must you ask my brother.

submariner...

But what the hell...

Prince. "Soft and Wet"

:hide:

I've got these four albums on shuffle in my iTunes playlist:

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Honky Chateau
Madman across the Water

Benny and the Jets is playing right now.

I have Wishbone Ash on deck.

One of the best sons ever.....

Although I can't for the life of me figure what it's about. Nixon?

I dispatched of the old Prince after posting about it (embarrassingly) upthread!

Listening to Ben Harper myself! "Diamonds on the Inside" You?

Ben Harper is fantastic!

But Diamonds on the Inside is FANTASTIC...

have you heard this song?


http://evilvince.com/wp-images/BlackRain.mp3

Black Rain. WOW!

When was this recorded? Where?

Wow.

Thanks so much for the link!

:applause:

I got an email from someone that we know that is touring with Ben.


Lemme see if I can find it... it's the first take of the song.. it KICKS SO MUCH ASS huh?!

I already LOVED Ben Harper.

I hope this song gets a ton of play. I think you should start a seperate thread with that link, actually. Let me know if you do, I'll give it a kick or two if it falls. I know a lot of other DUers would have the same reaction that I had to hearing that song.

Wow.

The Fall: "Psychic Dance Hall"
Frog Eyes: The Oscillator's Hum
Fake Organisms: "Where I Come From"
Zmrizlina: "Chopper"
Hajime Tachibana: "Theme From Clubfoot"
The Move: "It Wasn't My Idea To Dance"
Adam McIntyre: "Half Dead"

But right now I'm watching an episode of Carnivàle, not listening to music.

Great background stuff.

planning to RIP a couple of my Galaxie 500 CDs in a minute. Just bouncing through my iTunes library at my whim and caper.

Just so you all don't think I'm TOO cool for school, in my stack to RIP, you'll also find "Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates. :hide:

Remember that one? It came out in like 1994. It has a dance beat...instrumental...kinda dreamy...

Listening to The Breeders "Pod" right now. In an old school mood tonight. Just finished listening to Husker Du "Flip your Wig."

Is there anything else to listen to?

I'm a total Nine Inch Nails fanatic. "Closer to God" is playing right now. Its an excellent version of "Closer".

In my personal rotation at the moment:

Damian Marley
Nine Black Alps
OK Go
Joy Electric
Willie Nelson (new reggae LP)

Very cool city, of course we went to "Tootsies." Had a blast.

There's a lot to like in Nashville. Most of it is downtown and in the Hillsboro area.

http://thedarkhorseproject.net/

Absolutely beautiful, sad, and hopeful at the same time.

RL

great disc

Very different, you can go to amazon.com and download a free tune. "It still moves" is one of my favorite cd's ever.

Porcupine Tree fans should know this band! I've been listening to this album quite a bit today.

album Sin City
Alert to all fans: Gen and co are hittin the road again, go to their web page for tour updates. that is all

Tasty.

Beatles...Yesterday just played.

Gretchen Wilson - All Jacked Up (full album can be heard legally at cmt.com. She IS pandering too much on this CD, as "All Jacked Up" and "Skoal Ring" are clever, while "California Girls" and "Politically Uncorrect" are obnoxious. It's befuddling that great writers like Leslie Satcher and Wynn Varble write dreck when they enter the political realm. As an aside, Darrell Scott wasn't much better with "We've Got Nothing But Love To Prove," a Faith Hill song. This all said, there's enough on the Gretchen album to recommend it. And "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today" is an absolute jewel of a song.)

Coldplay - X&Y - it might not be as good as A Rush Of Blood To The Head, but I find Coldplay captivating. The album's still a keeper, as I know I'll be listening to it.

I've started listening to Emma Roberts samples again. This is after I saw a 4-star review of the album on All Music Guide - http://www.allmusic.com. A negative review hardly ever has an impact on me, but sometimes a well-done positive review will make me reconsider. Jill Sobule(!) was actually involved, making me even more interested in seeing if it grows on me.

I think I might buy the Emma Roberts after all (I'm glad I listened again thanks to Heather Phares at All Music Guide,) but I'll see if I can hear more full songs first.

Took out David Gray's White Ladder today. Great CD.

subtitled "The Best of the Chameleons", but in truth there isn't really a "best". Their first three albums are all amazing, and the other stuff isn't too bad either.

"Trampled Underfoot" right now, "Kashmir" in a second.

Chairs Missing

... I really like "A Bell is a Cup..." even though nobody else does :)

Chairs Missing is generally considered their best. Classic!

Good stuff.

I think 154 is my favorite.

I have never heard A Bell is a Cup... Didn't like the Ideal Copy too much.

Take care!

"Last Chance Blueprint" by Rise Against right now.

Slayer, and Bob Dylan. I think I have music dyslexia

Max is doing fine without Sepultura isn't he. I actually like his stuff better than Sepultura I think. Slayer, what can I say? They knew what real metal was before many others.

Also some stuff from Delta 9, DOA, Lenny Dee, and Oliver Chesler.

everyone is reading Harry Potter! My husband is on the fifth book and my daughter (8) is readin aloud the first book to herself. No TV, no radio, just family :D .

Just played Dylan Thomas reading "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"; now playing "I See A Darkness" by Johnny Cash..

Al DiMeola: Lady Of Rome Sister Of Brazil
Andy Summers: Free Cell Block F
Triumph: Petite Etude, Fantasy Serenade
Simply Red: Holding back the years

mostly lettin this one run - Echoes of Nature: Ocean Waves