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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:17 AM
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What are you listening to now?
Over here it's Elgar's 'cello concerto, in that recording, with Jacqueline du Pre (what a totally tragic life :cry: ). I'm not normally a fan of Elgar, or pretty much anything of that era; but this gets me close to tears, and reminds me that the 'cello is sex on a stick.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:23 AM
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1. I'm trying to decide what to listen to.
Perhaps the new Anoushka Shankar? Maybe Brazilectro again today? Maybe a classic Stanley Turrentin Blue Note album? Hmmm... What to do...what to do. :hi:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:47 AM
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8. Is Anoushka Shankar related to Ravi?
If so - that's where my vote goes. :hi:
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:52 AM
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12. it's his daughter
:)

Ok - when my 10:00 meeting is over...after I give Billboard magazine a quote on a new record, I will listen to Anoushka.
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:24 AM
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2. nothing right now
unless you count me listing to myself blowing my nose :)
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:49 AM
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9. Poor MissHoneychurch.
You need to take the honey from you name, and add it to hot lemon juice and brandy. :hug:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:25 AM
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3. "Ways to be Wicked" by Lone Justice
One of 100 songs on my current MusicMatch playlist.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:26 AM
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4. My new iPod Nano
I purchased this past weekend (gotta splurge every once in a while). Mostly it's an 80s post-punk mix (Chameleons, Comsat Angels, Cocteau Twins, Psychedelic Furs, My Bloody Valentine) with some 70s soul and some nuevo flamenco tossed it to keep it interesting.

I don't know how I ever lived without an iPod before. :)
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:38 AM
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5. We're not allowed to listen to music at work
:cry:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:46 AM
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7. Apparently neither are we.
But along with many other orders issued from on high it's completely disregarded around here. I do have to use head-phones as my office-mates certainly don't share my tastes.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:52 AM
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10. Oh, about the 'cello
I don't know if this is what you meant by sex on a stick, but I do find it a deeply erotic instrument. I think it must be the way that players (who tend to be women) hold the instrument between their legs, and all that energetic bowing. It gets me quite hot under the collar.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:06 AM
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13. That's definitely it.
Plus the sound (at least for me) it's such a warm deep sound like a good baritone voice - listening to one is just like having a gorgeous man wrap his arms around me and hold me close to him.

There's a famous quotation from Sir Thomas Beecham regarding the 'cello, he was distinctly dischuffed with a soloist during a rehersal and turned to her and said 'madam, between your legs you have an instrument capable of giving the greatest pleasure to man, and all you can do it scratch it'.
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HEAVYHEART Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:41 AM
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6. This week
I've been listening to System of a Down's Toxicity ALOT for the past couple of weeks. Before that, I was playing Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits like every fucking day for a month.
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tyedyeto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 08:52 AM
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11. The washing machine...
thanks for the reminder to turn on some tunes.
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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:16 AM
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14. Haydn's Creation
Following your lead, I checked it out of the library so I could hear it in its entirety.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:21 AM
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15. meiko miyazaki ~ jesu, joy of man's desiring
koto sebastian bach 2000
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RogueTrooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:21 AM
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16. Gorillaz - Demon Days
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:29 AM
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17. Radio io 70's
Internet radio. They play stuff I haven't heard in years, I gave up commercial radio years ago, my reciever sits across the room gathering dust.
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 09:31 AM
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18. Various 80s pop songs from my collection
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jackelope72 Donating Member (726 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 10:18 AM
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19. The Original Broadway Cast Recording of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
One of my favorite stories of all time, put to music by one of my favorite popular music composers of all time (Frank Wildhorn), and sung by some of the best voices in musical theatre: Christine Andreas, Douglas Sills (swoon swoon) and the incomparable Terrence Mann.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 11:12 AM
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20. Cello for me, too. Yo Yo Ma playing Ennio Morricone.
I have that recording of du Pre doing the Elgar. It's absolutely wonderful. As for Elgar, I lurve the Enigma Variations.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 11:31 AM
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21. Blissful silence
intermixed with the bubbling from my aquarium. Peaceful silence.
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 11:35 AM
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22. Cheap Trick, Freddie King, Killing Joke, Law & Order: CI
Okay, technically, the last one is "watching".
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 11:49 AM
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23. Queensryche's Warning album
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jojog Donating Member (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-05 11:51 AM
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24. KEXP
Seattle Public Radio
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