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Topic Started: Sep 16 2012, 02:50 PM (7,837 Views)
duckie

I seem to be absolutely addicted to Justin Bieber's latest single "As long as you love me"... It's soo stupidly addictive!...

*Waits for all the JB related jokes...* :p

I'm also loving this American acoustic band who tend to upload their own cover track of popular songs such as Dynamite by Taio Cruz (another song I can't help replay): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30WakIlloqs&feature=relmfu


So what's on replay for you on your iPod/mp3 player/whatever it is you own!
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I find it better to sing to myself - then people keep out of my way. <laugh>

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Not on an iPod (is that alright,duckie? :) ) but I'm currently listening to Marvin Gaye singing What's Going On....
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I'm listening to Radio 6 a bit these days. I need to tidy up my ipod, there is stuff that I've done for Mrs R that got automatically copied on there. It's160G ipod, so it just takes everything that's on the PC. Shuffle can be very hit and miss. There are also a lot of 'Unknown artist' tracks, which can be a surprise too. The last thing I put on there was the new Ry Cooder 'Election Special' album. So, a lot of angry stuff about Mitt Romney and co. Musically, it's quite rootsy and basic. I get the feeling it was done quickly: I think Ry plays everything on it except drums (his son, Joachim hits the skins). http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zz8r
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becky sharp
Sep 17 2012, 02:43 PM
Not on an iPod (is that alright,duckie? :) ) but I'm currently listening to Marvin Gaye singing What's Going On....
Yes of course :)

Well it's day 3 and I'm still pretty much addicted to the JB song... :$ Along with Rita Ora's "How we do (party)".
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Currently listening to a few songs by Grace 2 (that's my middle daughter, duckie). She's not the world's best guitarist, but she turns a good lyric and it's nice to hear a bit of youthful idealism.

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Yes, some of don't have Ipods. (The other day my husband, mostly more technologically aware than I am, asked me what an Ipad was, but I didn't know either).

My radio is set to the national programme of Radio New Zealand and it is mostly interviews, news and analysis, though they have quite a lot of music in the afternoons. A feature album each day. Not normally pop stuff, though not long ago they played a Lady Ga Ga album - it was much better than I had expected. This week's seems to have included the latest Bob Dylan and Band of Horses. In my car I have tapes (and one of the most important thing about buying a car for me is that it takes tapes), and many of them are made up from old music they have played on RNZ (50s and 60s stuff mostly), but right now I just have a Jim Reeves tape on. (Perhaps I should change that, and say I have a Radiohead or at least a Blur one on to sound a little less naff.)
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Jim Reeves sounds good to me, Caro.

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Seek it ~ Richard Hawley
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Richard Hawley is interesting: I like what I've heard but there is a strong element of 'homage' bordering on pastiche in what he does. He wears his influences on his sleeve, a bit like Nick Lowe in that respect.
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Tinie Tempah - Written in the stars.

Dappy - no regrets.
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Sep 19 2012, 03:28 PM
Richard Hawley
Enjoyed this concert that was on 6 Music the other week featuring him.

As part of 6 Music Celebrates: Live Music the BBC Philharmonic presents Richard Hawley live from the Great Hall, Magna, Sheffield. Richard will be performing orchestrations of songs from across his career accompanied by the orchestra.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mltg4

Currently listening to What Do I Get? ~ Buzzcocks
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I used to listen to music on a portable device especially when travelling long distances on planes and things....it calmed me in the hustle and bustle of travel to hear my own selection of music on a Sony Walkman; pre-iPod generation, and when it came out in colours to join the regulation black of the time, it lightened my mood even more....

These days I prefer to listen to music at home on a music system or digital radio, and although I have an i-phone, which will play music, my iPod is my iPad which with the advent of wi-fi allows me to watch a movie or mini-series via iTunes, (strikes me here that an "i-p" rhyme or ditty is in the offing) or download a book or post here or look something up on the internet...or will do again as I await delivery of the new 3rd generation i-Pad on Monday! I've given my present one to my father who is in hospital and needs cheering up; and although he doesn't know it yet, its his to keep just for times like these! Have downloaded a good book and brain games for him to occupy his mind.

When coming back on the train from a visit to Kent yesterday, a guy had his iPad upright on a stand watching Charlie Sheen's Two & a Half Men!....Listening to 'transported' music is, and always will, be very popular especially with the younger generations, but I'm also seeing lots of people on their laptops or iPads or reading their Kindle whilst travelling - not everyone it seems wants to listen to music these days!
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<huh????> .....
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Sep 23 2012, 10:02 AM
<huh????> .....
I agree, Mobs. Although it is an excellent portrayal of Noel Coward, one wonders what prompted it. While we're thinking about that, here is one of his songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsIMVIWjlQ

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Who knows the mind set of one called Big Arthur?
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Well, you can store lots of things on an ipod, including pictures.
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And that's a nice new picture, Mobs.
I'll store that one as well.
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Well, talking of Noel Coward ..... this would be on my ipod ..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vipukAME53k
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If I had an i-Pod this would take pride of place. Eventually, in the distant future, when I fall off my twig for the last time, I want this played at my funeral service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3zNZGNl3lc
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duckie

Came across this song which was apparently played as the background music in Grey's Anatomy (a medical themed U.S. drama).

Lost and found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eh3iysQG_I

Kinda catchy!
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yes .... nice tune <ok>
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I heard 'Reggae got soul' by Toots and The Maytals on my little DAB radio (R6 the other day) and it really lifted me ~ what a great song that is! <ok> There isn't much to it lyrically (or musically, I suppose) but sometimes the combination of a great groove and powerful vocal performance just works really well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ivk0x1vThY
Edited by rumbaba, Sep 25 2012, 07:55 PM.
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I don't have an iPod, my kids tell me I look "uncool" with one of those. I looked in the mirror and I have to agree; I do.
I do, however, have a car! And in the car I was listening to this:

Marc Carrol doing the traditional "Matty Groves"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewoWe-gbCxA

Rumbaba and The Emoticons


This is an other version of the same song by Eva Abraham, it's also brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDdX5iIOWDA
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Coming home on Thursday evening after a fantastic day in Cromer North Norfolk, I was bemused to sit on a Piccadilly tube opposite a row of people of all ages, sex and race, all with white wires coming out of their ears...I felt as though I was in a Tron movie!!!!
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The_Bush_Doctor
Oct 6 2012, 12:41 PM
I don't have an iPod, my kids tell me I look "uncool" with one of those. I looked in the mirror and I have to agree; I do.
I do, however, have a car! And in the car I was listening to this:

Marc Carrol doing the traditional "Matty Groves"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewoWe-gbCxA

Rumbaba and The Emoticons


This is an other version of the same song by Eva Abraham, it's also brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDdX5iIOWDA
*cough* babaji! *cough* Just sayin'... <whistles>

Gangnam style is annoyingly addictive! Any of you guys heard that? It's by Psy, this Korean rapper. The track came out at the start of summer and has been popular since!

The video is crayzee-silly yet hilarious in terms of the dance moves! Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
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I'm not exactly sure what an iPod is but...

My musical obsessions for the last couple of months have been inspired by my highlights from the Proms.

Schoenberg - "Gurrelieder"
(I've been playing the Boston Symphony Orchestra version, featuring Jessye Norman.)

Berlioz - "Requiem"
Shostakovich - Symphony #7

(There were two superb Mahlers this season; but the Bernstein cycle of the symphonies is already my Bible.
No big Stavinsky or Berg this year.)
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I've heard better G&S nights than they had this year.

I don't know what an iPod is either.
My computer screen tells me that I've got iTunes. Is that much the same?
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Lol..an iPod is kinda like an MP3 player? <erm> Made by Apple (the company). It has space to store hundreds/even thousands of songs along with videos, pics..

You don't have to have an iPod to contribute to this thread - you can even share what you're blasting via youtube! :)

I seem to be listening to a lot of bhangra these days.
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We don't use the iTunes thing. You have to pay for the music to put on it.
There's enough free music on the wireless for me.
I've got this on the REalplayer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtIw5AkUEsE
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duckie
Oct 8 2012, 06:49 PM
I seem to be listening to a lot of bhangra these days.
Do you ever listen to more traditional Indian music? I was listening to the World Routes programme on Sunday evening on Radio 3 that is highlighting the wonderful classical Indian music played at the recent Darbar Festival held on the Southbank in London.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n6r1y/World_Routes_Darbar_Festival_2012_North_Indian_Music_for_Flute_and_Surbahar/
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I don't care a lot for that sort of stuff.
I prefer things like La Mer.
Another one on we have on Realplayer is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk
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That's a good 'un, Stout.

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I'm glad you reminded me about our Realplayer.
I forgot this one was on it and I like it very much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCezynFj_gQ
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I can't see any button to press to modify tha last message so here's another nice one we have on the REAlplayer.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4kj3i_beatles-your-mother-should-know-196_music
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Oct 10 2012, 05:10 PM
I can't see any button to press to modify tha last message

Try the "Edit" button, Stout - bottom left corner of your message.


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I don't have an ipod but then I dislike Apple almost as much as I dislike Micro$oft.

When the need arises, ie when I'm on the move, I listen to music/audio on my Blackberry Playbook (a tablet), my Blackberry phone or on one of my minidisc recorders - yes, I still use minidiscs quite extensively.

What I listen to is very often BBC radio programmes that I've downloaded.
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Usually, my daughter is on my iPod. Consequently, it no longer seems to connect to the computer but if it did, this would be on it, the theme tune from 'The Almighty Johnsons'...

Oh My - Gin Wigmore
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Caro

She seems very respected. We sent a CD of hers to my son in Britain a couple of years ago, and I think she did well at the recent NZ music awards. Did the Almighty Johnsons come to Britain? We were away when it first screened here and never did watch it, which was probably a shame, since I gather it was about as good as the brilliant Outrageous Fortune.
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Mobson
Oct 9 2012, 05:41 PM
Do you ever listen to more traditional Indian music? I was listening to the World Routes programme on Sunday evening on Radio 3 that is highlighting the wonderful classical Indian music played at the recent Darbar Festival held on the Southbank in London.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n6r1y/World_Routes_Darbar_Festival_2012_North_Indian_Music_for_Flute_and_Surbahar/
Not really Mobson.. This is as instrumental as my choice goes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOUvFJdKv3E By an artist called Niraj Chag - he is amazing! Most of my ultimate "chill out" music list consists of his stuff! It's certainly relaxing. :)

Other than that - I love old school Punjabi music. Oh and bollywood music is also brilliant! Particularly anything by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan - nephew of an incredibly famous singer: the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. This singer was the *Godfather* of all from the Asian sub-continent. :)
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Oct 10 2012, 10:28 PM
She seems very respected. We sent a CD of hers to my son in Britain a couple of years ago, and I think she did well at the recent NZ music awards. Did the Almighty Johnsons come to Britain? We were away when it first screened here and never did watch it, which was probably a shame, since I gather it was about as good as the brilliant Outrageous Fortune.

They've just started showing Season 2 on Si-fi, but we missed the first two eps, so had to catch up online, and then we couldn't resist watching the rest of the season. It's 'True Blood', but with more irreverent humour, and not so many dead (or undead) bodies.

Until I watched the video, I thought Gin Wigmore was a band, rather than a woman. We're probably going to be listening to a lot more of her stuff.
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The poet, Wullie Hershaw, who writes in the vernacular of the mining villages and towns of the part of Fife that I come from, is working on a project about Joe Corrie (1894 - 1968), a miner from Fife whom T. S. Eliot described as "the greatest Scots poet since Burns". Wullie plays and sings in a couple of folk bands and there is a 16 song album on the way about Joe Corrie, I thinkhe sets some of JC's poems to music . I got an advance copy of four of the songs and I am listening to those. Unfortunately, as I mentioned on another thread, the transfer from CD to ipod hasn't worked very well :(
Edited by rumbaba, Oct 12 2012, 02:55 PM.
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Was watching a 90's bollywood film yesterday afternoon with the family. It was great watching it after years - this was a film from my childhood! :D The songs from this film have been on replay since yesterday. :)

Blasting some good old bhangra music today.
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Would that be Punjabi old school Duckie?
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I'm listening to Martha Wainwright's cover of Proserpina, a song her late mother,Kate McGarrigle, wrote....it's Martha's new single.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGLMM6WD3w
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I heard Martha's song recently: she is always interesting (I'm less enthused about her brother). My friend Frank, the journalist, had lunch with the McGarrigle sisters, many years ago when they were playing in Glasgow. He told me they were very nice people and it was the first time in his career as a journalist that the person(s) he was interviewing invited him to lunch and paid.

Today I was listening to Sid Selvidge, Memphis folkie who used to be in the legendary band 'Mud Boy and The Neutrons' with one of my all time heros Jim Dickinson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ck-QrwMAE
Edited by rumbaba, Oct 15 2012, 12:06 PM.
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I saw Martha's brother Rufus in 2009 in an intimate concert at what might seem an unlikely spot...my local church in Piccadilly - Martha guested singing solo on an acoustic guitar - she sounded good!
Edited by Mobson, Oct 16 2012, 02:22 PM.
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The builders were next door today with their wireless blaring out.
About the only tune I recognized was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAw9ThDQmk
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Mobson
Oct 15 2012, 11:50 AM
Would that be Punjabi old school Duckie?
Lol no I didn't mean old school..although this is something like 5 yrs old. :D I do listen to old school bhangra at times - afterall, old is gold?
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Hugh Jampton
Oct 15 2012, 05:06 PM
The builders were next door today with their wireless blaring out.
About the only tune I recognized was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAw9ThDQmk
Our mansion block is being totally renovated with a 26-week contract period...The exterior is being taken back to the original brickwork as years of layers of filler & paint are blitzed off and all stucco and decorative masonry is made good with new....

We are a radio/music free building as far as builders are concerned. We had the interior completely refurbished earlier this year and now the external renovation, and I think we would have all been driven to distraction if we had had to endure builders music as well as their constant banter! A few years back, our residents association met up with the head landlord's managing agents and we drew up a document specifically for contractors, which prevented any works being carried before 9am and ceasing by 5pm - no weekend work except that which was noiseless on Saturday between 9-1pm and NO radios!
Edited by Mobson, Oct 16 2012, 10:13 AM.
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Do they have to pull their forelock and call you 'madam'? :)
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Absolutely! and yes they do call me Madam, of their own volition I might add - as for forelock tugging.... hmmm, most of them seem to be without the necessary equipment to do that! <wink>

On the subject of playing loud music why should people, like Hugh for instance, have to suffer the loud unbridled music of others just because they live next door or under or above or are carrying out building work on your or a nearby building! :'(
Edited by Mobson, Oct 16 2012, 11:17 AM.
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rumbaba
Oct 15 2012, 12:05 PM
(I'm less enthused about her brother).
Whereas I like him....my son gave me his Poses album after I told him I loved Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk by Rufus..it's a lovely album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6N0sNMKFO4
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This is my favourite Rufus track (I can't check it, I hope it's the right one :( )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR--nDR88b0
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Oct 16 2012, 01:42 PM
rumbaba
Oct 15 2012, 12:05 PM
(I'm less enthused about her brother).
Whereas I like him....my son gave me his Poses album after I told him I loved Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk by Rufus..it's a lovely album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6N0sNMKFO4
<ok> He sang that at the intimate concert I talked about above becks! ... post 48!


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Oct 16 2012, 02:16 PM
He sang that at the intimate concert I talked about above becks! ... post 48!


<ok>

Brian Eno is singing I'll Come Running as I type.
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Mobson
Oct 16 2012, 10:01 AM
Hugh Jampton
Oct 15 2012, 05:06 PM
The builders were next door today with their wireless blaring out.
About the only tune I recognized was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAw9ThDQmk
Our mansion block is being totally renovated with a 26-week contract period...The exterior is being taken back to the original brickwork as years of layers of filler & paint are blitzed off and all stucco and decorative masonry is made good with new....

We are a radio/music free building as far as builders are concerned. We had the interior completely refurbished earlier this year and now the external renovation, and I think we would have all been driven to distraction if we had had to endure builders music as well as their constant banter! A few years back, our residents association met up with the head landlord's managing agents and we drew up a document specifically for contractors, which prevented any works being carried before 9am and ceasing by 5pm - no weekend work except that which was noiseless on Saturday between 9-1pm and NO radios!
Is farting allowed in your mansion block, Mobs?
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Only if you do it in tune, Hugh.
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Oct 17 2012, 05:08 PM

Is farting allowed in your mansion block, Mobs?
I'm sure it must be! There are a few old Lords and blokes of a certain age!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuKxL4LOqc

Does that remind you of somebody?
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I'm listening to this right now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azcy9_F0DCE
Edited by Mobson, Oct 23 2012, 09:21 AM.
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I'm floating away listening to this .... :)

Vissa D'arte by Angela Gheorghiu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIExoUb8jk
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<magic> Wonderful aria!

- I have just seen Woody Allen's latest film To Rome with Love and there is a character in the film who sings opera like a maestro in the shower....Woody Allen's character hears this modest Italian funeral director singing his heart out in the bathroom whilst visiting his home and insists he could have a more fulfilling career singing classical music - when Woody takes his protegee for an audition with contacts he has in the classical world, he fluffs the interview and later Woody realises that he can only sing incredibly when he's in the shower.....so being a Woody Allen film you can guess what happens next..... ^o)
Edited by Mobson, Oct 23 2012, 07:26 PM.
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You had a shower, Mobs?
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Oct 23 2012, 07:17 PM
I have just seen Woody Allen's latest film To Rome with Love and there is a character in the film who sings opera like a maestro in the shower....Woody Allen's character hears this modest Italian funeral director singing his heart out in the bathroom whilst visiting his home and insists he could have a more fulfilling career singing classical music - when Woody takes his protegee for an audition with contacts he has in the classical world, he fluffs the interview and later Woody realises that he can only sing incredibly when he's in the shower.....so being a Woody Allen film you can guess what happens next..... ^o)
Is it worth a watch.Mobs?

I love his earlier works ...they were quite a looked forward event in our house.
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I really enjoyed Midnight in Paris, his continued foray into Europe after London & Barcelona; thought he was pretty much back to his old self. To Rome with Love starts well enough, there are the usual individual stories, four in this one, involving quirky characters getting into tricky situations all the while showing great shots of Rome's interior city; and although funny in places it kinda peters off in places - but yes, I would say its definitely 'worth a watch' for Penelope Cruz alone!

His next film which will be released next year is still in post-production and as yet untitled; but Alec Baldwin who features in To Rome with Love, appears with Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins, who was in his Cassandra's Dream,...he's been very careful to keep the plot close to his chest! <cool>
Edited by Mobson, Oct 24 2012, 02:02 PM.
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Revisiting Adele's 21 - guess after listening to her latest hit single dozens of times in the past weeks - yep it's the title song from James Bond's latest - called Skyfall! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gLRp5bSpw
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I'm hooked on Boyce Avenue's cover of Maroon 5 - Payphone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWqhsh1Iq4g
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I'm tapping my toes to Backwater by Brian Eno...
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I'm belting out an aria along with Maria Callas - Lord help my neighbours! well they are Lords! Ha Ha! ;)
Edited by Mobson, Oct 31 2012, 03:16 PM.
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<laugh>
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I'm singing 'Spread a Little Happiness' with Binnie Hale.
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I can't remember which thread I posted ' Blue Danube ' on.
My next one is ' Wiener Blut'
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I'm listening to a rather lovely song I've never heard before ..it's one of the choices of the guest (Tidjane Thiam.) on Desert Island Discs this morning
I will have to wait for the list of the songs to appear on-line to know what it is as I didn't catch what Kirsty said it was.
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I'm listening to Charmaine Neville's live album 'Before the storm' recorded at Snug Harbour Jazz Club in New Orleans (where I saw her on Monday). I got her to sign it and we did some photos :)
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I've been listening (in my head!) since Friday to Robbie's new no. 1 single Candy <angel> - pretty weird lyrics, but terribly catchy chorus!

Hey ho, here she goes
Either a little too high or a little too low
Got no self-esteem and vertigo
Cause she thinks she's made of candy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Xx-aQmg8A
Edited by Mobson, Nov 5 2012, 11:10 AM.
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no points - nul points - keine Pünkte'."

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Mobson
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;) ....too late! 'fraid the votes don't count!
Edited by Mobson, Nov 5 2012, 05:45 PM.
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Mobson
Nov 5 2012, 08:00 AM
I've been listening (in my head!) since Friday to Robbie's new no. 1 single Candy <angel>

Despite being No 1 Robbie's song has been banned from Radio 1

http://www.nme.com/news/robbie-williams/66998

This is the song that I liked that was played on Desert Island Discs...

Ismaël Lô Tadieu Bone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4XzffIVZx8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCezynFj_gQ
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duckie

Boyce Avenue - Skyscraper. It's a cover of Demi Lovato's song, but I prefer Boyce Avenue's version by a mile! :)
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Mobson
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...Skylar Grey's 'C'mon let me ride your bicycle' feat. Eminem <fweeee> ...it's not on my ipod but I am listening to it! * <whistles>

warning: E's hook rap is a bit rude - he covers Queen's Bicycle Race <wink>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Eyemy_G8NQg#!

*release date: 11.12.12

<ok> sure getting a lot of use out of the new smiley!
Edited by Mobson, Nov 28 2012, 09:29 AM.
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Am listening to Sounds Of The Sixties and the gorgeous This Guy's In Love With You by Herb Alpert is playing :wub: :wub:
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Mobson
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<whistles> I've just got 'cos she thinks she's made of candy' out of my head..... and now have riff....'C'm let me ride your bicycle' stuck there and it's not even been released till next week so you can imagine how much airplay it's gonna get after that! Grrrrrrr! <doh>
Edited by Mobson, Dec 3 2012, 01:22 PM.
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May-Cee

"Lonnie's Lament" (x2)

The original version by the John Coltrane Quartet ("Crescent", '64)
Jimmy Garrison's big moment is the best bass solo I know of, this side of Mingus.
(Though another jazz-bass hero, Richard Davis, conjured up some good 'uns.)

And McCoy Tyner's solo piano version ("Soliloquy")
Tyner played on the original, of course; but his version is a beautiful masterclass in how to turn an ensemble piece into a wonderful solo turn.
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I saw McCoy Tyner once, many years ago at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. It used to be a great jazz venue, I saw loads of people (I lived in Thornton Heath, which is very near Croydon). From memory; Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan (supported by the Wynton Marsalis band), Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Fortune, Stanley Clarke, Elvin Jones. Of course, some of these were in the same band when I saw them, I think Wayne Shorter was in Stanley Clarke's band and Elvin was playing with McCoy: it was all a very long time ago :(
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..Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas Baby - bought the deluxe edition for my mother for Christmas but have not stopped playing it - ordered up another one just in case or I can just give her his new autobiography <pres> .... <wink>
Edited by Mobson, Dec 18 2012, 12:29 PM.
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My Christmas ipod selection has well known Christmas songs, done as instrumentals by The Dixieland Ramblers and there are also the same songs done by a bluegrass band. I have Tommy Smith's Christmas album in there and I have various versions of the Christmas Song (Mel Torme and Nat King Cole). I don't have 'The little boy that Santa Claus forgot' cos I don't want to blub on the train :(

He's the little boy that Santa Claus forgot,
And goodness knows, he didn't want a lot.

He sent a note to Santa
For some soldiers and a drum,
It broke his little heart
When he found Santa hadn't come.

In the street he envies all those lucky boys,
Then wanders home to last year's broken toys.
I'm so sorry for that laddie,
He hasn't got a daddy,
The little boy that Santa Claus forgot.

Spoken:
(You know, Christmas comes but once a year for every girl and boy,
The laughter and the joy they find in each brand new toy.
I'll tell you of a little boy that lives across the way...
This little fella's Christmas is just another day.
He's the little boy that Santa Claus forgot,
And goodness knows, he didn't want a lot.)

In the street he envies all those lucky boys,
Then wanders home to last year's broken toys.
I'm so sorry for that laddie,
He hasn't got a daddy,
The little boy that Santa Claus forgot.

Edited by rumbaba, Dec 18 2012, 12:32 PM.
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becky sharp
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This catchy (sixties sounding) song is my latest earworm....

Shelter Song ~ Temples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4i41cOv0s
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I'm listening to They Write The Songs..... a series of programmes on Radio 2...this week it's the music of Cole Porter <magic> <star> <magic> and Anything Goes is on at the moment..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phhcx
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May-Cee

"It's Over" - Roy Orbison
"The Brokenhearted" - Springsteen

The Big O at his best; and The Boss doing his best (and wonderful) Orbison impression.
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Winter Trees, a rather nice song, from The Staves who are an acoustic folk rock trio of sisters from Watford, England.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey2UdOqiTw8
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Something reminded me of old Mario, recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtUgarayU3g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yua3bdXQjzU
Edited by Hugh Jampton, Feb 20 2013, 05:58 PM.
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As Patti Smith is one of my heroines -

"Because The Night" - Springsteen
"Redondo Beach" - Morrissey

I think Springsteen's demo shows that he was doing his fellow New Jersey gal a favour by giving her a co-writing credit and her only real hit.

Morrissey is also a big Patti fan; and I can see how the "sweet suicide" theme of this song would attract him.

His backing band stick too closely to the original arrangement for the track to be interesting, musically.
But Morrissey's (beautiful) voice is on fine form; all the little whoops and stutters and quivers in the right place.
Yep, I like it.

(Oddly, he leaves out the word "sweet" before "suicide".
I would have thought that "She was a victim of sweet suicide" was a very Morrissey-like lyric.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GHFy7DHEqM

That's the tune I was talking about. [And it's me singing]

Does anybody know what it's called?

And, do you like my lav seat song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcYqz5VAYp8
Edited by Big Arthur, Mar 21 2013, 08:36 PM.
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dai Cottomy
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"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GHFy7DHEqM

That's the tune I was talking about. [And it's me singing]

Does anybody know what it's called?"


It's the Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner. The lav seat piece is by Chopin , but I don't know its name.

I used to have one of those lav seats, but got rid of it because it took too long to lower.

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I keep my ipod on shuffle these days but there is a lot of stuff on there I need to clear out. I end up with a lot of my wife's stuff and sometimes I have to hastily skip through Barry White, Phil Collins or Elton John.
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dai Cottomy
Mar 22 2013, 03:15 AM
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GHFy7DHEqM

That's the tune I was talking about. [And it's me singing]

Does anybody know what it's called?"


It's the Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner. The lav seat piece is by Chopin , but I don't know its name.

I used to have one of those lav seats, but got rid of it because it took too long to lower.

Many thanks, Dai.

The lav seat mechanism doesn't work any more.
It just closes like any other :-/
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Mobson
Oct 24 2012, 01:48 PM
Midnight in Paris,
I caught up with this the other night and once I got past the fact that Owen Wilson was doing an (annoying) impersonation of Woody Allen I enjoyed it...I don't think I'll be rushing to see anymore of Mr Allen's films in the near future as they are getting samey now ...enjoyable but samey.

At the moment I'm listening to this, new to me, song from Nadine Shah ...Dreary Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzg3CPHrwbE

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