Music and DISCUSSION Thread

[Amarok]

Welcome to the discussion, DF.

Coincidentally, while you were posting that, I was watching another live BBC performance from that era.
A guy who many only know for his novelty songs like Ahab the Arab or Guitarzan or The Streak, Ray Stevens is also a talented musician, vocalist, and grammy winning composer/arranger.
This has been one of my absolute favorite songs since I was a child and likely had a significant impact on my personal development, as the viewpoint was completely foreign to anything around me and showed me a different way of prioritizing life.



(Also, I know it should have been "latina" in the Rita Moreno post, but it is too late to change. )

 

[Amarok]

Stevens' arrangement of the standard "Misty" is another of my favorites.

 

[Umpty Candy]

I haven´t really paid much attention to Ray Stevens, don´t really know why... Loved those songs, tx! Reminded me of Arlo Guthrie somehow, still rocking after 50 years..



He is retired now I think...

 

[Lockedin]

I haven´t really paid much attention to Ray Stevens, don´t really know why... Loved those songs, tx! Reminded me of Arlo Guthrie somehow, still rocking after 50 years..



He is retired now I think...

 

[Umpty Candy]

Best enjoyed eyes shut and with decent headphones.. I love to immerse myself in the dimension of hearing with this type of stuff...

A certain phase of life has passed today, feeling slightly plaintive. This is my go-to version of the music that just lifts my spirits, everytime. I love some real Old Skool music and love the Baroque era the best anyhow of the classical ones. Concerto Grosso style and Corelli especially is dear to my heart..

 

[Amarok]

I haven´t really paid much attention to Ray Stevens, don´t really know why... Loved those songs, tx! Reminded me of Arlo Guthrie somehow, still rocking after 50 years..



He is retired now I think...

Arlo is such a good song writer. I love his wordplay. Who needs the word "apogee" when you can just say the pickle "was half-way between goin' up and comin' down"?


Personally, I enjoy his music a lot more than his father's.

 

[Amarok]

Best enjoyed eyes shut and with decent headphones.. I love to immerse myself in the dimension of hearing with this type of stuff...

A certain phase of life has passed today, feeling slightly plaintive. This is my go-to version of the music that just lifts my spirits, everytime. I love some real Old Skool music and love the Baroque era the best anyhow of the classical ones. Concerto Grosso style and Corelli especially is dear to my heart..

Long ago I was listening to classical music with a coworker and they were the one who pointed out that every piece I really enjoyed was Baroque.

Classical is kind of like jazz to me, in that I am woefully ignorant of the genres and their many and widely varied sub-genres, but I enjoy almost everything I hear and want to expand my knowledge.

 

[Lockedin]

Best enjoyed eyes shut and with decent headphones.. I love to immerse myself in the dimension of hearing with this type of stuff...

A certain phase of life has passed today, feeling slightly plaintive. This is my go-to version of the music that just lifts my spirits, everytime. I love some real Old Skool music and love the Baroque era the best anyhow of the classical ones. Concerto Grosso style and Corelli especially is dear to my heart..

A few genres do it for me like that - I'm really not an opera fan per se, but this one always gets me.

Slightly comical side note - Pre Dawn trail run, VERY stoned on a brownie, energy running low - Nessun Dorma on a nice set of over-ear headphones.
--- This track comes on, and I know it's 2 min long - I can push for that much longer!
-- Reached the peak of the trail with the sunrise and the peak swell of the track. --- It was timed so perfectly that I had to stop & laugh!

 

[Umpty Candy]

A few genres do it for me like that - I'm really not an opera fan per se, but this one always gets me.

Slightly comical side note - Pre Dawn trail run, VERY stoned on a brownie, energy running low - Nessun Dorma on a nice set of over-ear headphones.
--- This track comes on, and I know it's 2 min long - I can push for that much longer!
-- Reached the peak of the trail with the sunrise and the peak swell of the track. --- It was timed so perfectly that I had to stop & laugh!

Such a strong and beautiful voice he has. Got me all goosebumped..

Why We Get Goosebumps When Listening to Music
The first, which is supported by research, suggests that a good song encourages dopamine (aka, the brain's feel good chemical) to flood the striatum—a part of the forebrain that controls our reward circuit. This dopamine rush produces “chills,” aka goosebumps.

? that I learned quite recently, always thought I was just odd getting goosebumbs from certain songs or music... ?

 

[Amarok]

 

[Lockedin]

 

[Amarok]

Does anyone have an album that is so strongly associated with a period of your life that you can hardly listen to it anymore due to the intense rush of emotions and memories every time you hear it?

For me, it's Diary of a Madman . So much time, so many experiences, so many people, are invoked when this starts playing: so many lives that were once intertwined that now have gone in so many directions, with too many lives ended too soon and others destroyed for a myriad of reasons, friends that are strangers or worse, old hangouts closed and forgotten, old roads bypassed and grown over, ancient thoughts of things that might have been...

There are good memories of those days, and good friends from those days who I still cherish, but this album always brings on the melancholy

 

[Caddis]

Deseeded a lot of weed with this cover!

 

[Kold Kasiz]

Alot of cool music in here. ?
After jamming to Animal and Charlie Daniels from the last page my YouTube feed suggested this banger.. ?

 

[Amarok]

Nice one, @Kold Kasiz . Someone put in some fine work making that.

 

[Amarok]

This one just popped up on shuffle, from a collection called "Lost Female Hits of the 50's". If I've heard it before, it didn't register at the time, but I really enjoyed this. Some interesting production with a very fun and enjoyable vocal performance.

 

[Amarok]

 

[Amarok]

A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better

 

[Lockedin]

edit - Ha! didn't notice we were both in a lyric quoting mood this morning till I posted this!

".....or cultivate the hate
to annihilate the State,

are you prepared to die for your beliefs,
or just to dye your hair?"

 

[Amarok]

Totally different vibe, but the heavy accent immediately reminded me of what has to be one of my top 5 all-time albums. I wore this out on cassette at least 3 times before switching formats.





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