What you listening to RIGHT now?

Rush, their Time Machine Tour from 2011 is currently on TV on Sky Arts, :)
Sadly drummer, Neil Peart died just over a year ago. :(
Quite apt for this forum, they are just playing Camera Eye.
 
I'm enjoying that too. Keep forgetting that Sky Arts is on Freeview/Freesat!
 
Nod said:
I'm enjoying that too. Keep forgetting that Sky Arts is on Freeview/Freesat!
Click to expand...
I was surprised to see it was from 2011, I didn't think it was that long ago. That tour was the 3rd time I saw Rush live and 2nd time for my sons.
 
nilagin said:
Rush, their Time Machine Tour from 2011 is currently on TV on Sky Arts, :)
Sadly drummer, Neil Peart died just over a year ago. :(
Quite apt for this forum, they are just playing Camera Eye.
Click to expand...
The series The Art of Drumming has been good too.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Nod
nilagin said:
Rush, their Time Machine Tour from 2011 is currently on TV on Sky Arts, :)
Sadly drummer, Neil Peart died just over a year ago. :(
Quite apt for this forum, they are just playing Camera Eye.
Click to expand...

I was listening to 'Moving Pictures' this morning. They really were a great, great band.

Interesting interview with Geddy Lee, talking about Neil.

www.rollingstone.com

Geddy Lee on the Genius of Neil Peart

Rush's Geddy Lee looks back on years of collaboration with late drummer Neil Peart.
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
 
Last edited:
Not my usual type stuff, more heavy rock/grunge/hip-hop [90's only] or some good ol' Oirish folk, but I have a soft spot for some Brit Rock bands, so had a listen to Maximo Park's latest and it's decent, sounding like a return to older form, didn't think much of their last one.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQkW29Yzd6I
 
I caught part of a country and western song on Radio Five Live yesterday morning when the subject was bringing up twins. For whatever reason the vocal harmony of some twins came up and a record by a set of twins called Ward Thomas was played. They are non-identical twins from Hampshire born 10 minutes apart but obviously their voice boxes are identical. There are a few famous twin singers..the Everly Brothers come to mind.

These two are called Ward Thomas . I had to Google for their songs and chose these two.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzQAsNs1bo&list=OLAK5uy_maYOYBSj0XPZICTEDdR5RdhVjM18a4DrM


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8eEzWydEI
 
JohnC6 said:
I caught part of a country and western song on Radio Five Live yesterday morning when the subject was bringing up twins. For whatever reason the vocal harmony of some twins came up and a record by a set of twins called Ward Thomas was played. They are non-identical twins from Hampshire born 10 minutes apart but obviously their voice boxes are identical. There are a few famous twin singers..the Everly Brothers come to mind.

These two are called Ward Thomas . I had to Google for their songs and chose these two.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzQAsNs1bo&list=OLAK5uy_maYOYBSj0XPZICTEDdR5RdhVjM18a4DrM


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8eEzWydEI
Click to expand...

They do sound good. I'd never heard of them but Mrs F likes a bit of Country and she has heard of them.
 
Marc said:
They do sound good. I'd never heard of them but Mrs F likes a bit of Country and she has heard of them.
Click to expand...

Yes..wonderful voices. I've never heard of them either and suspect many on here haven't either which is why I thought I'd post a couple of their songs.
 
Whilst I'm here..lol

I listened to Desert Island Discs last week,Radio4 and one of the songs chosen by the guest was 'I Wanna Be Like You" (The Monkey Song) from Walt Disney's 1967 film "The Jungle Book" The first two verses rung a bell with me immediately . The second link is a 2013 song..by a great singer, I have to say. I really like the song but...again, just listen he first two verses.. Anyone any thoughts ?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOafu6MplNQ


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZY6VPVH-PA
 
JohnC6 said:
I caught part of a country and western song on Radio Five Live yesterday morning when the subject was bringing up twins. For whatever reason the vocal harmony of some twins came up and a record by a set of twins called Ward Thomas was played. They are non-identical twins from Hampshire born 10 minutes apart but obviously their voice boxes are identical. There are a few famous twin singers..the Everly Brothers come to mind.

These two are called Ward Thomas . I had to Google for their songs and chose these two.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzQAsNs1bo&list=OLAK5uy_maYOYBSj0XPZICTEDdR5RdhVjM18a4DrM


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8eEzWydEI
Click to expand...
Yes, but it's Country and Western... and, as someone once said, that's just music for fascists who don't like Wagner! ;) :exit:
 
Last edited:
At the Country Bunker, they have both kinds of music - Country AND Western!
 
JohnC6 said:
I caught part of a country and western song
Click to expand...
Being pedantic, Ward Thomas are a Country act and not Country and Western . There have only been 2 true C&W albums released in the last 40 years.
Foo Fighters are a Rock band, but we wouldn't say they are Rock n Roll, like Bill Haley , :)

It was back in 2016 when Ward Thomas charted at No.1 on the UK album charts, unfortunately the genre "country" puts lots of radio stations off before even giving it a listen.
ee1.jpg
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Mr Badger said:
Yes, but it's Country and Western... and, as someone once said, that's just music for fascists who don't like Wagner! ;) :exit:
Click to expand...

Putting aside what 'whiteflyer..Mark has said....Yes..of course you're right. I sent the clips to a friend later and put capitals and should have come back here and changed it because that 'little voice' reminded me but I'd had enough on the computer for one night and thought I'd get away with it....a bit optimistic, really...:D

Strange that someone should see it as fascist music. Take the point re Wagner. As you obviously know he was a virulent anti-semite and was his second wife Cosima (daughter of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt) who held the same views about German culture and superiority. His music is banned in Israel . He wrote this of Mendelssohn, who was Jewish.

"Mendelssohn has shown us that a Jew can have the richest abundance of talents and be a man of the broadest culture but still be incapable of supplying the profound, heart-seizing, soul-searching experience we expect from art."

He wrote an article called. 'Das Judenthum in der Musik" ..'Jewishness in Music' but normally translated as 'Judaism in Music' under the pseudonym of K Freidedank.( Free thought). He sent it to Liszt who declared himself not to be anti-semetic. The irony being that a 19th century song became popular amongst Jews in Germany during the Nazi years ..'Die Gedanken sind frei'. The (my) thoughts are free. So..basically, whatever the Nazis were doing to them their thoughts remained intact. The song was important to certain anti-Nazi resistance movements in Germany. It was also sung in the film 'The Birdman' which, as you'll know, was about the fictionalised escape using a cobbled-together plane, from Colditz..the Allied airman sang it. In 1942, Sophie Scholl, a member of the White Rose resistance group, played the song on her flute outside the walls of Ulm prison, where her father Robert had been imprisoned for calling the Hitler a “scourge of God”. In 1935, the guards at the Lichentburg concentration camp had ordered prisoners to stage some kind of performance in celebration of Hitler’s 46th birthday. Hans Litten, a Jewish lawyer and anti-Nazi who was incarcerated there, recited 'Die Gedanken sind frei' in response. I recently read about Hans Litten. He questioned Hitler in court over the Nazi Party asking awkward questions. Hitler never forgave him. He was a truly brave man who, in the end, committed suicide as he could no longer take the brutal beatings administered to him in Nazi camps. A sad read. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14572578
 
Last edited:
JohnC6 said:
Strange that someone should see it as fascist music. Take the point re Wagner.
Click to expand...

I'm not certain, but I believe the quip (which I heard on the TV or radio a few years ago) might hark back to C&W music (rather than the modern country style music you linked to, which, as Mark points out, is actually a different genera of music) being popular years ago in some of the 'deep south' areas in America, where some less enlightened views on race relations were known to exist at one time? Now that's reminded me of this song from the 1950s.

View: https://youtu.be/Web007rzSOI
 
Last edited:
Mr Badger said:
I'm not certain, but I believe the quip (which I heard on the TV or radio a few years ago) might hark back to C&W music (rather than the modern country style music you linked to, which, as Mark points out, is actually a different genera of music) being popular years ago in some of the 'deep south' areas in America, where some less enlightened views on race relations were known to exist at one time? Now that's reminded me of this song from the 1950s.

View: https://youtu.be/Web007rzSOI
Click to expand...

That's useful. I heard something on the radio about her in the last day or two and meant to listen to what type of music she sings. Having listened to this song it doesn't have much appeal for me... Having said that, it's not too dissimilar to the blues I love..Lightnin' Hopkins , Blind Lemon Jefferson,etc I listened to her singing Blue Moon and her voice doesn't appeal..sorry :)

This is ne description of her music that I've just read.

Her music incorporates pop, dark pop, electropop, emo pop, experimental pop goth-pop- indie pop and teen pop.

Apart from plain 'pop' I've never heard of any of the others. Well, maybe 'teen pop'

My wife calls this music 'dirge :D

Bukka White.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkhj9z14TBo


Lightnin' Hopkins. A top favourite of mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BATlJwKB8ts
 
JohnC6 said:
That's useful. I heard something on the radio about her in the last day or two and meant to listen to what type of music she sings. Having listened to this song it doesn't have much appeal for me... Having said that, it's not too dissimilar to the blues I love..Lightnin' Hopkins , Blind Lemon Jefferson,etc I listened to her singing Blue Moon and her voice doesn't appeal..sorry :)
Click to expand...

It wasn't her voice in that particular song, it was the emotion behind the lyrics; you could tell she felt the pain in every single word she sang. The story goes that this song incurred the displeasure of someone senior in the FBI, who apparently wasn't that keen on a song being sung about lynching, but she carried on singing it anyway.

I forget how many times she was arrested on drugs charges; I know she was jailed for a while on one occasion, and, from what I understand, in 1959 she was arrested on her death bed in hospital on the charge of illegal possession of narcotics and placed under police guard until a few hours before she died, little over a month later, at the age of 44. I wonder what they'd make of that these days? RIP Lady Day.

View: https://youtu.be/9yakzL1Q88c
 
Last edited:
Mr Badger said:
It wasn't her voice in that particular song, it was the emotion behind the lyrics; you could tell she felt the pain in every single word she sang. The story goes that this song incurred the displeasure of someone senior in the FBI, who apparently wasn't that keen on a song being sung about lynching, but she carried on singing it anyway.

I forget how many times she was arrested on drugs charges; I know she was jailed for a while on one occasion, and, from what I understand, in 1959 she was arrested on her death bed in hospital on the charge of illegal possession of narcotics and placed under police guard until a few hours before she died, little over a month later, at the age of 44. I wonder what they'd make of that these days? RIP Lady Day.

View: https://youtu.be/9yakzL1Q88c
Click to expand...

Oh..I see. Yes, plenty of emotion and an interesting story behind it too. The emotion certainly came across which I could describe as 'painful' . I did try to listen to the lyrics but was unable to understand her words properly so was just left with her voice so I listened to another song and still came to the same conclusion. I've just listened to it again and still can't properly understand the words. The recording is very old, though, maybe that's it. Another reason is that just about the only genre I don't enjoy listening to is jazz and I see she's listed as a jazz singer. I do like Trad Jazz,though. I recall listening to late night jazz on the radio years ago..too may for comfort..lol..and each player seemed to be doling his/her own thing..lol. I prefer structure.Even today I mute the button on two music intros to TV programmes. The One Show and oddly enough..The Andrew Marr show. Maybe you're familiar with them. Screaming trumpet crescendos in both.

I've just listened to the song you've attached 'The Very Thought of You 'and still don't like her voice but the song is one of my fvourites but sung by Nat King Cole and song Retune has posted and I'm not keen on that either so definitely the voice.

Rather a sad end to her life,then.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top