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[molly bloom]

Ann Suter: Pu-Leeze! Mister Hemingway

and shaking that thang next-

Betty Lavette: Let Me Down Easy

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by molly bloom

and bringing up the rear-

Bessie Smith: I'm Wild About That Thing

I was in Sam's the Record Man in Toronto lat month and heard a CD with this woman singing some incredibly cool blues. Turns out it was Bessie Smith. Bought the CD right away. Great stuff.


Also listing to Bruce Cockburn and after that Kastin. Managed to get Kastin's first CD for 99 cents at Sam's.

[Provost Harrison]

The Jam - Private Hell

[-Jrabbit]

Cake -- Short Skirt, Long Jacket

[Last Conformist]

HIM - Heartache Every Moment

[C0ckney]

george hales - autumn falls (st john vs locust remix)

next up: ridgewalkers feat. el - find (original mix)

[alva]

Sly Fox - Let's go all the way

Patti Smith - Because the night

Hot Butter - Popcorn

9th symphony - Beethoven(the Clockwork orange version)

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

[mindseye]

Handels' opera "Alcina"

[alva]

Hole - Drown Soda(MTW Unplugged)

David Byrne - Pyscho Killer (Unplugged)

Dead Kennedys - Fought the law(and I won)

Pete Townsend - Face the face

BookerT and the MG's - Green onions

The Undertones - Teenage kicks

[ixnay]

Dr. Fruitcake - Mario's Tropical Paradise OC Remix

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[Boris Godunov]

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Brahms (one of my all-time favorites). The Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwangler, recorded live in 1953.

The terrific finale - 30 variations on an 8-bar chord progression taken from a Bach chorale. The initial theme is almost just a rising E minor scale, except the penultimate chord is dropped an octave. The orchestration is almost like dire funeral dirge, trombones and horns coupled with woodwinds. Then the violins come in with a tragic motif, and the pace appears to "quicken" as the variations employ the strings in rapid runs across the scale.

But the pace subsides in a middle, mellow section where the note values are doubled. The woodwinds carry this quiet, reflective section that is still tinged with melancholy. However, the horns and trombones round out the last two variations in the section, before a solo flute trails off...

The opening chords reappear, loudly, but as they rise, the strings slice in with a despairingly tragic cry. The fast pace of the first section is resumed as the variations become increasingly contrapuntal and combative. The trombones are particularly effective, blasting out dramatic notes to underscore the dire drama taking place. There is one more brief, peaceful interlude that gives the illusion of a serene conclusion. It is not to be, however, as the counterpoint resumes among the strings, brass and timpani.

After a huge drumroll and crescendo, the trombones reassert the opening bars of the movement, this time at a greatly quickened tempo. The final variations include huge sweeps from the brass and woodwinds as the strings swirl around the scale. The trombones pound out deep, percussive notes as the the strings and woodwinds respond with quick, high-pitched cries. There is a brief moment where the violins play a mournful variation on the opening notes from the first movement of the symphony, only to be smashed through by the brass and timpani playing thunderous cadences. There is one final acceleration into the coda, the strings rising as the brass descends, only to meet up again as the symphony comes crashing to a desperate, dire conclusion.

Furtwangler's conducting is incredible, and as one critic puts it, he is proof to anyone who thinks of Brahms as stogy and boring that, in fact, the composer was delivering one of the most impassioned depictions of tragedy in music.

[Q Classic]

samples on ishkur's guide to electronic music.

[Nostromo]

samples on ishkur's guide to electronic music.

Now playing: Embryons desséchés (dried embryos) by Erik Satie.

[Nostromo]

Zero 7 - Simple Things

That's a fine album

[Agathon]

Some social commentary from NWA

**** tha police
Comin straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad cuz I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority

**** that ****, cuz I ain't tha one
For a punk mutha****a with a badge and a gun
To be beatin on, and throwin in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell ...

etc.