What are you listening to today?

[Teri Anne]

Friday on my mind was one of the first songs I learned on guitar.

George Young was the older brother to Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC.

[Heather Shay]

High School - first band - feel in love with this song and the arrangement.....

 

 

 

[Heather Shay]

This goes out to Cyndee - believe it or not that's Paul McCartney on drums.............

 

 

[Cyndee]

@Shay - very cool, thanks !

[Elizabeth Star]

I don't have a link to post but I did some yard-work today and was listening to Switchblade Symphony while using a chainsaw.

[Cyndee]

Here it is, "All I had was a buffalo" ?

 

The lyrics in this, are so well laid out, get down....  a lovely groove and bass chords, and dig that police whistle....

 

 

[Heather Shay]

@Elizabeth Star how cool that must have been.

 

@Cyndeerocking right along with you.

[Heather Shay]

I just read Michael Stanley passed at 72. He was a band leader in Cleveland who could sell out the Blossom Music Center 5 nights running but never seemed to make it nationally. He had a lot of good songs, but my favorite is One Good Reason - love the bassline...... RIP Michael

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Heather Shay]

 

 

 

[Beatriz]

Thanks, @Shay I didn't know Micheal Stanley, shame on me! That song sounds great. I love the bassline and the drums.

[Teri Anne]

Another good tune by W.E.T. with Jeff Scott Soto on vocals.

 

[Heather Shay]

I nearly forgot - I think Michael Stanley's prettiest song he wrote early in his career.....Rosewood Bitters - here solo then with Joe Walsh joining him......

 

 

 

[Heather Shay]

Staying in the Cleveland state of mind, when I was in Cleveland andmy band Silverhorse nearly got signed with Atlantic Records before the band inploded, Michael Stanley was a contemporary of ours as was this band (especially Jonah Koslen). Here is their debut album. I especially loved Unchained Lightning and Nothing's Gonna Change My Mind......

 

 

[Beatriz]

My dear Gram Parsons.

 

"This is a song about being ripped off"

 

 

[Ivy]

I just like this one

 

 

[Kiera]

 

Any post-classical Romantics  here? 

 

        Symphonie Fantastique, by Hector Berlioz, is a musical interpretation (and Lyric opera) of true life unrequited love. The "idee fixe" in both was Harriet Smithson and while the marriage didn't work out as expected the music did! A national hero in France Berlioz is on the franc just like Washington the U.S.

 

 

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 . . . the idée fixe at the climax of the march: the artist, led to execution for murdering his beloved, remembers her on the scaffold, but the melody is abruptly cut off by the fall of the guillotine and the concluding uproar

 

 

The following work should be heard immediately after the Fantastic Symphony, of which it is the end and the complement . . .

 

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LÉLIO ( still weak and tottering )

( He enters from one side of the proscenium. )

         God! I'm still alive ... So it's true, life like a snake has crept into my heart to tear it apart again ... But if this treacherous poison has cheated my despair, how could I resist such a dream? ... How was I not broken by the horrible embraces of the iron hand which had seized me? ... This torture, these judges, these executioners, these soldiers, the clamors of this populace, those serious and rhythmic steps falling on my heart like Cyclops' hammers ... And the inexorable melody resounding in my ear even in this lethargic sleep, to remind me of its erased image and revive the sleeping suffering.

         See her, hear her !! her! ... her noble and graceful features disfigured by a frightful irony;

 

 

 

 

[Heather Shay]

Love this little bouncy ditty....

 

 

[Heather Shay]

I love Something/Anything? - what a creative force.....

 

 

 

 

[miz miranda]

It's a sunny day and not too warm so I needed to run fast (for me anyway) and chose some of my favorites from my running playlist

 

 

 

 

[Heather Shay]

All good choices @miz miranda

[Heather Shay]

Heard this when I went out shopping....I love this guy's voice. He is hard to get along with but he has been apart of such classics like Brown-Eyed Girl, G-L-O-R-I-A, Jackie Wilson Said, Moondance, Tupelo Honey (I loved playing this song)

 

oh what the heck... let's make it Van Morrison day.....

 

[Beatriz]

One of my all-time favorite bands: Kraftwerk.

 

The music these guys made is so amazing, beautiful and timeless. And the concepts were so prescient; albums like Computer World (1981) were describing our 2021 world to a tee.

 

The sun just set in my city, so I guess it's time for Neon Lights.

 

 

[Heather Shay]

ahhhhhh... Joni.....

 

[Heather Shay]

I cry every time I hear this song - such an amazing melody.... Joni used to start crying on stage and rarely got through the song in the early days.....

 

 

[Heather Shay]

And now for something entirely different.... I find this a sweet sweet sound.....