• Amity
    5k

    Celebration time, come on! :party:

  • Noble Dust
    7.9k
    Kendrick has no peers. Best album of the year

  • 180 Proof
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    "Happy Blues" Live at Ronnie's Scott's (6:00)
    Ella in London, 1974
    writer Ella Fitzgerald
    performers Ella Fitzgerald w/ theTommy Flanagan Quartet:
    - Tommy Flanagan - piano
    - Joe Pass - guitar
    - Keter Betts - double bass
    - Bobby Durham - drums

    NB: The last of three tunes I hope someone makes sure get played at my funeral – the other two (in order) are "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Dogg & "Born Under A Bad Sign" by Jimi Hendrix. :smirk:
  • Amity
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    NB: The last of three tunes I hope someone makes sure get played at my funeral – the other two (in order) are "Gin and Juice" by Snoop Dogg & "Born Under A Bad Sign" by Jimi Hendrix. :smirk:180 Proof

    You've plenty of time to change your mind :wink:
    I want to have no fuss or funeral.
    But...
    I have thought about the music.
    I love Zoom.


  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    If anyone shows up for my funeral, these pieces crystalize how I'd like those people to remember to me and so I probably won't change my mind. :grin:
  • Pantagruel
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    Clarence Williams - Ida.

    I live for vintage jazz. And really smooth chamber, or baroque.
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    It's rainin' but for better or worse, not pouring. I'm listening to

    1. The pitter patter of rain drops on the ground, on roofs, on the tarmac & the pavement.

    2. The booms of distant thunder

    It was the highlight of my day! God is most merciful Hallelujah!
  • Amity
    5k

    Oh, I missed that.
    It's beautiful. Soothing :sparkle:

    ***

    Part of 'Aretha Franklin: A Tribute to the Queen of Soul at the Proms'. Amazing :fire:
    1 hr 50 mins long. Wow. Incredible.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001bdx5/bbc-proms-2022-aretha-franklin-a-tribute-to-the-queen-of-soul
    In Aretha Franklin’s six-decade career, she won 18 Grammys and was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Celebrating what would have been the singer’s eightieth birthday, the BBC Proms pay tribute to a true icon.

  • Noble Dust
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    Hypnotic, bizarre...

  • Amity
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    Thank you :sparkle:
    Beautiful and exactly what I was looking for this morning. I'm in that kind of mood.
    A little bit sad and surreal. Seeking calm. Found it here. Japanese Zen.

    Certainly no need to look up the lyrics!
    But my curiosity was piqued as to the meaning.
    What, where are the Five Mountains?

    Poems of the Five Mountains - An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries by Marian Ury

    This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life.

    Composed by Japanese Zen monks who lived from the last quarter of the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth century, these poems represent a portion of the best of the writing called in Japanese gozan bungaku, “literature of the five mountains.”

    “Five mountains” or “five monasteries” refers to the system by which the Zen monasteries were hierarchically ordered and governed. For the monks in the monasteries, poetry functioned as a means not only of expressing religious convictions and personal feelings but also of communicating with others in a civilized and courteous fashion.

    https://www.press.umich.edu/18821/poems_of_the_five_mountains
  • Amity
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    No words.
  • Noble Dust
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    Very interesting, thanks, I didn't know any of that. I just discovered this song/artist the other day.
  • Amity
    5k
    Did Nietzsche ever sing?

  • Tom Storm
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    Did Nietzsche ever sing?Amity

    If he did (pre disagreement with Wagner about Christianity) it would be in this mode:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3rjWFhohM

    Pretty sure he would have despised 20th century pop music.
  • Amity
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    If he did (pre disagreement with Wagner about Christianity) it would be in this mode:Tom Storm

    Bryn Terfel :heart:
    Back to Nietzsche. He admired Goethe's Faust, which bears comparison to Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'.
    And so the return to Bryn. I think Nietzsche is a frustrated Donny G :monkey:


    And here Bryn plays Don Giovanni, hiding behind the pillars from one of his many conquests.
    The truth being revealed to her:

  • Paine
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    Alternatively, the message could have been:
  • Amity
    5k
    :up:
    But...I don't really understand the message :chin:
    Do you think N would like this, or even sing along?!

    'The Nietzsche Song'.



    A selective biography of the great Friedrich Nietzsche, to the tune of Nena's '99 Red Balloons'.
    Perhaps a little off in points, hopefully more interesting than a dreary textbook :D
    You may guess, part way through, that i can't speak German, and thus, my pronunciation may be more then a little off..

    words:

    in a little town they called Rocken
    Friedrich Nietzsche's name
    was first written
    born to a Lutheran Pastor
    who shortly died, Nietzsche sobered faster
    But as a child, a prodigy
    was the word used to describe Nietzsche
    he excelled at school and promised fame
    but the antichrist became his name

    a scholar of philology
    which led him to write the birth of tragedy
    an exploration of the grecian arts
    which wasn't well received in many parts.

    but he soon found his real calling
    as he turned to philosophical mauling
    starting off with schopenhauer
    As the antichrist became his name

    a proponent of relativity,
    and the lack of objective morality
    Nietzsche's works were quite controversial
    unlike Hume, that giant turtle.

    in an intensely atheistic turn
    Zarathustra became the source of his learning
    it's here that he grabbed his claim to fame
    and the antichrist became his name

    (the bit where it all goes wrong..)
    Wohin ist Gott?
    rief er, ich will
    es euch sagen!
    Wir haben ihn getötet,

    Gott ist tot!
    Gott bleibt tot!
    Und wir haben ihn getötet!
    Wie trösten wir uns,
    die Mörder aller Mörder?

    now after that interlude
    Nietzsche went mad,
    and his work was 'improved'
    by his awful nazi sister
    who shoved it all in front of Hitler

    the philosopher of the third Reich
    was an ironic position for someone like him
    who despised nationalism
    and hated antisemitism..

    and so it seems, that was his life,
    a relatively short one of plenty strife
    but now thanks to Walter Kauffman
    he's regaining his reputation

    a life of scholarly pursuits
    is finally bursting into fruit
    i'm glad of Nietzsche's final fame
    though the Antichrist, he does remain..

    thanks for listening :]

    If you've got the time, check out my music site:
    www.myspace.com/tomadoorey
    thanks :]
  • Paine
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    The message from Hicks I hear relates to how Nietzsche said that one has to be careful who one decides is an enemy because one elevates them by fighting them. So, by fighting Christianity he became stuck with it.
  • Amity
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    Nietzsche said that one has to be careful who one decides is an enemy because one elevates them by fighting them. So, by fighting Christianity he became stuck with it.Paine

    Hmm. Yes. I see your point.
    Some don't see beyond the slogan: 'God is Dead'. A stuck refrain.
    But he lifted up Christianity for inspection, highlighting and revealing its defects.
    In a lyrical, creative way...as in TSZ...echoing his love for music and composition.
    Thanks for sharing :sparkle:
  • Noble Dust
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    The only good "nu metal" band, although they don't really count:

  • Amity
    5k
    The only good "nu metal" band, although they don't really countNoble Dust

    Why don't they count?
    I loved this- the voice and music, the changes... raw and cool emotions; dreamy and sexy :cool:
    So perhaps not harsh enough to be counted as 'nu metal'.
    Deftones have always claimed diverse influences from groups of various genres, with their musical style diversifying over their career.[6] Their sound has been described as alternative metal, art rock/art metal, experimental rock, nu metal, post-punk, post-hardcore, alternative rock, dream pop, drone rock, post-metal, shoegaze, post-rock, stoner rock, hard rock, trip hop, glitch, math metal, psychedelia, and funk metal. — Wiki


    The waves suck you in then you drown
    If like, you should sink down beneath
    I'll swim down with you
    Is that what you want?
    You
    Is that what you want?
    Wave
    Wave
    Inside
  • Noble Dust
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    I think of them as sort of "nu metal" in the sense that they played with a lot of the shitty nu metal bands of the time; they were all playing the same circuits. But yeah, they're a diverse group. Out of that list I like "funk metal" the best. :lol:

    "Post grunge" is another term for that scene, of which there are only two other bands I consider worth listening to; Tool and Rage Against the Machine.



  • Pinprick
    950
    The only good "nu metal" band, although they don't really count:Noble Dust
    :brow:

    Cherry Waves is close to my favorite Deftones song, but I gotta disagree that all other nu metal bands suck, lol.

    How can you like Rage, but not System of a Down? NIN and Ministry, but not Static-X? Explain yourself!
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