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11 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:
Wow! The '60s were brilliant, weren't they?!
And like I said, then think of the amazing artists that were more singles oriented.
All-time amazing songs released in 1966 like
The Supremes - "You Can't Hurry Love"
The Monkees - "I'm a Believer"
The Temptations - "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
The Troggs - "With a Girl Like You"
The Four Tops - "Reach Out (I'll Be There)"
Sam & Dave - "Hold On I'm Comin'"
Percy Sledge - "When a Man Loves a Woman"
Otis Redding - "Try a Little Tenderness"
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - "It Takes Two"
Loretta Lynn - "Don't Come A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)"
The Isley Brothers - "This Old Heart of Mine"
The Association - "Cherish"
Not to mention the non-album singles by album artists like "Paperback Writer" and "Good Vibrations"
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Listening to The City (Naxos re-recording) this morning
You can talk about "Coplandesque" scores all day, but nobody comes close to the beautiful complex mixture of emotions that the man himself could elicit from such simplicity. His music is such a joy for me to listen because it's so compelling at the level of musical phrases/sentences and also I feel like I'm on a larger musical journey that feels very natural and inevitable.
It's interesting to compare the pared down orchestration of the original score for the documentary short to the sections that were adapted for full symphony orchestra for the "Music for Movies" suite. I love the presence of the saxophone in the original orchestration, most prominently heard in the "New England Village" sequence.
See how he changed it from the saxophone heard here in the original recording at 3:08
to the bassoon in the "Music for Movies" orchestral suite heard at 2:19
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That is very cool. I'd love to see Laika do one too.
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11 minutes ago, Not Mr. Big said:They need to find a better abbreviation for that
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Ah Kate Hudson. Predictably for my demographic categories, Almost Famous is the only thing I've ever liked her in.
The disappearance of the romantic comedy from movie theaters had a huge impact on her career.
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Getting into territory where a lot of my favorite pop music is singles, not albums, and a lot of my favorite albums are jazz records, not pop.
1966
- The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
- Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
- The Beatles - Revolver
- The Kinks - Face to Face
- Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
- The Rolling Stones - Aftermath [UK]
- The Who - A Quick One
- The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
- The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
- The Turtles - You Baby
- The Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream / Hums
- The Butterfield Blues Band - East-West
- Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep - Mountain High
- The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer
- Cream - Fresh Cream
- Buffalo Springfield - self-titled
- Small Faces - self-titled
- John Mayall - Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton
- The Animals - Animalism
- The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators
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Just bought tickets to see Yo La Tengo in Charlottesville next month, I can't wait! It will be my 10th time seeing them, the first band I'll make it to double digits for.
The 9 previous times:
4/8/2018 - Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville
3/27/2016 - Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville
9/25/2015 - Lincoln Theatre, Washington, DC
7/12/2013 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Maryland
2/15/2013 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
1/21/2011 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
9/17/2009 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
1/9/2008 - Satellite Ballroom, Charlottesville
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9 minutes ago, Thor said:
Ah, so he's said that? It's not in any of my biographies, as far as I can recall, but maybe it's something he said in a recent interview
I've watched so much of Spielberg talking about the movie in various contexts the last few months, I have no idea where I might have seen it, but I'm pretty sure he said it really happened.
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7 minutes ago, Thor said:
I was thinking that maybe Mitzi taking the kids out to see the tornado was a 'substitute' for when Arnold Spielberg took the kids out at night to see the meteor shower, but the only thing they have in common is that a parent suddenly takes them out to see a natural phenomenon. Other than that, they're very different. The meteor shower incident fuelled young Spielberg's imaginative powers, the curiousity for life "out there", while the tornado scene just seemed to be a metaphor for Mitzi's "inner tornado" at that point in the story, so to speak.
I think Spielberg has said that it is something his mother actually did, the tornado thing. I think you're right about the metaphor, but I don't think it was invented for the purpose, but chosen from his memories.
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It actually seems like it could be an interesting movie.
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Will this be the first performance not conducted by Williams? I can't remember at the moment if that's happened yet.
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57 minutes ago, Thor said:
more of the resentment he felt for his father that eventually turned into the spielbergian trait "deceptive father figures"
I think changing the story so that the kids are blaming the mother instead of the father for the divorce (or at least aren't blaming the father completely) might be the single biggest reason he made it THE FABELMANS instead of THE SPIELBERGS, because it is such a fundamental change.
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1967
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper / Magical Mystery Tour [US]
- The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
- The Who - The Who Sell Out
- The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
- Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
- Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
- The Turtles - Happy Together
- The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons / Their Satanic Majesties Request
- The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
- Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced / Axis: Bold as Love
- Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
- Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music
- The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
- The Beach Boys - Wild Honey / Smiley Smile
- Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
- The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee-Pretty Ballerina
- Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Safe as Milk
- The Yardbirds - Little Games
- Canned Heat - self-titled
- Harpers Bizarre - Feelin' Groovy / Anything Goes
- Nico - Chelsea Girl
- Traffic - Mr Fantasy
- Love - Forever Changes
- Moby Grape - self-titled
- The 5th Dimension - The Magic Garden
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Anybody watch the documentary “Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music” on HBO Max? Watching it tonight, good stuff.
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Jedi Survivor has been delayed six weeks to April 28th. I have it preordered on XBSX but that’s too close to Tears of the Kingdom for me to finish in time (it takes me a long time to get through games). I might just wait until later in the summer to play it, we’ll see.
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With the official reboot as the 'DCU' instead of the 'DCEU', this thread should be renamed!
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Just one episode of Happy Valley left and it's got us on tenterhooks!
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1968
- The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
- The Beatles - White Album
- The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
- The Turtles - Present the Battle of the Bands
- Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
- The Band - Music From Big Pink
- Randy Newman - self-titled
- The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
- Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
- Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
- The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers / Sweetheart of the Rodeo
- The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
- Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
- Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
- The Move - self-titled
- The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
- Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
- The Jeff Beck Group - Truth
- Os Mutantes - self-titled
- The Beach Boys - Friends
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - self-titled
- Cream - Wheels of Fire
- Steve Miller band - Sailor
- The Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin'
- Canned Heat - Boogie with Canned Heat
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5 minutes ago, Clockwork Angel said:
No. You finish the 80's first! I need to be able to post the rest of my list!
That's where we started all this!
This whole thing began when I posted this on 12/31, then I went back and did '85 and then kept going up through 2010 or whatever. Then back to 1970, forward to 1984, and now I'll go back into the 60s . I'm having a great time if nothing else
On 31/12/2022 at 10:25 AM, Disco Stu said:For no real reason, my top 10 pop/rock albums of 1986
1. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. XTC - Skylarking
4. Sonic Youth - EVOL
5. REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
6. New Order - Brotherhood
7. Kraftwerk - Electric Café/Techno Pop
8. Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
9. Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
10. Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!
Just missed the top 10: Robyn Hitchcock - Elements of Light, Peter Gabriel - So, Prince - Parade
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Gonna go back into the 60s. I'm gonna start listing R&B/funk albums in with the rest for these (see how Dusty Springfield and Sly Stone on this list)
1969 is an absolutely insane year, undisputed classic albums left, right, and center.
1969
- The Who - Tommy
- The Velvet Underground - self-titled
- The Beatles - Abbey Road
- The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of The British Empire
- Led Zeppelin - I / II
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country / Green River / Willy and the Poor Boys
- Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
- The Band - self-titled
- The Allman Brothers Band - self-titled
- The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
- Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
- King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
- Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
- Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
- The Beach Boys - 20/20
- Rod Stewart - The Rod Stewart Album
- The Stooges - self-titled
- Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
- The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola
- Steve Miller Band - Brave New World
- The Guess Who - Canned Wheat
- David Bowie - Space Oddity
- Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
- Harpers Bizarre - 4
- The Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain
And yes, I combined all three of CCR's amazing albums from this year. What a year!
The Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) appreciation thread
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Sure, but in terms of the sound of how that folk style was adapted, voiced, and orchestrated, Copland is undoubtedly the most influential.
Like take even a Western score as early as Stagecoach in 1939. I would bet real money that the opening of the main titles, especially how the brass is used, was directly influenced by Copland's music. Louis Gruenberg who worked on that score was an old friend of Copland's. I can't prove that of course.