I love it!

Who else loves it?

Best music to work to-- best music to do anything to, really. Except fuck. Well maybe fuck I don't know I'll have to try it and get back to you.

So I know I'm a big cliché but I'm blasting out Holst's Mars right now. It's SICK. It's almost as headbang-worthy as NIN. Holst was the first true fuckoff mosher. Good on him.

BWAAAAA BWWAAAAA!

I can rock me some classical at times

listening to this now

Mach said:

everyone loves a bit of classical.

How's about opera? I've been listening to a lot ever since old Pav kicked the bucket. I listen to him plenty while I cook to honour him. He loved his food, the fatty, so it's best that I play him as I make food.

benyamin said:

Part 2 of that ova is the best part

I love opera as well

Beverly Sills rocked the house down ( saw her 2 times )

we used to go to the opera and symphany every month in detroit when I was growing up

Beethoven's 3rd, 5th, and 9th!


Mozart's Don Giovanni!


Prince's Kamasutra!

The human voice ( to me ) is the most impressive instrument to master

not just your average singers but those that are true vocal masters

Imago said:

GET THE FUCK OUT.

Thanx Ben for reminding me how much I love all this

http://www.youtube.com/wa...d3DHG16Axg

This is an interesting renditionof Nessun Dorma, which I LOVE when sung by Pavorati(sp?)


The story behind this was that (I think this was the grammys ?) he had to cancel at the last minute and they were scrambling to see if anyone could replace him.
It just so happened Aretha Franklin was familiar with the tune, so offered her services, with no rehearsal.


Though she doesn't have the vocal range of , say , Sarah Brightman, nor the voice of an Opera singer, she certainly gave the song her own touch. I rather like it.

Mach said:

The fifth element?


I remember that.

Imago said:

I did not remember the movie name - thanx

GREAT MINDS >>> TY Dan

benyamin said:

Ponce!

I'm still learning yet, but I have identified that I'm a fan specifically of Baroque work. J.S. Bach in particular was an incredible talent.

benyamin said:

A bit of trivia on Holst's The Planets. Mars was written shortly before the outbreak of World War I in 1914. WWI is the first war in which submachine guns were widely used. If you listen to the percussion, it sounds like machine-gun fire.

And yes, there is classical music that is very well-suited to...uhhh...carnal encounters. Listen to "O Fortuna" from Orff's Carmina Burana. Or The Love Dance from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Or "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber. Or "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Or the "Air" from Bach's Orchestral Suite #3. Or "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov. Or...the ultimate cliché (which doesn't mean it isn't good) -- Ravel's "Bolero."

Not that I've used any of that, of course.

Lammastide said:

Understatement of the millennium.

My absolute favorite time to listen is while racing on a super highway approaching a large city in the earliest morning hours, cutting through the mist with the rising sun.
It feels so Orwellian.

One morning, I was driving to work around 5 am...right after a light snow. No one had been on the streets before me, so the snow was fresh and unmarked, and it was flurrying just a bit. In my headlights, the road looked like it was paved with diamonds, with diamond dust hanging in the air.

As I was driving, the Air from Bach's Orchestral Suite #3 came on. It was the most beautiful melding of visual and aural I've ever experienced. (Pretty enough that I remember it 25 years later.)

Imago said:

It is surprisingly good. I like!

Imago said:

Brilliant! Loved that film.

Cloudbuster said:

AND PROUD.

Genesia said:

Excellent. Where's Laurel?

i loves me some classical music..only the baroque era

I like vivaldi
bach,
scarletti
handel


then from other genres

tartini
pagadini
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Stravinsky.
Bach.
Mussorgsky.
Brahms.
Mozart.
Beethoven.
Schubert.
Paganini
Prokofiev.
Eno.
Mahler.
Satie.
Fauré.

There are so many!

By;
Karajan.
Bernstein.
Muti.
Both Labèque's.
Mariner.
Yoyo Ma.
Callas.
Eno.
Haiting
Schwarzkopf.
Mutter.
Kronos Quartet.

Try to find Satie as played by Reinbert de Leeuw. Amazing.