There is something very, very wrong with today’s music. It just may not be very good.

Global News ^ | 7/24/22 | Alan Cross

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Classical Composer Reacts to Rose Colored Glasses (Transatlantic) | The Daily Doug (Episode 228)

Thanks for the link. "Rose Colored Glasses" is a terrific song.

[grey_whiskers]

Hammock and Old Solar, if you like Ambient music, as well.

In post 199 I have a video of a classical musician listening to / critiquing a Neal Morse/Transatlantic song, Rose Colored Glasses.

[Charles Martel]

Yeah. I'm still a bit surprised that The Last DJ gets a bit of airplay there - but the fact that Tom acted as DJ in his recorded Buried Treasure sessions kind of compels them to do so. For all of Tom's caustic wit regarding the music business and broadcasters, they are getting the last laugh.

[RitchieAprile]

There was Radio Luxembourg though..

[LeonardFMason]

My “playlist” is full of music 60, 50, 40 years old. Just NOT going to happen for Swift. She is the modern day Madonna. Nobody listens to old Madonna music NOW. It’s all fluff.

[Fiji Hill]

In Darmstadt, Germany, in the mid-60s, I didn’t know of Radio Luxembourg—it was probably out of range for my portable AM radio. But in 1971-72, when I was at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, which is not far from Luxembourg, I was a regular listener. The Armed Forces Network was now playing Top 40 for a new generation of soldiers, so I kept up with the charts through the AFN station at Kaiserslautern (which the Americans called K-Town and the Germans called Lautern).

[Fiji Hill]

On Radio Luxembourg and local German stations, I was able to hear some songs that were hits in Europe but didn't chart Stateside, such as Is This the Way to Amarillo? by Tony Christie and Don't let Him Touch You by the Angelettes. After returning to the US, I never again heard these tunes until Youtube came along.

[Bikkuri]

Love that couple. ALWAYS so positive.
They are pretty much the only ones I watch.
There is 1 other couple that is ok, but the wife is goofy, and the husband is too serious (but seems intelligent).

[Bikkuri]

Missed your comment (23).. oops :D
At least we are on the same wavelength 😉 They are the only subscription I have, lol.
(I believe the hubby is an elementary coach and the wife is a teacher..)

(But, I don't use YouTube.. I use FreeTube (it is an app that pulls the vids and comments off of YouTube without adds or age restrictions without giving YT a hit).

[ABN 505]

Very nice, never heard them before but they nailed it.

[Albion Wilde]

The dancing to go along with it isn’t good, either. It’s become a mashup of karate, breakin’, gang signs and kickboxing, and that’s just the women.

[Mariner]

“Art is so poorly taught in this country.”

Edify yourselves so that the knowledge and art can be passed on. It cannot die with our generation, and there are a few young people out there with a similar mind.

And the entire catalog is out there for those young curious minds. Something we didn’t have.

I leave you with this pinnacle art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVmWimEX1gw

It’s amazing anyone ever attempted it live, much less succeeded wonderfully.

[chajin]

I leave you with this pinnacle art:

The only problem is that the orchestra sounds the same while tuning as it does during the performance.

OK, I'm pulling your string. Though if I wanted to pick a 20th century opera ("Porgy and Bess" doesn't count, and "William Penn" is my favorite for personal reasons), it would be John Adams' Nixon in China, the minimalism in the music and a whole libretto of rhyming couplets without sounding like a libretto of rhyming couplets continues to fascinate me.

[RitchieAprile]

I listened to RL from Downs Barracks Fulda and on a subsequent tour, from Tompkins Barracks Schwetzingen.

[Night Hides Not]

There was Radio Luxembourg though..

Radio Luxembourg was my go to station my last two years in Germany. The morning drive was all German, and the British feed was during the afternoons. British rock wasn't all that great, but it was a welcome diversion from AFN.

[Fiji Hill]

In Fulda, you could probably pick up broadcasts from the other side of the Iron Curtain. When I was in Iserlohn in 1971, I would sometimes listen to the Deutschlandsender (German radio) out of East Germany at night.

[Mariner]

That work has a similar style of repetitive droning as Phillip Glass.

Not a fan

[iluvschnitzle]

You know more that me! It just sounds all the same; no “substance” Hard to explain as I am no musician.

[aces]

https://rumble.com/v5fyu1h-we-want-life.html

Song I just finished..its a free video..

I agree with ya..yea I’m old ☺

Judeo Christian prog

[aces]

Lol

Free one I just finished..its eclectic and prog jazz

https://rumble.com/v5fyu1h-we-want-life.html

We want life..out todsy.today..

Have fun...