Posted on 09/07/2024 11:40:36 AM PDT by DallasBiff
On warm summer nights, the park across the street from my house is filled with people playing dribbling soccer balls, playing volleyball, or engaging in aggressive games of Spikeball.
Nearly all of them will have music playing through Bluetooth speakers, usually from the Spotify Top 100. And if I’m honest, none of this music is any good. All I hear is mumbled lyrics tunelessly rendered (well, except for the overuse of Auto-Tune) and beats so quantized that they could be substituted for an atomic clock
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In post 199 I have a video of a classical musician listening to / critiquing a Neal Morse/Transatlantic song, Rose Colored Glasses.
There was Radio Luxembourg though..
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.
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).
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).
Very nice, never heard them before but they nailed it.
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.
“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.
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.
I listened to RL from Downs Barracks Fulda and on a subsequent tour, from Tompkins Barracks Schwetzingen.
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.
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.
That work has a similar style of repetitive droning as Phillip Glass.
Not a fan
You know more that me! It just sounds all the same; no “substance” Hard to explain as I am no musician.
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
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...
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