33 posts tagged “music”
Share a song that gets you psyched to exercise.
I was woken up a few nights ago (and have
not had a chance to blog it between now and then because my sister glued
herself to the computer 0900 to 2300 every single day) by an ungodly din coming
from just outside my window at about
0200. Yowling, hissing and spitting noises that made me think that that
a cat or owl must have got itself caught in the netting I helped put up over
Dad’s apple trees to protect them from wasps and hungry birds. So I pulled back my curtains, pulled up the
blind, and started shining my torch out of the window. Something bolted and
fled into the undergrowth past the apple trees and under the gap in the fence by
the barbeque. What, I don’t know. A fox or a badger I would guess; we have both
locally. The other combatant was lying rolled up in a ball outside my window. It
was a hedgehog, with moss stuck to its fur. I realised it might have been hurt
and debated going outside to so if it was ok, but when I shone the torch beam
on it, it hissed like a possessed kettle and so I guessed it wanted to be left
alone. I checked in the morning and it
had left under its own power, and there was no blood. But just in case anyone
was wondering, although they look quiet and peaceful, the sound of a large hedgehog
fighting for its life outside your window is really, really loud.
Since it woke me up, and made my put my lights on, here's a song.
A truly excellent bit of Prog. Also I'm reading my way through Stephen King's Dark tower sequence, so the Crimson King takes on a whole new significance...
Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.
If you want a relaxed album to listen to but is still interesting enough to be thought provoking i would recommend The Dark Third by Pure Reason Revolution, something that beggars all reasonable attempts at description and so i am forced to refer to as "acoustic electro prog metal". It is a genuinely odd album, more enough mood-music for neo-metalheads, a sort of "pop goth" almost, but well worth a listen in a relaxed way. This is the second track from the album, but the tracks meld into each other so readily that track number is not a meaningful discription. so here is an arbitrary segment of an album that should really only be listened to when played in it's entirety.
Black crusade gig in Cardiff-International-arena. I missed the first act, Shadows Fall, but i got to see Arch Enemy, my favorite Swedish Death-metal Supergroup, followed by Dragonforce, an old Metal favorite, Trivium, which was ok but which i spent most of their act drinking through, and Machine Head, who as the main act just Rocked. Seriously, they were great.
TTFN!
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
1, Ain't Misbehavein' - Fats Waller.
2, Serenade in D, KV 250, "Serenata Notturna".III. Rondeau - played by The Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
3, Listeners' Opinions to Round the Horne - Round the Horne.
4, Kodály - Háry János Suite - Op. 35a- VI. Entrance to the Emperor and his Court. -Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
5, Forse la soglia attinse… Ma se m`e forza perderti- Plácido Domingo
6, Back of My Hand - The Rolling Stones
7, Strange Little Girl - Stranglers
8, Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
9, Meyerbeer, L'Africana Paradiso- Luciano Pavarotti, Oliviiero de Fabritiis and the National Phillimonic Orchestra.
10, My Prayer- The Inkspots
Conclusions; i own a lot of relaxed classical and 1920's music for a heavy metal fan.
What's the best music documentary or concert film you've seen?
Probibaly some kind of monster my metalica, but its a hard call.
I would like to anounce to the world that today was amazing. The quiality of light in cardiff/Caerdydd was loveley and made me feel very happy. I love the autum in the United K and today has been a perfect autum day, crisp cold and with beutiful light on the gream gold and brown leafes and a wandered throught town and amused my self my brousing in a bookshop.
I just thought you should know.
Also, they were fliming the Dr Who spin of "Torchwood" in my street yesterday. How cool is that! here, have some music. The jyrics metion kicking through autum leaves at some poihnt, so it seemes thew song to putmin.
