Music
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Shoque, Madonna is my role model and I love her 80s music (everything else since then has sucked). But I'm an old time rock n' roll girl myself. I love just about everything by The Stones and Zep. I attended the "Tattoo You" Rolling Stones concert at Cleveland Colosseum in the early 80s…as a high-schooler ! "Some Girls" and "Tattoo You" are my all time favorite records -- I can listen to them a million times over and never get bored. Another one of my favorite Stones songs : "Tops", from "Tattoo You". Here it is :
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@shubharamani:
I can listen to them a million times over and never get bored.
I reckon that this is difference between older and contemporary music (well, a lot of it). Today's bands just don't do it for me. They are either repetitive or simply not interesting at all cause their sound is boring. Of course there are exceptions (I like Muse for instance).
I like the Rolling Stones a lot, I'm not a hardcore fan (yet) though. It's great to have a member aboard who appreciates that kind of music.
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Oooh, extremely hard question. I love so much in music and it spans almost the whole bandwidth of what's out there. There is actually hardly anything I don't like but I just don't listen to it. There is relatively little "white" music that turns me on in the last decade and even in the 90s. Some soul is good. Otherwise it's 80s and earlier for me.
A perennial favorite that never fails to move me is Kramat by Abdullah Ibrahim a.k.a Dollar Brand, a South African jazz master discovered and mentored by Duke Ellington. His "Water from an Ancient Well" and "The Wedding" are similarly good.
Here is the "wedding":
Brand plays the piano. He does play Sax, too, but is really a Piano player and someone else plays the Sax here. Possibly Carlos Ward or Gato Barbieri.
Here is Water from an Ancient Well with Carlos Ward:
I saw him live in Ulm, Germany in a very small venue, at Sweet Basile's in NY, at the Jazz Festival in Lugano and in Paris for the Jazz Festival at La Villette.
Here you have him in 2008 at the Jazz Festival of Vienna at the National Opera (nice venue indeed), solo piano and some sound bites:
Enjoy!
Till
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Found Kramat. This is not the original version from the Zimbabwe album. I have that one. The original is a tad shorter (6 minutes) and has less flourish but more beat; it is also studio only, no audience. The flute is still prominent though in the original.
Kramat is a burial shrine for a muslim saint. I didn't know that until I just tried to find the song. A most joyful funeral song. My mother must have felt that when she asked me to play that at her funeral (not dead, no worries).
http://www.last.fm/music/Abdullah+Ibrahim/_/Kramat
Till
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@shubharamani:
Shoque, Madonna is my role model and I love her 80s music (everything else since then has sucked).
shubs - that is one horrible thing to say…she was good in the 80's - but her really good pieces are albums like music or confessions on a dancefloor ...frozen was amazing ....so much better than like a virgin or holiday !
We can do anything
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@shubharamani:
Shoque, Madonna is my role model and I love her 80s music (everything else since then has sucked).
shubs - that is one horrible thing to say…she was good in the 80's - but her really good pieces are albums like music or confessions on a dancefloor ...frozen was amazing ....so much better than like a virgin or holiday !
Sorry Beatle ! OK, you forget something – I'm old, so the reason I have a fondness for 80s music is because I was young during that time (in high school & college). But now that you say so, let me look up "Confessions..." and "Frozen" and give em a listen. Madonna is my role model because she's 50+ (not far from my age), she's amazingly brilliant, successful and gorgeous -- plus she treats her body like a temple, as I do. She's a yoga fanatic, doesn't do drugs/smoke, and drinks the occasional glass of wine (which I don't even do). Her vice is coffee (same as mine). Madonna has incredible self-love and high self-esteem -- she steadfastly refuses to get swept up into all that celebrity partying crap.
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I have been enjoying Fennesz of late - anyone else a fan?
Do you mean this guy? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennesz
LOL, I'm from Austria and I have never heard of him. Gotta listen to some stuff now…
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Sorry to do this but hopefully it puts a
on your face on Monday! The Jimmy Fallon Version has been stuck in my head for the past week or two…Pants On The Ground (Original Version) - American Idol
Pants On The Ground (Neil Young Version Performed by Jimmy Fallon) - Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon
