Unsomnambulist
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The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (2002)
What Are You Listening To? February 2025
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Zeeba Neighba
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Nothing exciting to report - over the past year been definitely listening to more playlists than albums and continuing the intermittent journey through Acclaimed Music's top 10,000 songs counting down
Recent songs:
7742: "Cherish" by The Association (just finished)
7745: "The Last Time I Saw Richard" by Joni Mitchell
7747: "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister
7750: "Keep Me In Your Heart" by Warren Zevon
7754: "Asiko" by Tony Allen
7763: "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night
7778: "This Is Love" by PJ Harvey
Recent songs:
7742: "Cherish" by The Association (just finished)
7745: "The Last Time I Saw Richard" by Joni Mitchell
7747: "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister
7750: "Keep Me In Your Heart" by Warren Zevon
7754: "Asiko" by Tony Allen
7763: "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night
7778: "This Is Love" by PJ Harvey
Unsomnambulist
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The Murder Capital - Blindness (2025)
Unsomnambulist
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Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream (2025)
Unsomnambulist
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@axolotl might like this. It's special.Youth Lagoon - Rarely Do I Dream (2025)
Unsomnambulist
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Vulture Feather - It Will Be Like Now (2025)
axolotl
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I was thinking of giving this one a listen. An old car on the cover is usually a good sign.
P. S. You know, in certain circles, I'm considered kind of speshul, too.
Unsomnambulist
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I thought of that meaning, but I really did mean it as an out of the ordinary work of art.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
You've rarely steered me wrong. I'll give it a test drive.
Ojai Sam
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Barbara Carroll - Live At The Carlyle (1991)
Everyone associates The Carlyle in NYC with Bobby Short. But for much of his long run at the Cafe Carlyle supper club, Barbara Carroll held forth at the hotel's Bemelmans Bar, a more casual venue. Her intelligent interpretations of songs from the great American song book match her warm, occasionally vulnerable vocals with impeccable jazz piano. Backed by Claudio Roditi (trumpet), Jay Leonhart (string bass) and Akira Tana (drums), this delightful set from Sunday and Monday, January 13 and 14, 1991 is all the more remarkable because you could just walk in, order a G&T and enjoy this outstanding music any day of the week.
Bemelmans Bar features murals painted by none other than Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the beloved Madeline stories for kids and a series of humorous essays for adults. From personal experience, I can attest that their bartenders make the best Ketel One martini on the Upper East Side.
Everyone associates The Carlyle in NYC with Bobby Short. But for much of his long run at the Cafe Carlyle supper club, Barbara Carroll held forth at the hotel's Bemelmans Bar, a more casual venue. Her intelligent interpretations of songs from the great American song book match her warm, occasionally vulnerable vocals with impeccable jazz piano. Backed by Claudio Roditi (trumpet), Jay Leonhart (string bass) and Akira Tana (drums), this delightful set from Sunday and Monday, January 13 and 14, 1991 is all the more remarkable because you could just walk in, order a G&T and enjoy this outstanding music any day of the week.
Bemelmans Bar features murals painted by none other than Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the beloved Madeline stories for kids and a series of humorous essays for adults. From personal experience, I can attest that their bartenders make the best Ketel One martini on the Upper East Side.
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Unsomnambulist
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Causa Sui - From The Source (2024)
Flisten.
Flisten.
Nickyboy
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Last time we were in NYC we made a point of going to the Bemelman's Bar just for a cocktail and so I could photograph every inch of the walls. Of all the books I own, I put his collection of short stories called "Short Beer" in my Top Five. It also includes his whimsical illustrations, of course.View attachment 13145
Bemelmans Bar features murals painted by none other than Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the beloved Madeline stories for kids and a series of humorous essays for adults. From personal experience, I can attest that their bartenders make the best Ketel One martini on the Upper East Side.
Ojai Sam
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Marius Constant, Jerry Goldsmith, Nathan Van Cleave, Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman - The Twilight Zone, Vol. 1 (TV soundtracks rec. 1959-61, Varese Sarabande [Japan] 1983)
A glance at the roster of composers assembled by CBS shows why this landmark series owed much of its success to the music.
A glance at the roster of composers assembled by CBS shows why this landmark series owed much of its success to the music.
Ojai Sam
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Bernard Haitink, cond.) - Bruckner: Symphony No. 0 (1966)
Wiki explains:
The Symphony in D minor, WAB 100, was composed by Anton Bruckner in 1869 between Symphony No. 1 (1866) and Symphony No. 2 (1872). In 1895 Bruckner declared that this symphony "gilt nicht" (does not count) and he did not assign a number to it. The work was published and premiered in 1924.
According to the conductor Georg Tintner, "How an off-hand remark, when directed at a person lacking any self-confidence, can have such catastrophic consequences! Bruckner, who all his life thought that able musicians (especially those in authority) knew better than he did, was devastated when Otto Dessoff (then the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic) asked him about the first movement: "But where is the main theme?"
In 1895, when Bruckner reviewed his symphonies in order to have them published, he declared that this symphony "does not count" ("gilt nicht"). He wrote on the front page "annullirt" ("nullified") and replaced the original "Nr. 2" with the symbol "∅".
The symbol "∅" was later interpreted as the numeral zero and the symphony got the nickname Die Nullte ("No. 0"). In the words of David Griegel, "Like many other composers, I believe Bruckner was merely being too self-critical, and the unnumbered symphonies are also works worthy of our enjoyment".
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Wiki explains:
The Symphony in D minor, WAB 100, was composed by Anton Bruckner in 1869 between Symphony No. 1 (1866) and Symphony No. 2 (1872). In 1895 Bruckner declared that this symphony "gilt nicht" (does not count) and he did not assign a number to it. The work was published and premiered in 1924.
According to the conductor Georg Tintner, "How an off-hand remark, when directed at a person lacking any self-confidence, can have such catastrophic consequences! Bruckner, who all his life thought that able musicians (especially those in authority) knew better than he did, was devastated when Otto Dessoff (then the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic) asked him about the first movement: "But where is the main theme?"
In 1895, when Bruckner reviewed his symphonies in order to have them published, he declared that this symphony "does not count" ("gilt nicht"). He wrote on the front page "annullirt" ("nullified") and replaced the original "Nr. 2" with the symbol "∅".
The symbol "∅" was later interpreted as the numeral zero and the symphony got the nickname Die Nullte ("No. 0"). In the words of David Griegel, "Like many other composers, I believe Bruckner was merely being too self-critical, and the unnumbered symphonies are also works worthy of our enjoyment".
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