Recommend Music

[KvHagedorn]

Actually, hearing music you like in another language can inspire you to learn some of that language.. I remember downloading that Tatu video (yeah, the masturbation one ) and really liking the music, so I searched for the lyrics so I could figure out what they were saying. How did we ever cope without the internet? Looking something like that up way back in the stone-age 80s would have taken so much time as to be prohibitive.

[Topha]

Norah Jones is nice.

Ms. Dynamite, Ghost Cauldron, Sportfreunde Stiller (only while youre drinking lots of beer ), Bob Dylan, Counting Crows, Eminem ..........

[Paddy]

I thought it was meant to be stuff others MURCers had not heard of

My bad

[az]

Topha: Sportfreunde Stiller is just a poor copy of Tocotronic...

You might want to check out "Die Sterne", too.

AZ

[Topha]

Originally posted by az
Topha: Sportfreunde Stiller is just a poor copy of Tocotronic...

You might want to check out "Die Sterne", too.

AZ

Havent heard of either one, unless you mean 5 sterene deluxe

As for sportfreunde Stiller: I dont really like their music, they are just fun to listen to every now and then

[az]

I certainly don't mean 5 Sterne Deluxe

Tocotronic and Die Sterne are the two big "Hamburger Schule" bands - Sportfreunde Stiller came years later, are just a poor copy, and have happy lyrics (blasphemy! ).

AZ

[Topha]

Originally posted by az
...and have happy lyrics (blasphemy! ).

AZ

Thats why they are so good while drinking lots of beer

[Admiral]

Die Fantastischen Vier - Millionen Legionen UNPLUGGED (it's in german, and quite well known here. It's important to listen to the unplugged version!)

Think I heard of them, aren't these the guys with "12 kleine jegermeister" ?

(hope I spelt that right)

[Indiana]

No, that's "Die Toten Hosen" (= "the dead trousers").

Anyways I don't like rap, neither english nor german.

[az]

I'm usually not a big rap or hip hop fan, too, but Millionen Legionen is different.

Die Toten Hosen were a punk rock band, now they're just a pop rock band

AZ

[Brian Ellis]

In terms of folk music, the Ranz des Vaches is ultra interesting. Its origins are lost in the mists of time and it is sung in an incomprehensible dialect from the region where Gruyère cheese comes from. The melody is haunting, especially when sung solo, al capello, partially accompanied by the Alphorn. I particularly recommend the version sung by the late Bernard Romanens at the 1977 Fête des Vignerons at Vevey. This is a piece of music that brings tears to my eyes, every time I hear it.



This photo is of Romanens at the festival. He was not a professional singer but a simple peasant from the region.

Incidentally, several composers have introduced phrases from the Ranz des Vaches in their works.

[Dr Mordrid]

Norah Jones - esp. the live stuff from the House of Blues

Go her site and you can d/l several of her HOB sets (I highly recommend "I've Got to See You Again");

http://www.norahjones.com/av/main.htm#houseofblues041602.htm

Now you can make your own "live" album

Joe Cockers Millennium....cool hits album
Johnny Cash
& a bunch more

Dr. Mordrid

[MetalCartman]

LORDI, newcomer metal band from Finland, great songs which sound like Alice Cooper, Kiss or Twisted Sister. They play a bit faster and harder, though...

[OFF TOPIC]I'm also a big fan of Bruce Springsteen, I have seen him two weeks ago in Ludwigshafen/Germany[/OFF TOPIC]

Cartman

[Drizzt]

Interesting Italian artists:


Elisa - an Italian artist with a beautiful voice, singing in English

99 Posse - an Italian band singing in an Italian dialect that it's foreign for us as for the rest of the world (search on Kazaa for "Non c'e' tempo", for example)

Andrea Bocelli - who sing "commercial music" with opera's style voice

Piero Pelu - nice rock music



More to come...

[KvHagedorn]

Re: Recommend Music

Originally posted by az
To post something useful (kind of) in the lounge for once...

Please post one or a few pieces of music you think other MURCers might not know, or which don't get the attention they deserve.

Alright, seriously.. it seems most MURCers might not know much about classical music, so I will list something which is truly one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but which is pretty obscure to a lot of people; the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven. I just saw it performed today on TV, and own 3 or 4 different recordings of it, but the best is still Otto Klemperer's rendition. Completed two years before his Ninth Symphony, this is a huge, haunting, powerful work. You will feel your life fuller for having heard it.