What Music are you listening to right now?--The Second Verse

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Birgit Nilsson sings the "Liebestod" or "Love Death" final from Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

"...ertrinken, versinken...unbewusst...höchste Lust!"

To think, how did Kapellmeister Bonno from the movie "Amadeus" foppishly put it?

"German is...too brute for singing."

  Edited May 21, 2012 by Odainsaker  

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^ Positively transcendental. I was stuck to my chair. Madame Nilsson is one of the greatest interpreters of that piece, and it could only be bettered in a performance of the opera.

German is a very nice language, and doesn't have to be full of the coarse garbage you hear in WW II films.

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Mein Herz Brent - Rammstein

Speaking of, I'm going to see them tonight in concert at the American Airlines center in Dallas. If anyone is in the DFW area, I suggest you go. This is their only American tour.

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Hold me close - Hagood Hardy

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Radiohead - The National Anthem.

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Just Like You - Three Days Grace

Don't make fun of me for liking modern rock. xD

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The Colours of My Life - Antonio Rossi and his orchestra.

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Soul Coughing-Circles

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Blue Hawaii - Billy Vaughan and his objectionable saxophone chorus.

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I have been listening to Tropican Caribbean music for the past two days.

I am not a giant fan of German but that song sounds nice enough. It sounds almost Italian.

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Blue Satin - Henry Mancini

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  Edited May 26, 2012 by City_Master  

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A Building Panic, From Back to Titanic

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The Windmills of Your Mind - Henry Mancini.

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Judas Priest- The Hellion/Electric Eye (live 1982)

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I tried listening to that song once. My ears bled.

Brandy, You're a Fine Girl - Looking Glass (A one-hit-wonder from the 70's)

This is my favorite song ever. It has almost everything I love about 70's music combined into one song.

[Odainsaker 2,137]

L'Arc~en~Ciel sings "Chase" at their Madison Square Garden earlier this year. Actually, I do not really like this song much, nor the "Battlefield Earth" dreadlocks that come with it, but, this clip is the first officially produced band video from that concert, and my friends and I are amidst that crowd with thunderous glowsticks in hand. Squeal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ajHRzcnJg

For the astoundingly hilarious version, here is Bobby Ologun, a Nigerian martial-artist expat in Japan who makes a living doing the hapless foreigner comedy routine, singing the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxXyS_-FBo. The bemused band has lovingly called it "terrible" in their shoutouts to Bobby onstage. What has been heard cannot be unheard!

In a funny coincidence that reeks of divine timing, NBC's New York-based variety show "Saturday Night Live" rebroadcasted one of their skits called "J-Pop America Fun Time Now!" the night before the concert for all the J-rock fans who had made the pilgrimage to Madison Square Garden that day. It's, uh, horrifyingly accurate!

  Edited May 29, 2012 by Odainsaker  

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Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz with Herbie von Karajan marching along at the podium.

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Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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I love Symphony Fantastique! I have not been listening to much music today. Just some mindless pop and rap on the radio.

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Symphony No. 9 in D minor - L. v. Beethoven - an old recording conducted by Toscanini.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwryFOYTKac

I know I'm a little late to jump on the bus here, but I love that song! Chicago is one of my favorite bands. It's a shame they're not in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way

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Concerto No. 5 in A major - W. A. Mozart

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Queen Somebody to love live 1981

Freddy Mercury at his best.

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5 miniatures for Flute and Strings - W. McCaulay: Very like some of the French impressionists.

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Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling.

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The Stampeders - Sweet City Woman

Next: Probably Spinners - Rubberband Man, then Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light

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Theme from Summer of '42 - Zamfir

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Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.

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Enigma Variations - Edward Elgar. Being broadcast as background to the Thames Flotilla of 1,000 ships.