What's in itunes this week...
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highlyeccentricNot a meme, just an excuse to waste time with LJ and itunes.
Sauron was completely reloaded over the winter break, and I only reinstalled iTunes at about week four of semester, after dallying with WinAmp for a while. So this is a snapshot of my listening habits for the last three months or so.
49. Classical Gas- Tommy Emmanuel & The Australian Philharminic (from Classical Gas)
This album is my Happy Music, one of those soundtracks which stick with you from childhood. I love Tommy's guitar work, and the Philharmonic provide a gorgeous backing.
42. Classical Gas- Vanessay May
Classical Gas is also one of my favourite pieces of music, ever. Originally by Mason Williams, this version here is an exquisite violin solo, donated to my by my friend the Archangel.
41. Guitar Concierto De Aranjuez- Tommy Emmanuel (from Dare To Be Different)
I know this piece best because he also did a rendition of it on Classical Gass. The Dare To Be Different version is a little quieter. The original, complete concierto is by Joaquin Rodruigez, and what we have here is the Adadgio part only. It is one of my Wife's favourite pieces ever, and she's right, it is heartrendingly beautiful.
She loves to tell the story of the piece's composition. It was written in reverse- the third and final part, the technical term for which I cannot remember, is all happy and calm. Rodruiguez composed it shortly after his marriage, when he was all fluffy in luurve. The Adadgio, which comes in the middle of the piece, is heart-wrenchingly beautiful and sad. His wife was in labour with their first child, and Rodruigez was sent away. After hours, the news came that there was little to no chance of saving either wife or child. Distraught and short of things to occupy himself, he sat down and composed.
The first movement he wrote last- it, too, is much lighter and happier, and Rodruigez composed it shortly after his wife, who had survived, gave birth to their first surviving child.
40. Iris- Goo Goo Dolls (from Dizzy Up The Girl)
Iris was one of those songs I heard on the radio when I was about fifteen. Something about it- the music, the lead singer's voice, the lyrics, pulled at my heartstrings. I laid hands on it by some illegal means this year, and have been listening it to death ever since.
When everything's made to be broken... I just want you to know who I am.
40. Concierto De Aranjuez- Tommy Emmanuel and the Australian Philharmonic (from Classical Gas)
I told you I really liked this piece.
40. Tangled Up In Blue- The Whitlams (from Eternal Nightcap)
This track isn't original to The Whitlams, but it suits their style perfectly. It has everything I love about Whitlams (un)love songs- a sort of dizzy feeling, descriptions that go around the edges of the feeling but never try to pin it down.
39. Part of Me, Part of You- The Finn Brothers (from Everyone is Here)
I bought this album because I fell in love with Won't Give In, the lead single. This is an album which paints pictures of family, community, and the ties which bind.
33. Special Two- Emma Davison (recorded at Easter Camp 2005)
I like Missy Higgins' songs but I don't like them when Missy Higgins sings them.
This performance of Emma's was part of the Good Friday reflection at EC 05, which was focused on grief. We had recently lost to suicide a long-standing Easter Camp leader, and the whole community was very shaken up. I'm not sure who thought of Missy Higgin's love song, or why they thought it would suit either Good Friday or our loss of Pete... but it worked, beautifully, and someone recorded it.
33. No Aphrodisiac- The Whitlams (from Eternal Nightcap)
Their first hit single, No Aphrodisiac was on a compilation album I had when I was about twelve, along with Live's Dolphin's Cry, and a few other really good songs that stuck with me. They were songs that I didn't understand at all, but which captivated me. Laying hands on them again in the past few years, the little cognitive piece has clicked. There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness... truth, beauty and a picture of you.
33. Blow Up the Pokies- The Whitlams (from Love This City)
Just an awesome song. Another one I remember from the radio when I was in my early teens.
32. Cigarettes Will Kill you- Ben Lee (from Breathing Tornadoes)
I think this was on the same compilation album as No Aphrodisiac. If not, I first fell for it at about the same time. It has a neat melody, and that frenetic disorganised way of describing a relationship that I appreciate so much in the Whitlams' work.
32. Magnificat Cum Alleluia- Norin Ni Rian (from The Swoon Collection II)
My Wife has been contributing to my musical education. The Swoon CDS are put together by ABC Classic FM, who took it into their heads to play one piece, every afternoon, which will make you stop in your tracks. This one makes me stop in my tracks, every time. It is worshipful. In part, its play count is so high because it's in my religiously-minded playlist. But it is also AWESOME.
32. I Will Not Go Quietly (Duffy's Song)- The Whitlams (from Torch the Moon)
Also awesome, and touching.
32. Royal in the Afternoon- The Whitlams (also from Torch the Moon)
I don't have much patience with love songs in general, but damn, the Whitlams do 'em good.
31. Lough Erin Shore- The Corrs (from Unplugged)
Another one of my Happy Music songs. Also the only piece I can play on piano. Pretty.
31. Dancing Barefoot- U2 (from The Best of 1980-1990- the B-sides)
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gryphonvere. Most of them make me sad. This one makes me GRIN.
31. Second Best- The Whitlams (from Little Cloud- The Apple's Eye)
a sad song.
30. All God's Children- The Finn Brothers (from Everyone Is Here)
We're all God's Children, and God is a woman, but we still don't know who the Father is. And I can't help thinking, there's a fortune riding on the answer to that question.
Another one with a high play count thanks to my religiously minded playlist. But also sweet, and entirely in keeping with the tone of Everyone is Here, which I praised before.
29. Beat the Drum- Great Big Sea (from Something Beautiful)
gryphonvere introduced me to GBS, and I will love him forever for it. They do lovely pop-rock, they do folk covers, they are fantastic in all respects. Also, I have a huge crush on the lead singer's voice. Drool, drool.
29. I Was Alive- The Whitlams (from Little Cloud)
see all my above comments about Whitlams and (mostly)love songs.
28. Bridal Train- The Waifs (from A Brief History)
I love songs about places. I love songs about places that are actually about people. The Whitlams are good at it. The Waifs are also good at it. This is a song about a war bride, crossing the country by train to ship out for America to meet the husband she barely knows. It was a farewell crossing of her land. This song makes me shiver, every time I hear it. The idea of DOING that... I set roots down in places. The idea of up and leaving my country for anything other than a PHD scares the living daylights out of me. Loving another person that much? Very brave.
27. Fast As I Can- Great Big Sea (from Road Rage)
One of the first GBS songsgryphonvere gave me. A song about falling in love slowly. Sung in the sexiest voice known to the recording industry. I loves it, precious.
27. You Gotta Love This City- The Whitlams (from Love This City)
I love songs about places. I love Tim Freedman's love of Sydney. When I fell head over heels for Sydney, I wanted to write it into my poetry. I tried, with varied sucesses. But I needn't have bothered, becaus Tim Freedman has done it already.
27. God Drinks at the Sando- The Whitlams (from Love This City)
God drinks down at the Sandringham these days, since the Shakespeare changed its name. He drinks down at the Sandringham these days. He's what we call all right round here... Talks a bit, he likes to sit. Watches people come in and smiles. Somehow we're part of him, we nod and chat a while. He drinks slowly, like it's holy, from a glass that always looks half full.
Reminds me of Rufus, the 13th Apostle's description of Jesus:
Yeah. Needless to say, this is on my religiously minded playlist, and i like it a LOT.
26. Year of the Rat- The Whitlams (from Little Cloud)
I didn't realise until Flinn and I saw them live, and Tim expressed his desire that this year be the year of Kevin, that this song was about the last election! I love it because it's a Newtown song. I was driving in Quisba's car, missing uni dreadfully, when I first heard it. Newtown I love you but you're trying to kill me...
There you go. How boring.
Sauron was completely reloaded over the winter break, and I only reinstalled iTunes at about week four of semester, after dallying with WinAmp for a while. So this is a snapshot of my listening habits for the last three months or so.
49. Classical Gas- Tommy Emmanuel & The Australian Philharminic (from Classical Gas)
This album is my Happy Music, one of those soundtracks which stick with you from childhood. I love Tommy's guitar work, and the Philharmonic provide a gorgeous backing.
42. Classical Gas- Vanessay May
Classical Gas is also one of my favourite pieces of music, ever. Originally by Mason Williams, this version here is an exquisite violin solo, donated to my by my friend the Archangel.
41. Guitar Concierto De Aranjuez- Tommy Emmanuel (from Dare To Be Different)
I know this piece best because he also did a rendition of it on Classical Gass. The Dare To Be Different version is a little quieter. The original, complete concierto is by Joaquin Rodruigez, and what we have here is the Adadgio part only. It is one of my Wife's favourite pieces ever, and she's right, it is heartrendingly beautiful.
She loves to tell the story of the piece's composition. It was written in reverse- the third and final part, the technical term for which I cannot remember, is all happy and calm. Rodruiguez composed it shortly after his marriage, when he was all fluffy in luurve. The Adadgio, which comes in the middle of the piece, is heart-wrenchingly beautiful and sad. His wife was in labour with their first child, and Rodruigez was sent away. After hours, the news came that there was little to no chance of saving either wife or child. Distraught and short of things to occupy himself, he sat down and composed.
The first movement he wrote last- it, too, is much lighter and happier, and Rodruigez composed it shortly after his wife, who had survived, gave birth to their first surviving child.
40. Iris- Goo Goo Dolls (from Dizzy Up The Girl)
Iris was one of those songs I heard on the radio when I was about fifteen. Something about it- the music, the lead singer's voice, the lyrics, pulled at my heartstrings. I laid hands on it by some illegal means this year, and have been listening it to death ever since.
When everything's made to be broken... I just want you to know who I am.
40. Concierto De Aranjuez- Tommy Emmanuel and the Australian Philharmonic (from Classical Gas)
I told you I really liked this piece.
40. Tangled Up In Blue- The Whitlams (from Eternal Nightcap)
This track isn't original to The Whitlams, but it suits their style perfectly. It has everything I love about Whitlams (un)love songs- a sort of dizzy feeling, descriptions that go around the edges of the feeling but never try to pin it down.
39. Part of Me, Part of You- The Finn Brothers (from Everyone is Here)
I bought this album because I fell in love with Won't Give In, the lead single. This is an album which paints pictures of family, community, and the ties which bind.
33. Special Two- Emma Davison (recorded at Easter Camp 2005)
I like Missy Higgins' songs but I don't like them when Missy Higgins sings them.
This performance of Emma's was part of the Good Friday reflection at EC 05, which was focused on grief. We had recently lost to suicide a long-standing Easter Camp leader, and the whole community was very shaken up. I'm not sure who thought of Missy Higgin's love song, or why they thought it would suit either Good Friday or our loss of Pete... but it worked, beautifully, and someone recorded it.
33. No Aphrodisiac- The Whitlams (from Eternal Nightcap)
Their first hit single, No Aphrodisiac was on a compilation album I had when I was about twelve, along with Live's Dolphin's Cry, and a few other really good songs that stuck with me. They were songs that I didn't understand at all, but which captivated me. Laying hands on them again in the past few years, the little cognitive piece has clicked. There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness... truth, beauty and a picture of you.
33. Blow Up the Pokies- The Whitlams (from Love This City)
Just an awesome song. Another one I remember from the radio when I was in my early teens.
32. Cigarettes Will Kill you- Ben Lee (from Breathing Tornadoes)
I think this was on the same compilation album as No Aphrodisiac. If not, I first fell for it at about the same time. It has a neat melody, and that frenetic disorganised way of describing a relationship that I appreciate so much in the Whitlams' work.
32. Magnificat Cum Alleluia- Norin Ni Rian (from The Swoon Collection II)
My Wife has been contributing to my musical education. The Swoon CDS are put together by ABC Classic FM, who took it into their heads to play one piece, every afternoon, which will make you stop in your tracks. This one makes me stop in my tracks, every time. It is worshipful. In part, its play count is so high because it's in my religiously-minded playlist. But it is also AWESOME.
32. I Will Not Go Quietly (Duffy's Song)- The Whitlams (from Torch the Moon)
Also awesome, and touching.
32. Royal in the Afternoon- The Whitlams (also from Torch the Moon)
I don't have much patience with love songs in general, but damn, the Whitlams do 'em good.
31. Lough Erin Shore- The Corrs (from Unplugged)
Another one of my Happy Music songs. Also the only piece I can play on piano. Pretty.
31. Dancing Barefoot- U2 (from The Best of 1980-1990- the B-sides)
Many songs remind me of
gryphonvere. Most of them make me sad. This one makes me GRIN.31. Second Best- The Whitlams (from Little Cloud- The Apple's Eye)
a sad song.
30. All God's Children- The Finn Brothers (from Everyone Is Here)
We're all God's Children, and God is a woman, but we still don't know who the Father is. And I can't help thinking, there's a fortune riding on the answer to that question.
Another one with a high play count thanks to my religiously minded playlist. But also sweet, and entirely in keeping with the tone of Everyone is Here, which I praised before.
29. Beat the Drum- Great Big Sea (from Something Beautiful)
gryphonvere introduced me to GBS, and I will love him forever for it. They do lovely pop-rock, they do folk covers, they are fantastic in all respects. Also, I have a huge crush on the lead singer's voice. Drool, drool.29. I Was Alive- The Whitlams (from Little Cloud)
see all my above comments about Whitlams and (mostly)love songs.
28. Bridal Train- The Waifs (from A Brief History)
I love songs about places. I love songs about places that are actually about people. The Whitlams are good at it. The Waifs are also good at it. This is a song about a war bride, crossing the country by train to ship out for America to meet the husband she barely knows. It was a farewell crossing of her land. This song makes me shiver, every time I hear it. The idea of DOING that... I set roots down in places. The idea of up and leaving my country for anything other than a PHD scares the living daylights out of me. Loving another person that much? Very brave.
27. Fast As I Can- Great Big Sea (from Road Rage)
One of the first GBS songs
gryphonvere gave me. A song about falling in love slowly. Sung in the sexiest voice known to the recording industry. I loves it, precious.27. You Gotta Love This City- The Whitlams (from Love This City)
I love songs about places. I love Tim Freedman's love of Sydney. When I fell head over heels for Sydney, I wanted to write it into my poetry. I tried, with varied sucesses. But I needn't have bothered, becaus Tim Freedman has done it already.
27. God Drinks at the Sando- The Whitlams (from Love This City)
God drinks down at the Sandringham these days, since the Shakespeare changed its name. He drinks down at the Sandringham these days. He's what we call all right round here... Talks a bit, he likes to sit. Watches people come in and smiles. Somehow we're part of him, we nod and chat a while. He drinks slowly, like it's holy, from a glass that always looks half full.
Reminds me of Rufus, the 13th Apostle's description of Jesus:
He likes to listen to people talk. Christ loved to sit around and listen to me and the other guys. You know, whenever we were going on about unimportant stuff. He always had a smile on His face. His only real beef with mankind is the shit that gets carried out in His name: wars, bigotry, televangelism... (Dogma)
Yeah. Needless to say, this is on my religiously minded playlist, and i like it a LOT.
26. Year of the Rat- The Whitlams (from Little Cloud)
I didn't realise until Flinn and I saw them live, and Tim expressed his desire that this year be the year of Kevin, that this song was about the last election! I love it because it's a Newtown song. I was driving in Quisba's car, missing uni dreadfully, when I first heard it. Newtown I love you but you're trying to kill me...
There you go. How boring.
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Date: 2007-12-11 04:13 am (UTC)fixed now.
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Date: 2007-12-11 08:57 am (UTC)Year of the Rat is great =D