What tune is in your head?

[W.F. Tomba]

What tune is running through your head right now? I've got Ravel's "Bolero" at the moment, because I listened to it this morning.

[TriangleMan]

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day. Great song.

[Nicolas]

What tune is running through your head right now? I've got Ravel's "Bolero" at the moment, because I listened to it this morning.

I try to keep the piece I'm currently working on in my head, as I can write nor read notes and I need to save it somewhere untill all is recorded.
So in between of other songs, I've had to keep that one in my head for more than a year already. The advantage is that I can work on it whenever and wherever I want to.

Concerning "existing songs":

Billy Joël: She's always a woman to me

Don't ask me why, it's just settled inside my head.

[Wolverine]

Sex in a Pan by Bela Fleck & the Flecktones.

[Fram]

Usually the last one I heard and liked, so now that's Moby with 'Lift me up' (in a special live version!). If I have some annoying song (Britney or so) stuck inside my head, I start humming some Mike Oldfield, that usually helps.

[farmerjumperdon]

Agreed, something you've heard recently is most likely what's "stuck" in your head. I watched parts of the pbs special last couple nights, the 60's. Incredible! I'm amazed at the performers they got together for the stage portions of the show. So now I've got Moody Blues, The Animals, etc. floating around between my ears. Eric B. did a very nice version of House of the Rising Sun. And it made me finally go out and pledge.

[AGN Fuel]

"Bad Day" by REM. Listened to it on CD this morning & it resonates with me.......

[Moose]

The song in my head is coincidentally enough the same song that's in my ears. Convenient that.

It's one of the techno songs from the old Red Alert soundtrack. (Hey, it was on rotation. :-? )

[Parrothead]

Til I Am Myself Again by Blue Rodeo

[Kristophe]

Beat It, by Michael Jackson. One of my roomies has been VNCing into one of my other roomie's computer and playing games with him. Every time he leaves his room, Beat It is queued up in WinAmp. It's hilarous.

[ChesleyFan]

Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried."

Haggard and Bob Dylan are playing here at the Rave in a month! And my friend can get me in free! Wheee!

[dvb]

Ever since watching a few episodes with one of my friends over the weekend, I've had the Red Dwarf theme song stuck in my head for the past 2 days now. I don't know the words to it, but the music alone seems to be enough to keep it stuck in there.

[mike alexander]

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.
I'm all alone, more or less.
Let me fly, far away from here.
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

I want to lie shipwrecked and comotose,
Drinking fresh mango juice,
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes.
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

I couldn't remember all the words, so I googled it.

My worst head song is "Brazil".


Tenser, said the Tensor.

[Majin Vegeta]

"F*ck the police" by Rage Against the machine... I can hear it in my head now.. Hmm, Guess thats because I'm listening to it :wink:

[Lurker]

Nightwish -- Over The Hills And Far Away

My babe sent me the mp3 video.


Edited to add:

Well its that one and:


"How to handle a woman?
There's a way," said the wise old man,
"A way known by ev'ry woman
Since the whole rigmarole began."
"Do I flatter her?" I begged him answer.
"Do I threaten or cajole or plead?
Do I brood or play the gay romancer?"
Said he, smiling: "No indeed.
How to handle a woman?
Mark me well, I will tell you, sir:
The way to handle a woman
Is to love her...simply love her...
Merely love her...love her...love her."

[jumbo]

The mash theme tune ... of course its nothing to do with my recent constant watching of em on dvd. Before that it was Pink Floyd's comfortably numb

[paulie jay]

Erm, at the moment the theme song from School Of Rock...

There is always a song in my head. Always. From the moment I wake up. I used to keep a list of the song that was playing in my head at the instant I woke up in the morning. It was always a different song!

[Majin Vegeta]

Now it's Take the power by RATM.

[Maksutov]

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 1. Satz Langsam (Adagio), was at measure 32 (Tempo I (Adagio) subito, aber fließender als zu Anfang), where the tenor horn comes in with a stark variation on its opening theme, over dark, pulsating sixteenth-note/quarter-note chords in the lower strings and lower woodwinds (clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoons, and contrabassoon), all underlined by the staccato bass drum.

In about 20 minutes it will be time for 2. Satz NACHTMUSIK Allegro moderato, then 3. Satz SCHERZO Schattenhaft, then 4. Satz NACHTMUSIK Andante amoroso, and the great finish, 5. Satz RONDO-FINALE Tempo I (Allegro ordinario), which ends with what has to be the musical equivalent of a mountain sunrise blazing through the darkness and engulfing all in light.

Then on to the Eighth!

[Majin Vegeta]

Now It's freedom by RATM, It's one freaking sweet song!

[the_shaggy_one]

"Drown", by Son Volt

[Chip]

Right now? The middle, fast tempo portion of Concert Romanesc by Gyorgy Ligeti.

[SKY]

At the moment..."So Cold" by Breaking Benjamin, but while I was reading the thread it was "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" by Alan Sherman http://games.bg/forums/images/smiles/heavy.gif.

[dvb]

It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.
I'm all alone, more or less.
Let me fly, far away from here.
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

I want to lie shipwrecked and comotose,
Drinking fresh mango juice,
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes.
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

I couldn't remember all the words, so I googled it.

My worst head song is "Brazil".


Tenser, said the Tensor.

=D>

Great job.

The song is still stuck in my head btw. :-?

[cyswxman]

It's a song....that I don't know the name of!!! #-o #-o

or even who did it!!!!!! :evil:

[EvilBob]

It's a song....that I don't know the name of!!! #-o #-o

or even who did it!!!!!! :evil:
Can you hum us a bar or two? :wink:

I have Living End's "Prisoner of society".... Maybe because I'm at work? :-k

Me and You and a Dog named Boo... :oops: :oops: :oops:

Now there's a meme for spreading. :lol: :lol:

[Reacher]

The song in my head is coincidentally enough the same song that's in my ears. Convenient that.

It's one of the techno songs from the old Red Alert soundtrack. (Hey, it was on rotation. :-? )

It wouldn't happen to be Destroy by Frank Klepacki, would it? That's what I've got stuck in my head, from the Red Alert album.

The only other Red Alert song I know is the Hell March.

[Nicolas]

Tori Amos: "Winter"

I just checked my audio equipment with that one. :)

[R.A.F.]

well...it's running through my head because I happen to be listing to it at the moment...

Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in E Major, first movement...

[Argos]

The hills are alive to the sound of music.... Man, I shouldn´t have watched that Julie Andrews special...

[Nergal]

"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gainer...my co-worker came in this morning singing it and now it's stuck on a loop in my head. I'm going to attempt to drive it out with some Orff and Holst.

[Parrothead]

"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gainer...my co-worker came in this morning singing it and now it's stuck on a loop in my head. I'm going to attempt to drive it out with some Orff and Holst.

LOL! Reading this post just put " O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana in my head. :lol:

[Fram]

Now it's Pulp, 'Feeling called L.O.V.E.', but everytime I read a title here, I either want to go check it out (because I don't know it), or it just pops right in as well (like House of the Rising Sun, or Winter (Tori Amos is live on the Belgian TV tonight!), or Pink Floyd). Thanks everyone :evil: :D

[gethen]

It's Tomgraney Castle which is an old Irish tune I've been trying to learn to play and I've been waking up at night with it running through my head until I'm getting sick of it.

[Moose]

The song in my head is coincidentally enough the same song that's in my ears. Convenient that.

It's one of the techno songs from the old Red Alert soundtrack. (Hey, it was on rotation. :-? )

It wouldn't happen to be Destroy by Frank Klepacki, would it? That's what I've got stuck in my head, from the Red Alert album.

The only other Red Alert song I know is the Hell March.

Well, other than Hellmarch and Mission Accomplished, they all sort of sound alike anyway. Pretty good guess, but no. When I'd posted that, I was listening to Terminate.

Hellmarch is my favorite, though. Makes a pretty good alternate soundtrack for Fallout Tactics.

[Moose]

"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gainer...my co-worker came in this morning singing it and now it's stuck on a loop in my head. I'm going to attempt to drive it out with some Orff and Holst.

LOL! Reading this post just put " O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana in my head. :lol:

Me too, come to think of it. No real hurry getting it out, it's a good piece.

[jofg]

I've had this earwig stuck in my head for about 3 months now - it's the Muppet ManahManah song that they are using in the Dr. Pepper commercial (where the couple are out on the date and the guy is yapping and she drinks the DP and everyone in the restaurant is now talking the song's "lyrics".

Man, that one keeps popping into my head at the oddest times.....

[captain swoop]

Bad Moon Rising by Crendence...
Last nights band at 'The Tap and Spile' played a good version of it.

[A Thousand Pardons]

700 pound ukulele player (http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/asc07/). Nice.

[Nicolas]

"Layla" by Eric Clapton. I heard it this morning, and as I'm quite happy now (I just passed an exam notwithstanding extreme burnout), it settled in my head :).

[Psi-less]

"Struan Robertson's Salute". It's a piobaireachd I'm learning, so it better be stuck in my head, or my instructor will whack me about the head and shoulders! :o

Psi-less

[Metricyard]

"You and I" by Yes.

Best band ever.

[JMV]

"Sehnsucht" by Rammstein because that's what I was listening when I opened this thread.

[Nicolas]

A combination of "second hand news" and "never going back again" by Fleetwood Mac, as I just listened to those (on vinyl :P 8) )

[Messenger]

"Lake Fever" by the Tragically Hip.

[Doodler]

Encore/Numb by Jay-Z and Linkin Park

[Lurker]

OK... OK... I will admit it. Because of some of the other threads, here the tune that has been running through my head all day is that all time classic that gave phoebe her first platinum album:Smelly Cat (http://www.friendscafe.org/fp/sounds/phoebe/lyrics/smelly.shtml)

[jfribrg]

As I caught sight of this thread, I realized that I was humming the "Liberty Bell March".

[paulie jay]

Moods For Moderns - Elvis Costello and the Attractions

[Metricyard]

I'm supprised that no ones written a song

"Modem squealing and bonging -- Welcome, you've got mail"

Kind of a nice ring to it.

Edit spelling.

[jrkeller]

I happened to be watching VH1's worst #1's ever and now I've got Wannabe by the Spice Girls running through my head. Please don't ban me. A couple hours of head banging music should fix that.

[Paul Beardsley]

I had Blondie's okayish Rapture going through my head (probably because I was thinking about the phrase "wall to wall" which is a lyric in the song).

But Lurker mentioning Smelly Cat might have pushed it out... :)

[lti]

the theme to star trek: voyager :oops:

[cyswxman]

The Blob song

[captain swoop]

Well, this morning it's Jethro Tulls Living in the Past, it was on the CD player in the car while driving to work.

[HAVOC451]

Tchaikovsky's Marche slave.

[SKY]

Hello Muddah http://www.3000ad.com/ubb/graemlins/jam_on.gif
Hello Faddah http://www.3000ad.com/ubb/graemlins/jam_on.gif

Here I am at http://www.3000ad.com/ubb/graemlins/jam_on.gif

Camp Gran... http://img84.exs.cx/img84/6927/palizaconsilla7eo.gif


Ahhh...That's better!!! I've had that in my head since yesterday's post!!!

[TriangleMan]

Today I've got badgerbadgerbadger (http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/) going through my head.

[Nergal]

"I Will Survive" by Gloria Gainer...my co-worker came in this morning singing it and now it's stuck on a loop in my head. I'm going to attempt to drive it out with some Orff and Holst.

LOL! Reading this post just put " O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana in my head. :lol:
The "O Fortuna" part of Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi in Carmina Burana, by far my favorite piece of classical music.

If it's stuck in your head now, sing along to the (old Latin) beat:

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

Nothing starts the day like "these profane lyrics of minstrels and monks long past, with its indestructible hunger for the sensual pleasures of the world persisting through the capricious turns of Fortune's wheel."

The story behind that piece is almost as good as the music itself :D

[Lurker]

Today I've got badgerbadgerbadger (http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/) going through my head.
So... when no one is accessing that page.... do the badgers still dance?? :-k

[Nicolas]

Today I've got badgerbadgerbadger (http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/) going through my head.
So... when no one is accessing that page.... do the badgers still dance?? :-k

Only if the tree falls, Only if the tree falls.

[kleindoofy]

[Off topic]

... sing along to the (old Latin) ...

Middle Latin actually :-k

[/Off topic]

For the last few days: "Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano, sopra una nuova via di redezione!" from Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West." I've even reverted to Verdi's "Don Carlos" (just) to get rid of it, beautiful as it may be.

Ain't workin. Mr. Johnson's still pleading not to be hung!

[Nicolas]

"Love is a stranger" by Eurythmics.

Upon hearing it again, it struck me just how out of tune and strangely recorded (the voices, volume levels, balance, everything in fact) it sometimes sounds. I like the song however. Nice minimal harmonics and buildup.

[Chip]

I came back here thinking about the rather wild, neurotic scherzo from Miaskovsky's 6th - so I popped in the CD. Now I'm listening to Miaskovsky's "Symphony No. 6" Neeme Jarvi, Goteborg Symphony Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon. Very interesting piece. Dramatic, strange; haunting.

[Gullible Jones]

Hmm... Wonder if I have that on a CD somewhere.

Edit: Right now, Where's My Paradise as played by the Dave Weckl Band. I'm not a great fan of Weckl - some of the band's stuff is to techno-ish for my likings - but this one is just beautiful.

[AGN Fuel]

I happened to be watching VH1's worst #1's ever and now I've got Wannabe by the Spice Girls running through my head.

Oh man.... I am so sorry.

I feel your pain. :cry:

[SKY]

"Hundred Million" by Trebal Charger

[SKY]

I just got done watching Top Secret (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/) again (I love that movie) and now I have "Skeet Surfin" stuck in my head:

(sung to the tune of Surfin USA by The Beach Boys)

"Skeet surfin...

Skeet suuuurfin...

If everyone had a 12 gauge

and a surfboard too

you’d see them shooting and surfin

from here to Maliu

because it’s totally *****in’

to ride the waves and blast at pigeons

and it’s so neat shooting skeet

while your riding on the heavies all day…"

[Parrothead]

Nergal: Thanks, judging from my cat's reaction my singing in Latin is just as bad as my singing in english or estonian.

[Nicolas]

Currently Oldfields Amarok (partly, I have difficulties keeping the whole 60:01 in my mind :).)

Beautiful piece, but you need one potent audio system and no neighbours to hear it at its best :)

(and give it 20 goes to get into it :))

[JohnW]

I have a two-year-old. You don't want to know.

I'm planning an hour or two of Coltrane therapy after his bedtime tonight.

[10stone5]

System of a Down - Aerials

[Nicolas]

Welcome to the board 10Stone5!

[RMH]

Put de lime in de coconut,
drink'em bot' togeder...
By Harry Nilsson

*twitch* *twitch*

must... crank... up... Medieval Babes... drive it from head...

[Nicolas]

And welcome RMH!

(is PlanetX sighted again, or why do we suddenly have all these new members? :D )

[kleindoofy]

... is PlanetX sighted again ...

Planet X has never been sighted. :roll: Only imagined.

... why do we suddenly have all these new members?

Some of us supposed newbies have been around here for a very long time, albeit without having registered and/or posting frequently. :wink:

As to tunes, I got rid of Puccini (see above) only to have Bach take his place ("Die Seele ruht in Jesu' Händen").

[Majin Vegeta]

Last resort by Pappa Roach, Shouldn't this be "What song are you listening to currently?" Because thats what I'm listening to now...

[Maksutov]

Last resort by Pappa Roach, Shouldn't this be "What song are you listening to currently?" Because thats what I'm listening to now...
No.

The Subject means "what melody are you thinking of", i.e., playing back by memory, without the aid of a recording. Some folks can play back in their minds entire songs, or even symphonies and operas.


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[Majin Vegeta]

I'm not listening to anything right now, But thinking by Led Zepplin's song Black Dog... And I think I might have figured out what that means, Just don't think about it :-? But I have it memorized really well, Cept the words :lol:

[N C More]

Some folks can play back in their minds entire songs, or even symphonies and operas.

I guess "some" of us are capable of such musical manipulation. Personally, I'm usually stuck with mentally humming something more along the line of the "Oscar Meyer Weiner" song! :oops:

[Majin Vegeta]

When I hummmmm, It's usually to some song of Jet Set Radio that I don't even remember, I just hummed it when I played the game and I still do It even though I have no Idea what the song actually is... :o

[Raptor1967]

Loliopop Lolipop LOLI LOLI LOLIPOP ..... :roll:

[Moose]

AUGH! Noooooooo!!!!

*races for personal mental flamethrower to defend against Raptor's earworm invasion*

[kleindoofy]

... Some folks can play back in their minds entire songs, or even symphonies and operas.

Can't everybody? :o Or am I a freak?

I not only hear classical pieces in my mind, I hear them the way I want them played, i.e. not necessarily like on a certain recording.

For fun I like to think up fugues in my head and try to follow each of the voices separately and individually, though simultaneously. That's a good way to blow a few fuses. 8-[

[W.F. Tomba]

... Some folks can play back in their minds entire songs, or even symphonies and operas.

Can't everybody? :o Or am I a freak?

I not only hear classical pieces in my mind, I hear them the way I want them played, i.e. not necessarily like on a certain recording.

For fun I like to think up fugues in my head and try to follow each of the voices separately and individually, though simultaneously. That's a good way to blow a few fuses. 8-[
Do you ever have a problem with your mental audio track jumping ahead faster than the music? Happens to me sometimes with more complex tunes, and it's maddening. It's like I'm always thinking two or three measures ahead of what I'm hearing in my mind, so I keep leaping forward and skipping things. Sometimes I have to hum aloud just to stay in pace with the music.

[Lurker]

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere, I’ve looked at cloud that way.
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
So many things I would have done but clouds got in my way.

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall.
I really don't know clouds at all.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real; I’ve looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show. You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

I've looked at love from both sides now,
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall.
I really don't know love at all.

Tears and fears and feeling proud to say "I love you" right out loud,
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I’ve looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, they say I've changed.
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.

I've looked at life from both sides now,
From win and lose, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall.
I really don't know life at all.

[Makgraf]

Get It Get It by Scissor Sisters. They're a techno-pop New York band. Turns out they're a gay band, which I'm somewhat embarassed that I didn't pick up on. Guess I should pay more attention to the lyrics.

[kleindoofy]

... Do you ever have a problem with your mental audio track jumping ahead faster than the music? ...

Yes, in fact that's a very good description of what I experience quite often. I guess I'm not a freak after all. But, if I concentrate, I usually have it under control.

Try this: I've discovered that if I hold my breath and don't try to actively "play" the piece in my head and just let it "flow," I can hear it much more vividly, almost as if I were wearing earphones. (Do that with Brahms' 4th!)

Maybe I am a freak after all. :o

[Moose]

Try this: I've discovered that if I hold my breath and don't try to actively "play" the piece in my head and just let it "flow," I can hear it much more vividly, almost as if I were wearing earphones.

Yeah, that's pretty much my trick as well. I can't modify what I'm "hearing". If I try, it falls apart. But I nearly always have a mental soundtrack happening.

[paulie jay]

Do you ever have a problem with your mental audio track jumping ahead faster than the music?
Yes, frequently! I also get stuck on certain phrases and choruses that just loop endlessly. It's a real bugger when I'm trying to get to sleep. I do have a way of breaking the repeat cycle - but it's a bit embarrassing...

[Maksutov]

... Do you ever have a problem with your mental audio track jumping ahead faster than the music? ...

Yes, in fact that's a very good description of what I experience quite often. I guess I'm not a freak after all. But, if I concentrate, I usually have it under control.

Try this: I've discovered that if I hold my breath and don't try to actively "play" the piece in my head and just let it "flow," I can hear it much more vividly, almost as if I were wearing earphones. (Do that with Brahms' 4th!)

Maybe I am a freak after all. :o
One nice thing about doing that with the Brahms 4th is you can add an expositional repeat to the Allegro non troppo if you like (even though there isn't one in the score, the structure seems to beg for the old dotted double bar). Also those rising arpeggio figurations in the violas and 'celli under the opening violin theme get the prominence they deserve. And so forth...

Then no orchestral performance has ever equaled the excitement and explosion I hear at the opening of the fourth movement. The passacaglia theme is announced like multiple horns and trombones (with trumpets four bars later) of doom are playing, followed by earth-shattering drum rolls and string pizzicati. Unlike most (boring) recordings of the work, it is actually played Allegro energico e passionato in my head.

BTW, how do you hold your breath for the duration of that piece? It's about 40 minutes long...

[kleindoofy]

... Also those rising arpeggio figurations in the violas and 'celli under the opening violin theme get the prominence they deserve ...

and, when "those rising arpeggio figurations in the violas and 'celli under the opening violin theme" are later passed back and forth between the strings and the winds, I can get the transitions done perfectly and quite homogeneously. What a shame Karajan couldn't ...

... Unlike most (boring) recordings of the work, it is actually played Allegro energico e passionato in my head ...

(In my head) I've started phrasing the open theme of the 3rd movement of Mozarts "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" to end in a hemiola, and am now surprised that I've never really heard it played that way. (Phrase the 6th and 7th full measure as 2+2+2 instead of 3+3.) It's quite nice that way and probably wouldn't have fazed Mozart.

... BTW, how do you hold your breath for the duration of that piece? It's about 40 minutes long...

I cheat!

[Chip]

Sometimes I've re-thought structurally and then heard the alternative version in my mind. One example is an alternate version of Schubert's 9th Symphony, wherein the majestic opening horn theme of the 1st movement, returns broadly over the rushing triplet figures at the end of the 4th movement finale, thus making Schubert's 9th a cyclical symphony.

I was driving around yesterday with Schoenberg's "Five Pieces for Orchestra" playing in my head. I know, potentially dangerous, but I've have years of Schoenbergian experience. -- There's a marvelous piece, too bad milquetoast classical radio today cannot program it - (or numberous other great pieces dating back hundereds of years.)

[Maksutov]

Sometimes I've re-thought structurally and then heard the alternative version in my mind. One example is an alternate version of Schubert's 9th Symphony, wherein the majestic opening horn theme of the 1st movement, returns broadly over the rushing triplet figures at the end of the 4th movement finale, thus making Schubert's 9th a cyclical symphony.
I always do that (to a certain extent) with Mahler's 6th. No rewriting or reorchestration, but, instead, restoration. In my mind it's always played with the first movement repeat, the Scherzo second, and the Andante moderato third (there's nothing like the serene, nostalgic E Flat Major of the end of the Andante metamorphosing into the the bleak, chilly, desolate C Minor of the opening of the Finale), and then three hammerschlags (the last with the original orchestration) in the Finale. Sometimes the originalfassung is the best (e.g., Bruckner 9th).

I was driving around yesterday with Schoenberg's "Five Pieces for Orchestra" playing in my head. I know, potentially dangerous, but I've have years of Schoenbergian experience. -- There's a marvelous piece, too bad milquetoast classical radio today cannot program it - (or numberous other great pieces dating back hundereds of years.)
A great piece that's rarely heard, except around here, perhaps. The klangfarben "melody" of III. Mäßige Viertel is like watching the fog lift on an early summer morning, the panicked hysteria of IV. Sehr rasch reaches an incredible climax, and when I think of the musical equivalent of the word malaise, I think of the opening of V. Bewegte Achtel.

[Grendl]

Tunes often get in my head, because I go into these odd spells where I'll frequently speak lines from song lyrics, for example, if I say to someone, "Who in the heck do you think you are?", my mind continues on to, "A superstar! Well, all right you are!" and I have "Instant Karma" on my mind.

So, I was thinking, "But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good," not hearing any music in my mind and then realized what I said. Now I can't get "The Animals" song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" out of my head.

This is probably why I liked "Moulin Rouge" much more than I thought I would. I've been with some people who will pick up on a line I say and the next thing you know we're speaking in song lyric language. It's pretty funny when it causes spontaneous singing.

[kleindoofy]

Well, thank God I'm not alone. For the last 47 years I've thought I was a bit strange. Now I know I'm not the only strange one. :wink:

I love Baroque very much and have had to come to the conclusion that it's better to listen to most of it "internally" than suffer through those old Karl Richter recordings and such. ](*,)

What a shame there aren't really good recordings of all of Bach's cantatas. If I want "Liebster Emmanuel, Herzog der Frommen," I have to buy a whole 16 CD set from Harnoncourt. The recording's actually very good, but I don't want the other 15 CDs - I have them. And I would rather chew on glass than listen to that crackpot Rilling. The same for the Aria "Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen" from BWV (I forgot). Ect., ect., ect. So what's left: my head.

For years I had "imagined" an interpretation of the beginning of Charpentiers "Te Deum" which didn't exist on a recording. There were only the old "romantic" ones. But when a new recording came out a few years ago, I almost fell over: it was exactly what I had been hearing in my head for years! :o

BTW: I *ALWAYS* have a piece going. I haven't had a quiet moment for decades. Even during discussions, films, *concerts*, sex - you name, my head's playing its piece.

[The Supreme Canuck]

Hey, you aren't weird. My buddies (and me) broke out into "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" over poker on Friday. That's weird.

Added: Well, great. Now it's stuck in my head again...

[Nicolas]

I just bought a very space related piece of music, which is playing now, and stuck into my head already:

Jean Michel Jarre's "Rendez-vous" (1986).

The music was performed at NASA's anniversay. It also was going to be the first piece of music being played from space, by astronaut Ron McNair.
Unfortunately he never made it into space (Challenger accident).

Magical music!
(And I really need a somewhat less sensitive turntable, a minimal reduction in pops would be nice :))

[Maksutov]

I just bought a very space related piece of music, which is playing now, and stuck into my head already:

Jean Michel Jarre's "Rendez-vous" (1986).

The music was performed at NASA's anniversay. It also was going to be the first piece of music being played from space, by astronaut Ron McNair.
Unfortunately he never made it into space (Challenger accident).

Magical music!
(And I really need a somewhat less sensitive turntable, a minimal reduction in pops would be nice :))
Turntable?

Oh yeah, that's right, you're the one in quest of accurate audio via vinyl. Among many other factors, good luck re authentic dynamic range...

"Wow!" he fluttered.

PS: As one who has appreciatively evolved from analog to digital, I need to point out that your turntable has little or nothing to do with the frequency of "pops" you hear while playing an LP. Instead those "pops' are analog artifacts, imperfections (often caused by mishandling or a worn stylus) and debris in the groove which show up as audible noise, plus sometimes they're due to static electricity, and then quite often they're due to mistracking of the cartridge stylus in the record groove, especially near the label, best known as "inner groove distortion". Those are the most obvious aural analog defects, there are many others.

I sometimes listen to items from my LP collection, which dates to the early 1950s. It's like listening to a concert with a fireplace crackling in the foreground. Those LPs I really like have been or are being digitized and cleaned up with software that eliminates all that analog noise from the signal.

[Fram]

No turntable expert, but I know that the same record can go quite smoothly on one turntable while the needle is jumping all over the place on the other. Perhaps that is what Nicolas is talking about? It has to do with the weight at the other end of the needle-arm (very correct technical term here :lol: ).

Now in my head (because I had it pumping on my stereo this morning): Generation Sex by the Divine Comedy

Generation sex
respects
the rights
of girls
who wanna take their clothes off
as long as we can all watch
that's okay

(the rest of the lyrics or of their songs aren't as sexist, by the way :D )

[Maksutov]

No turntable expert, but I know that the same record can go quite smoothly on one turntable while the needle is jumping all over the place on the other. Perhaps that is what Nicolas is talking about? It has to do with the weight at the other end of the needle-arm (very correct technical term here :lol: ).

Now in my head (because I had it pumping on my stereo this morning): Generation Sex by the Divine Comedy

Generation sex
respects
the rights
of girls
who wanna take their clothes off
as long as we can all watch
that's okay

(the rest of the lyrics or of their songs aren't as sexist, by the way :D )
Sounds like yet another male adolescent masturbational fantasy put to, shall we say, music?

Re an LP playing on one turntable and not the other, that would have to do with cartridge compliance, tone arm mass, bearing friction, and other factors that were obsolete in the middle 1980s.

Plus the LP might have been really clean for one, and not for the other. Hey, we're talking high-fidelity here! 8)

[Nicolas]

I just bought a very space related piece of music, which is playing now, and stuck into my head already:

Jean Michel Jarre's "Rendez-vous" (1986).

The music was performed at NASA's anniversay. It also was going to be the first piece of music being played from space, by astronaut Ron McNair.
Unfortunately he never made it into space (Challenger accident).

Magical music!
(And I really need a somewhat less sensitive turntable, a minimal reduction in pops would be nice :))
Turntable?

Oh yeah, that's right, you're the one in quest of accurate audio via vinyl. Among many other factors, good luck re authentic dynamic range...

"Wow!" he fluttered.

PS: As one who has appreciatively evolved from analog to digital, I need to point out that your turntable has little or nothing to do with the frequency of "pops" you hear while playing an LP. Instead those "pops' are analog artifacts, imperfections (often caused by mishandling or a worn stylus) and debris in the groove which show up as audible noise, plus sometimes they're due to static electricity, and then quite often they're due to mistracking of the cartridge stylus in the record groove, especially near the label, best known as "inner groove distortion". Those are the most obvious aural analog defects, there are many others.

I sometimes listen to items from my LP collection, which dates to the early 1950s. It's like listening to a concert with a fireplace crackling in the foreground. Those LPs I really like have been or are being digitized and cleaned up with software that eliminates all that analog noise from the signal.

Thanks for the info, but not completely what I was talking about.
Yesterday, I played 2 records (Dire Straits - Brothers in arms; and said JM Jarre) on a Pioneer turntable with rather basic pickup element. Both records showed no signs of cracks or pops.

today (and yesterday evening, just hours after a very careful transport from the Pioneer to the B&O turntable), I played both of them on a highly sensitive Bang&Olufsen turntable with original B&O MMC element. Brothers in arms did not create a single crack (that record looks brand new btw). The musical quality outperformed the same tracks on HDCD. Jarre sounded very nice, but had some cracks (not the common fireplace people are talking about, just about 1 crack every turn, but not exactly, like in case of ascratch on the record). The record did not become suddenly dirty or damaged, as Dire Straits was traveled along with it and still sounded crackless after the transport.

So the very same record can sound crack free on one turntable, while having cracks on another one. I have a record which I played on 4 turntables. 2 of them made it appear without any cracks. The other two did reveal some minor cracks (NOT the fireplace). As my B&O has the highest potential of revealing small musical details (VERY low inertia of the pickup), it also has the highest potential of revealing tiny imperfections. These are both material and static imperfections.

So in short, as some records play flawless on this turntable, and the very same record that shows some cracks here plays without cracks on some other turntables, the sensitivity of the turntable can and does influence the amount of cracks & pops heard (along with the amount of musical detail heard).

Thanks for the info, but from my experience this B&O turntable's sensitivity is what makes he pops appear. Misallignment and wrong tracking force indeed can increase pops both in making them audible and adding new ones. I've put much effort in alligning everything as good as possible in the past, with regular checkups.

BTW "Quatrième rendez-vous" still is in my head :)

(edited for clarity)

[Fram]

No turntable expert, but I know that the same record can go quite smoothly on one turntable while the needle is jumping all over the place on the other. Perhaps that is what Nicolas is talking about? It has to do with the weight at the other end of the needle-arm (very correct technical term here :lol: ).

Now in my head (because I had it pumping on my stereo this morning): Generation Sex by the Divine Comedy

Generation sex
respects
the rights
of girls
who wanna take their clothes off
as long as we can all watch
that's okay

(the rest of the lyrics or of their songs aren't as sexist, by the way :D )
Sounds like yet another male adolescent masturbational fantasy put to, shall we say, music?



That's why I said the lyrics aren't representative (well, they are, but they are extremely tingue in cheek). Divine Comedy is definitely music, majestic orchestrations, pop music with a very classical edge, and he (the composer of the songs) is considered by some to be the best British pop lyricist since Elvis Costello or Morrissey.

Pale pubescent beasts
roam through the streets
and coffeeshops
their prey
gather in herds
of stiff knee-length skirts
and white ankle socks
but while
they search for a mate
my type hibernate
in bedrooms above
composing their songs of love

(this is from memory, all errors are my fault and not his).

Or a title like "The pop singer's fear of the pollen count" ... I just love it.

I've just googled (http://www.ilyric.net/Lyrics/D/Divine-Comedy.html) the sequel to the lyrics of Generation sex, as a counterweight, and it goes thus:

And generation sex
Elects
The type
Of guys
You wouldn't leave your kids with
And shouts "off with their heads" if they get laid
Lovers watch their backs
As hacks
In macs
Take snaps
Through telephoto lenses
Chase Mercedes Benzes through the night
A mourning nation weeps
And wails
But keeps
The sales
Of evil tabloids healthy
The poor protect the wealthy in this world

I'll leave it here, I'm already taking over enough of this thread as it is.

[Maksutov]

I just bought a very space related piece of music, which is playing now, and stuck into my head already:

Jean Michel Jarre's "Rendez-vous" (1986).

The music was performed at NASA's anniversay. It also was going to be the first piece of music being played from space, by astronaut Ron McNair.
Unfortunately he never made it into space (Challenger accident).

Magical music!
(And I really need a somewhat less sensitive turntable, a minimal reduction in pops would be nice :))
Turntable?

Oh yeah, that's right, you're the one in quest of accurate audio via vinyl. Among many other factors, good luck re authentic dynamic range...

"Wow!" he fluttered.

PS: As one who has appreciatively evolved from analog to digital, I need to point out that your turntable has little or nothing to do with the frequency of "pops" you hear while playing an LP. Instead those "pops' are analog artifacts, imperfections (often caused by mishandling or a worn stylus) and debris in the groove which show up as audible noise, plus sometimes they're due to static electricity, and then quite often they're due to mistracking of the cartridge stylus in the record groove, especially near the label, best known as "inner groove distortion". Those are the most obvious aural analog defects, there are many others.

I sometimes listen to items from my LP collection, which dates to the early 1950s. It's like listening to a concert with a fireplace crackling in the foreground. Those LPs I really like have been or are being digitized and cleaned up with software that eliminates all that analog noise from the signal.

Thanks for the info, but not completely what I was talking about.
Yesterday, I played 2 records (Dire Straits - Brothers in arms; and said JM Jarre) on a Pioneer turntable with rather bas pickup element. Both records showed no signs of cracks or pops.

today, I played both of them on a highly sensitive Bang&Olufsen turntable with original B&O MMC element. Brothers in arms did not create a single crack (that record looks brand new btw). The musical quality outperformed the same tracks on HDCD. Jarre sounded very nice, but had some cracks (not the common fireplace people are talking about, just about 1 crack every turn, but not exactly, like in case of ascratch on the record).

So the very same record can sound crack free on one turntable, while having cracks on another one. I have a record which I played on 4 turntables. 2 of them made it appear without any cracks. The other two did reveal some minor cracks (NOT the fireplace). As my B&O has the highest potential of revealing small musical details (VERY low inertia of the pickup), it also has the highest potential of revealing tiny imperfections. These are both material and static imperfections.

So in short, as some records play flawless on this turntable, and the very same record plays without cracks on some other turntables, the sensitivity of the turntable can influence the amount of cracks & pops heard (along with the amount of musical detail heard).

Thanks for the info, but from my experience this B&O turntable's sensitivity is what makes he pops appear. Misallignment and wrong tracking force indeed can increase pops both in making them audible and adding new ones. I've put much effort in alligning everything as good as possible in the past, with regular checkups.

BTW "Quatrième rendez-vous" still is in my head :)
Understood (except that I've never heard an LP play "flawless"), but it's still all analog artifacts.

If one digital receiver got a clear, accurate signal, while another digital receiver got a lot of noise mixed with the same signal, well, the focus wouldn't be on the signal.

My analysis would be that the cartridge in the B&O tonearm has too much compliance for the tone arm's mass and the arm bearing's drag (even with "anti-skating"). With the inevitable excessive runout (also known as [out-of-] concentricity) caused by the need for the LP center hole to be larger than the turntable's central spindle, it's not surprising that there would be a mistracking every revolution.

If you really want to throw your money away on obsolete analog equipment, here's the turntable for you. (http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/brinkmann/balance.html) Funny how the appraisals talk in exclusively non-technical terms, as if the lowliest monaural recording from 1957 Outer Mongolia will suddenly be transformed into a glorious musical experience. See "Hoaglandish" below.

BTW, I've been exposed to all the "golden-ear" analog equipment through various shops in NYC. As a regular concert-goer, my aural standard is close to absolute, and their claims are founded mainly on "warm" IMD.

Be very wary of high-end claims and attitudes...they tend to be Hoaglandish, and very expensive, if that makes any sense through the analog noise.

[Nicolas]

Maksutov, I feel like we are talking parallel here.

You are talking about all the analog problems and what can go wrong with vinyl in general, while I was talking about the differences between turntables getting the same signal feed. So the focus isn't on the signal, it's on the equipment (one turntable vs another).

To me, an LP playing "flawless" means "without any audible cracks, pops or other deformations, and sounding more musical and realistic than CD" and in this case even HDCD. (where the comparison with CD is highly dependent on the equipment of course)

Of course the cracks etc I hear on Jarre are analog artifacts: the whole musical chain here is analog. What else could it be.

As I said, what I hear is not exactly every revolution, it was just a measure to show the frequency of minor pops. I could as well have said "every 2-3 seconds". So this can't be radial misallignment. And as some records do play "flawless" on this TT (records with the same groove pitch btw) there is clearly nothing wrong on the turntable that would generate cracking noises while playing any record by itself. So, as my listening test was with all other things except for the TT being equal, resulting in audible pops one one of two records, the TT's response to that particular record is to blame.

The problem with your analysis about compliance etc is that some records have no audible cracks while others do using the same TT, plus the fact that this is a professionaly designed and on-spec set up TT with original element and arm (hence they are chosen to match during the TT design, which makes compliance issues very unlikely), and the fact that this table does not use anti-skating (not the standard type of anti skating at least). Also, as the needle -notwithstanding a low (which is the trademark of MMC technology) but on-spec tip pressure and tracing force- virtually never skips and balance is OK, misallignment is unlikely.

About "throwing my money away": I buy vinyl because it SAVES me money. Records cost me 1 euro vs 22 for a standard CD (25 for HDCD).
I don't know what is obsolete about equipment that plays music that isn't available on CD (these Jarre and Dire straits LPs are, but others aren't).

Much of the appreciation of vinyl indeed has to do with the warmth of the sound. I can tell you that -notwithstanding subsequent Marantz equipment- it isn't all warmth overhere. I have nice sharp details as well. And I can't deny the fact that voices, and DRUMS in partiucular do not sound as realistic on digital sources as on vinyl (same audio equipment except for source).

About the Hoaglandish claims: I'm not buying them. Again, I bought my equipment to save money. I use 0.75$ interlinks, while the "pros" spend at least 500$ on one. I hear no difference, certainly none that justifies the crazy prices. I laugh at supports underneath cables. I do not have a separate "clean" power source etcetc. I want nice music reproduction to enjoy the music, not as a goal an sich.

What I do notice, is that the recording quality of newer vinyl (1985 and beyond) is in general much better than the 1972-1979 vinyl.

Final comment about analog noise: no matter how digital the studio and music medium is, if the original instrument isn't digital, there always is that analog noise in the recording. It is minimized using very good microphones and the like of course, but the same is true for playback equipment. And if it's filtered out, some of the frequencies that also cary music are killed. And then there still are such things as digital artifacts.

I don't want to start a vinyl vs digital discussion, I just said that I could do with a second, less sensitive turntable to play records that aren't in perfect shape on without hearing too much pops.

BTW for the moment I've got the final rendez-vous in my mind.

[kleindoofy]

... broke out into "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" ... Well, great. Now it's stuck in my head again ...

Listen to the rendition of "White Christmas" from the group "culturecide."

That will cure you pronto basta:

I'm having a depressed Christmas,
just like the one I had last year.

I just sit and uhh listen uhh as I listen
to the last Christmas song I'll ever hear.

I'm having a depressed Christmas,
with this last letter that I write.

May your days be merry and bright,
and may all your Christmases be white.

bang.

Sorry if I've ruined Christmas for you for, say, the next 6 to 8 years. :wink:

[Nicolas]

Well it IS a different impression of the song...

:o NO song in my head!!!! :o

[Nicolas]

Mike Oldfield's "Platinum Part 4",which is an alterations of Philip Glass's'es's'ses (whatever :)) "North Star".

I like this version a lot more however.

[Parrothead]

This talk of lp's had me spinning some vinyl, I now have "Lean On Me" by Red Box on my mind.

[Nicolas]

that last one was an MP3 in fact :lol:

[Grendl]

Thanks Nicolas, now you got me thinking of JMJ's "Equinoxe." I have that on vinyl as well as CD--love it. You can create your own story to the music and just go off into another world for a while. Same with Glass.

I have a brand-spanking new turntable I've never used, but I have nothing to plug it into. I still won't throw it out, though, nor any of the LPs I have left. Some LPs I've never been able to find on CD, like a Cream import I have. I need a record player. I miss large albums, so some are framed on my walls.

[Nicolas]

I'm still looking for Equinoxe.

I've got Chantes Magnétiques, Rendez-vous and Oxygène.
In general, I don't really like Glass. Not enough melody for me :).

If you've got nowhere to go with your brand new turntable, I'm willing to give it a second home :D

[Fram]

Nicolas, try Glass Violon concerto, or some of his operas (better not start with Einstein on the Beach, but perhaps Satiagraha (spelling is wrong)), or check out the 'Songs from the trilogy' with songs (arias?) from his three operas. Some of his filmmusic is very melodical as well, but stay away from the soundtrack to 'The Thin Red Line'. They have left the dialogue on top of the music, which makes it pretty unlistenable to for me.

[Nicolas]

I'll look into it. Sometime. :)
Thanks for the titles.

[Grendl]

I'm still looking for Equinoxe.

I've got Chantes Magnétiques, Rendez-vous and Oxygène.
In general, I don't really like Glass. Not enough melody for me :).

If you've got nowhere to go with your brand new turntable, I'm willing to give it a second home :D
Do you mean you are looking for Equinoxe in an LP? You must mean that since it's available in CD. Well, for a certain price I might be persuaded to give up my LP... :wink: Just kidding.

Have you ever listened to Glass's "Dancepieces?" I'm particularly fond of that one; it's worth a whirl. A section of it was used in the movie, "The Fog of War" and I recognized it immediately.

My turntable was bought years ago, but never used. I didn't have a component system that had enough power at the time and then I ended up getting a small, complete stereo system, which is enough for my apartment. I probably could let it go since most of my records are available on CD and I've been in Houston 13 years and have yet to do anything about it. Ditto, with the "Equinoxe" record itself--I'm not that attached to the physical record itself--I got it in the late 80's. I will never give up something like my nice thick "The White Album" by the Beatles, but newer stufff is not a big deal--I don't see much collection value in those.

If you're really interested, PM me. I don't know how much it would cost to ship them to Belgium, but the turntable is very light.

[Nicolas]

I meant the LP indeed. I could easily order the CD, and I think I could buy the LP second hand for 12 euros in a shop here. But I'm looking for a flee market one that will set me back 2 euros at most. So I guess there's no use in sending your LP from the US :)

[Nicolas]

Now in my head: "You get what you give" by the New Radicals

They just played it on the radio.

[PyroFreak]

"Be good to yourself" by Journey

Let's Dance, Chris Montez.

[Nicolas]

Oldfield's "Ommadawn, starting in part 2 at about 10 minutes.

On the very edge of bombastic, sure. But IMO on the right side of that edge :). Volume wide open, forgetting about the neighbours, letting the music rise, explode, and slip into a lovely guitar&bass part. [drools].

I always imagine some manned Mars landing sequence on that music. :)
Diverting towards the planet, going through the atmosphere, glowing up when breaking through it, the final harsh moments, and then suddenly the scary part is over and the overwhelming feat of the first Mars landing is fact, ending with the joy of the first excursion. The story ends when the astronaut finally walked clear from the ladder and stands freely on martian soil. 8)

[Parrothead]

After spinning more vinyl, I'm left wondering; how did the Monks get labelled as "one hit wonder" artists? The entire "Bad Habits" lp is a riot.

"Skylab.......Skylab... "

J. Giells Band ... forget "Centerfold" and "Freeze Frame", lol, "No Anchovies Please" has me cracking up.

I had completely forgotten about Kid Creole and the Coconuts

I definately need to pick up some Squeeze and Echo and the Bunnymen on cd ...

"I Wanna Be a Flintstone" by the Screaming Blue Messiahs ... rotfl

Ok, I'll stop now.

[Lurker]

Not Logical
-- Jarboe

[Andromeda321]

Whenever someone asks me what song is going through my head "Penny Lane" by The Beatles always comes up in mine automatically.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes...

[Lurker]

Whenever someone asks me what song is going through my head "Penny Lane" by The Beatles always comes up in mine automatically.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes...
Oh great!! Now its in my head too!! :-?


:wink:

[Crazieman]

The theme to the video game Katamari Damacy

It won't leave my head

[Fram]

I've spend a whole day with Galvanize (the Chemicals brothers) in my head.

World, the time has come to, push the button.

It gets boring after the first hour :lol:

[Parrothead]

"Unplug the jukebox and do us all a favour,
that music's lost its taste, so try another flavour,
Ant music ..."

Ant Music by Adam and the Ants

[Nicolas]

I've picked up some Philip Glass this weekend. I managed to sit out side 1 of Glassworks. That side isn't really my kind of minimalism. Too repetitive, not enough melody for my taste.

I'm now starting side 2. "Rubric" suits me better. I've heard it in the past. I'm curious how the rest of the listening session evolves. If it continues like side1, I won't listen to it much more. If more gems like Rubric are to be found, nice discovery!

The repetitions of Rubric made the piece stuck in my head by the way :).

Addition: I like side2 of Glassworks a lot better. I'm more familiar with that part as well. It still isn't really my favourite music, but there are some really nice parts in it. =D>

I'll listen to "The Photographer" later this week.

California Blue...

[Nicolas]

Eurythmics: Sweet dreams (are made of this).

I Bought it saturday. Pristine condition, outer track, perfect match for my equipment.

Oh my... I've NEVER heard the drumline in the intro like that :o. It's 23.00 and I don't care :D

[mythrealwriter]

The theme song from CSI


Gotta love those marathons

[Francis]

Romanza by Andrea Bocelli. Understand that I don't know Italian, but that man sure can sing. Whew!

-Francis

[Francis]

I'm home from work, and Elvis Costello singing Luna Llena. Great beat. Wish he didn't have to cut his hair.

-Francis

[Nicolas]

Eurythmics: "Thorn by my side"

I just rediscovered this song.

It's having a hard time fighting for head space with "When Tomorrow Comes" pushing it out again however :)

[Fram]

Isn't it 'thorn in my side'?

In my head now: Placebo, "Bitter End".

[Nicolas]

I've got a collector's item!!!!
It's "Thorn in my side" indeed :)

I've got more problems with Eurythmics:

I never knew whether it was

"when the miracle of love comes your way"
or
"when the miracle of love comes again"

It is:
"when the miracle of love comes your way again"

:D :D

[Parrothead]

"Like Dust" by the Passion Puppets now. I rediscovered some "Bloom County" books on sunday and spun the Billy and the Boingers record that came with one of them. "I'm a boinger" was stuck in my mind through yesterday.

Blue Suede Shoes...

[Nicolas]

"Big in Japan" by Alphaville

Does Alphaville's "Frank Mertens" has anything to do with composer Wim Mertens?

[JMV]

One wacky banana phone song I heard in a hilarious flash cartoon.

"ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
banana phone
ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
banana phone"
:D :x :D

[Sigma_Orionis]

Spyro Gyra's Freetime

[kleindoofy]

Well, I'm back to "Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen" from Bach Cantata BWV 127.

Just can't get rid of it, and I'm not sure I want to. :wink:

[Nicolas]

Admiral Freebee: "Alibies"

Beautiful song.


Alibies
For coming late
And telling lies

(that's the same man behind the ingenious line "You can't milk a cow with your hands in your pants" 8) :D )

[Russ]

To all yous guys talkin' about turn tables (TT's): While the crackle & pop frequently comes from scratches and dust in the record grooves, it more often comes from static build up on the record. If a record sounds like a wood fire on one TT but not on another it could be the record is too dry. If you can get the room dark enough (total darkness or close) you can see the static discharge from the record to the stylus, once your eyes are accustumed to the dark.

The two lead stylus cartredges are most susseptible because the static is discharged through the stylus. The three lead cartredges are grounded so the static is discharged through the TT grounding system. Hence, the record pops on one TT (2 lead) and not on another (3 lead).

I don't know if you can still get them but there used to be a product called "D4" that had a grove cleaning brush, upon which you put a liquid cleaning solution. You put the solution on the leading edge of the brush and set it lightly on the record as it turned on the table. Once the liquid was distributed over the whole disk, you rotated the brush a little and cleaned off the liquid and dust that was on the LP.

There was a little residue left from the liquid that surpressed the static so you tended not to get the pops and hops from two lead cartredges.

If you can get the D4 brush but not the liquid cleaner, you can make the cleaner yourself. Take 1 cup of distilled water (NOT Avion or some other drinking water) and add two drops of 'Dawn' or equal dish soap. Stir until soap is disolved. Store in a sealable container, dispense on to brush with eye dropper or dispenser bottle that allows you to place a very thin bead of solution on the leading edge of the brush. 20ml of the solution will last you 6-9 months depending on how often you play your LP's.

In addition to keeping all the dust and hair off your LP's, it does a very good job of eliminating static.

[Nicolas]

Static is indeed one of the main sources of pops on this turntable, though it also shows every scratch. Are there non-liquid ways to discharge records?

I'm not too keen to put liquids on my vinyl without using dedicated equipment. And I won't start with "playing wet" neither.

By the way, how do you recognize 2 lead/3 lead cartridges? The non-popping TT's had standard "rough" cartridges, the popping TT (which doesn't pop on many records in fact) has a sensitive B&O MMC 20 S element.

[Russ]

Regarding what tune is in my head, LOTS! :D

The one I hate the most and the the one that tends to pop into my head at random times is "It's a Small World After All" Sometimes it sticks for days, irritating me to the point of suiside. I have nightmares that I have gone to hell and they play that song without end. :evil: :evil: I HATE that song! :evil: :evil:

The ones I like: (except for Pachelbell, in no particular order)

1) Pachelbel's Cannon in D (The Canadian Brass version is my favo)
2) JS Bach's Jesus Joy of Mans' Desiring...& a bunch of others
3) Moret's Rondeau
4) Clarke's Trumpet voluntary
5) Beethoven's 9th & 5th, well, almost any Beethoven
6) Mozart...well, pretty much anything again
7) R. Strause's Blue Danube...again, pretty much anything
8) The Theme from "Voyager"
9) Der Ländler, Austrian folk
10) The Theme from "Neuhart" the one where he's an Inn Keeper in VT.
11) Early Beatles, before they got on drugs and started hating the world & each other.
12) Dvoräk's New World Symphony

Well, there's more but enough's, enough. :D

[Nicolas]

I've been planning on doing an interpretation of PachelBel's Canon in D for a long time. Mainly because I like it, you can go in many directions with it, and it is copyright free as long as you don't start to sing "streets of london" on top :). I'm planning on doing an instrumental version, which will have it's melody somewhere in the middle between the original Canon and Streets of London. I don't know about doing it in D or anything else, as this goes beyond my theoretical knowledge of music. :oops: :)

I'd have to practice a lot to find the notes however. But I'll have fun with it. As I prefer writing my own melodies, this project gets pushed to the background over and over again. Also, I'm afraid of ending up too close to Ralph McTell's melody line.

If you don't like "It's a small world", stay away from Disney Land!!! :).

[Francis]

I have Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier playing right now. It's an old recording mastered to CD, by Wanda Landowska. Unfortunately, it's only the first book. I can't find the second book with her playing. Red Seal pressed it and I can't find any copies. But the playing is exceptional.

-Francis

[Russ]

Static is indeed one of the main sources of pops on this turntable, though it also shows every scratch. Are there non-liquid ways to discharge records?

There are (used to be) some electromagnetic degausers but they only help for the first cut or two. If static starts to build up on the vinyl once the LP is playing, no joy.

If you try to degause while the record is playing, you can blow the primary opamp on the TT.

I'm not too keen to put liquids on my vinyl without using dedicated equipment. And I won't start with "playing wet" neither.

I wouldn't call the D4 system "playing wet". If you do the cleaning properly the record should be dry by the time you play the first cut. If you look at my discussion above you will note that I mention drying the disk with the brush.

The combination of water and soap opens two more sites per molecule to pick up free electrons from the vinyl. This is the degausing mechinism. By the time you put down the brush and place the stylus in the track, it should all be gone.

By the way, how do you recognize 2 lead/3 lead cartridges? The non-popping TT's had standard "rough" cartridges, the popping TT (which doesn't pop on many records in fact) has a sensitive B&O MMC 20 S element.

If you remove the cartridge from the end of the tone arm, look at the connector there will be two or three "holes" in the connector. On the tone arm there will be two or three metal nibs. I don't know what the European standard is but the US is: left hole/left audio channel, right hole/right audio, if there is a bottom hole (they look like a V) it is the ground (earth).

If you are getting static popping from a three lead cartridge, check the internal circiutry of the TT. You may have a loose/broken earth connection, a bad resistor or bad capacitor. If you are not handy with electronics, pay to have a guru do it for you. If you don't do the testing right you can blow other components.

Another thought. The wires that run from the cartridge to the internal electronics through the tone arm, have vinyl/teflon/rubber insulation on them that gets old and brittle. You will want to do a continuity check on these as part of your diagnostic.

[Russ]

I've been planning on doing an interpretation of PachelBel's Canon in D for a long time. Mainly because I like it, you can go in many directions with it, and it is copyright free as long as you don't start to sing "streets of london" on top :). I'm planning on doing an instrumental version, which will have it's melody somewhere in the middle between the original Canon and Streets of London. I don't know about doing it in D or anything else, as this goes beyond my theoretical knowledge of music. :oops: :)

Hey, great! What instrument do you play? I gather this is your own arrangement? When you record your version, please post it so we BABBERS can listen and enjoy.

I've not heard of this "Streets of London" thing. I cannot imagine any words that would improve Cannon in D!

snip

If you don't like "It's a small world", stay away from Disney Land!!! :).

That's how I got infected in the first place. :roll: My first exwife wanted to go to Disney Land for our honeymoon. Of course we had to ride the small world boat. AAAAEEEEEEEE! :evil: By the time we got off the ride I was ready to go postal! It took two weeks to get that trash out of my head. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: Whoever wrote that song needs to be slapped!

[Nicolas]

I'm planning making an own arrangement/interpretation of the Canon indeed.

You never heard of Ralph McTell's "Streets of London"? You really should check it out! It is a song based on the melody of the Canon. The bridge is a different melody, but still with its roots in the canon. Sinead o' Connor sang this version too. In the song, Ralph McTell sings about the poverty in the darker streets of...Paris. He didn't want to upset the French, so he placed it in London, where very similar situations existed.

I play keyboards/synths, acoustic bass, and do some exercises on acoustic guitar and recorders. I've got some pieces written, played and recorded by me on my HD. All keyboard pieces. I'm currently working on a 4 or 5 movement piece, which hopefully will be finished by the end of june. I don't know about putting MP3 versions of my earlier recordings online. I've got a happy short simple folk piece which would take little space. Rather banal tune, but I had fun recording it. I've also got a piano piece (rather strange piece, strange piano technique used. on my new composition, I use more standard piano technique). I've got a rather nice uhm "instrumental". Sort of instrumental pop, but nothing soft or techno like. I have a techno song "in the shaft" though. Finally, I've got a potpourri of 3 recording snaps, which I wanted to save. It turned out into an instrumental telling of a Jesters show. So up till now, I've made instrumental keyboard songs, mainly in "classic" styles (no dance/techno...)

I'll think about sharing some of them. My webspace is very limited, but that ain't the problem. It's just exposing myself as a begining, uhm, artist. My instrument playing capabilities are even worse than my arrangements. But for some reason I only want to put my energy into making own compositions with my own melodies. I do play existing music for fun as well of course.

This made Ralph McTell's "Streets of London" stuck in my head. :)

[Nicolas]

Russ:

My TT has a ground loop. All wiring (as far as it originally had cover) is intact. My ground loop is attached.

I didn't say "playing wet" as direct response to , but as a general solution against popping. Sorry for the confusion.

I'm not entirely out of your D4 system. Do you clean the record completely before playing, or is it a second arm which wets and brushes the groove right before the cartridge reads that groove?

Anyway, there's a good chance I'll buy a second TT in the very near future. I'll check whether the popping records (which almost all are scratched or grey) sound less crackling on that one. I buy it in the first place to play my singles on though.

If some of my records still crack too much on the new TT, I'll check out some cleaning system. In fact I sold a TT with brushing arm some months ago. I never used that TT myself however.

Thanks for the info!

[Russ]

Russ:

My TT has a ground loop. All wiring (as far as it originally had cover) is intact. My ground loop is attached.

I'm not sure what you mean by "ground loop". In my parlance, a ground loop is a BAD thing. Do you mean ground wire circiut? Or three lead cartridge? That would be good.

I didn't say "playing wet" as direct response to , but as a general solution against popping. Sorry for the confusion.

Oooookay. :)

I'm not entirely out of your D4 system. Do you clean the record completely before playing, or is it a second arm which wets and brushes the groove right before the cartridge reads that groove?

I'm not sure what you mean by "I'm not entirely out of your D4 system." I gather that means you have not decided one way or the other as to whether you want one? I should tell you that I don't know if the company is still in business or if the product is still sold new. I've had mine for about 20 years and haven't seen one for sale anywhere in about 10 years. I don't even know if they were/are sold in Europe.

The way it works. Imagine a block of wood about the size of a Coke can. One side of the block of wood is cut off such that a flattish foam pad with a velvet like cover can be attached. This is the brush. You hold the brush by the wood with the velvet like cover lightly down against the record. The sillia of the cloth fits in the grooves and sweeps out dust & whatever. You put only a very little line of the liquid cleaner on the leading edge of the brush. This helps to break the electrostatic hold on the dust and take the static charge off the vinyl.

Once you have a very light coating of the cleaner on the disk, you rotate the brush so you present a dry surface to the record and pick up the dust laden liquid. I clean my records every time I played them. I've never had a problem with a record and they all still look factory new.

Regarding the little brushes that ride the tone arm just ahead of the stylus. They are not very good for your records. They can flick dust particles into the groove the stylus is in and cause damage to the grooves and the stylus. Also, having them continuously drag the dust over the surface of the record is like having sandpaper sanding off the grooves. VERY BAD!

Anyway, there's a good chance I'll buy a second TT in the very near future. I'll check whether the popping records (which almost all are scratched or grey) sound less crackling on that one. I buy it in the first place to play my singles on though.

If some of my records still crack too much on the new TT, I'll check out some cleaning system. In fact I sold a TT with brushing arm some months ago. I never used that TT myself however.

Thanks for the info!

Good luck getting a good TT. The Phillips brand was best over here. There were some very good Japanise ones but the Phillips were the best. The Ortophon cartridges were the best. They have ruby jewel stylus' and three leads even on the cheap ones.

[Nicolas]

Grounding wire indeed. A ground loop would be rather bad for the hum :)

"Direct response to D4" That got lost somewhere :oops: :D

About TT's: we've got even better than Phillips over here 8)

Thanks for the info!! =D>

[Maksutov]

Ah, good old insomnia...

Anyway, onward.

Here's what the Discwasher LP cleaning system looks like. (http://www.ebizenterprise.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=30807) I have used it to clean my LPs for years and especially just before digitally recording them so there would be no further deterioration of the audio data.

But the Discwasher system will only prevent static discharge pops and clicks, as well as noise caused by foreign material in the groove. Pops and clicks due to damage caused by the stylus passing over foreign material, chemical/physical changes to the vinyl, abrasion between the "protective" sleeve and the LP surface, etc., will still come through loud and clear. Fortunately a lot of the noise can be removed digitally. Plus the extremely limited dynamic range of an LP can be enhanced digitally as well, once the noise inherent in LPs is brought under control.

[Nicolas]

I have no complaints about many LP's,which play beautiful on my current setup. For the singles and other LP's, I'll wait and see how the new TT performs. If I still have problems, I'll look into some cleaning equipment.

Right now I've got Placebo: Special Needs in my head.

I bought their CD saturday.

[Maksutov]

I've been planning on doing an interpretation of PachelBel's Canon in D for a long time.[edit]
I'm not sure the world really needs another interpretation of the Pachelbel Canon. There are literally thousands of interpretations of this piece out there already. It has become a fixture at yuppie weddings, and "lite classical" stations. It has been played to death.

It's so worn out that it was the subject of a "P.D.Q. Bach" CD by Peter Schickele a few years back titled "WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio". "WTWP" stood for "Wall-To-Wall Pachelbel", the motto of a talk/lite classical radio station. Eventually one of the announcers is driven insane when the station is required to play yet another "interpretation" of the Canon.

Excerpts from the CD may be heard here. (http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqaudio/wtwp.ram) Mercifully perhaps, none of the Canon made it into the selections. Plus there is a description of the album here. (http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqrec/wtwp.htm)

Ah, the quality of mercy is sometimes quite strained. I found a couple excerpts from the CD that have the Canon, and part of the female announcer's reaction, except that the actual part where the Canon literally drives her crazy begins just after the last excerpt. Here ya go...Sample tracks 21 and 22. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003CY7/103-7263025-4645462?v=glance&s=music&vi=samples#disc_1)

[Nicolas]

I've been planning on doing an interpretation of PachelBel's Canon in D for a long time.[edit]
I'm not sure the world really needs another interpretation of the Pachelbel Canon. There are literally thousands of interpretations of this piece out there already. It has become a fixture at yuppie weddings, and "lite classical" stations. It has been played to death.

It's so worn out that it was the subject of a "P.D.Q. Bach" CD by Peter Schickele a few years back titled "WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio". "WTWP" stood for "Wall-To-Wall Pachelbel", the motto of a talk/lite classical radio station. Eventually one of the announcers is driven insane when the station is required to play yet another "interpretation" of the Canon.

Excerpts from the CD may be heard here. (http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqaudio/wtwp.ram) Mercifully perhaps, none of the Canon made it into the selections. Plus there is a description of the album here. (http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqrec/wtwp.htm)

Ah, the quality of mercy is sometimes quite strained. I found a couple excerpts from the CD that have the Canon, and part of the female announcer's reaction, except that the actual part where the Canon literally drives her crazy begins just after the last excerpt. Here ya go...Sample tracks 21 and 22. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003CY7/103-7263025-4645462?v=glance&s=music&vi=samples#disc_1)

I don't really care if the world needs another interpretation. I want to do one. For my own fun. The world doesn't need yet another 1/72 scale F-15. Still I make one. For my own fun. :) And as I said, the project gets pushed back all the time because I prefer creating my own compositions above renditions of existing pieces.

Without any cause, I've been having Simply Red's "Money's too tight (to mention)" in my head for the last couple of hours. That title has a typo in it on the album by the way 8) .

[Nicolas]

:o NO TUNE in my head :o

[Nicolas]

Fleetwood Mac: Monday Morning.

[Parrothead]

Beat Surrender by The Jam

[Russ]

Fleetwood Mac: Monday Morning.

My Fleetwood Mac song is Tusk. I know it's camp and trashy but it speaks to me for some reason.

Totally unrelated thought. I like Stevie Nicks' version of "Angle of the Morning".

[Nicolas]

Fleetwood Mac: Monday Morning.

My Fleetwood Mac song is Tusk. I know it's camp and trashy but it speaks to me for some reason.

Totally unrelated thought. I like Stevie Nicks' version of "Angle of the Morning".

Lots of Fleetwood Mac is rather camp. But they do can play acoustic guitars, and have nice harmonics and meldoies in it. In my opinion there are three kinds of good camp: camp that's camp because it brings together good classical elements (Fleetwood Mac), in-your-face and not too serious camp (Europe), and not too serious camp that's been done so good that you can't disrespect it (some Oldfield). My favourite Mac songs are "Second Hand News", "Never going Back Again", "seven wonders", monday morning, their hitsingles... allright I'm a bit of a fan :).

My s.o. has Tusk (ripped from her mother's collection in fact :)), I'm not very familiar with the album. It features nice tracks though. I'd need to hear it a bit more. the power of many Fleetwood Mac songs is that you got to know them just enough to get into the song, without them being too easy.

Dire Straits: Walk of Life has claimed some headspace for the moment though :).

[mopc]

I got Pink's "I'm coming up so you better get that party started" #-o It's on Tv all the time here!!!!

[paulie jay]

"My Girl" by the Hoodoo Gurus...

[mopc]

Oh, and mothers hate me, teachers date me, Im a hazard to my self!

Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie by Eddie Cochran... :lol:

[Nicolas]

I got Pink's "I'm coming up so you better get that party started" #-o It's on Tv all the time here!!!!

:o That song is years old!

Not like they never play "older" songs here, but not all the time. There tend to be time differences though: what's a hit in holiday locations in the south, tends to become a hit here about half a year later.

[Raptor1967]

Headstones
Cemetery

"Went down to the cemetery lookin for love
Got there and my baby was buried HAD TO DIG HER UP ..."

I walk around the office singing this all the time.

[Nicolas]

Your colleagues must think you're a very nice and stable person if they don't know the song! :wink: :D

I've got multiple songs in my head. Doesn't sound too nice. :)

[Raptor1967]

yea well they all think I am a little off. I sing when I think and when I am stressed. Problem is I usually make up my own words to the tune to suit my mood at the time and for some reason people think it is a really strange thing to do.

[mopc]

I got Pink's "I'm coming up so you better get that party started" #-o It's on Tv all the time here!!!!

:o That song is years old!

Not like they never play "older" songs here, but not all the time. There tend to be time differences though: what's a hit in holiday locations in the south, tends to become a hit here about half a year later.

it's this dam add on tv!

[Nicolas]

I got Pink's "I'm coming up so you better get that party started" #-o It's on Tv all the time here!!!!

:o That song is years old!

Not like they never play "older" songs here, but not all the time. There tend to be time differences though: what's a hit in holiday locations in the south, tends to become a hit here about half a year later.

it's this dam add on tv!

Oh like that. Now that's another case. I thought you meant the music video in total. it makes a lot more sense if it's an add :).

[mopc]

its a cable channel called TNT here, its adverising some Pink concert from hell every five seconds :x

[kleindoofy]

Well, I finally got rid of "Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen" by listening to the Johannespassion today, keeping with the season. So now I'm stuck with "Ach, mein Sinn, wo willst du endlich hin, wo soll ich mich erquicken?" which I can't get out of my head!

Sweet pain. :wink:

[Fram]

Einstürzende Neubauten, 'Salamandrina'. Ever heard the sound of a boiling salamander?

[Nicolas]

Ever heard the sound of a boiling salamander?

Yes. They're quite good at the piano in fact. :wink: :D

[Nicolas]

jarre's "Fourth Rendez-vous" again

We're quite compatible :)

[Nicolas]

All Stewart: Flying Sorcery

In fact the complete Year Of The Cat album is good background music (though some songs really draw my attention)
I've never seen him live, but I heard he really can play, and often makes completely new arrangements for his songs. And he's quite the artist! Just hear those instrumentals on Broadway Hotel... =D> Normally, this is not 100% my kind of music, but Al Stewart did it so good here, that I really love it.

[publiusr]

The show must go on

The Alan Parsons Project.

[mopc]

janie's got a gun

[cyswxman]

Oh no, not again!!! The Blob song! :o

[Fram]

I have that everytime I come to this thread to post something, I read the last netry and that song immediately replaces what was in there before (Jeanie's got a gun' for example), or else I see the title of this thread and the Cranberries with 'Zombie' pop in my head. That last one is rather annoying, I have to say :)

[Gullible Jones]

LAGQ's "Quiccan".

[Russ]

WEEEE WILL WEEEE WILL ROCK YOU! chung chung boom boom

I turned on the TV to catch some news and "Mighty Ducks 2" was ending.

AAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :o

[Maksutov]

PBS had a performance of Mahler's 2nd on last night, so now that's what's running through. Especially the Allegro maestoso with all those one...two...three...one-two-three rhythms.

Too bad the PBS tape was screwed up: many changes in pitch, and some loud thumps toward the end, as if someone were hitting an open mike. Yet another reason not to contribute to PBS.

Additionally it was a performance by the BYU Philharmonic, so the amount of Mormon propaganda in the comments and translated subtitles was about what one would expect. Oh well...

Mahler's so good that, for instance, no amount of religious dogmatism could blunt the sarcastic effect of the In ruhig fliesender Bewegung, where, despite the preaching of Saint Anthony, the crabs still walk backwards and the carp are still gluttons (Die Krebs gehn zurücke, ...Die Karpfen viel fressen...). :D

[gzhpcu]

"Miami" Will Smith...

[Maksutov]

I've been planning on doing an interpretation of PachelBel's Canon in D for a long time.[edit]
I'm not sure the world really needs another interpretation of the Pachelbel Canon. There are literally thousands of interpretations of this piece out there already. It has become a fixture at yuppie weddings, and "lite classical" stations. It has been played to death.

It's so worn out that it was the subject of a "P.D.Q. Bach" CD by Peter Schickele a few years back titled "WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio". "WTWP" stood for "Wall-To-Wall Pachelbel", the motto of a talk/lite classical radio station. Eventually one of the announcers is driven insane when the station is required to play yet another "interpretation" of the Canon.

Excerpts from the CD may be heard here. (http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqaudio/wtwp.ram) Mercifully perhaps, none of the Canon made it into the selections. Plus there is a description of the album here. (http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqrec/wtwp.htm)

Ah, the quality of mercy is sometimes quite strained. I found a couple excerpts from the CD that have the Canon, and part of the female announcer's reaction, except that the actual part where the Canon literally drives her crazy begins just after the last excerpt. Here ya go...Sample tracks 21 and 22. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003CY7/103-7263025-4645462?v=glance&s=music&vi=samples#disc_1)

I don't really care if the world needs another interpretation. I want to do one. For my own fun. The world doesn't need yet another 1/72 scale F-15. Still I make one. For my own fun. :) And as I said, the project gets pushed back all the time because I prefer creating my own compositions above renditions of existing pieces.

Without any cause, I've been having Simply Red's "Money's too tight (to mention)" in my head for the last couple of hours. That title has a typo in it on the album by the way 8) .
I've always wanted to do a set of variations on the P Kanon. They would start out like this:

http://img197.exs.cx/img197/7641/kanon8zc.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

and, after a few inversions, cancrizans, and modulations from D Major, end up, simply, in unison, like this:

http://img131.exs.cx/img131/6866/di9ee.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Russ]

snip
http://img197.exs.cx/img197/7641/kanon8zc.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

and, after a few inversions, cancrizans, and modulations from D Major, end up, simply, in unison, like this:

http://img131.exs.cx/img131/6866/di9ee.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

I wish I could read music well enough to hear this in my head. Both of my guitars are in the shop getting the finger boards resurfaced. :)

[Grendl]

Devo's "Whip It." The '80s station in the car was playing it...brought me back to early MTV when it actually played videos. But then that segued into Duran Duran's "A View To A Kill." So, those two tunes are battling in my head, though "Whip It" is winning.

When a problem comes along, you must whip it...

My friend got our music teacher to play the album "Q: Are we not men? A: We Are Devo" in our 8th grade music class." He played Devo's version of "Satisfaction." :lol: It was one of our more fun classes, because the teacher was such a dweeb. For some reason Sean couldn't get him to play The Sex Pistols. :-k

[Evan]

I have been avoiding this thread like the plague. I have a very serious problem with "ear worm". All I need is a couple of bars of a tune I have heard and it won't get out of my head. I have a photographic memory for music. It drives me to distraction.

It really sucks because I like music. There are only a few classical pieces that I can listen to without it playing over and over and over over and over and and over and over and over and over and oveover and over and r and over and over and over and over and over over and over and and over and over and over and over and over over and over...


Worst yet, I have a keyboard that I can't use because if I do I will start to play a phrase that brings up something that will stick with me for the next few days.

I sure wish there was some way to cure this. I really miss music but can't stand the same thing running in my head for several days.

[Grendl]

I've been listening to "Fiddler on the Roof" while loading pictures all morning, so I have "If I Were A Rich Man" in my mind. But I'm in the mood to dance, so I'm going to put on The Wiseguys--"Start the Commotion." That darn Mitsubishi commercial drove me to it, but it's a great dance tune.

[HAVOC451]

Dancing back to back -- Glen Miller

[Parrothead]

A mix of 80's alternative including Nowhere Girl by B-Movie, Strangers in the Night - Peter Baumann, Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Toby Swann, Teddy Bear Picnic - Drastic Measures and Escalator of Life - Robert Hazard.

[Grendl]

Moved on to Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene." I am so sick of loading and replacing photos online--six hours now (with some dancing breaks). Now, I'm going to listen to Cream's "I Feel Free" and "Badge," and then I'm off the computer...for hours! I feel like I need to do something physical.

[kylenano]

Because of the title of this thread :)

Tales from my head
I can't buy the book
No-one's listening
But I guess you could
Try whistling this...

Try Whistling This (Neil Finn / Jim Moginie)

The Theme from Dixie by Duane Eddy... :oops:

[Nicolas]

Alphaville: "Sounds like a Melody"

(that mp3 happens to be playing)

[Parrothead]

Quartet (A model of decorum and tranquility) from the musical "Chess"

[Maksutov]

Ives: Symphony No. 3, without the "shadow lines", imagining it as I first heard it played by Bernstein and the NYPO live at Philharmonic Hall in 1965. If ever there was a work that exudes "New England", this is it!

Into the second movement with all its "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" variations...pure delight.

:D

Ride Across the River Dire Straits.

[Nicolas]

Ride Across the River Dire Straits.

That's one I don't know (by heart)

Neither do I, Nicolas...It was on at the time. :lol:

[Nicolas]

Neither do I, Nicolas...It was on at the time. :lol: :D

[mopc]

I can't get you out of my head, by your love is all I think about. #-o

Now, it's Badly Bent by The Tractors... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[mopc]

What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us? Just a stranger on the bus? 8-[

[Gullible Jones]

Jan Garbarek's Witchi-Tai-to. No, I've no idea how that name came to be... But it's a great tune. Garbarek doesn't play like many (or any?) other horn players, and overall it's a very different style of "jazz" than what most Americans are probably used to.

[Nicolas]

Mike Oldfield: "Crystal Hazing"

(found the "Discovery" LP in the local expensive record shop for just 1€ -unsorted LP collections- in really good shape 8))

[Fram]

I think that's crystal Gazing...

In my head: 'Oh Darkness' by Admiral Freebee.

[Nicolas]

This record is turned really grey, so it's "Crystal Hazing" here. Just kidding, it's pitch black. (OK it was a typo :))

I like "oh Darkness".

Also the difference between hearing Admiral Freebee on CD and live (last summer) is amazing. I knew the songs only from CD, but live he brings the "power" versions. Especially in his voice.

As a joke, I sometimes sing "Oh Darkness" to my s.o. when it's on the radio -but only with "Darkness" replaced by her name. It gives a nice twist to parts of the lyrics :) :oops:.

"oh Darkness oh Darkness roll over me tonight, rolling over, rolling over"

[Chip]

Ives: Symphony No. 3...pure delight.:D

Its a lovely, warmly lyrical work. I programmed it on several radio stations years ago. Today it is very rarely heard over the remaining classical stations in the USA, and is actually banned, along with all other Ives works at our local classical station in Sacramento. Why? Radio in the USA today is run by people who see it as providing mostly background music regardless of style, rather than anything that might distract or startle the listener. The result is an occasional familiar masterpiece surrounded by lots of "pleasant" music regardless of quality. :evil:

[snowcelt]

I've got these travailing blues: maybe I'll stop my rambling ways...

[pumpkinpie]

"That Thing You Do."
Watched a few minutes of the movie before work this morning.

[JohnW]

Jan Garbarek's Witchi-Tai-to. No, I've no idea how that name came to be... But it's a great tune. Garbarek doesn't play like many (or any?) other horn players, and overall it's a very different style of "jazz" than what most Americans are probably used to.
Thanks, GJ. For the first time ever after perusing this thread, I'm going to have something good going through my head for a while.

Regarding the title, the piece was composed by Jim Pepper, who was Native American. Pepper's recording has vocals in the form of a chant - I don't know whether they're his words, or a traditional piece.

[Nicolas]

Jan Garbarek's Witchi-Tai-to. No, I've no idea how that name came to be... But it's a great tune. Garbarek doesn't play like many (or any?) other horn players, and overall it's a very different style of "jazz" than what most Americans are probably used to.
Thanks, GJ. For the first time ever after perusing this thread, I'm going to have something good going through my head for a while.

Regarding the title, the piece was composed by Jim Pepper, who was Native American. Pepper's recording has vocals in the form of a chant - I don't know whether they're his words, or a traditional piece.

Well excuse us our bad taste :D

I've currently got all things going through my head at the same time: I'm testing some audio equipment with all kinds of music, randomly picked. :)

[Grendl]

This is a thread about what tune is your head, right? I can never keep classical music dancing in my mind, it has to be something I can sing to--I love singing.

Therefore, because of the latest Cookie Monster scandal, I have the song that was on my Sesame Street record on my mind:

Sing
Sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things, not bad
Sing of happy, not sad

Sing
Sing a song
Make it simple
To last your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Sing
Sing a song....

[mopc]

Luck be a Lady tonight
luck have you ever been a lady to begin with?

[Nicolas]

Luck be a Lady tonight
luck have you ever been a lady to begin with?

In the beginning, the lady is your luck indeed :D

(I'll keep you informed whether that stays this way :))

[pumpkinpie]

This is a thread about what tune is your head, right? I can never keep classical music dancing in my mind, it has to be something I can sing to--I love singing.

Therefore, because of the latest Cookie Monster scandal, I have the song that was on my Sesame Street record on my mind:

Sing
Sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things, not bad
Sing of happy, not sad

Sing
Sing a song
Make it simple
To last your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Sing
Sing a song....


Has anyone seen the VH1 commercial with that song? I saw it only once, a couple months ago, but it made an impression. It feature clips of about a dozen or two artists "lip-synching" to that song. They did it by taking clips from their videos singing single words, and stringing them all together. So you'd have Eminem saying "sing" followed by Sheryl Crow saying "a" followed by Pink saying "song", etc. [just examples, I can't remember the exact artists.] I really liked it!

Sunday Girl...

[Grendl]

Sunday Girl...
Huh? The only "Sunday Girl" I know is the song by Blondie. ??

[Nicolas]

Tori Amos -Winter

(hello neighbours :) )

[Maksutov]

Ives: Symphony No. 3...pure delight.:D

Its a lovely, warmly lyrical work. I programmed it on several radio stations years ago. Today it is very rarely heard over the remaining classical stations in the USA, and is actually banned, along with all other Ives works at our local classical station in Sacramento. Why? Radio in the USA today is run by people who see it as providing mostly background music regardless of style, rather than anything that might distract or startle the listener. The result is an occasional familiar masterpiece surrounded by lots of "pleasant" music regardless of quality. :evil:
Thank you for programming it.

Ah, "Lite Classical", "Music for Relaxation", "Wall-to-Wall Pachelbel", music designed for yuckies.

Can't be too loud, can't be too soft, must blend into the background while the dinner party is in progress, and must not interrupt the discussion of which interior design is most feng shui, which SUV is biggest, which prep school is best so the children go to Harvard, and which city provides the best opportunities for slumlords.

And it definitely should not make us think, either about the structure of the music, or what it suggests.

No wonder classical music is dying. People listen to these radio stations and think, "Wow, what bland, boring music."

Now, for me, I'd intrude on a yuckie self-celebration with a few excerpts from Ives' Fourth, in fact the second movement, which is a send-up of all that yuppies stand (or should I say, recline) for, with its Celestial Railroad (anyone ever read Hawthorne?)-based theme. Follow that with Deserts by Varèse, who back in 1954 already sniffed out the desolation of a land populated by the beautiful people. And conclude with the Rondo-Burleske from Mahler's Ninth, perhaps the earliest, and definitely one of the best, expressions of disgust with urban provincialism ever penned to a score.

Nope, can't have any music that one might actually listen to. Time for more Vivaldi, and more Pachelbel, and more Vivaldi, and more Four Seasons, and more Pachelbel. I wonder if old Pachy realized back in the late 1600s he was one of the first writers of Muzak™?

BTW, any way you might be able, say on Independence Day, to sneak in a recording of The Fourth of July? I'd enjoy hearing the response of the sedated listeners who were exposed to the "annual explosion that sets the Town Hall on fire"!

[Nicolas]

At the moment, I've got four seasons, Peer Gynt, Beethoven's 9th, and Pachelbel's canon in D in my head. All in versions played by Richard Clayderman and George Zamphir. JUST KIDDING

At the moment, I'm trying to decide which albulm to play next. Another go at Equinoxe, or give Purple Rain another spin?

I''l keep you informed. :)

(the fact that my neighbour is playing LOUD house doesn't make listening to music better...)

EDIT: OK Prince it is :).

[Maksutov]

At the moment, I've got four seasons, Peer Gynt, Beethoven's 9th, and Pachelbel's canon in D in my head. All in versions played by Richard Clayderman and George Zamphir. JUST KIDDING

At the moment, I'm trying to decide which albulm to play next. Another go at Equinoxe, or give Pruple Rain another spin?

I''l keep you informed. :)
Hey, nothing wrong with Peer Gynt or Lud's 9th! Anyone who has ever seen M with "Peer" Lorre knows that In the Hall of the Mountain King can be very evocative music. And I'd really enjoy the results of playing the opening of the Finale of Lud's 9th ffff at a cocktail party!

"O, Freunde, nicht diese Töne!", also sprach die Gierige.

[Nicolas]

Of course there's nothing wrong with this music. However, when you put Zamphir at it, you have the risk of an amplifier completely blocked in the syrup... :)

I like good versions of Peer Gynt (I play it myself as well).
I like Grieg and Wagner. And you could crash your party with some good Beethoven 8).

[Nicolas]

Thanks to my choice I've got "Let's go crazy" firmly in my head :)

[mickal555]

"And I fell in love" by the waiff's

Arghhhhhhhh :(

[Nicolas]

\:D/ I don't know that song!! \:D/

(please don't tell me I do; I've got good music in my head now and would like to keep it that way :))

[mickal555]

It's an country ozzie song


I'm countering it with "the Celtic Chillout Album"

[Grendl]

"You Can't Find Peace," by Pale 3 & Skin

[mopc]

Imperial March

[Grendl]

The Tunnel-Pale 3 & Beth Hirsch (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KJ16/qid=1113112057/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-5937373-1658252)

Over and over...

[Chip]

...Pachelbel...I wonder if old Pachy realized back in the late 1600s he was one of the first writers of Muzak™?

Yeah. I think he originally wrote it for pipe organ and as part of suite. The Pailliard Chamber Orchestra version in the late 1970s fleshed it out with lush modern strings, and the rest is history.

...BTW, any way you might be able, say on Independence Day, to sneak in a recording of The Fourth of July? I'd enjoy hearing the response of the sedated listeners who were exposed to the "annual explosion that sets the Town Hall on fire"!

I love that Ives piece too. (And "Central Park in the Dark" which I also played on radio years ago, along with the "Symphony No. 4".) I still dig the old Stokowski recording. The second movement has such free spirited exhuberance!

I occasionally sub at the classical station here. One time I had some free air time to fill after the MET broadcast - (a rare occurance.) I was able to fit in some Berlioz, then: Musolov's "The Iron Foundry" which was great fun - and quess what: listeners loved it. Its not a masterpiece but it shook the dust off and woke people up. (Management has since banned it.) While working at my other job I listen to this station but every day find I must turn to CDs.

[Nicolas]

The problem when I'm making music myself is that (due to the lack of musical schooling, and experience in making music) I'm constantly skimming the edges of cliché, camp and pure illogicality (some call it "originality" 8-[ ). This can give nice results of course. IN my case... well I'll let you people hear it when time comes :roll: (and if I still dare to let it hear to anyone).

The radio just played Van Halen's "Jump". If anything, it sticks in your head :).

Working For The Man Roy Orbison :D :D :D

[Maksutov]

[edit]..BTW, any way you might be able, say on Independence Day, to sneak in a recording of The Fourth of July? I'd enjoy hearing the response of the sedated listeners who were exposed to the "annual explosion that sets the Town Hall on fire"!
I love that Ives piece too. (And "Central Park in the Dark" which I also played on radio years ago, along with the "Symphony No. 4".) I still dig the old Stokowski recording. The second movement has such free spirited exhuberance!
Ah, Central Park in the Dark in the Good Old Summertime, with the two battling ragtime pianos! Speaking of the 4th Symphony, did you ever have the opportunity to hear Stokie conduct Ives in person? I heard him do all the premieres and important pieces with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall back in the 60s. Wow! Here was this frail old man with the nimbus of white hair who seemed to barely make it to the podium, and then, he raised his baton, and it was like there was a 20-year-old up there, and every outrageous thing that Ives put into his score came out clear and true.

I've been corresponding with James Sinclair (conductor of Orchestra New England and an Ives scholar) recently. I need to figure out how to tell him that academic studies et al, and critical editions are fine for assuring Ives' heritage, but that the music still needs that "every man for himself" approach that Ives found so essential to music making. So many performances these days seem to be done by latter-day "Rollos", if you catch my reference.

I occasionally sub at the classical station here. One time I had some free air time to fill after the MET broadcast - (a rare occurance.) I was able to fit in some Berlioz, then: Musolov's "The Iron Foundry" which was great fun - and quess what: listeners loved it. Its not a masterpiece but it shook the dust off and woke people up. (Management has since banned it.) While working at my other job I listen to this station but every day find I must turn to CDs.
WTG re the Mosolov! I love those "futurist" pieces from the 20s (remember Russolo and his manifesto, "The Art of Noise"?). My favorite is Prokofiev's "iron and steel" Second Symphony, which is an intense, "take-no-prisoners" distillation of the composer's rhythmic, satiric, and diabolical tendencies. What fun it would be to thrust that piece into some bourgeois afternoon listening session!

BTW, who or what is this station management that bans wonderful music? Any relation to the Bush family?

[mickal555]

My Heart Will Go On - Ryan & Rachel O'Donnell
The Celtic Chillout Album

[Nicolas]

Oldfield's Tubular Bells. Runs through your head all day, each time a different part :).

I just realised I was listening to the SQ quad LP.
It results in a totally different stereo image at times. Nice to hear it a bit different. Of course an sq quad decoder with 4 channel amplification would be optimal :). But it is nice to hear the instruments annnounced on the opposite side from where they start playing for once. The instruments don't run completely across the scene, which is a bit of a pity :). But it is equally enjoyable. And my sq LP is in much better shape than the stereo one (sooo grey :)).

I should compare it to the CD-4 quad LP once. But then I'd need a CD-4 turntable/decoder + cartridge + stylus, and 4 channel amplification... I'll stick to comaring the stereo images of the stereo, CD-4 and SQ recordings :).

[Chip]

...did you ever have the opportunity to hear Stokie conduct Ives in person? I heard him do all the premieres and important pieces with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall back in the 60s. Wow! ...every outrageous thing that Ives put into his score came out clear and true.
Lucky you! I was many miles away at the time, and bought the Columbia LPs.

...So many performances these days seem to be done by latter-day "Rollos", if you catch my reference...
Yup. Ives' term for polite, sissy "Mama's boy" musicians of his time. When visiting relatives were informed the young Ives played music they'd ask him what he played, and the answer would be: "shortstop!"

...My favorite is Prokofiev's "iron and steel" Second Symphony, which is an intense, "take-no-prisoners" distillation of the composer's rhythmic, satiric, and diabolical tendencies. What fun it would be to thrust that piece into some bourgeois afternoon listening session!
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 --- I'm going to hear it tomorrow LIVE! The Kirov Orchestra is on tour and is performing it at the Mondavi Center on the Cal State campus in Davis, California: 04/11/05! I've had my tickets for two months!

...BTW, who or what is this station management that bans wonderful music? Any relation to the Bush family?

KXPR ("Capital Public Radio") Their website is here (http://www.capradio.org/). (They are an NPR station and no different from many classical stations these days.) They also use the Classical 24 (http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/programs/c24/) service for their overnight broadcasts. Classical 24 - home of the masters: Telemann, Berwald, Spohr and Gade! Actually - sometimes Beethoven (an overture) and even a "Mahler Symphony" - well, they'll play one movement, without vocals, such as the Adagietto from the 5th, and announce it as if it were the whole symphony. (I'd like to hear Penderecki's 2nd Symphony in that time slot sometime!)

One exception is WQXR in New York, but even they are much more conservative than 20 years ago.

[Maksutov]

[edit]...My favorite is Prokofiev's "iron and steel" Second Symphony, which is an intense, "take-no-prisoners" distillation of the composer's rhythmic, satiric, and diabolical tendencies. What fun it would be to thrust that piece into some bourgeois afternoon listening session!
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 --- I'm going to hear it tomorrow LIVE! The Kirov Orchestra is on tour and is performing it at the Mondavi Center on the Cal State campus in Davis, California: 04/11/05! I've had my tickets for two months!...
Fantastic! Words can hardly describe the 2nd. Though the analysis by Roger Newhall that was included in the Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga recording of Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra from the early 1960s, is one of the best examples of effective musical analysis I've ever seen. If you haven't read it and would like to, PM me your email address and I can send you an OCR'd version of it. Brilliant piece of musicology.

Hope the Kirov goes for broke and lets the brass and percussion do their thing. This is not a friendly symphony, it's the antithesis of "easy listening", and needs to roar. To me, after the catastrophe of the last variation (which starts in a growling 7/4 meter), the restatement of the second movement's theme, after the six variations, is remarkably affecting (funny how the same music can sound so different after being worked over so roughly), and the little codetta, with the demonic tritone in the bass clarinet, contrabassoon, and lower strings contrasting with the dissonant harmonics in the upper strings, is chillingly appropriate.

Have fun!

[Parrothead]

One of Bowie's best Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)

[pumpkinpie]

Ugh. Listening to a radio show on the way in to work, a comedian played a love song he wrote for his high school sweetheart. "Retarded Girl." So now I have those two words playing over and over in my head....so un-PC!

Be Bop a Lula :oops:

[Grendl]

Chains Of Love by Erasure. Gosh, it's spring, I don't know where this one came from...I was hanging a March of Dimes poster and the tune just popped into my head and it's stuck now. I haven't heard that for a looongggg time. All that late 80's pop. I made it worse by pulling it up on MP3. :o

[Grendl]

](*,) How do you detox a song from your brain? It's driving me nuts. I even had a conversation w/ my boss about 80's British pop music and NOTHING is helping. I'm possessed by Erasure!

[Parrothead]

I think I'll avoid playing a certain Erasure lp judging by its effects. Going through my mind is We Live So Fast by Heaven 17

[farmerjumperdon]

I really dig the tune by Louis the XIV - I think it's called Finding Out Love is Blind. Unfortunately, with it's rather poppish beat the FM stations are gonna ruin it by playing the heck out of it.