what are you listening to ?

[Armenian]

Re: what are you listening to ?

Since you said you like metal, are you a fan of metallica or iron maiden?

I am. Although I love heavy metal music, back when I was growing up (1980s ) I only appreciated a few heavy metal bands; Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Queensryche, Deep Purple. The vast majority of the metal bands at the time Motley Crew, Ratt, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Kiss, etc., were too flashy, too commercial, too superficial for my taste.

My absolute favorite heavy metal band, the band I essentially grew up with was the legendary -

Black Sabbath

Here is some vintage Black Sabbath with Ozzy:

Paranoid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwwYWlbP2U

Iron Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMmHX...eature=related

War Pigs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82W9VDKdSpg

Into the Void: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFY6_...eature=related

Sabbra Cadabra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WGEz...eature=related

Children of the Grave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsJj...eature=related

A National Acrobat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waUmI...eature=related

Hole In The Sky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxhka...eature=related

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9nEpt9SR3I

Black Sabbath with Dio, Live Concert:

Heaven and Hell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR_u8...eature=related

Children Of The Sea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vwnB...eature=related

The Sign Of The Southern Cross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_Cf...eature=related

The Mob Rules: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn57H...eature=related

Falling From The Edge Of The World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHpj...eature=related

[jgk3]

Re: what are you listening to ?

I am listening to Bach's Toccata and Fugue works, never fails to inspire me, and I listen to a lot of metal, or rather used to listen to a lot of metal very often

[Armenian]

Re: what are you listening to ?

I am listening to Bach's Toccata and Fugue works,

Excellent taste, jgk3. I really enjoy all the major classical composers. I also love early European music. But I adore adore Bach and Mozart. Bach's brilliant creations are timeless. Constructed like a fine machine, his compositions are layered, superbly structured and aristocratic in flavor. And Mozart's, an absolute genius!!! His compositions are a colorful bouquet where regal meets exotic in a flirtatious and lavish manner. However, if I had to pick 'one' aria, one song, as my all time favorite it would undoubtedly be Mozart's Der Hölle Rache (Queen of the Night - Zauberflöte). It is perhaps the most exhilarating, most dramatic, most thrilling, most complex, most difficult to sing aria ever created.

Every time I hear it, every time I see it, this masterpiece leaves a great impression upon me. Simply put, it's outstanding.

For those who have never seen it or heard it:

Queen of the Night - Der Hölle Rache



Diana Damrau as Queen of the Night II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuKxL4LOqc

[freakyfreaky]

Re: what are you listening to ?

Recognizing the 25 year anniversary of the US Festival. From what I understand, to this very day, people are still trying to get out of the parking lot.

Van Halen, May 29

1983, Devore, CA; Metal Day; 10-12:00 p.m.

Romeo Delight 5:04
Unchained ~Drum Solo 7:53
The Full Bug 3:57
Runnin With The Devil 7:33
Jamie's Cryin 3:45
So This Is love 5:18
Little Guitars 4:44
Bass Solo
~Dancing in the street 7:14
Somebody Get Me A Doctor
(Incl.Girl Gone Bad ~I'm So Glad)
~Guitar Solo 8:55
Dance The Night Away 3:19
Cathedral 3:27
Secrets 3:29
Drum Solo 2:34
Everybody Wants Some 14:48
Ice Cream Man 5:28
Pretty Woman 5:49
Guitar Solo 11:57
Ain't Talkin Bout Love
~Encore 7:41
Bottom's Up 4:39
You Really Got Me
~Happy Trails
~You Really Got Me 6:27

Romeo delight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJVDSsoM9II
Ice Cream Man (Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWPeZmMCIo

[HayotzAmrotz]

Re: what are you listening to?

MASSIV

German born palestinian rapper.

http://www.youtube.com/user/massiv?ob=0

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=massiv&search_type=

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massiv_%28Rapper%29

Even if you don't know the German language you may want to pay this guy a tribute because he has literally smashed the head of the head of Turkish Young Grey Wolfes in Berlin purely because he hates the Turks and their attitude. And Turks hate him too, big time. They burned his effigy in Berlin and swore revenge, some say even hired hitmen to kill him. It takes a huge amount of courage to challenge and beat the Turks in Berlin. He did it. God bless his heart. But besides his courage I really like his music too. His rap is truthful and mirrors the reality.

[jgk3]

Re: what are you listening to ?

Excellent taste, jgk3. I really enjoy all the major classical composers. I also love early European music. But I adore adore Bach and Mozart. Bach's brilliant creations are timeless. Constructed like a fine machine, his compositions are layered, superbly structured and aristocratic in flavor. And Mozart's, an absolute genius!!! His compositions are a colorful bouquet where regal meets exotic in a flirtatious and lavish manner. However, if I had to pick 'one' aria, one song, as my all time favorite it would undoubtedly be Mozart's Der Hölle Rache (Queen of the Night - Zauberflöte). It is perhaps the most exhilarating, most dramatic, most thrilling, most complex, most difficult to sing aria ever created.

Every time I hear it, every time I see it, this masterpiece leaves a great impression upon me. Simply put, it's outstanding.

For those who have never seen it or heard it:

Queen of the Night - Der Hölle Rache



Diana Damrau as Queen of the Night II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuKxL4LOqc

wow, I've never seen such an incredible performance in an opera before, I've never really looked much into the genre, I was simply dumbfounded when I saw Diana Dumrau sing those notes... especially the ones that were instrumental, I could not believe it, I had never known a voice could sing like an instrument that way!

In general, I am not familiar with Mozart's works, but someday I will explore them too. I am deeply moved by Bach and Beethoven, they are my two favorites right now, even though I probably haven't heard as many of their works as a more seasoned listener of classical music does. But I really feel like Bach was able to reach the heavens and the fabric of our universe with his layers of voices, it is almost a religious experience to listen to his most expressive works. Beethoven on the other hand is quite the opposite of a man who could connect to the rest of the world, let alone the universe as we experience it. He had a very introspective expression, his music was based on the intensity of his life, combining both the serene moments he experienced, like those during his solitary walks in nature, and the dramatic disappointments, fury and frustrations that were to give him his aura of a serious and pained individual.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: what are you listening to ?

Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: June 3, 1976 (check for other copies)
Venue: Paramount Theatre
Location: Portland, OR

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD> MR> DAT> WAV> SHN> DAW (Bertha)> CDA/SHN
Keywords: Live concert

Might As Well, Cassidy, Row Jimmy, Looks Like Rain, They Love Each Other, Lazy Lightning, Supplication, Candyman, The Music Never Stopped, Scarlet Begonias, Dancin' In The Streets Samson & Delilah, Crazy Fingers-> Wharf Rat-> Let It Grow-> Drums-> It Must Have Been The Roses-> Around & Around-> Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Franklin's Tower-> One More Saturday Night, E: The Wheel

Samson & Delilah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7I4R2_5_-A

Samson & Delilah

Lyrics: Traditional
Music: Traditional

Sung regularly by Bob Weir with the Grateful Dead from the mid-1970s onwards. He varied the lyrics a little: the main differences are noted below.

If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down

Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair
She had good looks - God knows - and coal black hair
Delilah she gained old Samson's mind
When first he saw this woman, she looked so fine

Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee
Said tell me where your strength lies, if you please
Then she spoke so kind, she talked so fair
That Samson said, Delilah you cut off my hair
You can shave my head, clean as my hand
My strength become as natural as any old man

Chorus
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down

You read about Samson, all from his birth (note 4)
He was the strongest man ever has lived on earth
One day while Samson was walking along
Looked down on the ground he saw an old jaw bone
Then he stretched out his arm and his chains broke like threads
And when he got to move, ten thousand was dead

[chorus]

Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack
And Samson he crawled up on the lion's back
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paws
Samson got hands up round the lion's jaws
He ripped that beast, killed him dead
And the bees made honey in the lion's head

[chorus]
[chorus]
I would tear this whole building down

[MrHyeSev]

Re: what are you listening to ?

Sublime - Wrong Way
Santeria

[freakyfreaky]

Re: what are you listening to ?

Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: June 4, 1978 (check for other copies)
Venue: Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Goleta, CA

Source: Soundboard with audience patches
Lineage: SBD>MC>C>D>CD; patched with: AUD>MC>R>D>CD>EAC>SHN
Keywords: Live concert

Bertha-> Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, Me & My Uncle-> Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw Samson & Delilah, Ship of Fools, Estimated Prophet-> Eyes Of The World-> Drums-> Not Fade Away-> Nobody's Fault But Mine-> Not Fade Away-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> Around & Around, E:U.S. Blues-> E: Sugar Magnolia

Estimated Prophet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzOyHuRzzq0

Estimated Prophet.http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/estimate.html

Prophet"
Words by John Perry Barlow; music by Bob Weir
("Estimated Prophet" composed and written by Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow. Reproduced by arrangement with Ice Nine Publishing Co., Inc. (ASCAP))
(Barlow has posted the lyrics to his songs.)
My time coming, any day, don't worry bout me, no
Been so long I felt this way, ain't in no hurry, no
Rainbows end down that highway where ocean breezes blow
My time coming, voices saying, they tell me where to go

Don't worry bout me, no no, don't worry bout me, no
And I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go.


California, preaching on the burning shore
California, I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine


My time coming, anyday, don't worry bout me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin' slow
Still I know I lead the way, they tell me where I go


Don't worry bout me, no no, don't worry bout me, no
And I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go


California, a prophet on the burning shore
California, I'll be knocking on the golden door
Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm gonna shine


You've all been asleep,
You would not believe me
Them voices telling me,
You will soon receive me
We're standing on the beach,
The sea will part before me
(Fire wheel burning in the air)
And you will follow me,
And we will ride to glory
(Way up the middle of the air)


And I'll call down thunder
And speak the same
And my word fills the sky with flame
And might and glory gonna be my name
And men gonna light my way


My time coming, anyday, don't worry bout me, no
It's gonna be just like they say, them voices tell me so
Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin slow
My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no

Don't worry about me...

Dire Wolf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhqyg_dTaTg

Dire Wolf.

http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/direwolf.html

"Dire Wolf"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission

In the timbers of Fennario
the wolves are running round
The winter was so hard and cold
froze ten feet neath the ground

Don't murder me
I beg of you don't murder me
Please
don't murder me


I sat down to my supper
T'was a bottle of red whiskey
I said my prayers and went to bed
That's the last they saw of me


Don't murder me
I beg of you don't murder me
Please
don't murder me


When I awoke, the Dire Wolf
Six hundred pounds of sin
Was grinnin at my window
All I said was "come on in"


Don't murder me
I beg of you don't murder me
Please
don't murder me


The wolf came in, I got my cards
We sat down for a game
I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades
but the cards were all the same


Don't murder me
I beg of you don't murder me
Please
don't murder me


In the backwash of Fennario
The black and bloody mire
The Dire Wolf collects his due
while the boys sing round the fire


Don't murder me
I beg of you don't murder me
Please
don't murder me

[Siamanto]

Re: what are you listening to ?

Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Your "passion" - maybe not the most accurate word??? - for Grateful Dead made me wonder if I should listen to more of their work - I don't know them that well. What would be your top picks in this "Grateful Dead" torrents? Thanks!

P.S. If it helps, from the bands/musicians mentioned in your posts, I enjoy Bauhaus, The Psychedlic Furs, The Doors, and to some degree/some of Frank Zappa.
In any case, I appreciate (almost???) anything of "quality."

P.S.S. Also, though I enjoy being in a concert, I prefer studio recordings - with few exceptions - when listening to music.