OT: This Guy is Good!

[doc longhorn]

You like strings? Check this one out:

 

[doc longhorn]

That dude is really good...
I like surfing youtube for different music.

This is a cover group I found that I thought was pretty cool.

They do cover songs mostly a cappella.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Inception in Concert!

 

[BudreauReye]

I know that a lot of the posts here are varied and there are different takes on the thread. I have been on a listening binge for the last couple of days because of this thread. I saved a lot of bookmarks with regards to the way that my mood changed as I explored. Unfortunately, for some reason or the other, My bookmarks were lost. So! ... I have nothing left but to leave you with one of my favorite classical pieces, 3 Gymnopédies, 6 Gnossiennes -D. And, it just happens to to be set to one of the most beautiful nature videos that I can recall seeing. Seems to me it is set in Alaska. I hope you will enjoy. I was preparing a compilation of film soundtracks that have moved me over the years. In the meantime. please enjoy the music of Mr. Satie. You will probably enjoy this better than some of the weird stuff that I am going to bore you with in a few days after I reconstruct my list. Of course, we all know how how to hit the ignore button!

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Looking forward to it! BTW, the video was blocked because of copyright.

I can't view it.

 

[BudreauReye]

SFlonghorngirl, that should not be happening. Please try cutting and pasting the link into youtube after opening a generic youtube window in your browser. I have viewed this on more than one computer and it worked fime. If that does not work, I will find a way to record it and post it. Everybody has different taste in music, but you do not want to miss this, even if just for the video/music synchronicity! Let me know if it still does not work.

Are you using an Apple or a PC? I can record this and post it without the video, but that would be missing the point to a certain extent.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Maybe because I am viewing through phone. Will view in the morning! Looking forward to it!

 

[BudreauReye]

Maybe because I am viewing through phone. Will view in the morning! Looking forward to it!

That may be it. I don't browse on my phone, because I am usually at my big honking graphics computer when I am awake. My wife has trouble seeing stuff that I send her sometimes on her Galaxy Note. If you look on a computer and it still does not open, let me know. I have some good software to download video and audio from a stream and make sure that they are synced, but that software is on an old computer that I would have to set it up and fire it up, but I will be happy to if need be.

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

That may be it. I don't browse on my phone, because I am usually at my big honking graphics computer when I am awake. My wife has trouble seeing stuff that I send her sometimes on her Galaxy Note. If you look on a computer and it still does not open, let me know. I have some good software to download video and audio from a stream and make sure that they are synced, but that software is on an old computer that I would have to set it up and fire it up, but I will be happy to if need be.

I'm waiting for your list!

 

[BudreauReye]

I'm waiting for your list!

OKAY! I have done my research! I have girded my loins! Basketball season is over for the Longhorns ... until next year! Prepare yourselves! ... starting tomorrow! But for now, I must prepare coconut chicken for my wife, who is coming home from a long day at work! Arrrghhh!!!

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

OKAY! I have done my research! I have girded my loins! Basketball season is over for the Longhorns ... until next year! Prepare yourselves! ... starting tomorrow! But for now, I must prepare coconut chicken for my wife, who is coming home from a long day at work! Arrrghhh!!!

You are a good man.

 

[BudreauReye]

You are a good man.

SFlonghorngirl ... I am sorry to subject you to this crass level of debased male humor! ... but ... THAT is what SHE said!

Goodness! ... before this day is over, I expect to be banned from this site! I must say that I have no regrets, it has well been worth it! And you will notice that I have HAD to edit this POST!!!!

 

[SFlonghorngirl]

Two of my favorite "pondering of life" songs. Both by electronic artists.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Ok, time to crash this contemporary party

 

[JimR]

Ok, time to crash this contemporary party

LOVE that movie

 

[BudreauReye]

OK! I am gonna post some music references. It has taken me a while. This thread really got me thinking. I love music and I have not listened as much in the last few years as I would have liked. The different responses that people have posted have gone in widely divergent directions and have all been enjoyable in there own right, and I must say that I spent quite a few hours looking up and listening to music that I have liked through the years - a different direction for almost all of the posts that have been made. I think that there is a universal response that we all had to the original post that sent us all in varying directions. It is almost like we all went off searching for our own "Lost Chord" - that one piece of music that we all seem to hold dear that addresses the feeling that that the music in that first post seemed to engender in all of us. It is interesting that the responses had some themes that seemed to run through all of them and yet possessed quite a bit of variety.

I am going to share some music from some quite divergent sources that I have been listening to for the last few days. Much to the chagrin of some of you, I am gonna talk about why I am posting these particular pieces. I am not a musician, so who I am I to be talking about music? Well, I want to understand music better, and understand how it fits into our culture. It seems to have universal meaning, yet it manifests itself so differently from individual to individual and from culture to culture. If anything, for those of you who stay with me, perhaps the continuation of this thread will engender further sharing of your musical tastes, and, who knows? Maybe some interesting discussion - you know, since sports is slow about now.

The first post by Sirhornsalot is a very interesting piece of music. It is simply joyous, as represented by the two girls dancing in the background. I do not know a lot of music like that. I read somewhere that most of the best, most evocative, music is usually in a minor key, representing sadness, lost love, times gone by, and such. Well, that first post may have a minor key element to it, I am not so sure, so I will leave that judgement to folks who have more expertise than I do. I went looking for a piece of music that had some of the joy. I came up with the following piece. It is definitely in more of a minor key, and a bit wistful at that. But it seemed to generate a similar resonance in me - "Somewhere over the Rainbow" by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgaMsXpQk2g

Next I noticed that a lot of people gravitated to music from the movies. Since I was a child, I have loved movie music. Maybe it is the combination of the music and the visual imagery. One thing is for sure! I loved the soundtracks of the Biblical epics like "King of Kings". I had a similar response to the epic movies of legendary stories like "Ben Hur". I will admit that I was a sucker for musicals of legend and fiction such as "Camelot". Who could not love "Maria" from "West Side Story"? For fear of losing anybody who may actually be following along with this, I will not bore you with any music from those movies but I will ask your indulgence with the following piece. How could somebody like Lee Marvin, who could not sing a lick, evoke such emotion out of this scene?