What are you listening to right now?

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:47 pm

Ooh, I smell a thread coming on...

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:14 am

Any of our Scandinavian posters familiar with the Norwegian band Madrugada? A friend shared some MP3s with me and I was quite impressed.

http://www.emi.no/madrugada/

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:25 am

making my list, and checking it twice.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:24 am

Well, I finally found an English version of that song I was trying to translate from German, Von Hier An Blind. Turns out the group Wir sind Helden recorded it in English, French and Japanese as well. You can catch the video here.

http://www.emiextranet.com/Stream/6497/54011.ram

It's in the style of The Adventures of Tintin (originally Les Aventures de Tintin), drawn and written by the Belgian writer-artist Georges Remi, a.k.a. Hergé.

Many thanks to shatterproof for trying to help me with the lyrics. Although I must admit that according to the work she and I had done, this English version is not entirely a direct translation but has been made to work with the English language. Still very nice, but I think I still prefer the German version oddly enough.

verena · Post by **verena** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:48 am

Thanks for providing the "solution", I was interested. Had wanted to help you but had to give up.

The original version was easy to understand (German was my first foreign language), but litteral translation wouldn't work. The English song sounds like an adaptation. It's nice.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:34 pm

I gave up after about two minutes, embarrassingly enough. Glad you found an English version!

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:37 pm

No problem, MBA. Just because you have streets in Munich named after you doesn't mean you have to be fluent in German.

And it won't affect your care package being sent. I just have to get my shit together. Hang on down there in South America!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:48 pm

Spooky Gee, I'm kind of disturbed by the smileys in your siggy. I always thought smileys were spherical! It's freaking me out, man!

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:53 pm

It's just that our kids our with our ex's until Christmas and it's rather indicative of what Doc and I are doing until they come back. We're going to a champagne tasting tonight.

It's pretty fun, wrapping presents while you're drinking.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 3:29 pm

verena · Post by **verena** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:17 pm

About Gainsbourg, WWS. He may have had perverse thoughts and fantasms that transpired in his work, but he was a shy, modest, and very decent man.
I think that the core of him was not perversity but despair. In particular, he always thought of himself as a failure, whatever his huge success, because he considered what he did (song writing/music/singing) to be meaningless as compared to "major art". Why did he have to stick to old conventions, I don't know.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:43 pm

Now there's a surprise. They're playing Cambridge on a Feb tour, and I'll be in Dublin! Might have to go to see them at the Astoria in London the next week, though I'll probably be in Italy that week! Damn, once wasn't enough.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:02 am

Sorry to hear you'll miss 'em. Right now I'm listening to:

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:07 am

I Believe in Father Christmas, by Emerson, Lake & Palmer seems to be the only christmas song I can't get enough of right now.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:16 am

it was 14 degrees this morning. I'm thinking sunny warm thoughts, and searching for that large shaker of salt.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:50 am

One of the more recent albums by the magestic, underrated jazz vocalist Helen Merrill:

Her old Emarcy collaboration with Clifford Brown is one of the great jazz vocal albums of the '50s, along with the equally wonderful Brownie/Sarah Vaughan album:

verena · Post by **verena** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:28 pm

Old country music. I bought a 4 CD "ballads" compilation that has one song I am crazy for, I don't know if it's famous :

"Desperados waiting for a train" - Highwayman.

Bad Ambassador · Post by **Bad Ambassador** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:31 pm

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:29 pm

verena wrote:Old country music. I bought a 4 CD "ballads" compilation that has one song I am crazy for, I don't know if it's famous :

"Desperados waiting for a train" - Highwayman.

Yeah, that's a pretty famous song written by Guy Clark. Lots of people have covered that one, including David Allen Coe, but The Highwaymen version is by far the most famous. Being the sort of prick that I am, I still prefer Guy Clark's own, rough-hewed original.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:44 pm

A Rude 5 MLAR tour rehearsals CD incredible Pole sent me. I love it and wish I could share it on dime but I don't know how. Great versions of Invasion Hit Parade, So Like Candy, The Other Side Of Summer, Hidden Shame, Suit Of Lights & a faster, poppier Home Is Where You Hang Your Head, among others.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:20 am

that kind of morning.

wake up and play, peeps! If I have to work today, somebody is going to keep me company...

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:52 am

A gallon of coke later, and I feel just a little perkier.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:55 am

I was feeling adventurous this morning, so I've been listening to napster's top 99 for 2005, hearing all the stuff I'd heard about but never heard, lots that were way below my radar (which is set on soccer mom/worker bee, remember) and 3 or 4 that I had.

I might have a cherry coke with lunch. Or maybe I'll put dijon on my ham sandwich, instead of french's. The possibilities are endless!

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:24 am

Live it to the max!

So who did you hear that you liked?

And who is Jack Johnson, anyway? The HMV shop here was virtually a shrine to him this week.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:17 pm

BANG! goes another Kanga on the bonnet of the van.

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What are you listening to right now?

too freaking cold!