What are you listening to?

This is my favourite Paul Young track:

Don't forget Paul Young's first hit - a love song about toast:

Ever have a tune going round your head but can't remember what the whole song is? Glad I found this one (after a shaky false start with Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin).

[Laird]

Ever have a tune going round your head but can't remember what the whole song is?

Yes, thank goodness for Google and lyrics sites, huh?

[Pollux]

Rest in Peace, Fats Domino...







Fats Domino was great.
Phil Lynnot wrote a song about him..or at least I think it was fats Dominio..it might have been Fats Waller.
Nevertheless, they were two great jazz pianists..


Thin Lizzy - Fats
Check out Fats, he's a real cool cat
He's got a black and white tux with lots of class
He says, "I love that jazz. I love that razz-ma-tazz. I love to swing."
"I just go crazy when you give me room to do my thing." that's Fats

Yes, thank goodness for Google and lyrics sites, huh?

Except when you can only remember the tune. I can remember watching the film Caspar Hauser and having the theme tune go round in my head for years without being able to find out what it was -- Pachelbel's cannon -- this was years before the Internet when I might have found it by Googling Caspar Hauser. A similar thing when I once heard Eric Clapton's Change the world. Is there a program where you can hum a bit of a tune and have your computer find likely matches, I wonder?

Ever have a tune going round your head but can't remember what the whole song is? Glad I found this one (after a shaky false start with Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin).

One of my favourite tunes, Typoz. Not so much for the singing as the piano. This was the theme tune for the BBC's Film programme presented by Barry Norman:

[Laird]

Is there a program where you can hum a bit of a tune and have your computer find likely matches, I wonder?

Yep, years ago I tried one on the web but didn't find what I was looking for. Not sure how much they've advanced since then (not that the one I used was at the time necessarily "unadvanced" - the song was potentially rare and not in the database). Anyhow, Google turns up a few: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=searc...mming+tune

I don't generally go in for spooky pieces (unlike many of you, lol), but the Faust Cantata by Schnittke is one exception for me:





Translation:

That night at midnight a great wind blew up
As if it wanted to destroy Faust's home and obliterate everything.
Upstairs the desperate students leapt out of their beds
They heard dreadful noises as if the house were full of snakes and other terrible worms
Faustus cried, "Help!" and "Murder!" but soon his voice died away.
When it was light the students went into his room:
The room was spattered in blood
His brain clung to the wall
The devil had thrown him all about
Eyes and teeth were scattered around
It was a gruesome and grisly sight!
They found his body on a dunghill
It was still twitching.

[Pollux]

I love these "feminists" in this band. They don't whine, bitch, and scream; "tear the patriarchy down"
Instead, they go out and; `deliver´,... and do it on their own merit,... talent...., and artistry - and suffer no fools.
This girl on the drums is pretty exceptional. For you whom just "stray-listening" it might just sound like everyone-elsed on the drums... but its not...and the solo-guitarist on the right, at the end....Top-class....

And, yeah, the production of this song is awesome. Every-time I hear it I have to put the volume down because its high....but then raise it to the max.....



Exceptionally good production....