What 🎶music are you listening to at this moment?

[CirdanLinweilin]

This English Folk Song

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[Bogfire]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

And some from Eirini Papadopoulou:

 

[Olorgando]

And some from Eirini Papadopoulou:

Looking at your fandom of Kpop and Greek music, you seem to have a liking for music with lyrics you don't understand! (Or do you???)
Mind you, this can happen in Germany even when a band nominally has lyrics in German.
They're just not in High German, but in a dialect.
The best-known and most successful German band on whom this label fits is called Bap (or BAP? Hey, there's an English Wikipedia article on them, BAP!).
They started off over 40 years ago, releasing their first album exactly 40 years this year (I have all of the early albums), and have some of German rock's "anthems" to their credit.
"Verdamp lang her" is one of them, the best-known one.
By now, basically only band founder Wolfgang Niedecken remains of the founding members, or long-term members for that.
I remember a German Talkshow with Niedecken and some other luminaries of German media in which one of them said "songs can be great even if you don't understand the words …"

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Oh, I've posted some German stuff too -- though mostly on the Music for Middle Earth thread.

Sort-of-speaking-of-which, I can't let the day pass without marking a big anniversary for Germany -- though I still find it a bit surprising that the anthem for the event turned out to be by this guy:

 

[Olorgando]

Oh, I've posted some German stuff too -- though mostly on the Music for Middle Earth thread.

Sort-of-speaking-of-which, I can't let the day pass without marking a big anniversary for Germany -- though I still find it a bit surprising that the anthem for the event turned out to be by this guy:

Well, he had a spot of good luck in releasing the "Looking For Freedom" Album less than half a year before the Berlin Wall fell. And as a solo performer, it was much easier for him to be on the spot at the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve 1989. I remember the Scorpions' megahit "Winds Of Change" also being an anthem of the times, but Wikipedia points out that the album it was on only appeared almost exactly a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and so post-reunification on 03 October 1990.

Ah, but that article also releases a bee in my bonnet about a performance of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in Berlin. Wikipedia:
"The Wall – Live in Berlin was a live concert performance by Roger Waters and numerous guest artists, of the Pink Floyd studio album The Wall, itself largely written by Waters during his time with the band. The show was held in Berlin on 21 July 1990, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. A live album of the concert was released 21 August 1990. A video of the concert was also commercially released." The Scorpions were among the guest artists; hoo boy, that lineup of guest artists makes this concert look like a legit successor to the legendary Woodstock!

 

[Aldarion]

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

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[Inziladun]

 

[Olorgando]

Next try at a link. This is HARD rock. Procol Harum with Robin Trower ripping the strings.

And as usual, without Squint-eyed Southerner's constant nagging, you would be spared this. His fault, as I mentioned (maybe) in my first post containing a link.
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[Inziladun]

Next try at a link. This is HARD rock. Procol Harum with Robin Trower ripping the strings.

And as usual, without Squint-eyed Southerner's constant nagging, you would be spared this. His fault, as I mentioned (maybe) in my first post containing a link.
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

that riff is groovy as hell

 

[Olorgando]

Oh, wth, I'll just bombard you with two more of my favorite, definitely non-ballads ...

Rufus featuring (the young) Chaka Khan (1974 "Rags to Rufus" album). That guitar just sears!

Roger Chapman

1988 live performance somewhere in Germany where Chappo definitely holds no punches ...

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[Olorgando]

that riff is groovy as hell

I think I may have mentioned it elsewhere.
My trinity of monster intro riffs (not all guitar) was "Satisfaction", "Sunshine" and "Smoke".
Since my first slack-jawed hearing of "Whiskey Train" I have enlarged it to a quadriga …

 

[Olorgando]

that riff is groovy as hell

I think I may have mentioned it elsewhere.
My trinity of monster intro riffs (not all guitar) was "Satisfaction", "Sunshine" and "Smoke".
Since my first slack-jawed hearing of "Whiskey Train" I have enlarged it to a quadriga …

*dazed silence while the ears are shredded* Jimi … Purple Haze … quint-something … *headbang*

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Well, since we're in a nostalgia fest:

And that reminds me -- that came out shortly after I first read TH and LOTR. A seeming coincidence, but I think not. Surely Tolkien influenced Side 2?

 

[Inziladun]

heaviest folk song in the world

 

[Miguel]

I am the lovely lemon tree 🌳

 

[Aldarion]

Two Steps From Hell and assorted pseudo-classical music:

Always nice to remind myself that not all new music is garbage.

 

[Olorgando]

I am the lovely lemon tree 🌳

We have double LPs "The most beautiful songs of Peter Paul and Mary" from 1972, which my wife and I bought separately long before we met; awesome stuff! 😃
I just have one horrible memory about one song.
A buddy of mine, big fan of theirs (but severely hard of hearing since childhood), asked me to write down the lyrics (possibly hard to get in Germany well over 40 years ago) from his tape recordings (may even have been a big reel machine, not a cassette thingy).
A bit fiddly, with lots of re-windings.
Then disaster struck.
"Norman Normal".

I may not have recovered from that trauma to this day …

 

[Olorgando]

Two Steps From Hell and assorted pseudo-classical music:
Always nice to remind myself that not all new music is garbage.

Aldarion, I appreciate you post. I listened to a couple of minutes of the beginning - and the same at the end; But when I noticed that the running time was about that of the first two cinematic LoTR films and basically all of the cinematic TH films ...
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