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Post by Ludders II on Mar 27, 2024 8:00:23 GMT
If you have a taste for different music, or even just soundscapes, or basically anything that's a bit off beaten track; share it here.  Here's a small selection of my favourites, beginning with Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets (1968) Four tracks that make up about 3/4 of Hawkwind's debut album in 1970. The Reason Is - Be Yourself - Paranoia - Seeing It As You Really Are Neptune: The Mystic, from Gustav Holst's: The Planets. I love the whole work, but this final movement takes me somewhere else. Two pieces by György Ligeti, from my favourite film soundtrack, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs & Orchestra. - and: Lux Aeterna. (1965/1966) John Tavener's: Fall and Resurection. The whole thing is just an incredible work. (2000) Finally, a bit of jazz. Troublant Bolero by Django Reinhardt. (1952) |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Mar 27, 2024 9:30:50 GMT
I dig the creepy and atmospheric stock music Douglas Camfield used in the Blake's 7 episode "Duel." It's crazy how different it sounds from the usual Dudley Simpson music. I remember hunting for this seemingly obscure music back in 2014 but I got nowhere. I'm glad it's all on YouTube now.
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Post by Ludders II on Mar 27, 2024 9:34:02 GMT
I dig the creepy and atmospheric stock music Douglas Camfield used in the Blake's 7 episode "Duel." It's crazy how different it sounds from the usual Dudley Simpson music. I remember hunting for this seemingly obscure music back in 2014 but I got nowhere. I'm glad it's all on YouTube now. I'll have a listen to those later. I almost included Tristam Cary's music for The Daleks. It definitely fits this category. |
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 27, 2024 10:05:27 GMT
Sorry but whenever Jazz is mentioned I can't help but think of this LOL. Julian Barratt incidentally would have made an absolutely sensational Doctor. I can totally see him being a Patrick Troughton type, with a love of Jazz being his thing. Silver Nemesis also had quite a good joke about Jazz's lack of rules, by having the logical Cybermen dismiss it as noise LOL.
Anyway onto my favourite Jazz record. Well to no one's surprise I love Amy Winehouse's first album. It's hard to pick out a favourite song from it, but admittedly in her typical style it's not just a Jazz album, but hip hop, r and b etc, all mixed together.
I think though as far as straight Jazz goes, this is probably my favourite. It's actually an old Jazz instrumental piece from years ago, but she was able to write lyrics that matched it. Pretty incredible accomplishment for a 17 year old!
Obvious choice for me out of the way LOL, I also love Frank Zappa's Jazz album Hot Rats, with my favourite being We Are Not Alone. I've wanted to use this as the theme to a series of mine, and maybe one day I will. It definitely has that otherworldy, offbeat aspect to it.
Rhapsody in Blue is probably my favourite Jazz instrumental however.
As far as classic music goes well my two favourite bits have to be Requiem for a Dream.
Danse Macabre
Honestly this could be my favourite piece of music in general. You can just imagine a stunningly gorgeous dark haired vampire woman, who looks like Anjelica Huston dancing with an evil skeleton in a tux, not knowing if they were in love or damned to be together forever LOL.
Also he may have been an anti semite, (which is quite funny to have him in a list with Amy, who called herself the Jazz Jew) but separating the art from the artist I love this song.
It shows you what a philistine I am that I first heard about this from a silly episode of Lost in Space LOL. I'm like Seinfeld whose knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Meanwhile as far as film themes go, nothing tops Suspiria. I'm actually not that keen on the film sadly. I found it to be confused and jumbled, but this theme is honestly what I'd imagine evil sounding like.
Finally as for experimental, well I guess Voltaire is my man. I discovered him entirely through youtube. His songs have such a crazy, wild, imaginative, and hilarious aspect to them I became an instant fan.
I'd love to go back in time, sing this to some pirates and take some gorgeous in a rough way, 6 foot 7 Pirate girl in my arms and dance with her and we'd then fall in love. She'd have never had time for love before me due to her hard upbringing. Also trying to be taken seriously as a woman in a man's profession, she had to be twice as hard working. Also the fact that everyone was scared of her because she kept killing people and kept their skulls as trophies and turned their spines into swords by coating them in steel, and the fact that she had a pet Shark that followed her everywhere because she was the only life form that matched its insane blood lust put some people off. However our relationship would show everyone she was a soft marshmallowy piglity type of creature.
Other crazy offbeat one off songs I like meanwhile.
I have The Young Ones to thank for introducing me to this. I still picture the close up of Rik Mayall's mouth when I hear those opening lines LOL
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Post by Ludders II on Mar 27, 2024 10:29:52 GMT
It shows you what a philistine I am that I first heard about this from a silly episode of Lost in Space LOL. I'm like Seinfeld whose knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons. Well Lost in Space makes a change from Apocalypse Now.  And as for Bugs Bunny, this is a great Wagnerian parody. |
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 27, 2024 10:36:45 GMT
It shows you what a philistine I am that I first heard about this from a silly episode of Lost in Space LOL. I'm like Seinfeld whose knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons. Well Lost in Space makes a change from Apocalypse Now. And as for Bugs Bunny, this is a great Wagnerian parody. Well to be fair I was about 5 so Lost in Space was more age appropriate haha. That Bugs Bunny cartoon features two things that were a suprisingly common theme in Bugs Bunny cartoons. References to high culture and homoeroticism. |
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Post by Ludders II on Mar 27, 2024 11:27:47 GMT
I dig the creepy and atmospheric stock music Douglas Camfield used in the Blake's 7 episode "Duel." It's crazy how different it sounds from the usual Dudley Simpson music. I remember hunting for this seemingly obscure music back in 2014 but I got nowhere. I'm glad it's all on YouTube now. Those are pretty spooky. I don't usually listen to isolated incidental music, but stuff like this works on its own. They remind me of some of the Amicus film scores for things like The Skull and Dr Terror's House of Horrors, by Elizabeth Lutyens who was also a respected Classical composer and musician. Here is one of her scores for a Sci-Fi 'B' movie called The Earth Dies Screaming, about an alien invasion by robots with a hint of Mondasian Cybermen. Unfortunately the recording quality of these two clips is not great, but you get the idea. Similiarly, here's one by Wilfred Josephs, for a 1977 Peter Cushing movie called The Uncanny. |
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Post by The Yak Emperor on Mar 27, 2024 15:03:17 GMT
Anything by Bach really
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Post by Ludders II on Mar 28, 2024 1:53:09 GMT
I have a fascination with dream like, impressionistic music.
Impressionism had a big influence on jazz as well. For example:
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Post by Ludders II on Apr 6, 2024 10:10:30 GMT
Two favourite Wagner pieces.
The unique ambiance of Debussy
The incomparable Bireli Lagrene.
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Post by Ludders II on Apr 10, 2024 11:40:54 GMT
A bit of Fauré, Wagner, and Errol Garner. (I'm a poet, and I don't know it) |
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Post by UncleDeadly on Apr 10, 2024 11:46:47 GMT
A bit of Wagner, and Errol Garner. (I'm a poet, and I don't know it) "Reasons to be Cheerful, part 3..." |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 10, 2024 15:48:40 GMT
I quite like the jazz elements in John Barry's work.
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 16, 2024 13:45:49 GMT
Just stumbled on this amazing woman. I first found her through a cover she did of the Xena theme (naturally) but her other stuff is brilliant too.
Incidentally the lyrics are in Bulgarian, which is a bit of a random language to put the show in? Why not Greek? Or English LOL.
Either way this is apparently what they are.
The woman rides alone,
(Her) past nearly crushed her,
Meeting the armies of the dark world,
Battling in the name of good.
The sound of horns is coming,
Make way for the battle,
Drums beat at (the) rhythm,
(The) Princess is here.
She doesn't ride alone though? She has an adorable cute, bubbly, gorgeous blonde girl who goes with her everywhere and she sometimes hangs out with Bruce Campbell? I guess it must have been written before they were conceived but they just kept it in because it sounded badass and nobody speaks Bulgarian LOL.
It's funny how a theme that is spoken in a different language to the show its main audience speaks and doesn't really describe the main characters journey, can still fit it perfectly and be awesome and badass.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Apr 16, 2024 20:10:41 GMT
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