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10-18-2020, 09:44 PM
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10-19-2020, 01:40 AM
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Jayne, if you find your husband's alphabetical order for CDs is too much trouble, you would go mad in my flat, where the CDs are stored in chronological order of the composer's birth.
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10-19-2020, 04:01 PM
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Brian, you need to get out more, my friend!
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10-19-2020, 06:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Allgar
Jayne, if you find your husband's alphabetical order for CDs is too much trouble, you would go mad in my flat, where the CDs are stored in chronological order of the composer's birth.
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What about CDs that feature the work of more than one composer?
I've never found a logical way to arrange classical records--a problem for an anal retentive like me.
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10-20-2020, 02:26 AM
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Max, if the collection has a predominant composer, that's where it goes. If not, it goes at the end of the last shelf, but I don't have many CDs like that.
And alphabetical order would be insane: Brahms, Britten, Bruch, Buxtehude ...
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10-21-2020, 02:42 AM
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I prefer the lyrics of "End of the Line" to the lyrics of most other upbeat songs about death. Probably because they are about large-scale death and suffering and terror.
A few examples:
"When the Saints Go Marching In" (Louis Armstrong thoughtfully leaves out the more disturbing verses of apocalyptic mayhem)
"Bad Moon Rising" (Creedence Clearwater Revivals leaves them in),
The Kingston Trio's "The Merry Minuet,"
R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World,"
Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around,"
etc., etc.
Cheerful toe-tappers all.
(I also love the cover of Bob Dylan's apocalyptic "Ring them Bells" by someone who appeared in a video earlier in this thread.)
To give up hope--instead of raging against the dying of the light--can be awfully liberating and joyful. That's why it can be tempting to quit hoping that things can improve. I get very nervous when people's approach to dealing with big societal, economic, and environmental problems seems to be based on the expectation that the end of the world will come soon, and that will make it unnecessary to do the hard work of dealing with the messes we're in, personally and communally.
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10-21-2020, 06:08 AM
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My hackles are always raised when someone says one band is "better" than another, as if art and personal preference weren't largely subjective...
Not to make you feel old, Jayne, but I grew up with the Wilburys blasting in my family's car tape deck.
Music's a big thing for me, and I listen to a lot of newer, heavier stuff these days, but a trio of songs that I listen to to either cheer me up, or stoke the melancholy...
Bob Seger - "No Man's Land"
Kate Bush - "Rocket's Tail"
Sixteen Horsepower - "Outlaw Song"
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10-21-2020, 06:43 AM
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Returning to the original mission of finding songs that cheer you up, here's one that usually does the trick. John Prine and Iris DeMent doing his song, In Spite of Ourselves.
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10-21-2020, 12:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Julie Steiner
I prefer the lyrics of "End of the Line" to the lyrics of most other upbeat songs about death.
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I don't see how "End of the Line" is about death--or anything at all. Maybe I'll suddenly understand it when somebody plays "Purple Haze."
It's fun to listen to. I understand why it would cheer you up, Jayne.
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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
Returning to the original mission of finding songs that cheer you up,
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Oh, okay. Here's a batch of the first that come to mind:
" Ahead of the Game"
Vivaldi's Concerto for Mandolin
" Bus Stop"
" Breaking Down the Barriers"
Loved the REM video, by the way. Thanks for that, Bob.
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