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aussie Sparks Guru
Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 2280 Location: Melbourne Australia
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:13 am Post subject: |
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10.45pm Paynesville Victoria
after a lot of beers and looking through my old music collection, I found a cassette of Van Morrison Avalon Sunset
1989 and yes my music box still plays cassettes, it's a fantastic Cassette and the 1st song with Cliff Richard sets the tone for a great CD Oh sorry a cassette. 9 out 10 _________________ -------------------
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Crabby Certified Fan
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 72 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Van Morrison and Cliff Richard? That's a combination! I love Van singing "Cleaning Windows"
I'm listening to quite a bit of Aretha Franklin at the minute but also have just finished playing John Adams "Nixon in China"..... (does this thread have to be pop music only? If so apologies but this opera is a cracker and weirdly enough some of the repetitive passages reminded me of parts of "Annette") |
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miss sparks Sparks Guru
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 20612 Location: England
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Kingdom - Dave Gahan 10/10 |
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deadcalm Sparks Guru
Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 2771 Location: Kidderminster West Mids UK
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Topical song ,
Northern Lights - Renaissance 10-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI01yagcfnc
Annie was hooked up with Roy Wood around then and he had some input when the band said it might be selling out to try and write a hit single. I think he rubbished that idea. _________________ I Think that went very Well |
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SteveBoyce Sub-Deity
Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Posts: 757
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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Crabby wrote: | Van Morrison and Cliff Richard? That's a combination! I love Van singing "Cleaning Windows"
I'm listening to quite a bit of Aretha Franklin at the minute but also have just finished playing John Adams "Nixon in China"..... (does this thread have to be pop music only? If so apologies but this opera is a cracker and weirdly enough some of the repetitive passages reminded me of parts of "Annette") |
Ron has spoken several times of the influence Nixon in China had on him |
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Crabby Certified Fan
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 72 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 6:58 pm Post subject: Jas |
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Has he?? Ha ha Ron is obviously a man of great taste!
John Adams is wonderful and funny.... His piece "A short ride in a fast machine" is a blast! ". I can imagine Ron would love that ( and Russell too, we shouldn't leave him out of the equation!) |
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Crabby Certified Fan
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 72 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Listening to Idles... "Tangk"
I didn't know what to expect but it's exactly what l expected.... Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, but l'm "dancing" round my ironing board to it so it must be OK! |
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Oscar Power Groupie
Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 415
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Ron and Russell have also mentioned another John Adams opera, The Death of Kinghoffer, as being an influence on them.
An album of one of his more recent operas, Girls of the Golden West, has just been released, and it reminds me of Sparks in places, probably even more than those other two operas. Just something about the repetition of certain phrases. Nixon in China is easily my favorite though.
I'm a big fan of John Adams in general (not just the operas) and I owe it all to hearing about him from Sparks. |
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Crabby Certified Fan
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 72 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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I'm trying to gather up some more John Adams stuff but every now and again when l need a boost (apart from Sparks) l listen to "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" l love it!! |
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