The Shred Room II (with extra youth)

Definitely looking forward to later in the year.  

James wrote: Edit: play some Klaus Schulze, that'll make you sleep.

Not if it's Rheingold. Half of the music is excellent - and pumps adrenaline in me big time.

Timewind is a good, natural sleeping pill - I'll agree to that. But only because it's great ambient stuff - that is, it has the full qualities of "ambiance", without being baby whales music.

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Another 10 in exams today.

Ricochet wrote: James wrote: Edit: play some Klaus Schulze, that'll make you sleep. Not if it's Rheingold. Half of the music is excellent - and pumps adrenaline in me big time. Timewind is a good, natural sleeping pill - I'll agree to that. But only because it's great ambient stuff - that is, it has the full qualities of "ambiance", without being baby whales music. --- Another 10 in exams today.

Way to go Rico! 

I've heard some Chopin on radio recently and really enjoyed it.  However his works do sound a bit like Liszt's Hungarian pieces sometimes... which is good, of course.

Any suggestions as to where to start with Chopin?

*sigh*

The track is called "Alife" not "Alifie" (an anagram of Wyatt's wife Alfie)

Why do people always get that wrong? (not blaming you, Pat, but Gracenote always gets it wrong when I play my CD copy of Rock Bottom)

It annoys me so much!

I never expect track names to be correct and I check all albums I play before they get registered on last.fm.

That includes English titles.

I was very surprised that In the Court of the Crimson King was registered correctly with Gracenote the other day.  I was expecting it to use the short titles, rather than the official lengthier ones.

Oh you have it on CD?  That explains it then.  Gracenote and other similar track search thingamebobs always get the track titles wrong on Rock Bottom.

I'm anally retentive when it comes to my track titles registering on last.fm correctly.

Last.fm say that they are working on a solution to allow you to edit tracks or artists played, but I'll be shocked if it ever happens.  I have a few artists that are in under 2 different names that I would like to combine.  Vanden Plas is also in as The Vanden Plas; A.C.T are also in as A.C.T. or C/A/T.  I know that there are a couple of others too where the CD came up with a mistyped artist name.

I have that problem with Univers Zero and Univers Zéro.

I want to use the latter but when i first started using last.fm I used the former.  Now I have two separate artist entries.

James wrote: I've heard some Chopin on radio recently and really enjoyed it.  However his works do sound a bit like Liszt's Hungarian pieces sometimes... which is good, of course. Any suggestions as to where to start with Chopin?

 

NaturalScience wrote: I think I have Piano Concertos No. 1 and 2, as well as some Etudes.  Some very nice stuff indeed, I would like recommendations from Rico or someone knowledgeable as to other compositions I should check out.

Hmm...the spicy Hungarian dances and the Polish dances are usually a different breed. And Chopin is quite different from Liszt, too. The "bohemian" vs "the madman" ... "the saloon gentleman" vs "the concerto furioso"...quite tricky to call them the same.

The 2nd Piano Concerto is one of my favorite, Pat, so that's a hot recommendation there (of course, the recommendation is to get more than just one interpretation).

The Preludes and Polonaises, as a whole, are also worth listening to.

To evade out of simple danses into more...absorbing Chopin masterliness: the Fantasy, the Rondos.


Edited by Ricochet - January 21 2009 at 10:57

I'm really contemplating a proposed split of the RIO/Avant sub.  Would you be in favor of this in a general sense, James?  I'd really like to see the RIO movement highlighted more prominently.