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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.167.138
Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 11:39 pm:   

Further to the Ten Albums In Ten Minutes thread I just had to link to this- my favourite track from one of my favourite albums ever.

The piece is 'Je M'En Irai' (I Will Go) from Exaudi Vocem Mean Part I by Dark Sanctuary. For me, just one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfNmgjF53s&feature=related

Anyone else want to share an obscure favourite?
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 11:50 pm:   

Doesn't come more beautiful than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avdHNjOmWBU&feature=related
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.212.69.207
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:00 am:   

Wow, Simon, that's great. I've never heard of them, but I just downloaded that track off Amazon, to put on my MP3 player.

I'm liking the Liszt, too, Gary. I hope that when I finally join the RCMB in the sky, they'll be playing that there.
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.212.69.207
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:02 am:   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2tWVj6lXw

Sorry, guys! :-)
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.145.130
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:05 am:   

Gary's should be on the overrated thread.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.145.130
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:10 am:   

That was an in joke.

Here's my choice tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1l1VGhFFYs
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Nathaniel Tapley (Natt)
Username: Natt

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 89.240.59.35
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:28 am:   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D4LtzZACek&feature=channel

This always makes me quite happy (I prefer other things on the album, but they're not on Youtube).

Does anyone else have Spotify? It's free, and you can make playlists of music to send to people. Like mix tapes.

We could create a RCMB mix tape for writing ghost stories...
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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b)
Username: Simon_b

Registered: 10-2008
Posted From: 86.24.167.138
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:58 am:   

I like that idea, Nat!

Gary, the Liszt is beautiful. I really must listen to more classical stuff.

Here's another little beauty: 'Psalm' by Jan Garbarek.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27iVkOMlmkc
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 01:35 am:   

Nat - yep, good idea - I have a Spotify account, although I'd have to reinstall the client.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 08:58 am:   

The Liszt loses something by being severed from the proceeding movement. It's even more devastating then. Isn't that right, Des? :-)
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 08:59 am:   

This always has me in tears, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPLk5mJ1D4
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.158.59.56
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 09:51 am:   

Yes, that's right, Gary.

Now this is truly beautiful but listen into it before making your mind up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71jgMx0Mxc
Allegri's Miserere
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.209.11.140
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 09:57 am:   

Mine's not that obscure. New Order's Elegia -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVNivk0_3_c
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.21.23.250
Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 12:56 pm:   

My pick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUfYiIBVGk

Just love the man.
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Barbara Roden (Nebuly)
Username: Nebuly

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 216.232.190.19
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 05:57 am:   

Beautiful and haunting piece from Vivaldi's "Gloria in D Major RV 589". If you've seen the Jon Voight/Eric Roberts film RUNAWAY TRAIN, it's the piece played over the final images of Manny on top of the engine: http://tinyurl.com/ylfjh9v

And Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke's "Sacrifice" is gorgeous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JgzdOSYLFo
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 10:21 am:   

Mine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yvwJt40ZWg
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 10:25 am:   

Great choice, Ramsey.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 10:31 am:   

Damn! I see it was meant to be an obscure selection. How about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6MZCJD2GlY

Only a fragment of a longer work, which is even more unnerving at length.
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 10:50 am:   

Wonderful.

I'd say 'obscurity' is relative - and one can fine-tune a choice of 'obscurity' according to whom one is talking. Or is that being 'pretentious'? :-)

Something obscure to me is commonplace to someone else, and vice versa. So no, not pretentious, Id say.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:08 am:   

Des, how do you ever manage to ask for a pound of carrots at your local greengrocers without questioning the polysemic characteristics of the word 'pound'? :-)
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:12 am:   

Des, may I ask you a personal question: is your unique Internet and literary persona - which, in all honesty, I find wonderful - the way you go about your everyday life? Are you known in your community the way we all know you: as a source of tangential insight, etc? Or rather as just some bloke in a pub?

(Hope you don't mind my asking. And sorry, Ramsey, for changing the subject of the thread. I'm just dead curious. :-))
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:13 am:   

Pound = pound weight or pound money?
Carrots = vegetables or gold?(if the shopkeeper can't spell).
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:14 am:   

Bloke in the pub.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:24 am:   

The shopkeeper can't punctuate. He's a greengrocer, after all.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:28 am:   

Speaking of grocers, this is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRsvJwfLhfY
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 91.110.200.165
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:52 am:   

Not so obscure but breathtaking: Gram Parsons' 'Return of the Grievous Angel'. Emmylou Harris' backing vocals add to the ghostly effect of this old-before-its-time song of travelling, mystery and grief. This song virtually created the 'alternative country' genre.
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer

Registered: 08-2009
Posted From: 90.195.182.241
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 03:32 pm:   

Some amazing stuff here, thanks folks. I've just been using them as a writing soundtrack.
Except Rick and Russ obviously. Arrgh, my ears, my eyes!

My all-time fave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj_vTRVdUCI&feature=fvw
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.21.235.100
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 04:52 pm:   

Someone here once mentioned some really fiery pieces by Liszt. Does anyone remember what they were and where they can be found on YouTube?
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.0.114.254
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 05:09 pm:   

Try this for sustained and profound brilliance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j54ElhwXPys

If it's just the fireworks you're after, however:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjiIlc5VRI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kv6v8Boh94&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo36WA5MPLE
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Nathaniel Tapley (Natt)
Username: Natt

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 89.240.59.35
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:07 pm:   

This will always make me smile a large smile and wonder why so few people have heard of him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE-BKrAAZGc
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 11:20 pm:   

He was great, Nat - I recall him on Bernard Braden's show many years ago.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 08:57 am:   

But if we want to get a little stranger...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZYxRWk_piw
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 09:22 am:   

I'd follow that up with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS61PESUWY
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 09:58 am:   

Ivor Cutler was amazing - never got to see him live but I have six LPs worth of his performances.

"At the bend in the river;
that's where the blind men fall in"!
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Des (Des)
Username: Des

Registered: 06-2008
Posted From: 86.159.146.233
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 11:51 am:   

For me, these are beautiful inasmuch as they are the most devastating music:

Last movement of 'Song of the Earth' by Mahler (the link is just to Part 1 of that seemingly endless last movement):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hCCTRYcz0

Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBVYhyXU8o
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.21.235.100
Posted on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 10:44 pm:   

Great, Gary. Thanks!
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 09:42 am:   

Absolutely, Des - the Mahler in particular. The version with Kathleen Ferrier has an extra poignancy because of her condition at the time, does it not?

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