The SUBSIM Music Thread Pt2

[Eisenwurst]

Catching a late flight at the airport....and everybody going "flash mob"......yep, happens all the time.

[Jimbuna]

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[Gerald]

Thanks for the music RIP

[Commander Wallace]

Live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Joe Bonamassa

[Moonlight]

[Jimbuna]

[Eisenwurst]

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[Eisenwurst]

[Skybird]

[ET2SN]

[Jimbuna]

[vienna]

Originally Posted by vienna

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There is another version of Out Of Time that was done with a lavish string and horn backing arrangement (mainly as a backing track for a cover done by Chris Farlowe), but Jagger and Richards much preferred the more striped down version; Brian Jones plays marimba on the cut...

...and, since this YT clip was posted, when I hear that song, my mind immediately goes to Margot Robbie dancing along to the record; a vision of beauty...

...and this is the clip I was referring to...





...interesting thing: I thought I had finished posting the clip, but I was wrong; it seems some idiot who disagreed with the ban against smoking in the library decided to sneak off to some secluded nook to satisfy his/her insatiable oral fixation, causing the smoke alarm to go off; the library was promptly evacuated, sine, at the time the staff didn't know of the source of the smoke, and, in the rush, I closed out the post before I hurried to gather my laptop and belongings not realizing I had failed to finish the post properly...


Just last Sunday, Billie Eilish received her second Bets Song Academy Award (Oscar) for her song What Was I Made for? from the Barbie motion picture soundtrack; this is all the more impressive because she is only 22 years old and beat out an impressive group of competitors; add the Oscars to the nine Grammys she has already won for her work and there is little doubt she is well on her way to the Holy Grail of an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards); all she really needs is one big TV special and a Broadway musical and she's one of the lucky very few...







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[vienna]

...I posted the above clip because I happened upon this interesting clip about the song...





I find the reference to McCartney calling the sheet music (probably written out by the Beatles' produce George Martin) "the dots" interesting; none of the Beatles could read or write sheet music, depending on Martin or some other person to write out the scores for any accompanying session musician they might be using; it is truly remarkable how much great music and how many great song were produced by musicians who were unable to express their compositions in written for, something that is often seen, by the musical establishment, as a prime standard by which to judge musical excellence; and, yet, the list of songwriters whose compositions have been acclaimed as masterpieces of the songwriters art and who can't read written music is long and impressive; just a few: Dylan, Prince, all the Beatles, Jagger/Richards, Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Taylor Swift, Dave Brubeck, and, surprisingly, Irving Berlin (not only could he not read music. he also could only play the piano in one key, F#), who is perhaps best known, among all his other great works, as the composer of God Bless America...

McCartney once dabbled into the realm of classical music, composing the Liverpool Oratorio, with the assistance of a trained arranger to write out the score for Macca; the arranger said in an interview he offered to teach Paul how to read and write scores, but, after a brief initial period, Paul stopped the arranger from teaching him, giving as a reason that he feared, if he did learn formal notation and its strictures, he would lose the ability to freely and uninfluenced seek out music that was 'outside the norm box'; considering how so much of McCartney's song output cleaves to sort of conventional songwriting styles and genres, he may have wanted to stay much further away from the "dots"...

The seismic shift The Beatles caused in popular music, changing it from a very record company/Tin Pan Alley top down approach to a more 'from the streets' genesis is cleverly encapsulated in this clip from the film Across The Universe; the scene is from the opening sequence where the more American 'factory made' style of pop music is juxtaposed against the rawer 'kids are alright' power of the coming invasion...







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