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Post by jk on Jan 25, 2022 5:28:09 GMT -5
Storms are mostly to be found in "classical" orchestral works, although pop has a few to show. "Electrical Storm" was the favourite U2 track of my late pen pal, whose birthday it is tomorrow so this is for her (I shall concentrate on "classical" storms in future and leave the pop variety to others): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_Storm_(song)
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Post by sneakypete77 on Jan 26, 2022 4:18:36 GMT -5
John, does this thread need to have "Storm" in the music's title, or do we have free rein (no pun intended) to include spectacular stuff like this from my mis-spent childhood?:
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Post by jk on Jan 26, 2022 6:06:59 GMT -5
John, does this thread need to have "Storm" in the music's title, or do we have free rein (no pun intended) to include spectacular stuff like this from my mis-spent childhood?:
[The Move's "Flowers In The Rain"] Peter, you have free rein, haha, to post anything rain-, wind- and/or storm-related. So, for example, The Hollies' "Bus Stop" would be quite acceptable. Nice choice there -- I remember it well from my own misspent youth.
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Post by sneakypete77 on Jan 26, 2022 9:00:49 GMT -5
Cheers John, I was thinking more like songs with stormy sound effects such as that Move classic, but if anything goes then you can't get much more shithead-mental badass than this :
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Post by jk on Jan 26, 2022 13:16:58 GMT -5
Oops, I forgot a key ingredient of storms, particularly storms up north, and that's snow. Blizzards do occur in classical music, perhaps the most famous example being Tapiola, the last major orchestral work by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and the work many consider to be his masterpiece. It's brief enough to listen to from start to finish -- the blizzard section announces itself in due course. Eduard van Beinum conducts the Dutch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in this recording from 1954, the one I've owned (on LP) since the winter of '64/'65: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapiola_(Sibelius)
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Post by sneakypete77 on Jan 27, 2022 9:56:00 GMT -5
Sorry John, but I’m a complete philistine when it comes to appreciating classical music, it just goes way over my head much like a scudding storm cloud. Anyhoo, I’ll stick with more familiar material and suggest this little ditty that briefly flirted with the UK Top 10 in 1972. It would appear that fortune didn’t really shine on these guys as sadly every member of the band that recorded this seems to have since passed away, along with the songwriter, the supremely talented and beautiful Lynsey de Paul:
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Post by jk on Jan 28, 2022 6:07:00 GMT -5
Back in the '60s I ordered and bought through the mail a 1961 (?) rendition of Tchaikovsky's turbulent Manfred Symphony, one of my favourite works of his. Side four of this sleeveless (plastic-only) two-LP set by The USSR State Symphony under Natan Rakhlin was given over to a work simply labelled "Storm". Officially translated as The Tempest (op. 18), this "fantasy overture" fascinated me as a teenager -- I even felt compelled to compose a few bars in the style of the expansive opening. Instead of Rakhlin's version (also on YouTube), I've chose to link a much more recent rendition by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado, mainly because it includes the score, which I'm seeing today for the first time! I'll be linking more music inspired by Shakespeare's famous play in due course. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest_(Tchaikovsky)
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Post by jk on Jan 31, 2022 8:45:24 GMT -5
This 1966 rendition of Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony by Rudolf Kempe and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was the last classical LP I bought in the '60s. I'd bought some great Tamla Motown comps before then, but it was only in 1967 that I hit the pop LP trail with a vengeance, beginning with (you've guessed it!) Pet Sounds. All of 50 minutes long, this epic tone poem is in a single sweep, meaning there was no satisfactory place at which to end side one. So they ended it with the climactic chord in "On the Summit" and started side two with the same chord! The two sides of the LP (below) can also be found on YouTube. The storm itself starts at about 33:30. Note the use of a thunder machine and a wind machine in what is an outsize orchestra by any standards: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Alpine_Symphony
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Post by jk on Feb 8, 2022 7:58:43 GMT -5
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Post by sneakypete77 on Feb 8, 2022 15:30:47 GMT -5
Perhaps he should really have stuck to acting, but this was still a fair effort, and a nifty little Beach Boys connection too:
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Post by Will/P.P. on Feb 8, 2022 16:05:44 GMT -5
something went wrong. will try again latter. must be that storm around here that won't go away...
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Post by Will/P.P. on Feb 8, 2022 16:39:01 GMT -5
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Post by Will/P.P. on Feb 8, 2022 16:44:46 GMT -5
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Post by Will/P.P. on Feb 8, 2022 16:50:30 GMT -5
That "Thunder Road" clip made me want to hear some Country. Sam and Jesca to the rescue.
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Post by Will/P.P. on Feb 8, 2022 17:20:12 GMT -5
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Post by Will/P.P. on Feb 8, 2022 17:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by sneakypete77 on Feb 9, 2022 5:46:24 GMT -5
Bloody hell Will, you don't do half measures, that's for sure.
The Left Banke were always a class act, and the thing that is burned into my memory is that the guy who sang lead on the original Walk Away Renee looked like he was about 12.
Classic IV are new to me, I like what I hear and I'll do a bit of delving at some point, thanks for that.
The one I'm really excited about is Terence Boylan. Never heard of him, but from the song you chose it's abundantly clear that his liaison with Becker and Fagan has paid good dividends, their inspiration is all over this. Must do some digging on this fella.
My contribution today harks back to the time I took my sweet Julia to the office Christmas disco in 1977. She was a wonderful dancer, but in a disco I was about as useful as a fart in a bottle, and the memories of my abysmal efforts are strictly on a need to know basis. Anyhoo, this had just been a modest hit on the UK chart, so of course she coerced me out of a comfy seat for the occasion:
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Post by sneakypete77 on Feb 9, 2022 6:04:12 GMT -5
John, as a pinhead when trying to appreciate the finer points of classical music, I have to say that I really did enjoy An Alpine Symphony. The slow build up was a little sinister to my uneducated ears, and from about 2.04 on I thought it shifted into something vaguely Wagnerian for a short while, Valkyries not quite riding but maybe doing their pre-flight checks (did I mention that I'm an idiot when it comes to stuff like this?).
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Post by jk on Feb 9, 2022 8:54:08 GMT -5
John, as a pinhead when trying to appreciate the finer points of classical music, I have to say that I really did enjoy An Alpine Symphony. The slow build up was a little sinister to my uneducated ears, and from about 2.04 on I thought it shifted into something vaguely Wagnerian for a short while, Valkyries not quite riding but maybe doing their pre-flight checks (did I mention that I'm an idiot when it comes to stuff like this?). I'm glad you enjoyed it, Peter. It's not about being educated, you know -- it's all about liking what you hear. Interesting point you make about the Wagner connection. There's a definite similarity here in the use of the brass. The leisurely pace helps. That said, one's less likely to come across such moments in Strauss's music. So you see, your ears are educated after all!
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Post by sneakypete77 on Feb 9, 2022 13:38:54 GMT -5
Snow Patrol made a brave move outside of their comfort zone in 2008 and decided to go just a little bit prog with a sprawling sixteen minute suite comprising three songs, of which this is the first. The way in which the tune builds to a stormy crescendo (that is, to these freshly educated ears – cheers John ) is mightily impressive. One thing about it has always bugged me though; it sounds eerily like one of my favourite songs of all time by a hero of mine, the awesome Stone Roses front man Ian Brown, from 2001. And for no particular reason than I can think of, other than I love the video too, it’s also included here:
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Post by jk on Feb 10, 2022 16:03:27 GMT -5
Snow Patrol made a brave move outside of their comfort zone in 2008 and decided to go just a little bit prog with a sprawling sixteen minute suite comprising three songs, of which this is the first. The way in which the tune builds to a stormy crescendo (that is, to these freshly educated ears – cheers John ) is mightily impressive. One thing about it has always bugged me though; it sounds eerily like one of my favourite songs of all time by a hero of mine, the awesome Stone Roses front man Ian Brown, from 2001. And for no particular reason that I can think of, other than I love the video too, it’s also included here:
I confess I'm not familiar with Ian's solo work, though this is rather nice. I know and love the Roses' self-titled debut, which I bought and heard a quarter of a century after it was released. And for no particular reason that I can think of either, here's my favourite track from it, "(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister)":
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Post by jk on Feb 12, 2022 6:23:15 GMT -5
The most famous thunderstorm in "classical" music is the one portrayed in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. I heard this for the first time as a child at a concert I attended with my father and it made a big impression on me. In this rendition by Karl Böhm conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker it is followed by the fifth and final movement, subtitled (by its composer) "Shepherd's song. Cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._6_(Beethoven)
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Post by Al S on Feb 18, 2022 0:20:26 GMT -5
Brisbane’s finest:
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Post by Al S on Feb 18, 2022 4:04:03 GMT -5
I’m gobsmacked that neither Sneaks nor jk has offered this, such polite fellows:
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Post by jk on Feb 18, 2022 4:28:41 GMT -5
I’m gobsmacked that neither Sneaks nor jk has offered this, such polite fellows: Relax, A. I can't speak for "Sneaks" but I'm more into musical thunderstorms and blizzards myself. Maybe I 'll move onto rain pure and simple when I run out of those. Really appreciate your input. That Go-Betweens song is super!
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