Today I will mostly be listening to ....

Briston_Addick said:

Anna_Kissed said:

Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 - Ralph Vaughan Williams. Bliss.

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is the best piece of music ever bar none, just ahead of Tallis's Spem in Alium. My Dying Bride has to settle for third place with Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium.

In my opinion anyway!

Bizarrely, I discovered the Thomas Tallis piece on The Fast Show, when Ted the Gardeners' wife (Mrs Ted) died and they had a funeral. It was a strange moment in a comedy show, but the music just blew me away. It turned up again on the film, Master and Commander, but no where could I find out just what it was or who wrote it, until last autumn, I mentioned it to my sister, she knew the film and the show, and named it instantly. i own it, and play it, but despite it's magnificence, theres a melancholy to it that means I have to be in a fairly okay mood to listen.

I'd forgotten how bloody good these guys were:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wqfcwgT0Ds

Not only funny, but very well written songs.

Debussy - la mer

Silence is Golden?

ken_shabby said:

Played the vaughan Williams piece this morning, but it's match day so I had a German rock session at lunchtime. Rammstein playing Seeman, and the Toten Hosen with Tage Wie Diese. love the video for the Toten Hosen track, and I'm hoping to post it on this site the day RD, KM and the rest of the muppets do one! (For non German speakers, Tage wie diese translates as 'days like these', and it's a happy song).

I saw Toten Hosen years ago when I worked in Frankfurt, terrific gig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvYVRv7SQiI

If I Should Fall from Grace with God - The Pogues

Still brilliant after all these years

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Me uncle reckons he see Don Estelle up Bexleyheath Shopping precinct years ago, busking. Not sure if hhe did or didn't, but either way, I've been listening to this timeless classic today while I've been making the chicken maternity ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY

A bit late responding to this but just thought I'd add that I also witnessed Don Estelle singing in the Broadway shopping mall. It must have been more than twenty years ago because I haven't spent much time in Bexleyheath since 1996. I read at the time that he was doing a mall tour to promote a CD, which was not an uncommon thing to do in those days. I remember, for instance, a boy band called Let Loose appearing in the Broadway mall circa 1994. They had a big hit (Crazy For You) around then .

In keeping with the purpose of this thread, I have today been listening to David Bowie's album "Live Nassau Coliseum '76" at a volume far too high for my wife's delicate ears.

Bill_Stumps said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Me uncle reckons he see Don Estelle up Bexleyheath Shopping precinct years ago, busking. Not sure if hhe did or didn't, but either way, I've been listening to this timeless classic today while I've been making the chicken maternity ward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY

A bit late responding to this but just thought I'd add that I also witnessed Don Estelle singing in the Broadway shopping mall. It must have been more than twenty years ago because I haven't spent much time in Bexleyheath since 1996. I read at the time that he was doing a mall tour to promote a CD, which was not an uncommon thing to do in those days. I remember, for instance, a boy band called Let Loose appearing in the Broadway mall circa 1994. They had a big hit (Crazy For You) around then .

In keeping with the purpose of this thread, I have today been listening to David Bowie's album "Live Nassau Coliseum '76" at a volume far too high for my wife's delicate ears.

Uncle Ray? That you? See you in August mate!

I remember Let Loose, they were shit

; )

Two stunningly beautiful videos by Pogo amazingly choreographed and sampled to the most lovely trance.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JVxe5NIABsI

I was working as a pavement artist at the start of the nineties, and bumped into Don Estelle a couple of times- Bexleyheath shopping centre was one, as I was there often.

To get back on topic, Kate Bush today.

The Heartless Bastards - All This Time