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asleepathewheel
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listening too long to one song
Mar 2002
time: 00:24
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Flaming Lips. cover of: 7 nation army
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C0ckney
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Big Up The Macedonian Massive
Apr 2000
time: 05:24
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george hales - autumn falls (st john vs locust remix)
next up: ridgewalkers feat. el - find (original mix)
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alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
time: 06:24
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Sly Fox - Let's go all the way
Patti Smith - Because the night
Hot Butter - Popcorn
9th symphony - Beethoven(the Clockwork orange version)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Last edited by alva on 25-02-2005 at 19:54
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alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
time: 06:24
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Hole - Drown Soda(MTW Unplugged)
David Byrne - Pyscho Killer (Unplugged)
Dead Kennedys - Fought the law(and I won)
Pete Townsend - Face the face
BookerT and the MG's - Green onions
The Undertones - Teenage kicks
Last edited by alva on 25-02-2005 at 21:42
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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:24
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Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Brahms (one of my all-time favorites). The Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwangler, recorded live in 1953.
The terrific finale - 30 variations on an 8-bar chord progression taken from a Bach chorale. The initial theme is almost just a rising E minor scale, except the penultimate chord is dropped an octave. The orchestration is almost like dire funeral dirge, trombones and horns coupled with woodwinds. Then the violins come in with a tragic motif, and the pace appears to "quicken" as the variations employ the strings in rapid runs across the scale.
But the pace subsides in a middle, mellow section where the note values are doubled. The woodwinds carry this quiet, reflective section that is still tinged with melancholy. However, the horns and trombones round out the last two variations in the section, before a solo flute trails off...
The opening chords reappear, loudly, but as they rise, the strings slice in with a despairingly tragic cry. The fast pace of the first section is resumed as the variations become increasingly contrapuntal and combative. The trombones are particularly effective, blasting out dramatic notes to underscore the dire drama taking place. There is one more brief, peaceful interlude that gives the illusion of a serene conclusion. It is not to be, however, as the counterpoint resumes among the strings, brass and timpani.
After a huge drumroll and crescendo, the trombones reassert the opening bars of the movement, this time at a greatly quickened tempo. The final variations include huge sweeps from the brass and woodwinds as the strings swirl around the scale. The trombones pound out deep, percussive notes as the the strings and woodwinds respond with quick, high-pitched cries. There is a brief moment where the violins play a mournful variation on the opening notes from the first movement of the symphony, only to be smashed through by the brass and timpani playing thunderous cadences. There is one final acceleration into the coda, the strings rising as the brass descends, only to meet up again as the symphony comes crashing to a desperate, dire conclusion.
Furtwangler's conducting is incredible, and as one critic puts it, he is proof to anyone who thinks of Brahms as stogy and boring that, in fact, the composer was delivering one of the most impassioned depictions of tragedy in music.
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