If I'm not listening to music for some dedicated purpose (currently, reviewing my entire collection after a drive crash for sound quality, and to then catalogue it again) I tend to prefer album shuffling over individual tracks. I have not listened to music for its own sake in a long while.

Today the spinny wheel came up on Voyageur by Enigma. I used ( Read more... )

Listened to this at the end of my commute home yesterday, found it striking and beautiful. Just in case you were wondering where my taste in music (partly) lies: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/content/2014/01/23/3925518.htm

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I should post more here... I should have more to post anywhere. But mostly it would just be repetitious grumbling that I feel too tired and worn down to make proper posts any more.

OK! So here's a thing. At the moment I have two major assignments due on 2014-10-07, so I'm trying to devote a week to each of them and have some time left over to ( Read more... )

Whenever I listen to it I almost always conclude I like metal better without the singing (my recurring joke is “The intro was great, they should make a whole song of that.”). Which, in fact, was a lot of what put me off even trying it for so long - the stereotype of a bunch of men shouting into a microphone so hoarsely as to be ( Read more... )

Put in my last assignment of the semester the night before last. Not best pleased with the job I did, but at least I got it done ( Read more... )

I keep trying to write posts about stuff I have been up to and then losing momentum and stalling out with them half-complete. So this time I'm going to try and write a quick run-down of stuff significant enough for me to still remember it from this year.

(why do this? because for some reason I've got it stuck in my head that I've got write up ( Read more... )

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Among Beatles albums I:

1) Consider Sgt. Pepper overrated

2) Talk up Revolver whenever I listen to it or think of it

3) In practice I seem to consider the two albums about equally good in practice

So, that's odd, especially they seem to be two of the three which get ( Read more... )

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Been listening a lot to this album composed by Elena Kats-Chernin to try and grasp its feel. Which I tend to do a lot for new albums, but this one is rather different to others I have bought so probably I am lacking in vocabulary for describing it. Would say is much ( Read more... )

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Being interviewed for, say, a retail job, would it help my chances to perform a version of 'Part of Your World' customised to their business?

Look at this stuff
Isn't it neat?
Wouldn't you think our range is complete?
Wouldn't you think we're the store
The store that ( Read more... )

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It seems ABC Classic FM is broadcasting Wagner's ring cycle, with one instalment each Sunday evening. The station streams online so anyone who wants to listen is able to, if they can get the time and day right.

I have never heard Der Ring des Nibelungen before, only a ( Read more... )