Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
There is always such class stuff coming out still. I'd hate to commit myself to just one CD - who knows, the next classic could be just around the corner.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Maybe a Phillip Auberg CD or Phillip Saise's first W.H. album - I could listen to good piano music for hours.......... or Capercailie.........
Thank God for variety I say.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Luckily I can play a few tunes so I don't know if I'd miss listening to anyone else. If really pushed I'd say Beethoven's Violin Concerto, the one with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. I would be endlessly fascinated as I know I would never get anywhere near his skill.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
In this day and age of technological advances, a compilation CD can be made of all one's favo(u)rite tracks. Are these accepted? (I realise that this may well be against the spirit of the discussion.)
In the event that such compilations ore not accepted, my choice of CD would be At First Light by Mike Mc Golderick.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Wow! Electric Ladyland and Trout Mask Replica, maybe you two could join me on the last day and I'll throw in The Velvet Underground & Nico..........to play us out, a few songs by the great Paddy Tunney
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I find the premise of this thread very disturbing. Why would anyone ever only have one CD for the rest of their life? Could it be on account of imminent death? If not... jayzus... how dreadfully boring.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Jack - some would argue that in your country, if the commie democrats ever got in that's exactly what would happen. Some would argue, but not me. I reckon they'd let you have 2.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
"I find the premise of this thread very disturbing"
I quite agree, Jack.. Maryland Highlander expressed a similar sentiment earlier on in the thread but was shot down by Saint. A classic case of misunderstanding !
If I had to listen to one CD for the rest of my life, I would very soon be in need of psychiatric treatment
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
One of my favorite albums of all time is Sargent Peppers and when I bought a new car recently it was the only CD I had in it. So I drove around listening to it all the time. After only a week I had to move on to Magical Mystery Tour.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
It doesn't matter how great the CD, I'd get bored of it if that was all I could listen to (just as I would if all I could eat for the rest of my life was filet mignon). What a ridiculous question.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I don't. IMO it's not clear enough to draw any definite conclusions. I could come up with at least three reasonable interpretations just off the cuff --- and I wouldn't care to bet that any one of them was certainly what Saint was asking.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
The thread and question seem pretty straight forward to me. He may not have ever mentioned the word 'only' - but its clear enough what he meant. Isnt it? Or am I just reading too much into this. Maybe this thread is just way over my head and too deep for me.
Its interesting that so many people here chose Classical music over trad. I find that interesting seeing as we all seem to be on this site all day every day talking about trad but then when it comes to the crunch most people choose classical........
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I’m speculating here ........ But the probability that most of us listen to great amounts of trad or trad related music is likely a safe assumption to make. A lot of people have mentioned Bach. In my opinion, his compositions go beyond the stratosphere in terms of intellectual meat and emotional pathos.
Just my opinion.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
That's ok, bb, apparently anything you say on this board is open for interpretation and it doesn't matter if it has anything to do with the poster's actual point.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Mmmmmmmmmmmm.Stevie Ray Vaughn.Not too sure.It's a pity he never moved beyond pastiche.I didn't really see the point of recording a facsimile of Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).Ottery's link turned out to be a mediocre American comedian,nothing bizzare about it.I've been listening to Trout Mask Replica (not continuously) since 1969 and I never get bored with it.I still think that its the best album ever and Matt Groening agrees with me!
Here is Mike Barnes appraisal. http://www.furious.com/Perfect/beefheart/troutmaskreplica
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I'll try now in accordance with the liberal interpretation laws that seem to govern things around here. Uh... ok... *ahem* What Saint is saying is that if you could listen to one CD it would mean you didn't accept that sessions can be performances for the rest of your life. There… pretty claose I'd say.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Phantom, I think it's fair to say that anything anyone can say has everything to do with the original post including yourself, of course. So keep interpreting!
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
leoj -- It has something to do with it all right, but I'm free to misrepresent it all I want and then not be held accountable. What a great policy, I feel so liberated now. Oh sorry, I forgot to misrepresent your post and then argue against it. Maybe next time.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Phantom, please do misinterpret my comments as that will give me a good reason to be annoyed with you. And if you don't misinterpret my comments I'lll be doubly annoyed, so take your pick.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
morningstar wrote:
..."But the probability that most of us listen to great amounts of trad or trad related music is likely a safe assumption to make."
it is a safe enough assumption to make, and the trad I love the most is fiddle music, because of the violin and what it can do, or what the people make it do..that is why I chose the Milstein Bach. Some of the best fiddling one has ever heard!!
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Lately, it's been Bach Works for Violin Solo, played by Lara St. John. I've had this album for a number (between one and ten) of years but I like it better every time I listen. The incomparable Chaconne from the Dm partita is, of course, the pinnacle of human artistic achievement, mind-boggling and heart-boggling, and Ms. St. John renders it with a revealing and moving clarity. In other words, I like it a lot.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
From my existing collection, it would be a recording of Pinchas Zukerman playing both Mendelssohn's concerto with the New York Philharmonic, and Tchaikovsky's concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Diddly music is for playing yourself, with others, and listening to in order to learn.
Watching someone running at Olympic standards would bore me to tears: it's still just running. I can do it myself, only slower.
I could watch gymnastics or ice dancing forever.
Oh, dear, have I invoked the *performance* clause?
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
David - Now now, Dont be slagging off peter Andre - he is one of our more successful exports. Imagine - being know for nothing and then marry a page 3 model in a pink wedding and getting really famous for no reason.....we are all so proud......
In realation to my previous post - no denying that most people on this site listen to trad. Question is - if you could choose just one album in the entire world ever then why do most people come up with classical? I would choose trad.....we are one a trad website talking about trad, we play trad and yet if you only had one choice it'd be classical. What tha? Maybe I'm just naive - but I thought that most people on the yellow board are obsessed with trad - because you know, we spend all our time here etc......I just find its interesting . Dont get me wrong. I love Jimi Hendrix, Stevie wonder, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Plus Hip Hop Aussie style - you guys wouldnt have heard it much if you dont live here, but its a refreshing take on hip hop without all the slap, b*tch, gun references. Anyhow my point is that I love all that stuff - but if I could choose one album it would be TRAD - no question.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Oldstrings - you may be able to do it yourself, but are you as good as say Tommy Peoples, or John McSherry - or any of those top class musicians. I listen to learn as well - but I listen first and foremost because I love trad more than anything. Simple.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I think you may be missing my point, bb.
I am privileged to participate and learn from this site, but with all due respect, if I had to choose one book to take to the desert island, it might not be The Collected Session.org Papers.
Now, if I could choose from a hundred CDs, probably half or more would be trad; the rest classical and jazz (including some trad jazz!)
So, which TRAD album have you selected for your sole future listening?
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Well - it changes week by week. Maybe this week Tripswitch by John McSherry and Donal O'Connor and Next week maybe Tony O'Connell and Andy Morrow and maybe the week after Buille which is Niall Vallely and Paul Meehan and Caoimhín Vallely. And then there is all the other stellar CDs out there - I'm sure I could go on all night.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
A boy picked up an old lamp and brushed it off when suddenly a Genie popped out and said, "You have freed me from the bottle; I will grant you one wish." The boy thought about it for a bit and said, "OK... I wish I had 10 more wishes.
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Then the boy said, "For my next wish I . . . "
"Hold it right there, kid!" said the genie. "Those aren't ten "granted" wishes you wished for, ya greedy bahstahd! Next time pay attention. Adios, sucka!"
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
well, it's a game, so the answer changes. but right now i guess if we mean "any" cd, it would be "sketches of spain" by miles davis. or maybe "almost blue." or maybe "solo monk" by thelonius sphere monk.
but heck, maybe it would be "drunk & nutty: hillbillies foolin' with the blues," double compilation cd by various, circa 1930s.
if it's itm, ONE itm recording.....god. "blackberry blossom" by mary mac? "casey in the cowhouse" by bobby casey? "two gentlemen of west clare music"? dammit, i can't choose.
If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life what would it be?
Jackie Daly and Seamus Creaghs CD is my choice.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Saint
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Id end my life shortly
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by The Merry Highlander
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Do that
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Saint
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Luckily I still have my lps in case that ever happens. I still have typewriters too. I'm careful that way.
As for the cd, I'd probably say Michael Coleman--can I have both discs? Or one of Reg Hall's.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by dwdeacon
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Doudles are excepted
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Saint
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
sorry doubles
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Saint
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
If there was just one, maybe "A tribute to Joe Cooley"
love it
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Brown Creeper
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
There is always such class stuff coming out still. I'd hate to commit myself to just one CD - who knows, the next classic could be just around the corner.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by bb Cruella de vil
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Jimi Hendrix
"Electric Ladyland"
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by leoj
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert. Beautiful
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by bosco
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Trout Mask Replica
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by dafydd
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
"Cathel Hayden"
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by millionyears_bc
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Maybe a Phillip Auberg CD or Phillip Saise's first W.H. album - I could listen to good piano music for hours.......... or Capercailie.........
Thank God for variety I say.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by morning star
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
This one :
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/1311
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Kenny
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Martin Byrnes
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by nick b
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
"Bodhran Moods"
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Johannes J
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Nice choice, Kenny.
My choice would be:
Missa Pulcherrima
by
Bartłomiej Pękiel
performed by Camerata Silesia and J. Gembalski
Musicon 1996
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by EastPole
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Luckily I can play a few tunes so I don't know if I'd miss listening to anyone else. If really pushed I'd say Beethoven's Violin Concerto, the one with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. I would be endlessly fascinated as I know I would never get anywhere near his skill.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
In this day and age of technological advances, a compilation CD can be made of all one's favo(u)rite tracks. Are these accepted? (I realise that this may well be against the spirit of the discussion.)
In the event that such compilations ore not accepted, my choice of CD would be At First Light by Mike Mc Golderick.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Sinocal
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Bach's violin concertos. I need to find a better recording of them, though---I have one of Menuhin, but it's old and very scratchy.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by kennedy
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
check out Jamie Loredo with the Scottish chamber orchestra for bach. It fizzes
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by llig leahcim
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Wow! Electric Ladyland and Trout Mask Replica, maybe you two could join me on the last day and I'll throw in The Velvet Underground & Nico..........to play us out, a few songs by the great Paddy Tunney
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by strayaway
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I find the premise of this thread very disturbing. Why would anyone ever only have one CD for the rest of their life? Could it be on account of imminent death? If not... jayzus... how dreadfully boring.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Jack - some would argue that in your country, if the commie democrats ever got in that's exactly what would happen. Some would argue, but not me. I reckon they'd let you have 2.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Nah... nothing changes when the Dems take over. Everyone works for the same CD manufacturer.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
"I find the premise of this thread very disturbing"
I quite agree, Jack.. Maryland Highlander expressed a similar sentiment earlier on in the thread but was shot down by Saint. A classic case of misunderstanding !
If I had to listen to one CD for the rest of my life, I would very soon be in need of psychiatric treatment
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by murfbox
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
One of my favorite albums of all time is Sargent Peppers and when I bought a new car recently it was the only CD I had in it. So I drove around listening to it all the time. After only a week I had to move on to Magical Mystery Tour.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
solo Bach Sonatas and Partitas, Milstein playing, the second recording where they are a bit more relaxed
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Sunnybear
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
The White Album
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Kheelch
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I must concur with Cenn Fealed, although this would not be in a reluctant manner. At First Light by Mike and John in the one for me.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by proinsiasrua
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Thank God for Ipods
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Hugo Chavez
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
It doesn't matter how great the CD, I'd get bored of it if that was all I could listen to (just as I would if all I could eat for the rest of my life was filet mignon). What a ridiculous question.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Crysania
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Leonard Cohen 'Songs from a Room'
or
Vivaldi 'Four Seasons' by Anne-Sophie Mutter
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by domnull
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
When I was in H.S. I listened to Bach's violin concertos done by Heifetz.
I wore that record out completely.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by morning star
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
4 roads to Glenamaddy by Big Tom McBride
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Red Robin
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Why reluctant, Proinsias Rua?
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Sinocal
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
tommy peoples
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by bathfiddler
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Troutmask replica, that's tame stuff. How about this?
http://www.bizarrerecords.com/galleries/sell/McfarlandSurefire.mp3
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Ottery
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
"Bliss -- the Hits" (on the drum, naturally, not talking about Mafia type hits , that's my less publicised side)
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by bodhran bliss
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
kitty lie over!
i listen to noel hill's irish concertina 2 a lot more, but if i could listen to one cd for the rest of my life it'd be kitty lie over.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by daiv
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Anything by luke kelly live. I never get tired of it
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by Ripthecalico
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Not much ITM listed above. Have I landed on the wrong site?
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by telboy
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I don't see the word "only" anywhere in Saint's original post...
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by sara g
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
You couldn't listen to that diddly dee, it all sounds the same. That's why they watch mud wrestling on "muted" TVs in Montana.
# Posted on December 13th 2006 by bodhran bliss
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Sara, just curious... so how do you interpret the premise of the thread?
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I don't. IMO it's not clear enough to draw any definite conclusions. I could come up with at least three reasonable interpretations just off the cuff --- and I wouldn't care to bet that any one of them was certainly what Saint was asking.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by sara g
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
"Global A Go-Go" by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. But I'd only listen to it on Saturday's while drinking a few beers. You asked ;^)
Peace...
--gw
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by gw
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
If you mean ITM only, then it's "Portland" by Kevin Burke and Michael O'Domnhaill.
If we have no limits, it would be the Bach Violin Concertos. There's something new in them every time you listen...
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Steve Austin
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
<a href="http://www.thriftstoreart.com/album_/193.jpg">; this or </a> <a href="http://www.thriftstoreart.com/album_/105.jpg">this</a>;
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by bosco
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
ooops.
http://www.thriftstoreart.com/album_/193.jpg
http://www.thriftstoreart.com/album_/105.jpg
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by bosco
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
tough question as I like different types of music... I like creed, distubed and corrs...
But I'd go to Corrs unplugged.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by redindygo
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Kitty Lie Over definitely owns my soul, but Turas go Tir na Nog would probably inch out a hair above.
in short...i want Caoimhin o'Raghallaigh shrunk and implanted in my cerebral cortex.
--DtM
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Dan the Man
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
The thread and question seem pretty straight forward to me. He may not have ever mentioned the word 'only' - but its clear enough what he meant. Isnt it? Or am I just reading too much into this. Maybe this thread is just way over my head and too deep for me.
Its interesting that so many people here chose Classical music over trad. I find that interesting seeing as we all seem to be on this site all day every day talking about trad but then when it comes to the crunch most people choose classical........
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by bb Cruella de vil
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I’m speculating here ........ But the probability that most of us listen to great amounts of trad or trad related music is likely a safe assumption to make. A lot of people have mentioned Bach. In my opinion, his compositions go beyond the stratosphere in terms of intellectual meat and emotional pathos.
Just my opinion.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by morning star
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I agree about Bach, but you have to admit
Jimi Hendrix is the greatest ever.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by leoj
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I'll admit that!
......love how Stevie Ray interprets him, too.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by morning star
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
That's ok, bb, apparently anything you say on this board is open for interpretation and it doesn't matter if it has anything to do with the poster's actual point.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Mmmmmmmmmmmm.Stevie Ray Vaughn.Not too sure.It's a pity he never moved beyond pastiche.I didn't really see the point of recording a facsimile of Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).Ottery's link turned out to be a mediocre American comedian,nothing bizzare about it.I've been listening to Trout Mask Replica (not continuously) since 1969 and I never get bored with it.I still think that its the best album ever and Matt Groening agrees with me!
Here is Mike Barnes appraisal.
http://www.furious.com/Perfect/beefheart/troutmaskreplica
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by dafydd
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
"bizarre" that should be.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by dafydd
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I'll try now in accordance with the liberal interpretation laws that seem to govern things around here. Uh... ok... *ahem* What Saint is saying is that if you could listen to one CD it would mean you didn't accept that sessions can be performances for the rest of your life. There… pretty claose I'd say.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Matt Groening himself.
http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/groening.htm
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by dafydd
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Phantom, I think it's fair to say that anything anyone can say has everything to do with the original post including yourself, of course. So keep interpreting!
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by leoj
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I think it would be "The Incredible String Band" (their first). It transports me to a tranquil weedy glade where responsibility is not even a concept.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by nicholas
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Dafydd wrote: ".Ottery's link turned out to be a mediocre American comedian,nothing bizzare about it"
I'll have you take that back sir!
That's no Mediocre Comedian, that is the king of Tupperware salesmen, speaking at a Tupperware Conference.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Ottery
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Easy.
The soundtrack to Top Gun.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Conán McDonnell
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
leoj -- It has something to do with it all right, but I'm free to misrepresent it all I want and then not be held accountable. What a great policy, I feel so liberated now. Oh sorry, I forgot to misrepresent your post and then argue against it. Maybe next time.
# Posted on December 14th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I only listened to about the first thirty seconds,then my attention wandered.
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by dafydd
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Phantom, please do misinterpret my comments as that will give me a good reason to be annoyed with you. And if you don't misinterpret my comments I'lll be doubly annoyed, so take your pick.
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by leoj
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
morningstar wrote:
..."But the probability that most of us listen to great amounts of trad or trad related music is likely a safe assumption to make."
it is a safe enough assumption to make, and the trad I love the most is fiddle music, because of the violin and what it can do, or what the people make it do..that is why I chose the Milstein Bach. Some of the best fiddling one has ever heard!!
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by Sunnybear
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Szeryngs' Bach is a very close second though...
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by Sunnybear
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Lately, it's been Bach Works for Violin Solo, played by Lara St. John. I've had this album for a number (between one and ten) of years but I like it better every time I listen. The incomparable Chaconne from the Dm partita is, of course, the pinnacle of human artistic achievement, mind-boggling and heart-boggling, and Ms. St. John renders it with a revealing and moving clarity. In other words, I like it a lot.
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by Bob himself
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
From my existing collection, it would be a recording of Pinchas Zukerman playing both Mendelssohn's concerto with the New York Philharmonic, and Tchaikovsky's concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Diddly music is for playing yourself, with others, and listening to in order to learn.
Watching someone running at Olympic standards would bore me to tears: it's still just running. I can do it myself, only slower.
I could watch gymnastics or ice dancing forever.
Oh, dear, have I invoked the *performance* clause?
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by oldstrings
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
David - Now now, Dont be slagging off peter Andre - he is one of our more successful exports. Imagine - being know for nothing and then marry a page 3 model in a pink wedding and getting really famous for no reason.....we are all so proud......
In realation to my previous post - no denying that most people on this site listen to trad. Question is - if you could choose just one album in the entire world ever then why do most people come up with classical? I would choose trad.....we are one a trad website talking about trad, we play trad and yet if you only had one choice it'd be classical. What tha? Maybe I'm just naive - but I thought that most people on the yellow board are obsessed with trad - because you know, we spend all our time here etc......I just find its interesting . Dont get me wrong. I love Jimi Hendrix, Stevie wonder, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Plus Hip Hop Aussie style - you guys wouldnt have heard it much if you dont live here, but its a refreshing take on hip hop without all the slap, b*tch, gun references. Anyhow my point is that I love all that stuff - but if I could choose one album it would be TRAD - no question.
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by bb Cruella de vil
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Oldstrings - you may be able to do it yourself, but are you as good as say Tommy Peoples, or John McSherry - or any of those top class musicians. I listen to learn as well - but I listen first and foremost because I love trad more than anything. Simple.
# Posted on December 15th 2006 by bb Cruella de vil
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
I think you may be missing my point, bb.
I am privileged to participate and learn from this site, but with all due respect, if I had to choose one book to take to the desert island, it might not be The Collected Session.org Papers.
Now, if I could choose from a hundred CDs, probably half or more would be trad; the rest classical and jazz (including some trad jazz!)
So, which TRAD album have you selected for your sole future listening?
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by oldstrings
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
The CD version of "Does anyone like bodhrans". It will last a lifetime.
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by bodhran bliss
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Well - it changes week by week. Maybe this week Tripswitch by John McSherry and Donal O'Connor and Next week maybe Tony O'Connell and Andy Morrow and maybe the week after Buille which is Niall Vallely and Paul Meehan and Caoimhín Vallely. And then there is all the other stellar CDs out there - I'm sure I could go on all night.
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by bb Cruella de vil
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
My point exactly. You have to choose ONE, and live with it forever.
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by oldstrings
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
But wait! We could all publicly declare our single choice, then meet clandestinely for a kind of underground musicshare party! No one would ever know!
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by oldstrings
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Yes but my point being that if it were just ONE - then it would be a trad one, even though I like all kinds of different music styles etc.
# Posted on December 16th 2006 by bb Cruella de vil
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Music party indeed........ otherwise we'd all lose our minds.
# Posted on December 17th 2006 by morning star
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
A boy picked up an old lamp and brushed it off when suddenly a Genie popped out and said, "You have freed me from the bottle; I will grant you one wish." The boy thought about it for a bit and said, "OK... I wish I had 10 more wishes.
# Posted on December 17th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
Then the boy said, "For my next wish I . . . "
"Hold it right there, kid!" said the genie. "Those aren't ten "granted" wishes you wished for, ya greedy bahstahd! Next time pay attention. Adios, sucka!"
# Posted on December 17th 2006 by joesmith
Re: If you could listen to one CD for the rest of your life .
well, it's a game, so the answer changes. but right now i guess if we mean "any" cd, it would be "sketches of spain" by miles davis. or maybe "almost blue." or maybe "solo monk" by thelonius sphere monk.
but heck, maybe it would be "drunk & nutty: hillbillies foolin' with the blues," double compilation cd by various, circa 1930s.
if it's itm, ONE itm recording.....god. "blackberry blossom" by mary mac? "casey in the cowhouse" by bobby casey? "two gentlemen of west clare music"? dammit, i can't choose.
# Posted on December 18th 2006 by ceemonster