What are You Listening to Now?

[sinenomine]

I've got the Classic Rewind channel cranked up on my satellite radio in an attempt to unwind after a particularly annoying, poorly run meeting.

[wellfleet]

A really excellent Sonny Rollins playlist on Apple Music.

[hmaria1609]

"Kings and Queens" by Ava Max
Dance party song!  :)

[downer]

Philip Glass string quartets. #4 right now.

[FishProf]

Sting " The Dream of the Blue Turtles"

[traductio]

Philip Glass string quartets. #4 right now.

Nice.

I've discovered that I like grading with bossa nova in the background so I'm listening to the best of João Gilberto. I suspect my students will be happier with their grades if I listen to this as I work.

[mamselle]

I'm putting a list together as I listen to wind down from the last class of the week....French, mostly.

Thought I'd share.


Aznavour:

"Hier Encore:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHokx2L1wi4

"La Boheme": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfnEyLOkrM

"Les Comediens" (with Minelli): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7G8mev1t3E

"Mon Emouvant Amour" (likewise): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZwfInylSrM

"Emmenez-moi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieYQKS9-Is0
         (and I hadn't seen this, but his casket left Les Invalides to the same tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stJ7wwTci_8 )


Brel:

"Ne me quitte pas": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz6r0TP4FBI

"Ai, Marieke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz6r0TP4FBI

"Quand on n'a que l'amour": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNMwYZiBFV0


Piaf:

"L'Accordeonist": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhu-0IBZm5s

"La Vie En Rose": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzeLynj1GYM

"Sous le ciel de Paris": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC06NyI6KKU


Dassin:

"Mon Village du Bout du Monde": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7vdXeVpS9Y

"Et Si Tu n'Existait Pas": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0alCInZook

"L'ete Indien": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN-OCHlfRTU


C. Francois:

"Comme d'Habitude" (original): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz2JgEeQZ1o

"Belle, Belle, Belle": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhu5GJq5BQ

"Oui, C'est Comme Ca": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhu5GJq5BQ


OK, stopping for now, but there are more, of course.....

M.

[Vkw10]

The Dead Celebrities podcast, also known as Celebrity Estates: Wills of the Rich and Famous. It's aimed at financial planners, with the celebrities being the hook to get you interested in the estate planning issue discussed during most of the podcast. I'm finding the discussions of trusts, bringing up children so they're motivated to strive for some goal as adults, and planning for taxes interesting.

[ab_grp]

The Dead Celebrities podcast, also known as Celebrity Estates: Wills of the Rich and Famous. It's aimed at financial planners, with the celebrities being the hook to get you interested in the estate planning issue discussed during most of the podcast. I'm finding the discussions of trusts, bringing up children so they're motivated to strive for some goal as adults, and planning for taxes interesting.

This sounds pretty useful and interesting.  Thanks for mentioning it, because I have never heard of it, nor would I ever have thought of listening to it if I had.

[Vkw10]

The Dead Celebrities podcast, also known as Celebrity Estates: Wills of the Rich and Famous. It's aimed at financial planners, with the celebrities being the hook to get you interested in the estate planning issue discussed during most of the podcast. I'm finding the discussions of trusts, bringing up children so they're motivated to strive for some goal as adults, and planning for taxes interesting.

This sounds pretty useful and interesting.  Thanks for mentioning it, because I have never heard of it, nor would I ever have thought of listening to it if I had.

I stumbled across it through a link in a student bibliography. They cited it in a paper on the Chicago Cubs, which led me to the episode on the Wrigley family. The podcast's goals are focused on advisor education and how advisors can grow their businesses, but they're right that the problems of high net worth clients also occur in ordinary families at a much lower volume.

[mahagonny]

Captain Diane Carlson Evans, a nurse serving in the Vietnam War, talking about holding the hand of a soldier as he lay in bed and died. Then a nice rendition of 'You've Got a Friend' and then Colin Powell paying tribute to women in the armed forces. With 'You'll Never Walk Alone' playing in the background. (It never fails to amaze me how many different ways Richard Rodgers could write a song). Now Gary Sinise is talking about President Truman. What a show! I am overwhelmed. 'Memorial Day Concert' on PBS.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQqqM5sr7g

"If you want to destroy my sweater..."

[Bbmaj7b5]

Norah Jones playing a version of "Black Hole Sun" at the Fox Theater in Detroit, five days after what became Soundgarden's last show ever - and five days after Chris Cornell's suicide.

It's jazzy and reharmonized but not self-consciously so. She took the power of the original and put it somewhere different - trading the anguish in the lyrics for the dissonant overtones and climbing arpeggios at the end, as though she were setting the ghost of him free. It's lovely, sad and elegiac.

[lightning]

Wow, that's amazing. I hadn't heard about Norah Jones since her one hit, and association with Ravi Shankar. This is a nice way to re-visit her art.

Norah Jones playing a version of "Black Hole Sun" at the Fox Theater in Detroit, five days after what became Soundgarden's last show ever - and five days after Chris Cornell's suicide.

It's jazzy and reharmonized but not self-consciously so. She took the power of the original and put it somewhere different - trading the anguish in the lyrics for the dissonant overtones and climbing arpeggios at the end, as though she were setting the ghost of him free. It's lovely, sad and elegiac.

[lightning]

Sarah Brand
Red Dress

https://youtu.be/5sN7kgEw954

There's something to discuss from many vantage points. My big question is whether this is an intentional attempt to subvert the norms of contemporary popular music. Most people that sing out of tune will fade in and out of being in tune. This artist, however, never once sings a single note in tune, as far as I can tell. That actually takes some skill--to sing EVERY note out of tune.

Some people are saying that this is a social science experiment, because the artist is a grad student in the social sciences.

Others are saying this a marketing gimmick, whose true aims will be revealed later after we've all been had, and the producers have made their $.

Others are calling it "outsider" music.

I'm going to throw out that this might simply be a COVID-19 lockdown project for some bored performance art, timed art, and music students.

I'm also going to throw out that this could well be a study in how society will give an attractive artist the benefit of the doubt.