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I've been on a quest to collect everything that Ronnie James Dio sang. I've picking up Rainbow, Sabbath, Dio, and I've only got a few left to acquire.

At the moment Sabbath's Master Of Insanity from their Dehumanizer album is kicking my ass.



I remember listening to this as a teen and being surprised that a modern BS album didn't suck.
 
So I stumbled on a genre of stuff on Youtube last night - 19th Century villain playlists.

I do occasionally listen to 'classical' music although I'm not really a serious genre fanboy.[1] My grandmother (paternal) was a violinist with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and my grandmother (maternal) had a large collection of records that I used to listen to; I also had a teacher once who was really into it. Anyway, here's some mood music.

1 - Quite a bit of what is often thought of as 'classical' music is actually romantic or other genres. Once I found a really good article about this on the interwebs but it's since escaped my google-fu.
Fun fact - much of what Beethoven is famous for is not strictly speaking classical music.








 
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So I stumbled on a genre of stuff on Youtube last night - 19th Century villain playlists.

I do occasionally listen to 'classical' music although I'm not really a serious genre fanboy.[1] My grandmother (paternal) was a violinist with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and my grandmother (maternal) had a large collection of records that I used to listen to; I also had a teacher once who was really into it. Anyway, here's some mood music.

1 - Quite a bit of what is often thought of as 'classical' music is actually romantic or other genres. Once I found a really good article about this on the interwebs but it's since escaped my google-fu.
Fun fact - much of what Beethoven is famous for is not strictly speaking classical music.










I like this one:

 
So I stumbled on a genre of stuff on Youtube last night - 19th Century villain playlists.

I do occasionally listen to 'classical' music although I'm not really a serious genre fanboy.[1] My grandmother (paternal) was a violinist with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and my grandmother (maternal) had a large collection of records that I used to listen to; I also had a teacher once who was really into it. Anyway, here's some mood music.

1 - Quite a bit of what is often thought of as 'classical' music is actually romantic or other genres. Once I found a really good article about this on the interwebs but it's since escaped my google-fu.
Fun fact - much of what Beethoven is famous for is not strictly speaking classical music.










Yeah I worked at an art institution and the sloppy use of 'classical' came up pretty often when I had to write grants, etc.

One term I found that was more accurate and used in academic discussion was European Art Music.
 
Yeah I worked at an art institution and the sloppy use of 'classical' came up pretty often when I had to write grants, etc.

One term I found that was more accurate and used in academic discussion was European Art Music.

And nobody who is not involved in applying for arts funding will have a f-ing clue what that means.
 
And nobody who is not involved in applying for arts funding will have a f-ing clue what that means.

Ha yes, but trust me my job was largely translating artspeak into English for grant purposes.

Visual arts in particular is the worse for incoherent wordstews, with ironically Leadership programs close behind.
 
Ha yes, but trust me my job was largely translating artspeak into English for grant purposes.

Visual arts in particular is the worse for incoherent wordstews, with ironically Leadership programs close behind.

By happenstance I used to hang out with a lot of fine arts types at one point so I learned some basic art-speak. 'Translation' is quite the appropriate term. Mind you, working in computers is no better.
 
Personally feel this was Zep at their best live.

They made great records into the mid and late 70s but the drugs and drink took their toll on their live performances.

Here in the late 60s they absolutely kill it.

 
Howlin' Wolf, one of the greatest blues musicians of all time, especially with his electric band in full flight. His band was such an organic combo of soul, grit, swing, backbeat heaviness (for my money heavier than Muddy Waters), sweat, loose and tight. His guitarist Hubert Sumlin was a genius.




I remember Joe Carducci noting that when he first toured the UK with his electric band the English folkies hated it because they thought only acoustic country blues was 'authentic.'

So the next time he toured the UK he played a stripped down set-up but by then the English had caught onto the electric sound and thought it was too old fashioned.
 
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