What are you listening to?

[Magdalena]

^^^
You don't have to answer that, billy rubin.

Let's continue with the music, yes?

[billy rubin]

thirty six years ago i i jotted a note down on my desk blotter that i was listening to this. just found a piece of that old blotter in a desk drawer.

i haven't listened to it again until now. no idea what it sounds like.

[billy rubin]

[billy rubin]

[Mr. B]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3vnmV6pPKI

Getting back to my roots.

[Mr. B]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6zaCV4niKk

[hermes2015]

Not this.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/another-dinner-party-another-impromptu-von-trapp-family-concert?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Humor_ZZ&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Humor_030420&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0bda2ddf9c72dc8d148c&cndid=50871440&esrc=bounceX&mbid=&utm_term=TNY_Humor

[Bad Penny II]

Cat

That's a proper song.

[Bad Penny II]

[Bad Penny II]

[Biggus Dickus]

The Fugees "Killing Me Softly With His Song". This version of the classic is so raw yet elegant at the same time, both simple and magnificent....I heard this on the radio earlier today, and I was mesmerized all over again, like hearing it again for the first time.

Lauryn Hill is so unique.

So of course I had to listen again to this, from her album, "Miseducation of Lauryn Hill". What an incredible album.

[Icarus]

^ Lauryn Hill has a pleasing voice. I am annoyed by the percusions  that overwhelm her voice.  That seems to be the system of choice in today's popular music. Bang - bang- bang - crash.  If not the drums it is the over volumed, three chord guitars.

Confession; I was in the high school orchestra....not the same as the high school band.  I was a mixed up kid because I was a violent  football player and also an orchestra nerd.   

As I had no talent for string instruments, woodwind, or brass, I was a percussionist, also with little or no talent.  I beat the drums, also the triangle, tympani, wood blocks, bells, and all those things.  My revered orchestra teacher was Armando Delgado.  He insisted that the percussion instruments never overwhelm the strings or reeds or softer passages of a fine piece of music. 

"Del" the  name the students lovingly called him, was a man of elegant taste and admirable grace.  He did let me do my thing in the introduction to Beethoven's fifth. ( the stirring tympani beat....dum da da dum...etc)

In his honor and my sense of nostalgia, I do not want to hear too much drum in my music of choice. A human voice is to be the feature instrument on some musical arrangements.  Not the damned drummer.   

Marching bands on the football field is a whole 'nother deal. Let those big bass drums form the cadence. 

[hermes2015]

Here's a challenge for you music lovers. Most of my answers corresponded to his, but not not surprisingly, because he is a composer, I had a few more incorrect ones.

[Davin]

[Magdalena]

...
Lauryn Hill is so unique.
...

She is. 

I like her, her voice and the, "Bang - bang- bang - crash" she puts in her music.