I miss the 80's for the killer opening tracks to programmes. Call me nostalgiac if you will, but I always thought they'd mastered the art of hooking you immediately with excellent theme songs.

Love this band. Create beautifully ornate little symphonies in their music, with layers of sound just enveloping you. Always have to listen to the end to see what their next quirky little twist will be.

Another one of their lesser known tracks which I think is great, with them being accompanied by Beck.

Sorry, in a bit of an Air mood at the mo, especially for songs that I haven't heard from them in awhile. This one starts off menacingly for the first 2 or 3 mins mins and then opens up into an extremely beautiful little piece.

Nice choices, James. I only have Air's first album Moon Safari... great album though. The first couple of minutes of "Radian" sounds a bit like that Byzantine chant I posted earlier, hehe.

The frequent modulations of key in this song made it a little hard to come around to at first for me, but it's a nice little song. More to it than meets the eye... or ear.

Thank you Altius.
I do not think I can go to the Albert Hall but I might consider going to Hyde Park just enjoying the atmosphere.

I like birds.
Video is very beautiful. Caravian Blue as well.

One of my favourite songs. Covered by Propaganda.

I visited this thread quite late last night -early this morning to be precise. (Because of Ben's business, ha ha)
There were so many to listen (nice surprise) I could not finish off posting.

Mrluvaluva said he/she liked Femme Fatale.
But I have never heard of the Velvet Underground!
Eventhough this is the first time I heard of their music (I think) I felt very nostalgic and the sound was very familiar.

By the way, may I ask you, BB_Yey, are you male or female?
(For a quite while I thought WOMBAI, lili were male, so just in case.:tongue:
I think Mrluvaluva is male.)

The Pearl Fishers

I used to love listening to this song whilst I was about to sleep. :P

It was used in the movie the Royal Tenenbaums if I remember correctly (the soundtrack was better than the movie, lol). My first year as a student was when I was really enamoured of them. They never had much success in their time and critics hated them, but their debut album is credited for influencing David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, T. Rex, the Stooges, the Ramones and most alternative rock music later on. Also two of their ex-members, Lou Reed and John Cale went on to have pretty big solo careers.




People ask me that all the time.
j/k, I'm male... really misleading avatar I know. :D

That's a really nice arrangement. It says it's written in a Tango style, but the lute makes it sound very mediterrainean. Greek even. I don't know much about lute music though, but quite like this.

Interesting... just listening to it. I was surprised at first to hear them singing in the same German pidgin English Nico did, but looked them up to find they were also German. It figures, hehe.

You can't go wrong ith Neville Marriner for Mozart imho. This is really moving in the end credits of Amadeus.

[QUOTE=BB_Eye People ask me that all the time.
I'm male... really misleading avatar I know. :D[/QUOTE]
How do you do? :p

PEREZ PRADO Mambo No5 - 1950s

Aquarius and Let the sunshine in - Hair Musical

This is an old German folk song. A song about person leaving home.
(I am afraid I do not know this English/German title.)

Muss i denn zum Stadtele hinaus

This song was introduced to Japan in late 1880. Eversince this is one of popular foreign folk (?) songs.

The last rose of summer

It's nice to learn a thing or two about folk music. I've done a bit of searching or Austrian folk music, which was quite a big infuence on Gustav Mahler. This one is pretty charming. Although, sadly it doesn't do much to debunk the association of Vienna with waltz music.

this is more of a minuet (I think)... actually no, it's another waltz, lol