Decadent U.D.O

Heavy Metal doesn't get much more straightforward than this. BLess you UDO for providing us with straight pounding balls up metal for over 4 decades

Dirt Boys - Kohh, Dutch Montana, Lootah

I heavily relate to the lyrics in this song. Reminds me of the stupidity I did when I was in High School, haha

Speaking of Ken

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 28 2016, 08:42 PM

LOVE this one !!!







This is AWESOME !!!

I really did not expect that when I clicked the link

I keep listening to this - Deep

Yeah, I´m completely into K-pop girl groups now


Edit: Oh My Girl - Cupid

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 30 2016, 07:05 PM

Michael Jackson - Leave me alone and Speed Demon

I see your Oh My Girl, and raise you My Girl

Sorry, that video cannot be showed in my country because of licensing crap

Edit: Neither Oh My Girl nor BESTie worked tonight. Had to resort to 9Muses...

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 31 2016, 08:44 PM

BESTie - Hot Baby

Decent enough song with a good bass and the girls are as nice as ever though I really think Haeryung is much better with blond hair..

Meatloaf- Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Listened to a cover of Thin Lizzy's "Emerald" by Ace Frehley and Slash. Not bad at all.

Due to faulty hearing I've done no pure music listening to speak of these past some months -- until day before yesterday. To my surprise, I find that my hearing on a 'good' day still allows to to enjoy smaller scale works, provided they are recorded with ample presence. (Too much is lost to me in more recessed recordings.)

I started out with my favorite filmed recording of my favorite Beethoven sting quartet, Op.59 No.3 (the third Rasumovsky quartet), that by the Japser Quartet performed during the WQXR Beethoven Quartet Marathon. (I likely already linked it at some point, but so what?)

This prompted me to seek out an acceptable complete set of Beethoven string quartets available at YouTube. My criteria is as follows:

... Must be video recordings of musicians in concert as opposed to a pure audio recordings. (I own several fine audio-only performances of the quartets on LP / CD.)
... Must be recordings I can hear sufficiently enough to enjoy.
... The performances must of course be musically up to snuff.

I've not yet found satisfactory (by the above criteria) performances of every quartet. Thus far I've tentatively settled on these:

Op.18 No.1 Ariel Quartet.
Op.18 No.2 Attacca Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.18 No.4 Ying Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.18 No.6 Belcea Quartet. This is the series I really like but often find a tab too recessed for my ears.
Op.59 No.1 American Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.59 No.3 the above mentioned Jasper Quartet.
Op.74 Danish Quartet (debating this choice)
Op.95 Ariel Quartet (debating this choice)
Op.127 Onion Quartet from the WQXR marathon.
Op.132 Ariel Quartet.
Op.135 Ariel Quartet.

All silliness, but what can one do?

I´m so glad we have Decrepit here who can bring some class and style to this community


It´s unfortunate your hearing is failing on you, Decrepit. I hope it won´t get worse so that you will be able to enjoy your music for many years to come

The highlight of these past two days worth of listening has been getting more acquainted with the Ariel Quartet's performance of the Op.95 string quartet, the so-called "Serioro". What a wonderful work it is, and the Ariel plays it to the hilt. I'm especially drawn to its closing movement, when starts out 'larghetto espressivo', morphs into a spirited 'allegretto agitato', nearly fades to calm nothingness in what gives all indication of being the end, then WHAM, we're hit with an effervescent, virtuosic brief 'allegro' passage to close out the work. Here is the Ariel playing the movement in question. (I enjoy this video for visuals almost as much as the interpretation. The players are so obviously into the music, especially the two females. It's a joy to watch them.)



That is my hope too, forlorn as it might be. I've known my hearing is fading for a good many decades. I tell myself that I am resigned to eventually losing it past the point of no return. To some extent I am, but it can be rough going at times. I suspect that if/when it actually happens it'll be harder to cope with yet. Maybe by then I'll be to bloody senile to notice/care.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: May 2 2016, 01:43 PM

Recently started to like Drama with 9Muses more than I did before.

Fastball - The Way



I have always liked this song but until today I thought it was performed by Weeping Willows


Good song nonetheless