What are you streaming tonight?

I just cannot get into anything classical or symphonic I am afraid.
Understand there is some really talented players of instruments but just does not move me.


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Quboz

uberwaltz, I'm not deep into classical music and don't know lots about it. I tend to favor less classical/baroque and more romantic era stuff (less Bach, Mozart, Hayden....more Beethoven, Brahms and on into Dvorak and Mahler.)

I also pretty much stick to the symphonic works of these composers and don't know much about concertos and music for specific instruments.

Having said that, I look at the various symphonies in one or two different ways. One is to listen to them like a movie score. The second, and maybe better approach, is to listen to them the way you'd listen to prog rock. Think Rush of Floyd. Albums like 2112 or Wish You Were Here are just modern pop symphonies.

And make no mistake, a good rousing symphony like Beethoven's 9th or Dvorak's 9th will exercise your speakers and your walls/windows.

@n80.
I remember when most of the big rock acts felt they had to do a concept album, even Kiss got in the act with The Elder.
Never thought of them as pop symphony though, guess it is just perspective..

I think it is as much a vibe or groove type of thing that mostly keeps me steered towards rock. I am a creature of habit and do not like or welcome change of any description.
Old ornery crabby geezer about fits the bill.....
And about as far removed from a symphony as you can get.....

Teenage Head.... Flamin Groovies.

Quboz

Ah yeah @uberwaltz, The Flamin’ Groovies---one of my all-time fave bands! Their Shake Some Action album is my favorite of theirs, produced by Dave Edmunds. I shared the stage with them in ’82, and we hung out for a few hours. Cyril and I talked about music and musicians, and he asked for my phone number (he was living in SF, I in L.A.). That number was soon thereafter disconnected, so I didn’t find out what he wanted to talk about. Until, that is, I heard that drummer David Wright was leaving the group. Damn it! As they say, timing is everything (no drumming pun intended ;-) .

Ah missed possibilities......
One always wonders what might have happened if one had turned left instead of right......