Whats on your turntable tonight?

James the title track was my fave …but the entire album is a toe tapper….

@big_greg

@sbank I’ve been getting the classical "itch" a bit too lately. There’s so much, and there are only certain things I like, it’s hard to figure out where to start, but we have some good guides. I think our friend @spiritofradio knows a thing or two about classical music also.

You really just have to dig into various composers and see what/who you are attracted to. I’m actually a relative noob when it comes to classical, but have enjoyed the journey immensely. One of the important things for me was reading about the various composers I was listening to to understand their history, and ‘why’ they were composing their music. It’s a tremendous history lesson, and at times very competitive between the composers during various periods.

Yea, you have the ‘big ones’; Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Mozart, etc. All wonderful, and to me, Beethoven was perhaps the most important during the actual ‘classical’ period. As a visual artist in my youth, schooling, and still in a form today, I do find it interesting how ‘classical’ music somewhat mirrored what was happening in the visual artist periods. Classical, romantic, impressionist, post impressionist, modern,etc.

But it was when I found those so called ‘second tier’ composers like Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Wagner, Bartok, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Sibelius, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and so many more that everything started opening up to me. And really, those composers, and more, are not ‘second tier’ at all, but instead very important during the periods which they composed.

It’s been a fascinating journey, and opened my eyes to how ‘progressive’ and ‘modern’ all these composers were at the time, and still today.

And then you get into favorite conductors, and orchestras, etc. which widens the interest even further. And a really important piece of the journey.

James is selling himself way short, he has a pretty good grasp of these things, as good as I do.

Eels - Beautiful Freak. DreamWorks Records reissue 2015, originally 1996

Jim,

That’s one thing I need to do at some point. Are you soldering in new ones or using inline RCA resistors to try first.

RE: Shuggie Otis

Here Comes Shuggie Otis is a good one!