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Syzygy
The Shire
Apr 18 2013, 2:48am
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What are you listening to?
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I searched high & low for a thread of this nature but couldn't seem to find one, so forgive me if I'm a clueless newbie but I just had to do it. 
I've been listening to this song on endless repeat in the car and at home - the chorus "My heart is gone/I've gone cold" is evocative of the Arkenstone and the shaping of Thorin's personality after the sack of Erebor, at least in my mind. I like to think that if dwarves played modern guitars (and had American accents) it would sound something like this:
http://youtu.be/bC4_YpqVg2g
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zarabia
Grey Havens
Apr 18 2013, 6:50am
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We used to have a regular music thread
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Our friend Hamfast had been posting a weekly music thread for several months, maybe almost a year, but he hasn't posted anything that I can remember since February. I don't know what has happened to him; I hope he's okay and just busy with work. Anyway, if he comes back then he would have dibs on posting a music thread, but until then, I don't know why we can't discuss music, especially considering the many music fans here. 
My computer is bogged down for some reason so I can't watch the video you posted, but it sounds great! I always think of Frodo and Sam whenever I hear Bill Withers' "Lean On Me" You may be too young to remember even the remake by Club Nouveau, but one of the lines is, "Lean on me when you're not strong, I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on." It always gets to me.
BTW, welcome to TORn, Syzygy!
"The question isn't where, Constable, but when." - Inspector Spacetime
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Syzygy
The Shire
Apr 18 2013, 2:12pm
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Both versions, actually. I used to love the Club Nouveau version when I was a kid... so not too young at all, but thanks for thinking I am! 
And thanks for the warm welcome! I wondered why I couldn't find much in the way of music discussion, I was starting to worry nobody liked to talk about music around here!
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Magpie
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Apr 18 2013, 8:08pm
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Music discussion threads have always been sporadic
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and have been informally adopted by various leaders over the years.
When someone is posting somewhat regularly, we usually let them take the lead. But I don't know that the music thread is one that we can call Hamfast as having dibs on. Especially since he's been absent in his duties lately. ;-p
I posted a thread after he'd lapsed awhile because I just had to talk about some song I'd heard.
I haven't been listening to a lot. I did just listen to TH:AUJ soundtrack at work yesterday and today (replayed it after it finished since my headphones are sometimes off my head as much as they are on my head).
I found a 99cent copy of Rogue's Gallery, a compilation album of sea shanties performed by artists representing a variety of genres, ranging from pop musicians like Sting and Bryan Ferry, to folk musicians, including Richard Thompson and Martin Carthy. And produced by, among others, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp.
I love sea shanties and traditional music so I have had this album on my radar for years and was thrilled to get it for 99 cents.
But woah.. are these, um... interesting versions of these songs. All in all, I might load 2-5 on my mp3 player and kind of ignore the rest.
So, instead, I'll post a link to someone singing one of my favorite shanties.
Alabama John Cherokee
I first heard someone sing this a community sing and he blew me away. Literally. He finished and I said, "WHAT WAS THAT!?" :-) (I had a tiny crush on him for the rest of the weekend!)
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silneldor
Half-elven
Apr 19 2013, 1:32am
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Well, you wondered into our campfire and you are welcome here. Set awhile because there is some good company about.
For my part, if you wish to run with this thread a while, please do, and if a body wishes to contribute all is welcome. There are no obligations or expectations. It is good to just go where it goes.
I went wondering to find something but being away from the fire in the dark i stumbled across something i did not expect. I found this youtube piece and found it warming and comforting actually, given the times.
I am not a hunter now except by camera, but these folk are, but i found them quite amiable. The prize herein which i found was centered around a man named Jim Parker. So, if you want to sit by the fire and catch something special (in my opinion), settle in and
listen to some of his campfire songs:)
''Sam put his ragged orc-cloak under his master's head, and covered them both with the grey robe of Lorien; and as he did so his thoughts went out to that fair land, and to the Elves, and he hoped that the cloth woven by their hands might have some virtue to keep them hidden beyond all hope in this wilderness of fear...But their luck held, and for the rest of that day they met no living or moving thing; and when night fell they vanished into the darkess of Mordor.'' - - -rotk, chapter III
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
May the grace of Manwë let us soar with eagle's wings!
In the air, among the clouds in the sky
Here is where the birds of Manwe fly
Looking at the land, and the water that flows
The true beauty of earth shows
With the stars of Varda lighting my way
In all the realms this is where I stay
In the realm of Manwë Súlimo
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Syzygy
The Shire
Apr 19 2013, 2:30am
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I never knew I liked them, having thought of them only as an amusing device for one of Hyacinth Bucket's ill-advised social fiascoes... 
I love the acapella quintet in the song you posted, especially the lead with his deep, distinctive voice. Very nice, thank you! 
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Syzygy
The Shire
Apr 19 2013, 2:37am
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Thank you for not putting out the light
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On your campfire when I wandered in... I'm greatly enjoying the atmosphere, it reminds me of happier times when my mom would sing John Denver covers while we toasted marshmallows... the "Daddy, why..." song was so touching, it brought tears to my eyes!
Here's my contribution to the fireside sit, an acoustic rendition of another Clutch song I've always been quite fond of. While the original is marred by spotty production and a dubious guitar solo, this version is far cleaner and more appropriate to a campfire setting.
http://youtu.be/ECCljyOyuTU
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bborchar
Rohan
Apr 19 2013, 3:04am
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Been switching back and forth...
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Between the BBC Sherlock soundtracks (1&2), and The Book of Mormon soundtrack. When my kids are in the car- definitely Sherlock. When it's just me- TBoM :)
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Starling
Half-elven
Apr 19 2013, 6:20am
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But I immediately thought of this, which is one of my all time favourite songs in general:
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, by Gordon Lightfoot.
This is a real childhood song for me - I could never get enough of it. I was always really into reading about disasters, and I adored this song. It's just beautiful.
We had a mining disaster here in New Zealand recently, and this song was played a number of times in tribute, because 29 miners died in the Pike River explosion.
And I always enjoy talking music - welcome!
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zarabia
Grey Havens
Apr 19 2013, 7:57am
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Sorry to overstate Hamfast's dibs :P
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Plus, as passionate as he is about music, he'd most likely want the discussions to continue whether or not he's the one to initiate them.
As for sea shanties - I think I'm most familiar with the ones covered by my dad's favorite group, The Kingston Trio. I didn't realize that The Good Reuben James, which is one of my favorites, was written by Woody Guthrie until I watched the American Masters special about him on PBS. I don't know that it's technically a sea shanty, but one time while he was working on a merchant marine ship during WWII, he entertained the troops during an especially rough time (I forget if it was stormy or if they were being shelled) by singing Good Reuben James which is about a ship that was sunk during battle. Apparently the troops appreciated the his dark humor.
"The question isn't where, Constable, but when." - Inspector Spacetime
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Otaku-sempai
Half-elven
Apr 19 2013, 3:31pm
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The most recent disc that I've thrown into the CD player...
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The soundtrack CD for Star Trek: The Motion Picture -- 20th Anniversary Collectors' Edition. The bonus disc is Inside Star Trek with Gene Roddenberry, Bill Shatner, Mark Shepard and Isaac Asimov.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Magpie
Immortal
Apr 19 2013, 3:44pm
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It's almost a 'local' song for me
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The actual wreck of the EF (as opposed to the song) is one that is etched in my memory. My partner (now husband) and I had been to the movies at the mall (Lansing Michigan) and we got out to find a mostly empty parking lot and this gale blowing. I can remember loose carts flying across the lot. It was a significant wind storm.
The next morning, I happen to call my mother and she said, a freighter went down in Lake Superior. I understood how that wind we had experienced had impacted a much larger area that that mall parking lot.
I love that song, especially the part where Gordon describes the lakes:
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her,
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered.
People who live by the ocean love the sea. Michiganders love their lakes (and that state touches four of the five). And I grew up close enough to Lake Michigan to visit it frequently as a young adult before I moved out of the state and it is a young person's lake. It's where all the fun happens. :-)
Now, in Minnesota, we visit Superior a lot. We love watching the freighter steam in and out of port in Duluth.
Two other songs connected to the sea that are often sung around here are two Stan Rogers songs:
"Northwest Passage" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI
"Barrett's Privateers" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Ufe0jF-AE
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Kelly of Water's Edge
Lorien
Apr 19 2013, 11:40pm
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Worked on increasing my (U.S.) Country music literacy
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after a sightseeing trip to the Austin/San Antonio/Hill Country loop in Texas.
First of all, it confirmed what I already suspected - that Johnny Cash is far and away my favorite. Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line, etc - I just love his delivery. I also fell in love with Ghost Riders in the Sky, which I recognized immediately through what I can only imagine is cultural osmosis. Johnny + ghost story = awesome! I'm going to have to add this when I make a Halloween playlist.
I still think Marty Robbins has the most gorgeous voice - I grew up hearing El Paso in regular rotation on my Dad's oldies station and still think it's great. The biggest surprise may have been how much of Hank Williams I recognized through cultural osmosis. I know I hear him alot when having breakfast at Cracker Barrel while on the road.
I was hit hardest by "Can the Circle be Unbroken" by The Carter Family. What a powerful representation of the collective cry of pain of a group of siblings going through one of the definitive moments of their lives - the loss of a family matriarch. A mixture of grief and hope that she's in a better place.
I also very much like some songs alot of people might consider hybrids, like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" which is probably more Country/Rock (Southern Rock) and John Denver, about whom there seems to be alot of debate whether he should be considered Country or Folk.
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Xanaseb
Tol Eressea
Apr 21 2013, 2:17am
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thanks for continuing the baton for the thread! Hmm, what have I been listening to..
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...a LOT of Jan Dismas Zelenka.. I don't think this composer will ever cease to stimulate me.
Probably the most uplifting beautiful heavenly baroque piece I've ever heard, by the Czech master:
Litaniae Lauretanae ZWV152
"So your own praise will forever keep your name green,
Both here on Earth and on the stage of the stars" - J.G.Kittel, writing about the composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1740)
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batik
Tol Eressea
Apr 21 2013, 5:42pm
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funny...I just went on a Fantastic Voyage via youtube last night while in Barliman's. A few I enjoyed are:
Gap Band's You Dropped a Bomb on Me
Eddy Grant's Electric Avenue
Dazz Band's Let it Whip
....brought back some fun times of the late 70s -early 80s.
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Elwen
Lorien
Apr 23 2013, 10:52pm
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Late to this thread...but right now,
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I'm listening to a lot of Within Temptation. I just recently discovered them (thank you Pandora) and am really loving their sound.
Before kids, exercising with LOTR meant listening to the soundtrack while I ran.
After kids, exercising with LOTR means having an all out dance party with the little ones to the "Break the Dam Release the River" disco mix form the Lego game.
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