Thread Devoted To Sharing Your Favorite Albums And Songs - 2018

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You know what I'm about to say...wait for it...there's no words...:)
It is pretty, but it would be better with words.

@orange&white --Cool. Welcome to our thread finally!

foxxycat foxxycat --Here's that song I was telling you about on your Little Texas cd you bought:

What Might Have Been by Little Texas
Yes I recognize that song, it's a really nice song too!
 

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I think I am the only person in America who does not like Journey! Haha!

A little background on this one for those who do not know her. The singer, Emilie Autumn, is a classically trained violinist who struggles with mental illness, something that got her institutionalized for a time. She is also a poet and writer. Her music is considered Victorian Industrial. Her book, "The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls" focuses on the treatment of mental female mental patients during the Victorian Age and now, and the album reflects the book. (Her other albums often explore mental illness, misogyny, love, autonomy, etc... All with a bit of a Victorian twist.)

This one is about abused women in a Victorian mental institution who decided to fight back against their doctors and their male oppressors. It is part of a story, which is important to remember. This is not everyone's cup of tea.



This one is actually a bit fun, even if it is also about Victorian mental institutions for women.


"One Foot in Front of the Other" has helped me on some bad days.

Some of her music is based on literature:


And some is labeled "fantasy rock," although I personally do not find it a fitting term.

 

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I think I am the only person in America who does not like Journey! Haha!

A little background on this one for those who do not know her. The singer, Emilie Autumn, is a classically trained violinist who struggles with mental illness, something that got her institutionalized for a time. She is also a poet and writer. Her music is considered Victorian Industrial. Her book, "The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls" focuses on the treatment of mental female mental patients during the Victorian Age and now, and the album reflects the book. (Her other albums often explore mental illness, misogyny, love, autonomy, etc... All with a bit of a Victorian twist.)

This one is about abused women in a Victorian mental institution who decided to fight back against their doctors and their male oppressors. It is part of a story, which is important to remember. This is not everyone's cup of tea.



This one is actually a bit fun, even if it is also about Victorian mental institutions for women.


"One Foot in Front of the Other" has helped me on some bad days.

Some of her music is based on literature:


And some is labeled "fantasy rock," although I personally do not find it a fitting term.

No you aren't the only one who hates Journey, several guys I work with can't stand it when I am playing their stuff..so no you're not alone.

I will check out those songs you posted and yes it is an issue we don't talk about nearly enough..still a somewhat taboo subject. :rbheart:
 

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1CatOverTheLine 1CatOverTheLine very nice piece you posted. IT is haunting! Love to see more examples of what you think is "haunting"
foxxycat foxxycat - Liszt's Rákóczi March (Hungarian Rhapsody #15) is pretty haunting. Two which I know you've heard might also fill that bill - Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Wagner's Walkürenritt.

This - for M maggiedemi - is both haunting and has lyrics:

 

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That's a little better. :) Even though I can't understand the words.

M maggiedemi - This is Schbert's version of the Ave, as Pavarotti sings it here:

"Ave Maria,
Gratia plena;
Maria, gratia plena,
Maria, gratia plena."


(Hail, Mary
Filled with Grace,
Mary, filled with Grace.
Mary, filled with Grace.)

"Ave, ave Dominus Tecum;
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus,"


(Hail, hail; God is with you;
Blesséd are you in ["the company of" - "mulieribus" here is the ablative plural of "mulier"] all women
And Blessed,)

"Benedictus fructus ventris tuae
Ventris tuæ, Iesus
Ave Maria -"


(Blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Thy womb, Jesus.)

"Ave Maria, Ave Maria -
Et in hora mortis nostræ"

[Schubert's composition omits the line, "ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc" - "Pray for [all of) us sinners, now..."]
"Mortis nostræ.
Ave Maria."


(Hail Mary, Hail Mary -
And at the hour of our death,
Our death.
Hail Mary.)
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Well they did, kinda sorta. The most famous song ever recorded in 5/4 time
The first one isn't bad. I could go for that. It sounds like a play. :)

Here's a song you'll love, it's got everything you like-- the good old days, working man, and even a flag:

Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) by Merle Haggard
 
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