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2009/11/29 09:04:09
Subject: What is the Most Moving Music you have listened to?
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
Ah, yes. I went to a christmas service in Ehrwald (Austria). Silent Nacht was the only part of the whole service that I had any inkling of understanding of.
Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
"Good game guys, now lets hit the showers"
2009/11/29 09:34:31
Subject: What is the Most Moving Music you have listened to?
Star Spangled Banner is a very demanding piece of music to sing. A Chinese friend of mine once asked "how can anyone expect regular people to sing it?" She taught me the PRC anthem and I realized what she meant. God Save the Queen, La Marseilles, das Deutschlandlied, most other countries' national anthem, are much easier to sing.
Fateweaver wrote:
Problem with our National Anthem is men/women who sound like a vacuum cleaner or a cat being skinned alive singing it during sporting events.
It doesn't matter who sings it. Wayne Messmer used to sing it for the Blackhawks, and it sucked even then.
Fateweaver wrote:
Bugs the gak out of me when people don't put their hand over their heart and take their hats off during it's singing.
More evidence that we would not get along. I got temporarily kicked off a football team for refusing to remove my helmet for the anthem.
As a multi-sport athlete I've had to endure that song more frequently than most, and I can honestly say it significantly reduced my sense of nationalism each time.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
2009/11/29 10:07:33
Subject: What is the Most Moving Music you have listened to?
Prolly because you're often arguing with Frazzled and other mild right-of-centers . . . hardly the crowd where you'll stand out as the rigid one. Right, well, best give EF his thread back now.
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
Manchu wrote: Right, well, best give EF his thread back now.
Oh, no. Go on. Really.
As for Australia, I think we could do with changing our anthem. I much prefer Waltzing Matilda. (It WAS very nearly voted for our anthem in the first place, with 37% or something voting for it, and 43% voting for the one we have today.)
But, can you picture how ridiculous it would be to have hordes of cuacasian and other immigrants singing Aboriginal songs?
Just as I'm laughing at the idea of a whole stadium of White Americans trying to sing like Native Americans.
Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
"Good game guys, now lets hit the showers"
2009/11/29 21:46:32
Subject: Re:What is the Most Moving Music you have listened to?
@Albatross: That Holst piece is just another football anthem you tommies sing annually at your "Proms," namely, I Vow To Thee My Country. (Of course, it was Jupiter first, but it is emblazoned into your luke-warmly passionate and easily embarrassed Union Flag hearts as the patriotic song first and foremost, I reckon.)
Erm, no. As a scholar of music (and musicology), I first became aware of it as a Holst piece.
'Luke-warmly passionate' - I dare you to say that to an englishman's face, yank! If you think we all act like Hugh Grant, you'd be in for a serious shock if you ever went on a night out in Manchester...
The tune to 'Star-spangled Banner' was written by a Briton - it was the anthem of a drinking club in London, IIRC.
This moves me everytime I listen to it. I remember listening to it when I had to walk 7 miles to work at 4am on a Sunday morning. I can't put my finger on it but it just strikes something in me
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Armies:
(CSM/HH) - Iron Warriors; Death Guard; World Eaters; Night Lords
IG - Vestfalian Expeditionary
Force (Solar Auxilia - HH)
SM - Blades of Inaros (Homebrew)
DE - Kabal of Ouroboros
2009/11/29 22:29:59
Subject: Re:What is the Most Moving Music you have listened to?
The Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung by The Flaming Lips. A romace story about a couple dying in a volcanic eruption and being forever preserved together. I nearly cried the first time I heard it.
Also, any track from Neutral Milk Hotel's In Aeroplane Over the Sea. If you have never heard this album, stop whatever you are doing and go buy it right now.
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2009/11/29 22:34:47
Subject: Re:What is the Most Moving Music you have listened to?
Albatross wrote:The tune to 'Star-spangled Banner' was written by a Briton - it was the anthem of a drinking club in London, IIRC.
You do RC. And I've met plenty of you Britishers (had a right good time with most) and teased them all the time. It's give and take. Have some more Holst.
@Emp - I'm willing to bet that most people became aware of 'Adagio..' as a result of Platoon, specifically the William Orbit version. I will bet one unpainted slugga-boy. Ryuchi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, and is ridiculously talented. Talent, for me, lies in making that which is simple, beautiful. That piece isn't difficult to play on the Piano, but I couldn't have written it in a million years!
@Manchu - I'm full of surprises. Not all of them sexual.
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
@Albatross: Is that necessarily a bad thing? As long as we appreciate that it is indeed soulfull, wholesome music then is there a problem with how we came about it through a movie or over the radio?
BTW, lol at what you said to Manchu.
Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
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