Hi folks, I’m in the middle of moving and needed something to do to explore music while my system is in storage (might be up to a year). Started streaming live recordings on youtube on my laptop and decided it would be worth it to make a list/channel.
In case anyone likes watching such content, the link is below. I only add quality recordings (both visually and sonically) of quality performances. No real genre restrictions, so maybe you can find something you like...
Please post or send any suggestions for growing the resource. Hopefully it helps spread high quality music to more people...
Great work, all new except for the Suki Suki Suki performance! That one's really something else, huh?? I'll start watching today and get the list updated. Thanks for contributing.
Marlon Willims is crminally unknown, even in his native New Zealand, where he is virtually a fringe artist not given regular airplay. One American critic called him the only artist today carrying forward a great tradition of authentic American music. Make up your own mind.
I hear faint echoes of the big O. He‘s got the voice, the looks, the name, what gives? On second thoughts, I guess if you look at the crowd demographic, most of them are my age.......
The Sadistic Mika Band Clip was a bit of an eye opener - I had anly heard their more poppy stuff. Amazing! John Peel was always great for presenting interesting new music. And The Old Grey Whistle Test was such a great music platform.
Unfortunately Public Television in Ontario was not exactly using state of the art, live concert probably recorded on someone’s $99 VHS and uploaded years later. Saw them when they were still a duo, their electronic equipment filled the whole stage, put out an amazing sound. You can probably find a decent copy of Black Noise for a few dollars.
@jeecc Great that that performance was captured, but a shame its quality isn't better. You inspired me to create a second playlist for performances like this that aren't recorded as well as stuff on the primary list. The obvious criteria being that the performance is just totally committed like this one. Gave me a good place to put some Rage against the machine and the little richard recommendations from @pesky_wabbit too.
Thanks for the link. I'll take a look. Please keep the hate out of the thread though. I know I'm guilty too, but it seems like every thread on Audiogon ends up with meaningless hateful bickering. I'd like to keep this one focused on music appreciation. Thanks.
Here's my favorite quote about the importance of music and its relevance to every human on the planet, regardless of race, class, or musical preferences:
Perhaps the safest thing to do [in contacting alien life] at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. — Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)
@schubert You're really just talking about a very narrow slice of the rock concert world. I personally prefer $5-20 at the door and also don't care much for the mass produced shows that often get retreaded over and over at the large sheds. Give me a place like this any day over a big production: http://lionslairco.com/about.
@pesky_wabbit In large part due to your help! Thanks. Perhaps there's not much more YouTube experience to tap on Audiogon, but hopefully we can get some more people weighing in this week.
You are entirely correct: the notion that classical music is a somehow a superior genre is to the large part class related,
Classical music and opera have always been associated with the upper classes, while blues, jazz and their derivatives .have their roots associated with an underclass (slavery). Folk, bluegrass and Country have ties with the working class.
I don’t see any objective basis for this assertion whatsoever - good music is good music, period. Pure transcendent magic can be found in all genres, as your YouTube playlist amply demonstrates.
Thanks @schubert Takes me a bit more time to work through the classical recommendations, but I'll have a listen. No doubt that there's a huge amount of worthy, top notch music in that genre. And as you can tell, I'm unfairly biased against it. As a poor white guy from farm country in Kansas, I just have an anti-elitism, anti-upper class trigger. No good letting such biases get in the way of appreciating music though. Thanks for sharing.
The Brilliance of Classical is in the composer and the players ability to translate the composer to the audience as written .Classical players get emotion from the audience , dozens of good ones have told me so.
I'll submit three videos from the channel that haven't been discussed in the thread for consideration. In all cases, I'd argue the performers perfectly bottle a specific human emotion and transmit it via their music.
And I'll agree with you in this regard... like you said, "all I have is real music, you won't like it."
@schubert I'll agree with your steps, but not that they're at all related to the "realness" of the music. They are simply related to complexity and the technical proficiency and expertise needed to create the end product. Like I said, the accomplishments of classical musicians and composers are stunning and worthy of praise. They're just not more musical than anything else.
It's just as much music when it's made by a group of people sitting around a campfire as when it's made by an orchestra in the Sydney opera house. To deny that is to deny classical music's genesis story...
Glad to hear that ! I was not trying to insult you, just boil the pot a bit .
Schubert and Mozart are great to start with, 2 of the greatest who ever walked the planet.
I would suggest a modern Czech Genius , Leos Janacek. He gets all over the place but never goes over the road . His 2 String Quartets are very beautiful . His Sinfonietta and Glagolitic Mass are powerful masterpieces . On You tube .
Here is his Sinfonietta with one of the greatest Band and Conductor in the world .
@schubert is that Boris Johnson‘s younger brother playing ? Nice clip, I really enjoyed it.
You might be surprised to know that I also listen to classical music, and that my favourite composer is .......Schubert, with Mozart a close second. I don‘t post because my knowledge is not as broad as other genres.
As for what is real music, my tastes have expanded considerably with age, and I’ve found it‘s amazing that what was once an impenetrable sonic morass can becomes beautiful music over time. If you take the time to understand a wide range of genres you can recognise genius in all of them.
Like most things music has steps , Classical is the highest , I would say serious Jazz is next , the lowest is money aka rock and pop The roots of much of Classical are in religion , the object is to do what is not a human trait, to live a life above your self .
If you don’t get it that many people sit and kneel before God , you don’t get it . They are not an audience .
There are many crooks in American "religion ", they are just crooks that claim they are "born again " on TV etc, they are not related to religion and often use music Many are related to crooked politicians , all with Satan .
@pesky_wabbit And agreed on little richard. It's a shame the recordings are so poor. They regularly just spit out high frequency hash... such a shame. Like you say though, at least there's some record. The man can control a room.
@schubert Thanks for posting. I’m open to every genre, although you’re correct that classical is not in my normal wheelhouse. I’d already put all of your suggestions on the list, regardless.
I’d argue with the "real" label though. I find it very unnatural how the genre works to remove dancing and movement from the musical situation. It is amazing what classical composers and musicians accomplish, but physical entrainment to musical content is a basic human trait. I’ve never understood its removal from an audience... aside from religion-related social control, of course.
List updated with these great suggestions. I particularly liked the King Gizzard. I’d actually never heard them before, thanks. Give me raw emotion and creativity over technical perfection any time...
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