What are you listening to now?

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Well, I packed my bags and bought myself a ticket
For the land of the tall palm tree
Aloha Old Milwaukee, Hello Waikiki
I just stepped down from the airplane
When I heard her say,
"Waka waka nuka licka, waka waka nuka licka
Would you like a lei? Eh?"

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Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
Whisper in my ear
Kicka pooka mok a wa wahini
Are the words I long to hear
Lay your coconut on my tiki
What the hecka mooka mooka dear
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
Say the words I long to hear

t's a ukulele Honolulu sunset
Listen to the grass skirts sway
Drinking rum from a pineapple
Out on Honolulu Bay
The steel guitars all playing
While she's talking with her hands
Gimme gimme oka doka make a wish and wanta polka
Words I understand Hey!

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Well, I boughta lota junka with my moolah
And sent it to the folks back home
I never had the chance to dance the hula
Well, I guess I should have known
When you start talking to the sweet wahini
Walking in the pale moonlight
Ohka noka whatta setta knocka-rocka-sis-boom-boccas
Hope I said it right Oh!

[Chorus]

Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian
Say the words I long to hear
Aloha

bachophile

American beauty. By the dead. What a great album.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Aqua Letifer

@George-K said in What are you listening to now?:

I play that in the background in each of my team meetings. No shit.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you listening to now?:

I play that in the background in each of my team meetings. No shit.

Next time, try this:

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taiwan_girl

For other Democratic Socialist music, the Ponchobo Electonic Ensemble can be listened to.

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George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

If you're a Sting fan, take a listen to this. Many re-recorded songs ("Desert Rose" is quite different).

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Copper

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George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

This is...unusual:

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Klaus

@George-K interesting!

I found this excerpt on YT:

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It's interesting to compare it with the Liszt transcription:

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I think I prefer the Liszt variant slightly. Overall, I must say, though, that, at least in the finale of the 9th, they fail to convince me relative to the orchestral version.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Klaus I've listened to that recording countless times. However, I never followed the score.

Gives me a new appreciation for all thing things that are going on.

And how freakishly difficult it must be to play. All. Those. Octaves.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Speaking of transcriptions...

As I mentioned, I'm reading "2312," and in it there's a description of a concert in which one of the pieces performed was a four-hand version of the Beethoven Grosse Fuge. They even mentioned the opus number: 134.

I had no idea this thing existed, but, there you have it. Beethoven himself transcribed it for four hands:

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Oh, and speaking of speaking of transcriptions, my first encounter with Peter Serkin was a recording I purchased in 1972 (?) of him playing Beethoven's Op. 61(a) - the piano version of the violin concerto.

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Doctor Phibes

Since we're doing piano, I recently rediscovered this album on Amazon music - it accompanies my dog walks. I just love this guy's playing.

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George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you listening to now?:

I recently rediscovered this album on Amazon music

Thanks for that. I just added it to my library. He's got quite the discography!

This is a bit more than half...

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Doctor Phibes

Early Bud Powell is amazing. As he got older, it was less good - he suffered a lot from mental illness, back when the treatment was rather unsophisticated. A very sad life - he died in 1966 at the age of 41 from a combination of TB and alcoholism.