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Post #161
7/10, it's cool
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8/10 Not to my personal taste but holy fuck that's alot of people
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5/10, it's kinda neat, but not my thing.
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7/10. Pretty nice power metal. I gave it a high score mostly because Its about Simo Häyhä, though.
Dont see many of those songs around.
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That was amazing, little on the fence about the vocals, will check out more of their stuff though. 8/10
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Jethro Tull owns. 8/10
Italian baritone Tito Gobbi sings a very dramatic rendition of the scene and Rigoletto's subsequent aria "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata!!!" from Verdi's "Rigoletto", recorded in 1955 at La Scala in Milan, in a star studded recording with soprano Maria Callas as Gilda (Rigoletto's daughter), and tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano as the Duke of Mantua, conducted by Tullio Serafin.
To understand the emotion behind the singing, here is a short synopsis and translation (of the aria) for those not fluent in Italian
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8.5/10
i don't normally listen to that kind of music, but that was awesome
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Love me so QOTSA. 9/10
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Not really my kind of music but I guess 7/10?
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quite fun 8/10
you might need to krank up the volume for this one.
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6/10
While I really like the atmosphere, at times it seems to become a bit chaotic. Again, I reiterate I really like the atmospheric sounds.
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7/10, its good, but I feel like it belongs in a movie soundtrack alongside some deeply emotional occurrence, ala LotR, of which that gave me heavy vibes .
Canadian heldentenor Jon Vickers sings the aria "Recitar... Vesti la giubba" from Ruggero Leoncavallo's one act opera "I Pagliacci". Synopsis and text/translation here. For context, Canio has just overheard that his wife plans to run away with another man.
If anyone wants to see some absolutely superb acting, here is Vickers 13 years earlier singing the same piece, from a TV broadcast with english subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4NIipD3IHs
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Very nostalgic sound to it, loved the strings in the back 8/10
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8/10
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7/10 A bit slow for my tastes, you'll see why by my next song.
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Not interested in noise electronic music.
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that is a sick beat, 9/10
Legendary Italian lyric tenor Beniamino Gigli sings Rodolfo's aria "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's "La Boheme" . Synopsis and translation here
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I miss my beautiful Lord_Schrotty because my master Eternalflamez killed him
January 2010
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Not mine style, but ill let this one pass, 7/10
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8/10. Not really my type, but still nice.
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2/10 billy joel is literally youtube comments
riffsssss
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I approve this song. 8/10, good old death metal. Maybe little generic, but straightforward and honest death metal.
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rad/10
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was a pretty decent beat, until he started squeaking/shouting/singing, whatever you wanna call that noise the vocalist made. 5/10.
Italian baritone Titta Ruffo sings an operatic classic, Figaro's introductory aria "Largo al factotum", from Rossini's "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The barber of Seville) . Translation/text here. This piece is almost never performed as written in the score, with each singer usually adding his own bit of flair or subtle nuance to it.
This was recorded in 1920, at which point Ruffo was past his prime, but he was still in relatively fine voice compared to those of his peers, having spent the previous 15-20 years roaring his way through most of the major opera houses of the world to much critical acclaim. In his prime, he was known popularly by the monkier "The Lion of Pisa" or "La voce del leone".
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I've heard it before, but I'm not a fan of this genre.
3/10
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I really like Mos Def, though I felt that this was more uninspired than some of his other stuff. 5/10
Also as a side note, LLcoolJ, You have very fantastic choices in this thread, I've listened to them all and they're marvelous, majestic pieces of pure emotion.
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5/10 not what I'd generally choose to listen to but it's inoffensive, quirky and kind of cute in an amaturish way so yeah it's ok.
motherfucking CIRITH UNGOL
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The lyrics seemed a little corny 7/10
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I'm gonna be honest I have almost no flippin idea of what was goin' on there... Some good stuff, some bad. 6/10
French tenor Georges Thill sings Vasco da Gama's aria "Pays merveilleux... O paradis" from Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera "L'Africaine".
"L'Africaine" was Meyerbeer's last opera. A final version was not finished at the time of Meyerbeer's death, so a performance version was finished by the Belgian composer François-Joseph Fétis, of whom I don't really know much about. Text/translation here
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that's some vintage sounding opera. 7/10
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i'm just gonna put 8/10 before listening cause I love stereolab
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Interesting 6/10
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Its nice. Not really a RHCP fan, but I can enjoy that. 5/10.
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7/10 it's Porcupine Tree
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One of my few musical turn-offs is guttural vocals like that. Otherwise I liked the ambient instrumentals. 4/10
Italian baritone Mario Sereni sings "Cruda funesta smania" from Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" in a recording from 1965. Synopsis and text/translation of the aria and cabaletta
I chose this recording since it one of the only recordings I've come across to contain the complete cabaletta "La pietade suo favore". The cabaletta was an important part of structure concerning Italian opera in the late 18th and early-mid 19th century, formally known as the bel canto era. Normally for a scene and aria, which is the solo, you have the recitative before the aria, the recitative being more of a speaking part, then the big aria, then you had the cabaletta, which was tagged on at the end of the number. The cabaletta was usually a livelier bit than the aria, and it usually introduced some further element of drama to the piece. Traditionally, for this particular cabaletta, over half of it would be cut out; the first section would be sung, ended by a sustained E4 which would begin a jump straight into the rousing conclusion. However this recording does not include the "Chorus of the Huntsmen" found in between the two. Here is a link to a version with the shortened cabaletta and the chorus, sung by Italian baritone Ettore Bastianini http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDgc9YZW0dY
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The Thing that disturbs me with opera is lack of instrumentation. It's there, but it's only purpose is supporting the vocals. I know that the characters are supposed to tell a story, but since i can't really understand Italian, there is no way i'm going to get what the whole song is about. All that is left for me is technically impressive vocals and faint instrumentation underneath that. I find opera's and operettas pretty far the most unimpressive and boring of all types of classical music.
Anyways, i give that song/clip 6/10 for impressive performance, I found it quite enjoyable.
SBM at its best.
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For the first 5 minutes the song it's just a verse and chorus loop, gets boring fast... vocals are not that interesting to this type of music... 3/10
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even when I was a ratm fan I never liked this song 3/10
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The production is pretty poor, and I don't really find the vocals to be that interesting, but there's nothing too wrong about it, 6/10.
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The singing was pretty good, but I'm not a fan of Rock/Pop. Also, some good guitar playing.
5/10
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6/10
Not a fan of rap but it had a pretty wondrous sound to it.
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