AndyRM
Elder Goth
I like the key fob/bracelet idea. A lot.
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I like the key fob/bracelet idea. A lot.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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If they are still serviceable, donate them to someone less fortunate?
AndyRM
Elder Goth
They weren't, and they definitely aren't now.
Pross
Active Member
You should have invented a sob story and got on The Repair Shop to get them completely refurbished. Maybe tell them your grandad wore them to kick a bunch of Mods on Brighton beach.
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Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
C R
Guru
I only discovered them yesterday via an article in the graun. I need to start buying metal hammer again.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/21/lowen-metal-band-iran-authoritarianism
C R
Guru
Listening to Lowen reminded me of this, In Che Jahanist - What kind of world is this.
View: https://youtu.be/cspVY-OWFLo?si=5nE_2p4IjbwSUGla
There's a translation here
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/che-jahaanist-what-world-che-jahanist.html
The translation doesn't read great in English, but I don't know enough Farsi to do a better job. In a nutshell the singer wonders what kind of heaven (behest) follows a world (jahan) where drinking wine is forbidden. Towards the end of the song the singer refers to himself and says he is going to get in trouble for singing this stuff.
View: https://youtu.be/cspVY-OWFLo?si=5nE_2p4IjbwSUGla
There's a translation here
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/che-jahaanist-what-world-che-jahanist.html
The translation doesn't read great in English, but I don't know enough Farsi to do a better job. In a nutshell the singer wonders what kind of heaven (behest) follows a world (jahan) where drinking wine is forbidden. Towards the end of the song the singer refers to himself and says he is going to get in trouble for singing this stuff.
briantrumpet
Guru
I'm migrating this from @First Aspect's terribly emotional thread, as we're straying from his project brief.
It's an enlightening game to take slow pieces and see how far you can push them speed-wise till they are just wrong by being too fast: it's a good way to recalibrate what feels right. Sometimes you end up not particularly liking the faster version, but by then you've made the slow version sound ridiculously ponderous, and you can't go back.
Specifically in the case of the Bach G-string Air, the way to adjust your perception is to play just the chords with the bass still playing quavers but not jumping octaves. Get it to a speed where it makes musical sense without the melody (for me that's about 60bpm, and what I would call the tactus, or sense of rhythmic 'tread'), then *sing* the melody on top, like an improvised melisma. It turns it into an ecstatic outpouring of melody, rather than a dirge.
The thing is, it doesn't really work just speeding up a slow recording, as those players have shaped the melody thinking in a quaver pulse, rather than a pulsing crotchet tactus.
So there.
And here endeth today's music appreciation lecture.
It's an enlightening game to take slow pieces and see how far you can push them speed-wise till they are just wrong by being too fast: it's a good way to recalibrate what feels right. Sometimes you end up not particularly liking the faster version, but by then you've made the slow version sound ridiculously ponderous, and you can't go back.
Specifically in the case of the Bach G-string Air, the way to adjust your perception is to play just the chords with the bass still playing quavers but not jumping octaves. Get it to a speed where it makes musical sense without the melody (for me that's about 60bpm, and what I would call the tactus, or sense of rhythmic 'tread'), then *sing* the melody on top, like an improvised melisma. It turns it into an ecstatic outpouring of melody, rather than a dirge.
The thing is, it doesn't really work just speeding up a slow recording, as those players have shaped the melody thinking in a quaver pulse, rather than a pulsing crotchet tactus.
So there.
And here endeth today's music appreciation lecture.
secretsqirrel
Active Member
Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.
briantrumpet
Guru
I think my favourite was the golf one in the bunker. A little bit of genius.
secretsqirrel
Active Member
Will have to look that one up, there were so many.
That is the sound track I most associate with Bach’s G String. Slow chilled jazz. Can‘t contemplate speeding it up at all.
I have never smoked so wasn’t damaged watching those ads as a kid.
