 Aria 1 (1997) [ larger cover art ] |
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| RedG (Weston Super Mare - United Kingdom) | Posted: Feb 12, 2006 - 14:39 It's OK I like any song which tends to modulate through a series of keys, this song is OK, but it tends to be quite repetitive |
| iMacomania (Bavaria - Germany) | Posted: Jan 08, 2006 - 03:03  |
| rosedraws (never close enough) | Posted: Dec 16, 2005 - 07:10 it's good to try... but the lame keyboard and dopey drums make it hopeless. |
| Pyro | Posted: Dec 16, 2005 - 07:08 ttburger3 wrote: Why do I like this song so much? Not only is the vocal fantastic (if you're old enough to appreciate opera)
 but the hypnotic xylophone riff blended flawlwssly with the strings, electronhic rythm and voice. It's definately TRANCEndental.
Count me among those who think this is ethereal.... |
| buddy213 (Pasadena) | Posted: Dec 10, 2005 - 02:52 :puke: |
| kazuma (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 10, 2005 - 20:16 AdamMenendez wrote: Surely there are better ways to get people to donate than calling them "ridiculous" and showing them a picture of someone being over the head with a mallet . . . Surely you must be right, but I can't think of one at the moment. Excellent track in any case. |
| AugieK (In the funny papers) | Posted: Oct 27, 2005 - 06:27 boileymon wrote: I really find such comments ridiculous. Do you think Bill can produce completely different sets 24/7/365? He has to sleep. Complaining about arguably the best streaming radio on the internet with a setlist 50X that of the typical clear channel station is ludicrous. You probably don't donate either...  
Put me down among the heathens who hate this set. |
| trekhead (Just Missed Me.) | Posted: Oct 27, 2005 - 06:27 Thought that was Rene Fleming... 7. for now. |
| Nuance (Winnipeg) | Posted: Oct 27, 2005 - 06:24 Good intellectual groove goin on this a.m. nice mix is stimulating the creative side, & since I'm designing layouts for a magazine, is quite excellent. Nice set Bill. |
| trout_fisher (Swansea,Wales) | Posted: Oct 27, 2005 - 06:21 Melrox wrote: Oh, I don't know. Kinda cool idea. Purcell rocks on his own, as well. Maybe someone who hadn't heard of Purcell will look him up now! Correct |
| aayesha | Posted: Oct 12, 2005 - 14:22 lovin' this rendition. we still have the haunting voice of dido with the definitive modern beat. loneliness and modernity go hand in hand. here's to the sweet pain of lost love... |
| gillicious (Vancouver) | Posted: Oct 12, 2005 - 14:19 In first year of music school my history prof referred to Dido's Lament as "When I am Laid". So I have dirty thoughts whenever I hear the tune, despite knowing its real meaning. |
| Benjamin1225 (Charlotte, NC) | Posted: Sep 19, 2005 - 08:56 Love this little melody....  |
| AdamMenendez (Oregon) | Posted: Sep 04, 2005 - 12:52 boileymon wrote: You probably don't donate either... Surely there are better ways to get people to donate than calling them "ridiculous" and showing them a picture of someone being over the head with a mallet . . . |
| boileymon (Colorado Foothills) | Posted: Aug 20, 2005 - 16:09 buzz wrote: its now fri nite and bill is playing the same set. its killin me!
I really find such comments ridiculous. Do you think Bill can produce completely different sets 24/7/365? He has to sleep. Complaining about arguably the best streaming radio on the internet with a setlist 50X that of the typical clear channel station is ludicrous. You probably don't donate either... |
| buzz (slightly off center) | Posted: Jul 15, 2005 - 19:20 psycholynx wrote: What a great set !
its now fri nite and bill is playing the same set. its killin me!Paul Schwartz - Dido California Guitar Trio - Beethoven - Presto Agitato, Moonlight Sonata Art of Noise - The Holy Egoism of Genius Philip Glass - Opening Air - Universal Traveller |
| fuh2 (I think I'm in the USA) | Posted: Jun 22, 2005 - 13:12 Sounds fantastic cranked up in this building with a 40 foot ceiling. Beautiful. |
| Detlaps (Littlerock in Southern CA) | Posted: Jun 22, 2005 - 13:12 nyswede wrote: Why take this wonderful piece by Purcell and destroy it like this?
I couldn't agree with you more; There seems to be a terrible contemporary trend to "sample" (steal) music from others more gifted and accomplished, and then degrade it with electronic/computer effects. Dido's lament is infinitely better when performed as Purcell intended. |
| Melrox | Posted: Jun 22, 2005 - 13:11 nyswede wrote: Why take this wonderful piece by Purcell and destroy it like this?
Oh, I don't know. Kinda cool idea. Purcell rocks on his own, as well. Maybe someone who hadn't heard of Purcell will look him up now! |
| nyswede | Posted: Jun 16, 2005 - 09:28 Why take this wonderful piece by Purcell and destroy it like this? |
| psycholynx (Corona, CA (outside L.A.)) | Posted: Jun 16, 2005 - 09:03 What a great set ! Paul Schwartz - Dido California Guitar Trio - Beethoven - Presto Agitato, Moonlight Sonata Art of Noise - The Holy Egoism of Genius Philip Glass - Opening Air - Universal Traveller |
| pedro | Posted: May 09, 2005 - 12:44 heh. I thought this was Dido when I glanced at the iTunes info. I was going to say that she certaintly has a different new style. Thanks to RP comments, I was clued in. |
| whultman (Trogdor's backyard (Southern CA)) | Posted: May 03, 2005 - 10:02 This kind of reminds me of the performance by the diva in the movie The Fifth Element, which I thought was quite good. Once you got past the funky alien costume, Maïwenn Le Bescoshe, who played the Diva Plavalaguna, really had quite a good voice... JMHO, YMMV DOH! Didn't read the thread before posting... :iamwith: |
| gerg | Posted: May 03, 2005 - 09:59 Ichthyologist wrote: Make it stop.......
No! once more |
| Ichthyologist (Dallas) | Posted: May 03, 2005 - 09:57 Make it stop....... |
| yogaboat (outer space, obviously) | Posted: May 03, 2005 - 09:55 :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: 
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: |
| psycholynx (Corona, CA (outside L.A.)) | Posted: May 03, 2005 - 09:55 Is this the soundtrack to 7th Guest? |
| ttburger3 | Posted: Apr 18, 2005 - 18:27 Why do I like this song so much? Not only is the vocal fantastic (if you're old enough to appreciate opera) but the hypnotic xylophone riff blended flawlwssly with the strings, electronhic rythm and voice. It's definately TRANCEndental. |
| callum (hoppity hoppity just round the place) | Posted: Mar 20, 2005 - 09:25 Excellent. And much better singing that you sometimes get (IMHO). |
| stevo_b (Really Crunching Numbers Now!!!) | Posted: Mar 11, 2005 - 19:26 traveyes wrote: I have no idea why, but I like it. 8. (also reminded me of 5th element... in fact.. i logged on here to see if that's where it came from) . 5th Element, agreed. Funny flick. |
| Gregorama (Austin, TX) | Posted: Jan 26, 2005 - 13:07 Uh-oh. I skipped mass. |
| rah | Posted: Jan 20, 2005 - 09:48 zgrav wrote: "there are one or two tracks I could do without, but this one, as well as a really interesting arrangement of 'Un Bel Di" from Madam Butterfly are worth the download..."
the Madam Butterly piece is easily my favorite from the album as well. you know -- it's a tough call, but i think i might prefer this track to the butterfly piece... |
| Roverfish (Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting, please drive through!) | Posted: Jan 11, 2005 - 19:06 diane wrote: Are we in Vegas? Where are the acrobats and ringmaster?
If you like the human body, and know how to have fun, go see Zumanity. If you don't, see Mystere. Either way, I thought the same thing, diane. Cool tune, nonetheless. I've got a few of Schwartz's discs...all enjoyable in their own way. |
| diane (seacoast, nh, usa) | Posted: Dec 28, 2004 - 01:29 Are we in Vegas? Where are the acrobats and ringmaster? |
| traveyes (Southern Oregon) | Posted: Dec 21, 2004 - 20:11 I have no idea why, but I like it. 8. (also reminded me of 5th element... in fact.. i logged on here to see if that's where it came from) . |
| joempie | Posted: Dec 13, 2004 - 06:02 please, be finished! |
| the_jake (In the human bubble machine) | Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 07:24 cubsfreak wrote: Reminds me of the Diva's song in the movie "The Fifth Element"... not sure if that is a good thing though. :-s
My thoughts exactly.  |
| truk77 (Denton, TX) | Posted: Nov 22, 2004 - 07:23 Oh snap, this is my wife's favorite aria. I gotta get her to hear this. She'll either love it or hate it. :-s |
| trekhead | Posted: Oct 15, 2004 - 05:20 ...Actually , not THAT bad.... A 4. |
| fuh2 | Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 15:24 I dont like opera but I do like this. The bass and drums balance out the high pitch opera singing. Brilliant! |
| masterhead (Sacramento, Ca) | Posted: Sep 30, 2004 - 15:22 Just one word... |
| TreborG2 (VA - somewhere east of paradise) | Posted: Sep 24, 2004 - 08:22 alldog wrote: Because they're perfect as is. I agree they are perfected in some respects... but then doesn't that lend itself to being mimicked mocked and derivatives made from?
There is a new radio show, probably something similar everywhere in the US.. Mix Tracks or, Mix Backs, or some such "catch" word for it.. they take two songs.. adjust speed if needed.. or use alternate versions of them.. play bits of each of them as if the finished song were designed to be the result of them.. some are very good, some are garbage, some are just mediocre... but the fun is in listening to things you'd never heard before and deciding if they worked.. or didn't work together.. I thought it fun.. and same of this.. I thought it fun. In the right mood, at the right time, this was appropriate, now would I go pay to see something like this on the fly? doubtful... would I expect to go to a concert and hear nothing but this? no.. About a year ago, Bobby McFerrin was conducting Chick Corea and an orchestra, I went to it at WolfTrap (Vienna, VA) expecting classical music, and some improvisational work on the parts of both McFerrin & Corea ... and I got it!! I enjoyed the classical.. then the orchestra left the stage leaving the two of them.. and they improvised then a real intermission, and they all returned with a closing number that mixed in Bobby McFerrin's vocalizations with the rest of the orchestra.. it was brillient.. fun.. open the mind, allow yourself to enjoy original and remake, or at least allow them the room to exist. 
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| trekhead | Posted: Sep 24, 2004 - 08:18 "El Capitalismo Foraneo" = foreign currency? Not much a subject for a song.... a 2. More subtitles! |
| zgrav | Posted: Sep 24, 2004 - 08:18 "there are one or two tracks I could do without, but this one, as well as a really interesting arrangement of 'Un Bel Di" from Madam Butterfly are worth the download..." the Madam Butterly piece is easily my favorite from the album as well. |
| zgrav | Posted: Sep 24, 2004 - 08:17 The funniest thing about this piece is that tend to misread the title and perceive it as being a little more thrusting than intended. If in doubt, make fun of the title. Pathetic, I know. |
| alldog | Posted: Sep 09, 2004 - 14:13 keemun wrote: this sort of thing isn't an attempt to change the original--just to make it part of another, different piece of music. I don't see that one really affects the other, the original is not denigrated or demeaned by its incorporation into another piece. people (quite likely different people) will listen to both. :-) that incorporation can go well or badly...I think this one is well done, whereas, for example, the Apotheosis remix of "O Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana" is quite mediocre. It's the drum maching that gets me. Drum machines demean everything. In this case, to my ears, it does corrupt the original. I don't see the machine or the other little frills as adding anything, but your point that it is possible to take an aria and work it into something new is true, so I was generalizing below. If some people enjoy this, that's just fine; but it's not adding anything musically in my opinion. I wonder if RP played a recording of the original -- say, by Jordi Savall -- whether people would be as gung-ho over this. |
| keemun | Posted: Sep 09, 2004 - 12:00 alldog wrote: Because they're perfect as is. this sort of thing isn't an attempt to change the original--just to make it part of another, different piece of music. I don't see that one really affects the other, the original is not denigrated or demeaned by its incorporation into another piece. people (quite likely different people) will listen to both. :-) that incorporation can go well or badly...I think this one is well done, whereas, for example, the Apotheosis remix of "O Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana" is quite mediocre. |
| alldog | Posted: Sep 09, 2004 - 11:57 MrKite wrote: Why's that then? Because they're perfect as is. |
| coentje (The Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 09, 2004 - 11:56 WOW, cool stuff... |
| MrKite (The Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 01, 2004 - 02:37 mig7 wrote: Some genres shouldn't be hybridized
Why's that then? |