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

it's good to try... but the lame keyboard and dopey drums make it hopeless.

ttburger3 wrote: Count me among those who think this is ethereal....

AdamMenendez wrote: Surely you must be right, but I can't think of one at the moment. Excellent track in any case.

boileymon wrote:Yeah, buzz, when are you and Jrzy gonna start giving back to RP? Huh? Put me down among the heathens who hate this set.

Thought that was Rene Fleming... 7. for now.

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.

Melrox wrote: Correct

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...

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.

Love this little melody....

boileymon 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 . . .

buzz 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...

psycholynx wrote:its now fri nite and bill is playing the same set. its killin me!

Sounds fantastic cranked up in this building with a 40 foot ceiling. Beautiful.

nyswede wrote: 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.

nyswede 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!

Why take this wonderful piece by Purcell and destroy it like this?

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

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.

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:

Ichthyologist wrote: No! once more

Make it stop.......

Is this the soundtrack to 7th Guest?

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.

Excellent. And much better singing that you sometimes get (IMHO).

traveyes wrote: 5th Element, agreed. Funny flick.

Uh-oh. I skipped mass.

zgrav wrote: you know -- it's a tough call, but i think i might prefer this track to the butterfly piece...

diane wrote: 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.

Are we in Vegas? Where are the acrobats and ringmaster?

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) .

please, be finished!

cubsfreak wrote: My thoughts exactly.

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

...Actually , not THAT bad.... A 4.

I dont like opera but I do like this. The bass and drums balance out the high pitch opera singing. Brilliant!

Just one word... wow!

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alldog wrote: 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.

"El Capitalismo Foraneo" = foreign currency? Not much a subject for a song.... a 2. More subtitles!

"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.

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.

keemun wrote: 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.

alldog 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.

MrKite wrote: Because they're perfect as is.

WOW, cool stuff...

mig7 wrote: Why's that then?

Some genres shouldn't be hybridized

A fascinating combination of styles....it puts me in mind of the singer that was used to voice the Diva in The Fifth Element.

Greenman wrote: Before I looked to see what this song was, I thought for sure it was going to BE Dido! The intro sounds just like any of the few songs I've heard of hers on the radio. Coincidence? I don't think so!

this is a great track from a pretty good album (called "Aria") -- 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...

I'm with AlanB...it's 21st century meets 17th century. First time I've heard this and I LIKE IT!!

This song is Beautiful!

I'm kinda loving the sweetness and gentleness of the voice.

Wow! What great study music!

frankydee wrote: It is amazing, isn't it? Although I'm not surprised by the negative comments. I could see this as a "love it or hate it" kind of thing. I'm a real fan of this whole "21st century meets 17th century" stuff. A kind of temporal equivalent of World Music. I wonder what a Palestrina mass would sound like given this treatment?

Leslie wrote: it's the forsaken Dido's aria from Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas", one of a very smal number of early English operas. Personally I would prefer the 17th Century instrumentation. Don't think the synth really adds a thing, aside from getting it played in unlikely venues.

On paper this song sounds terrible, but it just seems to work. And I kinda like the synth, too. :)

As 3 seperate elements, this song is nice, but altogether it is too much.

very interesting sounds. me likes. i was afraid there for a second when i saw "dido" in my winamp scroller. whew!

Pretty good song. Too bad about the cheesy synth patch, tho... Jason

I grew up listening to opera (not by choice). The vocals are based on a famous aria, but for the life of me I can't remember which one. I'm thinking it's from Bizet's opera, Carmen, but don't quote me on that.

I think I would prefer Dido singing Paul Schwartz... :?

this album has been one of my guilty pleasures for two or three years (yeah, so it's silly synth stuff... think of it like a starbucks mochachino for the ears) i LOVE this track...

the synth line is getting on my nerves...

"Hey lets mix opera, techno and classical elements into one piece." The result is oustanding. Beautiful.

Reminds me of the Diva's song in the movie "The Fifth Element"... not sure if that is a good thing though. :-s

Cool - reminded me of "Fifth Element"

This song caught my ear untill the singing started. They could have made this an instrumental and it would have been fine.

Almost worse than torture, AWFUL.

Dido: 1 : a mischievous or capricious act 2 : something that is frivolous or showy Errr -- this is as close to classical music as my whistling Pop Goes the Weasel.

Kinda Kewl.

Interesting to hear some classical music, even if it is a little bit \"hooked on\", I like it anyhue. :)