What is up with the CLASSICAL music? You want some real CLASSIC music?
Dio. Holy Diver.
~~http://youtu.be/bkysjcs5vFU~~
New (Working?) Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkysjcs5vFU
@Student: I’m getting old… I watched this (your link doesn’t work):
… and all I could think was “these kids today could learn a thing or two from these guys!”
Clayton -
Clayton,
Haha for real. 
If you dig classic music AND metal, I am going to guess you are also a fan of prog rock. Yes?
If so, you may like this series Slate is running on the rise, fall, and rebirth of prog rock. Here is the first entry:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/prog_spring/features/2012/prog_rock/history_of_prog_the_nice_emerson_lake_palmer_and_other_bands_of_the_1970s_.html
Also check out the Holy Diver Big Band Cover of Pat Boone, just awesome (The video isn’t original though of course and its not to full length of the song unfortunately…):
My favourite of him is Heaven and Hell from his Black Sabbath days though.
May he rest in peace in Rock Heaven!
Last week’s selections included several Toumani Diabate albums, a Count Basie “best of” compilation, Rush’s Permanent Waves, Clutch’s Pure Rock Fury, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and pieces from Schumann’s Album for the Young that I’m currently learning on the piano.
I’d like to add diversity to the list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCR8mvVvC1M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7omu2UNVA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzgh0cLopck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl9WMIPzd6w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUQaNJjngPU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt2BtvEH2mM
For us computer nerds:
This one has pyramids:
What a song!
Puscifer with Milla Jovovich - The Mission " M Is for Milla Mix"
I like classical, blues, jazz, hip hop, rock, prog rock, metal, death metal, electronic, punk, you name it. If it sounds good to me then I like it.
I wouldn’t ordinarily think of the Black-Eyed Peas - of Boom Boom Pow fame - as a fount of wisdom but I heard this on the radio this morning on the way to work and really listened to the words for the first time:
It could almost be the theme-song for Rockwellian libertarians.
Clayton -
I’m really feeling this band from my neck of the woods in NJ. It’s very intricate, upbeat instrumental music. To me, this song just sounds like freedom. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_VKFgRRACs
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I always wondered if anyone other than left-libertarians were into anarcho-punk. I’m not, but this song about anarcho-punk is one of my current favorites. Especially the part that’s like, “Let’s try to keep as much emotion out of this as possible.”
Here’s my music choices:
Listen to them all, PLEASE.
I’m on a steady diet of Dvorak chamber music lately. Two brief breaks for a Benny Goodman collection, and Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull.
Oh! And in September I finally forked over for Rush tickets, first time I’ve been able to see them live. Caught them at the Prudential Center in N.J.
I must say, it was awesome to see them but that is one crummy sounding stadium. I bought tickets for my sister and her husband too, and they weren’t all that familiar with Rush. I’m not sure what they got out of it really…but the energy of going to a concert seems to have inspired them to pick up 2112 and Moving Pictures, so I guess I got them on board anyway.
Armin Van Buuren - ASOT 159
On a huge Soundgarden kick right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwDlcx3HWAU
The Day I Tried To Live: One of a classic song by an amazing band. I usually don’t listen to lyrics, but these can be seen as very Austrian (Mayb/probably it’s because I am looking at the Legecy of Max Weber, while listening to the song):
It’s about being an active human being with an active mind, trying out different orientations to set to a plan, how plans often fail (even coordinating the words from the head to voice is problem, something I am very empathetic with), trying to understand and communicate with your surrounding in an inter-subjective manner. expectations and failed expectations and that no matter what your lot is from the previous ends to the means employed when you wake up you will probably give the whole damn thing another shot, because it is better than being regulated to an ant hill.
Either way it’s has one of the most kick ass bass grooves I’ve heard
Wound up/
Can’t sleep/
Can’t do anything right, little honey…
The Cult - Fire Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72YszOdxdnM&list=LL-CVACYfoe3LdbKW_X1rRkA