Clojurians Log v2

I never really got into Handel but I liked a lot of Baroque-period music. I had a lot of Bach recordings. There's a lot of interesting stuff from that era.

Feel free to share names 😄

I had at least one recording of that, back in the day. I had over 2,000 CDs when I lived in England, and half were classical. But I sold most of the collection when I moved to America (in '99) and started over with digital purchases... although I never bought back most of my classical stuff. My wife hates nearly all my taste in music, so I don't listen to much, and don't buy as much. It's not like there's any silence to fill, now that I do not live alone 🙂

I had about 200 opera recordings—and my wife really hates opera, unfortunately, and those aren't exactly recordings you can just dip into, so sitting for hours with headphones on in another room would be pretty antisocial 🙂

Plus, back in England I had a really high-end hifi installation, none of which would run on US voltage back then, so I mostly gave that away to friends when I emigrated.

I never got into opera. I accidentally stumbled onto 1 rendition of something, I never found out what, on some random flow tv channel that I had access to once, and it was awesome, but I don't know what it was. Maybe it was Manon, but the scheduling overview sucked, so I don't know.

2000 cds, that's a bit!

Too bad you don't share taste in music. What kind of stuff does she like?

My wife and I have some overlap, otherwise I don't think we'd be married, but I listen to a lot of stuff that she finds silly or just bad 🙂

Other baroque... I was a fan of Scarlatti's keyboard pieces (probably because I was so fond of Bach: see also Couperin), also Frescobaldi from an earlier baroque period (influenced Bach).

Thank you! looks up music

Her tastes are very mainstream. Some stuff I can tolerate, mostly I just find it "harmless" and bland... My tastes tend to the "difficult" end of the musical scale.

haha

I pretty much always go to concerts on my own, or with our friends' kids. My last two concerts were Ministry (who I've loved for 40 years) and KMFDM 🙂

Before that, Soft Machine... and Throbbing Gristle, I think.

I go to a couple of extremes, both the weird/"difficult" stuff (like jazz or odd electronic things) and really schmaltzy pop. I've opened up to more mainstream things as I've gotten older 🙂

We share a taste for metal, and our son has inherited that - he always demands we play Lamb of God in the car.

I'll have to give those a go as well. Been ages since I listend to anything in the Industrial vein

You might like Soft Machine. Start with their fifth album and then try their third album.

Weird jazz rock from the '60s/'70s.

I think their drummer was 78 when I saw them live on their 50th anniversary tour.

helpfully named albums x)

Awesome!

I love industrial music 🙂

I've liked it for effect (in movies and such), but never got into it as a straight listening thing

Even when I'm listening on headphones, that is guaranteed to make my wife run screaming from the room tho'...

haha

I saw Einsturztende Neubauten live one time—incredible!

Any particular recording you'd like to recommend? I've heard the name before, but know nothing about them

Are you into afrobeat at all?

EN album that really got me into them: Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala, but earlier works like Kollaps and Halber Mensch are amazing too.

And if you like EN, Test Dept from the UK are worth checking out (also early/mid '80s).

Yeah, Afrobeat is one area where my taste overlaps somewhat with Jay's taste 🙂

Also a lot of Middle Eastern music we both like.

Lovely, I wish I could get my wife on that that. I really like a lot of Antibalas' stuff.

I know there must be a lot of gold in Fela Kuti's archive, I just haven't gotten around to digging

Examples of Middle Eastern stuff? That's unknown territory to me

She's a massive fan of Johnny Clegg, which is a bit toward the edge of what I like...

Ofra Haza is probably the most approachable in Middle Eastern music

Jay would probably be able to recommend more Middle Eastern stuff—she was a belly dancer for years and performed in various countries incl. Egypt when her troupe toured (from the US).

(but she just came back from the gym and crashed for a nap)

I've already a lot of stuff queued up 😄

Thank you very much!

Oh man Corelli is great

You should check out Keygen Church

Holiday time

That's my guess

Fun how that translates across languages. We call it “Komkommernieuws” in Dutch. Also referring to a cucumber.

Also fun: your word for cucumber is … agurk. In Dutch, “augurk” is a pickle

Hah! We probably got it from you

Same in NL, "augurkentijd"

February is the ‘short month’ because it used to be the last month of the year

August is named after emperor Augustus. It used to be called Sextilis — the sixth month. This makes sense given that they started counting from March.

Some people suggest that Augustus wanted his month to be as long as July (named after Caesar) — this appears to be false.

Ah, I was about to ask about that—it's a long-standing and very widespread myth, in that case!

Oh, cannot unsee september/october/november/december as 7-8-9-10 now. That I never noticed :’).

I did Latin at school so... 🙂

And even more weird, before they changed the calendar, they had interleaved 31 - 29 day months. BUT; their Sextilis (now August) and Septembris were both 29 days long. So the July-August weirdness used to be August-September weirdness.