Fanfare for the common man

stufisher · August 2023

Just got back home after driving for a couple of hours. It's a warm, blue sky, sunny day here (so great for driving).

Spotify playlist on shuffle ... out of the blue I suddenly hear ELP blasting out of the car sound system

Hadn't heard FFTCM in years an TBH I had completely forgotten how powerful and uplifting it is ... what an arrangement ... what a sound

What was the last piece of music you heard that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

ArchtopDave · August 2023

Loved it ever since Keith Emerson started doing it back in the days of The Nice. Saw them live complete with Keith in his fringed suede jacket pushing daggers into the keyboard to get sustained notes.

Offset · August 2023

stufisher said:

What was the last piece of music you heard that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

'Elegy For Dunkirk' by Jeff Beck, played by Planet Rock on Remembrance Sunday last year after the minutes' silence. Mrs O and I were driving home and listened in complete silence. Not only did hairs stand up but eyes were moistened.

Brilliant and incredibly moving.

rogd · August 2023

Gresford, The Miners Hymn.

goldtop · August 2023

stufisher said:

Just got back home after driving for a couple of hours. It's a warm, blue sky, sunny day here (so great for driving).

Spotify playlist on shuffle ... out of the blue I suddenly hear ELP blasting out of the car sound system

Hadn't heard FFTCM in years an TBH I had completely forgotten how powerful and uplifting it is ... what an arrangement ... what a sound

What was the last piece of music you heard that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

A couple of years ago, random shuffling on the hifi played Gary Moore's 'Johnny Boy'. Which was, of course, originally about the loss of Phil Lynott, and I already loved it and found it moving when Gary was still around.

I hadn't heard it for ages. And even as it was playing I was sure I heard:

When I hear that wind blow
All across the Wicklow mountains
Is it you, I hear a calling
Gary Moore, oh Gary Moore...

darthed1981 · August 2023

Offset said:

stufisher said:

What was the last piece of music you heard that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

'Elegy For Dunkirk' by Jeff Beck, played by Planet Rock on Remembrance Sunday last year after the minutes' silence. Mrs O and I were driving home and listened in complete silence. Not only did hairs stand up but eyes were moistened.

Brilliant and incredibly moving.

Thanks I must give that a listen.

darthed1981 · August 2023

Is there no love here for Copland BTW?

ICBM · August 2023

stufisher said:

What was the last piece of music you heard that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

Jake Bugg singing ‘Broken’, live with just his acoustic guitar.

stufisher · August 2023

These are all really moving ... in different ways of course. All new to me

Weirdly, I had a long catch-up call with my 77yo buddy last night and he told me about something special he'd organised for his 80 yo Ozzie life-long friend who is visiting at the moment.

It made me think of this (which I have subsequently forwarded to him) ... gets me every time

Tannin · August 2023

darthed1981 said:

Is there no love here for Copland BTW?

Yes, but not in the ELP version, which adds nothing to the symphonic version and loses a fair bit.

Tannin · August 2023

NothingOnTheTele · August 2023

Offset said:

stufisher said:

What was the last piece of music you heard that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up?

'Elegy For Dunkirk' by Jeff Beck, played by Planet Rock on Remembrance Sunday last year after the minutes' silence. Mrs O and I were driving home and listened in complete silence. Not only did hairs stand up but eyes were moistened.

Brilliant and incredibly moving.

That's beautiful.

This forum really is a great place to find new music.

Bork · August 2023

darthed1981 said:

Is there no love here for Copland BTW?

FFFTCM is in my top five of favourite pieces of music. It's a remarkable arrangement and hauntingly crafted even in it's original form. Then ELP came along and added some edge to it.

Another one of my guilty pleasures is Toccata in Dm by Sky. Some will recognise it from the movie Rollerball.

thecolourbox · August 2023

Last piece I heard that made me shiver and stop in my tracks was Going Home, words to the tune of Dvorak's New World largo.

stufisher · August 2023

@thecolourbox that's wonderful

It has prompted recall of this (watch from 2'30" onwards):

Mrs F and I were there in person and we both cried ... the emotion was overwhelming ... 25,000 in the audience, sitting in a 2,000 year old, open air arena, just after a thunderstorm ... I don't expect we'll ever get near that pinnacle again

axisus · September 2023

I was a big fan of ELP back in the day. They were one of those bands though that had AMAZING tracks, and also terrible ones. The best stuff - brilliant, the worst - unlistenable.

ICBM · September 2023

axisus said:

I was a big fan of ELP back in the day. They were one of those bands though that had AMAZING tracks, and also terrible ones. The best stuff - brilliant, the worst - unlistenable.

Likewise. A friend at school had all their albums, and I taped them and listened to them a lot. A few years ago I bought several of them on CD out of nostalgia, but as you say, they veer between genius and appalling... I eventually replaced them all with just the 'Best Of' (with the psuedo-Japanese cover) which has pretty much everything you actually need - although slightly annoyingly, nothing from Tarkus, which does have its moments. But not enough to buy Tarkus again.

Brain Salad Surgery is *almost* worth having for the cover... but not quite.

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