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Love this and the movie it featured in.

Madonna ? yuk

johngalthasspoken wrote:Madonna ? yuk

If you were smart, you'd understand that music is subjective.

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
Beatles- Eleanor Rigby 1080p (Remastered In HD by Veso™)
The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
The Guess Who - Share The Land
The Youngbloods - Get Together
Traffic - Heaven is in Your Mind

King Crimson - Epitaph
Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

johngalthasspoken wrote:Madonna ? yuk

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I don't see how anyone could call Madonna's music 'yuk'. She's terrific and very musical. She also doesn't shriek like a constipated moose a la Beyonce and Mariah Carey and their ilk. She just sings the songs as they are supposed to be sung without showing off with ridiculous vocal embellishments.

as for voices, for me i can't think of any voice better than bjork. and sade.

I don't see how anyone could call Madonna's music 'yuk'. She's terrific and very musical. She also doesn't shriek like a constipated moose a la Beyonce and Mariah Carey and their ilk. She just sings the songs as they are supposed to be sung without showing off with ridiculous vocal embellishments.[/

Compared to the those (and their ilk) you mentioned, anything is better. A flushed toilet sounds better. It is pure corporate bullshit.

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Puccini: "Un bel di vedremo" (from "Madame Butterfly", sung by Ying Huang)

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Puccini: "Un bel di vedremo" (from "Madame Butterfly", sung by Ying Huang)

Do you understand the lyrics to this aria? and it's relation to the Opera? Sarah Brightman had a nice variaton on this piece,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDLMIt3_EaY

I am familiar with the doom and gloom of the Geisha's story, so I particularly like this version by Ying Huang, rather than (although beautiful) the version portrayed by Maria Callas. I have loved this since I was a teenager. So many opera singers choose to sing this as so many ballerinas want to dance in Swan Lake.

It truly is wonderful.

i was thinking about opera this morning. there are so many beautiful voices in opera. and generally they are not associated with any violence. i was listening to bjork last night and one of the videos had violence in it. i was listening to it because i like bjork however when i clicked on the video i was subjected to scenes of violence. opera is wonderful because it generally avoids violence.

Yes there are a lot of comic operas, but there are also a lot of tragic operas, and while most do not graphicly portray the violence, there is much that is suggested in the plot. Wagner's ring cycle has a lot of violence implyed and portrayed. Madam Butterfly has only one scene of violence but it is at the end, leaving the opera on a bit of a down mood. I have the Labretta for this opera and I watched it once with the words right in front of me, and that was enough, it's such a tragic ending. Don Giovanni has a really tragic ending where the statue of one of his victims drags the bad guy into Hell without him even dying.

Another opera you might want to look at is 'Gianni Schicchi' by Puccini, which includes the aria 'O Mia Babbino Caro'. I watched this with translated subtitles, and it is really funny.

Generally speaking, most opera doesnt do it for me. I have a very limited knowledge and appreciation.

reasonvemotion wrote:Generally speaking, most opera doesnt do it for me. I have a very limited knowledge and appreciation.

I wouldn't want to sit through an entire opera but some of the arias are exquisite. I love this video. It's funny (watch to the end), clever, features the glorious voice of Cecilia Bartoli, and has only one word. What more could anyone want?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcfroAYWC_8