Nancy Sinatra Mood Today

Because I am in a bit of s Sixties mood today, and because I'm doing this as a demo of blogging for my class, here's something that epitomises this era more than any other. Nancy Sinatra, and These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.

Black Noise

Posting this embedded video tonight to mark the passing of Nash the Slash, reportedly dead the weekend of 2014 05 11.


Rest easy, man. Rest easy.

Bonus: Here's one of my favourite tracks of all time, Swing Shift 69.

Bowie - "Ashes To Ashes" - video

Another piece of music that played when I parted with a lover, this one is particularly poignant because the lover in question is no longer with us.

Ultravox - "Vienna" - video

Continuing with the theme of music videos to mark the songs playing in my head at the end of a relationship, or at least on the occasion of parting with the relationship continuing, here's Ultravox's seminal music video "Vienna." This one played as I said goodbye to one woman whom I'd known from attending various conventions in the Eighties, but who left for Italy. This music was playing as we said goodbye for the last time, in that convention in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1986.

Side Note 1: Ye Gods, I'd almost forgotten that convention completely. The one I went to in Leicester, just two weeks afterwards, blew the Geordie convention away - because while Galileo Con '86 in Toonland had been where we fans commemorated the 20th anniversary of Star Trek, Midcon '86 was where the announcement was made that Star Trek was making a return to TV screens, in the form of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Side Note 2: Now how could I have forgotten Galileo '86? That was the place where I picked up the very first issue of The Klingon Dictionary, in its original Little Blue Book version released by Simon & Schuster not the year before.

Regardless ... I present to you, "Vienna" by Ultravox.

Erik Satie - "Gymnopedie Number 1" - video

Here is a piece of classical music - Erik Satie's piano piece "Gymnopedie Number 1" - which, to me, marked the end of a relationship. I can't think of this music without thinking of the breakup which preceded it.

Andy Williams - "Can't Get Used To Losing You" - video

Following last night's post of the cover version of "Can't Get Used To Losing You" by The Beat, I thought I'd post the original song, of which The Beat's version was a mere cover.

Here's the original, sung by Andy Williams:-

The Beat - "Can't Get Used To Losing You" - video

So, Thursday 2014 05 01, I had to see off someone who was very close to my heart. She'd been in my life since 2011, but she'd been with me and the folks, visiting, since her arrival at Liverpool Lime Street on 2014 04 21.

Every time I've parted from one of my enamorata passim, there was always some earworm that stuck in my head for days afterwards, a theme to remind me of the nights of romance and joy which were over. The aubades which were the compliment of all those nocturnes.

These earworms included David Bowie's "Ashes To Ashes," Ultravox's "Vienna," Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1" and the theme tune to the TV show "Twin Peaks" by Angelo Badalamenti.

And now, there's this song, which stuck in my head as I awoke, that last terrible Thursday morning.

Guess there's no use in hangin' 'round
Guess I'll get dressed and do the town
I'll find some crowded avenue
Though it will be empty without you

Can't get used to losin' you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life through
Loving you

Called up some girl I used to know
After I heard her say "Hello"
Couldn't think of anything to say
Since you're gone it happens every day

Can't get used to losin' you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life through
Loving you

I'll find somebody, wait and see
Who am I kiddin', only me
'Cause no one else could take your place
Guess that I am just a hopeless case

Can't get used to losin' you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life through
Loving you

I can't get used to losin' you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna live my whole life through
Loving you

Over the next few posts to this blog, I will post video links to each of these sad little aubades in turn. Each marking a parting of sorts.

And by the way ... this current parting is not the end of the relationship. Thus far, to my joy, this relationship feels as if it is just starting, and could build up to something I have never had in any previous relationship - meaning that I will be venturing deeper and into unknown territory.

Tonight's video should, therefore, be considered a celebration. I certainly do.

Birds On The Wires - A Musical Video

Post by Richard B Smart.

A Musical Interlude

Following on from the recent tribulations to hit access to the sound files on Hypnotic Erotic, I thought I'd post a few of the Incompetech tracks that I enjoy, whose moods more suit the themes of this blog.

Of course, some of them also match the themes and moods of Perchance To Dream, as well - which is why I'll cross post this to that other blog.

Right-click on any track to download it.

Intended Force - evocative of Sherlock Holmes but predating the chase theme of Steven Moffat's "Sherlock"

Exotics

Arcadia

The Pyre

Virtutes Instrumental

The Other Side Of The Door

Not As It Seems

Please try and see if the links work. If they fail to download, let me know in the comments. Kevin McLeod is a gifted composer and musician, and basically he ought to be writing movie and TV show scores. His compositions match a lot of the moods I try and evoke in my blogs, and it's always enjoyable listening to them.