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In honor of the recent “blue moon,” Jay plays four songs about the moon—two classical, two popular. He also has some Quincy Jones, some Cannibal Corpse (yup), some Villa-Lobos, and some Bruckner. Complain if you will, but not about a lack of variety.
Rodgers & Hart, “Blue Moon”
Bellini, “Vaga luna, che inargenti”
Dvořák, “Song to the Moon,” from “Rusalka”
Howard, “Fly Me to the Moon”
Jones, “The Streetbeater”
Cannibal Corpse, “Frantic Disembowelment”
Villa-Lobos, “Punch,” from “The Baby’s Family”
Villa-Lobos, “Lullaby” from “The Baby’s Family”
Bruckner, Symphony No. 4
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Thanks as usual for this music.
This was…unexpected. But not a complete surprise. There is less daylight between metal and opera (particularly northern European) than I used to think, including opera divas fronting metal bands. I like it!
Cannibal Corpse was …er… interesting but not my cup of tea. Perhaps I should say not my type of dish in keeping with the …er… cannibal theme.
Heh.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of the genre for the most part. Five Finger Death Punch is a step or two down on the sandpaper-gargle scale and their videos often tell compelling stories (e.g. soldiers, police). But I think a lot of opera composers would have been totally into some modern metal bands.