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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 March 2015 CE
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Edited Mar 29, 2015, 09:50
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 March 2015 CE
Mar 29, 2015, 07:02
Adams: Harmonium/Choruses from The Death Of Klinghoffer
Anyone interested in the middle east, censorship and American politics could do worse than look into the fury generated by Adams opera "The Death Of Klinghoffer" and its resulting suppression (overt and tacit). These choral excerpts are pretty great too if your tastes run that way.*

Nearly all these sounded great this week. The Crimson albums are just plain weird ...

I Roy- Musical Shark Attack
The The - Dusk & Infected
The Clash - Sandinista & This Is England & Super Black Market Clash
Joe Strummer - Streetcore
Spirit - Spirit of '76 & Future Games
Kronos Quartet - Early Music
Feist - Metals
Dexys - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out
King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon & Islands & Lizard
Bill Hicks - Shock and Awe & Salvation
Claudio Abbado, LSO, Martha Argerich - Ravel Piano Concerto #2
Clinton's War On Terror (Media Roots Podcast)
Moral Maze (BBC Podcast)
Hard Talk (BBC Podcast)

* The controversy itself is still running nearly 25 years after the first performance. With all that has happened over that period of time it is shaming that rock n roll has barely been able to raise an eyebrow in the mainstream political arena in the same period. Paid off and neutered by the rush to branding and the narcissism of social media. Lest we forget even Massive Attack changed their name to accommodate broadcasters' "difficulties" in saying their name on-air during the first gulf war.

Still, apparently it is much more important these days to be seen arguing furiously about the small differences between different kinds of pop music than really saying anything important about what is going on outside its own shrinking world. Carbon neutral touring and declaring "war" on Ticketmaster isn't really cutting it. Can Brian May really be our most outspoken political thinker in rock right now? Almost as bizarre as finding we have a Socialist Pope and opera that tells truth to power. How did that happen? Bah. Humbug.
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