SketchyMagpie
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This is my favourite classical piece, obviously heard it first in cartoons when I was a kid but I don't think any other piece of music feels more "alive" to me:
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Kingy
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Once Twice Melody?I like all kinds of music, but generally speaking I like it to have a melody. I suppose the marker I judge it by is if I can hum it days, months or even years after I heard it, it's good. If not, a forgettable mish mash. Just my own way of doing it. Certainly not a general law.
So despite being a ruffy tuffy biker back in the day, I still like ABBA (there are some people out there who I hope never read that) because their melodies were so strong. Some of the greatest rock bands of the 60's and 70's produced beautiful melodies. I don't see so much of that these days .... but that's just me.
The melody is also the reason why I like film soundtrack music so much. A lot of those introduced me to kinds of music I wouldn't have given a thought to as a teenager, I was educated by them. As I've pointed out elsewhere, that's where some of the greatest modern composers are or have earned a living.
I'd also like to give thanks to Stanley Kubrick for opening my ears: .....
Thehooperman
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I do the same.
I wasn't saying I was excluding any particular era of music, I was saying there hasn't been very much that I have liked over the last 20 years.
SketchyMagpie
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Speaking of music, I felt like illustrating some song lyrics on my day off yesterday:
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Glam
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I will listen to anything, from the classical composers to those of the present day. I'm not a massive fan of the sort of jazz sung by the like of Cleo Laine, but I do like some of the instrumentals by John Dankworth.I like all kinds of music, but generally speaking I like it to have a melody. I suppose the marker I judge it by is if I can hum it days, months or even years after I heard it, it's good. If not, a forgettable mish mash. Just my own way of doing it. Certainly not a general law.
So despite being a ruffy tuffy biker back in the day, I still like ABBA (there are some people out there who I hope never read that
The melody is also the reason why I like film soundtrack music so much. A lot of those introduced me to kinds of music I wouldn't have given a thought to as a teenager, I was educated by them. As I've pointed out elsewhere, that's where some of the greatest modern composers are or have earned a living.
I'd also like to give thanks to Stanley Kubrick for opening my ears: ....
As Bob says, if it has a melody, i'll listen to it. But my absolute favourite time for music was the 60s/70s. It's what I grew up with.
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BobClay
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One of the great film track melody writers was the late Ennio Morricone. He started out writing music for low budget Sergio Leone westerns. But those films changed the western genre forever, and gave rise to films like Soldier Blue, Bad Company and The Culpepper Cattle Company, powerful revisionist films that took us away from the black hat/white hat days.
And Ennio's melodies were legendary:
And Ennio's melodies were legendary:
Withnail
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There's no good music anymore.
Music was good 20 years ago, but it's shit now.
These are the kinds of things said by old people, and in particular, old people who have stopped listening to new music.
Don't watch that, watch this, this is the heavy heavy monster sound - one step beyond
Music was good 20 years ago, but it's shit now.
These are the kinds of things said by old people, and in particular, old people who have stopped listening to new music.
Don't watch that, watch this, this is the heavy heavy monster sound - one step beyond
staffordjas
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Is anyone else with British Gas and had their Oct £66 rebate yet that everyone is supposed to be getting ? (Energy Bills Support Scheme)
Says on their website it's paid by a couple of days after they have received Octobers direct debit payment , Paid ours DD on 1st Oct and not had it paid into bank yet.
Said on the email they originally sent that it would be paid as soon as they had received my monthly payment as well.
Son's with Shell Energy ....his rebate payment went as a credit onto his Shell account as soon as his monthly DD payment was paid
Says on their website it's paid by a couple of days after they have received Octobers direct debit payment , Paid ours DD on 1st Oct and not had it paid into bank yet.
Said on the email they originally sent that it would be paid as soon as they had received my monthly payment as well.Son's with Shell Energy ....his rebate payment went as a credit onto his Shell account as soon as his monthly DD payment was paid
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rudie111
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Nothing yetIs anyone else with British Gas and had their Oct £66 rebate yet that everyone is supposed to be getting ? (Energy Bills Support Scheme)
Says on their website it's paid by a couple of days after they have received Octobers direct debit payment , Paid ours DD on 1st Oct and not had it paid into bank yet.
Son's with Shell Energy ....his rebate payment went as a credit onto his Shell account as soon as his monthly DD payment was paid
staffordjas
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staffordjas
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I'm going to have to ring British Gas tomorrow to check why I got it , then taken straight back off me again 
Nothing ever goes bloody straight forwards for us!
Original email said that if you pay by direct debit it goes into the bank , but the one above was credited to actual British Gas billing account and straight back out again.
That's another call to add to the Covid records place to call tomorrow as well. Whilst calling GP on another matter, they have no record of our latest flu and covid jabs , and should be on by now ...
Nothing ever goes bloody straight forwards for us!Original email said that if you pay by direct debit it goes into the bank , but the one above was credited to actual British Gas billing account and straight back out again.
That's another call to add to the Covid records place to call tomorrow as well. Whilst calling GP on another matter, they have no record of our latest flu and covid jabs , and should be on by now ...
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Gramaisc
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Mine exists as a credit in the Bulb account, rather than as actual money under my control.
staffordjas
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British Gas pay it into your bank account if you pay your bills by Direct Debit.
British Gas email....
Having a good morning . SORTED ! £66 payment has now been paid to my Bank account . YAY! (looks like someone cocked up by adding it as credit to the Electric account , debited it straight away but didn't put straight back into Bank account )
And NHS Covid and Flu jab records also now all updated for both of us . Apparently we both had the SPIKEVAX version of Moderna. Is that the 'older' version ?
Gadget
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Had a really crap couple of days which my Mom topped off this afternoon by crashing the car this time with myself and Ade in it. No one hurt and cars just dented and scraped. All shook up though and the poor dog was scared again and peed all over my husband. Fighting the urge to just go hide in bed.