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Hemispheres - Rush.

What a fantastic album this is! Sadly Rush have not replicated the creative genius of the earlier albums with their modern offerings. Still fantastic musicians though.
 
Did you feel anything, or you just "fell"?:p

(You know I'm just pullin' pigtails and kickin' shins, right Boston?);)
What am I listening to this second?
Traffic report; All Northbound lanes closed indefinitely, motorcycle fatality accident investigation expected to take hours; Traffic backing up for dozens of miles, pouring onto all surface streets.......And Dad is headed straight into it, never answers the phone or checks a text while driving. :(
 
The opening sequence of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time In The West".

A friggin' masterpiece.

A small hand full of odd edits that leave me wondering, but a near flawless feast for the eyes. It grabs your attention from the very first second. Few films make you genuinely enjoy watching the opening title credits, and refuse to let you go, rewarding a loooooooooong attention span at times.

And the audio production in the first 8:00 minutes or so is stunning.
 
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The opening sequence of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time In The West".

A friggin' masterpiece.

A small hand full of odd edits that leave me wondering, but a near flawless feast for the eyes. It grabs your attention from the very first second. Few films make you genuinely enjoy watching the opening title credits, and refuse to let you go, rewarding a loooooooooong attention span at times.

And the audio production in the first 8:00 minutes or so is stunning.
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Prompted me to search for Ennio Morricone's film music on Spotify. "Fistful of dollars" and all that good stuff. He was one of the pioneers of the well crafted film score. Brilliant music!
 
The Clash - Working and Waiting (Instrumental)...........As loud as possible, and for the 300,000th time. What the hell more do you need in life most days, beyond three notes, some feedback and sustain??????

Surprise, surprise, surprise..........He's an angry........... angryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangryangry Muther' effer..............And the (Album version) was the soundtrack of my entire life for an 18 month window of time. To some, they were "The only band that mattered".
The instrumental version has always reminded me of Rumble, by Link Wray.....And if that's good enough for Jimmy Page, it's good enough for me.......Simple, ultra cool guitar licks, repeated again and again.........never quite the same way twice, and with some nice effects laid on top. And in the instrumental version of clampdown, it is so easy to hear all of it....... The jet fighters overhead, the factory whistle calling you back to your miserable shift.......and the minutes of your stupid, glorious life ticking away...........And the final pathetic whimper at the end. Who even cares?

The instrumental version is so cool.......... (Don't spoil it for me, but) I wanna' believe it was a pre-show sound check, in an empty, 300,000 seat arena; A casual, accidental board tape taken from an echo chamber rehearsal, thankfully preserved for us all..........but I know that isn't true. The same way I know that "working and waiting" in real life is an entirely futile endeavor.

At this point, having achieved neither Death or Glory, what else is there for me?;)
 
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