It’s now 1:40 and I’m not sober. The woman is sleeping. We cracked a bottle of Dom Perignon (vintage 2000) at midnight. I had been saving it for a special occasion and the fact that we’re still together after the year we had qualifies as such an occasion. It was still drinkable 20 years later but it put her right out. I’m now listening to things that inspire me. For all its flaws, this is an amazingly beautiful world and this is an incredible time to be alive.
Edit: It is now 3:02 and I am still listening to random music from my past. I finished the expensive bottle and opened a cheap one. I haven’t been this plastered for years but I’m still spelling words correctly and can tell a choir with game from one with none. I did well to limit my flood to one post that is easily ignored. lol.
First some African choir. I don’t know who they are but it’s sung by blacks and whites together and nobody is allowing talk about cultural appropriation or other such nonsense to ruin it. Indeed, it is made more beautiful by having both races join together to perform this gorgeous piece.
Scots dancing with reckless abandon. Especially the skinny chick in pink.
Pachelbel’s impossibly beautiful Canon performed by the impossibly perfect London Symphony Orchestra.
Bone Thugs n Harmony with Phil Collins doing a modernized (and greatly improved) version of one of Collins’ most famous songs.
Some Russian girls singing a folk song. Russians are not our enemy. Putin is an asshole, yes, but the Russian people are decent, proud and accomplished and they deserve better than to be treated like the pariahs they’re being portrayed as in western media.
The Opera Babes doing one of the most beautiful versions of the Ode ever recorded.
Angelo Branduardi - La Tempesta
A Korean hip hop version of Pachelbel’s famous Canon.
Chilean bimbo music. I still love it 15 years later.
Another Ode, this time by Andre Rieu who I will forgive for being Dutch. The two sopranos leave absolutely nothing on the table. It’s gorgeous to see.
Rednex - Cotton Eyed Joe. Total trailer trash music. I love it.
Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror by some choir calling itself Joyful Noise.
Anoushka Shankar. Sometimes I think she’s more brilliant than her father.
The best version of Gladiator ever recorded, by some Lithuanians led by a guy in a wheelchair.
Diane Tell, an incredibly sexy French Canadian playing the Olympia in Paris. Our generation was just simply cooler than this generation.
Louise Tucker’s take on Beethoven’s Adagio Cantabile Piano Sonata #8
The Lord’s Prayer in Swahili sung by a bunch of Tanzanian kids.
Handel’s Messiah by the London Symphony Orchestra. The human race gets no better than this.
Moldovan homosexuals dancing on an airplane.
The best version of Wana Baraka I’ve ever heard, by Maestro Cícero Alves.