Tosca - listening guide - part one.

Placido Domingo sings: Recondita armonia

Oh, how strange! I’m a painter, I paint (even revolutionary, but we’ll talk about that in the next listens). They ask me to paint a Madonna. Now, I’m with one: black hair, black eyes, big breasts. I make the Madonna blonde, blue eyes, small breasts. Because there’s a hidden harmony. I paint this one but think about my woman... What strange things! Oh, try explaining this to your ladies, for instance... let’s see if they believe it... (come on, everyone in Rome knows about Angelotti's breasts!).
Ps1: I’m intentionally including a rather mediocre version by Placido Domingo (if I had shown you the KING, you would have been convinced! And you would’ve pulled out your handkerchiefs too!)
Ps2: I swear that - for my whole life - the useless counterpoint ‘play with the infantry and leave the infantry alone’ annoys me. Like, really annoys me physically. I don’t know, maybe Puccini was an idiot, but it’s good for you to know...
 
antonello salis live in Sassari Incredible performance by a super pianist.
 
Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster 1976

@[IlConte] Do you hear them, the demons, that linger?
 
Stelle Di Dicembre
#songsfornearlytwomonths
 
Sway (Original Single Stereo Version)

This fantastic blues-rock track was released as a single only in March '71, but it was composed and recorded a year earlier, between April and May '70 in the "Rolling Stones Mobile Studio", a truck specially outfitted that was parked outside Jagger's home in Stargroves, Hampshire.

Here we find Jagger & Taylor on guitars, while on backing vocals we have Keith Richards along with Pete Townshend and nothing...
 
Husky Loops - Tempo (Live on KEXP)

Fiki qvesti, they don’t even look Italian.
 
ANGELA - Teneramante (1979)

let's do something strange
#ournewmonsters
 
Fairport Convention - The Deserter

Debaser says there are 50... the biggest record of our miserable lives.
 
Stanley Smith - Sweet Butterfly song from his CD In the Land Of Dreams

we Stan when we get together, we don't joke around...
 
Talk talk - It's My Life - Superflash 1984 When it was there, I didn't pay attention, but now I can't find anyone who has replaced it.