Black Truffle Butter

[Ed P]

Last Saturday I took my granddaughter for some errands, including a
local market. When she came out, she had something for me to try, a
container of black truffle butter.

Yesterday, same store, I picked up two rib eye Wagyu steaks and had my
son and DIL for dinner. Each steak, 1 1/4" thick was just over a pound

Grilled the steaks and put some of the truffle butter on to finish them
while resting. Tender and tasty, the three of us said they were the
best steaks we ever had.

This morning, I fried my eggs in more of the truffle butter. Nice touch.

[jmcquown]

This is an amazing coincidence. While on my lunch break today I read an
article (I think it was from Allrecipes) about "steak sauces". The
article mentioned black truffle butter.

Jill

[Graham]

One of the more memorable food experiences I have had is eating a dish
of scrambled eggs with truffles. It is a classic French dish and is
absolutely delicious.

[Bruce]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:59:49 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

The coincidence gets even bigger! The other day I was at ALDI and saw
a little jar with a round thing in it. It was a truffle for $7.

[Bruce]

Please add that France is a country in Europe where English isn't the
first language. We don't want to confuse the RFC'ers.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 5:17:58 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>
> Please add that France is a country in Europe where English isn't the
> first language. We don't want to confuse the RFC'ers.
>

Knock it off, Greg.

[Ed P]

What? If they don't speak the true American language, English, how do
they communicate?

[Bruce]

They invented an alternative language, just so that they could piss
off the Americans by not speaking Jesus' language.

[Michael Trew]

I have a bottle of black truffle hot sauce that someone gave me. I've
never opened or tried it.

[Bruce]

Check the ingredients. It could be a side product from the petrol
industry.

[Mike Duffy]

On 2023-07-27, Michael Trew wrote:

> I have a bottle of black truffle
> hot sauce that someone gave me.
>
> I've never opened or tried it.

It will be difficult to taste
the truffle mixed in with all
the other things in hot sauce.

Try something with few components,
i.e. black truffle potato chips.
(Amazon has them.)

[Graham]

Earl's restaurants serve truffled fries. Delicious!

[Leonard Blaisdell]

On 2023-07-26, Bruce <Br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> The coincidence gets even bigger! The other day I was at ALDI and saw
> a little jar with a round thing in it. It was a truffle for $7.

My wife wanted Knott's Berry Farm boysenberry jam the other day. I
doubted my supermarket had any and told her so. They appear to have
discontinued Ball Park corndogs with Foster Farms chicken corndogs, so
what were the odds?
I scoured all of the jams and jellies with no boysenberry success, but
right in the corner of the section, I found the damndest thing.
There were a couple of little jars of Marmite. They cost $7 a jar.
I have ten year old Marmite and Vegemite, never opened and bought from
Australia online, just because, so I passed.

[Bruce]

On 28 Jul 2023 23:06:16 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell

I always wonder whether marmite, promite and vegemite aren't very
roughly the same thing. But I'm not curious enough to find out.

[lucr...@florence.it]

On 28 Jul 2023 23:06:16 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<leobla...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Aussies prefer Vegemite for some reason. It'll be okay, I had some
Marmite the other day and can't remember how long I have had it!

[Bruce]

Well, you had it the other day.

[Graham]

I took the Indo-Pacific and it stopped in the middle of the Nullabor.
We all got out and what looked like cinnamon buns were being served as a
snack. Since I don't like them, I didn't bother taking one. I found out
subsequently that they were Vegemite buns. I probably wouldn't have
bothered with them either.

[Bruce]

No parodies of Dave Smith please, Graham. RFC's an inclusive
newsgroup.

[Sqwertz]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:15:20 -0400, Ed P wrote:

> Last Saturday I took my granddaughter for some errands, including a
> local market. When she came out, she had something for me to try, a
> container of black truffle butter.

You didn't go in and shop with her? This is why I'm uncomfortable
asking for rides. OTOH, when they do come in with me they're
usually a PITA to shop with (not not because they're lame, just
irritating pestering ignorance).

-sw

[lucr...@florence.it]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:32:45 +1000, Bruce <Br...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

I put it badly, I meant I can't remember how long ago I bought the
Marmite but it doesn't seem to go bad in the cupboard.

[lucr...@florence.it]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:40:43 -0600, Graham <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote:

I find it bland compared to Marmite. I like Marmite on buttered toast
but I rarely eat bread so don't have Marmite often.

[Bruce]

Oh, I get it. I think it's already gone off and can't go any further.
I wonder why old skool Australians are so crazy about Vegemite.

[songbird]

Graham wrote:
...

> I took the Indo-Pacific and it stopped in the middle of the Nullabor.
> We all got out and what looked like cinnamon buns were being served as a
> snack. Since I don't like them, I didn't bother taking one. I found out
> subsequently that they were Vegemite buns. I probably wouldn't have
> bothered with them either.

the song from Men At Work that has the line in it
including the words "vegemite sandwich" always made
me laugh because for some time i thought he was
singing "a wedge of my sandwich".

do you come from a land down under?


songbird (heard a lot of thunder last night.
whee!

[Graham]

No! I worked there in the 70s and in this instance, I was there on vacation.

[jmcquown]

He was referring to the lyrics of the song by 'Men at Work' called "Down
Under":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeeBH294v6I

:)

Jill

[Ed P]

On 7/29/2023 12:30 AM, Sqwertz wrote:> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:15:20

Not this trip. It was 95 and a long walk since it was crowded. Even
when I do, we shop separately.

https://detwilermarket.com/

[songbird]

jmcquown wrote:
...

> He was referring to the lyrics of the song by 'Men at Work' called "Down
> Under":
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeeBH294v6I
>
>:)

yes, funny and very catchy song and group.

true, but also, i don't often have a clear
knowledge of where everyone is at. i assume that
most writers to RFC are NorteAmericanos with a
few from overseas, but i don't know for sure who
is who. or more like who is where (let alone
who is aware).


songbird

[Graham]

I wouldn't know. I listen to classical music exclusively.

[Cindy Hamilton]

What a pity. There are all kinds of great music out there.

Although I'm not sure Men at Work qualify as "great".

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

I like classical music but not exclusively. I also like jazz.

I have been reading interesting stuff in the news lately about a country
singer Jason Aldean's Try That in a Small Town offending people with his
song. It is interesting in light of the recent controversy about cancel
culture job over Baby It's Cold Outside. Check out this very popular
song by Cardi B. Wet Hot Pussy. Apparently the Woke crowd has no
issues with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuv3jCdy_-U&ab_channel=VibesOnly

[Graham]

No need to pity me. I find the overwhelming majority of pop/rock/C&W
music to be boring and marred by the same monotonous rhythm. A good deal
of Jazz is also uninteresting to me (obviously). I gravitated towards
classical music early in childhood.

[Gregory Morrow]

Graham wrote:
> I gravitated towards classical music early in childhood.
>

Trump too, he likes Grabem, by Debussy.

--
GM

[Bruce]

You probably always listened to the wrong pop/rock, the little boy and
girl hits of the day.

[jmcquown]

The music by Men at Work is quirky. :)

Jill

[Hank Rogers]

Graham wrote:
> On 2023-07-29 11:16 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2023-07-29, Graham <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2023-07-29 6:55 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>> On 7/29/2023 8:40 AM, Graham wrote:
>>>>> On 2023-07-29 5:40 a.m., songbird wrote:
>>>>>> Graham wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> I took the Indo-Pacific and it stopped in the middle of
>>>>>>> the Nullabor.
>>>>>>> We all got out and what looked like cinnamon buns were
>>>>>>> being served
>>>>>>> as a
>>>>>>> snack. Since I don't like them, I didn't bother taking
>>>>>>> one. I found out
>>>>>>> subsequently that they were Vegemite buns. I probably
>>>>>>> wouldn't have
>>>>>>> bothered with them either.
>>>>>>

>>>>>>  Â Â  the song from Men At Work that has the line in it

>>>>>> including the words "vegemite sandwich" always made
>>>>>> me laugh because for some time i thought he was
>>>>>> singing "a wedge of my sandwich".
>>>>>>

>>>>>>  Â Â  do you come from a land down under?

>>>>>>
>>>>> No! I worked there in the 70s and in this instance, I was
>>>>> there on
>>>>> vacation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He was referring to the lyrics of the song by 'Men at Work'
>>>> called "Down
>>>> Under":
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeeBH294v6I
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>> I wouldn't know. I listen to classical music exclusively.
>>
>> What a pity.  There are all kinds of great music out there.
>>
>> Although I'm not sure Men at Work qualify as "great".
>>
> No need to pity me. I find the overwhelming majority of
> pop/rock/C&W
> music to be boring and marred by the same monotonous rhythm. A
> good deal of Jazz is also uninteresting to me (obviously). I
> gravitated towards
> classical music early in childhood.
>

Naturally. Yoose a real classy guy.

[Hank Rogers]

Lets send a copy to Charles Emerson Graham III.

It's bound to make his blue blood scream with ecstasy.

[dsi1]

You got to watch out for those small towns. My son's ex-girlfriend wasn't allowed to stay with her kinfolks while attending her dad's funeral because my son is only half white. The way I hear it, her kin has mansions. That's the way certain small towns operate. Welcome to America, baby.

[dsi1]

When I was taking music lessons, my teacher gave me one-sheet pieces by dead German baroque composers. In that style, the music is played in a strict unwavering mechanical beat. Boy, did I hate that shit.

[songbird]

jmcquown wrote:
...

> The music by Men at Work is quirky. :)

yes, i like some of it, used to have a cassette of
theirs but i don't know if it was an album or a mix
tape. a long time ago.

Overkill was another.


songbird

[Bruce]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:47:32 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
<dsi...@hawaiiantel.net> wrote:

>On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 8:14:15 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2023-07-29 1:16 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> > What a pity. There are all kinds of great music out there.
>> >
>> > Although I'm not sure Men at Work qualify as "great".
>> >
>> I like classical music but not exclusively. I also like jazz.
>>
>> I have been reading interesting stuff in the news lately about a country
>> singer Jason Aldean's Try That in a Small Town offending people with his
>> song.

"The song's lyrics tell the story of a man who is angry about the
recent Black Lives Matter protests. He sings about how he would like
to see the protesters "get what's coming to them" and how he would
"take care of them" if they were in his small town."
Sounds like Dave Smith, alright.

[Hank Rogers]

If your son is half white, Tojo, Yoose should disown him. How
can a fine upstanding asian man like yourself tolerate a half
white sorry bastard like your son?

Have you no scruples, Uncle?

[Hank Rogers]

But then yoose found da hawayan composers! Boy dat Don Ho was a
humdinger composer. Gave us shit like da tiny bubbles.

Da hiwayans are crazy for shit like dat.

[Ed P]

I like a lot of classical, but some of it really sucks. Variety can be
more fun. Right now, an "Easy Listening" channel is playing.

[dsi1]

It's not a very nice song. It sounds like my neighbor saying that he'll shoot any workmen that come around to his condo. Guys with guns are pretty scary sometimes. I only like nice songs.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bHm0AerVvyc

[Hank Rogers]

Because yoose such a nice guy, Uncle Tojo.

Yoose would never hate people because they were not lucky
enough to be born asian, nor in hiwaya. Yoose never mention
shit like dat.

Thanks, Uncle.

[Cindy Hamilton]

I've liked classical music since childhood. Also folk music, which
I heard during the 1960s. Jazz came along when I was a teenager.
Some pop and rock is ok, but a lot of it is--as you say--boring.

I'm not as fond of mainstream classical as I used to be. Early
Music is much more to my taste.

I've been thinking of Andres Segovia lately. I had an album of
his from the 1950s, but I got rid of all my vinyl a while back.
It was all scratched to hell, anyway.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Cindy Hamilton]

Good, but not great. Great music appeals to both the head
and the heart.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

Damn, now I have to re-evaluate all my music likes. See if it passes
the PRCT (Post Retirement Cindy Test).

[GM]

Yer noze is gr-o-o-o-o-wing like Fibber Pinocchio's, David...

With this tall tale you're entering "Kuthe Liar Territory"...

--
GM

[Dave Smith]

I just listened to the song for the first time today. Actually, it was
the video. It's more about some of the bullshit that goes on in big
cities that they would never put up with in small towns because people
in small towns protect each other. It starts off talking about attacking
people in the sidewalk, carjacking old ladies, pulling guns on the
owners of corner stores.... criminal activities that some people seem to
want to ignore. It has images of rioters and looters.

It's basic C&W theme.. God bless America and all that. It doesn't single
out any race or gender or any visible minority. It just references the
way people think they can get away with unacceptable behaviour in
cities because there is a degree of anonymity and suggests that people
in small towns are likely to stick together and protect each other in a
small town.

I was inspired to watch it after hearing some left wing asshole pseudo
intellectual ripping about it on CBC the other day. It was obvious that
the woman had issues with straight men and country music, but after
watching and listening to the video it was obvious she had not even
listened to the song she was criticizing.

[Bruce]

I have issues with country music and I also haven't listened to the
song. Do I get a prize?

PS: I have no issues with straight men.

[Bruce]

Spoken like a true Orange Man supporter ;)

[Bruce]

That should be Orange Clown, Greg.

[dsi1]

The video is made by white people for white people. I suppose you could say "straight white people" but there's not much point in muddying the waters. My comment is referring to Americans, not Canadians. I don't know nothing about Canadians. I like country music, but that one is kind of scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQpYSBkwag

[Dave Smith]

On 2023-07-29 6:57 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 12:15:04 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:

>> It's basic C&W theme.. God bless America and all that. It doesn't
>> single out any race or gender or any visible minority. It just
>> references the way people think they can get away with unacceptable
>> behaviour in cities because there is a degree of anonymity and
>> suggests that people in small towns are likely to stick together
>> and protect each other in a small town.
>>
>> I was inspired to watch it after hearing some left wing asshole
>> pseudo intellectual ripping about it on CBC the other day. It was
>> obvious that the woman had issues with straight men and country
>> music, but after watching and listening to the video it was obvious
>> she had not even listened to the song she was criticizing.
>
> The video is made by white people for white people.

Once again you are the one who brings race into the argument. I pointed
out that the lyrics do not address race. Nor does the video address
race. The protestors and shit disturbers in the video are white. There
are some masked thugs who could be black, but since they are masked it
would be your assumption that they are black.

I suppose you
> could say "straight white people" but there's not much point in
> muddying the waters. My comment is referring to Americans, not
> Canadians. I don't know nothing about Canadians. I like country
> music, but that one is kind of scary.

Since you like playing the guessing game, I am guessing that you have
not listened to the song and have not watched the video. Like the many
critics you are basing it on what you have seen in the media and your
own assumptions about white people being as preoccupied with race as you
are.

>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmQpYSBkwag

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 3:06:13 PM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
>
> I find the overwhelming majority of pop/rock/C&W
> music to be boring and marred by the same monotonous rhythm. A good deal
> of Jazz is also uninteresting to me (obviously). I gravitated towards
> classical music early in childhood.
>

I greatly enjoy classical, but I also enjoy rock and roll of the 50's, very early 60's.
Plus a lot of Broadway show tunes and the music of movie musicals and the
big band era.

[Bruce]

I think your and my music likes are mutually exclusive.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

I guess so.

[Hank Rogers]

Master, you should start forging dave smith posts again, just
like the old days.

Have you lost your touch?

[Hank Rogers]

White people have been awful mean to yoose Tojo.

Why do you think white people constantly shit on yoose?

[Hank Rogers]

Tojo, I really feel sorry for yoose. You hate white people for
all the shit they did to you. And yoose really fucked up
because yoose fucked up and married a white woman.

Now, yoose stuck with the white bitch.

No more happy asian life. Yoose fucked.

Only thing you can do is retaliate against white people. But
you can't get rid of that white woman's ball and chain on yoose
asian leg.

She is slowly killing yoose Tojo.

[Hank Rogers]

Tojo HATES white people. He is married to one, and stuck with
her. He cannot get rid of her in any honorable way, other than
kill her.

[lucr...@florence.it]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:45:54 -0500, Hank Rogers <ha...@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>Gregory Morrow wrote:

>> Graham wrote:
>>> I gravitated towards classical music early in childhood.
>>>

>> Trump too, he likes Grabem, by Debussy.
>>
>> --
>> GM
>
>Lets send a copy to Charles Emerson Graham III.
>
>It's bound to make his blue blood scream with ecstasy.
>
Why do you assume classical is blue blooded? Far from it, I liked pop
music when I was a teen but now classical is more feeling to me by
far.

[Ed P]

My car has SiriusXM radio. The classical station, IMO, sucks. Maybe 10%
of my listening time. I do listen to the 40s, 50s, but very little
60s. Many more options too.

Oh, I can also use it at home and listen to it when I go to bed.

[GM]

Dear Honourable Oncle Tojo - san...

Please to take a care on your head about making baseless racist accusations...

OR I'll have to write President Truman to ask him to revoke your pardon for committing
Criminal War Crimes Against Humanity...

Then it will be off to the hoosegow with you, and it will be CHOP - CHOP for yer pointy lil' head...

BEWARE...!!!

🤬

--
GM

[Hank Rogers]

Yoose evil mainlanders tortured poor Tojo to force him to marry
an evil white skank. The hot bamboo splinters up his urethra
did the trick.

Yoose evil people ruined his life. His offspring are all half
white. Uncle HATES whites more than archie bunker hated coons.

[dsi1]

Your guesses are mostly pulled out of thin air. You've been hanging out with the rfc mooks for too long. Yoose thinks that everybody just makes up shit. I indeed listened and watched the video more than once. The only thing that I have heard about what the "media" has said about this matter is from your posts.
I have the disposition of a scientist. Scientists can only "guess" but it's no game - it based on the information available at the time. In science, there is no absolutes - just guesses and probabilities. You're the purveyor of making stuff up to suit your feelings. I also like to use that phrase because it really pisses of the denizens of rfc. That's your icing on the cake right there.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ELKjwCtJtPULYj6GA

[Bruce]

lol Go, dsi1!

[Bruce]

No trolling, please. Jill won't like it that you are trolling.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-29, Dave Smith <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> I just listened to the song for the first time today. Actually, it was
> the video. It's more about some of the bullshit that goes on in big
> cities that they would never put up with in small towns because people
> in small towns protect each other. It starts off talking about attacking
> people in the sidewalk, carjacking old ladies, pulling guns on the
> owners of corner stores.... criminal activities that some people seem to
> want to ignore. It has images of rioters and looters.

The implication is that people in small towns would dispense vigilante
justice.

Here's the rebuttal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMgT1j5rHZ4

> It's basic C&W theme.. God bless America and all that. It doesn't single
> out any race or gender or any visible minority.

Oh, please. Crime in the big city is a dogwhistle for crime committed
by black people.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

I prefer old-time country to the new stuff, so I had to actually go and listen to and watch this video, goaded by the headlines.

I’m still not sure where he was wrong.

There is a reason that my city looks different from San Francisco or Chicago, because so many people here are armed, and we just do not put up with much foolishness.

Why do left-leaning writers think country is more dangerous than rap or other genres?

At bottom, not because they think the music is more dangerous, but because they think rap fans are harmless friends
and country fans are menacing cultural enemies, so there is a need to more carefully censor what they listen to.

That is why people are defensive about complaints directed at Aldean’s music, and why he’s selling so much of it.

After watching the utter stupidity of the summer of 2020 and beyond, Aldean’s song’s surprise is that it took so long to exist.

The lyrics are simply a statement that cities have created their own hell and we want no part of the seep.

Cities have always created hard-edged individuals very poor at individual interaction but always spewing about the general oppressed.

We want none of that, thanks.

[Graham]

On 2023-07-29 3:24 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On 2023-07-29, Graham <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote:

>> On 2023-07-29 11:16 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On 2023-07-29, Graham <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 2023-07-29 6:55 a.m., jmcquown wrote:

>>>>> On 7/29/2023 8:40 AM, Graham wrote:
>>>>>> On 2023-07-29 5:40 a.m., songbird wrote:
>>>>>>> Graham wrote:
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> I took the Indo-Pacific and it stopped in the middle of the Nullabor.
>>>>>>>> We all got out and what looked like cinnamon buns were being served
>>>>>>>> as a
>>>>>>>> snack. Since I don't like them, I didn't bother taking one. I found out
>>>>>>>> subsequently that they were Vegemite buns. I probably wouldn't have
>>>>>>>> bothered with them either.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    the song from Men At Work that has the line in it
>>>>>>> including the words "vegemite sandwich" always made
>>>>>>> me laugh because for some time i thought he was
>>>>>>> singing "a wedge of my sandwich".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    do you come from a land down under?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> No! I worked there in the 70s and in this instance, I was there on
>>>>>> vacation.
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>> He was referring to the lyrics of the song by 'Men at Work' called "Down
>>>>> Under":
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeeBH294v6I
>>>>>
>>>>> :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>> I wouldn't know. I listen to classical music exclusively.
>>>
>>> What a pity. There are all kinds of great music out there.
>>>
>>> Although I'm not sure Men at Work qualify as "great".
>>>

>> No need to pity me. I find the overwhelming majority of pop/rock/C&W

>> music to be boring and marred by the same monotonous rhythm. A good deal
>> of Jazz is also uninteresting to me (obviously). I gravitated towards
>> classical music early in childhood.
>

> I've liked classical music since childhood. Also folk music, which
> I heard during the 1960s. Jazz came along when I was a teenager.
> Some pop and rock is ok, but a lot of it is--as you say--boring.
>
> I'm not as fond of mainstream classical as I used to be. Early
> Music is much more to my taste.
>
> I've been thinking of Andres Segovia lately. I had an album of
> his from the 1950s, but I got rid of all my vinyl a while back.
> It was all scratched to hell, anyway.
>
I can't play my LPS as the belt on the turntable is broken. I have
a lot of cassettes too but the Nakamichi won't work any more.
This is a favourite in my CD/DVD collection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwji3k0v_AM

[jmcquown]

Classical music is well and good. But it lacks vocals.

Jill

[Bruce]

Lol!

Jill is a typically ignorant American.

Guess she's never heard of opera, cantatas, masses, oratorios, madrigals, plainsong, motets.

She's probably too stupid to have ever heard of something as common as "The Messiah" or "Carmina Burana" or
Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony".

Dame Joan Sutherland and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Maria Callas have to be turning over in their graves ;)

[Cindy Hamilton]

Are you high? Opera is classical music. Beethoven's 9th has vocals.
Handel's Messiah and other oratorios. Madrigals. A ton of art songs,
like Schubert's "The Trout".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_song

Classically (heh), any musical instrument is considered inferior
to the human voice.




--
Cindy Hamilton

[Ed P]

On 7/30/2023 11:11 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>
> Classically (heh), any musical instrument is considered inferior
> to the human voice.

I can prove that wrong. A passing truck is more melodic than me singing.

[Dave Smith]

Have you ever been asked to sing solo..... solo we can't hear you. ?
Have you been asked if you can carry a tune..... carry it down the road
where they can't hear?

[Cindy Hamilton]

Perhaps. Perhaps you just need training to make the most of your
instrument. Don't expect to be an Olympic athlete the first time you
get off the couch.

Everybody thinks they have a terrible voice. Absent true tone-deafness,
most people can manage an adequate singing voice.

Before recorded and broadcast music, people didn't worry so much about
what their voice sounded like. If they wanted music, they simply made
it themselves.

--
Cindy Hamilton

[Ed P]

Yes, I was in the choir in grade school. I was asked to sing solo the
day after Easter singing. That was my last day in the choir.

I can't even stand listening to myself sing.

[Bering Sea Bar & Brig@MarthaStewart.GoodThing]

"Turkey in the straw " is a melody favored by urban ice cream trucks.

[dsi1]

We have a Chinese guy that comes by and sells ice cream out of a truck. He also sells soda, fried noodles, fried chicken, Chinese dim sum items, and candy. That truck has been coming by our place for over 21 years. Oddly enough, he plays "The Theme From The Godfather." I don't know how he generates that music but it's all weird and wonky - like a music box cranked by a drunk monkey. It's been like that since we moved here. Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm in a dream.

https://www.hawaiimagazine.com/the-search-for-the-mysterious-and-beloved-manapua-man/

[lucr...@florence.it]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:14:42 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

You are kidding I trust?

[Bruce]

She must be. Bing Crosby has vocals.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 7:51:33 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> >
> I can't play my LPS as the belt on the turntable is broken. I have
> a lot of cassettes too but the Nakamichi won't work any more.
> This is a favourite in my CD/DVD collection:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwji3k0v_AM
>

There's no audio repair stores in your area??? I bet you could search out
a video on YouTube showing how to replace that belt yourself once you
had the correct belt in hand. You could probably find the belt online,
maybe even Amazon stocks them.

[Ed P]

Most of it does. Not like the typical pop tunes of the last 60 years or
so. OTOH, some can be spectacular like Chicago Symphony doing
Beethoven's 9th and looks like about 100 voice choir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjHhS5MtvA&ab_channel=ChicagoSymphonyOrchestra

[Bruce]

If that's classical music then, for classical music, it has a lot of
Schwung. Classical piano music so often sounds like a dripping tap on
a rainy Sunday afternoon. Not this.

[Graham]

There's place in the USA that sells them. I just haven't bothered.

[Graham]

Try this! It's beautiful!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHZrBzKMnE

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-30, Ed P <e...@snet.xxx> wrote:

Most of what you are familiar with, which is evidently a tiny fraction
of the output of 1600 years of composition.


--
Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

I wonder how good the belts would be. There isn't really that much wear
on a phonograph drive belt. Being basically rubber bands, they break
down with age. If it is a belt that has been in stock for a few years it
might already be partially deteriorated.

[jmcquown]

Sorry, that's just not my cup of tea.

Jill

[jmcquown]

I like some Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Handel. It's simply not my go-to
music. Just like food, we all have different tastes.

Jill

[Dave Smith]

Maybe you need to see a live performance. I listen to classical music on
radio occasionally, but I do enjoy live performances. My wife loves to
listen to Handel's Messiah at Christmas and Easter. I like it and tend
to crank up the volume to listen and enjoy it. Last year we attended a
live event and it was amazing. It was a completely different and much
more enjoyable experience.

I have also attended a some operas and enjoyed them. A friend of ours is
an opera singer and became a professor of opera. He treated us to a
performance at Art Park in Lewiston and, having connections, we were
invited to the after party where I met Leontyne Price and the rest of
the cast. I have to admit that I would have a hard time sitting through
a recording of an opera, but it sounds so much better live.

[jmcquown]

On 7/30/2023 6:17 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2023-07-30 5:49 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 7/30/2023 5:12 PM, Graham wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> Classical music is well and good.  But it lacks vocals.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>> Try this! It's beautiful!!
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHZrBzKMnE
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, that's just not my cup of tea.
>>
>
> Maybe you need to see a live performance. I listen to classical music on
> radio occasionally, but I do enjoy live performances. My wife loves to
> listen to Handel's Messiah at Christmas and Easter. I like it and tend
> to crank up the volume to listen and enjoy it. Last year we attended a
> live event and it was amazing. It was a completely different and much
> more enjoyable experience.
>

I don't go to concerts anymore. Firebird Suite by Stravinksy is
great... it was used to open a rock concert at a live performance of the
band 'Yes' in the 1970's. Songs by 'Men at Work' were fun, I never said
it was *great* music. I listen to all kinds of music; whatever mood
hits me. I don't limit myself to a specific genre. But that link to
opera that Graham posted, sorry, just doesn't do it for me.

Jill

[Dave Smith]

I have to say that my first experience with a rock concert turned me off
big time. It was the Beatles. I was 14 and thrilled to be there. The
opener was not terribly exciting, King Curtis. I was a young kid in
southern Ontario and soul music was foreign to me. We sat through that
and then the Beatles came on and 15,000 teen aged girls started
screaming and I never hear a not from the band.

It was more than 30 years later that I accidentally discovered that the
guitarist for King Curtis on that tour was Jimi Hendrix. I was in the
weird position of having seen Jimi Hendrix on stage and not realizing it
until 30 years later.

[jmcquown]

I suppose it's a good thing the first live concert I heard didn't
involve an audience filled with a bunch of screaming teenage girls. :)

Jill

[Ed P]

On 7/30/2023 5:14 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

That may be true, but I have a limited interest. I listen to a variety
of styles, except for heavy metal and rap.

Some classical is wonderful, but I find others to be boring crap. I
also say that about other genre too. I may listen to a string quartet
this morning, big band this afternoon, fifties later in the day.
Tomorrow will be different.

Today, I listened to Beethoven 9th, but also Bruce Springsteen singing
Pay Me My Money Down.

[Bruce]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:28:06 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

Maybe you couldn't hear them over yourself?

[songbird]

jmcquown wrote:
...

> hits me. I don't limit myself to a specific genre. But that link to
> opera that Graham posted, sorry, just doesn't do it for me.

do you like choral music?

classic rock?

soul?

i grew up singing along to records that Mom had then
we had a radio and i started listening to the local
soul music station and also the local rock station but
i also picked up the public radio classical station and
i really enjoyed that.

i'm not much into some jazz or rap music and i get
rather irritated by brass music in the morning but
otherwise my tastes run all over the place.


here's a classic rock song done by a favorite band
of mine honoring another group:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk


and then this is a regular on my playlist for a
choral piece of music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9KLpWMGx8

i'm not particularly religious, but i still love
choral music and this one works for me.


for rock music i enjoy the progressive stuff from
the late 60's up until about '85, after that i get a
lot pickier.


songbird

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-07-30, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net> wrote:

Nor mine. Too modern.

--
Cindy Hamilton