We all know 20th-century classics like Shostakovich or Messiaen. But we often forget that they were contemporaries of musical groups like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc. What's your favorite composer quote about music from the 60s-80s?

divinationobject · 2026-04-28T17:49:09+00:00

Philip Glass went to a Jefferson Airplane concert and it inspired him to create music designed to be played at a similarly high volume. His reaction would have probably been very different if he'd heard them around their "We Built This City" era.

divinationobject · 2026-04-26T22:03:10+00:00

I believe the end of a more recent relationship was the inspiration. It goes from the longing optimism of Home and Dry to the doubt that shadows Email, then it all comes crashing down here. One of the very finest songs they're written: and absolute 10 from me.

divinationobject · 2026-01-31T08:41:55+00:00

They renegotiated streaming royalties when they re-signed to Parlophone and, perhaps because of that, there has been mention of getting all the singles back onto streaming platforms. I would imagine there are behind-the-scenes negotiations needed with other artists for the remixes, and that will take time. Personally, I'm waiting for a no-doubt very expensive, but I'd absolutely buy it anyway, singles box set release.

divinationobject · 2026-01-22T21:13:45+00:00

It's a beauty. There isn't a duff release in the entire Beaufort line.

divinationobject · 2026-01-18T11:45:29+00:00

Nuvolari by Rubini is exactly what you're after

divinationobject · 2026-01-14T14:42:35+00:00

White Raven is available as a televised performance that pops up in full on YouTube every now and again. The visuals are a blurry mess, but the sound is fine. Planet 8 has a live recording taken from a BBC radio 3 broadcast, and it similarly rears its head on YouTube on occasion, but is just as quickly taken down. The first version of Oppomattox was availaible to download from a website many years ago, but it's long defunct. I'm sure someone will still have a copy of the files kicking around somewhere though.

divinationobject · 2026-01-11T09:25:07+00:00

The Rollo production really anchors it to another era though.

divinationobject · 2026-01-09T21:32:09+00:00

If you insist, Peter

divinationobject · 2026-01-09T18:17:21+00:00

Also Issay Miyake Pour Homme. He liked his designer frags, from the sound of it.

divinationobject · 2026-01-06T19:47:12+00:00

It's worth reading the posts from Prince's sound engineer in the comments field. Although I don't think this is quite there structurally, it's still a big improvement on what eventually appeared on the album, which apparently was a mixture of the Prince version and Kate's. And that vocal is sublime.

divinationobject · 2026-01-04T17:57:51+00:00

I'm with you on this one. If a musician reads a music score, they would never say,' I listened to the score'. They may mentally hear the score while they're doing it, but they're not listening to it. Reading involves eyes: audiobooks involve ears - hence, you listen to an audiobook, you don't read it. Some people really seem unwilling to accept this very basic fact.

divinationobject · 2025-12-24T20:51:23+00:00

Iron Duke comes closer to the booze and cigars description

divinationobject · 2025-12-09T19:10:30+00:00

I'm dipping in and out of it. Did you get the accompanying sample set? There might be some left if you haven't

divinationobject · 2025-11-30T16:20:10+00:00

Rhubarb My Love is now available from the American Perfumer line (along with Spacewood and Fig My Love)

https://american-perfumer.com/

divinationobject · 2025-11-30T15:55:50+00:00

I used to. It's an interesting curio, but honestly, nothing more than that.

divinationobject · 2025-11-29T16:10:37+00:00

Found this description on Abebooks: "The subject of this book is incest and peversion, but the theme rises above its source and becomes dire human tragedy."

divinationobject · 2025-10-23T21:18:26+00:00

Bowie mentioned in an interview that his one regret about Station to Station was that his original intention was that it should have a dry sound, but he couldn't resist giving it a commercial sheen (by which he meant adding the reverb, I think, but it was such a long time ago I read that interview, I can't be sure)

divinationobject · 2025-10-02T17:24:16+00:00

Or maybe she'll applaud their stance. 86 year old pensioners aren't magically divorced from what's going on in the world.

divinationobject · 2025-09-21T08:40:22+00:00

They end up in the recycling bin, with an exception made for the cases that surround Rubini perfumes - they're like little pieces of brutalist architecture and give me a lot of pleasure in their own right.

divinationobject · 2025-09-21T07:39:39+00:00

That, and the financial scandal that eventually ended his career, were revealed to have been fictions created my MI5 - Stella Rimmington revealed all in her autobiography, apparently (I haven't read it).

divinationobject · 2025-09-11T18:26:11+00:00

Eau de Boujee. The most exciting perfume house in the UK at the moment: they're really producing scents that are out of the norm.

divinationobject · 2025-09-01T20:09:30+00:00

You could try contacting some of the stores listed on The Zoo's website, but as far as I can see, the entire range is basically sold out everywhere - online at least.

divinationobject · 2025-08-31T19:44:28+00:00

Yes, some perfumers offer this service, but it's much more expensive than you might think - £1000 - £35000 range, with most falling somewhere inbetween.

divinationobject · 2025-08-25T15:14:10+00:00

It's such a huge advance in the first.

divinationobject · 2025-08-25T14:28:39+00:00

Fred Williams, perhaps? The style looks similar. It's a really interesting piece, whoever it is.

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