Wrecking my hearing for wordcount

[lizvogel]

Tell me, oh internets, can you recommend some music? I'm looking for something with a similar feel to the "chanty monk bits" of Carmina Burana (aka, "Fortune Plango Vulnera" and "O Fortuna"). Not that I necessarily want more chanting, but something with the same brutalist-architecture swirly energy would be great.


I've spent about a week being obsessed with Ringo Starr's "It Don't Come Easy". Which is somewhat inconvenient, as this is a song I don't own, but it turns out YouTube can be quite useful. (If one can stay the hell away from the sidebar links, of course.) I ended up making a mix of other songs that fit with the same mental settings. (And yes, the chanty monks are on it. It works for me. Let it never be said that my tastes aren't idiosyncratic.)


(The title refers to the fact that putting in the good headphones and cranking the volume seems to be the one thing that'll get me going when the words otherwise refuse to come. This is a useful thing to know, but I'm starting to feel like I've just been to a rock concert.)

Comments

[duskpeterson]

No specific music recs, but my go-to app when I want to listen to "songs like this" is Pandora. It frightened the heck out of me when I first got it, because after just a few thumbs up and thumbs down on my part, it was able to predict with scary precision which songs I would like. At any rate, you can build a station around any song, and it will play songs with similar musical characteristics.

[lizvogel]

Pandora doesn't seem willing to run on my browser. (Not an unprecedented occurrence, unfortunately.) I may plink around with it some time when I've got more time; I'd be curious to see if their algorithm implodes when given both "It Don't Come Easy" and "Fortune Plango Vulnera" as a starting point. ;-)

[duskpeterson]

Do you have a smartphone, by any chance?

[lizvogel]

I do, and I've almost learned how to use it! I know there's a Pandora app-thingy. That might be a viable option, though it may still need to wait until I have more time to mess about with setting it up; the touch-screen and I have an uneasy truce.

[duskpeterson]

:)