Since one category is sad music, here's the prelude from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (even if he was a nasty son of a bitch):
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Mon 13 Jun, 2011 07:14 pm
@hingehead,
Rick Allen, whose fans call him the Thunder God, was the drummer for Def Leppard, who had his left arm amputated, and went on with DL to its greatest popularity.
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Sun 19 Jun, 2011 04:58 am
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Sun 19 Jun, 2011 05:08 am
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Sun 19 Jun, 2011 05:10 am
This is also one of the earliest examples of what would become the music video.
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Sun 19 Jun, 2011 05:11 am
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Sun 19 Jun, 2011 05:28 am
This is more typical of the 60s and 70s, when the group would simply lip synch the song for the camera as though they on stage at a concert.
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Fri 24 Jun, 2011 06:33 am
An excerpt from the last scene of probably the most blood-curdling piece Romanticism ever produced: Schoenberg's Erwartung.
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Fri 24 Jun, 2011 06:41 am
And then a piece by Schoenberg's arch-rival: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. This is an excerpt from the end, leading into the "Sacrificial Dance," made even more disturbing by the Joffrey Ballet's creepy staging and choreography (though it purports to be a reconstruction of Nijinsky's original choreopgraphy).
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Fri 24 Jun, 2011 08:42 am
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Sun 3 Jul, 2011 05:38 am
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Thu 14 Jul, 2011 01:58 am
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Sun 24 Jul, 2011 06:17 am
England needs more German immigrants of Malaysian and Fijian parentage. And popular music needs more cor anglais solos.
