8 of the 12 months from "The Seasons", one of my favorite works of Pyotr Ilyich, plus The Nutcracker's "Waltz of the Flowers" played with verve and gusto by a russian jazz trio - wonderful!
After today's good news that a-ha will be releasing a new album in September called 'Cast In Steel' and also going on tour, I'm listening to their last album...
"I have stood here before inside the pouring rain With the world turning circles running 'round my brain I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign But it's my destiny to be the king of pain."
Or even better, the "classic" lyric from 'Is There Something I Should Know?'...
Don't say you're easy on me you're about as easy as a nuclear war
I recently converted a 1983 audio cassette to mp3 of my then-11-year-old childhood best friend singing along with that song and specifically, that lyric. Deadly, deadly nostalgia...
BTW, Duran's song "Notorious" has some pretty tasty horn section work in it, but I'm not about to quote it...