What Are You Listening To?

[Dissily Mordentroge]

^^
im a fan of Lana Del Rey but have to be in the mood to listen to her, likewise Jack White
that track is from her Ultraviolence album (my least favourite of hers IMO)
never knew it was released as a single??

“Being in the mood” is a hard one to explain. There are some classical music works I’m only in the mood to listen to once a year at most. Mostly because they’re emotionally draining in the extreme. 'Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde’ (The Song of the Earth) is one. The best performance (IMO) is an old mono one with Kathleen Ferrier as soprano. The final song is essentially someone sing about dying. When she recorded it she was dying of cancer. the entire orchestra and conductor knew and kept breaking up during the recording. Ferrier at one stage turned to the orchestra and said. “Hey, who's dying around here, you or me?”
Then there are songs that were effectively the soundtrack to a love affair, later gone wrong. Some of those I can’t listen to decades after, one never. Enough already, I’m getting maudlin.