Musing for the end of the year

So, I've decided I will try and post a bit more on the blog and include some more general musings. Not sure I will be able to do this, but we'll see. I will still be staying out of politics and economic discussions though :-)

Anyway, a few days ago I spent more than half a day listening to music on Youtube. I am not entirely sure how i got to this, but I think it started with the minions from the Despicable Me movies. It was a somewhat long line of free associations and I eventually ended up listening to a bunch of 70's-80's music. Much of it was not what you'd usually expect, but things that were pretty popular in USSR when I was growing up. Much of the songs are in Italian and French. Besides making me feel somewhat like an old fart, it also led me to some rather interesting things I haven't listen in depth to before. For example, I spent a lot of time listening to different versions of Vivo per lei by Andrea Bocelli (see links at the end of this post. i was somewhat surprised that I liked the German and the French versions the best. Especially surprising was the German version, since German is usually considered a somewhat harsh language. So, kudos to Judy Weiss. Obviously, in all these versions Bocelli's partner has a beautiful voice, but for some reason both of the English versions didn't speak to me too much, and I liked the Spanish one the least.

As a result of all of this, I will be buying a couple of Bocelli's albums as a present to myself for the end of the year :-)

Cheers all and enjoy

The 70s/80s mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWSLwkYa6k&list=RDQ0wZQbK938Y&index=1

Vivo per lei original version (Italian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6MhjhMtq7s

French version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpAgfw4j5SU

German version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyYqJyc-zk

Spanish version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNvGghuoJUo

English version #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOfadmFfuPc

English version #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdxRmcgsKDQ