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catwixen Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2008 Posted: Feb. 11 2009, 08:27 Top o the morning is the ultimate!!!! Does anything else he has done give you that fulfilling feeling? Oh wow...I am soooo satisfied with everything at this moment! That is what that song does for me.... Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Feb. 11 2009, 08:38 Hi and welcome Catwixen. I completely agree. It's such an upliftying track, can't help but turn the volume up when it comes on. I usually play it in the car on the way to work, perfect to tap the teering wheel to and always makes me smile.   -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

catwixen Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2008 Posted: Feb. 11 2009, 08:48 Oh thankyou olrac....now I know it is not only me. I adore that piece. Do you like kate Bush? I am listening to her tonight as well. The Red Shoes. Back to top

ex member 419 Group: Members Posts: 1177 Joined: April 2008 Posted: Feb. 11 2009, 20:30 Quote (catwixen @ Feb. 11 2009, 08:27) Top o the morning is the ultimate!!!! Does anything else he has done give you that fulfilling feeling? Oh wow...I am soooo satisfied with everything at this moment! That is what that song does for me.... Hi catwixen, cute graphic, i have 3 felines of my own. top makes me go ah! all is right with the world.. time to relax with a cup of english breakfast tea. cheers, deb Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Feb. 11 2009, 23:54 I adore that piece. Absolutly adore it!  Along with a part "close to it" on TB3 with a screaming guitar solo and a female vocal so intense it sounded like she was crying and does almost invoke crying(a good edit to tie-in with the thread on what to play at your funeral). TOTM could be considered uplifting but also the melody and "churning forward motion" of the piano might suggest desperation........seeking "my lost love" or something. Running looking for "my honey" who left me. Eliminating the electronica/techno parts of TB3, it was a return for MO(in my assessment) to very emotional forms of music he had abandoned for a while(except for Voyager). Now you got me wanting to hear it....I gotta go. Jimbo -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Feb. 12 2009, 08:27 It made me think of autumn the first time i heard it.Not sure why but at the start it has a really moving sort of melancholia about it which i always associate with autumn for some reason.Dunno why but there you go. BTW welcome Catwixen. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 12 2009, 22:53 Yes, it's a remarkable piece. Like so many of MO's pieces it connotes for me a kind of leap into infinite loss, which somehow gets transmuted into something positive. Back to top

ex member 419 Group: Members Posts: 1177 Joined: April 2008 Posted: Feb. 13 2009, 20:25 Mike manages to convey in music that which cannot be verbalised a bit like translating a beautiful word in sanskrit into music because there is no english word to describe the spiritual, see tb 3 live  cheers, deb Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 13 2009, 23:03 Some English words derive from Sanskrit. "Crimson" and "jungle" are examples. Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Feb. 15 2009, 19:00 TOTM is one of my favourite recent instrumental tracks of Mike. And I have been listening to Kates The Red Shoes over the last couple of days too, what a coincidence hey! -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

catwixen Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2008 Posted: Feb. 16 2009, 08:24 Thankyou all for replying.... TOTM is the ultimate piano piece IMO. Beautiful. OOh and cat lovers unite!!!! Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Feb. 16 2009, 08:51 By the way the correct response to the greeting  "Top of the morning" (according to my Grandad who was from County Wexford in the south east of Ireland) is "And the rest of the day to yourself").So if Mike does TB 4 we should expect to see a track of this name. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Feb. 16 2009, 19:05 Quote (catwixen @ Feb. 16 2009, 08:24) Thankyou all for replying.... TOTM is the ultimate piano piece IMO. Beautiful. OOh and cat lovers unite!!!! Interestingly, the part I most like is the non-piano refrain with a kind of irregular rhythm. BTW I like cats too. I have one called Finchaven. Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Feb. 17 2009, 09:21 If it wasn't for the fact that i live in a first floor flat and am not allowed pets i'd have a least one cat.They are independant,don't bug you to go for walks and,apart from food,pretty much take care of themselves.I'd happily kidnap(catnap?) my ex-wife's cat.The softest and possibly stupidest creature on earth who will not leave me alone when i visit my daughters.She has a habit of putting her front paws on my stomach and,when she has gained my attention,clawing her way up me to sit on my shoulders. Back on topic (sort of)apparently right at the very end of In Duci Jubilo a cat can be heard.Les Penning,who played the recorder part,has confirmed that it was one of Mike's cats. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

BlueTape Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: Dec. 2000 Posted: Feb. 17 2009, 18:23 i have heard people play the track online, is there a tab for piano available? and agreed its one of those great tracks that always stays with you -------------- my music website www.bluetape.co.uk Back to top

ex member 419 Group: Members Posts: 1177 Joined: April 2008 Posted: Feb. 18 2009, 17:53 Top of the morning to me is a new day, a better day, if yesterday was awful today promises to be a new chance, while the sun shines, i smile, deb Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Feb. 18 2009, 19:21 Quote (The Caveman @ Feb. 16 2009, 08:51) By the way the correct response to the greeting  "Top of the morning" (according to my Grandad who was from County Wexford in the south east of Ireland) is "And the rest of the day to yourself").So if Mike does TB 4 we should expect to see a track of this name. Matter of fact, that'd be a great name for an album. If you translated it into Icelandic, Sigur Rós would probably like it. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

ex member 419 Group: Members Posts: 1177 Joined: April 2008 Posted: Feb. 20 2009, 23:59 Quote (catwixen @ Feb. 11 2009, 08:48) Oh thankyou olrac....now I know it is not only me. I adore that piece. Do you like kate Bush? I am listening to her tonight as well. The Red Shoes. I was listening to wuthering heights yesterday, still one of kate bushs best, very haunting and beautiful,  deb Back to top

ex member 419 Group: Members Posts: 1177 Joined: April 2008 Posted: Feb. 21 2009, 00:08 Quote (The Caveman @ Feb. 16 2009, 08:51) By the way the correct response to the greeting "Top of the morning" (according to my Grandad who was from County Wexford in the south east of Ireland) is "And the rest of the day to yourself").So if Mike does TB 4 we should expect to see a track of this Thats what i love about british life and customs, a sense of respect and dignity when greeting others, we are laid back in australia so i have lost my ancestors customs, i doff my cap te ye, deb Back to top

catwixen Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Nov. 2008 Posted: Feb. 21 2009, 04:42 Lol the Aussies and the brits....shall this special bond ever break? Every major musical act I love is British...the comedy (who could forget "The Goodies" or "Kenny Everett")... Top o the morning to you Brits..... Back to top

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