A Cup of Tea & Biscuits

Lux Æterna by Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet from Requiem for a Dream (2000) I've wanted to learn how to the play the piano from even before I wanted to sing. Unfortunately, it has never really taken shape in the way I wanted it, but I did manage to teach myself to some extent! My Dad bought me a miniature Casio, one of those kiddie ones with about 15 keys, and I began to play by ear. Any and every song that I loved, I would play. In more recent times I've been playing full length songs off of my favorite albums, even if just with a single hand and no sheet music ( I can't read music :P) One of the best leitmotifs composed, this is a song I've obsessed about since I heard it. I think I have some 5 different versions of the song, including the one used as Requiem for a Tower in the trailer for The Two Towers (LOTR), an orchestal version and a live version by the Quartet. My point is, I love this track! It's brilliantly epic and I can see a whole battle, o...

Age of Shadows by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon from 01011001 (2008) Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a genius. He's created an entire world through his music. Literally! Ayreonauts on Planet Y and all of the intricacies involved in living on an alien planet, trying to find oneself, expanding and exploring new horizons, even finding a new home (on earth). It's like reading a science fiction novel, except it's being sung to you with perfect space sounds! I love all of the singers that have contributed to this project, each of them unique in sound. I may have listened to this song a total of 10 times before I learned the lyrics, and no I did not cheat and look it up online! I was quite proud of having done that, and while I know the lyrics to almost every song I listen to this was the first one that popped in my head. [Tom Englund:] We never saw this coming, pride comes before a fall We never heeded the warnings, buried deep within us all [Chorus:] ...