Type of Music

[chrisj]

I know I post lots of off-topic stuff, but this is something interesting to me, and maybe you too.

I am 54 and people here in South Jesus who are my age all listen to country music, even the people I went to school with who I never thought would like that sort of music. I know there are lots of young people who like that sort of music, but it seems that when you reach "a certain age" there are just things you don't listen to anymore.

I ain't like that.

I'm a musician myself, and have never liked country music. My taste has always been for the different sometimes. I like Industrial Rock mostly, with Nine Inch Nails being my favorite. Matter of fact, the last concert I went to was NIN, so there you go.

My second choice is Jazz Fusion. I like John McLaughlin, Spyrogyra, etc.

Just wondering what other people's taste tended to be, and if you think that age determines the style of music you like or listen to.

I listen to:
NIN
How to Destroy Angels
Gary Numan
Peter Gabriel (not that "Sledgehammer" era crap)
Brian Eno
Radiohead
Skinny Puppy
Gravity Kills
John McLaughlin
Spyrogyra

[Tylermayer]

old school rap

[Sabina74]

i listen to:

bruce springsteen
madonna
anastacia
(good) rock music
(good) pop music

and renato zero (one of the most famous singer in italy).

[why?]

lol, i love music, but I am far too lazy to actually sit down and learn to play. Slowly learning guitar, very slowly since I think I was 16.

I like heavy metal, punk, and every so often so lighter stuff. Well, my last.fm profile says my most listened to band is Keane, so what do you know.

Keane
Queen
Garbage
Allister
Green Day
my last.fm profile. (http://www.last.fm/user/WhyNemo)

[chrisj]

^ I have 18 guitars/basses, 3 or 4 pianos/keyboards, 2 sets of drums, and tons of so-called "world" drums. I have an entire room dedicated just to that stuff. Had to.

[RedRide]

I'm 63 and I pretty much like all kinds of music except rap, Nashville country and show tunes. BTW I lived in Nashville briefly.
Even though I don't like Nashvile style country, I love blugrass so, it's not a question of a NY boy not liking country.

[chrisj]

^ RedRide, I lived in Nashville too back in 1988. Everyone was talking about this star and that star. I was really living in the wrong town, I guess. I didn't see any "stars". LOL!

I do know that Lee Greenwood (I told you it was the 80's!) had his stupid Ferrari parked blocking me in once. I worked on 16th Ave South, as a software programmer in a building right beside Capitol Records.

[SailDesign]

I'm 63 and I pretty much like all kinds of music except rap, Nashville country and show tunes. BTW I lived in Nashville briefly.
Even though I don't like Nashvile style country, I love blugrass so, it's not a question of a NY boy not liking country.

I'm 55, and am pretty much with you there. Although you could add Jazz to that "except" list quite happily.
Current most-listened-to include:

Old Bowie (pre-75)
KT Tunstall
Dido
Paolo Nutini
Brahms (mostly Hungarian Dances)
Arcade Fire
Feist
Elvis (Costello, not the other one!)

[chrisj]

^ SailDesign, I like Bowie, but only from 1975-1977, from "Young Americans" to "Heroes". Odd that I like nothing either before or after that from him.

[RedRide]

^ RedRide, I lived in Nashville too back in 1988. Everyone was talking about this star and that star. I was really living in the wrong town, I guess. I didn't see any "stars". LOL!

I do know that Lee Greenwood (I told you it was the 80's!) had his stupid Ferrari parked blocking me in once. I worked on 16th Ave South, as a software programmer in a building right beside Capitol Records.

I lived there back in '68. I moved down there with a rock band I was playing Bass with. How we wound up there and who our agent was is a amazing story by its self.

Anyway, at that time at all the rock clubs, James Brown and any kind of soul music was the rage . We just played top 40 rock of the day.

[SailDesign]

^ SailDesign, I like Bowie, but only from 1975-1977, from "Young Americans" to "Heroes". Odd that I like nothing either before or after that from him.

Philistine! :Smile:
Try the "Hunky Dory" album (Kooks, Changes) and there are a couple of tracks from "Man who Sold the World" (as in, the title track that Nirvana covered) that are great. The album art in the US is sucky, although the Brit version was great. Why do they do that sh!t? If I'd grown up here, I have to admit I'd never have bought that one.

Happily, we all like something a bit different. It's what makes life interesting.

[chrisj]

^ I actually have all the Bowie albums (shhh....torrents...don't tell anyone... LOL!) but I just never liked his glitter period. He changed completely with "Young Americans" in 1975 and I was hooked. A couple of years later I listened to his new stuff and got unhooked. :)

[STC]

Contemporary Blues...

SRV and Double Trouble! :w00t: :headbang: :bow: :respekt:

RIP Stevie... You are the greatest guitarist ever!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAG-kX_IlUw

[krusty]

Here's what i listen to

Rancid
Alexisonfire
the Offspring (pre 98)
Strung Out
the dude's
Bomb the music Industry
Beastie Boys
Bad Religion
Drop Kick Murphys
the Distillers
and lots more lol

[fnkngrv]

I just like way too much to list

[TickleTimeTim]

keane is great
deathcab
killers
black eyed peas
copeland
strokes
newsboys
just a few....

[Mistry]

Pink Floyd, Oasis, Blur, Gnarls Barkley, Killers and other stuff too.

[chrisj]

Death Metal is hilarious to me.

[.Kevin.]

16

The Beatles
Rise Against
System Of A Down
Linkin Park
The Used
DJ Teisto
DJ Antoine


Random stuff, I got everything incase someone in my car doesnt like what I like :)

10 cds

and 800 songs on my gold iPod Nano

[chrisj]

I have several MP3 CDs in the car and there's a mixture of what my wife likes and what I like. She likes disco (yuck) and some other classic rock stuff. I like other things, but no matter who is in our car, they get to experience possibly some new music in their life, because we play our stuff. Our car...our music! The passenger can get over it, or get out! LOL!

[tomato]

Speaking of music, did you guys notice the Google's splash page today (because John Lennon's birthday is tomorrow and he would have been 70's). Just imagine all the music we could have had, had he lived.

[chrisj]

You know, I liked John Lennon way back when, and I still have lots of his music on my iPod Touch. But, he's been dead for nearly 30 years. I don't know why people still go on and on about him. I'm over it and have been forever. I just can't see him at 70 anyway. There's some stars like that who you just know aren't gonna make it. Elvis was another one like that. You just can't imagine (no pun intended) them old. I can't anyway.

Of course the Stones are still at it (with no gray hairs, except for Charlie) at almost 70. I think there comes a time when these guys need to give it up. It starts to look a little pathetic. I saw Paul McCartney's old, saggy 68-year-old ass bobbing his head and singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". That was sad.

[.Kevin.]

You know, I liked John Lennon way back when, and I still have lots of his music on my iPod Touch. But, he's been dead for nearly 30 years. I don't know why people still go on and on about him. I'm over it and have been forever. I just can't see him at 70 anyway. There's some stars like that who you just know aren't gonna make it. Elvis was another one like that. You just can't imagine (no pun intended) them old. I can't anyway.

Of course the Stones are still at it (with no gray hairs, except for Charlie) at almost 70. I think there comes a time when these guys need to give it up. It starts to look a little pathetic. I saw Paul McCartney's old, saggy 68-year-old ass bobbing his head and singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". That was sad.

hahahahahah

[tomato]

I just like way too much to list

+1

From classical to (some) rap, hip hop and just about everything in between, including a lot of World Music, Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Alternative, you name it.. No metal, though.

[tomato]

You know, I liked John Lennon way back when, and I still have lots of his music on my iPod Touch. But, he's been dead for nearly 30 years. I don't know why people still go on and on about him. I'm over it and have been forever. I just can't see him at 70 anyway. There's some stars like that who you just know aren't gonna make it. Elvis was another one like that. You just can't imagine (no pun intended) them old. I can't anyway.

Of course the Stones are still at it (with no gray hairs, except for Charlie) at almost 70. I think there comes a time when these guys need to give it up. It starts to look a little pathetic. I saw Paul McCartney's old, saggy 68-year-old ass bobbing his head and singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". That was sad.

Ahh, but that's because you haven't seen Neil Young lately, or Crosby... these guys continue to amaze me. you don't realize how good they still are until you see them perform in public. They still "sound" good and still got it as far as I'm concerned.

I think John Lennon probably would have done magic. Elvis didn't really invent anything. The Beatles really did.

Now John Lennon and Paul McCartney were gifted in that they they were the first band that 3 generations of people could sit and listen together. They came up with timeless classics that are close to 50 years old and still sound good. (2c) :smile:

[tomato]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw

[chrisj]

^ I get it, Tomato. Let me get my Bic lighter out and start waving! LOL!

[tomato]

Oh, I've never had a lighter but here is the thing

Some of these older musicians can just blow your socks off.

I saw BB King... yeah, he can't walk but he still can play :bow:

[tomato]

Went to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival last WE

http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/

You know Doc Watson? He's well in his 80's. Voice isn't the same but still good and clear, but man he can still play. :bow: :bow:

A lot of big names, "seasoned" musicians were there. Good stuff :headbang: :biggrin:

[why?]

i just hate when people mention the likes of john lennon, and then mention real musicians in the same breath.

lennon single handedly destroyed the beatles, and McCartney wrote almost all of the good music anyways.

I do like some of the beatles music, but come on, people act like they invented music.

i could ramble on forever, but the point is the beatles weren't even the best band of their time, the beach boys were better.

[chrisj]

i just hate when people mention the likes of john lennon, and then mention real musicians in the same breath.

lennon single handedly destroyed the beatles, and McCartney wrote almost all of the good music anyways.

I do like some of the beatles music, but come on, people act like they invented music.

i could ramble on forever, but the point is the beatles weren't even the best band of their time, the beach boys were better.

As time goes on, it's getting harder and harder for people to make the case about the Beatles anyway. My kids are 23 and 17, and they have other ideas about who had the most influence on music. Of course this is natural. I was 14 when the Beatles broke up myself, and that was 40 years ago. Elvis had an influence in the 50's, the Beatles/Stones/Beach Boys in the 60's, etc. My daughter is 23 and lists the Beatles as one of her favorite groups, and sometimes I feel like she just says that in homage to me or something. I like various rock/jazz/soul/whatever music, but I am def not stuck in some time warp. I can move on, and did.

[chrisj]

this is my new #1 , make sure you look at the original video at the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

I like the original part at the end. Who is that?

[bobselectric]

It would be easier to list all that I don't like-

Rap, hip-hop, speed metal,death metal, gospel

Some favorites on my IPOD are Deep Purple, Styx, Tom Petty, CSN, CSNY, Neil Young, Clifton Chenier, Johnny Cash, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Micheal Doucet, Talking Heads, Clash, Sex Pistols, Ruts, Sham 69, Rockapella, Elvis Costello, Heaven 17, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Porter Waggoner, Dylan, Miles Davis, Coltrane, David Sanborn, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins

I tend to go more for the artist, not the genre- I like some house, i.e. "Jump Around", some old disco, space music, i.e. Tangerine Dream, funk, i.e. Parliment Funkadelic

[tomato]

i just hate when people mention the likes of john lennon, and then mention real musicians in the same breath.

lennon single handedly destroyed the beatles, and McCartney wrote almost all of the good music anyways.

I do like some of the beatles music, but come on, people act like they invented music.

i could ramble on forever, but the point is the beatles weren't even the best band of their time, the beach boys were better.

John Lennon wasn't a real musician? Oh, Ok. Thanks for letting us know.

[Dragracer]

I'm still stuck in the 80's!:headbang:

[chrisj]

I have about 350 songs on my iPod Touch. I have a collection of about 100,000 tracks, and slowly and methodically went through them all to find ones I liked. I suppose it's a shame that all I could bear to listen to on a regular basis are 350 of them.

[tomato]

Maybe it's a reflection of a harsh reality for most bands... most CDs only have 2 or 3 good songs in them. :iono:

It's really rare when you can get a CD and like just about every single track in it.

I had vinyls first, then tapes (walked around with a walkman for a long time ;), then CD's and MP3's. Not all the music I like made it to my iPod. I was just thinking about that this morning, actually. I have no Beatles song (not a one!) on my iPod, and barely anything from the 70's, only a handful of tracks from the 80's. It's all pretty contemporary for the most part , last 10 -15 years (except the Jazz and maybe a couple of hundreds of miscel. tracks).

These days I stream a lot of music, so not 100% on my iPod anymore.

[JumpmanYaris]

Yall know lennon isn't dead right ?

He just went home.

[why?]

John Lennon wasn't a real musician? Oh, Ok. Thanks for letting us know.

i will always be anti-beatles. Far too many people I know worship everything about them, even the dean of my college did. Absurd.

Maybe it's a reflection of a harsh reality for most bands... most CDs only have 2 or 3 good songs in them. :iono:

It's really rare when you can get a CD and like just about every single track in it.

I had vinyls first, then tapes (walked around with a walkman for a long time ;), then CD's and MP3's. Not all the music I like made it to my iPod. I was just thinking about that this morning, actually. I have no Beatles song (not a one!) on my iPod, and barely anything from the 70's, only a handful of tracks from the 80's. It's all pretty contemporary for the most part , last 10 -15 years (except the Jazz and maybe a couple of hundreds of miscel. tracks).

These days I stream a lot of music, so not 100% on my iPod anymore.

even i have some beatles stuff on my ipod and in my itunes. Never liked streaming, or music radio. Talk radio i listen to a ton, but there is too much bad music out there for me to allow someone else to control what comes next.

I will agree the production cycle of music is forced far too much. I mean you would have never seen any of the great bands like Queen, Aerosmith, etc, put out a cd every single year. It is too forced that way.

Yall know lennon isn't dead right ?

He just went home.

Where was he from, the pleiades ?

[tomato]

Seems to me there is a wide margin between anti-Beatles and worship! :wink:

I'm somewhere in between. :biggrin:

LAST FM allows you to skip tracks you don't like, so you can just push through. I like the possibility of finding something I might like and just don't know yet. That's why I stream by genres, and also check out recommendations for stuff I like on YouTube. I have discovered quite a few excellent artists that way.

[chrisj]

^ I am the same way...about everyone I listen to. I too have never heard a whole album of anything that was ALL good. Never. I have also bought albums years ago after buying the single and wished I had just kept the single and that was all.

On the Beatles though. I remember back in October 1969 when "Abbey Road" came out. I wanted it badly, but it was $6.98, which was a small fortune for an album back then. Even in 1972, albums generally cost about $3.99 each, so in 1969 $6.98 was just ridiculous. I ended up getting it for Christmas that year, and loved it.

I don't like Beatle music before 1967 when "Sgt. Pepper" came out. All that "Twist and Shout" crap sucks to me. I liked them from 1967-1970 when they broke up. I liked them but certainly didn't worship them.

On a side note, I am old enough to have collected Beatle trading cards (Monkee ones too). ;)

[tomato]

Holy cow, you remember how much the album cost back in 1969?!! I'm lucky if I remember 1969! :biggrin:

[tomato]

I have the Blue album and the Red album at home somewhere. I remember buying them.

I'm pretty sure I used to own the White album at some point and maybe another one but who knows, these things tend to come and go :wink: I wonder if my parents still have somewhere in boxes the 45's with the label of an apple on them (nope, Steve jobs didn't even invent that, either ;)

I keep meaning to transfer all the music I have on tapes to MP3 but never get to it. Does anyone know of good (preferably cheap or free) software that can do that?

[bobselectric]

The Pretenders first album, self titled, every song is great, same for London Calling- the Clash

But I agree- especially today, just can't justify buying an album, CD

My favorite Beatles song is "I Saw Her Standing There"

[tomato]

Fool on the hill
Michelle
In my life
Imagine
Because
Here comes the sun
The long and winding road
Lucy in the Sky
.....

I'm sure I forget some.

oh, looky here, I do have Abbey Road after all!! Looks like I'm missing the Red album, that's odd... I remember I liked it quite a bit. Whoever "borrowed" it and "forgot" to return it to me needs my foot up their @ss :<

[chrisj]

My stepdaughter converted tons of cassettes to CD, and I can't remember what she used now. It wasn't free, but I don't think it cost much. If I can locate what it was, I will post here. I love her to death, but if SHE can do it, it must be a breeze.

[TLyttle]

Being the oldest here, I suppose it is appropriate that my favourite music is real music: Beethoven, Greig, Chopin, Leroy Anderson, Joplin (Scott, not that tuneless squawker from the 70s), and some select artists from more recent times. Gordon Lightfoot wrote some interesting stuff, as did Arlo Guthrie, and others. The classics take a lot of time to be appreciated for what they are: can you imagine writing a symphony? One guy? Pen and ink? Think about it! It makes the recent stuff out as fluffy drivel.

Just to annoy you all even further, Elvis was not the King of Rock and Roll, that title rightfully belongs to Little Richard; Elvis was crowned King because Little Richard was black!

[tomato]

Love Scott Joplin. I was starting to play some of his compositions in high school but then life took a different turn and I had to give up the piano. Too bad, it was just getting to be fun ;) I was classically trained, so probably know some of the pieces you like. I still really enjoy listening to Claude Debussy, Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Eric Satie (spell?), Sergei Prokofief (spell?) and some others whose names I forget now, it's been too long. Some of those pieces are probably on my iPod

here is one of my very favorites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk


But you limit yourself IMO if you don't branch out and try out the more contemporary styles as well.

On my iPod, Chopin might be sitting right next to Dr. Dre, and you know, it's OK :smile:

[tomato]

Tlytle, I forgot Andre Segovia. How can I forget :bow:
I know there are others.

Like I said b/f, it would be much easier for me to list music I DON't like ;)

Tell me if you like these:

Saint Preux, Concerto Pour Une Voix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24TaTGljBAE

(brb will find other contemporary stuff you might like)

[tomato]

Supertramp? They were really pretty good back in the days with impressive piano segments, almost like classical.

Pink Floyd?

What about movie soundtracks? There are some really, really good ones. Let me see, Dances with Wolves soundtrack?

[tomato]

Manhattan Transfer?
Nat King Cole?
Ella Fitzgerald?

[tomato]

Thievery Corporation?
MC Solaar?

John Surman?
Oh yeah, try this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMUG7tNUR8

(it's pretty modern but give it a shot, let the first minute go by before making a judgment)

and here is another one I personally really, really love because I grew up with it

Michel Columbier, Emanuel

click on this site and it'll start playing.

http://www.michelcolombier.com/

Branford Marsalis :bow: also plays it in his album Romances for Saxophones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utGF0oCCZBs

hope you like them :smile:

[tomato]

OK I'll shut up now :smile:

[chrisj]

Holy cow, you remember how much the album cost back in 1969?!! I'm lucky if I remember 1969! :biggrin:

I remembered the price of that one particular album because there was no way I could afford it. I was 13 and got an allowance of $1.25 a week. By the time I bought my Mad magazine and the latest single by someone (singles were just 67 cents!), I had no money left.

My little cousin ended up getting me the album for Christmas (actually my aunt, of course), and it was the best gift I got that year, for sure. I still have the original, although it's so scratchy it's unplayable. Doesn't matter though.

[chrisj]

Believe it or not, I used to like classical music more than now. I just don't seem to have the patience for it. I have always loved strings, and when Electric Light Orchestra came out (pre-ELO bubble gum sell out days), I loved that. One reason I liked the Beatles from 1967-1970 only was the use of strings in the tunes. Matter of fact, I have a violin and cello of my own (can't play either very well). I do love a good sax though. I listened to your selections from above, tomato. I play sax some (started on clarinet in 6th grade...moved to drums in high school), and I love a sax section, especially bari sax.

I was in my stepdaughter's car the other day (she lives in the big city of Lexington), and she has the radio set on NPR constantly. I just kinda looked at her and went, "You're kidding me with this, right?" LOL!

[SailDesign]

My little cousin ended up getting me the album for Christmas (actually my aunt, of course), and it was the best gift I got that year, for sure. I still have the original, although it's so scratchy it's unplayable. Doesn't matter though.

Love it - I still have a copy of Dylan's first album - Copyright says 1962 - mono - that my Dad gave me coz I "needed to have some real music in the house" (I was 8) that I cherish. I have a CD to actually LISTEN to, but that old LP gets put on occasionally, scratches and all.

[tomato]

^ scratches on old LP's just add character to the music :thumbsup:

[chrisj]

Yeah, that album of mine would probably be on the Grab List in case of fire...

[tomato]

Believe it or not, I used to like classical music more than now...

Same here. It's not that I don't like it, it's that there is so much more to enjoy these days.

IMO you can't just say "classical" or [pick a genre] "is the only music" . Its like any art form, some is better than other but ultimately, it's all a matter of personal taste.

Being "classically trained" probably made me like some bands far more than others, however (for example, I could listen to the Beatles for hours when I was growing up but never really liked the Rolling Stones as much.)

I didn't much like hip-hop or rap in the beginning but then I discovered that it's like every genre, there is the good stuff and the not-so-good stuff...

[tomato]

I was looking for a link for TLyttle , I think he might like.

It's the Supertramp's Fool's overture, intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLbYL10c1zo


(right now, Last FM is playing a piece from John Mayall from his "70'th b'day concert" :bow::bow: it's a live piece and I hear quite a lot of "appreciation" from the crowd so I guess I'm not the only one who can appreciate these older musicians, ha!! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOpxFe2_gns&feature=related

this one (part 2) is even better IMO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5tiSxA0ri0

enjoy ^

(check out the guys who bows at 5:30 :smile:)

[TLyttle]

Wow, thanks for the clip, tomato, that was great! All the others you mention are in my library (vinyl, cassette, CD) including Supertramp and others. I don't automatically discount new stuff, it is just that there are so many other great composers out there whose stuff is so much stronger. I'm big on Strauss, Prokopiev, Lakhme, Brahms, Elgar, Bizet, on and on; where would I find the time to study some of today's current fluff?

As far as Segovia and others are concerned, they indeed wrote- and played- the 20th Century classics, even Gershwin was able to write some memorable stuff, the peak of which was Rhapsody in Blue: the opening bars of the second movement are enough to make what's left of my hair to stand on end...

Some people ask me what music I listen to, and I reply: from machinery, or in my head? I have a terrible time with earworms, and music is in my head all the time...

Like you, I gave up music early on: trombone, particularly New Orleans Dixie. I recently bought a mouthpiece to see if I can get my wind and lip back... 72 isn't too late, is it? ;-)

[chrisj]

^ Never too late! :)

[tomato]

^ Never too late! :)

+1 :headbang:

[tomato]

Did I mention Sergei Rachmaninoff, Serenata Op. 15? :smile:

[chrisj]

Wow. I listen to Beethoven and am glad I can deal with that. I also keep it in my headphones so no one knows I'm listening to it. I put some classical on the stereo in the living room one night and my wife looked at me like I was crazy.

[Altitude]

Bowie, Eno, Gabriel..good stuff. I too dislike country, but I also don't care for much metal or rap either. Most other forms I can appreciate. Is there any King Crimson in your collection by any chance (in keeping with your 'older' alternative bent?)

Most of my tastes center around 60's 70's and 80's music as I lost a lot of interest in keeping up with the good stuff as I aged during the 90's. So I guess for me, age hasn't changed my taste but it has affected my attention span and desire to find cool music.

[TLyttle]

Name dropper...;-) I'm not heavy into opera, but there are quite a few pieces that I enjoy to a point of tears. I think one is a Lakme duet (2 sopranos) and another from the Kingfisher. I came to opera late, so I don't have a solid grip on where these wonderful pieces come from. The big laugh for me is listening to some current music and hearing a melody from a classic mixed in; it isn't as frequent as it was in the 50s and 60s, but they still show up...

[cali yaris]

Like you, I gave up music early on: trombone, particularly New Orleans Dixie. I recently bought a mouthpiece to see if I can get my wind and lip back... 72 isn't too late, is it? ;-)

no NEVER. I've been practicing my trumpet all week. My old band is getting together for a reunion this weekend. I did music for my living 1975 -2000

[Nexus1155]

I listen to alot of NIN and mostly rock music and trance/techno. I just recently started to get into this stuff called Agrotech music. Its like rock and techno together its pretty cool.

[tomato]

King Crimson... sigh

http://dreamchimney.com/slvs/court-crimson-king_20060810045721.jpg

Now you're taking me way back! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsfyAXOoc4&feature=related

I used to love them back in high school. A lot of the music that comes out of England is really, really good, IMO. Also back then Genesis, Caravan, Jethro Tull ... (sigh) ... back then I even liked the Dead ;)

I rarely listen to these bands anymore.

[tomato]

Simon and Garfunkel ...
CSNY
Santana ...

pfff.. so, so many

[tomato]

Name dropper...;-) I'm not heavy into opera, but there are quite a few pieces that I enjoy to a point of tears. I think one is a Lakme duet (2 sopranos) and another from the Kingfisher. I came to opera late, so I don't have a solid grip on where these wonderful pieces come from. The big laugh for me is listening to some current music and hearing a melody from a classic mixed in; it isn't as frequent as it was in the 50s and 60s, but they still show up...

Do you know Jacques Loussier?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Loussier

I saw him on TV the other day. He's been doing this since before I was born and still at it. That guy is simply amazing. Check him out on youtube, I think you'll like it. He's an excellent classical / Jazz music player. Just check him out, I think you might like his style ;)

[tomato]

TLyttle, you say you like Gerswhin.

Check out 'Ella sings Gershwin" or "Best of Song Books" collection
I have a feeling you might like it. her voice is just like ... touching velvet, I guess. Very, very smooth.

[SailDesign]

Simon and Garfunkel ...
CSNY
Santana ...

pfff.. so, so many

Yup - found a Stone Poneys CD the other day. Joy!

[DebbyM46227]

Yup - found a Stone Poneys CD the other day. Joy!

Did you have to post this? :biggrin: Now I have Different Drum going through my head!

I listen to:
Top 40
Soft Rock
70's and 80's music
Some country - like Brooks & Dunn & Billy Ray Cyrus
Barry Manilow

My all-time favorite is Michael Jackson (sorry!)

BTW, are we supposed to clean the stock CD player that comes in the Yaris every now & then? So far I haven't, but I usually just listen to the radio. I have a CD cleaner disc (looks like a CD with a brush attached underneath), but I'm afraid to insert this - I only use it on my top-loading CD players.

[SailDesign]

Did you have to post this? :biggrin: Now I have Different Drum going through my head!



Sorry - and Yes, it was that album. :biggrin:

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no NEVER. I've been practicing my trumpet all week. My old band is getting together for a reunion this weekend. I did music for my living 1975 -2000

Did you, really?!!:bow:

What kind of music did you play.

[Altitude]

Oh yeah - and I don't care who knows it - SuperTramp kicked ass.

[Altitude]

My all-time favorite is Michael Jackson (sorry!)

Ha! Though I wouldn't call myself a fan of his, I would never argue that the album Thriller was anything less than musical genius.

[DebbyM46227]

Ha! Though I wouldn't call myself a fan of his, I would never argue that the album Thriller was anything less than musical genius.

My favorite too. When Thriller first came out, I wore out 3 cassettes and 1 album...I'm.glad CD's were invented.

[tomato]

As far as I'm concerned, MJ was some kind of entertainer genius. I used to work out a lot to his music back in the 80's ;)

[tomato]

Bonnie Rait
Shelby Lynn
K.D. Lang
Sade. <3
....

[tomato]

Pat Metheny
Trespasser William
Everything, But the Girl
Melodie Gardot
Al Jarreau
George Benson
......

[SailDesign]

Bonnie Rait
Shelby Lynn
K.D. Lang
Sade. <3
....

EARLY Bonnie Raitt (up to '75 or so) - her later stuff doesn't do it for me.

[tomato]

James mc Murtry
Lisa Stansfield
Christina Aguilera
Julie Cruise
Randy Crawford
Johnny Winter .....

[tomato]

+ 1 , Sail . Not all these artists are consistently good over time.

Early Eminem (the Marshall Mathers album especially)
Tiken Jah Fakoli
Early stuff of Simply Red
Aretha Franklin Sarah mc lauhlan
Alisson Krauss
Michael Buble
elianne Elias
Stacy Kent
Madeleine Peyroux
Patricia Barber
Joao Gilberto. :bow: :bow:
Bebel Gilberto
Ayo
Charlie Daniels

........

[chrisj]

I have a friend who likes something called Rockabilly. I don't visit him much.

[Altitude]

I have a friend who likes something called Rockabilly. I don't visit him much.

LOL. It's all the same song with different words :wink:

@tomato - Sade - YES!

[chrisj]

^ Unfortunately! LOL!

[tomato]

@altitude. Do you know Sweetback ?

It's the name of her band. YouTube them , I think you'll enjoy them very much.

[MadMax]

I just discovered Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Kamakawiwo'ole), who recently had a #1 hit with his song Somewhere Over The Rainbow (yes, from the Wizard of Oz) over here in Germany (I'm on a business trip here) despite the fact that he originally released it in 1993 and passed away four years later...click on the following song title for another one of his famous songs:

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Hawai'i 78 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0-4KHt1OXs)

http://www.fretplay.com/covers/israel_kamakawiwo_ole-tabs.jpg

Powerful stuff!

Cheers! M2

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^ that guy is great! I have an album around here somewhere. All the tracks are really pleasant, mellow, so you can just let it loop for a while and not be bothered.

[bobselectric]

I have a friend who likes something called Rockabilly. I don't visit him much.

Rockabilly is awesome! Rap is the stuff that's the same with different words

[chrisj]

^ Don't get me started on (C)Rap... :)

[bobselectric]

One of my favorite lines from a movie was from "the Last BoyScout"- Bruce Willis is tied up and being beaten when his captor tells him that he's going to make him scream- So Bruce says "What are you going to do- play some rap music?"

Classic

[TLyttle]

Rap music: an oxymoron if there ever was one...

[chrisj]

One of my favorite lines from a movie was from "the Last BoyScout"- Bruce Willis is tied up and being beaten when his captor tells him that he's going to make him scream- So Bruce says "What are you going to do- play some rap music?"

Classic

:bellyroll:

Seriously, I figured it would have died out by now. Seriously. I keep waiting for some type of good music...and waiting...and waiting...

[Altitude]

Powerful stuff!

Cheers! M2

+1 IZ = awesome.

This was one of my favs during the 80's - though not so much a group as it was a producers project using various little known artists. This Mortal Coil (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYEImDgztM)

...which then reminded me of The Alan Parsons Project - one of my favs from the 70's. I Robot!

More 80's goodness... The Waterboys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsNTmjlf1vI)

[chrisj]

^ First time I ever heard AP was in a friend's Chevy Vega in England in 1977. I heard the instrumental "I Robot" and had to know who did it. I bought every album before and since then. I still buy them, but the original AP sound died when Eric Woolfson left. I hated it when he died. I always hoped for a reunion. AP's music was not the same (or as good) when Eric left.

IMO Woolfson was that sound.