The Music Thread

[verticalhorizon]

Since there's a book thread, I searched for a music one and amazed I didn't find anything similar.

Here are some albums I can't do without, in no particular order:

Some Devil - Dave Matthews
Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees
Come Away with Me - Norah Jones
Red Light Blue Light - Harry Connick, Jr.
No Doubt - The Singles
My Fair Lady Soundtrack
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
2112 - Rush
The Best of Barry Manelow

Well that's 10 to start. Let's see what you got?

 

[fire&ice]

I thought your were trying to be stealth here.

since you changed directions to go vertical.

If I posted my favs, hubby could spot me a mile away. Just a thought.

BTW, I know none of those songs. At least, I don't recognize by name. I must be old.

BUt then, I think I am the only middleaged women who has some of the Outkast records..I mean CD's

 

[Nicrez]

F&I, IMPRESSIVE with the Outkast! I don't even own them, and I suppose that's more "my genre". Is it wrong to like someone else's?

I could honestly post (at the least) my top 100. I love SO many different types of songs at so many different moods and times. Today was my latin day...Latin music all over the place!

Most times, I am very big into Nat King Cole, Frank, Dean Martin, Cole Porter, Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, even...Michael Bubble (this new jazzy singer) *hangs head in shame*

I have bobbed my head to Britney, belted out Aretha, hummed some Bee Gees, chilled to some Bob Marley, bathed in bubbles to some Vivaldi or even Enya, got silly to some Guns N Roses or Metalica, chilled to sounds of Morcheeba, crooned with Tim McGraw or ranted with the Dixie Chicks, and even appreciated some foreign music from Poland, Latin America, India, Russia, Brazil (I ADORE Brazilian and ITALIAN!) and everything I could get my ears into... I even listen to Bollywood soundtracks...

Hell, I own some of the best opera CDs I use to torture Rand into submission. (Orff's piece from Carman Burana - "O Fortuna" works best)

I ADORE the Beatles, anything early, anything late...Sting has a VERY special place in my heart, Sade is excellent, old 80's music can be fun (at times!), and sometimes I can be seen mouthing words to even some campy fifties songs. Not huge on techno, I still like the modern sounds to some songs that have a pleasing and not overly repetitive electronic sounds (ala Telepopmusic). All in all, I am ONE confused puppy!

Of course, as if at the Oscars, I feel like I have left out too many people to name...

 

[sumi]

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On 4/20/2004 5:48:04 PM fire&ice wrote:



If I posted my favs, hubby could spot me a mile away. Just a thought.

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F&I that had me laughing so hard. so true, so true.

 

[verticalhorizon]

If I posted my favs, hubby could spot me a mile away. Just a thought.

I suppose that's true!

 

[sumi]

Any album by Tosca is good. Very good.

Jem, "it all starts here..."

Bic Runga, "Beautiful Colision"

I love Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. I especially like Ella doing the Cole Porter songbook. Very good, but what else would you expect from Ella?

My husband really like Damien Rice and David Gray, but I'm not really too crazy about them. A lot of people think they are very good, so I think they are worth checking out.

 

[Matata]

I have wide ranging taste in music but tend to listen to what I grew up with -- rhythm & blues from the 60's & 70's -- and classics.

My absolute favorite type of music is good ol Mississippi blues -- James Cotton, Muddy Waters -- ain't nothing like the blues to make you feel good!!!

 

[diamondsbylauren]

Anybody like the Grateful Dead?

 

[MichelleCarmen]

I'm not even sure who ANY of the above bands/musicians mentioned are, except of course the Beatles and Grateful Dead

lol My parents were total hippies back in the days so I grew up on rock and always have liked classic rock bands of the 60s and 70s.

Other music I like is new wave, industrial, punk, and some alternative bands. . .

Favorites right at the moment are:
The Pixies
Bjork
Cranberries
New Order
Ministry
Smashing Pumpkins
Ths Smiths
NIN
Lard (which I'd be surprised if anyone here has heard of

lol, but has the lead guy from the Dead Kennedies as vocals and the two main Ministry guys also.)

Plus, many more. . .too many bands to mention. . . but, entirely different from what you all like.

Favorite bands from the earlier days include Velvet Underground, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and of course, a bunch more.

Michelle

 

[Nicrez]

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On 4/21/2004 1:40:07 PM diamondsbylauren wrote:


Anybody like the Grateful Dead?
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Hee hee...David i heard so much of them from my roommate in college that I swore I couldn't listen to another song! BUT, her Creedence Clearwater Revival stuck on me like glue, and Chronicle has become one of my most classic car CDs, I STILL love it!!!

Hey Michelle, I got to meet Bjork, and she's definately "unique"!

I dated her "healer" for a while, and we had second row seats to her concert at Radio City, sitting next to her two friends (one with mullet, and the other had multi-color vinyl/pleather outfit with matching bag) The after party was just as..."unique". He seemed normal, but that was a short relationship!

My best impression of her is like a butterfly. Very pretty and small, lively and fluttery, but always moving and thinking. Such an interesting woman and equally engaging music!

 

[fire&ice]

Yeah, I'm a dead head. But, I really like a variety. Jethro Tull, Eagles, Billy Joel, Beatles (specifically Jon Lennon) - probably my favorites.

I like Rap, R&B, Pop, Jazz, New Age, Spainish quitar ...just about anything if it makes me move. I love to dance! And sing - which should be outlawed!

 

[verticalhorizon]

What's your BEST, but most obscure musical discovery?

 

[fire&ice]

Michael Cross, Dave Mattews (before he was discovered), Pousette Dart.

My husband loves blue grass. I don't mind some of it as long as it doesn't get too tawgy. He's always bringing home new blue grass CD's.

 

[Superidealist]

Favorites:

Ryan Adams
Bob Dylan
Bela Fleck (with and without the Flecktones)
John Hartford
Leo Kottke
Jonathan Richman (with and without the Modern Lovers)
Hound Dog Taylor and the Housrockers
Velvet Underground

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On 4/21/2004 3:56:00 PM verticalhorizon wrote:

What's your BEST, but most obscure musical discovery?----------------

Probably the Shaggs or a Japanese group called Melt Banana, but not many people would like either.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

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My best impression of her is like a butterfly. Very pretty and small, lively and fluttery, but always moving and thinking. Such an interesting woman and equally engaging music!----------------[/quote]


Wow, fun! I'm so jealous. I love Bjork and would just die to meet her. lol I like weird/unique people so it would be a real treat especially since after I quit working in an artists' studio a right before my son was born, I've lost touch with all the funky people around my region. Now it's just yawnly boring moms who compare the same birth stories and all the gore that goes with that OVER AND OVER! lol

.

It's hard to comprehend her hanging out with a guy spiffed up with a mullet though! I'd be shaving that thing while he was sleeping

Michelle

 

[Nicrez]

Excuse me, that was her FEMALE friend...Both of them were and trust me not even the word "unique" could describe these two. I think Bjork is married with kids. I never asked...

Absolutely pleasant and cordial, with their Nordic accents that sort of confused the ear. What they did to the eyes was even more profound! Like I said, one was a designer, and so she was wearing a very "different" sort of outfit and the colors of Red, yellow, orange, white and Turquoise made a real statement. Bag made of the same vinyl/pleather and was the same as the skirt, but porbably BIGGER, with cord for the handles in a shimmery neon pink. I actually liked that part.

Mullet was a very tall and slender gal, like her friend and althought their pictures are forever etched in my minds, their names escaped me as soon as they hit my ears. Way too foreign to be likely to cross again. I bet one was named Susan, but they nicknamed her something odd just to fit in! But again, very very interesting night.

Sometimes I miss the very progressive things I used to be involved in. I would go to all types of concerts and independant films, off-off-off broadways shows, alternative restaurants, meet some really interesting people and discover some totally talented people who may never be recognized. Ahh the single days! Try dragging a busy 7am-10pm working male to any of those palces!

Vertical, I have to say an odd find of music I made once at a party of a friend of hers was a woman named simply "Moa". She's hauntingly good, and has a sound unlike other singers I have heard...

 

[fire&ice]

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On 4/20/2004 9:55:02 AM verticalhorizon wrote:

Since there's a book thread, I searched for a music one and amazed I didn't find anything similar.

Here are some albums I can't do without, in no particular order:

Some Devil - Dave Matthews
Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees
Come Away with Me - Norah Jones
Red Light Blue Light - Harry Connick, Jr.
No Doubt - The Singles
My Fair Lady Soundtrack
A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
2112 - Rush
The Best of Barry Manelow

Well that's 10 to start. Let's see what you got?----------------

Am I crazy? Or, did you change a few things around because I now know all of them.

 

[verticalhorizon]

Yes, I did change them. F&I, you had a point about being stealthy, although the GF isn't as much of a music fan as I am. Even if she were snooping around, I doubt that she'd come to this thread. In fact, I doubt she'll even fathom why I spend so much idle time here at all!

These albums I listed are, by and large, not my all-time favorites, but DO belong is a respectible collection.

I can't believe SuperIdealist listed Leo Kottke and Hound Dog Taylor! Good stuff. If you like Ryan Adams, you should check out Rhett Miller (of Old '97's fame). I wouldn't say it's the same, necessarily.

 

[chris-uk04]

Well, here are some of my favorites:

Original Albums

Counting crows- august and everything after
Paul Oakenfold – Tranceport
Blink 182 – enema of the state
Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground & Nico
R.E.M. Automatic for the People
U2- The Joshua Tree
Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
Led Zepplin - IV
The Darkness – Permission to Land


Compilations

Ramones – Anthology
The Who – Who’s better, Who’s Best
Enya- Best of
James – Greatest Hits
Aaron Copland –
Simon & Garkfunel – Greatest hits
Tom Petty- Greatest Hits
Credence Clearwater Revival – Greatest hits vol 1

 

[winyan]

hmmm...my musical tastes are eclectic, to say the least.

U2
Bruce
Bjork

Almost anything classical...

Michelle Shocked

Indigenous

Walala

Kris Kristoffersen

and, believe it or not, some broadway show music.

win

 

[winyan]

oooh, forgot John Trudeau

Blues Rory Block...

real jazz.

win

 

[chris-uk04]

Now is anyone a Parrothead?

 

[foundnemo]

I think I'm still stuck in the 80's.

I LOVE The Cure, enjoy Depeche Mode, New Order, The Smiths, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys.

I like some modern alternative sounds like Linkin Park, Evanescence.

I like Andrea Bocelli, and some jazz/smooth jazz.

I also like Dr. Dre and Snoop D-O-double G.

Oh, I might as well say that I like most types of music except for country and heavy metal.

 

[winyan]

FoundNemo, I've been meaning to ask you...

Does your avatar mean you Found Nemo...

And proceeded to turn him into sushi?

win

 

[verticalhorizon]

If you don't like country (a la Garth Brooks), check out Nickel Creek. Three young kids playing slightly modern bluegrass. Also check out older country like Hank Williams Sr, or borderline country like Johnny Cash.

Also very funny, but actually pretty decent, is something called Hayseed Dixie, all bluegrass covers of AC/DC songs!

 

[fire&ice]

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On 5/19/2004 4:06:56 AM chris-uk04 wrote:

Now is anyone a Parrothead?

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Yep, because "if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane!"

We both quote JB often. "There's a fine line between Saturday night & Sunday mornin."

VH, hubby has Nickle Creek CD.

 

[winyan]

I like the older early 80's country sounds, like Alabama, Dolly, etc.

Garth Brooks does nothing for me, but the Dixie Chicks are ok!

I like to think of country as being the poetry of America.

win

 

[verticalhorizon]

Win, that's exactly what country music is. Country, bluegrass, the blues all have close relation to folk music which is steeped in story-telling history.

You can't beat a good (real) country song. And I'm not even from the south. I think the Dixie Chicks epitomize modern country. They got a modern, rock 'n roll chicks rule vibe, but honor their bluegrass past with the use of the dobro, banjo, fiddle, lapsteel, etc. They had a fight in the band, early on pre-Natalie, when they decided to introduce a drum set into the band. (Traditional bluegrass don't got no drums.)

 

[foundnemo]

Winyan,

Yum yum!

 

[tawn]

I listen to a bit of everything...and tend to fall in or out of love with a band after I've been to see them "live"!

Pink Floyd...by far blows everyone else away! The most amazing concert I've ever been to! Nothing else is even in a league to compare...

Lenny Kravitz...wasn't a huge fan, but went with a girlfriend for her birthday! He's a very charsimatic performer, and gorgeous doesn't hurt either! Pink opened for him...and she did a Janis Joplin medley that totally stunned me! That girl can sing like you would not believe! Can't wait til she finds some unBritney Spears music to sing!

Love Stone Temple Pilots...but the lead singer was so out of it that he couldn't stand up let alone sing! They sucked! But, Linken Park and Staind opened...and they were both unbelievable!!

BB King...what can I say? He's the man!

Ozzy Ozbourne! Well...his reputation preceeds him! Alice in Chains opened for him, and they rocked! Then they got famous, and the lead singer overdosed and died! So sad...

Matchbox 20...the lead singer has got to be the sweetest guy ever. The concert was less than a week after Sept 11th...and everyone was subdued and nervous at the beginning, and then completely the most genial concert crowd ever!

Blink 182...took my niece to see them. She was only 12, and I spent half the time trying to cover her ears...then gave up and just enjoyed the evening! On her list of most memorable occasions! (We won't mention that I also took her to see the Spice Girls when she was 9!)

Aerosmith...my Mom has an unhealthy fascination with Steven Tyler! It's worse now that she's seen him in the flesh! I actually ran into him in the mall in Boston one day...and he's bigger and more handsome in real life! Surprise...I think it's usually the opposite!

The Steve Miller Band was fantastic...that's summertime beerdrinking music!

Oh, and saw George Thourogood in some Shack on the beach in Virgina. Only about 300 people, and a beer garden bar made with chickenwire!? He was hilarious, and he can play the guitar like you would not believe!

Edwin McCain played here locally last year! He's a stellar performer...and he tells all these cute stories inbetween each song!

That's all I can think of now...can't wait to go to my next concert! Actually haven't been to one this year! Going to make time this summer/fall though!!

Anyone been to a really good concert lately that they can recommend?