posted on February 19, 2001 03:18:01 PM new
Depends what I'm in the mood for. Rock, Jazz, Big Band/Swing, Classical, you name it.
Except...the only rap song I like is the hysterically funny "Baby Got Back" which I heard in a friend's car once. I stopped listening to new music round about 1973 when the two worst songs in music history totally dominated the airwaves. The only time I hear it is in movies & at friend's houses.
posted on February 19, 2001 03:47:34 PM new
Well do tell Bunnicula, what are those two songs?
"You're Having My Baby" perhaps? "Disco Duck"? Dog barks "Jingle Bells"? "Afternoon Delight"? That one with the birds "Loving You" "Half Breed", "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"?
posted on February 19, 2001 04:04:55 PM new
Meya, you're making me verklempt! I love those 70's songs! DISCO is my favorite. And all that great 70's music.
posted on February 19, 2001 04:11:46 PM new
Hands down, Blues with special emphasis on blues-based rock as in Jimmy Page, Robin Trower, Eric Clapton - very close second - Beethoven.
posted on February 19, 2001 04:44:47 PM new
Mambo No. 5 rocks, Lou.
I love so many kinds of music, electronica, rock, trance, some rap, guitar rock, new age, Cajun, ranchera, just about everything except most country and classical (except Placido Domingo).
posted on February 19, 2001 05:16:08 PM new
Muskrat Love?
I like almost everything except rap (guess I'm getting old) but mostly I listen to late 60s/early 70s rock and pop -- I just bought a Cat Stevens CD (my son says who's that? but he liked him!) and I think next I'll do Fleetwood Mac.
posted on February 19, 2001 06:46:47 PM newOpera is Numero UNO!...Mostly Verdi and Puccini.
Then ALL of Beethoven and Chopin, most Wagner, Mussorski, Rachmaninoff, Korsakov...Can't stand Mozzart, Hayden or Rap, but LOVE Afro-Cuban, Dixie Jazz, Blue Grass.
******** Gosh Shosh!
posted on February 19, 2001 07:48:42 PM new
Rock, mostly 60's and 70's, but some of the later stuff too. Some country crossover. Great Divide is good. I don't like Rap, just not my thing. Jazz and Blues, but I have to be in the mood for it.
posted on February 19, 2001 08:15:05 PM new
Hip-hop fan here!
Also like Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Kellis, Etta James (deep down and dirty), Phyllis Hyman, Chaka Khan, and Ms. Badu. Oh. Did I mention Prince?
posted on February 19, 2001 09:18:11 PM new
I like some of every type of music, even rap. I guess it's a little old now but Digable Planets did some nice stuff and that "No Scrubs" by TLC is kinda catchy (I like the video). Some of it is very good poetry. Snoop dog's lyrics are profound at times and provide some fine quotes. The movie "Boiler Room" used rap quotes in a neat way.
Contemporary country is lame, IMO, but Hank Wiliams and Patsy Cline were great. The Mavericks, Marsha Thornton, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, The Cowboy Junkies, and the Texas Tornados keep the old traditions alive in a a very listenable manner.
I like the blues too, therp, especially the psychedelic blues from the 60's and 70's. Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Peter Green, Clapton, Mayall, Butterfield, Allman Brothers, et al. The jazzy soul blues of Charles Brown is real fine, too.
Reggae too. The Wailing Souls and early Toots are my favories. The Soundtrack albums from "The Mighty Quinn" and "Men at Work" have some great stuff. A really cool CD is Dread Zeppelin. It's an Elvis impersonator doing Led Zeppelin with a strong reggae flavor. UB40, Maxi Priest, Black Uhuru, the Specials.....
Old R&B is wonderful. The New Orleans sound of Irma Thomas, Carla Thomas, Aaron Neville. Ivory Joe Hunter, Percy Sledge, Ben E. King, Sam Cooke, LaVerne Baker, Etta James, and Wilson Pickett still do it for me.
Jimmy Scott is still going strong.
Opera (Puccini and Verdi), Jazz (Armstrong, Ellington, Holiday, Parker, Young, Brubeck, Byrd), Bluegrass (Bela Fleck), Spoken Word (Gil Scott Heron), Doo Wop (Lyman, McPhatter), Peruvian Flute Music (Urubamba, Flight of the Condor), Latin (Mambo KIngs, Puente, Almeida), Surf (Dick Dale, Ventures)Gershwin, Sondheim, Phillip Glass, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerke, Depeche Mode, New Order, Sugar Cubes, Neil Young, Traffic, Zappa, I like it all!
-like I needed to say more
-and screwed up the ubb, too.
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posted on February 19, 2001 09:33:48 PM new
Xardon: What happened to Digable Planets? They were so, cool like that, chill like that, hip like that, so .... cool. I saw them perform live once in Cincy and again in Chicago. They had a live band, including an upright, standing, three-string bass player. Both concerts were the bomb! Instead of clapping at the end of each song, people snapped their fingers in approval. It was so Bohemian, so beatnikish.
I like hip-hop that fuses elements of jazz, poetry, R&B and street. Guru's Jazzmatazz series of releases come to mind. And remember Arrested Development? That music takes me back to my days as an undergrad at a Nashville, TN university.
*edited to add a word*
[ edited by Baduizm on Feb 19, 2001 09:34 PM ]
posted on February 19, 2001 09:46:51 PM new
I don't think they're together anymore, Badu.
I think I recall you're saying you were from the DC area. Given that and your tastes in music, I'd be willing to bet you're a Meshell N'degeocello (I think I got the name right) fan. I dig her "like an old soul record", too
posted on February 19, 2001 10:11:25 PM new
Xardon: Yep, I like Meshell, her music is diverse (lots of bottom heavy tracks kissed by her voice), especially her last album, which was more acoustic. Nope, I'm not from the DC area. I live in Indy, land right now of mourning Dale Earnhardt race fans.
I am no auto racing enthusiast, but understand these folks' loss.
posted on February 20, 2001 12:07:37 AM newMeya: Their titles escape me now, but one began with "Good-bye Papa it's hard to die" and the other contained the lyrics "knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door." Very popular songs in their day--if radio stations weren't playing one, they were playing the other. Over & over & over, day in, day out. And once I stopped listening to the 'new' stations, well, I got out of the habit & never started up again.
Is it safe to start listening again? Anybody want to recommend some new groups/songs? I could download 'em from Napster & see if I like them.
posted on February 20, 2001 02:12:38 AM new
Listen to everything from Gustav Mahler to The Killing Joke. Favorite band of all time is the Velvet Underground.
posted on February 20, 2001 03:20:00 AM new
I'm 43 and I like all kinds of music! I have a 300 disc CD player and this is what's in it.
Big Band, I have recordings on CDs and on 78's. I have a Victrola.
Country including the twangy kind from Hank Williams and other artists from the 1950's. A person sometimes likes thier parents style of music due to having to listen to it when they were a child. And many New Country Artist.
Polkas, another thing learned from my mother.
Rock and Roll from the fifties. Ever since I was 12 in 1970, I loved them back then. And rock all the way to the eighties.
Let's not forget The Motown Sound.
About Rap: The song that they used in the movie Mrs. Doubtfire when they were having the birthday party. They noe use that same song in a Pringles commercial. I like that song.
posted on February 20, 2001 03:37:01 AM new
yeager, have you heard any of Hank Williams 3rd music? He not only looks like his grandpa, there are a few songs where he sounds so much like him it's scary. Im not a big fan, but living in Texas for 21 years I did hear a lot of country music.
posted on February 20, 2001 08:11:05 AM newDoes anybody like rap?
Well, I have an NWA CD which I think is great -- IF I'm in the right mood. Otherwise, no.
I like a variety of music, including jazz, swing, big band, opera, Cajun, zydeco, OLD country, some 70's, lots of 80's (my generation), and some contemporary music.
posted on February 20, 2001 09:08:34 AM new
I'm not sure about the first, bunnicula, but the second is Bob Dylan"s "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". I guess any song can become insufferable upon endless repetition. That particular tune was originally written for the movie "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (containing a rare Dylan acting sequence). In the film a character played by Slim Pickens is fatally wounded and goes off into the desert at sunset to die. It's a powerful scene and the song is nicely placed.
I like the tune, sad as it is, and still associate it with the movie.
posted on February 20, 2001 09:42:37 AM new
I probably like selections from every genre, but lean towards light rock while driving, classical while cleaning and disco while working on the 'puter.
I've learned to keep up with the new stuff so I would know what my son was listening to and as long as the lyrics aren't disgusting, I enjoy much of the new stuff. I even enjoy 'N Sync if I don't have to watch them.
posted on February 20, 2001 12:53:53 PM new
Good Bye Papa it's hard to die-Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun. My favorite is Disco. Almost anything from the 70s. Also R/B. No country for me please.
