Full Version: Lets Talk Music!
With all this debate on the war in Iraq, and the elections, I figured id try and discuss a less serious topic. Ive yet to create a forum on anything but politics, and conspiracy theories at this site. When it comes to politics I think strong opinions can cause heated debates, and lead even friends to fight over silly things. Ive seen this a few times in my life, but underneath the friction caused by issues like war/politics/racism I think people often turn out to have much in common despite their separate political beliefs.
Questions for Debate:
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
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As for me, I do have a band I want to talk about and share some music videos as well. Music to me, (and pardon my directness here) is second only to love making. I don't go a day without scrolling through my collection, so that puts me at about a 9 on my scale. As for the genre of music I most prefer, it tends to be 70's and 80's Rock although I'll listen to almost any Genre if I like the song.
My favorite band of all time is Pink Floyd, for two reasons. One is a unique sound that ranges from soothing and relaxing to fast paced rocking, Secondly lyrics that have more meaning or at least rival other bands with deep thought out lyrics. I want to talk about a couple songs on my favorite Pink Floyd album (The Wall) and give a detailed description of what makes this album so unique.
(Pink Floyd: The wall) is a masterpiece in my opinion, its like poetry in motion. Some people say they only understand this album if they are high, which I find amusing because I must be wide open without getting high if thats true. This album is basically a progressive story from the very first song to the last song. A movie based on the album, with all the original music, was released in 1982. It can be seen in its entirety here.......
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75...34406&hl=en
and lyrics for the entire album are at this link...... http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/the-wall-lyrics.html
The quality is not all that great in the movie above but its watchable, Now the story is basically about a young man who loses his father in WW2, growing up in post WW2 Germany. Many songs in this album have dual meanings I think, for example the term ((The Wall)) was used not only because it has historical reference to the Berlin wall in Germany where this story takes place, but it was also used in reference to the main character. Which brings me to the first song I want to share......... ((note that these individual clips are higher quality than the film above, I recommend buying it if you like it, the DVD is much better))
The Happiest Days of our Lives / Another Brick in the Wall Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw&feature=related
Technically these are two short songs but if heard on the radio they usually run these together, because like many songs in this album its difficult to tell where some songs end and a new song begins because on the CD and movie there is no delay between songs.
Now in the song above you hear the phrase ((All in all you're just another brick in the wall.)) The term (The Wall) is used thought this album primarily because the wall (metaphorically speaking) is what separates the main character from happiness. Nearly everything and everyone in his life were all part of a barrier that prevented him from feeling any degree of normalcy, or peace. Everyone from his teachers (shown in the video above) to his overprotective mother, to his possessive unfaithful wife were all just bricks in a wall that ended up crippling him mentally.
Empty Spaces:: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aD6JoLGOTbk
This song starts out with the main character calling his wife at home and finding out shes with another man, it then proceeds into one of the best animated segments in the film, its a little graphic, but its obvious that whats happening is that two flowers stand side by side. One is male and one is female, the female flower then seduces the male, as women often do, then they fight back and fourth until the female flower swallows the male whole, perhaps relating to the experiences the main character had with his wife in the album. Women such as this are often referred to as (Man Eaters) and I think thats what this animation was illustrating.
((Ask Hall & Oats about man eaters, they know about em
))
The animation then proceeds to a view of a city with a wall running though the center of it, hard to explain unless its watched but it continues on into the song (what shall we do now) which is actually in my opinion the last half of the same song.......
Here is a trimmed down version of the lyrics....... What shall we use, To fill the empty spaces, Where we used to talk?.................................... Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? ..................... Fill the attic with cash? Bury treasure? Store up leisure? But never relax at all, With our backs to the wall.
The Wall again being our problems. This I believe is in reference to modern life, and modern relationships. In that so many people buy all these material items to fill the the voids in their life, in fact some people do everything imaginable, yet as the song suggest they never relax at all despite this, with their backs to the wall. In other words some people turn their backs to the one thing that can make a relationship work, and that of course is your spouse.
At this point in the album you learn a lot about the main character as an adult, song by song. He actually rises to be a musician/dictator if that isn't an odd combination. He is portrayed as a new Hitler like character, who is expected to uphold strict order in Germany using brutal tactics, however everyone around him was building him up to be something he dint want any part of deep inside, he went along with it for a while but as a shell of a man, completely empty on the inside. Eventually he cracked. Here is the main character seen as a powerful dictator in Germany.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Geldof_wall.jpg
Assuming this short review of The Wall hasn't boarded everyone silly, and this album sounds interesting to those who haven't heard it, I highly recommend buying this movie, or the album on CD. I wont tell you how it ends other than its a happy ending.
One last song...
Comfortably Numb:: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YQWszrZHBPI
This song speaks for itself, as the main character loses all self control he becomes numb to the pain he has experienced all his life, aparently drugs helped him numb that pain as well. The song ends with one of the best Guitar solos ever produced by this band.
What I think makes this band special is that I just spent an hour talking about the lyrics on just one of their albums, yet I only covered a few songs.
Ive never read into music to this extent with any other band, although there are many songs out their by other artist that are written brilliantly.
Questions for Debate:
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
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As for me, I do have a band I want to talk about and share some music videos as well. Music to me, (and pardon my directness here) is second only to love making. I don't go a day without scrolling through my collection, so that puts me at about a 9 on my scale. As for the genre of music I most prefer, it tends to be 70's and 80's Rock although I'll listen to almost any Genre if I like the song.
My favorite band of all time is Pink Floyd, for two reasons. One is a unique sound that ranges from soothing and relaxing to fast paced rocking, Secondly lyrics that have more meaning or at least rival other bands with deep thought out lyrics. I want to talk about a couple songs on my favorite Pink Floyd album (The Wall) and give a detailed description of what makes this album so unique.
(Pink Floyd: The wall) is a masterpiece in my opinion, its like poetry in motion. Some people say they only understand this album if they are high, which I find amusing because I must be wide open without getting high if thats true. This album is basically a progressive story from the very first song to the last song. A movie based on the album, with all the original music, was released in 1982. It can be seen in its entirety here.......
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=75...34406&hl=en
and lyrics for the entire album are at this link...... http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/the-wall-lyrics.html
The quality is not all that great in the movie above but its watchable, Now the story is basically about a young man who loses his father in WW2, growing up in post WW2 Germany. Many songs in this album have dual meanings I think, for example the term ((The Wall)) was used not only because it has historical reference to the Berlin wall in Germany where this story takes place, but it was also used in reference to the main character. Which brings me to the first song I want to share......... ((note that these individual clips are higher quality than the film above, I recommend buying it if you like it, the DVD is much better))
The Happiest Days of our Lives / Another Brick in the Wall Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw&feature=related
Technically these are two short songs but if heard on the radio they usually run these together, because like many songs in this album its difficult to tell where some songs end and a new song begins because on the CD and movie there is no delay between songs.
Now in the song above you hear the phrase ((All in all you're just another brick in the wall.)) The term (The Wall) is used thought this album primarily because the wall (metaphorically speaking) is what separates the main character from happiness. Nearly everything and everyone in his life were all part of a barrier that prevented him from feeling any degree of normalcy, or peace. Everyone from his teachers (shown in the video above) to his overprotective mother, to his possessive unfaithful wife were all just bricks in a wall that ended up crippling him mentally.
Empty Spaces:: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aD6JoLGOTbk
This song starts out with the main character calling his wife at home and finding out shes with another man, it then proceeds into one of the best animated segments in the film, its a little graphic, but its obvious that whats happening is that two flowers stand side by side. One is male and one is female, the female flower then seduces the male, as women often do, then they fight back and fourth until the female flower swallows the male whole, perhaps relating to the experiences the main character had with his wife in the album. Women such as this are often referred to as (Man Eaters) and I think thats what this animation was illustrating.
((Ask Hall & Oats about man eaters, they know about em
)) The animation then proceeds to a view of a city with a wall running though the center of it, hard to explain unless its watched but it continues on into the song (what shall we do now) which is actually in my opinion the last half of the same song.......
Here is a trimmed down version of the lyrics....... What shall we use, To fill the empty spaces, Where we used to talk?.................................... Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car? ..................... Fill the attic with cash? Bury treasure? Store up leisure? But never relax at all, With our backs to the wall.
The Wall again being our problems. This I believe is in reference to modern life, and modern relationships. In that so many people buy all these material items to fill the the voids in their life, in fact some people do everything imaginable, yet as the song suggest they never relax at all despite this, with their backs to the wall. In other words some people turn their backs to the one thing that can make a relationship work, and that of course is your spouse.
At this point in the album you learn a lot about the main character as an adult, song by song. He actually rises to be a musician/dictator if that isn't an odd combination. He is portrayed as a new Hitler like character, who is expected to uphold strict order in Germany using brutal tactics, however everyone around him was building him up to be something he dint want any part of deep inside, he went along with it for a while but as a shell of a man, completely empty on the inside. Eventually he cracked. Here is the main character seen as a powerful dictator in Germany.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Geldof_wall.jpg
Assuming this short review of The Wall hasn't boarded everyone silly, and this album sounds interesting to those who haven't heard it, I highly recommend buying this movie, or the album on CD. I wont tell you how it ends other than its a happy ending.
One last song...
Comfortably Numb:: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YQWszrZHBPI
This song speaks for itself, as the main character loses all self control he becomes numb to the pain he has experienced all his life, aparently drugs helped him numb that pain as well. The song ends with one of the best Guitar solos ever produced by this band.
What I think makes this band special is that I just spent an hour talking about the lyrics on just one of their albums, yet I only covered a few songs.
Ive never read into music to this extent with any other band, although there are many songs out their by other artist that are written brilliantly.
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
I think we categorize too much. There are so many cross currents. Rock built on R&B, Country, Boogie Woogie and Blues (a genre you left out.)
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most
Why do we have to list bands instead of individuals? My all-time favorite is Chuck Berry, whom Ive seen abour 40 times. It isn't just what Chuck wrote or what he recorded, but all the people who copied him. His first hit was 1955's Maybellene was covered by country star, Marty Robbins, within weeks of its release. Very early on musicians saw a gold mine in Berry's writing. A list of those who have done cover versions of Berry's songs include Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Foghat, The Dave Clark Five, Johnny Rivers, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Count Basie, Peter Tosh, The Bill Black Combo, etc., etc., etc.
Berry himself, however, didn't develop in a vacuum. He listened to Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Dorsey, Nat "King" Cole and to country music as a kid growing up in St. Louis. This gave him an ecclectic background. In fact, Maybellene was borrowed from a Bob Wills hit Ida Red.
Other individuals include Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Norah Jones, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, James Brown and countless others. Oh, and how could I forget B. B King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
As for bands I like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, both Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
I also like the British and American bands of the 60s and 70s, but not as much as the big bands.
BTW: I think Motown is a subcategory of R&B.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
No, but if I had, I think it would have been drums.
I think we categorize too much. There are so many cross currents. Rock built on R&B, Country, Boogie Woogie and Blues (a genre you left out.)
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most
Why do we have to list bands instead of individuals? My all-time favorite is Chuck Berry, whom Ive seen abour 40 times. It isn't just what Chuck wrote or what he recorded, but all the people who copied him. His first hit was 1955's Maybellene was covered by country star, Marty Robbins, within weeks of its release. Very early on musicians saw a gold mine in Berry's writing. A list of those who have done cover versions of Berry's songs include Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Foghat, The Dave Clark Five, Johnny Rivers, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Count Basie, Peter Tosh, The Bill Black Combo, etc., etc., etc.
Berry himself, however, didn't develop in a vacuum. He listened to Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Dorsey, Nat "King" Cole and to country music as a kid growing up in St. Louis. This gave him an ecclectic background. In fact, Maybellene was borrowed from a Bob Wills hit Ida Red.
Other individuals include Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Norah Jones, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, James Brown and countless others. Oh, and how could I forget B. B King and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
As for bands I like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, both Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
I also like the British and American bands of the 60s and 70s, but not as much as the big bands.
BTW: I think Motown is a subcategory of R&B.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
No, but if I had, I think it would have been drums.
BoF
Yea I suppose I did forget Blues, no doubt some others as well. There are so many categories of music to list that they exceed the maximum number of Multiple Choice options allowed which is 20. After thinking up 16 different categories my mind went blank anyway, lol.
Well you can talk about Artist or Bands if you want BOF I think Chuck Berry was very talented, Songs like (Johnny B Good) kicked but. Old school rock was founded on music like that. That song in particular was popular back at my birth place of New Orleans, obviously because of the lyrics.
I'm familiar with most of those artist you referenced just now as well, sounds like some pretty good taste. Of course who doesn't know John Lennon, he had a view of politics that is a far cry from mine, but I'll dance with a nice looking women to the Beatles every night of the week and twice on Sunday, lol
The poll was reset due to me adding two additional categories Blues, and Soft Rock.
Sorry about that, hopefully those that voted in this early can vote again. There are now 19 genres to choose from out of the 20 available multiple choice options.
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1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
I think we categorize too much. There are so many cross currents. Rock built on R&B, Country, Boogie Woogie and Blues (a genre you left out.)
I think we categorize too much. There are so many cross currents. Rock built on R&B, Country, Boogie Woogie and Blues (a genre you left out.)
Yea I suppose I did forget Blues, no doubt some others as well. There are so many categories of music to list that they exceed the maximum number of Multiple Choice options allowed which is 20. After thinking up 16 different categories my mind went blank anyway, lol.
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2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most
Why do we have to list bands instead of individuals? My all-time favorite is Chuck Berry, whom Ive seen abour 40 times. It isn't just what Chuck wrote or what he recorded, but all the people who copied him. His first hit was 1955's Maybellene was covered by country star, Marty Robbins, within weeks of its release. Very early on musicians saw a gold mine in Berry's writing. A list of those who have done cover versions of Berry's songs include Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Foghat, The Dave Clark Five, Johnny Rivers, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Count Basie, Peter Tosh, The Bill Black Combo, etc., etc., etc.
Why do we have to list bands instead of individuals? My all-time favorite is Chuck Berry, whom Ive seen abour 40 times. It isn't just what Chuck wrote or what he recorded, but all the people who copied him. His first hit was 1955's Maybellene was covered by country star, Marty Robbins, within weeks of its release. Very early on musicians saw a gold mine in Berry's writing. A list of those who have done cover versions of Berry's songs include Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Foghat, The Dave Clark Five, Johnny Rivers, Lonnie Mack, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, Count Basie, Peter Tosh, The Bill Black Combo, etc., etc., etc.
Well you can talk about Artist or Bands if you want BOF I think Chuck Berry was very talented, Songs like (Johnny B Good) kicked but. Old school rock was founded on music like that. That song in particular was popular back at my birth place of New Orleans, obviously because of the lyrics.
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Berry himself, however, didn't develop in a vacuum. He listened to Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Dorsey, Nat "King" Cole and to country music as a kid growing up in St. Louis. This gave him an ecclectic background. In fact, Maybellene was borrowed from a Bob Wills hit Ida Red.
Other individuals include Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Norah Jones, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, James Brown and countless others
As for bands I like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Both Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
I also like the British and American bands of the 60s and 70s, but not as much as the big bands.
BTW: I think Motown is a subcategory of R&B.
Other individuals include Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Norah Jones, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, James Brown and countless others
As for bands I like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Both Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
I also like the British and American bands of the 60s and 70s, but not as much as the big bands.
BTW: I think Motown is a subcategory of R&B.
I'm familiar with most of those artist you referenced just now as well, sounds like some pretty good taste. Of course who doesn't know John Lennon, he had a view of politics that is a far cry from mine, but I'll dance with a nice looking women to the Beatles every night of the week and twice on Sunday, lol
The poll was reset due to me adding two additional categories Blues, and Soft Rock.
Sorry about that, hopefully those that voted in this early can vote again. There are now 19 genres to choose from out of the 20 available multiple choice options.
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Questions for Debate:
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
1) Good old fashioned Rock n Roll. From Rock Around The Clock (second greatest guitar solo ever) to Back in Black to Are You Gonna Be My Girl.
2) Iron Maiden, Jane's Addiction, Living Colour, LED ZEPPELIN
3) 7
4) The Beatles give us some great examples of lyrics vs music. Take Lennon's Norwegian Wood vs McCartney's You Won't See Me. Norwegian Wood is a stark melody with absolutely brilliant lyrics. Followed on the album by the brillant melody of You Won't See Me with the insipid lyrics.
Norwegian Wood
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me
You Won't See Me
When I call you up, your line's engaged - I have had enough, so act your age
The liner notes of She Was Just Seventeen show that Paul had written:
She was just seventeen, she was a beauty queen
John had come in and scratched out beauty queen and replaced it with and you know what I mean completely changing the song for the better. So yeah... I pay attention to the lyrics.
5) I do play guitar.
(oh and Inspirational)
I am all over the map here. My phone currently has Simon and Garfunkel, Montgomery Gentry, Disturbed, Dave Matthews, Cream, AvengedSevenFold, Green Day(Dookie), Megadeath, The Who, Days of the New, Bob Marley, Brad Paisley, Ozzy, The Cranberries, STP, Zeppelin, and TypeONegative. Lyrics are needed for me on the country stuff, but the rest I like the beat.
Brad Paisley is just too funny.
Days of the New has a good one though - Some of us play life like a board game. It's new, fun, and you play it with people. There's a time, you get tired and you put it away. Then one day you get it out and the pieces are broken.
Brad Paisley is just too funny.
Days of the New has a good one though - Some of us play life like a board game. It's new, fun, and you play it with people. There's a time, you get tired and you put it away. Then one day you get it out and the pieces are broken.
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
I checked just about everything. I grew up military so I moved around A LOT (and I do mean a lot). So I was exposed to all kinds of music. There are very few musical forms I can't stand (Rap and Country). I also selected other becuase there wasn't a world music type section (Like Ladysmith Black Mambazoo or Chaim Mami). My favorite type of music is Rock because I love the beat and the variety within Rock. Within rock you have Alternative, Punk, Jam Bands, the list goes on.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
My favorite all time band is and will always be The Dave Matthews Band. My top 10 favorite groups/singers are (in no particular order): Dave Matthews Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paul Simon, Modest Mouse, Rich Mullins, Sting, The Offspring, John Denver (keep your comments to yourself), System of a Down (though I have to be in a certain mood to listen to them), and Jars of Clay.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
On a scale of 1 to 10... like 13. I listen to music way too much. I always have music playing becuase I love to sing (even if I can't really).
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
It depends on the group and the song. Some songs are meant to be more than just a song i.e. Don't Drink The Water, One Tin Solider, and B.Y.O.B. (System of a Down). Other songs are just songs. I'd probably listen to a song with a message over one that was just a song. At the same time I would be turned off by a song with a bad message just as quickly (probably why I don't listen to much Rap).
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
No; but I am trying to teach myself guitar..key word trying.
I checked just about everything. I grew up military so I moved around A LOT (and I do mean a lot). So I was exposed to all kinds of music. There are very few musical forms I can't stand (Rap and Country). I also selected other becuase there wasn't a world music type section (Like Ladysmith Black Mambazoo or Chaim Mami). My favorite type of music is Rock because I love the beat and the variety within Rock. Within rock you have Alternative, Punk, Jam Bands, the list goes on.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
My favorite all time band is and will always be The Dave Matthews Band. My top 10 favorite groups/singers are (in no particular order): Dave Matthews Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Paul Simon, Modest Mouse, Rich Mullins, Sting, The Offspring, John Denver (keep your comments to yourself), System of a Down (though I have to be in a certain mood to listen to them), and Jars of Clay.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
On a scale of 1 to 10... like 13. I listen to music way too much. I always have music playing becuase I love to sing (even if I can't really).
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
It depends on the group and the song. Some songs are meant to be more than just a song i.e. Don't Drink The Water, One Tin Solider, and B.Y.O.B. (System of a Down). Other songs are just songs. I'd probably listen to a song with a message over one that was just a song. At the same time I would be turned off by a song with a bad message just as quickly (probably why I don't listen to much Rap).
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
No; but I am trying to teach myself guitar..key word trying.
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
I don’t have any one favorite genre, because I like several different types of music. I was the typical “acid rocker” in the 60’s – 70’s and was of the opinion “disco sucks” (still think so). As I got older, I gained an appreciation for blues. Still appreciating today.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Wow – all time, huh? Hmmm, I’d have to say the Beatles because they were the first rock band I ever loved, and Led Zeppelin, because I still enjoy their music today. There are many artists I enjoy – John Hiatt (extremely underrated artists and a damned shame he doesn’t get much airplay), Serj Tankian (a truly gifted singer and poet), Stevie Ray Vaughn (taken waaay too soon), John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Willie Dixon…the list goes on.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
10
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
I listen for both lyrics and musical talent. Protest music brought us some of the most amazing music ever. I'm glad to see young and old artists alike putting their opinions in music and lyrics. Sadly, the pabulum of "oooh baby baby oops I did it again" crap dominates the airwaves of public radio.
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don’t waste your time on coffins today
When we decline from the confines of our mind
Don’t waste your time on coffins today
Don’t you see the bodies buring
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
--Serj Tankian
Some folks are born
Made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
They point the cannon right at you.
It ain't me,
It ain't me.
I ain't no senator's son.
It ain't me,
it ain't me.
I ain't no fortunate one.
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I Can't Take It No More
I Can't Take It No More
I'm sick and tired of your dirty little war
I Can't Take It No More
You know you lied about the casualties
You know you lied about the WMD's
You know you lied about the detainees
All over this world
Stop talking about staying the course
You keep a-beating that old dead horse
You know you lied about how we went to war
I Can't Take It No More
I can't take it
I can't take it
I bet you never saw the old school yard
I bet you never saw the national guard
Your daddy wrote a check and there you are
Another fortunate son.
--John Fogerty
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
No. Sadly, I don’t have any talent in that area. However, my nephew is a gifted guitarist and his band may have the opportunity to open for Bad Religion.
I don’t have any one favorite genre, because I like several different types of music. I was the typical “acid rocker” in the 60’s – 70’s and was of the opinion “disco sucks” (still think so). As I got older, I gained an appreciation for blues. Still appreciating today.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Wow – all time, huh? Hmmm, I’d have to say the Beatles because they were the first rock band I ever loved, and Led Zeppelin, because I still enjoy their music today. There are many artists I enjoy – John Hiatt (extremely underrated artists and a damned shame he doesn’t get much airplay), Serj Tankian (a truly gifted singer and poet), Stevie Ray Vaughn (taken waaay too soon), John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Albert King, Willie Dixon…the list goes on.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
10
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
I listen for both lyrics and musical talent. Protest music brought us some of the most amazing music ever. I'm glad to see young and old artists alike putting their opinions in music and lyrics. Sadly, the pabulum of "oooh baby baby oops I did it again" crap dominates the airwaves of public radio.
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don’t waste your time on coffins today
When we decline from the confines of our mind
Don’t waste your time on coffins today
Don’t you see the bodies buring
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
--Serj Tankian
Some folks are born
Made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
They point the cannon right at you.
It ain't me,
It ain't me.
I ain't no senator's son.
It ain't me,
it ain't me.
I ain't no fortunate one.
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I Can't Take It No More
I Can't Take It No More
I'm sick and tired of your dirty little war
I Can't Take It No More
You know you lied about the casualties
You know you lied about the WMD's
You know you lied about the detainees
All over this world
Stop talking about staying the course
You keep a-beating that old dead horse
You know you lied about how we went to war
I Can't Take It No More
I can't take it
I can't take it
I bet you never saw the old school yard
I bet you never saw the national guard
Your daddy wrote a check and there you are
Another fortunate son.
--John Fogerty
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
No. Sadly, I don’t have any talent in that area. However, my nephew is a gifted guitarist and his band may have the opportunity to open for Bad Religion.
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Willie Dixon…the list goes on.
This is a unique and impressive selection DG. Willie Dixon made some records of his own, but was even more prominent as a songwriter. He was also the house bass player for Chess Records.
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QUOTE(DaffyGrl @ Apr 2 2008, 11:48 AM)
Willie Dixon…the list goes on.
This is a unique and impressive selection DG. Willie Dixon made some records of his own, but was even more prominent as a songwriter
Yeah... just ask Jimmy Page!!
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
Classic rock. I grew up on this music, from a young child. I have very young parents, relatively speaking, and classic rock is the music of their generation. (the 80's isn't really what most people think of as "classic")
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
I have many favorites. And it depends on my mood, what I decide to listen to. Some of my favorites are listed in my profile, but I will name a few here as well: Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Sting, The Police, Led Zeppelin, Def Lepard. I will also confess that my tastes deviate from classic rock to some of the more contemporary and/or passe' (and perhaps less "cool") artists like: Celine Dion, Neil Diamond, The Dixie Chicks.
I also enjoy The Blues.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
About a 7 or 8. I listen when I drive or go running. Or, most necessarily, when I clean the house.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Yes. One of my favorite lyricists is Sting. It's no surprise he was an English teacher before he hit the music scene.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Piano. I can play about as good as a 7 year old who never practices.
And I can supply more cow bell, when needed. 
Classic rock. I grew up on this music, from a young child. I have very young parents, relatively speaking, and classic rock is the music of their generation. (the 80's isn't really what most people think of as "classic")
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
I have many favorites. And it depends on my mood, what I decide to listen to. Some of my favorites are listed in my profile, but I will name a few here as well: Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Sting, The Police, Led Zeppelin, Def Lepard. I will also confess that my tastes deviate from classic rock to some of the more contemporary and/or passe' (and perhaps less "cool") artists like: Celine Dion, Neil Diamond, The Dixie Chicks.
I also enjoy The Blues.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
About a 7 or 8. I listen when I drive or go running. Or, most necessarily, when I clean the house.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Yes. One of my favorite lyricists is Sting. It's no surprise he was an English teacher before he hit the music scene.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Piano. I can play about as good as a 7 year old who never practices.
And I can supply more cow bell, when needed. QUOTE(net2007 @ Apr 1 2008, 05:22 PM)
Questions for Debate:
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
1. I don't have a favorite genre of music. I'm not a fan of country, but I respect it. I know that Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn are a helluva lot more country than Garth Brooks and Shania Twain. I can listen to classical but I know nothing about it. The only things I can't abide are New Age and 90 percent of "Snooze jazz."
As to what's my favorite music it all depends on what my mood is. It could be anything and everything from Miles Davis, Korn, Ministry, Metallica, Living Colour, Garbage, Herbie Hancock, Randy Crawford, Keiko Matsui, Everything But the Girl, Earl Klugh, George Benson, Led Zeppelin, Bob Seger, Boz Scaggs, Elton John, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, Parliament-Funkadelic, Tony Williams Lifetime, Van Halen, Kirk Whalum, Nat King Cole, M People, Sunscreem, Peter Gabriel, Rachel Z., Eliane Elias, The Manhattan Transfer, Earth, Wind and Fire, Joe Sample, Ahmad Jamal, Weather Report, Stanley Clarke, Public Enemy, Jeff Beck, Linda Ronstadt, The Clash, Steely Dan, Madonna, Prince, Electric Light Orchestra, Rob Zombie, Audioslave, Meshell NdegeOcello, Oleta Adams, Patti Austin, Luther Vandross, Hiromi, Jean Luc-Ponty, and...well, you get the idea.
I used to DJ parties and I listened to a lot of free-format FM radio so I enjoy to an eclectic range of music. Before that, as a kid I would creep down the basement steps as my father played his jazz while he toiled in his workshop and I would listen to his music. As long as it doesn't bore me, I'm willing to try almost anything once. I recently started listening to Slayer and some industrial music. Try anything once with the exception of current rap. I don't hear much originality coming out of rap and hip-hop these days. Rappers today don't have the same hustle and flow of a Chuck D. Run-DMC, KRS-One, or other old school rappers. It used to be about something more than bytches, bling-bling, big booties and blowing away bruthas. Now that's all it is and I'm not down with it.
And I recently bought Foghat's Fool for the City because I had to have the full and unedited version of "Slow Ride."
2. My all-time favorite band is Santana. Not that balding guy who hacks out formulaic crap now with the likes of Chad Kroeger, 'lil Wayne and Wyclef. I can't stand anything that guy has done since Supernatural blew up huge. I was crazy about that "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen" dude with the searing and soaring guitar lines backed by a band hot enough to turn goat pee into gasoline. The Santana I love is the one whom I saw live almost a dozen times and bought every album religiously. I miss that guy and I wish he'd come back and not this "have guitar, will travel" session musician that calls himself Carlos Santana now.
3. On a scale from one to ten, I'd probably be a 11. If you had to take away any of my five senses, I'd want you to take my hearing last. A day without music is a day that you know I'm either stone deaf or stone cold dead.
4. For someone who scrutinizes every part of a record album from the art and photos to the liner notes and credits, the emergence of the CD may have meant better sound, but the death of great album art and lyrics you could read without a magnifying glass. I don't have a I-Pod yet because I'm not ready to dispense with the art and information available on a CD entirely yet. Certain artists such as Dylan, Springsteen, Joni Mitchell and the Beatles say so much in their lyrics that you have to read them while you're listening to the music. I know Billy Joel isn't in the same class---maybe not even in the same school---as those legends I mentioned, but I think he's underrated simply because he was a commercial success and never a darling of the critics.
5. I always wanted to play piano and other keyboards, but I never pursued it seriously. Perhaps that is why I love jazz pianists so much. I envy their talent and admire this proficiency. You can't suck as a musician and be any good at jazz.
QUOTE(BoF @ Apr 1 2008, 07:23 PM)
My all-time favorite is Chuck Berry, whom Ive seen abour 40 times.
A lead-in for one of my rare brushes with celebrity! In 1983, my freshman year at Washington Univ. in St. Louis, and Chuck Berry is the headline act at our annual spring party in the Quad. Before the show, I talked my buddies out of the free food at the party and into some Church's Fried Chicken, a little walk off-campus into a crummy part of town. And there he was, already in his shiny gold jumpsuit with flared bottoms. Not waiting in line for his food - that was his manager's job - but a little off to the side, leaning against a wall. Nobody was bugging him at all - it was like he was in there wearing his gold suit every day. I opted not to bug the man either.
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I used to listen to music constantly, but since my first daughter was born almost 4 years ago, I'm pretty much limited to listening in the car - with the exception of the music I played to rock her, and now her sister, to sleep. We started out with Jack Johnson's Curious George soundtrack every night for almost a year. Then I bought Corinne Bailey Rae's album, and that was another soothing voice, so then we had some variety. I bought Jack Johnson's Sleep Through the Static the first day it came out, and just a few weeks ago, I found a classical guitar sampler on Amazon for $2.99. So that is our bedtime rotation. I figure I've listened to those 4 albums approximately 1000 times (3.5 years x 365) combined.
When the kids aren't a factor, my favorite is probably Elvis Costello. I also like the Sundays, Chris Isaak, and pretty much anything with an acoustic guitar out front. My parents always told me that as I aged, my tastes would change, and they weren't kidding. I still like Zeppelin, but not all the time anymore. Now, almost everything I buy happens to be relatively mellow.
I also find myself irresistibly drawn to the songs used in iPod and Zune commercials. Not the kind of stuff I would normally come across, but after hearing the best 15 seconds of a song over and over, I'm hooked. So I have most of those, bought one song at a time (thank goodness for the ability to buy individual songs nowadays).
I don't play any instruments, but I buy them, just in case... Maybe if my kids want to learn the piano or the guitar, I will take lessons at the same time. In the meantime, they are well tuned.
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1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
Actually, I have two.
I like punk music for the raw energy. I was into heavy metal in my "formative" years, and was a big Def Leppard and Iron Maiden fan.
I've been surrouneded by Blues my entire life. That's my "default" preferece.
Lately, however, I've found myself tuning into Jazz. I deal with anxiety and stress due to the job and my personality type (A++++), so it brings me back down a few notches. I'm really into the Smooth Jazz genre - which is the lowest rating music genre in almost every major market.
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2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Well, I'm a huge Counting Crows fan if you mean something in this century.
John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson. Also not to be forgotten is Oingo Boingo.
And if given the chance, I have permission to sleep with Leann Rimes.
Jailshirt and thigh-highs optional. Raowwlll.....QUOTE
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
10. I have regular music, CD music, mp3s and even an XM Subscription for my office AND my car.
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4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
I don't really notice the words, unless it's really deep and emotional, or really catchy.
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5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Guitar, Bass and Keyboard. Fluently, except for Bass, which I'm just learning.
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
Its really hard to choose just one genre, because what I appreciate in music is ambience and that can be both hard and energetic, as is 'Cannibal' by Static X, or as beautiful and mysterious as 'Scheherezade' by Nikolaj Rimsky Korsakov.
Currently I am obsessing over the instrumental version of Guns N Roses 'Locomotive'.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
My current favourite band would be Rammstein.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
9.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both, though good lyrics can be as uplifting as a beat or melody. I am particularly fond of Beethoven's ode to joy which has the power to make me shed a tear almost every time I hear it.
Freude, schooner Götterfunken,
Joy, bright spark of divinity,
Tochter aus Elysium
daughter of Elysium
Wir betretan feuertrunken
fire- inspired we tread
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.
Deine Zauber binded weider,
Thy magic power re-unites
Was die Mode streng geleit;
all that custom has divided,
Alle Menschen warden brüder,
all men become brothers
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.
under the sway of thy gentle wings.
If ever there was a sound that managed to describe the wonder and beauty of the human condition it was the glorious 9th.
It bugs me no end that the EU stole this passage to be their 'national anthem'.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Sometimes I play the fool.
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Its really hard to choose just one genre, because what I appreciate in music is ambience and that can be both hard and energetic, as is 'Cannibal' by Static X, or as beautiful and mysterious as 'Scheherezade' by Nikolaj Rimsky Korsakov.
Currently I am obsessing over the instrumental version of Guns N Roses 'Locomotive'.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
My current favourite band would be Rammstein.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
9.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both, though good lyrics can be as uplifting as a beat or melody. I am particularly fond of Beethoven's ode to joy which has the power to make me shed a tear almost every time I hear it.
Freude, schooner Götterfunken,
Joy, bright spark of divinity,
Tochter aus Elysium
daughter of Elysium
Wir betretan feuertrunken
fire- inspired we tread
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.
Deine Zauber binded weider,
Thy magic power re-unites
Was die Mode streng geleit;
all that custom has divided,
Alle Menschen warden brüder,
all men become brothers
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.
under the sway of thy gentle wings.
If ever there was a sound that managed to describe the wonder and beauty of the human condition it was the glorious 9th.
It bugs me no end that the EU stole this passage to be their 'national anthem'.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Sometimes I play the fool.
edited to fix a link
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
In genre definitions, the closest thing commonly used would be "alternative". Though I also listen to and like lots of other stuff, most of the music I like best fits into this category.
But I also like lots of other stuff - rock, metal, classical, "easy listening", pop, R&B (old style AND the modern US dance music with the same name). Basically, if I like the tune and/or the lyrics at some level, I don't much care what the genre is (though some have to work harder than others).
I think the common thread in all the music I like best, though, is that it suprises me. I don't mean anything especially technical here, just that when I listen to a song for the first time, if I predict what lyric the next line is going to end with because it's seems obvious ("maybe" with "baby"), and the singer throws in something off-beam instead, it will catch my attention. If, instead, it goes with the obvious choice, I tend to like the song a lot less.
Bass-lines also do this for me - if I can predict the next few notes in the bassline because it's formulaic, I am a lot less impressed than if the next note goes higher when I'm expecting a lower one. The best example of this I can think of would be Craig Adams (ex of The Sisters of Mercy and The Mission) though he's not that well known or active any more.
A shorter list would be things I generally dislike:
There's an even longer list of bands and musicians I don't actively dislike, but that I think are hugely over-rated. Quick example? I think Bob Dylan is a fantastic songwriter who should be held, at gunpoint if necessary, as far away as possible from any kind of recording equipment. (Leonard Cohen and Burt Bacharach go in this box for me, too, only without the songwriting kudos for Cohen.) Amy Winehouse has a great voice but some of her syncopation is so extreme she sounds like the music track was played to her at the wrong speed during the recording.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
This post is already getting very long, so I'll try to keep a short list, nabbed from my iPod.
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
AC~DC
The B-52s
Beethoven
Bjork/The Sugarcubes
Blondie
The Blues Brothers
Blur
The Cardigans
Catatonia
Christina Aguilera
The Cramps
The Cult
The Cure
Deep Purple
Duffy
Dusty Springfield
Fatboy Slim
Feeder
Foo Fighters
Garbage
Gnarls Barkley
Gorillaz
Holst
Kaiser Chiefs
Manic Street Preachers
Morrissey (as a solo artist) & The Smiths
Mozart
Muse
P!nk
Paganini
Pop Will Eat Itself
Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M.
Royksopp
Saint-Saens
Sex Pistols
Sisters of Mercy
Skunk Anansie
Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Stereophonics
The Stranglers
Thin Lizzy
This Mortal Coil/Cocteau Twins
Tom Jones
The Undertones
The Verve
Violent Femmes
Wheatus
The White Stripes
Zero 7
... and many, many more.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
5. I don't listen to music every day, and indeed my default setting when at home alone with time to kill is to listen to spech radio or (2nd place) watch TV. But I do like to listen to music at for an hour or more least a couple of times per week. The iPod touch I got given for my 40th last year is a big help here - I can snatch a few songs while walking around.
Incidentally, nighttimer - I can thoroughly recommend this as a gadget worth getting, because you still get to have at least some of the album artwork on a screen big enough to see it. It's quite pricey, so you may need to wait until a big birthday or just ask Santa!
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both, definitely. Or more accurately, either. The beat is sometimes the driver. Other times, the tune will catch me. Still other times, it'll be the lyrics that grab me.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
I've never had the patience to learn one, though if I ever have the cash and the time I'd love to learn the piano.
In genre definitions, the closest thing commonly used would be "alternative". Though I also listen to and like lots of other stuff, most of the music I like best fits into this category.
But I also like lots of other stuff - rock, metal, classical, "easy listening", pop, R&B (old style AND the modern US dance music with the same name). Basically, if I like the tune and/or the lyrics at some level, I don't much care what the genre is (though some have to work harder than others).
I think the common thread in all the music I like best, though, is that it suprises me. I don't mean anything especially technical here, just that when I listen to a song for the first time, if I predict what lyric the next line is going to end with because it's seems obvious ("maybe" with "baby"), and the singer throws in something off-beam instead, it will catch my attention. If, instead, it goes with the obvious choice, I tend to like the song a lot less.
Bass-lines also do this for me - if I can predict the next few notes in the bassline because it's formulaic, I am a lot less impressed than if the next note goes higher when I'm expecting a lower one. The best example of this I can think of would be Craig Adams (ex of The Sisters of Mercy and The Mission) though he's not that well known or active any more.
A shorter list would be things I generally dislike:
- most jazz, especially modern. I don't mind trad jazz too much, but the endless indulgent bleeps and twiddles of modern outfits, where every musician has to have an interminably extended solo after each of which the insufferably mannered audience gives a languidly understated round of applause (possibly by clicking their fingers rather than actually clapping)
- modern country & western (excluding the rootsier stuff exemplified by the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack). About the only proponent I can stand is Dolly Parton, who as well as being an endearing and self-aware cartoon version of her public image, is an enormously gifted songwriter (though quite often the cover versions do rather more justice to her songs than she does). The rest is... well, just a little too American?
- most folk music. Here I'm thinking almost entirely of fat middle aged men in Fair Isle sweaters playing obsolete instruments or singing "fol-de-rol-de-doo-rye-aye" with a finger in one ear.
- dance music has to work hard to impress me. For years after the renewed onslaught of "house" music and it's rave-based variants, I hated it more than anything else because, until it hit big in about 1987-8, I was a big nightclub fan because most of the studenty ones I went to at the time played the types of jangly guitar pop I liked best. Seemingly overnight, all that got swept away and replaced with a genre of music that seemed not to like the idea of "songs" so much as one continuously blurring 160bpm blur of bleeps and twiddles (them again, though this time electronic ones). In the decades since, dance music has developed in several directions, some of which (mostly coming from continental Europe - Air Daft Punk & Royksopp spring to mind, though the Brits Fatboy Slim and The Chemical Brothers did their bit too - have rehabilitated the dance genre for me, at last in part.
There's an even longer list of bands and musicians I don't actively dislike, but that I think are hugely over-rated. Quick example? I think Bob Dylan is a fantastic songwriter who should be held, at gunpoint if necessary, as far away as possible from any kind of recording equipment. (Leonard Cohen and Burt Bacharach go in this box for me, too, only without the songwriting kudos for Cohen.) Amy Winehouse has a great voice but some of her syncopation is so extreme she sounds like the music track was played to her at the wrong speed during the recording.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
This post is already getting very long, so I'll try to keep a short list, nabbed from my iPod.
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
AC~DC
The B-52s
Beethoven
Bjork/The Sugarcubes
Blondie
The Blues Brothers
Blur
The Cardigans
Catatonia
Christina Aguilera
The Cramps
The Cult
The Cure
Deep Purple
Duffy
Dusty Springfield
Fatboy Slim
Feeder
Foo Fighters
Garbage
Gnarls Barkley
Gorillaz
Holst
Kaiser Chiefs
Manic Street Preachers
Morrissey (as a solo artist) & The Smiths
Mozart
Muse
P!nk
Paganini
Pop Will Eat Itself
Queens of the Stone Age
R.E.M.
Royksopp
Saint-Saens
Sex Pistols
Sisters of Mercy
Skunk Anansie
Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Stereophonics
The Stranglers
Thin Lizzy
This Mortal Coil/Cocteau Twins
Tom Jones
The Undertones
The Verve
Violent Femmes
Wheatus
The White Stripes
Zero 7
... and many, many more.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
5. I don't listen to music every day, and indeed my default setting when at home alone with time to kill is to listen to spech radio or (2nd place) watch TV. But I do like to listen to music at for an hour or more least a couple of times per week. The iPod touch I got given for my 40th last year is a big help here - I can snatch a few songs while walking around.
Incidentally, nighttimer - I can thoroughly recommend this as a gadget worth getting, because you still get to have at least some of the album artwork on a screen big enough to see it. It's quite pricey, so you may need to wait until a big birthday or just ask Santa!
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both, definitely. Or more accurately, either. The beat is sometimes the driver. Other times, the tune will catch me. Still other times, it'll be the lyrics that grab me.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
I've never had the patience to learn one, though if I ever have the cash and the time I'd love to learn the piano.
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
I don't know that I have a favorite genre... I like a lot of different kinds of things and go through phases where one particular genre gets played more, but... I wouldn't say I have a favorite anymore.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Depeche Mode, Iron & Wine, Imogen Heap, Turpentine (I don't even know if they're around anymore... but they were a local San Francisco Bluegrass Band and I still have the cassette I bought at a show almost 10 years ago), Chopin, Sufjan Stevens... and the list goes on.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
I'd say about a 5, maybe?
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Depends on the song and the artist, really. Iron & Wine has some beautiful lyrics sometimes layered over very simple rhythms, Sufjan Stevens has some great lyrics layered over very complex rhythms, Trent Reznor is amazing at audio manipulation and I listen primarily for that. So, both, I guess would be the answer.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
I play some guitar, some piano, some penny flute and I also enjoy fiddling around with audio.
I don't know that I have a favorite genre... I like a lot of different kinds of things and go through phases where one particular genre gets played more, but... I wouldn't say I have a favorite anymore.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Depeche Mode, Iron & Wine, Imogen Heap, Turpentine (I don't even know if they're around anymore... but they were a local San Francisco Bluegrass Band and I still have the cassette I bought at a show almost 10 years ago), Chopin, Sufjan Stevens... and the list goes on.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
I'd say about a 5, maybe?
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Depends on the song and the artist, really. Iron & Wine has some beautiful lyrics sometimes layered over very simple rhythms, Sufjan Stevens has some great lyrics layered over very complex rhythms, Trent Reznor is amazing at audio manipulation and I listen primarily for that. So, both, I guess would be the answer.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
I play some guitar, some piano, some penny flute and I also enjoy fiddling around with audio.
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And I can supply more cow bell, when needed.
That's what this forum needs - MORE COWBELL!
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And I can supply more cow bell, when needed.
That's what this forum needs - MORE COWBELL!
That's what the Bruce Dickinson finds to be a dynamite sound.
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1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
Blues, specifically Chicago blues because it combines so many different instruments to create what I consider to be the most dynamic sound in music. And blues in general is the genesis of American music. I would say Rock and Hip-Hop [not rap] come in for a tie for second. Good hip-hop is GOOD stuff.
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2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Oy. I'm going to cheat:
Rock: Cream
Blues: Wow. Buddy Guy and his band, RL Burnside [not really a band], Junior Wells.
Hip-Hop: Blackalicious
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3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
8. I've got music on in my room frequently, and if I don't my roommates do. For long walks, I pop in my iPod, same with the gym, etc.
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4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
I'm a beat and rhythm kind of guy.CP
I like to just go on a download spree and see where it takes me. I put in a song and just see what pops up--different versions and such and then go from there. I end up with about 50 -100 songs. After a week or so 5 remain and end up on my regular listening list. I put together a lot of theme tracks--but the themes are hard for anyone but me to decipher.. Grechaninov leads to Black Flag and that leads to the Superman theme to RL Burnside and over to a bunch of new voices from Garageband.com--Great site.
I listen to everything. Well I have trouble with the new stuff which I find just the latest in a long string of copycats. Plus whiny songs or songs by mall fashion rebels. Yup getting old and have heard it all before. Same songs just new names who claim they invented it. Im biased, the guys who did it first did it better, you're just role playing.
1. Get over it he/she was a loser and you're better off.
2. fergie, a slut is slut and that aint sexy or cool.
3. There is no rebelling against society, its all mass marketed and therefore IS contemporary society available in bright colors at any strip mall. You are as unique as the tattooed funky outfit wearing, been pretty well used and passed around fool standing next to you. I swear its like a never-ending costume party and the guests don't know its time to go home already.
Oh. I am addicted to music. My headset is welded to my head almost all day. My day to day life actually does have a soundtrack. One I can adjust to put myself in any emotional state I feel like playing with for a while.
I listen to everything. Well I have trouble with the new stuff which I find just the latest in a long string of copycats. Plus whiny songs or songs by mall fashion rebels. Yup getting old and have heard it all before. Same songs just new names who claim they invented it. Im biased, the guys who did it first did it better, you're just role playing.
1. Get over it he/she was a loser and you're better off.
2. fergie, a slut is slut and that aint sexy or cool.
3. There is no rebelling against society, its all mass marketed and therefore IS contemporary society available in bright colors at any strip mall. You are as unique as the tattooed funky outfit wearing, been pretty well used and passed around fool standing next to you. I swear its like a never-ending costume party and the guests don't know its time to go home already.
Oh. I am addicted to music. My headset is welded to my head almost all day. My day to day life actually does have a soundtrack. One I can adjust to put myself in any emotional state I feel like playing with for a while.
Social Distortion is my all-time favorite band.
Other runners-up that I can think of off the top of my head:
Nickelback
Puddle of Mud
Violent Femmes (one of the few groups from my highschool days that I liked)
Metallica has some good ones (whiskey in the jar is one of my favorites…I like Irish bands too)
Nirvana (my favorite in 1991, before they were trendy)
Nine inch nails (my second favorite in 1991, before he was trendy)
Rush (another of the few from my highschool years that I liked)
Candidly, the late eighties/very early nineties were pretty bad for me. Mullet-cut hairstyles, spandex and fishnet shirts for men and big-hair, huge boobs and pounds of makeup for women. Poison? Cinderella? Everyone looked stupid, and I was square because I thought so. Everyone's personality seemed to match the hair, and the music matched the styles too. I felt like a person from another planet. I finally found my soul mate with Mr P, who had short hair, didn't wear penny loafers, and thought the music sucked too. The alternative music sections back then were really small, now they take up half the store! Amazing the difference of a few years. Of course, now 'alternative' is basically trendy (just like short and straight hair).
I don't play any instruments well enough to claim I play them (maybe I'll take up the piano and force the kiddos to do the same when we move). My husband plays guitar pretty well, it's in his heritage I think...his father and grandfather are/were phenomenal with the guitar, and his father can play nearly anything on the piano by ear. All self-taught. It's pretty amazing.
Other runners-up that I can think of off the top of my head:
Nickelback
Puddle of Mud
Violent Femmes (one of the few groups from my highschool days that I liked)
Metallica has some good ones (whiskey in the jar is one of my favorites…I like Irish bands too)
Nirvana (my favorite in 1991, before they were trendy)
Nine inch nails (my second favorite in 1991, before he was trendy)
Rush (another of the few from my highschool years that I liked)
Candidly, the late eighties/very early nineties were pretty bad for me. Mullet-cut hairstyles, spandex and fishnet shirts for men and big-hair, huge boobs and pounds of makeup for women. Poison? Cinderella? Everyone looked stupid, and I was square because I thought so. Everyone's personality seemed to match the hair, and the music matched the styles too. I felt like a person from another planet. I finally found my soul mate with Mr P, who had short hair, didn't wear penny loafers, and thought the music sucked too. The alternative music sections back then were really small, now they take up half the store! Amazing the difference of a few years. Of course, now 'alternative' is basically trendy (just like short and straight hair).
I don't play any instruments well enough to claim I play them (maybe I'll take up the piano and force the kiddos to do the same when we move). My husband plays guitar pretty well, it's in his heritage I think...his father and grandfather are/were phenomenal with the guitar, and his father can play nearly anything on the piano by ear. All self-taught. It's pretty amazing.
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And I can supply more cow bell, when needed.
That's what this forum needs - MORE COWBELL!
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QUOTE(DaffyGrl @ Apr 3 2008, 12:20 PM)
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And I can supply more cow bell, when needed.
That's what this forum needs - MORE COWBELL!
That's what the Bruce Dickinson finds to be a dynamite sound.
If Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell....
We should give him moreCOWBELL.
We could all do with more cowbell.
Ha! More cowbell, that was a classic SNL skit. I heard some pretty good bands and artist brought up here such as.......... NIN, Puddle of Mud, R.E.M., Tom Jones, Sisters of Mercy, AC~DC, Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, Metallica, Van Halen, Sting & The Police, C.C.R., Megadeath, The Cranberries, Disturbed, among others. People here seem to have some good taste.
At my Myspace page I have many music videos from the bands and artist being mentioned here, although its only a small fraction of the music I listen to.
I have 3 media players, one is a Soft Rock Player, another is an Alternative/Rock player Between those two players there are about 100 music videos although about 10 videos are down, because it works with hotlinks and occasionally links go dead.
The videos are only roughly categorized and some are not necessarily Rock/Alternative or Soft Rock, I just don't have enough vids for other genres yet.
They can be viewed here............ http://www.myspace.com/mikenet2007
If you click on a dead video it will simply skip to the next one automatically, I plan to keep adding videos occasionally and refresh the dead links about once a
month. The 3rd player has comedy clips I found amusing, including the (More Cowbell) SNL skit I added months ago.
These are the songs I currently have on my page.........
Rock/Alternative
(1) 3 Doors Down - When Im Gone
(2) Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein
(3) Alice Cooper- Poison
(4) Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
(5) Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer
(6) Bush- Come Down
(7) Bush - Adrenaline
(8) Bush - Machinehead
(9) Cranberries - Zombie
(10) Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
(11) Disturbed - Land Of Confusion
(12) Disturbed - Stricken
(13) Disturbed - Down With The Sickness
(14) Fuel - Hemorrhage
(15) Guns and Roses - November Rain
(16) I Still Believe (Lost Boys) Tim Capello
(17) John Parr - St. Elmos Fire
(18) Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
(19) Offspring - Self Esteem
(20) Phil Collins - Land Of Confusion
(21) Pink Floyd - Money
(22) Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky>
(23) Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces
(24) Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World/Is There Anybody Out There?
(25) Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
(26) Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
(27) P.O.D - Youth of the Nation
(28) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (original video with added Wayne's World clips)
(29) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
(30) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
(31) Rick Springfield: Jessie's Girl
(32) Rob Zombie - More Human Than Human
(33) Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
(34) Robert Tepper - No Easy Way Out
(35) Shinedown - 45
(36) SoundGarden - Black Hole Sun
(37) Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
(38) system of a down - byob
(39) Three Days Grace - Home
(40) Three Days Grace - Animal i have become
(41) Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You
(42) Three Days Grace - Just Like You
(43) Tom Petty - Last Dance With Mary Jane
(44) Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here
(45) Van Halen - Right Now
Soft Rock
(1) 38 Special - Second Chance
(2) Alan Parsons Project - Eye In the Sky
(3) Annie Lennox/Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
(4) Annie Lennox/Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
(5) Ben E King - Stand By Me
(6) Bryan Adams - Everything I Do
(7) Cars - Drive
(8) Chris Isaac - Wicked Game
(9) Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
(10) Duran Duran - Come Undone
(11) Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf
(12) Duran Duran - Ordinary World
(13) Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
(14) Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians - What I Am
(15) Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
(16) Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
(17) Hall & Oates - Maneater
(18) Jefferson Starship - Sara
(19) Kansas - Dust in the Wind
(20) Lionel Richie/Commodores - Nightshift
(21) Lionel Richie - Hello
(22) Maroon 5 - she will be loved
(23) Mr. Mister - Take These Broken Wings
(24) Naked Eyes - There Is Always Something There to Remind Me
(25) Oasis - Champagne Supernova
(26) Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, i'm coming home
(27) Paul Simon - Call Me Al
(28) Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
(29) Phil Collins - Sussudio
(30) Phil Collins - Take Me Home
(31) Phil Collins - I Cant Dance
(32) Phil Collins - Another Day In Paridise
(33) REM. - Everybody Hurts
(34) REM. - Losing My Religion
(35) REM - Man on the Moon
(36) Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
(37) Soul Asylum - Run away train
(38) Spandau Ballet - True
(39) Sting - Fields of gold
(40) Styx - Mr. Roboto
(41) Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
(42) Tears for Fears - Head Over Heals
(43) Tears For Fears - Shout
(44) The Police - Every Breath You Take
(45) The Police - Roxanne
(46) The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
(47) The Proclaimers - 500 miles
(48) The Zombies- Time Of The Season
(49) Toto - Africa
(50) Toto - I'll Be Over You
(51) U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
(52) When In Rome - The Promise
At my Myspace page I have many music videos from the bands and artist being mentioned here, although its only a small fraction of the music I listen to.
I have 3 media players, one is a Soft Rock Player, another is an Alternative/Rock player Between those two players there are about 100 music videos although about 10 videos are down, because it works with hotlinks and occasionally links go dead.
The videos are only roughly categorized and some are not necessarily Rock/Alternative or Soft Rock, I just don't have enough vids for other genres yet.
They can be viewed here............ http://www.myspace.com/mikenet2007
If you click on a dead video it will simply skip to the next one automatically, I plan to keep adding videos occasionally and refresh the dead links about once a
month. The 3rd player has comedy clips I found amusing, including the (More Cowbell) SNL skit I added months ago.
These are the songs I currently have on my page.........
Rock/Alternative
(1) 3 Doors Down - When Im Gone
(2) Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein
(3) Alice Cooper- Poison
(4) Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
(5) Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer
(6) Bush- Come Down
(7) Bush - Adrenaline
(8) Bush - Machinehead
(9) Cranberries - Zombie
(10) Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
(11) Disturbed - Land Of Confusion
(12) Disturbed - Stricken
(13) Disturbed - Down With The Sickness
(14) Fuel - Hemorrhage
(15) Guns and Roses - November Rain
(16) I Still Believe (Lost Boys) Tim Capello
(17) John Parr - St. Elmos Fire
(18) Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
(19) Offspring - Self Esteem
(20) Phil Collins - Land Of Confusion
(21) Pink Floyd - Money
(22) Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky>
(23) Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces
(24) Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World/Is There Anybody Out There?
(25) Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
(26) Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
(27) P.O.D - Youth of the Nation
(28) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (original video with added Wayne's World clips)
(29) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
(30) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
(31) Rick Springfield: Jessie's Girl
(32) Rob Zombie - More Human Than Human
(33) Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
(34) Robert Tepper - No Easy Way Out
(35) Shinedown - 45
(36) SoundGarden - Black Hole Sun
(37) Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
(38) system of a down - byob
(39) Three Days Grace - Home
(40) Three Days Grace - Animal i have become
(41) Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You
(42) Three Days Grace - Just Like You
(43) Tom Petty - Last Dance With Mary Jane
(44) Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here
(45) Van Halen - Right Now
Soft Rock
(1) 38 Special - Second Chance
(2) Alan Parsons Project - Eye In the Sky
(3) Annie Lennox/Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
(4) Annie Lennox/Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
(5) Ben E King - Stand By Me
(6) Bryan Adams - Everything I Do
(7) Cars - Drive
(8) Chris Isaac - Wicked Game
(9) Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
(10) Duran Duran - Come Undone
(11) Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf
(12) Duran Duran - Ordinary World
(13) Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
(14) Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians - What I Am
(15) Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
(16) Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
(17) Hall & Oates - Maneater
(18) Jefferson Starship - Sara
(19) Kansas - Dust in the Wind
(20) Lionel Richie/Commodores - Nightshift
(21) Lionel Richie - Hello
(22) Maroon 5 - she will be loved
(23) Mr. Mister - Take These Broken Wings
(24) Naked Eyes - There Is Always Something There to Remind Me
(25) Oasis - Champagne Supernova
(26) Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, i'm coming home
(27) Paul Simon - Call Me Al
(28) Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
(29) Phil Collins - Sussudio
(30) Phil Collins - Take Me Home
(31) Phil Collins - I Cant Dance
(32) Phil Collins - Another Day In Paridise
(33) REM. - Everybody Hurts
(34) REM. - Losing My Religion
(35) REM - Man on the Moon
(36) Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
(37) Soul Asylum - Run away train
(38) Spandau Ballet - True
(39) Sting - Fields of gold
(40) Styx - Mr. Roboto
(41) Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
(42) Tears for Fears - Head Over Heals
(43) Tears For Fears - Shout
(44) The Police - Every Breath You Take
(45) The Police - Roxanne
(46) The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
(47) The Proclaimers - 500 miles
(48) The Zombies- Time Of The Season
(49) Toto - Africa
(50) Toto - I'll Be Over You
(51) U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
(52) When In Rome - The Promise
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
I mostly listen to music only while working out, so anything that's hard and energizing while in the gym or running is what's on my Zune at any given time. Most of that includes Alternative/Rock, although I can get a strange grove going while running and listening to Chopin or classical guitar.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
I probably couldn't name an all time favorite but the closest off the top of my head would be The Sisters of Mercy. Current favorites include Avenged Sevenfold, 30 Seconds to Mars, Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Voltaire.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
I work out and run for about 2 hours everyday, so I'd say I'm about a 6.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Lyrics for some bands like Dropkick Murphys; beat for most.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Not even a kazoo.
I mostly listen to music only while working out, so anything that's hard and energizing while in the gym or running is what's on my Zune at any given time. Most of that includes Alternative/Rock, although I can get a strange grove going while running and listening to Chopin or classical guitar.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
I probably couldn't name an all time favorite but the closest off the top of my head would be The Sisters of Mercy. Current favorites include Avenged Sevenfold, 30 Seconds to Mars, Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Voltaire.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
I work out and run for about 2 hours everyday, so I'd say I'm about a 6.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Lyrics for some bands like Dropkick Murphys; beat for most.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Not even a kazoo.
Baph said:
<--approves this thread
However, since reading your post, I've been listening through all of my old Iron Maiden records (yes, records!) trying to figure something out:
Where the hell did Iron Maiden or Bruce Dickinson put any cowbell into any of their songs? I don't recall Aces High or 2 Minutes to Midnight having an exceeding amount of cowbell.
Mrs. P said:
Ahhh, a fellow punk fan. I knew there would be at least one other.
And Net2007 reminded me of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler, lead guitarist extradorinaire.
And let's not forget such great moments in Rock and Roll, like when Kiss gets mad at someone shining a lazer [warning: language], and on the polar opposite, you have the Flaming Lips who distributes lazers for fun.
And I missed the Guns n Roses concerts... but I think I saved $40.00 on a ticket by not having to hear the music like this [warning: language].
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That's what the Bruce Dickinson finds to be a dynamite sound.
<--approves this threadHowever, since reading your post, I've been listening through all of my old Iron Maiden records (yes, records!) trying to figure something out:
Where the hell did Iron Maiden or Bruce Dickinson put any cowbell into any of their songs?
I don't recall Aces High or 2 Minutes to Midnight having an exceeding amount of cowbell. Mrs. P said:
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Social Distortion is my all-time favorite band.
Ahhh, a fellow punk fan. I knew there would be at least one other.
And Net2007 reminded me of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler, lead guitarist extradorinaire.
And let's not forget such great moments in Rock and Roll, like when Kiss gets mad at someone shining a lazer [warning: language], and on the polar opposite, you have the Flaming Lips who distributes lazers for fun.
And I missed the Guns n Roses concerts... but I think I saved $40.00 on a ticket by not having to hear the music like this [warning: language].
azwhitewolf
Guns n Roses must have made a habit out of coming out with alternative hits that were next to nothing, yet screwing up when they sing the songs in concert by being wasted beyond their minds. My uncle saw them in concert and said they really sucked, then there was that time they were accepting an award years back and they acted like they were either high or drunk. I still have to give them credit for being one of the bands to help the Alternative music genre really take off in the early 90's.
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And I missed the Guns n Roses concerts... but I think I saved $40.00 on a ticket by not having to hear the music like this [warning: language].
Guns n Roses must have made a habit out of coming out with alternative hits that were next to nothing, yet screwing up when they sing the songs in concert by being wasted beyond their minds. My uncle saw them in concert and said they really sucked, then there was that time they were accepting an award years back and they acted like they were either high or drunk. I still have to give them credit for being one of the bands to help the Alternative music genre really take off in the early 90's.
What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
Like many here, my tastes are fairly eclectic - just about anything except most country/western, most heavy metal, and most later rap. My listening ratio is probably about 4-to-1 pop over classical. I also listen to a bit of soundtrack music and I'm not sure where to put that - pop classical?
My current genre preferences probably lean toward indie/alternative - if that's where bands like Modest Mouse, Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Spoon, The Killers, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Snow Patrol, Panic! at the Disco, Burial, The Postal Service, Oppenheimer, She Wants Revenge, The National, LCD Soundsystem, and The Good, the Bad, and the Queen would go.
What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
All-time favorites would have to include bands like Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, U2, Talking Heads, and Spiritualized, as well as artists like John Lennon, David Bowie, and Patti Smith.
My LiveJournal profile lists, more or less chronologically, The Drifters, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, John Lennon, The B-52s, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, U2, The Clash, Tina Turner, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, REM, Annie Lennox, David Byrne, Julee Cruise, The Butthole Surfers, MC 900 Foot Jesus, Blur, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Spiritualized, The Verve, Interpol, K-Os, The Postal Service, The Kaiser Chiefs, Arcade Fire, and Oppenheimer (under "pop") and includes Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Michael Nyman, Jerry Herman, Mark Knopfler, and Danny Elfman under "soundtracks". My classical tastes are pretty catholic, as well, ranging from a number of baroque composers through John Adams and Philip Glass - including, notably, Chopin, Wagner, Mahler, Poulenc, and Milhaud.
Heh - it also seems I have a weakness for two-man bands: Simon and Garfunkel, The Eurythmics, Pet Shop Boys, They Might Be Giants, Everything But the Girl, The Dresden Dolls, The Postal Service, and Oppenheimer. The White Stripes, not so much.
Of course, the best gauge is probably the music that I listen to the most. According to my iTunes librarian, my current top 30 artists/bands, in terms of frequency of play, are:
On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
Probably about a 6 or 7. I don't count hearing the same couple of CDs for several hours at work most days. If I'm at the computer, there's either music or television in the background (and I'm almost always at the computer when I'm not working elsewhere) - and I always listen to music when driving.
Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
A bit of both - ideally, a combination of the two. Though I'm sometimes drawn to the vocals (or vocalist) regardless of either. Like, I could listen to Joan Armatrading, Annie Lennox, or Roland Gift singing "Happy Birthday" and be perfectly content.
Favorite lyricists would include John Lennon, Paul Simon, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Suzanne Vega, Jason Pierce, and Isaac Brock - and, in a whole other genre, Stephen Sondheim. Among the best lyrics evar: John Lennon's Working Class Hero (sung here by the fabulous Marianne Faithfull) and Paul Simon's American Tune (sung here by both Simon and Garfunkel).
In terms of the whole "beat and rhythm" thing I'd have to include (mostly as producers) Phil Spector, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Prince, Trent Reznor, Jason Pierce, and James Tamborello.
Do you play a musical instrument?
Yeah - clarinet and rudimentary keyboards.
Like many here, my tastes are fairly eclectic - just about anything except most country/western, most heavy metal, and most later rap. My listening ratio is probably about 4-to-1 pop over classical. I also listen to a bit of soundtrack music and I'm not sure where to put that - pop classical?
My current genre preferences probably lean toward indie/alternative - if that's where bands like Modest Mouse, Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Spoon, The Killers, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Snow Patrol, Panic! at the Disco, Burial, The Postal Service, Oppenheimer, She Wants Revenge, The National, LCD Soundsystem, and The Good, the Bad, and the Queen would go.
What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
All-time favorites would have to include bands like Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, U2, Talking Heads, and Spiritualized, as well as artists like John Lennon, David Bowie, and Patti Smith.
My LiveJournal profile lists, more or less chronologically, The Drifters, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, John Lennon, The B-52s, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, U2, The Clash, Tina Turner, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, REM, Annie Lennox, David Byrne, Julee Cruise, The Butthole Surfers, MC 900 Foot Jesus, Blur, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Spiritualized, The Verve, Interpol, K-Os, The Postal Service, The Kaiser Chiefs, Arcade Fire, and Oppenheimer (under "pop") and includes Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Michael Nyman, Jerry Herman, Mark Knopfler, and Danny Elfman under "soundtracks". My classical tastes are pretty catholic, as well, ranging from a number of baroque composers through John Adams and Philip Glass - including, notably, Chopin, Wagner, Mahler, Poulenc, and Milhaud.
Heh - it also seems I have a weakness for two-man bands: Simon and Garfunkel, The Eurythmics, Pet Shop Boys, They Might Be Giants, Everything But the Girl, The Dresden Dolls, The Postal Service, and Oppenheimer. The White Stripes, not so much.
Of course, the best gauge is probably the music that I listen to the most. According to my iTunes librarian, my current top 30 artists/bands, in terms of frequency of play, are:
- Spiritualized
- David Bowie
- The Postal Service
- Talking Heads
- Franz Ferdinand
- John Lennon
- Modest Mouse
- U2
- The Gorillaz
- Interpol
- Kaiser Chiefs
- k.d. lang
- The Killers
- Pet Shop Boys
- Arcade Fire
- Patti Smith
- Coldplay
- Roberta Flack
- Oppenheimer
- XTC
- The Eurythmics
- Hall & Oates
- Julee Cruise
- The Flying Pickets
- Laura Nyro
- Nine Inch Nails
- Paul Simon
- The Art of Noise
- Michael Jackson
- LCD Soundsystem
- Heroes - David Bowie
- Stop Your Crying - Spiritualized
- Pride - U2
- And She Was - Talking Heads
- What Did I Ever Give You? - Kaiser Chiefs
- We Will Become Silhouettes - The Postal Service
- Every Breath You Take - The Police
- You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
- It's A Sin - Pet Shop Boys
- Working Class Hero - John Lennon
- Fix You - Coldplay
- Theme From The Valley Of The Dolls - k.d. lang
- I Think I'm In Love - Spiritualized
- All These Things That I've Done - The Killers
- Next Exit - Interpol
- Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
- Making Plans For Nigel - XTC
- London Calling - The Clash
- DARE - Gorillaz
- Sonnet - The Verve
- Who's That Girl? - Eurythmics
- Stand - REM
- Float On - Modest Mouse
- It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Hall & Oates
- Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack
- The Good Times Are Killing Me - Modest Mouse
- Heaven - Talking Heads
- Who Knew? - Pink
- Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
- Suedehead (Sparks Remix) - Morrissey
On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
Probably about a 6 or 7. I don't count hearing the same couple of CDs for several hours at work most days. If I'm at the computer, there's either music or television in the background (and I'm almost always at the computer when I'm not working elsewhere) - and I always listen to music when driving.
Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
A bit of both - ideally, a combination of the two. Though I'm sometimes drawn to the vocals (or vocalist) regardless of either. Like, I could listen to Joan Armatrading, Annie Lennox, or Roland Gift singing "Happy Birthday" and be perfectly content.
Favorite lyricists would include John Lennon, Paul Simon, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Suzanne Vega, Jason Pierce, and Isaac Brock - and, in a whole other genre, Stephen Sondheim. Among the best lyrics evar: John Lennon's Working Class Hero (sung here by the fabulous Marianne Faithfull) and Paul Simon's American Tune (sung here by both Simon and Garfunkel).
In terms of the whole "beat and rhythm" thing I'd have to include (mostly as producers) Phil Spector, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Prince, Trent Reznor, Jason Pierce, and James Tamborello.
Do you play a musical instrument?
Yeah - clarinet and rudimentary keyboards.
Net2007 said:
Actually, they were hard rock that allowed mainstream late 80's pop to clash with hair bands, which eventually led to Metallica getting airplay. (back when Metallica was good, I mean). GnR paved the way for, love em or not, the hair bands - Poison, Motley Crue, and other acts that were around back when Gazzaris On The Strip was open, and the glam scene was bumping in L.A. Social Distortion was an Orange County band who eventually got radio play, thanks to that. Well, if you hear Mike Ness tell it, "not really", but okay.
Appetite for Destruction was one of the top selling albums of all time - 15 million copies in the U.S. alone. Besides "Appetite", I think you have a point. Lies was a mere mixture of their original EP with four acoustic songs, which led to the "double" Illusion album, which was a way of the record companies selling two records instead of one double album to inflate their sales numbers, and hoping it would hit as big as Appetite. The nail in the coffin was the Spaghetti Incident, which was a whole album of "yeeech". I didn't even get past their cover of "Since I don't have you" before I hit the eject button. Supposedly, Chinese Democracy will be officially released sometime in the next century. Or not. At this point, few care. I think there's an official Limewire Release somewhere.
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Guns n Roses must have made a habit out of coming out with alternative hits that were next to nothing,
Actually, they were hard rock that allowed mainstream late 80's pop to clash with hair bands, which eventually led to Metallica getting airplay. (back when Metallica was good, I mean). GnR paved the way for, love em or not, the hair bands - Poison, Motley Crue, and other acts that were around back when Gazzaris On The Strip was open, and the glam scene was bumping in L.A. Social Distortion was an Orange County band who eventually got radio play, thanks to that. Well, if you hear Mike Ness tell it, "not really", but okay.
Appetite for Destruction was one of the top selling albums of all time - 15 million copies in the U.S. alone. Besides "Appetite", I think you have a point. Lies was a mere mixture of their original EP with four acoustic songs, which led to the "double" Illusion album, which was a way of the record companies selling two records instead of one double album to inflate their sales numbers, and hoping it would hit as big as Appetite. The nail in the coffin was the Spaghetti Incident, which was a whole album of "yeeech". I didn't even get past their cover of "Since I don't have you" before I hit the eject button. Supposedly, Chinese Democracy will be officially released sometime in the next century. Or not. At this point, few care. I think there's an official Limewire Release somewhere.
As I mentioned earlier, the late Nina Simone - a former Julliard student –was one of my favorite singer, songwriters and piano players. She gave up the classical music of Julliard to become a barroom jazz singer. I saw in the late 1960s at the Longhorn Jazz Festival in Dallas.
In that we are observing the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, I thought I would provide links to Nina’s biography and some of her music inspired by Dr. King.
Nina Simone Biograph
"Backlash Blues" Lyrics
"Mississippi Goddam" Lyrics
"Why? (The King of Love is Dead)" Lyrics
In that we are observing the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, I thought I would provide links to Nina’s biography and some of her music inspired by Dr. King.
Nina Simone Biograph
"Backlash Blues" Lyrics
"Mississippi Goddam" Lyrics
"Why? (The King of Love is Dead)" Lyrics
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
If I was forced to choose, it'd be R&B (mostly classic Motown and late 80s/early 90s, but I like it all if they're good). I prefer genres where the singers/musicians are able to improv (and do it well), such as R&B & jazz. R&B wins out because I generally like the diversity of voices/styles found within the genre. But I really like almost all forms of music at least enough to listen to a handful of songs and enjoy them. I really only dislike a couple of genres: metal and anything else that is like metal (I'm not familiar enough with the terminology) and techno. Most techno is just too much of the same for my liking and metal just sounds like a bunch of screaming most of the time.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Now THAT is an impossible question! I really LOVE a ton of different artists/bands...usually I'm more into solo artists than bands, simply because of the genres I tend to prefer. Stevie Wonder would probably top my list if forced to choose.
Here's a sample of what I'll listen to on a typical day:
Tell Me Mama - Tony! Toni! Tone!
Send it On - D'Angelo
Rebirth of Slick - Digable Planets
More Bounce to the Ounce - Zapp & Roger
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
For Real - Amel Larrieux
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Where I'm From - Anthony Hamilton
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings
A Song for You - Donny Hathaway
Muzic Appreciation - Boogiemonsters
Fall Again - Glenn Lewis
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Heads High Mr. Vegas
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
The People - Common
Just Me & U - Raphael Saadiq
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Take On Me - Aha!
Crying out for Me - Mario
Promise - Ciara
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Temperature - Sean Paul
Are You That Somebody - Aaliyah
One Lat Cry - Brian McKnight
Lately - Jodeci
Desert Rose - Sting
Karma Chamelon - Culture Club
Don't GO Breaking My Heart - Elton John
Ojos Asi - Shakira
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Heart of Glass - Blondie
She's Playin' Hard to Get- Hi-Five
Vultures - John Mayer
Superfreak - Rick James
The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Love Shack - B52s
Alone - Heart
Wanna Be Startin' Something - Michael Jackson
WHen Doves Cry- Prince
Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
RUn Around - Blues Traveler
Travelin' Soldier - Dixie Chicks
Anytime You Need a Friend - Mariah Carey
It Takes Two - Rob Base
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
The Sweetest Taboo - Sade (AKA nighttimer's girl)
Turn The Lights Off - Tweet
La Isla Bonita - Madonna
Ex Factor - Lauryn Hill
I'll Be Around - Cee-Lo Green
Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald/Louie Armstrong
On & On - Erykah Badu
Tennessee - Arrested Development
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
If I Ruled the World - Nas
Lullaby of Birdland - Ella Fitzgerald
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
I Won't Back Down - Tim Petty
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
Passing Me By - The Pharcyde
Supersonic - JJ Fad
Sleep to Dream - Fiona Apple
So High - John Legend
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
Lady - D'Angelo
I don't generally have world music and classical on my day-to-day playlists, nor do I have much jazz as I usually get into a 'jazz' mood...some favorites are Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz. For world music, I like to listen to a lot of instrumental/tribal music (lots of chanting and/or just percussion).
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
10 - I am definitely a music lover!
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Oh definitely both and it depends on the artist/genre. I like some rap, so obviously lyrics play a role there...but I also like the rhythm/beat of a lot of hip hop and really don't pay any attention (or tune out) the lyrics in that case. For country, I really, really have to like the lyrics because I usually do not like the music at all. There are so many country artists who I'd LOVE if they'd sing a different genre (Trisha Yearwood is one off the top of my head). But aside from those specifics, it really just depends on the song itself. Some songs get my attention with the melody, some with harmonies, some for the lyrics, some for the music/beat, some for the whole package or a combination of those things.
Also, Julian mentioned not liking songs that are predictable and I TOTALLY agree with that. Maroon 5's This Love is a perfect example of a song that surprised me, melodically. I probably wouldn't have liked the song or group otherwise, but the chord progression was unexpected and that instantly made me love the song. I also hate predictable lyrics (maybe baby is a perfect example) in modern music...I'm not as picky with older music, though.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Yes, I play a variety of percussion instruments and I also sing and can play around on the piano. I do read music, but my piano experience is limited to a year or so as a kid and keyboarding/music theory for 4 yrs in high school (performing arts magnet school - whoo hoo
).
If I was forced to choose, it'd be R&B (mostly classic Motown and late 80s/early 90s, but I like it all if they're good). I prefer genres where the singers/musicians are able to improv (and do it well), such as R&B & jazz. R&B wins out because I generally like the diversity of voices/styles found within the genre. But I really like almost all forms of music at least enough to listen to a handful of songs and enjoy them. I really only dislike a couple of genres: metal and anything else that is like metal (I'm not familiar enough with the terminology) and techno. Most techno is just too much of the same for my liking and metal just sounds like a bunch of screaming most of the time.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
Now THAT is an impossible question! I really LOVE a ton of different artists/bands...usually I'm more into solo artists than bands, simply because of the genres I tend to prefer. Stevie Wonder would probably top my list if forced to choose.
Here's a sample of what I'll listen to on a typical day:
Tell Me Mama - Tony! Toni! Tone!
Send it On - D'Angelo
Rebirth of Slick - Digable Planets
More Bounce to the Ounce - Zapp & Roger
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
For Real - Amel Larrieux
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Where I'm From - Anthony Hamilton
Three Little Birds - Bob Marley
Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings
A Song for You - Donny Hathaway
Muzic Appreciation - Boogiemonsters
Fall Again - Glenn Lewis
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Heads High Mr. Vegas
A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
The People - Common
Just Me & U - Raphael Saadiq
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Take On Me - Aha!
Crying out for Me - Mario
Promise - Ciara
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Temperature - Sean Paul
Are You That Somebody - Aaliyah
One Lat Cry - Brian McKnight
Lately - Jodeci
Desert Rose - Sting
Karma Chamelon - Culture Club
Don't GO Breaking My Heart - Elton John
Ojos Asi - Shakira
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Heart of Glass - Blondie
She's Playin' Hard to Get- Hi-Five
Vultures - John Mayer
Superfreak - Rick James
The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Love Shack - B52s
Alone - Heart
Wanna Be Startin' Something - Michael Jackson
WHen Doves Cry- Prince
Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
RUn Around - Blues Traveler
Travelin' Soldier - Dixie Chicks
Anytime You Need a Friend - Mariah Carey
It Takes Two - Rob Base
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
The Sweetest Taboo - Sade (AKA nighttimer's girl)
Turn The Lights Off - Tweet
La Isla Bonita - Madonna
Ex Factor - Lauryn Hill
I'll Be Around - Cee-Lo Green
Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald/Louie Armstrong
On & On - Erykah Badu
Tennessee - Arrested Development
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
If I Ruled the World - Nas
Lullaby of Birdland - Ella Fitzgerald
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
I Won't Back Down - Tim Petty
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
Passing Me By - The Pharcyde
Supersonic - JJ Fad
Sleep to Dream - Fiona Apple
So High - John Legend
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
Lady - D'Angelo
I don't generally have world music and classical on my day-to-day playlists, nor do I have much jazz as I usually get into a 'jazz' mood...some favorites are Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Getz. For world music, I like to listen to a lot of instrumental/tribal music (lots of chanting and/or just percussion).
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
10 - I am definitely a music lover!
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Oh definitely both and it depends on the artist/genre. I like some rap, so obviously lyrics play a role there...but I also like the rhythm/beat of a lot of hip hop and really don't pay any attention (or tune out) the lyrics in that case. For country, I really, really have to like the lyrics because I usually do not like the music at all. There are so many country artists who I'd LOVE if they'd sing a different genre (Trisha Yearwood is one off the top of my head). But aside from those specifics, it really just depends on the song itself. Some songs get my attention with the melody, some with harmonies, some for the lyrics, some for the music/beat, some for the whole package or a combination of those things.
Also, Julian mentioned not liking songs that are predictable and I TOTALLY agree with that. Maroon 5's This Love is a perfect example of a song that surprised me, melodically. I probably wouldn't have liked the song or group otherwise, but the chord progression was unexpected and that instantly made me love the song. I also hate predictable lyrics (maybe baby is a perfect example) in modern music...I'm not as picky with older music, though.
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Yes, I play a variety of percussion instruments and I also sing and can play around on the piano. I do read music, but my piano experience is limited to a year or so as a kid and keyboarding/music theory for 4 yrs in high school (performing arts magnet school - whoo hoo
).
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
I like all kinds of music, but if you were to peek at my iPod, the most frequently played artists would mostly be African. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Toumani Diabate, Thomas Mapfumo, Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Sam Fan Thomas, etc. Next to that would be songwriters I really admire, like Gary Jules, Aimee Mann, and Sufjan Stevens. So I don't know what the genre is, but African music of all flavors is my favorite. I don't like the term "world" music because it's so US-centric. Like here's all these types of western music, and then there's... everything else all lumped together. As if the Gypsy Kings were the same genre as Remmy Ongala.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
In the early 80s I got into punk and then hardcore. I was in a hardcore band and got to play with a lot of cool bands, and I saw tons of shows - Minor Threat, Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys... It was the Clash that led me to my next great passion, which was Bob Marley. The Wailers are probably still my favorite band of all time. For lovers of groove, no one could hit the pocket deeper than those boys! They made music that transcended genre. Bob Marley's songs captured the spirit of rebellion against the Babylon System, all the while expressing the deep joy of living in the spirit of the moment. Reggae led me to African music, which is what I listen to now. Like Marley's music, so much African music has a way of capturing both the social justice aspect of music but also the sheer joy of life and music. As far as songwriters go, my current favorite would have to be Sufjan Stevens. He has an absolutely incredible sense of melody and surprising arrangements. He can make complex, unconventional music that still sounds sweet as hell.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
I love listening to music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both, for sure. Most of the African music I listen to is sung in languages I don't understand. But the song writers I love, I listen to with an ear to their lyrics for sure. Lyrical masters: Steve Earle, Paul Simon, Lucinda Williams, Sufjan Stevens. I listen to Paul Simon sing something like
Losing love is like a window in your heart; everyone can see you're blown apart.
or
I had a dream about us
In the bottles and the bones of the night
I felt a pain in my shoulder blade
Like a pencil point? A love bite?
A couple was rubbing against us
Rubbing and doing that new dance
The man was wearing a jacket and jeans
The woman was laughing in advance
and I think, damn it, why should I even bother writing songs?!?
Then there's Sufjan. Here's a great song off of Illinoise about John Wayne Gacy, Jr. How could a song about a serial killer be so beautiful? A true songwriting accomplishment.
His father was a drinker
And his mother cried in bed
Folding John Wayne's T-shirts
When the swingset hit his head
The neighbors they adored him
For his humor and his conversation
Look underneath the house there
Find the few living things
Rotting fast in their sleep of the dead
Twenty-seven people, even more
They were boys with their cars, summer jobs
Oh my God
Are you one of them?
mmmmmm.
And for good measure, some Steve Earle. I admire his story telling style, a type of songwriting I really have trouble doing.
Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there
Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
When will we ever learn
When will we ever see
We stand up and take our turn
And keep tellin’ ourselves we’re free
Ali was the second son of a second son
Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come
Ain’t nothin’ else to do around here just a game children play
Somethin’ ‘bout livin’ in fear all your life makes you hard that way
He answered when he got the call
Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah
A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
and
There's foxes in the hen house
Cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
Their proud red banners torn
To listen to the radio
You'd think that all was well
But you and me and Cisco know
It's going straight to hell
So come back, Emma Goldman
Rise up, old Joe Hill
The barracades are goin' up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us, Malcolm X
And Martin Luther King
We're marching into Selma
As the bells of freedom ring
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Yes. I guess guitar is my best one, but I also play bass, piano (some), percussion, drums... basically whatever instrument I need for a song I'm recording. I grew up in a very musical family. My dad was an orchestra conductor, my mother a music teacher. In high school I couldn't go out for any sports because I wasn't allowed to miss orchestra rehearsals or concerts. I started on the violin by age 5, and then became the guy who played whatever was lacking. In third grade my dad needed a cello player so I switched. In sixth grade I moved to the bass, which I stayed with until the end of high school. So today I am sort of the musical version of "jack of all trades, master of none." But it turns out that's the perfect thing for someone with a home studio!
I like all kinds of music, but if you were to peek at my iPod, the most frequently played artists would mostly be African. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Toumani Diabate, Thomas Mapfumo, Youssou N'Dour, Salif Keita, Sam Fan Thomas, etc. Next to that would be songwriters I really admire, like Gary Jules, Aimee Mann, and Sufjan Stevens. So I don't know what the genre is, but African music of all flavors is my favorite. I don't like the term "world" music because it's so US-centric. Like here's all these types of western music, and then there's... everything else all lumped together. As if the Gypsy Kings were the same genre as Remmy Ongala.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
In the early 80s I got into punk and then hardcore. I was in a hardcore band and got to play with a lot of cool bands, and I saw tons of shows - Minor Threat, Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys... It was the Clash that led me to my next great passion, which was Bob Marley. The Wailers are probably still my favorite band of all time. For lovers of groove, no one could hit the pocket deeper than those boys! They made music that transcended genre. Bob Marley's songs captured the spirit of rebellion against the Babylon System, all the while expressing the deep joy of living in the spirit of the moment. Reggae led me to African music, which is what I listen to now. Like Marley's music, so much African music has a way of capturing both the social justice aspect of music but also the sheer joy of life and music. As far as songwriters go, my current favorite would have to be Sufjan Stevens. He has an absolutely incredible sense of melody and surprising arrangements. He can make complex, unconventional music that still sounds sweet as hell.
3. On a scale from 1 to 10, how much music do you listen to? 1 meaning you rarely listen, 10 meaning you are addicted.
I love listening to music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it.
4. Do you read much into song lyrics, or listen to music solely for the beat and rhythm. Perhaps both?
Both, for sure. Most of the African music I listen to is sung in languages I don't understand. But the song writers I love, I listen to with an ear to their lyrics for sure. Lyrical masters: Steve Earle, Paul Simon, Lucinda Williams, Sufjan Stevens. I listen to Paul Simon sing something like
Losing love is like a window in your heart; everyone can see you're blown apart.
or
I had a dream about us
In the bottles and the bones of the night
I felt a pain in my shoulder blade
Like a pencil point? A love bite?
A couple was rubbing against us
Rubbing and doing that new dance
The man was wearing a jacket and jeans
The woman was laughing in advance
and I think, damn it, why should I even bother writing songs?!?
Then there's Sufjan. Here's a great song off of Illinoise about John Wayne Gacy, Jr. How could a song about a serial killer be so beautiful? A true songwriting accomplishment.
His father was a drinker
And his mother cried in bed
Folding John Wayne's T-shirts
When the swingset hit his head
The neighbors they adored him
For his humor and his conversation
Look underneath the house there
Find the few living things
Rotting fast in their sleep of the dead
Twenty-seven people, even more
They were boys with their cars, summer jobs
Oh my God
Are you one of them?
mmmmmm.
And for good measure, some Steve Earle. I admire his story telling style, a type of songwriting I really have trouble doing.
Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there
Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
When will we ever learn
When will we ever see
We stand up and take our turn
And keep tellin’ ourselves we’re free
Ali was the second son of a second son
Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come
Ain’t nothin’ else to do around here just a game children play
Somethin’ ‘bout livin’ in fear all your life makes you hard that way
He answered when he got the call
Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah
A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
and
There's foxes in the hen house
Cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
Their proud red banners torn
To listen to the radio
You'd think that all was well
But you and me and Cisco know
It's going straight to hell
So come back, Emma Goldman
Rise up, old Joe Hill
The barracades are goin' up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us, Malcolm X
And Martin Luther King
We're marching into Selma
As the bells of freedom ring
5. Do you play a musical instrument?
Yes. I guess guitar is my best one, but I also play bass, piano (some), percussion, drums... basically whatever instrument I need for a song I'm recording. I grew up in a very musical family. My dad was an orchestra conductor, my mother a music teacher. In high school I couldn't go out for any sports because I wasn't allowed to miss orchestra rehearsals or concerts. I started on the violin by age 5, and then became the guy who played whatever was lacking. In third grade my dad needed a cello player so I switched. In sixth grade I moved to the bass, which I stayed with until the end of high school. So today I am sort of the musical version of "jack of all trades, master of none." But it turns out that's the perfect thing for someone with a home studio!
Floyd and the Stones seem to be the common thread around here. Count me in.
I liked Pink Floyd for different reasons I suspect. They're a great rock band which could really get in touch with their inner funk
Hey You, Have a Cigar, and Wish You Were Here are favorites of mine.
The Rolling Stones are unmatched of course.... Gimmee Shelter, Miss You, It's Only Rock and Roll.
Classic Rock is most commonly in my ear, but I listen to a little of everything.
Hey Hey, common ground!
Clapton forever...
The Guess Who, Chili Peppers, The Animals version of "House of the Rising Sun"....
I liked Pink Floyd for different reasons I suspect. They're a great rock band which could really get in touch with their inner funk
Hey You, Have a Cigar, and Wish You Were Here are favorites of mine.
The Rolling Stones are unmatched of course.... Gimmee Shelter, Miss You, It's Only Rock and Roll.
Classic Rock is most commonly in my ear, but I listen to a little of everything.
QUOTE(ConservPat)
Rock: Cream
Blues: Wow. Buddy Guy and his band, RL Burnside [not really a band], Junior Wells.
Hip-Hop: Blackalicious
Blues: Wow. Buddy Guy and his band, RL Burnside [not really a band], Junior Wells.
Hip-Hop: Blackalicious
Hey Hey, common ground!
Clapton forever...
The Guess Who, Chili Peppers, The Animals version of "House of the Rising Sun"....
This should probably go in the Resources section, but I'm pressed for time at the moment.
If you've got something better than (haw-haw) dial-up and some good speakers attached to your computer, I highly recommend checking out the following sites:
www.slacker.com
www.pandora.com
Both sites play music free and without obligation (besides signing up) but both sites have their virtues and drawbacks. With Pandora you can create a station that plays music in the format of the artists you choose (as long as its an artist in their library) and will play similar artists that fit the format. You can't select individual songs, but you can get rid of songs you don't like and make suggestions as to what you do and don't want to hear.
Slacker.com has a vast selection of artists and you can personalize the music to play only the artists you want to hear. You can add and delete the stations and what's playing on it.
I've been listening to my two stations all day long and haven't heard the same song twice yet.
Give 'em a try. They're fun to funk around with.
If you've got something better than (haw-haw) dial-up and some good speakers attached to your computer, I highly recommend checking out the following sites:
www.slacker.com
www.pandora.com
Both sites play music free and without obligation (besides signing up) but both sites have their virtues and drawbacks. With Pandora you can create a station that plays music in the format of the artists you choose (as long as its an artist in their library) and will play similar artists that fit the format. You can't select individual songs, but you can get rid of songs you don't like and make suggestions as to what you do and don't want to hear.
Slacker.com has a vast selection of artists and you can personalize the music to play only the artists you want to hear. You can add and delete the stations and what's playing on it.
I've been listening to my two stations all day long and haven't heard the same song twice yet.
Give 'em a try. They're fun to funk around with.
QUOTE(Wertz @ Apr 4 2008, 03:41 AM)
She Wants Revenge
I saw them in concert (small venue) a while back. They were decent.
I tend to like Rock over any other genre, although one bar I frequented is a country bar with live bands most weekends. I can't say I hate country (anymore) but I don't really like it.
Some of my favorite artists are:
The Doors
AC~DC
Led Zeppelin
The Eagles
Def Leppard
U2 (Great lyrics and music)
Current artists include:
Rob Thomas/Matchbox 20 (I really like Rob Thomas's music)
3 Doors Down
The Gorillaz
I like most genres. I don't listen to music a ton, however, because I listen to talk radio or sports radio in the car.
Interestingly, my kids have gotten more into older stuff from playing the Guitar Hero franchise.
For once in my life, I seem to have voted with the majority here. 
In order, my favorite genres would be Classic Rock, Alternative, and Classical.
Least favorite, by far, would be country. With apologies to all country fans, just a few notes of it makes me want to run screaming out of the room. I also don't like sappy pop music, New Age elevator music, or most punk, rap, and opera. Some genres of music are simply alien to me -- jazz and blues -- and don't effect me in any way.
I'm reluctant to name favorites, but I can say that, within Classic Rock, I tend to like psychedelic rock ("I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" or "White Rabbit") as well as good old hard rock of the Stones/Who/Zeppelin type. (In general, the British outdid the Americans. Nothing against such American greats as Jimi Hendrix or the Doors, of course.) Within Classical, I tend to prefer chamber music over orchestral music, and the Baroque and Classical periods over the Romantic and Modern periods. Within Alternative, well, that's hard to say, since the Alternative music of any worth, by definition, has something unique about it. I might mention somebody like Lenny Kravitiz and his neo-psychedelic sound.
Music is actually less vital to me than it appears to be to most people. When I am doing anything which takes concentration, I prefer SILENCE. I hardly ever listen to music at home unless I am doing something which doesn't take much concentration, such as routine cleaning or cooking. On those rare occasions when I can force myself to exercise -- the most boring, mindless activity I know -- I put on headphones and pop in some CD just because I can't read. On the 1 to 10 scale, I'm about a 2 or 3. Even when driving, I often flip from the music station to Old-Time Radio or Comedy or Spoken Word.
I have no musical talents whatsoever.
In order, my favorite genres would be Classic Rock, Alternative, and Classical.
Least favorite, by far, would be country. With apologies to all country fans, just a few notes of it makes me want to run screaming out of the room. I also don't like sappy pop music, New Age elevator music, or most punk, rap, and opera. Some genres of music are simply alien to me -- jazz and blues -- and don't effect me in any way.
I'm reluctant to name favorites, but I can say that, within Classic Rock, I tend to like psychedelic rock ("I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" or "White Rabbit") as well as good old hard rock of the Stones/Who/Zeppelin type. (In general, the British outdid the Americans. Nothing against such American greats as Jimi Hendrix or the Doors, of course.) Within Classical, I tend to prefer chamber music over orchestral music, and the Baroque and Classical periods over the Romantic and Modern periods. Within Alternative, well, that's hard to say, since the Alternative music of any worth, by definition, has something unique about it. I might mention somebody like Lenny Kravitiz and his neo-psychedelic sound.
Music is actually less vital to me than it appears to be to most people. When I am doing anything which takes concentration, I prefer SILENCE. I hardly ever listen to music at home unless I am doing something which doesn't take much concentration, such as routine cleaning or cooking. On those rare occasions when I can force myself to exercise -- the most boring, mindless activity I know -- I put on headphones and pop in some CD just because I can't read. On the 1 to 10 scale, I'm about a 2 or 3. Even when driving, I often flip from the music station to Old-Time Radio or Comedy or Spoken Word.
I have no musical talents whatsoever.
QUOTE(turnea @ Apr 7 2008, 08:34 AM)
Floyd and the Stones seem to be the common thread around here. Count me in.
I liked Pink Floyd for different reasons I suspect. They're a great rock band which could really get in touch with their inner funk
Hey You, Have a Cigar, and Wish You Were Here are favorites of mine.
The Rolling Stones are unmatched of course.... Gimmee Shelter, Miss You, It's Only Rock and Roll.
Classic Rock is most commonly in my ear, but I listen to a little of everything.
Hey Hey, common ground!
Clapton forever...
The Guess Who, Chili Peppers, The Animals version of "House of the Rising Sun"....
I liked Pink Floyd for different reasons I suspect. They're a great rock band which could really get in touch with their inner funk
Hey You, Have a Cigar, and Wish You Were Here are favorites of mine.
The Rolling Stones are unmatched of course.... Gimmee Shelter, Miss You, It's Only Rock and Roll.
Classic Rock is most commonly in my ear, but I listen to a little of everything.
QUOTE(ConservPat)
Rock: Cream
Blues: Wow. Buddy Guy and his band, RL Burnside [not really a band], Junior Wells.
Hip-Hop: Blackalicious
Blues: Wow. Buddy Guy and his band, RL Burnside [not really a band], Junior Wells.
Hip-Hop: Blackalicious
Hey Hey, common ground!
Clapton forever...
The Guess Who, Chili Peppers, The Animals version of "House of the Rising Sun"....
Good taste Turnea, I like all those bands. I noticed you like Pink Floyd as well, (Hey You) was a great song. Its one of the first I'm going to learn to play when I get me an electric guitar. I love the guitar solo in that song.
nighttimer
QUOTE
This should probably go in the Resources section, but I'm pressed for time at the moment.
If you've got something better than (haw-haw) dial-up and some good speakers attached to your computer, I highly recommend checking out the following sites:
www.slacker.com
www.pandora.com
Both sites play music free and without obligation (besides signing up) but both sites have their virtues and drawbacks. With Pandora you can create a station that plays music in the format of the artists you choose (as long as its an artist in their library) and will play similar artists that fit the format. You can't select individual songs, but you can get rid of songs you don't like and make suggestions as to what you do and don't want to hear.
Slacker.com has a vast selection of artists and you can personalize the music to play only the artists you want to hear. You can add and delete the stations and what's playing on it.
I've been listening to my two stations all day long and haven't heard the same song twice yet.
Give 'em a try. They're fun to funk around with. thumbsup.gif
If you've got something better than (haw-haw) dial-up and some good speakers attached to your computer, I highly recommend checking out the following sites:
www.slacker.com
www.pandora.com
Both sites play music free and without obligation (besides signing up) but both sites have their virtues and drawbacks. With Pandora you can create a station that plays music in the format of the artists you choose (as long as its an artist in their library) and will play similar artists that fit the format. You can't select individual songs, but you can get rid of songs you don't like and make suggestions as to what you do and don't want to hear.
Slacker.com has a vast selection of artists and you can personalize the music to play only the artists you want to hear. You can add and delete the stations and what's playing on it.
I've been listening to my two stations all day long and haven't heard the same song twice yet.
Give 'em a try. They're fun to funk around with. thumbsup.gif
Thanks for those sites, im looking at the first one now. Looks cool, like satellite radio where you can skip songs. Cool stuff.
Wuz up guys? I just went to my parents house for the weekend and brought an acoustic guitar back to my apartment yesterday that I got for my 12th birthday.
I never really learned to play back then however. I suppose I wasn't serious about learning.
Anyway I had a couple questions about this thing because I am guitar illiterate. First off I suppose I should ask if anyone knows of any website that will teach you more than the simple basics. I need to learn how to read sheet music first off, I need to learn all the chords that are playable on a standard 6 string, and I need to learn about the key differences between an electric and an acoustic. In July I'll be getting an electric guitar, and because of the game (guitar hero) I'm familiar with some concepts and terminology.
For example I'm wondering if (hammer ons) can be performed on an acoustic, or is that something that is unique to an electric guitar? One thing regarding electric guitars that I'm also wondering about is if there is a way to synthesize the sound of a (lead guitar) on an electric guitar with some kind of filter or something. Basically I'm interested if its possible to hook an electric to some kind of synthesizer that you can switch between different sounds seamlessly in one song fast enough not to have to need another guitar. Many songs have both lead and electric guitar solos and it would be nice to play both on one guitar.
So if anyone has some beginners tips or resources I can look at I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance.
I never really learned to play back then however. I suppose I wasn't serious about learning.
Anyway I had a couple questions about this thing because I am guitar illiterate. First off I suppose I should ask if anyone knows of any website that will teach you more than the simple basics. I need to learn how to read sheet music first off, I need to learn all the chords that are playable on a standard 6 string, and I need to learn about the key differences between an electric and an acoustic. In July I'll be getting an electric guitar, and because of the game (guitar hero) I'm familiar with some concepts and terminology.
For example I'm wondering if (hammer ons) can be performed on an acoustic, or is that something that is unique to an electric guitar? One thing regarding electric guitars that I'm also wondering about is if there is a way to synthesize the sound of a (lead guitar) on an electric guitar with some kind of filter or something. Basically I'm interested if its possible to hook an electric to some kind of synthesizer that you can switch between different sounds seamlessly in one song fast enough not to have to need another guitar. Many songs have both lead and electric guitar solos and it would be nice to play both on one guitar.
So if anyone has some beginners tips or resources I can look at I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance.
QUOTE(net2007 @ Apr 22 2008, 05:38 PM)
So if anyone has some beginners tips or resources I can look at I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance.
Here's the advice. Stop thinking and play it.
Don't worry about every chord on the 6 string because you're going to learn a few positions of chords (open, barre, inverse) and that'll be plenny
If it has strings it can be hammered on, pulled off, tapped and strummed. Go nuts grab a violin bow and play Dazed & Confused.
Just stop THINKING about it and play.
As for sheet music. Very useful until the first time you need to read a bend or a dive bomb (think Van Halen.) Tablature is the quickest route to guitar heaven.
If you must get involved in thinking, learn to tune the thing.
But seriously... less talking more playing.
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Doesn't make sense now but I just gave almost every "garage" song from the 60s. Learn those three chords in Open and 5th position and you're well on your way.
putz around here while you contemplate my sage advice: http://www.guitartabs.net/
Have fun. Stop thinking. Play.
QUOTE(BaphometsAdvocate @ Apr 22 2008, 10:42 PM)
QUOTE(net2007 @ Apr 22 2008, 05:38 PM)
So if anyone has some beginners tips or resources I can look at I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance.
Here's the advice. Stop thinking and play it.
Don't worry about every chord on the 6 string because you're going to learn a few positions of chords (open, barre, inverse) and that'll be plenny
If it has strings it can be hammered on, pulled off, tapped and strummed. Go nuts grab a violin bow and play Dazed & Confused.
Just stop THINKING about it and play.
As for sheet music. Very useful until the first time you need to read a bend or a dive bomb (think Van Halen.) Tablature is the quickest route to guitar heaven.
If you must get involved in thinking, learn to tune the thing.
But seriously... less talking more playing.
AAA
DD
EEE
DD
Doesn't make sense now but I just gave almost every "garage" song from the 60s. Learn those three chords in Open and 5th position and you're well on your way.
putz around here while you contemplate my sage advice: http://www.guitartabs.net/
Have fun. Stop thinking. Play.
Well thus far Ive learned some basics. I learned how to tune the guitar to a tuner, and tune the guitar to itself, which was easy enough. I learned how to hold it properly, ect ect. Right now I'm in the process of learning sheet music and I have a task ahead of me regarding memorizing the notes on the fretboard. I know its possible to learn to play without sheet music but I tend to be a visual learner with many things so I thought sheet music would help.
Some useful things I learned about is that (flat and sharp) notes are essentially the same and exist between notes. On a piano the black keys are the sharps and flats I'm guessing. On the guitar they usually fall on every other fret. Im using this site to memorize the fretboard..... http://www.fretboardmaster.com/fretboardgame.html
Once I learn where all the single notes fall on the fretboard, I'll move onto learning some chords. Then I'll start playing some songs, very badly lol
I'm just now taking a look at the site you provided.
1. What genre of music is your favorite, and why?
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
My tastes seem to mirror some of the other listeners here, especially Wertz (who is personally responsible for my interest in Spiritualized).
Some of my favourite bands include:
Of course those are just the more mainstream selections. I also have a keen interest in the Canadian music scene and a few noteworthy acts stand out:
What gets lost in the shuffle is my interest in more traditional musical forms. As a few members here know, I also have a keen interest in klezmer music. The sound of a fiddle always gets to me for some reason. The word Klezmer has evolved over the last 700 years or so, although using the word to refer to a specific genre of music is a fairly modern approach.
2. What is your all time favorite band, if you don't have a favorite band what are some of the ones you like the most?
My tastes seem to mirror some of the other listeners here, especially Wertz (who is personally responsible for my interest in Spiritualized).
Some of my favourite bands include:
- Pink Floyd (When the Tigers Broke Free)
- Led Zeppelin (Black Dog)
- TOOL (Anything... there cover of "No Quarter" is pretty mindblowing though)
- Gorillaz (Glad I'm not the only fan... I love "Fire in the Monkey's Head")
- The Kaiser Chiefs (Na Na Na Na Na)
- Devil in a Woodpile (Thanks a lot Mike... "Steppin Out")
- Emiliana Torrini (Tuna Fish)
- Goldfinger (San Simeon)
- Kings of Leon
- New Pornographers
- Bloc Party
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- Morcheeba (What New York Couples Fight About)
Of course those are just the more mainstream selections. I also have a keen interest in the Canadian music scene and a few noteworthy acts stand out:
- Big Sugar
- The Tragically Hip
- K-Os
- Our Lady Peace
- Buck65
- Nickelback (Just kidding... they suck out loud)
What gets lost in the shuffle is my interest in more traditional musical forms. As a few members here know, I also have a keen interest in klezmer music. The sound of a fiddle always gets to me for some reason. The word Klezmer has evolved over the last 700 years or so, although using the word to refer to a specific genre of music is a fairly modern approach.
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However, for the great clarinetist Giora Feidman, 'Klezmer' means that the instruments are essentially the loudspeakers of the 'inner voice' singing in everyone’s soul. A Klezmer doesn’t make music, he speaks, prays, console with his instrument (Helmut Eisel).
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