Never hurts to get to know everyone on here more. Music is a huge part of my life. Proud to admit that I'm a country boy (stuck in the city), artists: Keith Urban, Garth Brooks, Aaron Lines, and of course Johnny Cash. Also loving the classic rock, big Guns n Roses fan.

How about you?

-tino-

Honestly I try to avoid generic-type of thinking. Genres to me exist for the convenience of record-store clerks. And the record promo guys etc.
I'm into Frank Zappa, for one. Classified as 'alternative-punk' when you get the track names in iTunes, that 'genre' is way off, 'cause they couldn't put that into a box.
I go bigtime for what is called Karnataka or Carnatic music. Southern India raga, Dhrupad music.
I thought The Residents were entertaining. I like No Doubt, a really good band with a beautiful recorded sound and some real space for Gwen's voice sculpted there.
Miles Davis. Average White Band rocks. Le Sacre du Printemps by Stravinsky. Little Richard. Eric Dolphy. Johnny 'Guitar' Watson.
I think a country singer should sound more tore up than that more poppy stuff, above. Hank Williams Lonesome Whistle Blow.

For me, its a 3-way tie.

Instrumental movie themes.  It becomes a writing-aid for me.

Celtic.  Traditional and contemporary/folk.

Country. I have seven different country stations on my truck radio.  A few months in Oklahoma can do that to a girl! 

Chaunte

Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom,
Plen'y of air and plen'y of room,
Plen'y of room to swing a rope!
Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope.
OK-lahoma!
Where the wind comes sweepin down the plain....

Quote from: jan c on June 10, 2006, 09:29:28 AMOK-lahoma!
Where the wind comes sweepin down the plain....

Jeez... I worked on a production of Oklahoma more than 30 years ago, and that damn song still sticks in my head sometimes!

I agree about genres; I don't know how to classify my tastes, so here's a random sampling of what's on my hard drive:

Louis Armstrong, Asleep at the Wheel, Long John Baldry, Marcia Ball, Blondie, David Bowie, Dave Brubeck, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Cab Calloway, the Clash, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Elvis Costello, Country Joe & the Fish, Miles Davis, the Doors, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Woody Guthrie, the Hollies, Janis Ian, the Jefferson Airplane, John Mayall, Carole King, the Kingston Trio, the Kinks, Cyndi Lauper, the Leningrad Cowboys, John Lennon, Glenn Miller, Phil Ochs, Iggy Pop, the Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, Doug Sahm, the Sex Pistols, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Dusty Springfield, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Tom Waits, Bob Wills, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, and the Zombies.

If you can find a pattern there, you're welcome to it...

Annie

no pattern; it's music isn't it. Though I could draw a line from Armstrong to Zappa
the ZOMBIES.

Well it's too late to say you're sorry
How would I know? Why should I care?

Annie do you remember
'She's Come Undone"
?
heard it in Walgreen's

(That list appears to be in alphabetical order. Is that organized OR WHAT?)

How bout Miles Davis' cover of Time After Time?

I can enjoy most music from Gospel to Hardhouse and Techno, and it would be hard to pick a favorite because it sort of depends on the mood I am in.

Have you ever watched music videos played by computer rendered machines like Pipe Dream?

Enjoy it? Many pages more here.

Hey Wolfie, what's up?
       This is a very cool post because I am a music freak myself.  Although I can't say that I lean toward the country end of things, I do like Garth brooks (have a couple of his CD's).  My all time, forever, favorite genre of music would be pure rock!!  I too am a Guns and Roses fan (Marco dispises them, so I don't listen to them around him).  I was supposed to see them back in 1987(yikes  I'm dating myself), but Axle had a throat issue so L.A. Guns played in their place.
        My all time favorite band is Journey (Marco and I have matching Journey tatoos on the left sides of our chests).  Marco's and my first date (shall we say) was to a Journey concert last year.  More of my favorites are Rush (awesome Canadian band!  ), Metallica, Linkin Park and Creed.
        When I was growing up, my dad had a huge pipe organ that he had a special, accoustically sound room added onto our house for.  So I guess you could say that I was raised on classical music.  I always thought when I was little that I would never listen to classical music when I got older, but I have been known to throw my Bach CD in at times when I want to mellow out.  I guess I have grown to appreciate that music...some of my favorites are the biggies like Bach, Beethoven, Motzart and Tzaichowski.

Well, I think that covers a broad enough spectrum!

Take care and tell Spike Hi!!! 
Pam

Quote from: jan c on June 10, 2006, 11:03:09 AMAnnie do you remember
'She's Come Undone"
?
heard it in Walgreen's

Of course! The Guess Who...

Quote(That list appears to be in alphabetical order. Is that organized OR WHAT?)

Well, that's easy when youre copying the names from a listing of your hard drive!

QuoteHow bout Miles Davis' cover of Time After Time?

Haven't heard that one; I'll have to find it.

Annie

your dad HAD A PIPE ORGAN!
that is about the most fantastic thing I've heard of in a long time
THAT ROCKS!
here's a rocking name for you (organist)
E. POWER BIGGS

And a wonderful little organ piece, Little Fugue in G minor (a favorite key) by JS BAch.

I once got to play a pipe organ when I was 16 in an old German church, my grandfather was a Lutheran minister, on a Saturday while the women cleaned.  A real blast - until they threw me out, that is!

The music I like?  I mostly listen to jazz nowadays but, as Duke Ellington once said, "If it sounds good, it IS good."  I wholeheartedly agree.

BTW - I LOVE the music from Oklahoma!  Rogers and Hammerstein, wasn't it?  The movie was nice too, with Shirley Jones and Gorden mcCrae.  I loved "The Sound of Music" too - the music's so good it makes me cry even though I think Julie Andrews is a bit shrill.


helen

I'm sorry Wolfie that I am using your thread to discuss with others, but I just can't resist.  It's not everyday that you find people that you can discuss classical music with!!!

First, jan c:
          Yes my dad had a pipe organ right there in our home.  It is sure strange that you would mention E. Power Biggs!!!!  The organ that my dad had was E. Power Biggs' travelling organ!!!! To see it, it is hard to imagine that it is someone's travelling organ, but it was!  That is so COOLLLL!

Second, HelenW:
          Very strange that you would mention Bach's Fugue in G Minor.  My personal favorite of Bach's!!!  It was also one of my dad's favorites and he would play it a lot.  It is my comfort music!


Pam
         

it's a fantastic name for a guy, makes a big noise on a big instrument.
E. POWER BIGGS

QuoteI'm sorry Wolfie that I am using your thread to discuss with others, but I just can't resist.  It's not everyday that you find people that you can discuss classical music with!!!

it's all good, that's what i wanted this to be, there's not really a lot of music discussed here.

and pam, amy says hi and says she misses talking to you. she's been really busy with work lately and we're still trying to unpack stuff and get settled in the new place.

             tino

It all depends on what I am doing at the time.  In my car it is a mixture of Darkwave, Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, and even a bit of J-Pop.  When I play I like Darkwave and techno mixes.  When I am kicked back with a Margarita or whatever her name might be <G>, classical music and celtic music are the top choices for me.

IF I am stuck with the radio, I tend to flip around the dial for a bit and move opn when a song I hate comes on or a commercial hits.

For me it would be Journey, Boston, Aero Smith, Steve Miller, Billy Joel, Elton John, Queen, Styx, some Rush, Dobbie Brothers. Thats all I can think of for now.

                                      Marco

What if I combined those two elements: cat in blender rolling down, I donno aluminum siding. I think it could work...

Quote from: jan c on June 11, 2006, 03:28:36 PM
What if I combined those two elements: cat in blender rolling down, I donno aluminum siding. I think it could work...

Throw in a coffee can full of nuts & bolts, and you'll have the last band I played in... 

Annie

I think I played with that drummer once.

Balligomingo, Delerium, Conjure One, Dido, The Coors, Moby, Amethystium, Ivy, Poe, Adiemus, Enigma, Collective Soul, Michelle Branch, Garbage, Sarah Brightman, Bachelor Girl...

Difficult to classify into a genre, but most of this revolves around a particular sound... a certain delicious audio "richness," kinda like "aural candy." Definately headphones music. I *feel* it right down to my toes

I do still find myself digging up 80s/90s rock as well (Marco's list is great) - the stuff I grew up with. Boston being a particular fav of mine.