I guess I'll be the only person that defends rap. I like me some old west coast gansta rap.
NWA's Straight Outta Comptom set the standard. Eazy-E, Dr Dre, and Ice Cube's solo stuff was almost as good.
That said, I enjoy almost every other genre of music except country. Classic rock is OK, but I swear if I ever hear The Boys are Back in Town again, I'm setting something on fire.
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My favorite is classic rock a la 1968 though the 80's, especially INXS, Meat Loaf, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Jethro Tull. I also like some pop music like Madonna, Ace of Base or even some new age stuff like "Yanni at the Acropolis"....some of that reminds me of Beautiful Day. I've been known to listen to a little Smooth Jazz like Russ Freeman & The Rippingtons. I was a fan of some disco stuff back in the 80's while I was between wives, but that's another story. I'll even listen to some classical music if it's the right kind, but I can't name any artists offhand. I also like a little country rock like the Outlaws, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marshall Tucker Band and a few Shania Twain tunes. I don't like Opera and I despise cRap music, especially from those moronic clowns who drive by you and your car vibrates while they pass.
At least that doesn't get played at every sporting event, biker bar, and crappy buddy movie.
When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
At least that doesn't get played at every sporting event, biker bar, and crappy buddy movie.
Yea, ya gots a point. But it was overplayed back in the day. The local Rock station played it at 3PM straight up EVERY single day for what must have been MONTHS. Not to mention 9,945 other times throughout the day. I initially liked the song; but now, 35-ish years later, I still can't stand it!
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I will send money to whatever fund is out there to BAN VanHalen's "Jump" and "I'll Wait" from the radio FOREVER, pick ANY other VanHalen song and I will be happy. I tend to like to head bang, but I love 50's country alot thanks to my dad, Hank Snow is a favorite. I am not a huge fan of the current crop of metal bands, but I like some Volbeat songs, White Stripes, the occasional Metallica song, yeah I know Metallicas been around, kind of gives me a headache though. I look forward to some old school blues and bluegrass on the UMD radio station going to and coming from deer camp. If it has some good guitar riffs, I am good to go.
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For classical, I mostly enjoy the great symphonic masters, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms. For piano, you can't beat the Mozart sonatas.
Those who are unfamiliar with classical music or aren't sure whether they like it, I recommend Mozart's piano concerto #21. Also Beethoven's piano concerto #5 (Emperor concerto) or his violin concerto. All these have terrific "tunes" and are stirring.
As you know I'm a classically trained baritone and have sung in quite a few operas, chorales, and classically-oriented (Episcopal) church choirs. I enjoy listening to (and singing) Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem Mass, and the more modern "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff (you can find this on youtube if you don't know the melody, lots of power and great loud fun singing).
As for rock, I enjoy the "classic" rock, Stones, Beatles, Jimi, Doors, Led Zepplin, Dylan, Clapton, etc. I'm not much of an "old time" rock fan (pre-Beatles) like Elvis, 50s stuff.
Blues, mostly modern blues like Clapton, or the western-oriented "hot-country" music such as Dave Alvin, Rodney Crowell, and the "outlaws". As I said I'm not fond of "twangy" grand ole opry CW (which is essentially folk music and I really don't like folk music at all).
Part of my singing includes Broadway classics, like Some Enchanted Evening, Sunrise Sunset, September Song, and other baritone tunes. I've sung solo for weddings, anniversaries, etc, and yeah I got paid $100-$200 unless it was a friend where I sang free.
I've said this before, but one of the things that I was most honored to do was when I was asked to sing the National Anthem and God Bless America for a Vietnam vet motorcycle rally.
I like contemporary jazz, like Brubeck, Miles Davis, etc. Don't like older jazz like Dixieland.
At least that doesn't get played at every sporting event
So how do you feel about Ozzy's Crazy Train? Next to Queen's We Will Rock You......it's THE most played riff at sporting events. FWIW, the 1st time I heard Crazy Train, it changed my life as an impressionable 6th grader........that and Boston's More than a Feeling.....those two rock songs I will never of.
God show's mercy on drunks and dumb animals.........two outa three ain't a bad score!
So how do you feel about Ozzy's Crazy Train? Next to Queen's We Will Rock You......it's THE most played riff at sporting events. FWIW, the 1st time I heard Crazy Train, it changed my life as an impressionable 6th grader........that and Boston's More than a Feeling.....those two rock songs I will never of.
C'mon man, Crazy Train has Randy Rhodes and Queen is well...Queen. Thin Lizzy is not even close to that talent pool.
When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
I like '50's and early '60's Rock and Roll and Doo-****, even though I was kid when it was new - the tunes stuck in my head, along with quite a few Hank Williams, Sr., Jim Reeves, etc. I liked a lot of '60's and early 70's Rock - Led Zeppelin, Ten Years After, Hendrix, some of the Doors, the Byrds, the Animals, the Kinks, Buffalo Springfield, James Gang. After that era, just a few by the Eagles, Lynard Skynard, ZZ Top, Marshall Tucker Band.
Surprisingly, I like a lot of Mozart and Beethoven, though I've mostly just heard it when watching old cartoons.
Bach of course, except that he didn't write symphonies or piano music. His Brandenburg Concertos are immortal, some of his cantatas (which I've sung), and his harpsichord and organ fugues are incredible. To quote:
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.” Douglas Adams
I've got a request... I really like Dave Alvin, the "somewhat country" guitarist and songwriter who plays terrific country-oriented blues, also sometimes called "California blues".
Those who are familiar with Dave Alvin, especially his more recent stuff, can you recommend other country-western / blues artists I can check out? Thanks....
My last post for tonight, so I don't bore you all, is Explosions in the Sky. CPJ, this is your classical. They are all instrumental and sound amazing. The beauty of this band is that the sound isn't lost in their live shows. They sound just like the albums.
Wow! There are so many artists and types of music I appreciate.
Sam, what do you think of the Howard Shore compositions for the Lord of the Rings. For my taste...some of the most beautiful music ever written.
Howard Shore is exceptional. He's our modern day Bernie Herrmann. Shore has a stong classical component to his scores and that sort of film score is the best. I'd equate Shore with Jerry Goldsmith or James Horner.
Although I do like the film score music, I don't listen to it outside of the movie, instead preferring "pure" classical.
Mostly Classic Rock from the 60s and 70s. Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Doors, Janis Joplin, Cream (with Eric Clapton), Canned Heat, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, CSN&Y, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf and many others. Big Fan of John Mayall. Also, Woody Guthrie/folk like music and especially lots of Bob Dylan and some Donovan/John Prine. Most anything, and a little "C&W" especially some of the older stuff.
I tried classical, but never could get into it, except what was incorporated into some bands like the Moody Blues or , at least, when they used an orchestra/instruments.
Does the Summer of 42' soundtrack count Sam? :tooth:
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C'mon man, Crazy Train has Randy Rhodes and Queen is well...Queen. . .
:agree:
Fat Bottom Girls is one of those songs that simply cannot be played too often, nor too loud. One of those perfect bits of music.
Randy Rhodes. . .yeah, that too. That particular vintage of Ozzy was never front and center on my radar screen - more my co-worker's music at the time than mine - but a serious talent that should have been around longer.
It seems like every generation has it's lost-too-soon pop culture icons that leave a hole in us when they burn out, be it by drugs, suicide, or faulty aircraft. It's a weird sensation because we don't actually KNOW them, but they're in our lives as part of our formative years anyway. Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark was that one for me. Pyromania was the first record I ever bought (or had my parents buy) on vinyl, and my cassette copy of Hysteria pretty much lived in the tape deck of my buddy's Honda through a couple years of high school. It was a better world before Clark drank himself to death.
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NWA's Straight Outta Comptom set the standard. Eazy-E, Dr Dre, and Ice Cube's solo stuff was almost as good.
That said, I enjoy almost every other genre of music except country. Classic rock is OK, but I swear if I ever hear The Boys are Back in Town again, I'm setting something on fire.
Adam J. McCleod
At least that doesn't get played at every sporting event, biker bar, and crappy buddy movie.
Adam J. McCleod
Those who are unfamiliar with classical music or aren't sure whether they like it, I recommend Mozart's piano concerto #21. Also Beethoven's piano concerto #5 (Emperor concerto) or his violin concerto. All these have terrific "tunes" and are stirring.
As you know I'm a classically trained baritone and have sung in quite a few operas, chorales, and classically-oriented (Episcopal) church choirs. I enjoy listening to (and singing) Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem Mass, and the more modern "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff (you can find this on youtube if you don't know the melody, lots of power and great loud fun singing).
As for rock, I enjoy the "classic" rock, Stones, Beatles, Jimi, Doors, Led Zepplin, Dylan, Clapton, etc. I'm not much of an "old time" rock fan (pre-Beatles) like Elvis, 50s stuff.
Blues, mostly modern blues like Clapton, or the western-oriented "hot-country" music such as Dave Alvin, Rodney Crowell, and the "outlaws". As I said I'm not fond of "twangy" grand ole opry CW (which is essentially folk music and I really don't like folk music at all).
Part of my singing includes Broadway classics, like Some Enchanted Evening, Sunrise Sunset, September Song, and other baritone tunes. I've sung solo for weddings, anniversaries, etc, and yeah I got paid $100-$200 unless it was a friend where I sang free.
I've said this before, but one of the things that I was most honored to do was when I was asked to sing the National Anthem and God Bless America for a Vietnam vet motorcycle rally.
I like contemporary jazz, like Brubeck, Miles Davis, etc. Don't like older jazz like Dixieland.
So how do you feel about Ozzy's Crazy Train? Next to Queen's We Will Rock You......it's THE most played riff at sporting events. FWIW, the 1st time I heard Crazy Train, it changed my life as an impressionable 6th grader........that and Boston's More than a Feeling.....those two rock songs I will never of.
And you left out Bach!?
You are one of them.
Well......this is Highway to Hell with 2.....uh.....you'll figure it out.
http://www.break.com/video/highway-to-hell-cover-2510915
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weird..
You are one of them.
C'mon man, Crazy Train has Randy Rhodes and Queen is well...Queen. Thin Lizzy is not even close to that talent pool.
Adam J. McCleod
And who was playing drums?
Surprisingly, I like a lot of Mozart and Beethoven, though I've mostly just heard it when watching old cartoons.
Bach of course, except that he didn't write symphonies or piano music. His Brandenburg Concertos are immortal, some of his cantatas (which I've sung), and his harpsichord and organ fugues are incredible. To quote:
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.” Douglas Adams
Those who are familiar with Dave Alvin, especially his more recent stuff, can you recommend other country-western / blues artists I can check out? Thanks....
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Howard Shore is exceptional. He's our modern day Bernie Herrmann. Shore has a stong classical component to his scores and that sort of film score is the best. I'd equate Shore with Jerry Goldsmith or James Horner.
Although I do like the film score music, I don't listen to it outside of the movie, instead preferring "pure" classical.
My personal favorites are pre 77 Skynyrd, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard.... and btw, Cash and Haggard are not country.
I tried classical, but never could get into it, except what was incorporated into some bands like the Moody Blues or , at least, when they used an orchestra/instruments.
Does the Summer of 42' soundtrack count Sam? :tooth:
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:agree:
Fat Bottom Girls is one of those songs that simply cannot be played too often, nor too loud. One of those perfect bits of music.
Randy Rhodes. . .yeah, that too. That particular vintage of Ozzy was never front and center on my radar screen - more my co-worker's music at the time than mine - but a serious talent that should have been around longer.
It seems like every generation has it's lost-too-soon pop culture icons that leave a hole in us when they burn out, be it by drugs, suicide, or faulty aircraft. It's a weird sensation because we don't actually KNOW them, but they're in our lives as part of our formative years anyway. Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark was that one for me. Pyromania was the first record I ever bought (or had my parents buy) on vinyl, and my cassette copy of Hysteria pretty much lived in the tape deck of my buddy's Honda through a couple years of high school. It was a better world before Clark drank himself to death.
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