What Music Do YOU Like?

vivaldirules · 06-21-2008, 12:12 PM

Why Vivaldi Rules: No, I'm not Vivaldi. But the guy rocks. Aside from books, I love music and have been hung up on baroque and classical era music (particularly chamber music) for several years. I was trying to learn more about music from those periods when I bought this CD in the early 1990's and heard the second cut (a one-minute clip can be heard from the Amazon site): Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for 4 Violins & Cello in B Minor, opus 3 number 10 or RV 580, which is from his L'Estro Armonico of 1711. I was driving at the time I first heard it and had to pull over. It literally brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it. By the way, I've heard other performances of it but none are anything like this one (by the Academy of Ancient Music) where, if you turn it up and listen carefully (preferably with headphones or earphones), you just might be blown away by the lovely interplay of the two distinctly different violins.

Compare Vivaldi's music beginning with this set of work from 1711 to earlier music of the period (e.g., Bach) and it amazes me how massive a change this must have been. I find it brilliant music and love everything by Vivaldi although The Four Seasons pieces are generally overplayed - he was prolific and there's tons of wonderful music by him.

Here's Christopher Hogwood's take on Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico:
http://www.hoasm.org/VIIIA/VivaldiLEstroArmonico.html

There's nothing exceptional about classical music for me. I listen as much to music by Neil Young, Chris Daughtry, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Ravi Shankar, Solas, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and hundreds of other diverse composers. As long as it makes me pull over because I can longer do anything but concentrate on the music, then I'm happy. How about you? What's the one piece of music that most drives you nuts/brings you to tears/makes you stand up and dance/whatever and why?

zelda_pinwheel · 06-21-2008, 12:19 PM

what music do i like ? how much time do you have ?

or rather, *i* don't have enough time to tell you all the music i like... but i'll come back to that. i actually just wanted to tell you that you couldn't have chosen a more appropriate day for this post, since june 21st, the (alleged...) first day of summer, is la fête de la musique in France : a giant music fest where every band in the country goes and plays free concerts in the streets, squares, parks, bars, boats, churches, schools, houses, etc. all day and all night.

i'm meeting a friend at 7 for drinks and music and then i'll wander around for a while, seeing what i find. i might stop by a friend's bar where there will be a concert of brasilian music. and at midnight, i will definitely returning to the place ste. marthe near my house, were there will be a batucadaaa !!!! (sorry, i can't just type that word without adding several extra vowels and exclamation points, to express my enthusiasm. usually i capitalize it as well).

i will definitely check out your recording of vivaldi. another day though. good thread !

RickyMaveety · 06-21-2008, 12:25 PM

Respighi -- Ancient Airs and Dances
Coldplay
Aaron Copland -- especially "Saturday Night Waltz" and "Appalachian Spring"
Beethoven's "Pastorale"
Prokofiev
Smetena - "Ma Vlast" especially "Das Moldau"
The Weepies
T.I.S.M.
Bach - pretty much anything by Bach
Propellerheads
Radiohead
e s Posthumus - especially "Cuzco" and "Nara"
Telepopmusik
Nick Drake
Adiemus
Alan Parsons
Barenaked Ladies
Clannad
David Bowie
Dixie Chicks
Frou Frou
Indigo Girls
Matchbox Twenty
Moby
Oingo Boingo
Peter Gabriel
R.E.M.
Simon & Garfunkle (also Paul Simon just on his own)
Talking Heads
Sting
Thomas Dolby
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Yes
Josh Whelan
Vitamin Strings
and Ferde Grofe

Oh, and Holst and Vaughn Williams and Vivaldi

Yup .... that's most of them

vivaldirules · 06-21-2008, 12:32 PM

Great list, RickyMaveety! I love half of those and will have to find out about the other half. Tell me, what one piece of music absolutely drives you to tears (of joy or whatever) and why?

zelda_pinwheel · 06-21-2008, 12:38 PM

you know, i haven't listened to them in years, but the first time i heard "Black sun" by Dead Can Dance (a friend of mine played it to show another friend how really awesome his new speakers were) when i was around 15, it literally paralysed me with emotion. i didn't cry though. however i did stop breathing for a few seconds.

DMcCunney · 06-21-2008, 12:38 PM

Easier to say what music I don't like, which is hip-hop and grand opera. I respect the hip-hop stars: they are proving something a lot of people like, and there is evident growth and change in the field with a variety of different styles defined. I just happen to need melody with my beat. Grand opera is an acquired taste I simply haven't acquired. I recognize it can be splendid, but I haven't time to listen to everything I like now, let alone add another flavor to the mix.

Like VivaldiRules, I love chamber music and baroque music, and will happily listen to Telemann for hours. If I had to pick a favorite classical composer, it would probably be Mozart, with Beethoven next in line.

I love rock, and in interest in what influenced rock musicions led me to folk, blues, R&B, country and western, and jazz. In the process, I've accumulated about 1,500 albums.

My favorite musician is British singer/songwriter/guitrist Richard Thompson, the only rock musician I know who has written songs about ice cream (Hokey-Pokey) and roller coasters (Wall of Death), as well as terrorists (Pavanne) and psychpaths (Shoot Out the Lights). His lullaby to his kids, The End of the Rainbow, is one of the two most beautiful songs I know. (The other is John Dowland's Greensleeves.) I play it seldom, because that sort of beauty makes me cry.
______
Dennis

RickyMaveety · 06-21-2008, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Great list, RickyMaveety! I love half of those and will have to find out about the other half. Tell me, what one piece of music absolutely drives you to tears (of joy or whatever) and why?

Oooo, that's a hard one. However, if I absolutely had to choose, it would probably be "Das Moldau." Just thinking about that piece gives me shivers. It is so powerful, and yet in places almost whimsical, and it really conveys to me the idea of a great river.

But then, "Saturday Night Waltz" makes me feel like my heart is going to explode. I was driving through the Yosemite Valley listening to it a long time ago, and between the music and the visuals, I damn near went off the road.

Damn .... forgot to ad Pachelbel and Rimsky-Korsakov.

BookishDreamer · 06-21-2008, 12:56 PM

For me, I'm in tears as soon as I hear the first notes of "Taps". It doesn't matter if I hear it on TV, the radio, or can see the bugler. Especially if I can see the bugler.

Dreamer

RickyMaveety · 06-21-2008, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by BookishDreamer

For me, I'm in tears as soon as I hear the first notes of "Taps". It doesn't matter if I hear it on TV, the radio, or can see the bugler. Especially if I can see the bugler.

Dreamer

As long as we're talking about being driven to tears. I love the bagpipes something fierce. Whenever I hear the pipes being played ... but especially if they are playing "Amazing Grace" .... I just break down.

I think it must be genetic. I'm a Scot on my father's side.

vivaldirules · 06-21-2008, 01:08 PM

Dennis, thanks for mentioning Richard Thompson who I had never heard of until now. I YouTube'd him and now I'm likely to buy every CD he's made.

Hip-Hop and opera? I also like very little of it. But you know, there are always gems amongst the poop. Rap is crap (for me) but this one always makes me pause because of the intensity, sincerity, and the theme (you've got one chance and you had better make the best of it). Okay, it doesn't make me cry, but I'm impressed.

desertgrandma · 06-21-2008, 01:29 PM

Rick Astley,
Glenn Miller Band, and most of the big bands.........
Chicago 17, (the album)
Most 80's music,
Early Madonna,
Laura Brannigan
ABBA
4 Tops
Simon and Garfunkel, (but not Peter Paul and Mary)
Dave Brubek especially "Take 5"
"I Hope You Dance" by ?
Lee Greenwood
Doris Day
Early Judy Garland
and to drive some of you crazy, HOOKED ON CLASSICS!!!

RickyMaveety · 06-21-2008, 02:03 PM

Not nuts about Rap, but I did like that piece. There is some Rap inspired work on the Telepopmusic albums, the song "Swamp" comes to mind. I suppose for me, it depends on what the song is conveying. I haven't heard much Rap music that has lyrics I want to hear, or want to hear more than once. Most of it makes me want to shoot myself ... or them .... but then, I think, "gee, why bother, they'll probably shoot each other, so why do I need to be in that equasion."

Opera ... only one piece of operatic music I ever heard that blew me away. I know it's from "Madama Butterfly" and it's a duet between Butterfly and Suzuki, but I don't know what it's called. It's not the Flower Duet .... but anyway, what ever it is, it is amazing.

Hate Country Music .... except for the Dixie Chicks, and rarely I will hear something by another country artist that I do like. Having said that, I love Bluegrass ... songs like "Rocky Top" or "I'll Fly Away." Those are wonderful.

I do like Gospel music, although I am not a Christian, I do like a lot of the music associated with the faith. Some of Jars of Clay I find very enjoyable.

I have been told that I loudly hum harmony in my sleep ... but people have a hard time figuring out exactly what song I'm doing the harmony to. Although, I was able to identify the song "Drive" by Incubus as one of the songs I apparently perform in my sleep from the description that "it sounded like you were melodically shifting gears."

DMcCunney · 06-21-2008, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Dennis, thanks for mentioning Richard Thompson who I had never heard of until now. I YouTube'd him and now I'm likely to buy every CD he's made.

Richard has been around a long time. He first came to prominence as lead guitarist for seminal British folk-rock band Fairport Convention, featuring the late Sandy Denny on vocals, Richard on lead guitar, Simon Nicol on rythym guitar, Dave Swabrick on fiddle, Dave Pegg opn bass, and Dave Mattacks on drums.

Richard left Fairport to go solo after the Full House album, and recorded an assortment of albums with ex-wife Linda as Richard and Linda Thompson for Island, Chrysalis, and Hannibal Records. He and Linda broke up, and he continued to record as a solo artist for Polydor and Capitol.

Richard's music derives principally from Scottish ballad forms, but anything is grist for his mill. My CD of The Old Kit Bag includes a bonus CD with a cover of one of Prince's songs.

I saw him do a solo date in NYC years back, where he played a hornpipe he had transcribed for acoustic guitar. I remember a chap sitting front and center, staring open-mouthed, like "I see him playing the notes, and I hear the notes he's playing, and I still can't believe he's doing that!"

Quote:

Hip-Hop and opera? I also like very little of it. But you know, there are always gems amongst the poop. Rap is crap (for me) but this one always makes me pause because of the intensity, sincerity, and the theme (you've got one chance and you had better make the best of it). Okay, it doesn't make me cry, but I'm impressed.

A lot of it is impressive, and as I said, it connects with the audience it aims at. I just don't happen to be part of that audience.
______
Dennis

desertgrandma · 06-21-2008, 02:05 PM

Phantom of the Opera, Sara Brighten, Michael Crawford, Andrei Bochelli (sp?) His Music for Romanza makes me feel like there is hope for the world, Cats, Man of La Mancha, and oh my gosh.......how about those Celtic Women? Voices from the angels.........and they just stand there and sing until the little fairy with the violin comes prancing out, and then there are those hunks with the big drums.....uh, gotta go and .....clean house, yeah, thats it, I'm gonna go clean house now....

RickyMaveety · 06-21-2008, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Rick Astley,
Glenn Miller Band, and most of the big bands.........
Chicago 17, (the album)
Most 80's music,
Early Madonna,
Laura Brannigan
ABBA
4 Tops
Simon and Garfunkel, (but not Peter Paul and Mary)
Dave Brubek especially "Take 5"
"I Hope You Dance" by ?
Lee Greenwood
Doris Day
Early Judy Garland
and to drive some of you crazy, HOOKED ON CLASSICS!!!

Possibly Lee Ann Womack??

06-21-2008, 12:12 PM	#1
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	What Music Do YOU Like? Why Vivaldi Rules: No, I'm not Vivaldi. But the guy rocks. Aside from books, I love music and have been hung up on baroque and classical era music (particularly chamber music) for several years. I was trying to learn more about music from those periods when I bought this CD in the early 1990's and heard the second cut (a one-minute clip can be heard from the Amazon site): Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for 4 Violins & Cello in B Minor, opus 3 number 10 or RV 580, which is from his L'Estro Armonico of 1711. I was driving at the time I first heard it and had to pull over. It literally brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it. By the way, I've heard other performances of it but none are anything like this one (by the Academy of Ancient Music) where, if you turn it up and listen carefully (preferably with headphones or earphones), you just might be blown away by the lovely interplay of the two distinctly different violins. Compare Vivaldi's music beginning with this set of work from 1711 to earlier music of the period (e.g., Bach) and it amazes me how massive a change this must have been. I find it brilliant music and love everything by Vivaldi although The Four Seasons pieces are generally overplayed - he was prolific and there's tons of wonderful music by him. Here's Christopher Hogwood's take on Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico: http://www.hoasm.org/VIIIA/VivaldiLEstroArmonico.html There's nothing exceptional about classical music for me. I listen as much to music by Neil Young, Chris Daughtry, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Ravi Shankar, Solas, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and hundreds of other diverse composers. As long as it makes me pull over because I can longer do anything but concentrate on the music, then I'm happy. How about you? What's the one piece of music that most drives you nuts/brings you to tears/makes you stand up and dance/whatever and why? Attached Thumbnails Last edited by vivaldirules; 06-21-2008 at 12:41 PM.

06-21-2008, 12:19 PM	#2
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	what music do i like ? how much time do you have ? or rather, i don't have enough time to tell you all the music i like... but i'll come back to that. i actually just wanted to tell you that you couldn't have chosen a more appropriate day for this post, since june 21st, the (alleged...) first day of summer, is la fête de la musique in France : a giant music fest where every band in the country goes and plays free concerts in the streets, squares, parks, bars, boats, churches, schools, houses, etc. all day and all night. i'm meeting a friend at 7 for drinks and music and then i'll wander around for a while, seeing what i find. i might stop by a friend's bar where there will be a concert of brasilian music. and at midnight, i will definitely returning to the place ste. marthe near my house, were there will be a batucadaaa !!!! (sorry, i can't just type that word without adding several extra vowels and exclamation points, to express my enthusiasm. usually i capitalize it as well). i will definitely check out your recording of vivaldi. another day though. good thread ! Last edited by zelda_pinwheel; 06-21-2008 at 12:23 PM.

06-21-2008, 02:05 PM	#14
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	OhYeaH! Phantom of the Opera, Sara Brighten, Michael Crawford, Andrei Bochelli (sp?) His Music for Romanza makes me feel like there is hope for the world, Cats, Man of La Mancha, and oh my gosh.......how about those Celtic Women? Voices from the angels.........and they just stand there and sing until the little fairy with the violin comes prancing out, and then there are those hunks with the big drums.....uh, gotta go and .....clean house, yeah, thats it, I'm gonna go clean house now....

06-21-2008, 12:25 PM	#3
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Respighi -- Ancient Airs and Dances Coldplay Aaron Copland -- especially "Saturday Night Waltz" and "Appalachian Spring" Beethoven's "Pastorale" Prokofiev Smetena - "Ma Vlast" especially "Das Moldau" The Weepies T.I.S.M. Bach - pretty much anything by Bach Propellerheads Radiohead e s Posthumus - especially "Cuzco" and "Nara" Telepopmusik Nick Drake Adiemus Alan Parsons Barenaked Ladies Clannad David Bowie Dixie Chicks Frou Frou Indigo Girls Matchbox Twenty Moby Oingo Boingo Peter Gabriel R.E.M. Simon & Garfunkle (also Paul Simon just on his own) Talking Heads Sting Thomas Dolby Toad the Wet Sprocket Yes Josh Whelan Vitamin Strings and Ferde Grofe Oh, and Holst and Vaughn Williams and Vivaldi Yup .... that's most of them

06-21-2008, 12:32 PM	#4
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Great list, RickyMaveety! I love half of those and will have to find out about the other half. Tell me, what one piece of music absolutely drives you to tears (of joy or whatever) and why?

06-21-2008, 12:38 PM	#5
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	you know, i haven't listened to them in years, but the first time i heard "Black sun" by Dead Can Dance (a friend of mine played it to show another friend how really awesome his new speakers were) when i was around 15, it literally paralysed me with emotion. i didn't cry though. however i did stop breathing for a few seconds.

06-21-2008, 12:38 PM	#6
DMcCunney New York Editor Posts: 6,384 Karma: 16540415 Join Date: Aug 2007 Device: PalmTX, Pocket eDGe, Alcatel Fierce 4, RCA Viking Pro 10, Nexus 7	Easier to say what music I don't like, which is hip-hop and grand opera. I respect the hip-hop stars: they are proving something a lot of people like, and there is evident growth and change in the field with a variety of different styles defined. I just happen to need melody with my beat. Grand opera is an acquired taste I simply haven't acquired. I recognize it can be splendid, but I haven't time to listen to everything I like now, let alone add another flavor to the mix. Like VivaldiRules, I love chamber music and baroque music, and will happily listen to Telemann for hours. If I had to pick a favorite classical composer, it would probably be Mozart, with Beethoven next in line. I love rock, and in interest in what influenced rock musicions led me to folk, blues, R&B, country and western, and jazz. In the process, I've accumulated about 1,500 albums. My favorite musician is British singer/songwriter/guitrist Richard Thompson, the only rock musician I know who has written songs about ice cream (Hokey-Pokey) and roller coasters (Wall of Death), as well as terrorists (Pavanne) and psychpaths (Shoot Out the Lights). His lullaby to his kids, The End of the Rainbow, is one of the two most beautiful songs I know. (The other is John Dowland's Greensleeves.) I play it seldom, because that sort of beauty makes me cry. ______ Dennis

06-21-2008, 12:56 PM	#8
BookishDreamer Cultural Artist Posts: 1,128 Karma: 12829 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Georgia Device: Sony 505, Kindle 2	For me, I'm in tears as soon as I hear the first notes of "Taps". It doesn't matter if I hear it on TV, the radio, or can see the bugler. Especially if I can see the bugler. Dreamer

06-21-2008, 01:08 PM	#10
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	Dennis, thanks for mentioning Richard Thompson who I had never heard of until now. I YouTube'd him and now I'm likely to buy every CD he's made. Hip-Hop and opera? I also like very little of it. But you know, there are always gems amongst the poop. Rap is crap (for me) but this one always makes me pause because of the intensity, sincerity, and the theme (you've got one chance and you had better make the best of it). Okay, it doesn't make me cry, but I'm impressed.

06-21-2008, 01:29 PM	#11
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Rick Astley, Glenn Miller Band, and most of the big bands......... Chicago 17, (the album) Most 80's music, Early Madonna, Laura Brannigan ABBA 4 Tops Simon and Garfunkel, (but not Peter Paul and Mary) Dave Brubek especially "Take 5" "I Hope You Dance" by ? Lee Greenwood Doris Day Early Judy Garland and to drive some of you crazy, HOOKED ON CLASSICS!!!

06-21-2008, 02:03 PM	#12
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Not nuts about Rap, but I did like that piece. There is some Rap inspired work on the Telepopmusic albums, the song "Swamp" comes to mind. I suppose for me, it depends on what the song is conveying. I haven't heard much Rap music that has lyrics I want to hear, or want to hear more than once. Most of it makes me want to shoot myself ... or them .... but then, I think, "gee, why bother, they'll probably shoot each other, so why do I need to be in that equasion." Opera ... only one piece of operatic music I ever heard that blew me away. I know it's from "Madama Butterfly" and it's a duet between Butterfly and Suzuki, but I don't know what it's called. It's not the Flower Duet .... but anyway, what ever it is, it is amazing. Hate Country Music .... except for the Dixie Chicks, and rarely I will hear something by another country artist that I do like. Having said that, I love Bluegrass ... songs like "Rocky Top" or "I'll Fly Away." Those are wonderful. I do like Gospel music, although I am not a Christian, I do like a lot of the music associated with the faith. Some of Jars of Clay I find very enjoyable. I have been told that I loudly hum harmony in my sleep ... but people have a hard time figuring out exactly what song I'm doing the harmony to. Although, I was able to identify the song "Drive" by Incubus as one of the songs I apparently perform in my sleep from the description that "it sounded like you were melodically shifting gears."

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