What Music Do YOU Like?

[Donnageddon]

Yvan, while I have no great personal like for rap music (there are exceptions) I do wonder about your stand on "dj"s as using "canned music"

Do you find players of the Mellotron not to be musicians? It too uses "canned music" that is manipulated for the purposes of the song. While it has a more standard form "keyboards", it is just taped sounds that are manipulated by pressing keys and foot pedals.

I really would not disqualify a "dj" from being a musician just because he uses a unique way of producing his sounds.

What matters if whether the music produced is enjoyable to you, or not.

And yes, I am a musician (player of music) going on 35 years (guitar and keyboards).

[Donnageddon]

Vivaldirules, is the concert sold out yet?

You could possibly talk her into selling them for a profit, and then buying something more enjoyable, and longer lasting... like prefrontal lobotomies.

But then after the lobotomies, you might actually regret missing the Celine Dion concert.

[Madam Broshkina]

Now this is quite good. A bloke named Gus from Scotland that makes simple videos of he and his buddies covering old rock and roll classics with plastic ukuleles, melodicas, maracas, beat up suitcases and other thrift shop instruments.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPYmGq74eI

[WDecraene]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Turntables are to music the same as throwing paint on a canvas to art. Yes you need skill, yes you need to master composition but working at it to make it work will not take long to master.

Maybe it is a bit like throwing paint to a canvas ... in the sense that it is easier to really master than classical instruments (although it still does take lots of years of hard practice). But as with modern art, it sometimes has a certain creativity and energy that's lacking in a LOT of contemperary rock music (which often suffers from bad production and band members who don't really know how to play or to sing ... )

Try to check out Kid Koala's "Some of my best friends are DJ's" - I like what he does with the turntables.

The same goes for pop/dance music. When you hear it, it sounds really easy and simple but I've been told it's actually very hard. My brother is very much into music: he plays guitar, bass and piano and has a small studio. He claims it's much harder to make a good dance or pop number than a rock song, the difficulty being in good timing, good sound, good groove ...

Someone mentionned Mika's "Grace Kelly". I adore this song. It sounds easy, catchy but I'm sure it is very hard to make music like this ...

[WDecraene]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Have you ever Made music?

I hope you're not saying that you need to have actually MADE music in order to really appreciate it or know what you're talking about ?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

(...)you wouldn't like to see me all weepy, and trantrummy, and throwing all my toys around my playroom, would you?

no, you're right, we absolutely don't want that !! good heavens.

Here's a good one for you both...I *love* the banjo. Surely you can both join forces against me on that (if not, I also love the bagpipes and the accordion.

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

I think Marc makes a great point. It is obvious his taste in music is simply atrocious!

What do bagpipe players and accordionists have in common? They both enjoy stuffing feral cats in bags and squeezing them for their own sick enjoyment!

heh heh... actually i like the accordeon myself but bagpipes, good god man, don't you have *ears* ???

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Phew! I was about to say that a guilty, shameful pleasure of mine (hell, it's a bit late for shame - I've already admitted to Wannabe ) is My Heart Will Go On
(...)
Mika's Grace Kelly. I love that song (and the album isn't bad either - not fully realised, but it has some pretty nifty songs).

ok, well i had to check these on youtube because i didn't know either of them. i confirm that i don't like céline dion (i was a bit worried that was slamming her without actually knowing any of her songs, because i couldn't remember ever actually hearing one). but Grace Kelly, not bad, i can see why you like that. since we're admitting guilty pleasures (and because i am confident that nothing can top "wannabe", which i also had to look up on youtube...) i like "freedom" by george michael... i don't actually own it, mind you, but i have a girlfriend who always plays that when she has a party, and *everybody* dances to that one. also "express yourself" by madonna...

WDecraene : thanks for the tip about Kid Koala "Some of my best friends are DJ's" ; excellent stuff. and the videos are brilliant too.

Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

Now this is quite good. A bloke named Gus from Scotland that makes simple videos of he and his buddies covering old rock and roll classics with plastic ukuleles, melodicas, maracas, beat up suitcases and other thrift shop instruments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPYmGq74eI

those guys are my new heroes.

i humbly submit for your sensory pleasure a linky of my own :
http://www.7secondsoflove.com/love/
this is yet another pearl from boy genius Joel Veitch (my hero), who brought us (among others) the spongmonkeys and countless other strange masterpieces which you can find on his site rathergood.com (it's more than rather good).
i liked this song enough to buy the mp3 (what can i say, i like ska and i dig a good horn section, and after all it's the least i can do to encourage Mr. Veitch) but everytime i want to listen to it i find myself going back to the site, because the video is so brilliant. singing kittens from 1940's, y'all, it doesnt get better than that.

if still in doubt, take a look at a few other popular favorites :

http://www.rathergood.com/soluble/ (i'm glad i'm not soluble too.)
http://www.rathergood.com/biscuits/ (mango biscuit tragic travesty)
and of course, the spongmonkeys :
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/ (we like tha moooooooooooooon !!!)

[spooky69]

As somebody who is pretty familiar with '90s semi-commercial rap, I can say that there's plenty to like. The music will tend to be ignorant, but it's so content-heavy and the kick mixes are often going groove good.