What Music Do YOU Like?

[tompe]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Ahhh! Good choices! Kate Bush is the soul grandma of Bjork.
I'm surprised that a Scandinavian such as yourself would know a Canadian such as Siberry!

To this short list allow me to add Sarah McLaughlan. Especially her earlyer albums.

I do not remember if Siberry was mentioned on a mailing list or if I just bought her blind in a record shop. I used to look for female artist that wrote their own material and were the music looked like it was folk music inspired.

Jane Siberry's videos are also very interesting. I listened to Sarah McLaughlan and I agree that the earlier albums are better.

Other artists worth mentioning are Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson and Louisa John-Krol. And for fun folk music Christine Lavin.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Thanks, Sparrow. I hadn't heard that before but I really like it. I need to find the recording you mentioned.

Glad you like it .

The recording I have is listed on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Arvo-P%C3%A4rt...4157941&sr=8-8

The other pieces are superb too!

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by tompe

I do not remember if Siberry was mentioned on a mailing list or if I just bought her blind in a record shop. I used to look for female artist that wrote their own material and were the music looked like it was folk music inspired.

Jane Siberry's videos are also very interesting. I listened to Sarah McLaughlan and I agree that the earlier albums are better.

Other artists worth mentioning are Tori Amos, Laurie Anderson and Louisa John-Krol. And for fun folk music Christine Lavin.

All good, but one I don't know;Christine Lavin. I'll have to look her up.

Jane Siberry, as Laurie Anderson, is also a graphic artist of talent. Coming to think of it, they are total multidisciplinary artists, artist of most any field, and good ones.

[Spartacus2112]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Most of my musical tastes are obscure, even by this thread's standards. I'll list the top 5 in descending order.

#1 - Garfield - (not the kitty cartoon or the Jazz Drummer) Particularly "Out There Tonight" and "Reason To Be" albums.

#2 - Early Shawn Phillips

#3 - Japanese Image Music (off of LaserDiscs) (i.e. Just Friends, Sundance, Wind and Wave, Pastel Colors, et. al.)

#4 - getting to the commercial world - Warren Zevon

#5 - Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos (resequenced in a linear order - 9, 2, 3, 6, 4, 8, 1, 7, & 5) One of the finest concept albums ever produced. A H. P. Lovercraft story told as a song cycle. It works both as music and a story.

I can pretty much bet that nobody has listened to at least parts of all 5...RSE

(World without end....)

I grew up listening to #5. Although I'm only 34, I grew up knowing the band as "Soft White Underbelly", their moniker of choice when playing the local clubs and bars. Phenomenal band.
More Cowbell! More Cowbell!

[RWood]

Originally Posted by tompe

... And for fun folk music Christine Lavin.

Great talent from solo recordings to duets with the late Dave Van Ronk to her work with Four Bitchin' Babes. Who else could come up with lines like, "Cold pizza for breakfast, warm beer to wash it down, in a pinch cold spaghetti will do."

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Oh. not that obscure... well apart from that Japanese image music. I've had the pleasure of seeing Shawn Phillips in concert circa 1978. Blue Oyster Cult I was listening to in 1973 and Zevon at his beginnings.
Since you know BOC, would you remember Captain Beyond's first album?

I don't know, all I have is Sufficently Breathless... (I wasn't speaking of BOC generically, but Imaginos in particular...)

And Arrogant Worms when I'm feeling warped...

[UncleDuke]

frank zappa
flo and eddie
ramones

[Madam Broshkina]

The Smiths, The Housemartins, The Replacements, Husker Du, Morrissey, Gil Scott Heron, Red House Painters, The Beatles, Keith Jarret, George Winston, The Pouges, Aimee Mann, The Mustangs.

[hoodaman]

Nightwish
Evergrey
Soilwork
Pagan's Mind
Circus Maximus
Vanden Plas
Freak Kitchen
Yes
ToTo
Eric Clapton
Children of Bodom
Within Temptation
Angtoria
Symphony X
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Iced Earth
Vision Divine
Firewind
Gamma Ray
PanterA
Darkane
Megadeth
Opeth
Into Eternity
Echoes of Eternity
Lacuna Coil
The Gathering
Novembers Doom
Draconian
Dimmu Borgir
Old Man's Child
Diane Krall
Patricia Kaas
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Steely Dan
Yoko Kanno
Mercenary
In Flames
Incubus
and more.

[zelda_pinwheel]

holy cow, 5 pages in one day... i'm going to have to read this thread from the beginning and make a list of all the things i want to look into. i have a hard time answering this question because i don't usually go by genres, and i like so *much* music. but... i'll try.

i keep seeing things in passing that would be on my list (ramones ! yeah ! the pogues ! yeah !!) but i don't think i could possibly even make an exhaustive list... i can talk about music for hours (in fact i frequently do, even when no-one else is listening. just ask marc or taylor...). i have pretty eclectic tastes as well (it seems we all do, around here...). like someone else, it's probably easier to list genres i *don't* like (country music... or what is called "varieté" in french, like céline dion and such).

i do like rap and hip-hop though : beastie boys ! i love them. public enemy ! NTM, MC Solaar, KRS-ONE, Queen Latifah, IAM... slam : Grand Corps Malade.

i love scratch too : Birdy Nam Nam, DJ QBert, MixMaster Mike...

i like old jazz, and oldschool Rhythm and Blues, Motown, soul... Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Nina Simone, Diana Ross, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding. Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus ! free jazz : Ornette Coleman ! ska : Don Drummond, Skatalites...

funk / soul / tzigane fanfares : Ceux Qui Marchent Debout, Les Fils de Teuhpu, Kočani Orkestar...

tango : Juan José Mossalini, Gotan Project...

and in no particular order, Tom Waits (but you knew that...), John Lurie / the Lounge Lizards, Alain Bashung, Radiohead, Serge Gainsbourg, Elvis Costello, Charles Trenet, Baden Powell, Boris Vian, Iggy Pop, the Sugarcubes, Les Negresses Vertes, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Yubaba Smith & Fortune, Mano Negra, Morphine, les Portugaises Ensablées, La Familia, L'Orchestre National de Barbès, Woven hand, the Pixies, They Might Be Giants, Devics, Firewater, Massive Attack...

this list is getting out of hand. i could go one, but i will stop here, also because it's past 2.30 in the morning and perhaps i should be going to bed instead of listing excellent bands... of course, if you ask me next week i'll have a hundred other bands to mention.

oh, and obviously, i adore the Squirrel Nut Zippers, of course.

[slayda]

Something I like a lot is "Jungle Blues" played by Branford Marsalis. ZP he is usually over in your area. Check him out.

[Stanart]

I like a little bit of everything. But I grew up in a household that never played any classical music. Then one time while using my old turntable I accidently got a stereo test record mixed in with some rock albums. When my Led Zeppelin album ended the next record to fall was the stereo test record and the first song to play was the Russian Sailor's Dance by Rimsky-Korsakov and it seemed like such a good transition at the time. That got my interest going in classical, though I still don't listen to as much as I should.

Comfortable favorites that I always fall back on: Frank Sinatra, Chris Rea, Tears for Fears, The Beatles, The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Moody Blues, ELO, Annie Lennox, Bob Dylan, Lyle Lovett, Bruce Springsteen, The Doors.

[Basqueman]

Wow! I've never seen a thread get so long so fast. What kind of music do I like? Thats like saying "Show me your fingerprints and I'll show you mine!!!" I have over 22,000 digital music files in my collection. There is so much music that I'm often undecided when perusing what to play! So what I do is set my iTunes or iPod to "Shuffle Songs" and let "random" make the choice. I'm usually very happy with the songs that come up and don't really mind that a piece by Bartok will be followed by "Over the Hills and Far Away" by Led Zeppelin which, will be followed by "Wind Cries Mary" by Jamie Cullum which, will be followed by "Californication" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers which, will be followed by "Hell" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers......well.......you get the picture!!

[Ervserver]

Christmas music, I like to listen to the classic Christmas tunes year around when I need to relax

[Abu]

Heavy Death Metals\m/