OT: favorite non-Irish music?

Phil Wardle · Post by **Phil Wardle** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:29 am

Lorenzo wrote:
Hey Phil...is that a member of Tasmania's River Dance?
Those are quite the bellows.

Um, we call it "Riverdunce" down here

The avatar's a hoot isn't it? I'd love to take the credit for it, but it was most kindly supplied to me by David Quinn (who obviously has hidden talents). The piper is Sweeney, of course; his lovely assistant is named Julie, apparently. You'd have to ask DMQ about her history. To me, she looks like one of those lasses painted on the fuselage of countless Flying Fortresses during WWII.

Mind, you.....I'd love to watch her moves dancing a jig (or even better, a "Jiggy Jig")

Cheers, Phil.

DMQuinn · Post by **DMQuinn** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:15 am

Phil Wardle wrote:
Lorenzo wrote:
Hey Phil...is that a member of Tasmania's River Dance?
Those are quite the bellows.
Um, we call it "Riverdunce" down here

The avatar's a hoot isn't it? I'd love to take the credit for it, but it was most kindly supplied to me by David Quinn (who obviously has hidden talents). The piper is Sweeney, of course; his lovely assistant is named Julie, apparently. You'd have to ask DMQ about her history. To me, she looks like one of those lasses painted on the fuselage of countless Flying Fortresses during WWII.

Mind, you.....I'd love to watch her moves dancing a jig (or even better, a "Jiggy Jig")

Cheers, Phil.

The lovely assistant is Julie Newmar, in the role of Stupefyin' Jones from Li'l Abner. Middle-aged readers may also remember her from "My Living Doll" and as Catwoman from the TV series Batman. That she was Sweeney's goddaughter is a little-known fact, but it accounts for why he is looking directly into the lens.

And by the way: Jiang Nan Si Zhu, to keep things on topic.

ojvoj · Post by **ojvoj** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:23 am

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:23 pm

jimi hendrix I think he would have made a good piper violinist nigel kennady recons some of his tunes have a celtic flavor to them

kevin m. · Post by **kevin m.** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:27 pm

rorybbellows wrote:jimi hendrix I think he would have made a good piper violinist nigel kennady recons some of his tunes have a celtic flavor to them

Yeah,Hendrix would be like the new Paddy Keenan,or the 'Keenan of the electric guitar' or...or something like that!!

anima · Post by **anima** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:32 pm

rorybbellows wrote:jimi hendrix I think he would have made a good piper violinist nigel kennady recons some of his tunes have a celtic flavor to them

Yeah, except that he would have played a right-handed chanter left-handed and upside down.

Jeff

The Sporting Pitchfork · Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:29 pm

Why do I get the eerie feeling that this topic has come up before?

There was a time when I listened to little else other than Irish and Scottish stuff. Ironically, it was living in Glasgow that got me out of that. There's such a fantastic music scene in that town. I'd go out and think "Hmm. What do I feel like tonight? Trad? Jazz? Indie?...Indian?"
Ahh...I miss it.

So what music do I listen to (well, aside from Miles Davis)?

Hmmm...The New Pornographers, Belle and Sebastian, New Order, Smokey Robinson, Buzzcocks, Moby, Ravel, Mussorgsky, Elliot Smith, Vivaldi, JS Bach, Joy Division, JJ Johnson, Neko Case, The Shins, Otis Redding, Interpol, The Pastels, Saint Etienne, The Durutti Column, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Julian Bream, David Bowie, John Coltrane,The Chemical Brothers, Bill Evans, They Might Be Giants, The Clash, Dave Brubeck, Nick Lowe, The Smiths, Bebel Gilberto, Stan Getz, Talking Heads, The Reindeer Section, John Cage, Elvis Costello, A Guy Called Gerald, Burt Bacharach, Looper, Cannonball Adderly, Orange Juice, Giorgio Moroder,Vince Guraldi, Jonathan Richman, Nina Simone, Damien Rice, oh yeah...and the Beatles.

A little something for everyone in there, I think.

It is nice to know that even outside our shared passion for uilleann pipes and Irish music that some of us have similar tastes.

lemonsquash--Neko Case. Excellent choice. The country music industry doesn't deserve a vocalist that talented.

Antaine--Funny you mention Belle and Sebastian. They're touring Japan at the moment and I'm going to go see then in Nagoya tomorrow night.

Rick · Post by **Rick** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:12 am

For those that didn't know this existed.

http://www.shoutcast.com

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:04 am

30+ years later they still have the same effect on me.

anima · Post by **anima** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:34 am

Y'know Tony, it's funny. My wife and I were listening to an old Elvis Costello recording the other day (Punch the Clock) and she commented that it still sounded fresh, not dated in the least. I agreed. Just then my daughter (the pre-teen philistine) walked into the room and loudly proclaimed, "Ewww, this is so totally '80's" and marched out. I am too young to feel this old right now.

Jeff

marcpipes · Post by **marcpipes** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 12:05 pm

I was listening to a hot jazz program today and the played two tunes from the thirties called "I Tin Whistle at You" and "Tin Whistle Blues" by Randal Hall. Not very trad as whistles go, but they guy played well.
Marc

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:00 pm

Sounds like a lot of us have similar musical tastes. I think I like most of the bands/artists people have mentioned, pretty much all the Jazz artists, Bebel Gilberto, Elvis Costello, Smiths, Led Zeppelin, Jimi, etc.
Seems like a lot of people have pretty eclectic tastes, here.

I guess I'm the only one that likes hip-hop, though. (Not the new stuff that just sounds like yelling, but I like the old 80's-90's stuff that was a little more clever, like Beastie Boys, De la Soul, N. W. A., Tribe Called Quest). I like a lot of those so-called "Neo-Soul" artists, too, like Musiq Soulchild, Floetry, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu.

Justine

piperben · Post by **piperben** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:33 pm

I LIKE BOB THE BUILDER, THEN THE TWEENIES PARTY ALBUM

Phil Wardle · Post by **Phil Wardle** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:07 pm

piperben wrote:I LIKE BOB THE BUILDER, THEN THE TWEENIES PARTY ALBUM

Hey, don't foget "The Wiggles".....now, if they only had pipes.

Chiff and Fipple Forums

OT: favorite non-Irish music?

Other than Irish, what kind of music do you listen to the most?