Very OT: Share your musical tastes other than ITM

missy · Post by **missy** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:03 am

well, we have our:
"Dulcimer, Folk, people we've seen in concert" CD stash. Just got turned on to "Quebecois" music (Le Vent De Noir).
our "rock" CD stash: Aerosmith, Zepplin, Tull, Skynard, etc.
DH's Moody Blues stash
my Journey stash
gobs of old country: Cash, Bob Wills, Hank Sr., etc.
(and we have a huge celtic CD collection).

some classical, some instrumentals, Cajun and Zydeco,

just about everything BUT rap, I figure.

Missy

feadogin · Post by **feadogin** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:40 am

My favorite new artist is Gunther!

Justine

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:25 pm

Ooh, talala! I have to agree with Justine on that one.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:06 pm

Too many to list them all. Here are a few very favourite styles.

Jazz (all periods)
Soul and Gospel
Blues (all periods)
Cajun
Old Timey, Bluegrass and Western Swing
Southern African (SA, Zimbabwe, Madagascar)
West African (Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Mali)
Western Concert Music (except Wagner)
Rembetika
Fado
Flamenco
Hungarian, Bulgarian and Transylvanian folk
Galician
Cuban (all periods)
Reggae and Ska
50s and 60s Rock

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:22 pm

aderyn_du wrote:I love Rob Zombie (and White Zombie)!

Dragula is a great song, though I cringe every time "burn through the witches" comes up...

Yeah, well, you gotta grant a little artistic license for such a good song

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:55 pm

missy wrote:Just got turned on to "Quebecois" music (Le Vent De Noir).

I believe you mean Le Vent du Nord -- a great Quebecois band that was down in your neighborhood earlier this year.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:59 pm

Apart from ITM...

Punk, metal, EARLY hip hop, blues, some techno and trance, bhangra, some qawali.

MP3s on my PC at work include:
Hendrix, Ramones, Tom Waits, Soft Machine, Whale, Edgar Winter, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, Happy Mondays, Metallica, Bullet Lavolta, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Prodigy, Kurtis Mantronic, Chemical Brothers, Clash, Black Flag, The Only Ones, Fields of the Nephilim, Slayer, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, REM, Stackridge, Pixies, Pere Ubu, The Entropy Circus... and a ton of other stuff

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:01 pm

colomon wrote:
missy wrote:Just got turned on to "Quebecois" music (Le Vent De Noir).
I believe you mean Le Vent du Nord -- a great Quebecois band that was down in your neighborhood earlier this year.

Yep, the North Wind. Noir would be black, so they would be the Black Wind- which while not the same meaning for a band from Canada, would still make a great band name, no??

Tom

Post by **Dale** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:10 pm

CD's in heavy rotation in my car:

Boards of Canada: Music Has a Right to Children
Boards of Canada: In a Quiet Place in the Country (EP)
The Books: Thought for Food
The Books: The Lemon of Pink
Keith Jarrett: Bach, Goldberg Variations, harpsichord
Keith Jarrett Trio: The Out-of-Towner's
Cocteau Twins: Victorialand
Cocteau Twins: Heaven & Hell
Rapoon: Tin of Drum
Tom Waits new CD whatever it's called
El McMeen: Soul of Christmas Guitar
Brian Wilson: Smile
Beach Boys: Smile Bootleg
George Jones: Greatest Hits
Leonard Cohen: Dear Heather
Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
King Crimson: Larks Tongues in Aspic
Brian Eno: Lightness- Music For The Marble Palace

mamakash · Post by **mamakash** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:19 pm

Tori Amos
Kate Bush

Everything else is irrelevant.

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:31 pm

Good choices, mamakash.

(See, I told you I just love music, period. Everything that everyone posts I'm nodding my head to, going "yeah, I like that too!". Fickle Libra that I am.

)

claudine · Post by **claudine** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:00 pm

I love Bach and generally baroque music, also pre-baroque. I do not like the music of the classical period, but some of the romantic period and also some XX century.

I like contratenors, small vocal ensembles, small string ensembles, Jordi Savall's Hesperion XXI, and anything freaky.

Sometimes I like to hear Bruckner or Mahler symphonies with plenty of horns, trumpets and trombones. Also brass ensembles (German Brass, Pro Brass, Canadian Brass only when my idol Ronald Romm was still playing with them).

I like going to concerts where you do not know what to expect. Strange unexpected sounds that challenge the mind. And I like it polyphonic and complicated with fugues and/or scary illegal harmonies.

The good thing about folk music: I do not have to run after mysteriously vanished sheet music, nor care about mutes or other accessoires, I just grab my flute and go. And there's no dress code either. That's cool, too.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:02 pm

Will O'B wrote:I don't know, but somehow I think that Walden is with me on this one.

Okay, yes, I do harbor a soft spot for plainsong.

If I were to choose a few picks in various styles of music, I might say.

Art Music: Aaron Copland, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi.
Bluegrass: The Dillards, Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys
Old Time: The Carter Family, DeFord Bailey
Country & Western: George Jones
Western Swing: Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel
Southern Gospel: The Kevin Spencer Family, Chuck Wagon Gang, Albert E. Brumley, various local groups
Jubilee Gospel: The Fairfield Four
Choral: Boston Avenue Methodist Church Chancel Choir
Folk Revival: Kingston Trio, Northlake Stringband
Jazz: Toots Thielemanns, Boots Randolph
Big Band: Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:06 pm

Walden wrote:
Will O'B wrote:I don't know, but somehow I think that Walden is with me on this one.
Okay, yes, I do harbor a soft spot for plainsong.

If I were to choose a few picks in various styles of music, I might say.

Art Music: Aaron Copland, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi.
Bluegrass: The Dillards, Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys
Old Time: The Carter Family, DeFord Bailey
Country & Western: George Jones
Western Swing: Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel
Southern Gospel: The Kevin Spencer Family, Chuck Wagon Gang, Albert E. Brumley, various local groups
Jubilee Gospel: The Fairfield Four
Choral: Boston Avenue Methodist Church Chancel Choir
Folk Revival: Kingston Trio, Northlake Stringband
Jazz: Toots Thielemanns, Boots Randolph
Big Band: Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman

Yeah, I like Benny Goodman also. Oh, and although I'm not a real big bluegrass fan, I am a Ricky Skaggs fan. Are you familiar with "The Three Pickers"?

All the Best, Tom

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:22 pm

I don't actively listen to other types of music these days but I do love many types of music. About the only kinds I don't are

Rap

And there is a particular kind of modern of orchestral music that to me lacks in melody and harmony. I think there is one with like a 5 minute pause in it. I can't stand that kind of music. Plus those songs(?) can drone on for an eternity. Just not my taste.

I do love modern minimilist art & architecture, though.

Best,
Paul