When You're not listening to Irish music....

[ausdag]

..what are you listening to?

I ask because I was just listening to a CD of DeDannan, then I put on a CD of Altan and honestly, I couldn't tell the difference!!! I thought, 'Man, this is sooo boring.....'

So then I put on my 'Best of David Bowie' DVD and sat for an hour and a half engrosed in some of the finest Glam Rock that has been produced....

So when I'm not listening to ITM, I listen to....

Bowie,
Crosby Stills Nash & Young,
Bob Dylan,
Jethro Tull,
(I had the pleasure of meeting Dave Pegg a few years ago backstage at the Woodford Festival here in Brisbane when he was out with Fairport Convention - we were on the same billing as them and Lunasa - what a treat!!!!)

The Sweet
Jackson Browne
Neil Young
Manheim Steamroller
Mike Oldfield.... to name a few.
And You??

Cheers,

DavidG

PS - I wonder if there are any hairdressers who still now how to do Ziggy Stardust-type lioness styles??
I might rock up to work with one

[sammyd]

Hmmm... Other than Irish Music I listen to mainly...

U2 (still Irish, but not Trad)
90's rock bands like:
Rage Against the Machine
Silverchair
The Vines

Also a bit of Chill Out/Dance

And what ever crazy stuff Triple J comes up with on the radio.

[Tony]

I was on the road most of the day...
Led Zeppelin I is in the CD player and I switched between 2 radio stations, Classic Rock and Oldies.

In my computer, I have a demo CD of some original music that a friend dropped off for me to listen to. It sounds a bit like Huey Lewis and the News. He's playing drums on it and their band is looking to get some local radio station air play.

[brianc]

Great Big Sea
Saw Doctors
Van Morrison
Beethoven (especially during traffic jams)
Steely Dan (when the traffic jams subside and the car's moving faster)

[MikeyLikesIt]

Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
Alice in Chains
Music from the Romantic Era
Lots of ragtime (mostly Scott Joplin)
The occasional musical

[benwalker]

Lots of singer/songwriter stuff.
Richard shindell
John gorka
James Taylor
James Keelaghan
Gordon Lightfoot
Bruce Hornsby
Terry callier

Also Lots of Jazz Stuff
Coltrane
Miles
Roland Kirk
Loads of others I can't think of right now

[The Sporting Pitchfork]

This topic came up almost exactly a year ago. Here's what I wrote then:

"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, 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."

What's in heavy rotation this week?

The Go-Betweens: Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (the most goregous pop album that nobody heard in 1986!!!)

Christopher Hogwood: The Secret Bach

Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain

Joy Division: Heart & Soul Box Set

Pulp: We Love Life

Brian Eno: Taking TIger Mountain (By Strategy)

...Been reading Jon Savage's excellent book "England's Dreaming" about the history of Punk, so I've dusted off a bit of stuff from the Sex Pistols & The Clash...hadn't heard "Janie Jones" in a while...Sometimes also tune into KCRW and Triple J (Aussie friend turned me onto it...great station...Australian hip-hop is truly some of the most amazingly comical music I have ever heard...)

[Joseph E. Smith]

The Beatles
Queen
Lots and lots of Mozart
vintage Little Feat (w/Lowell George)
Beethoven Symphonies
Peter Gabriel
Johnny Clegg/Jaluka/Savuka
Talking Heads
Pink Freud...I mean Floyd
The Cars
AC/DC
David Bowie
Rolling Sones
J. S. Bach
Ravi Shankar

I listen to a lot of different stuff, the above is what I listen to most often.

[kb]

My all-time favorite rock band is Love Tractor from Athen, GA of REM and B52's locale.

I also enjoy In Tua Nua, an 80's rock band with a few U2-type licks out of Dublin with uilleann pipes (Brian O'Briain) and violin (more violin than fiddle played by Lovely Previn, Andre's daughter). Anybody know anything about this band and piper?

--kb

[Tony]

This is the only In Tua Nua link I could find:
http://www.ear.fm/Encyclopedia%20I/in_tua_nua.htm

[Unseen122]

Punk, Ska, Galician, Scottish, and Northumbrian hey none of those are ITM.

[anima]

most recently Modest Mouse, before that Flogging Molly and of couse there's always some XTC near the stereo.

[dubhlinn]

My all-time favorite rock band is Love Tractor from Athen, GA of REM and B52's locale.

I also enjoy In Tua Nua, an 80's rock band with a few U2-type licks out of Dublin with uilleann pipes (Brian O'Briain) and violin (more violin than fiddle played by Lovely Previn, Andre's daughter). Anybody know anything about this band and piper?

--kb

If you scroll down to the bottom of this link you will find the lovely Leslie presenting a Radio Show.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/music.html

Slan,
D.

[rorybbellows]

[quote="ausdag"]..what are you listening to?

I ask because I was just listening to a CD of DeDannan, then I put on a CD of Altan and honestly, I couldn't tell the difference!!! I thought, 'Man, this is sooo boring.....'

Just curious but is not very hard to learn to play pipes if you find the music boring


RORY

[ausdag]

..what are you listening to?

I ask because I was just listening to a CD of DeDannan, then I put on a CD of Altan and honestly, I couldn't tell the difference!!! I thought, 'Man, this is sooo boring.....'

Just curious but is not very hard to learn to play pipes if you find the music boring


RORY

Why? There's Irish music and there's Irish music. When I put on a recording of Planxty, I know it's planxty. It could not be anyone else, same for Bothy band. When I put on Sean Potts, I know it's him and not Robbie Hannan, or Ennis.

Trouble is, many contempary Irish small groups seem to have lost that thing which sets them apart from others. Hence having listened to DeDannan (a great band) and then straight away putting on Altan (also a great band) and finding that the two were near inseparable in terms of style, accompnyment and rhythm (on those particular tracks) , I simply had had enough of that particular sameness and decided David Bowie was going to do it for me that day.

So at that particular point in time, I was incredibly bored by seeming monotomy of style and simply wished to put something else on.

Cheers,

DavidG