Whats music do you all like?
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Mostly jazz - smooth, up-tempo, mellow.....I'm easy. And blues, ska, two-tone.....and of course, reggae. Early classic Jamaican stuff, dub.....even lover's rock!
When I was at college in the late 70s/early 80s, down in Ipswich doing an art foundation course, I was staying at the local YMCA hostel; good cheap accommodation in those days. The guy in the room across the corridor from me, Colin, was a white guy that was really into the Rastafarian 'culture'. Dreads, the colored woolly hats they all wore in those days, salt fish, meditation, weed (naturally!), AND the music of course.....the works. He invited me up to a Rasta 'house party' being thrown by some of the local Rasta community, in a big old Victorian house on the Whitehouse housing estate to the north of the town.
These guys built their own sound systems. I don't know where they sourced their gear from, but that must have been the first time I ever saw 18" woofers.....and even bigger 24" subs. These things were positively industrial in appearance AND heavy-duty construction. They had two ceiling-height stacks, one at either end of this huge room, and all sat around in a big circle passing the spliffs back-and-forth.
I'll say this much; two things were top of their list of priorities. Bass.....and mucho volume. You didn't so much hear the music as feel it thumping into your ribcage & rattling your fillings....
It was pretty much stadium equipment in a domestic setting. Damn, but those cones shifted some air..!!
Been hooked on it ever since.
This was typical of the era, and is one of my personal favourites:-
Pluto Shervington - "Dat"
(Sorry 'bout this one, guys. There never was very much live footage taken of Pluto at the time. He's now in his early 70s.......and although he still regularly performs in his native Jamaica, the latter-day renditions just don't sound like the original!)
"Lover's rock" faves include June Lodge - "Someone loves you honey" :-
June was a student history teacher in Kingston during the very early 80s. She 'jammed' with a few local musicians after hours, and during one of these sessions was picked up by a talent 'spotter' for Island Records. She just went from there...
Sophia George's "Girlie Girlie" :-
....and Tippa Irie's "Hello Darlin'" is just infectious!
Tippa was one of the initial 'finds' by the iconic Saxon Sound System in London in the early to mid-80s, and really helped to cement the Jamaican 'beat' into the Brit consciousness. He was damn good at it, too, eventually becoming one of Saxon's full-time MCs.
And I cannae quit till I give a shout out to Madness:-
"Our House" was an early intro of Madness's nutty style to the British public.....along with that of lead singer Suggs. Great reminder of my youth!
I don't care if people think I like 'soppy' music. So long as it's got a good, catchy beat to it, I'm easy.
Mike.
When I was at college in the late 70s/early 80s, down in Ipswich doing an art foundation course, I was staying at the local YMCA hostel; good cheap accommodation in those days. The guy in the room across the corridor from me, Colin, was a white guy that was really into the Rastafarian 'culture'. Dreads, the colored woolly hats they all wore in those days, salt fish, meditation, weed (naturally!), AND the music of course.....the works. He invited me up to a Rasta 'house party' being thrown by some of the local Rasta community, in a big old Victorian house on the Whitehouse housing estate to the north of the town.
These guys built their own sound systems. I don't know where they sourced their gear from, but that must have been the first time I ever saw 18" woofers.....and even bigger 24" subs. These things were positively industrial in appearance AND heavy-duty construction. They had two ceiling-height stacks, one at either end of this huge room, and all sat around in a big circle passing the spliffs back-and-forth.
I'll say this much; two things were top of their list of priorities. Bass.....and mucho volume. You didn't so much hear the music as feel it thumping into your ribcage & rattling your fillings....
It was pretty much stadium equipment in a domestic setting. Damn, but those cones shifted some air..!!
Been hooked on it ever since.
This was typical of the era, and is one of my personal favourites:-
Pluto Shervington - "Dat"
(Sorry 'bout this one, guys. There never was very much live footage taken of Pluto at the time. He's now in his early 70s.......and although he still regularly performs in his native Jamaica, the latter-day renditions just don't sound like the original!)
"Lover's rock" faves include June Lodge - "Someone loves you honey" :-
June was a student history teacher in Kingston during the very early 80s. She 'jammed' with a few local musicians after hours, and during one of these sessions was picked up by a talent 'spotter' for Island Records. She just went from there...
Sophia George's "Girlie Girlie" :-
....and Tippa Irie's "Hello Darlin'" is just infectious!
Tippa was one of the initial 'finds' by the iconic Saxon Sound System in London in the early to mid-80s, and really helped to cement the Jamaican 'beat' into the Brit consciousness. He was damn good at it, too, eventually becoming one of Saxon's full-time MCs.
And I cannae quit till I give a shout out to Madness:-
"Our House" was an early intro of Madness's nutty style to the British public.....along with that of lead singer Suggs. Great reminder of my youth!
I don't care if people think I like 'soppy' music. So long as it's got a good, catchy beat to it, I'm easy.
Mike.
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At the moment it's Joe Satriani's four albums. I didn't know that this kind of rock(ish) music can still be so exciting. I was a massive rock fan in the past, but I got kind of bored of it (nothing sounded fresh anymore and it felt like I knew it already, even in case of songs I had never heard before). Satriani is a genius. Both as a guitarist and as a musician (composer, arranger etc.). I think his the only guitar virtuoso who deserves to be called that. There is so much feeling and understanding of music in his playing. You can't find this on Vai's or Malmsteem's albums. Even Eddie Van Halen's playing's dated badly (it feels like it's all about novelty). If you know any other guitarist that can combine bluesy/emotional playing with a fantastic technique like Satriani does, please let me know. 
I listened to some old and new jazz (but I can't say I'm a big fan), classical (I only enjoyed baroque and early XX century) and klezmer music (the best etno music ever). I don't think I will be going back to jazz or classical anytime soon (or ever), but I keep coming back to klezmer music
Rap is generally not for me. The only albums I like are "The Score" by Fugees and the debut albums by Snoop Dog, Biggie and Lauryn Hill.
Mainstream pop is 90% garbage, 10% listenable and 1% good, IMO.
I listened to some old and new jazz (but I can't say I'm a big fan), classical (I only enjoyed baroque and early XX century) and klezmer music (the best etno music ever). I don't think I will be going back to jazz or classical anytime soon (or ever), but I keep coming back to klezmer music
Rap is generally not for me. The only albums I like are "The Score" by Fugees and the debut albums by Snoop Dog, Biggie and Lauryn Hill.
Mainstream pop is 90% garbage, 10% listenable and 1% good, IMO.
Sherri is a Cat
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To put it simply, I like good music.
Good music isn't limited by genre or time. It's just good.
Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov...
Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Son House, B.B. King
Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Nina Simone
Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Willy Nelson, Johnny Cash
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Lynard Skynard, Neil Young, Santana
Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, Carol King, Roberta Flack
The Cure, U2, Depech Mode, Nirvana, Lenny Kravitz, The Crash Test Dummies...
I could keep going...
Good music isn't limited by genre or time. It's just good.
Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov...
Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Son House, B.B. King
Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Nina Simone
Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Willy Nelson, Johnny Cash
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Lynard Skynard, Neil Young, Santana
Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, Carol King, Roberta Flack
The Cure, U2, Depech Mode, Nirvana, Lenny Kravitz, The Crash Test Dummies...
I could keep going...
Sherri is a Cat
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Rap has a bad reputation. I prefer to call it Hip Hop. The good stuff is commentary on life.
Kendrick Lamar is a genius. He was the first "rapper" to win a Pulitzer prize for "distinguished musical composition by an American."
Kendrick Lamar Is the First Rapper in History to Win a Pulitzer Prize — Here’s Why
He was awarded the distinction in 2018.
Sherri is a Cat
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Is this is a hint?
Personally, I do not like RAP, although it has its origins in doo-wop and hip-hop, I don't mind Reggae and Ska
I am not subtle enough to do hints, Cat Lady ... I am an Aussie male, lol.
Snort McDork
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Star Wars Theme, Pat Metheny Group, Spyro Grya, Boney James, David Sanborn (RIP Sir), Led Zeppelin, The Tubes, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Rippingtons, Richard Elliot, Peter White, Rick Bruan and anything with a Bossa Nova, or Samba beat.
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liquid_mercury
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punk and goth ^^ (black flag, the oozes, the cure, x-ray spex, etc)...
(also sometimes my chemical romance but we don't talk about that lol)
(also sometimes my chemical romance but we don't talk about that lol)
Been tidying up this morning, I had a heap of cd/dvd used for testing various Linuxes back to Mint 3whilst going through, I came across a music CD I compiled years ago, here is one of my favourite tracks
All sorts, just the past couple weeks going through my gigabytes of music, mostly 90s and early 2000. Golden times! I don't like rap. I don't consider it music. Maybe MC Hammer and his style would get exception, but the modern rap scene - just no.
Some remixes of original pop or dance tracks are quite good. Cafe del Mar has quite a repertoire. Some club sounds are quite boring though. Like anybody can randomly hit a few keys and give them repetitive pattern... AI can produce a more interesting stuff than that.
And I love exceptional voices. Those voices... any time. Pop, Metal, Techno, Classical... any.
Besides, always loved this quirky tune, from the first time I heard it:
Some remixes of original pop or dance tracks are quite good. Cafe del Mar has quite a repertoire. Some club sounds are quite boring though. Like anybody can randomly hit a few keys and give them repetitive pattern... AI can produce a more interesting stuff than that.
And I love exceptional voices. Those voices... any time. Pop, Metal, Techno, Classical... any.
Besides, always loved this quirky tune, from the first time I heard it:
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Thunderpants
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Old fashioned taste in music here, classic rock, English folk, jazz and baroque chamber music. Anything with traditional instruments. Rarely play electronically generated music.
I grew up amidst the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal and that genre is still my favorite. Be it 'average' metal or the more extreme variants I like all of it.
Awesome to listen to and awesome to play on guitar as well.
I'm also a huge fan of Blues especially Mississippi Delta Blues and Texas Blues.
80's pop is also ok in my book.
All time favorite band would be Dissection.
Awesome to listen to and awesome to play on guitar as well.
I'm also a huge fan of Blues especially Mississippi Delta Blues and Texas Blues.
80's pop is also ok in my book.
All time favorite band would be Dissection.
I have a few classical albums in my laptop and some tracks are missing. I purged some songs long ago if I wasn't fond of the sound. Now checking what I purged, comparing the full content with discoqs, found this gem. Not the sound, but his facial acting is priceless!
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