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I know there are some music afficionados on here, so what do we all like to listen to?

Jaggedone is one person that will want to contribute here, I'm sure.

Me? I was a punk back in the day, and I seem to be stuck in a bit of a Time Warp, like the forum was a couple of weeks ago.

Nowadays I spend most of my time hunting down stuff on CD that I used to own on vinyl. My favourite things to listen to are Durutti Column and Jah Wobble, but, when the mood takes me, I also play Joy Division, PiL, A Certain Ratio, 23 Skidoo, Cabaret Voltaire, 400 Blows, Mekons and New Order.

I also like Reggae - my favourite reggae album is by Misty In Roots - and music from around the world. I'm quite fond of Arabic and African music, though, of course, I can't make head nor tail about what the singers are singing about.


I don't like Classical music, heavy metal, or the sort of shit that constantly seems to be on popular commercial radio stations these days. I don't, as a rule, like RnB, Hip Hop or rap.

I like the Blues and Jazz.

A lot of rock from the late 60's and 70's.

Techno and trance. Think Prodigity, Crystal Method and Massive Attack

Older country like Hank Williams (and some of Jr's stuff), Charlie Daniels and Loretta Lynn. None of that Rascal Flatts, Big and Rich, Dixie Chicks or Toby Keith.

Old School rap and R&B. Run DMC and some others I can't think of right now.

And other genres I can't think of at the moment because I'm tired.

Yeah, I can appreciate Run DMC and the like, but the Rap groups of today sound tired - a bit like you!

Their message isn't the same anymore. Rap came about right after Punk, and was, in part, a follow-up, but these days rap is just an excuse for a few cheap fat black slags to wave their arses about whilst some clown makes determined gestures with his fingers, tries to look mean, and talks about them being his whores.

Which they obviously are not. Or maybe they are - who cares?

Country music is what my Mum used to listen to. She had stuff like Kenny Rogers, Billie Joe Spears, Don Williams, Tammy Wynette etc. I can listen to that.

Another one I liked was Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry.

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Their message isn't the same anymore. Rap came about right after Punk, and was, in part, a follow-up, but these days rap is just an excuse for a few cheap fat black slags to wave their arses about whilst some clown makes determined gestures with his fingers, tries to look mean, and talks about them being his whores.

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Brother, you just said a mouthful, and I couldn't agree more. I used to listen to tons of rap, but it was mostly socio-political in nature. From poets, to gangstas, to thugs... and with each step, it seems, a little less talent.

I'm a little out of the loop now, but I would say Talib Kweli (NYC - smart, very sociopolitical) and Jurassic 5 (California - heavy old school roots, 1 really good rapper) are fairly recent rap acts worth listening to.

With a few exceptions like AC/DC and a handful of American bands, British Rock kicks total ass, and much of the rest is a mere imitation.

Tori Amos is my favorite musician. My ex-wife got us tickets to see her in Dallas, Texas, in the summer of 1999. I don't know how she did it, but they were for a little partitioned area right in front of the stage, and only about 50 of us were close enough to see the sweat and spittle flying as she performed. Awesome!!

Dave Grohl is my 2nd favorite. He wrote all the music, played all the instruments, and sang all the vocals on the first Foo Fighters album, then hired musicians to tour. I respect him for not putting together a Nirvana clone band, which would have been very easy to do. Instead, he chose integrity and self expression, which has worked out pretty nicely.

When John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) sobered up and recorded the appropriately titled "To Record Only Water for 10 Days," he proved once and for all he's a total f**king genius.

Patty Griffin's "Living With Ghosts" is just one woman with an acoustic guitar, a bit folksy, but she totally wails. It's one of the great virtually undiscovered masterpieces of the 90's.

I also love Radiohead, in part for their music (some of which is really good), but mostly just because they are Radiohead.

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Brother, you just said a mouthful, and I couldn't agree more. I used to listen to tons of rap, but it was mostly socio-political in nature. From poets, to gangstas, to thugs... and with each step, it seems, a little less talent.

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Strangely, I REALLY like the sounds behind some of the Gangsta Rap stuff. Some of the music is great, but the sentiment behind it is just plain silly. At least Punk strove to achieve something, however disastrous that has turned out to be. In contrast, Gangsta Rap is ... er ... hmmm ... well ... louts louting about.

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When John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) sobered up and recorded the appropriately titled "To Record Only Water for 10 Days," he proved once and for all he's a total f**king genius.

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I read somewhere that one of the members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers - it might not have been Frusciante - said that the Gang of Four were a big influence on what the RHCP produced. I love the Gang of Four. I saw them about three years ago in Manchester. It was as if they had never been away - which of course, they had, for about 20 years.

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Patty Griffin's "Living With Ghosts" is just one woman with an acoustic guitar, a bit folksy, but she totally wails. It's one of the great virtually undiscovered masterpieces of the 90's.

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If you haven't already, google Durutti Column. Vini Reilly is the male equivalent of how you describe Patty Griffin. He came out of the same Factory Records set-up that bore Joy Division, A Certain Ratio and, subsequently, New Order. He was managed by the late Anthony Wilson.

The music has been described by someone as 'Jack Frost dancing on a window pane'. I have around 20 of his albums, and never tire of listening to them. Mood music.

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I know there are some music afficionados on here, so what do we all like to listen to?

Jaggedone is one person that will want to contribute here, I'm sure.

Me? I was a punk back in the day, and I seem to be stuck in a bit of a Time Warp, like the forum was a couple of weeks ago.

Nowadays I spend most of my time hunting down stuff on CD that I used to own on vinyl. My favourite things to listen to are Durutti Column and Jah Wobble, but, when the mood takes me, I also play Joy Division, PiL, A Certain Ratio, 23 Skidoo, Cabaret Voltaire, 400 Blows, Mekons and New Order.

I also like Reggae - my favourite reggae album is by Misty In Roots - and music from around the world. I'm quite fond of Arabic and African music, though, of course, I can't make head nor tail about what the singers are singing about.


I don't like Classical music, heavy metal, or the sort of shit that constantly seems to be on popular commercial radio stations these days. I don't, as a rule, like RnB, Hip Hop or rap.

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i live for music, so there is no way i could ever name one absolute favorite singer, group or even genre, but here's my "short list" of my top 50, categorized as much as possible but not in order except for OZZY IS NUMBER ONE:

black sabbath, ozzy osbourne, white zombie, rob zombie, alice cooper, ac/dc, metallica, jackyl, marilyn manson, korn, disturbed, megadeth,

kiss, queen, def leppard, motley crue, poison, quiet riot, great white, twisted sister, bon jovi,

sex pistols, the clash, social distortion, green day, misfits, ramones,

ub 40, big mountain, bob marley, peter tosh, the wailers,

david bowie, peter frampton, roy orbison, george harrison, the traveling wilburys,

jerry lee lewis,

beastie boys, eminem,

cass elliot, cyndi lauper, pat benatar, joan jett, alanis morissette

lynyrd skynyrd, creedence clearwater revival, john fogerty, john mellencamp,

and, in my opinion, the man that started it all, hank williams.

peace

becca

Diversity of tastes among Spoofers didn't expect much else actually!

Everyone knows JO is a JD (Joy Division) freak but to put a bit of structure in my varied tastes I'll just go from my main influences from the very beginnings up to today:

Velvet Underground/early Lou Reed
Led Zeppelin
Bob Dylan / Neill Young
Joy Division Fav of all time!
Sex Pistols/Clash
Killing Joke - second fav!
Sonic Youth / fourth fav!
Metallica
Slipknot and other new metallers, Korn, etc!
Type o Negative
Disturbed - fifth fav!
Tool / third fav!
Hate new Brit rock and Oasis apart from cigs and beer or something like that.

Enjoy late Beatles, Strawberry Fields etc, and middle Stones, Sympathy for the devil, etc!

Hate Jazz, rap, pop, enjoy some classic in between, Mozart, Beethoven!

Next please!

Hmmm ... thought there might have been a bit more Manchester in you, JO.

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Hmmm ... thought there might have been a bit more Manchester in you, JO.

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Monks, I have individual Manchester affinities but certainly not Oasis, one of my all time fav CD's, excellent from beginning to end BTW is Laid from James a Manchester band, The Smiths first LP is pretty good too, Joy Divison come from Manchester as you well know!

Killing Joke originate from Geordie land, shame about their footballers!

i can't believe i failed to include george thorogood on my list; "bad to the bone" has always been the song i most identify with

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i can't believe i failed to include george thorogood on my list; "bad to the bone" has always been the song i most identify with

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Tee hee hee.......

Good thread Mr Woods!

My own tastes are somewhat eclectic.

Nine Below Zero are a live favourite of mine. (Blues band with the best English harmonica player there is)

Nick Cave (literary skilled, but also good use of dark humour)

Pere Ubu (wonderfully unique and fun)

Tom Waits

Vaughan Williams (The Lark Ascending is very special to me)

Motorhead (Ace of Spades)

The Fall (Mark E Smith ah very good ah lyrics ah)

The Flaming Lips (bonkers mad)

Beethoven (Pardon?)

Boo Hewrdine (Criminally underrated songwriter)

I could go on (my wife says that I do).

Hey Earl, my missus loves Nick Cave, actually we saw him last year live, brilliant!!!

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Hey Earl, my missus loves Nick Cave, actually we saw him last year live, brilliant!!!

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Many times I've seen him. Once at Paradiso.

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Hey Earl, my missus loves Nick Cave, actually we saw him last year live, brilliant!!!

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Many times I've seen him. Once at Paradiso.

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A man of good taste, on a serious note, at my Mum's funeral, bless her, we played INTO MY ARMS, no comment needed!

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Hey Earl, my missus loves Nick Cave, actually we saw him last year live, brilliant!!!

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Many times I've seen him. Once at Paradiso.

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A man of good taste, on a serious note, at my Mum's funeral, bless her, we played INTO MY ARMS, no comment needed!

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At my father's we played Whiskey in the Jar (Dubliner's and Thin Lizzy versions). Also played Jim Reeves Distant Drums.

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Hey Earl, my missus loves Nick Cave, actually we saw him last year live, brilliant!!!

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Many times I've seen him. Once at Paradiso.

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A man of good taste, on a serious note, at my Mum's funeral, bless her, we played INTO MY ARMS, no comment needed!

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At my father's we played Whiskey in the Jar (Dubliner's and Thin Lizzy versions). Also played Jim Reeves Distant Drums.

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Like Metallicas version also, but not funeral suitable, BTW, just listening to the superb Killing Joke, paradiso!!!

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Hey Earl, my missus loves Nick Cave, actually we saw him last year live, brilliant!!!

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Many times I've seen him. Once at Paradiso.

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A man of good taste, on a serious note, at my Mum's funeral, bless her, we played INTO MY ARMS, no comment needed!

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At my father's we played Whiskey in the Jar (Dubliner's and Thin Lizzy versions). Also played Jim Reeves Distant Drums.

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Like Metallicas version also, but not funeral suitable, BTW, just listening to the superb Killing Joke, paradiso!!!

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Killing Joke. Not heard them for a long time. Class

Good idea this.

My earliest musical experience was hearing my mum play the piano. She wasn't all that keen on music, so she sold the piano to a local band called 'Doctor Pill & The Purple Hearts.'

The first band I ever saw was a band called 'The Blackjacks' who had a spot between the features at the local flea pit cinema on Sunday evenings.

They once waved at my mate, my dad and myself, and the other eight audience members, but the girl walking backwards down the aisle with the ice cream tray must have missed her wave as she had her back to the stage. Missed opportunity for the girl...

Watched 'The Dubliners' from the wings at a show in the neighbourhood along with five or six other raggedy arsed kids. They were charming. They gave us pop and crisps and made a fuss of us.

Best band ever were a gang known as 'Hell's Angels' (named after the US fighter pilots of WW2 - not the biker gang) who had a dynamic female lead singer who was offered a record deal by a talent scout but turned it down, in order to go on to better things, like fame and poverty on satirical website theSpoof.com, where she is currently known as Mrs Skoob.

Regards

Skoob

Soothing music is what I like. Flutes, harps, and zither passages are pretty relaxing. I really love progressive elevator music.
I enjoy elevator music so much I bought a real elevator and put in larger speakers, and upped the amp power.

People get a real kick out of it when they arrive at the house, open the front door, and have to enter the elevator to ride up to the first floor...(Actually, the rear door opens instead and they get a kick out of that!)

Duncan Whitehead visited not long ago and he was so drunk and high, he staggered from the bus, and instead of ringing my door bell, he stood there for 15 minutes pressing the 11th floor button!

I tend to go for the mellower stuff. My favorite musical artists are Karen Carpenter (greatest female voice of all time) and John Denver.

I also really enjoy:
Neil Diamond
Frank Sinatra
Brian Stokes Mitchell (the best "Impossible Dream" ever)
Hayley Westenra (a fantastic up and comer currently performing with Celtic Woman)
Bread
Streisand
Mid-era Beatles
The Eagles
Dan Fogelberg
The Temps and The Tops
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Carole King
Judy Collins
Melissa Manchester

I'm not a big country fan, but my favorite of that genre is probably "Yesterday, When I Was Young" by Roy Clark. I also enjoy some Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray, and The Statler Brothers.

One of my favorite songs was a one hit wonder: "I've Never Been to Me" (by Charlene). Another favorite by a one hit wonder was "One Tin Soldier" (by Coven).

Some great singers a little before my time were Andy Williams, Ed Ames, Johnny Mathis, and Perry Como. I could listen to them for hours.

CCR is about as heavy and hard as I go musically. I don't care for heavy metal at all and can't stand punk, acid rock, grunge, or hard rock.

I hate/despise/abhor rap. It is nothing but spitting and rhyming. The lyrics are disgusting and below contempt. Hip hop is basically the same as rap, with slightly more talent involved (which is still very little).

Classically, I enjoy Wagner and Verdi the most.

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Classically, I enjoy Wagner and Verdi the most.

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Give Bach a try. His fugues are amazing!

Classical music:

May seem a little cliched, but Beethoven was the absolute BOSS.

Nobody ever introduced me to Beethovens music, I just heard snatches of it and loved it, without knowing who wrote it.

As an 11 year old, I discovered who the composer was. I asked my mum if she had any records of Beethoven so that I could listen to them.

She told me that Beethoven was 'highbrow' music and not for the likes of me. She said I'd never understand it. (We were a working class family)

Needless to say, I ignored that little titbit of wisdom.

Beethoven is music with balls.

From the Fifth, the Ninth, The Pastoral, Feure Elise, Moonlight Sonata, etc this student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in my opinion far surpassed his tutor.

Mozart, brilliant, flowery, elaborate.

Beethoven, from the tender and thoughtful to the bollocks the size of footballs in your face.

Much imitated, never bettered.

Some who followed Beethoven's style:

Tchaikovsky

John Williams

Gustav Holst

Other classical composers I've enjoyed over the years:

Chopin

Schubert

Halle - (German but lived in Manchester)

Mike Oldfield - (Tubular Bells - Does that count as classical? I give not a shit, it does as far as I'm concerned)

I'm going to stop this right now, this classical music thing.

Puccini

Edward Elgar

I'll never understand it, but I know what I like.

Regards

Skoob.

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Classically, I enjoy Wagner and Verdi the most.

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Give Bach a try. His fugues are amazing!

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Pachelbel Canon in D Major (i selected it for the theme music for my daughter's upcoming wedding)

Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (try it by celtic woman; they sound like absolute angels)

Beethoven Ode to Joy (the first piece of classical music i ever fell in love with)

Handel Hallelujah Chorus (actually, the Messiah in its entirety)

and much, much more

also love celtic woman and josh groban (you raise me up)

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Classical music:

May seem a little cliched, but Beethoven was the absolute BOSS.

Nobody ever introduced me to Beethovens music, I just heard snatches of it and loved it, without knowing who wrote it.

As an 11 year old, I discovered who the composer was. I asked my mum if she had any records of Beethoven so that I could listen to them.

She told me that Beethoven was 'highbrow' music and not for the likes of me. She said I'd never understand it. (We were a working class family)

Needless to say, I ignored that little titbit of wisdom.

Beethoven is music with balls.

From the Fifth, the Ninth, The Pastoral, Feure Elise, Moonlight Sonata, etc this student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in my opinion far surpassed his tutor.

Mozart, brilliant, flowery, elaborate.

Beethoven, from the tender and thoughtful to the bollocks the size of footballs in your face.

Much imitated, never bettered.

Some who followed Beethoven's style:

Tchaikovsky

John Williams

Gustav Holst

Other classical composers I've enjoyed over the years:

Chopin

Schubert

Halle - (German but lived in Manchester)

Mike Oldfield - (Tubular Bells - Does that count as classical? I give not a shit, it does as far as I'm concerned)

I'm going to stop this right now, this classical music thing.

Puccini

Edward Elgar

I'll never understand it, but I know what I like.

Regards

Skoob.

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exquisite choices..........

BRAVISSIMO!

becca