What about the music?

[jenniferautumn]

Hi all. I am a huge music fan and I love nothing more then listening to new-to-me music. So if anyone is interested, I would like to learn about the music you enjoy, such as genre, artist, time period.... I listen to everything!! I am always looking to expand my knowledge and my music collection, so please share!!!!! Looking forward to hearing from you!!!!!!!

Jenniferautumn

[celms]

Music

Hello,

I also love music. Any kind. But my absolute favorite is Led Zeppelin. I can listen all day long to them. Next would be classical. Mozart is my fav in that category. Today's music is ok. I don't really care for all the cursing and stuff but if it has a good beat I will listen. It is good to know that other people like music the way I do. I have lived with someone who couldn't care less about it for 24 years!

[notmyms]

thanks for the music post

I love music, too, celms. And jenniferautumn, you bring back great memories, I listened to Led Zeppelin with my brother all the time (>30 years ago). In my youth I also liked The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Carly Simon. Have you ever listened to Simon and Garfunkel's "At the Zoo"? I think it's delightful.

Recently I'm enjoying 20th century American composers, esp. Gershwin and Copeland. Got to hear a Canadian pianist, Alain LeFevre, play Gershwin's Concerto in F this summer. It was incredible. Very moving.

Thanks for the post, celms, I hope we hear more.

[jenniferautumn]

well

i have to have music in my life, I played violin for 24 years and was a singer in a band. I love getting the Led out too! Recently I have become a fan of Rockabilly, I even went to a car show. Classical is in my blood and I am slowly developing a real taste for country. I was raised by a couple of hippies so the music from the 50's 60's and 70's is my great love. I can do without all the "bad boy" rapping and the teenage whiny girls. some of the bands I am hooked on now are:

The Black Crowes
Patty Griffin
Damion Rice
Government Mule
The Defibulators - super great band, not sure what kind of music to call it though.
Chuck Barry
Buddy Guy
Ray Charles

That pretty much sums up this weeks music picks. There are a very few things in life I need to survive, top of my list is music. Thanks for sharing and I hope people continue to share, hey sometimes it's good to have something in common besides this stupid disease!

[epona]

My music

What I like depends on the day.
If I want soothing, I have Clannad, Loreena McKennit, and other various Celtic compilations. If I want it livelier, but still in the same genre, I have Natalie McMaster, The Chieftains, Cherish the Ladies, and other compilations.

If I really want a good wakeup, classic rock of just about any kind, Evanescence, Within Temptation, Scorpions.

Sometimes I go for the 90's Techno dance music.

I have some 80's compilations for memories (good old high school)

I like Country too when to mood strikes me. I used to two-step nearly every night when I was at Fort Bragg.

Basically, I have a lot of different kinds of music on my trusty iPod!

Lately, I've been hooked on Loreena McKennitt's version of "the two trees". It is W.B. Yeats poem put to music with a bagpipe intro. An amazing poem to an exquisite melody. When I get in moods like that, I put it on repeat in the car.

[Bob698]

I'm more into classical music (MC5, Velvet Underground, Neil, Zappa/Beefheart, GD, NRPS, Iggy, Hot Tuna, 70-80's punk, DEVO, REM, etc.).
There's tons of it on you tube.

[jenniferautumn]

lets re-live some memories

Has anyone ever been to a really great concert? There always seems to be a story behind a concert.

MY TOM PETTY STORY- I went to the last viewing of the documentary "Runnin down a dream" at a theater in brooklyn. I thought that it would be sold out and I wouldn't be able to get in. Turns out there was only one other person in the WHOLE theater. Well a radio station was there to give away tickets to his concert. And I won!! FRONT ROW TICKETS. I have never sat closer then the nose bleed section of any concert. I took my dad. We were literally 4 feet away from Tom. I got great pictures and it was the most memorable concert ever!!!

If you have a story please share! Also, I am trying to expand my music collection so if there are any bands that you enjoy listening to, please pass it on so I and other posters can check them out.

Thanks to those that posted! I am checking out all of it!

The MS monster will not take my passion for music!!!

[MSNorthernVA]

What I'm Currently Listening To...

I listen all across the board. Of course, there are the old things that I love (as mentioned before, Velvet Underground, early Iggy Pop, that late-70's New York sound...*sigh*), but as far as current things go (and again, this is really ACROSS THE BOARD):

For emotive song-writing, with depth, and not whiny, I listen to a band from Long Island called BRAND NEW...their 2006 album 'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me' is absolutely transcendent. If I were a songwriter, I could have written it.
Their recent follow-up 'Daisy' also has some haunting, yet rocking, tracks.

When I need to hear a female vocalist sing beautifully, I listen to (respectively, and in order) METRIC (out of Canada...Emily Haines is one of those strange people born with both perfect pitch and perfect tone...the things that she does with that voice!), REGINA SPEKTOR, and IMOGEN HEAP. INGRID MICHAELSON comes in at fourth. This is probably due to fairly early exposure to Tori Amos and Patti Smith.

There are others...relaxing club-like sounds I get from 'The XX', catchy pop-tunes I get from 'The Republic Tigers'...

...it's interesting how tech has changed how we listen to things: Most of this is from my friends or internet referrants, and absolutely NONE of it is from broadcast radio. I haven't listened to the radio in forever.

Anyhow, keep writing, everyone...I'm always up for new stuff!

[Portia]

Alternative

I am getting to know alternative music again. I listened to it in the late 80s and early 90s, but then I moved to places that had no alternative station. Now I go to Kansas City once a month and they have a great station. In addition, I just got a laptop, so I can listen even at home by visiting the 'Church of Lazlo' website and streaming it live.

Some great bands I've discovered and rediscovered, each followed by one of my favorite songs:

Cake Going the Distance
Audioslave Like a Stone
The Offspring Low Self Esteem
The Crash Kings Mountain Man
Death Cab for Cutie Grapevine Fires
Alice in Chains Man in the Box
Pearl Jam Just Breathe
Red Hot Chili Peppers Hey-Oh

[DMG]

Oh WOW!!! Gotta have music...it can take you anywhere. My list is all over the place but here are a few:

Pink Floyd
David Gilmour
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Allman Brothers Band
Warren Haynes
Govt. Mule
Guy Clark
John Prine
Eva Cassidy
Vince Gill
The Three Tenors
I could go on forever....Great Post

[BeneathTheLies]

Ah... what a refreshing post. While I love to read, music will always and forever be my passion. I grew up playing multiple instruments but I'll always remember my mom playing Carol King on the piano and just sitting next to her singing along.

All Time Favorites:
Carol King
The Beatles
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
Ani DiFranco
Sara Mclachlan
Alice In Chains (Don't Follow is one of my favs)
Days of the New (if you haven't heard Dirty Road, check it out)
Jack Johnson
Mad Season (River of Deceit)
Sublime
Grateful Dead
Alanis Morissette
Tantric (Breakdown is a great one)

There are so many more it would take forever to post. On occasion i will listen to classical or contempary. I'm really into country right now. If this was facebook I would totally "like" this post. lol

[chocoholic1976]

=w=

Nobody beat Weezer. I connect with them on a deep level. They always bring me up when I'm down or get me dancing.

[angel00113]

music lover

jenniferautumn, I also am a huge fan. I like everything;

from 70's rock to radiohead ( love their sound).

Back at you, hugs, angel

[michelerenee]

Fun Post

I am looking forward to looking up some of the names I don't recognize.

Some of my favorites are:

Depeche Mode
The The
James
Black Keys
Airborne Toxic Event
The Judybats
Ben Folds
Motley Crue
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina simone


and so many more!!

[Bob698]

Just a reminder, Neil and Crazy Horse have a new album coming out on June 4th or 5th called Americana.

"Oh Susanna" is already posted on Youtube and from what I've read Americana is going to be some kind of fusion between american folk songs and ..... Crazy Horse.
Plus a children's choir.

They might be old but they are still loud.