Thread: What's your favourite music genre?

Couple of random thoughts

Mick mentioned "Night on Bald Mountain" by Moussorgsky. I agree that it's a magnificent moody piece but also, what a great title! You know the music will be powerful from the title alone.

Here's one from left field. David Bowie wrote "The Man Who Sold the World". His version of it is quite good. Nirvana did a cover - not bad. But if you want to hear a really good, interesting and powerful version of it: Lulu. That's right: Lulu, short Scottish person. In my opinion, it's the only thing she's ever recorded that's got genuine merit. (All right, I'll concede that "Shout" is a good dance number).

Col

A couple of people have mentioned good concerts. Here's a memory:

In the early 80s I was living and working in the Middle East. I worked throughout the region but was based in Bahrain. Tina Turner was scheduled to put on a concert at the Hilton Hotel. It sold out in a hurry but we got tickets. A whole mob of Yanks travelled over from Dahran and Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia. (You can drink alcohol in Bahrain, incidentally).

Picture the scene: before the concert started there was a black tie dinner. We all sat there in the Hilton ballroom, looking very formal, eating the rubber chicken and making polite conversation. As the waiters cleared away the coffee cups, the MC parted curtains on the stage, stepped out and said: "Ladies and gentlemen - Miss Tina Turner!" He stepped off the stage, the curtains parted and there was Tina on a little tiny stage with two dancing girls and a 5-piece band.

They went straight into "River Deep, Mountain High".

Man, she blew the walls out! Within 30 seconds, the black jackets were off, the bow ties were askew and the half of the room that weren't dancing on top of the tables were giving it heaps all round the perimeter. Sensational! Best concert I've ever experienced - bar none.

Col

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woodymarts

Originally Posted by silentC

Oh yes, I discovered High 5 a couple of years ago. Is it wrong to enjoy it as much as I do?

silentC.. it would only be wrong if you were watching Hi 5 for the MUSIC or the BOYS in the band... my favourite is Kellie

Kev

And just for the record, I am currently listening to the following:

Neil Diamond : In My LifeTime
Van Morrison: best of Vol 1& 2
Various movie sound tracks
Millsie (thanks to my 14 year old daughter)
DiDo
Wings
Annie Lennox
Billy Joel



Kev

coming in a bit late on this one but not many of you like the stuff i like so here goes. My tastes are mainly in Jazz, not the trad crap, and in particular Jazz vocal, piano and guitar.
Also love big band/swing music and best of all for me are all the fabulous vocalists of the 40,s through to the current day in popular music with the graets like sinatra,fitzgerald,bennett,darin,etc etc just too many to mention.
I have a collection of over 800 cd,s and dont know how many tapes and vynil and Im really lucky cause I litsen to them all day in the office and in the workshop when i get out there.
Classical music i find really beautiful, try sitting in a quiet dark room, relax and play something like Massenet's Thais-Meditation and it will touch every nerve in your body and bring tears to your eyes. good music does that to you if you really listen, its like poetry....getting wet again!
Suppose really I like most music thats well written and orchestrated and makes me listen to it.
beejay1

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Originally Posted by Brudda

And just for the record, I am currently listening to the following:

Neil Diamond : In My LifeTimeKev

Hey Kev, I was at his concert in Sydney in the early 70's absolutley fantastic!
Still listen to the "hot august night" album on a regular basis. Terrific song writer.
beejay1

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I confess to enjoying classical music providing it doesn't involve singing (or at least I think its called singing but with it usually in a foreign language and pitched at dog whistle levels who can tell).

Lee Kernaghan, Kasey Chambers, Adam Harvey and more Lee Kernaghan

It's quite something how music can affect you.


I never used to like clasical until I was with friends staying in an apartment in Rome. Jerry the guy I was traveling with found a station that was playing classical piano. I was hooked within 5 mins. Now, if I can't sleep I put on a classical cd of mixed composers. I'm usually out before the forth song. The first time I heard Pachelbel's Cannon in D I thought this is what I want to be listening to the moment I die (hopefuly later than sooner) I'm gonna have a medic alert bracelet made up the says in case of emergency play Pachelbel.

I had a creative writing instructor in college once that was what I first thought was "way out there" She had everyone close their eyes and "open their minds" and listen closely to the snippets of different music she was going to play for us and to write down what we saw and felt in our "minds eye". First thing I'm thinking is "when is she going to bring out the hooka and kilo of dope. It was quite an eye opener to hear how the music affected each person. The music invoked very similar visions and feelings in everyone. One thing I couldn't figure out though was why I had a real bad case of the munchies after!?!?

By the sounds of it, there are no Britney fans here.... Or at least not until she takes her cloths off

If yer a blues fan and don't know it yet Fleetwood Macs early stuff is something you might want to look for. The album that switched me onto blues was their Double CD Fleetwood Mac in Chicago 1969.

One of my nephews in England (who knows Uncle Col shares the same eclectic musical tastes as he) sent me a CD via my daughter when she came back from a Christmas holiday in the old country.

The CD is called "The Devil's Music" and its a compilation selected by Keith Richards of music that has influenced him over the years.

It's great! It's a mixture of blues, rock, boogie-woogie, soul, R&B, reggae and jazz. There are tracks by Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Little Richard, Otis Redding, Booker T, Tina Turner and the unforgettable Professor Longhair and his Shuffling Hungarians!

Col

Used to play rhythm and blues in the sixties. Still don't remember much about it so it must have been good.
I'm listening to Pink Floyd's Pulse CD at the moment and to my dying day I will regret not getting to see them play live. If they ever do another concert anywhere in the world , I'm there.