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Offline Andrew

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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #30 on: July 04, 2006, 07:13:14 pm »

I am moved to tears by the big sweeping pieces like Mussorgsky's  Pictures at an Exhibition or Dovrak's New World Symphony...as well as by the little pieces like Beethovens Fur Elise or Britten's Ceremony of Carols.




Victoria,
If you have this reaction to music...have you heard the Elgar Cello Concerto with Jacqueline du Pre?  She recorded it more than once, but the one you just have to own is the one conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, which has Elgar's Sea Pictures sung by Janet Baker as the other work on the disc, also a great, great performance.  After you have heard the Cello Concerto two or three times to learn it, you just start to think, This is really what it means to be alive, a human in this world.

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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #31 on: July 04, 2006, 07:54:23 pm »
If you like Sinatra in his Rat Pack days of Las Vegas,  you'll love Matt Dusk.      He has that Vegas lounge act voice that lulls you back to the 60s

If you get a chance, take a listen to his big hit "Two Shots" the next time your at the music store.



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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #32 on: July 04, 2006, 08:08:22 pm »
Spooky!  :o

Especially since we both have a weakness for disco too!

PLUS... and this will freak you out... 'Groove is in the Heart' is one of my all time faves!  ;D

Nice to see other Disco lovers who liked Groove is in the Heart.  :D  I like seeing some of the obscure ones mentioned here.  Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners is a favorite also.  

What a great thread!  It's like a banquet for my ears.  LOL-I didn't vote, simply because I’m all over the place musically and love most any kind of music.  

Here’re my unofficial votes:
 Any Rock, including Southern Rock
 Baroque
 Big Band
 Classical
 Cultural various
 Disco, club & love the remixes
 Hair Metal
 Hispanic and Latino
 Jazz
 Pop
 Punk
 Ragtime
 R&B

A few favourite (soundtracks): Beautiful Thing (though Sixteen Going on Seventeen is missing from my version – *grumbles*), BBM, Dark Shadows, James Bond music, The Music Man, Oklahoma, Pulp Fiction, Rent, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Velvet Goldmine, the Wizard of Oz (well duh).  

Most anything by (in the order they came to mind): Grace Jones (Pull Up To the Bumper – LMAO), Tina Turner, Rolling Stones, TLC, Billy Idol, Donna Summer, REO, BTO, ARS (Atlanta Rhythm Section), Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Simply Red, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Los Lonely Boys, Clay Aiken, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Styx, Guns N Roses, James Blunt, Bon Jovi, Cher (great song/stories especially among her older stuff), Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas, Josh Groban, Maroon5, Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Rod Stewart, Anita Baker, Extreme (Mmmm-NUNO!  Pornograffitti playing now btw), Annie Lennox/Eurythmics, Queen to name a few.

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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #33 on: July 04, 2006, 10:25:08 pm »
Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners is a favorite also.

Oh boy, that one takes me back to my mis-spent youth!  :P Great track  ;D
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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #34 on: July 04, 2006, 11:17:18 pm »
Oh boy, that one takes me back to my mis-spent youth!  :P Great track  ;D

 ;D  Me too!  There are so many of those fun old songs.

I find it interesting how interwoven music becomes with our memories.  When certain songs begin to play, I'm immediately transported back to the point in my life when I first heard them.  I assume I'm not alone.  ;)  :P

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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #35 on: July 05, 2006, 02:25:21 am »
I'm also a big sucker for Garth Brooks...

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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #36 on: July 05, 2006, 02:28:49 am »
Victoria,
If you have this reaction to music...have you heard the Elgar Cello Concerto with Jacqueline du Pre?  She recorded it more than once, but the one you just have to own is the one conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, which has Elgar's Sea Pictures sung by Janet Baker as the other work on the disc, also a great, great performance.  After you have heard the Cello Concerto two or three times to learn it, you just start to think, This is really what it means to be alive, a human in this world.

No I haven't heard that Andrew.  Thanks for the recommendation I'll order it.  Art and Music both have that affect of making me glad that I am alive and experiencing life as a human.
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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #37 on: July 05, 2006, 07:07:40 am »
I find it interesting how interwoven music becomes with our memories.  When certain songs begin to play, I'm immediately transported back to the point in my life when I first heard them.  I assume I'm not alone.  ;)  :P

You're definitely not alone in that Larz! I have a theory that people get most nostalgic over the music they heard when they were in their early-mid teens. It's the time when most of us start doing more adult things (with or without parental knowledge / approval!) and really move out of childhood. Important times - so for me I always feel most nostalgic for early 80s stuff.
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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #38 on: July 05, 2006, 08:32:49 am »
You're definitely not alone in that Larz! I have a theory that people get most nostalgic over the music they heard when they were in their early-mid teens. It's the time when most of us start doing more adult things (with or without parental knowledge / approval!) and really move out of childhood. Important times - so for me I always feel most nostalgic for early 80s stuff.

For me, it's stuff that was out right around when I was 11 and 12 (1976 and 77).  But I was an early bloomer.  ;)

So several Elton John songs, especially "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," "Good-bye Yellow Brick Road," and strangely enough "Benny and the Jets" really take me back there.  And Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" - I get chills, even, just thinking of that sax riff. 
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Re: What Kind of Music Do You Like?
« Reply #39 on: July 05, 2006, 08:48:30 am »
It's funny to think that we all get nostalgic over music from our youth.   I know a few older guys in my car clubs that only listen to 50s music on the oldies channel.   Then I remember that this was the music of their generation.

Just as I find myself fondly listening to early eighties music.

But what really scares me is the thought that in 50 years, todays kids will be listening to rap music in the retirement homes!    I'll be 90 by then and waving my cane at them: "Turn that Eminem crap off!"   Don't make me put Blondies "Rapture" back on!   Now that was Rap!"    LOL