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What Kind of Music Do You Like?
slayers_creek_oth:
I'm also a big sucker for Garth Brooks...
vkm91941:
--- Quote from: Andrew on July 04, 2006, 07:13:14 pm ---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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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.
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: ZouBEini on July 04, 2006, 11:17:18 pm ---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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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.
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: saucycobblers on July 05, 2006, 07:07:40 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.
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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.
David:
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
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