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What Kind of Music Do You Like?
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: DavidinHartford on July 05, 2006, 08:48:30 am ---Don't make me put Blondies "Rapture" back on!
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OMG - David, stop it! That's my all time fave Blondie track! Very sexy song IMO...
ZouBEini:
--- 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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Yup. The 70's and 80's music is my favorite, simply because I was finally beginning to escape my parents' control. My wife and I lived in our second apartment when MTV premiered. At first I wondered what the heck the show was supposed to be, then I saw the very first video and was soooo excited! :) 8)
My parents loved (among others) the Andrews Sisters, Nat "King" Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby (my father's to-die-for favorite), Doris Day, Frankie Laine (my mother had a crush on Frankie), Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Judy Garland, Mitch Miller and Andy Williams, as well as most all classical music.
My love of musicals came from my father, though being gay, I would have found my way to it eventually I suppose. :laugh: Actually my favorite musicals were the ones I first saw during childhood. The Music Man is #1, followed closely by Oklahoma. Call me Ado Annie. I'm just a girl who cain't say no -- especially to all those dancing musicians and cowboys and their tight pants. LOL ;) I was 10 years away from puberty, but thought Timmy Everett was hot as Tommy Djilas http://i9.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/25/16/e2_2.JPG "Ya wild kid-ya!" David, you reminded me with the 50's comment: Grease is another favorite musical (soundtrack).
Oops, babbling, sorry! ::)
~Larz
moremojo:
Okay, I confess...I'm a rock and pop kind of guy. Classic rock, hard rock, soft rock, bubblegum pop, and even (shriek) disco...it's all good, which is why I had to vote for all five. This was the kind of music I grew up with, grew to love (for better or worse), and which have all now become part of my life and identity.
I shudder, though, to leave the impression that other kinds of music do not inspire me. I really do love some folk music (does Nanci Griffith count?), country and Western (though tending to lean towards country-pop, like Shania Twain and Restless Heart), bluegrass (Allison Krauss), R & B (Marvin Gaye was divine), and positively cherish some Classical compositions (Bach, Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande). I just don't tend to seek such music out on a regular, active basis...I tend to let it find me.
But to all creators of beautiful music, which always transcends categories of genre, I say (quoting that immortal quartet Abba): "Thank you for the music...for giving it to me."
Still rocking in a hopefully free world,
Scott
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: saucycobblers on July 04, 2006, 07:11:13 am ---
I don't David! Please tell...
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Well, in the story Beethoven wrote Fur Elise especially for his "Immortal Beloved" as a love song to her. When one considers how lonely and sad Beethoven's life was, this makes the song even more beautiful and poignant.
Now the facts... or at least these are the facts I have heard about the song:
Beethoven did write this song for a woman. Her name was Therese von Brunsvik and she was a pupil of Beethoven's but it was later learned Therese was not the infamous Immortal Beloved Mr. Beethoven had described in his letters.
Also, it has been said Beethoven may have even penned this composition before he ever met Therese. I have heard some historians say the composition was originally called "Clavierstuck in A mull" and was later named Fur Elise because of an autograph Beethoven had penned on the music. Some say the name change for the composition occurred in 1867 when the music was first published.
Anyway, that is the story... and the facts I have heard over the years. The facts do take away from some of the romance of the story, but I always try to picture Beethoven writing this beautiful composition for his Immortal Beloved when I play it. It is so full of emotion. :)
David:
--- Quote from: ZouBEini on July 05, 2006, 06:43:52 pm ---David, you reminded me with the 50's comment: Grease is another favorite musical (soundtrack).
~Larz
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LOL! Don't get me wrong. I like alot of the 50s stuff too. Some of my favorites...Run around Sue, the Wanderer...etc.
Herb Alpert! OMG! I used to listen to my folks old records of him! Peaches and Cream, Tijuana Taxi! LOL.
My Mom was into Country Western. So I was exposed to alot of Johnny Cash and reruns of the TV show HEE HAW! LOL.
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