What's your favorite music?

If I were to create an online DU radio station, what kind of music would you like to hear on it?

I like pop music, but not the bubble gum stuff. I like Aimee Mann and Sarah McLachlan. I like Beatles, U2 and Genesis.

No love for the RnB style pop being offered these days, and don't even get me started w/ Brittney, Christina and the boy bands.

but I also listen to jazz and blues.

Specifically the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again." While I like a lot of jazz and the classics, and even a bit of country, I've never found anything else in any genre to match the power and majesty of Who's Next.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" is also a valuable reality check, an antidote to any sort of partisan politics.

country and western. ;)

Renaissance polyphony, most of the Baroque, some choral stuff from the Classical era, Wagner, modern French organ school (possibly the best of all :bounce: - though I'm listening to Reger at the moment who is modern German organ), mystic minimalism, much 20th century stuff to (Shostakovich through to Stockhausen et al.) if I'm in the right mood some of the post-war avant-garde Boulez, Berio and chaps like that.

Not really into the mainstream classic genres - Mahler, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, even Elgar could all be burned without any great objection from me.

But I think that you knew this already.

I know that if you were still around, the Classical would have at least one enthuastic vote!

But I'm glad we don't really have to restrict ourselves to a single genre. I truly am in the same snuggle-boat with TJ on this issue but it will be up to him to instruct me in the ways of the modern French organ school. There is much he can teach me. ;-)

You need to start with some Louis Lefebure-Wely - it's utter trash, but damn good fun. It pre-dates the actual school itself, but shows where things were before M. Widor stepped upto the plate.

Now you just need to travel over here for some face-to-face tuition, obviously travel over to Paris (which is easy from here) - if this sounds rather like I'm trying to take any excuse for a week-end in Paris with you, it wouldn't be far wrong :evilgrin:

;)

But at least I didn't get arrested for air-rage - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4434028

You wicked boy you. :P

:blush:

But at least am man enough to admit it.

AND a Bobby Brown CD.

Know I only take a beatting because I listen to Barry Manilow, and Neil Diamond. :D

Last night I listened to some Poulenc, Hindemuth, Ibert, Francaix, Charpentier, Vivaldi. I was making cookies and all was right with the world. :loveya:

Hip/Hop, Rap, R&B

Hip Hop, Rap???? Somehow I never imagined you liking that...well...that crappy music. Not that I want to offend anyone who likes that stuff, but JEEBUS! Somebdy who can SING! :rofl:

it isn't like I don't like other music as well, like classical music. But you can't really say that nowadays rock/pop singers can sing. It is crap as well. And I choose the Hip Hop/ Rap crap :)

But I also like Celtic music, Oldies (song makers like Joan Baez or Leonard Cohen), Classical music, operas ....

does that make me look a bit less crappy again in your eyes?

I like some of the same stuff...Rap/Hip Hop is the worst EVER! IMHO.

and for some reason it is the only music I can kinda dance to :shrug:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamo

*drinks beer and thinks about lost love at 6am*

I likes me some screamo.

I may prefer certain genres to others, but don't want to limit myself. I definitely can't pick just one.

:shrug:

in intelligent response

to that.

:hi:

;)

We can all tell that you just hate jazz, your paper-thin veneer doesn't fool any of us.

:rofl:

Kassav', zouk.

Papa Wembe, Pepe Kalle, Diblo Dibala, many others, soukous.

Oh yeah, and no pop song made after 1992.

Other than that, anything's fair game. Play the Osmond's "Down By the Lazy River" and follow it up from something off of Sunn o))))'s Black One.

So no Pop of 1994/1995, huh?

1994/95 were the years before music and MTV decided to follow the Lou Perlman path to suck-cess and market materialism over substance 20-fold.

but a radio station for DU or something like that would not survive on just classical. Perhaps a diverse schedule of one or two hour stints, combining a little out of every category or the 5 most popular ones or so, would satisfy more people and provide a great enough mix to tantalize everyone's ears. :)

Though my classical choices would probably appeal to very few indeed.

A group of folk like D.U. will have so a variety of cultural tastes that one can't really make anything monolithic which is going to appeal to many people.

I am listening to msnbc smithsonian folk and blues station on my wma good stuff. The Boss comes next followed by oldies stations.

I don't really care what it is. Just so long as it kicks ass. :bounce:

Shame!

That's why I put in an OTHER choice. I knew I couldn't put all music types in the poll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hardcore

And why is hip-hop excluded in favour of shit like new age? Hip-hop is far more relevant than new age these days.

Mix it up, baby. Mix it up because we got a big tent....

Stones 68-73, All Howling Wolf, All Iggy Pop until 78, All Lou Reed until 82, Anything Tom Verlaine is involved in, Paisley Underground, Twisted neo-southern gothicism of Gun Club, Nick Cave, 16 horsepower, and Tom Waits, "post rock" such as godspeed you! black emperor, flying saucer attack, and mogwai, John Fahey (both the "classic stuff" and his latter day work) bartok, hindemith, debussy, mahler, nino rota, ennio morricone ...

I was wondering if there is in internet radio station that you listent to which features pre war delta blues I can't find one that supports dial up.

:kick:

I like rock, pop, and r&b music from the 70s and 80s, with a smidgen of the 60s, a smattering of the 90s, and an inkling of the 00s. I even enjoy a little country every now and then as well.

:)

Quando olhei a terra ardendo
Qual fogueira de São João
Eu perguntei a Deus do céu, ai
Por que tamanha judiação

Que braseiro, que fornalha
Nem um pé de plantação
Por falta d'água perdi meu gado
Morreu de sede meu alazão

Até mesmo o asa branca
Bateu asas do sertão
Então eu disse adeus Rosinha
Guarda contigo meu coração

Então eu disse adeus Rosinha
Guarda contigo meu coração
Quando o verde dos teus olhos
Se espalhar na plantação

Eu te asseguro, não chores não, viu
Que eu voltarei, viu, pro meu sertão
Até mesmo o asa branca
Bateu asas do sertão

Então eu disse adeus Rosinha
Guarda contigo meu coração
Então eu disse adeus Rosinha
Guarda contigo meu coração

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For me to choose any single category here denies my equal passion for many of the other categories, some listed some not.
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which includes anything from classical to straight-ahead jazz to blues to rock to country to electronica to almost anything else you can think of. Quality, not genre, is the biggest determining factor in my musical preferences.

I can really do without most so-called "classic" rock (which I tend to think of as "middle-aged white guy music") and pop (which is mostly horrible, simple-minded, insipid stuff). And most modern country music is hideous (but most of that is pop with a redneck accent, so it's no bloody wonder).

Well...?



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I'm waiting...

I couldn't put every single musical genre in the poll. Sorry if I offended you, Oeditpus.

Come fly with me
Let's float down to Peru
In llama land
A one man band
Will play his flute for you

i like a little bit of everything

our tastes are considered eclectic to say the least; i'm more 1, 2 & 6 on your list, but he is more: 8, 1, 4, 5, 3 & 6 and yes in that order :thumbsup: mostly anything but 'rap' x(

Give me some classic rock on the stereo, a nice fire roaring in the fire place, and a hot DU babe, and I'm good to go:)............

folk/roots/blues/Americana. But I love music itself enough to be able to appreciate anything well done and not trite.

Recently, I can say that there are two movie soundtracks that I would like to have:
Natural Born Killers (Leonard Cohen-Waiting for a Miracle)
O Brother Where Art Thou? ("The Soggy Mountain Boys"-I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow)

and pretty much anything Hardhead downloads. He finds some really cool shit.

Which means I like listening to artists who actually write their own songs, instead of just recording someone else's emotions.

I like indie pop/rock, roots/Americana, blues, jazz, and some hip/hop and rap.

Add 1 cup of each of the following to blender:
Kraftwerk, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Ministry, Leaether Strip, Funker Vogt

Puree for 1 minute at highest speed.

but it is mostly rock of the 80's and 90's. I am also in a folk music phase (WUMB fan) right now. I can stand to listen to all types except rap and country (also top 40s pop).

The only genres that I tend to avoid like the plague are:

- Modern rock (the Stainds, Linkin Park, POD, all that crap)
- Pop country (Kenney Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, and so on...)
- Trance

Hard core metal like Lamb of God or Opeth.

:puke: <---------me listening to country

Seriously, though, I like rock, and jazz, and some pop, and jazz, and rock, and....

:D

:shrug:

:hi:

It's a little bit of Dixie Chicks....

Some Grateful Dead...

A little bit of Slaid Cleves....

Some Lucinda Williams....

Throw in some Dwight Yokum....

And add a little Mary Chapin Carpenter and Nanci Griffith and you got yourself a real good samplin' of what American music really is...

so many greats IMO, so it would be #1. Pop/rock, rock, and folk are often just as thrilling.