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Music and YOU, or MUSIC & ME
This one popped up on my radio while I was reading your post Mike, and I love talking heads so thought I'd post a link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lJwyQ_2
Another fave artist of mine who popped up on YouTube was Fatboy slim, too many to post just one but "Walkden dancing" hits top of my top ten.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs
I'm also partial to a bit of basement jazz
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rAOyh7YmEc
Not sure if all these links will work on one post???
I could go on forever..........
Are you going to contribute further to to your initial post Mike? If not Is it worth me going on with my musical madness?
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I think Wonky is the only one who will get it???
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I get it - am partial to a bit of Fatboy Slim too. Though I used to play him a lot when my eldest was a toddler and she loved it - "Want Funk Soul Brother again, Mummy!" which means I do tend to internally hear his titles in the voice of a 2 year old...
Me? Everything from classical to hiphop, The Smiths to folk and Doris Day to Prince. Only have a couple of pet hate genres, everything else is somewhere in the collection. I tend to listen to a lot of classical these days as both kids play instruments and we go to LOT of concerts. Always enjoyed it but they are really giving me a musical education, it's lovely. Kirtsy MacColl, Bheki Mseleku, Billy Bragg, The Tiger Lillies. I'd better stop now.
Apart from punk and some of the modern, I like all the rest. But haven't got everything. I've got, Alice Cooper,Queen, Simply Red, George Michael, Moody blues,Beatles,Fox,Simon and Garfunkel,Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield,Abba and most of all Carpenters. I play Carpenters most of the time. Sometimes i will sing with them. When I was working at littlewoods store,in the kitchen, when I got a chance I would sing without the music because we weren't allowed a radio. It would have been the Carpenters. I once did a venue for a charity event. The person who arranged it had a karioki machine that could play ordinary tapes. So I sang with the Carpenters.
Ha ha
LG your toddler tale brought back memories of mine bopping about the kitchen to Underworld's Born Slippy
She will be 20 next year
Right there with you kitty!
saw trainspotting 2 trailer yesterday, took me right back! can't wait to see it in January!
Still love my dance/house music, still dance all night, but also love funk, jazz, blues, hip hop......but my one true love is Prince! Great taste in music LG
DHR, have you heard the Carpenters do Ticket To Ride and help? Please Mr Postman, was a Beatles song. But not the first 2 to do it.
I don't think other people can do better with Carpenters songs
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Kitty, my musical tastes are similar to yours. Love Fatboy Slim, Basement Jaxx and have most of their stuff (or is there a genre called Basement jazz?) early David Guetta (who remembers the ice skating, morphing Citroen car?) and lots of other nineties stuff. I also liked (in my mad student days!) Jethro Tull, Blodwyn (spelling?) Pig and Captain Beefheart. Moved on to Meatloaf, the Rolling Stones and Queen - got all theirs. After that came Fischerspooner, the Dave Matthew band too. Like Adele's latest but not so keen on 19. Too many more to list but I definitely do not like any opera or musicals music (yuk) and I am not keen on most classical stuff.
For me,queen and Bohemian rhapsody.Abba the winner takes it all.George Michael to be forgiven and you have been loved.simon and Garfunkel, bridge over troubled water. Carpenters, rainy days and Monday.fox single bed. They're all very special and bring back memories.
My main love is the blues. I do enjoy rock and southern gospel. I have a new crush on alternative rock. Found myself listening to it daily this past summer.
I play the piano like a crazy person, boogie woogie/blues. While taking care of mom during her last ten years of life, she quite liked it when I would go crazy with the old hymns, giving them all a wild beat and cramming as many wild boogie woogie riffs into them as possible.lol
And it is still my intent to download the sheet music to Chopin's Funeral March. I've always enjoyed pestering my older sisters and getting them laughing. So I want to be able to sit down and play that beautiful song some time as one of my sisters is walking up to my front door. My brother in law must be there, he would really get a kick out of it.
In music we are what we were brought up with, think it has all been said on another thread. Learning instruments and dancing at an early age that music genre has always been my love. Dad was a light opera buff and I got taken to the local Hypodrome to hear live singers with Vilja and Wien Wien Nur Du Allien being my all time favourites. Piano was classical mainly until Dad would walk in with music sheets saying half a crown when you can play this. Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Alice Blue Gown and many more. Parties usually saw me pushed on the piano bruising my fingers hammering out all the old favourites and watching the girl with ginger hair I fancied being whisked away by the local romeo because the crowd would not let me leave the piano. Pub and Mess piano's battered keys missing playing everything in key C because that is the norm with people who definitely thought key changing was being toffee nosed. When dancing went astray to dancing round a hand bag or sitting on the floor rowing imaginary boats to three cord wonders I lost interest both in playing and listening. Getting back on the piano of late discovered those old songs are so imbedded I do not need put the music up. The music played on my system has to fit the mood, Glen Miller, Dean Martin, Foster and Allen or even the E L O and Bing Crosby, sometimes Martha Algarich, one of the best pianists I know of. Yes I am getting too old as all the above links bring only a racket to my ears, I will stick to Irish ballads and Lily Marlene with the odd mad In the mood circa Glen Miller.
Frank.
Palaisglide - similar taste but not quite the same vintage
Also like late '5os and the '60s some Abba, Elvis and Johnny Cash.