We have a thread about books so I thought it might be fun to do one about music.
What music are you grooving to in your car, relaxing to in the tub, dancing to in your livingroom, working out to, etc.?
My newest purchase is the Nickelback CD. There was a song I heard on the radio of theirs that I really liked so I looked it up on amazon.com. Upon listening to clips of all the songs on the CD, I found that I already knew--and loved--at least 3 songs on the CD from hearing them on the radio. I worried the other songs were a little too heavy rock for me, but I put it in my car CD player earlier this week and I am loving it. I was rockin' the Giant parking lot earlier today with track 1.
What's your latest music passion?
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You can pick the genre of music you like to listen to and then even fine tune it from there. Prior to December I've been embarrasing DS by belting Broadway tunes. Now the site has Christmas music which even includes Josh Groban's newest CD. I'm happy!
I got CDs from Pink, Danity Kane and Chris Daughtry for my birthday, and I am enjoying all of them in my car CD player these days.
At home, it's always the latin dance music. That is my standard clean-the-house music, though I've been using Christmas music for packing sometimes.
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I have been using "Greatest Albums of All Times" lists from Rolling Stone magazine and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to expand my CD colletion.
I (doh!) just, belatedly, discovered Green Day, with their "American Idiot" album and really like it. Among other things, I suspect that some people here would like the song "She's A Rebel".
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I haven't seen anyone mention any of these, but I adore Pink Floyd, U2, Sting.
Pink Floyd's reputation is distorted due to the popularity of their songs that are weird and push the envelope. But if you listen to a whole album, you will find beautiful romantic songs; melancholy songs; socially/politically important songs; and musical arrangements that are as complex as classical composers. And I adore the dreamy vocals and searing guitar of the wonderful David Gilmour.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Led Zeppelin & Robert Plant!
Grace
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Have Percy Grainger's "Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon" stuck in my head... many of you have probably played it... go here to listen to one min of it.
PS... I got to play with one of the best horn players in the bay area on Tues night... and I'm still a little high from it...
Originally posted by Steph: WOW, another thing I have in common with you all...GREAT music selections!
Right now I have been enjoying the soundtrack of "Jersey Boys". There are some real classics on there like "Walk like a Man" and "Sherry". I love it!
I've been in a hyper music mode this summer getting CDs from the library including Jersey Boys AND South Pacific with Reba Mcintire (sp?) and Brian Stokes Mitchell. (He can sing "This Nearly was Mine" to me anytime he wants!
I love jazz, classical, pop, show tunes, some rock - just about anything but country. And it feels like I'm in the heart of Ohio Country-music. (My brother noticed when he came down a month ago that was the only music he could get on the radio!)
I've especially been interested lately, in discovering groups that I missed the first time around - The Stones (Rolling), CCR, Fleetwood Mac & Bob Seeger.
Show tunes (yes, Wicked & Rent!) and anything I can sing along to rate high - Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Barry Mannilow, Melissa Manchester, Spanky & Our Gang, The Four Seasons & The Mamas & The Papas, The Nylons and The Manhattan Transfer, Michael Feinstein and Rosemary Clooney.
I've also discovered some lesser known like Steve Tyrell, Susannah McCorkle, Eva Cassidy and Jane Monheit
OH! and Bela Fleck! Especially his classic albums. If you're a musician - you've got to read the liner notes on this. Fascinating!
Originally posted by jillybean: I LOVE Rent!!! I have seenit a few times now and love almost all the songs(there are one or two that I skip over) but I could watch that movie non-stop.
It sounds like you have the double CD. I just happened to see another (single) Rent soundtrack CD in the store one day and didn't know there was any other soundtrack. I've since listened to the cuts of the double CD on amazon.
There's only 1 song on my CD that I'm not crazy about. I think the song I love singing to the most is the 2 girls singing at their wedding reception. Love those lyrics....take me for what I am, who I was meant to be, and if ya give a damn, take me baby...or leave me!
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Originally posted by Tayhudson: My newest CD is The Raconteurs. It is Jack White's new band. Although, he says he's still not done with The White Stripes, but that The Raconteurs isn't just a "project". We'll see...
The Killers new release is due out in early October and I can't wait to hear that, because I love "Hot Fuss".
It is definitely rock. I'm mostly a 70s through present "alternative" lover. I do actually like some pop too. I really like the singles I've heard from Shakira, and I really like the new release from Chritina Aguilera. You would have never heard me admit to that a few years ago.
Dawn
The White Stripes and the Killers...two of my favorites!!!
And Sheri, I LOVE Rent!!! I have seenit a few times now and love almost all the songs(there are one or two that I skip over) but I could watch that movie non-stop.
Jill
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My newest CD is The Raconteurs. It is Jack White's new band. Although, he says he's still not done with The White Stripes, but that The Raconteurs isn't just a "project". We'll see...
The Killers new release is due out in early October and I can't wait to hear that, because I love "Hot Fuss".
It is definitely rock. I'm mostly a 70s through present "alternative" lover. I do actually like some pop too. I really like the singles I've heard from Shakira, and I really like the new release from Chritina Aguilera. You would have never heard me admit to that a few years ago.
Dawn
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Dd got the RENT dvd from Blockbuster and then went out the next day and bought it and the CD's so that is all that is playing in the car right now. When I get tired of hearing it over & over & over she puts in Aida. She saw it on Broadway when she went to New York with her class in 2001.
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Originally posted by jillybean: Sheri, I love Nickelback too, which song is it? My current favorite is Far Away.
The CD title is "All the Right Reasons." The song that led me to look up the CD on amazon.com was "Savin' Me," a ballad that I think is simply STUNNING. Track 1 that I mentioned above is "Follow You Home" which is more rocked out. And yes, "Far Away" is really lovely too! That was the third of the songs I already knew from radio play (the other was "Photograph").
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Right now in my card CD changer I have the two CD's from Rent
Isn't Rent awesome? You may recall me raving about it this summer. It's still in rotation in my car and I LOVE IT...sing along to almost every song.
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Sheri, I love Nickelback too, which song is it? My current favorite is Far Away. Right now in my card CD changer I have the two CD's from Rent, Breaking Benjamin, David Bowie, a CD I bought a few years ago that has songs by Janis Joplin, James Taylor, and others, and in the #6 slot in the changer is a a country CD! I used to only like old country like Patsy Cline but now I love county(looking at and listening to Tim McGraw has definitely boosted my love of this music)! Jill
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Tower of Power chart, "What is Hip?" is stuck in my head.
Played it Thurs night in jazz band... The trombone section is 3 engineers and me. Had this conversation:
Jeff: So what IS hip? Me: I'm not sure but it ain't us... Don the drummer is hip... Guitar Dudes, they are hip... But us... we are not hip. Jeff: How can you say that we aren't hip?" Me: OK... Jeff, you are wearing a POCKET PROTECTOR!!! and Dave is wearing shorts and black socks and birkenstocks. Our side of the room is NOT hip. Jeff: OK define hip... if my pocket protector isn't hip... Me: I'm positive that "Hip" can be graphed... it is obviously a function. The line has a slope... definately has a slope (don't know if it is positive or neg..). And the range does NOT include all numbers...
Is that not PROOF that we are not hip... that we would and could sit down and graph it and plot out the function of hip and define it by an equation?
At that point, Jeff fell on the floor laughing...
I have been spending 3 hours a day with ds doing math homework... this week was all about graphing functions... If we can graph snowfall and social security... I suppose "hip" can be graphed.
Oh WOW! Music, I love music of all kinds. I recently found an old baroque dance tape ( yes they made them many years ago) and I love it. Quick, light ditties that are just soothing and wonderfully fun to close my eyes and think about the ladies and gents twirling and bowing. Then there is always John Denver, the master of folk tunes. I love Paul Simon, (I know I am showing my age). Neil Diamond, big bands, drum corps, there isn't too much that I don't listen to except my son's heavy metal and rap music. I have to say, I have shouted more than once, my mother's favorite phrase "Turn that noise down".
Enjoy what you love, dance as if you've never danced before...if it makes you happy, that's what music is for.
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I like a lot of different kinds of music, mostly country these days. I have a tendancy to like this song or that song and I rarely even know the name of the singer. Dd usually has to tell me who it is. I love anything by Reba (& her sitcom is really good also). Some of my other favorites: Mac Davis, The Lettermen, Gene Pitney, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Vicki Carr, Chad & Jeremy, Barbara Streisand, Andy Williams, Ray Stevens, Clay Aiken, some Beatles songs (but not all of them across the board), Celtic Woman, Native American Flutes & Drums by various artists & bagpipes if I am outside, bagpipe music inside is rather shrill. I have probably left out a lot that I will think of later.
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