Music - What Floats Your Boat?
Kinda surprised there doesn’t appear to be a thread on this.
I’ve always been a big music fan, a major part in my life. With all that’s going on, maybe folks out there have the same passion and would like to share it? If this thread takes off, we will get a ‘feel’ of what others like, and can make suggestions? As for my tastes, I guess they could be described generally as rock music, blues, folk and some classical. I was thinking that if we could limit it to the more obscure/less well-known tunes? No Beatles, ABBA, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers etc, we’ve all heard them already.
I’ll kick it off with this from Supertramp...
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Rock till you drop
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Mine is mainly rock, blues and anyone actually talented enough to play an instrument. Can't stand that modern sing along to a backing track type pop!
Once a month on our site in Spain we have a guy play Spanish guitar, mainly flamenco type tunes, very mesmerising.
JK
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I’ve seen Supertramp live! Earls Court, 1983 I think!
The World’s anthem at the moment, still a brilliant song. Morning wake up dance........
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ARt9HV9T0w8
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I like AC/DC, Stones, The Police, Queen, loads of stuff. Found this great cover version of Thunderstruck, got a couple of their albums now....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
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One of the upsides to enforced confinement - playang through stacks and stacks of music that I haven't heard for some time. I'm not a great fan of groups with one or two notable exceptions (Beautiful South, Deacon Blue, Steely Dan) but I love the singer/ songwriters of the 70's and 80's - Van Morrison, Neil Young, James Taylor, Carol King etc. But my all time favourite is Joni Mitchell - I wish I knew how to do the "insert a video thing" because I'd recommend listening to anything from the album Hejira - especially the title track and the closing track "Refuge of the Road" - very prophetic for current times.
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Mmmm .... will this work?
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Thanks for the thread Freddy, music helps to distract me from what is going on just now. I usually like all sorts of music but I'm mostly listening to the (for me) more relaxing sounds. A favourite at the moment is switching on Alexa and asking for "Coffee Shop Jazz" (I've just noticed OH has asked Alexa to stop!) He's on the phone to someone.
I'm missing hearing the musician in the family playing with his Big Band, all the concerts have been cancelled and the quirky cowpunk band that my daughter plays the fiddle in, they do a good version of the Johnny Cash "We got married in a fever" song but it's south west style....something like "we got married in Bridgwater...and then "we're all going to Weston." It's cheerful and makes me smile.
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Popular Classical [Vivaldi Four Seasons, Strauss, Copeland, esp, Fanfare for the Common Man, and thenfollowed by the Emerson, Lake and Palmer version, Sprach Zarathrustra by Richard Strauss].
Then lots of Rock: Steppenwolf, Bachmann Turner Overdrive, Alice Cooper, Free, Thin Lizzy, interspersed with stuff from Georgie Fame, Alan Price and a few quirky items such as 'Mendocino' by the Sir Douglas Quintet [popular during my first foreign holiday [Austria 1967], so some special memories ...
'Eloise' by Barry Ryan, 'Son of Hickpry Hollers Tramp' by OC Smith, Cream {School detention for writing this on my Latin Exercise Book; another detention the following week for attempted translation to 'Spuma Lactis' as a more cultural version...]
Dave Brubeck 'Take 5'.
And lots of Elkie Brooks [Bought 'No More the Fool' when I met Elaine and we used to play 'We have tonight' at the end of our weekends together, soppy romantic that I am
]And many more ...
Steve
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Adge Cutler & The Worzels? 'Don't Tell I, Tell Ee'
'I had a lift to town, with Good Old Farmer Brown, In a Ten Ton truck that were full of muck, and when he set I down, the barmaid Rose, she held her nose, I said 'Don't smell I, smell eee ...'
Steve
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Our daughter's band played with them recently in Bristol (obviously not the originals) but still going as a group. They were intending to do another show but now postponed, she said everyone had a great evening singing along.
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Ralph McTell, after years of refusing to revise or update 'Streets of London', has agreed to a request to add an extra verse to reflect the plight of the Homeless in the face of Coronavirus.
It's really moving ....
In shop doorways, under bridges, in all our towns and cities
You can glimpse the makeshift bedding from the corner of your eye
Remember what you're seeing barely hides a human being
We're all in this together, brother, sister, you and I.
Steve
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Hi all, has to be this at this awfull time. Hope it works. Harold Melvin wake up everybody.
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Supertramp are a very good example of the way that I heard most of my favourite music-I would hear the single, buy the album and fall in love with other songs than the one that led me to buy it in the first place!
I bought Breakfast in America and then the live album Paris which is still, now in digital format, one of my favourites.
Much of the music that I listen to is from live recordings, youtube is great for that, with the most played in the car-I can have it as loud as I want it-being Supertramp, Sterephonics and Elbow but with a range so wide I could not really classify it but much of it is an audible link to a particular place or time.
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Iam a bit different 55 years ago I used to have my dansette record player plugged into the light fitting ( no sockets in the attic) and played LPs by Charlie Parker, yes I listened to radio Luxembourg etc went to clubs but always fell asleep listening to the great Charlie Parker. I still listen still have my collection of his recordings but sadly no record player now, it is 100 years since he was born this year and I still find his recordings well worth a listen if you never have.
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It depends what mood I'm in. Sometime I want to be soothed, or even made to cry. Sometimes if I'm angry and upset I want something really really loud. Sometime I just want something to sing along to (to my husband's chagrin, as I struggle to keep in tune).
I've always been a bit of a Folkie, and we go to lots of live gigs (now cancelled/rescheduled). This link is Oysterband that we've seen many times (and were to see this year) and it probably fits into all the categories above.
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https://youtu.be/7pspeIJS7XQ
