What's your favourite music genre?

We haven't had a poll for awhile...

Some people listen exclusively to one 'kind' of music and scorn all others. Some people listen to anything and everything. Some people believe that music is the work of the devil. So where do you fit in?

Some of my favourites in no particular order:

Frank Black (Pixies)
Pink Floyd
Frank Zappa
David Bowie
Michael Nyman
Schubert
The Jam
The Oils
LED ZEPPELIN
Deep Purple
Django Reinhardt
The Pogues
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Flavour of the month: Jet and Queens of the Stone Age

I was thinking we havent had a Poll for awhile, maybe Stinky can't find the Poll button.

My fave at the moment are the Wiggles, and High 5.


Al :)

Oh yes, I discovered High 5 a couple of years ago. Is it wrong to enjoy it as much as I do?

Darren,

You don't have R&B on there. The real kind I mean, not the modern crud that they call R&B.

Not to mention Blues, Soul, and Funk all of which I love as well. I kind of lump them under 60's, 70's, 80's Rock. It's a bit hard when there's only 10 options. I s'pose I should have done away with the silly one that no-one will pick.

Hey look at that, it's magic!!

The power of the moderator is awesome indeed.....

:eek:

Heavy metal
Punk
Reggae
Ska
Aussie Rock


ahhhhh screw it - 60's, 70's, 80's will have to do :)

BTW those hi-5 girls sure can move, Grrrrrrr :) :D

All you have to do is ask the moderators and poof. :D

Al

Darren,

At first I thought your new avatar was Ted Mulry (R.I.P) :) but I see that it's the guy from Spinal Tap.

BTW I got that out on DVD a few months ago. It's still very funny.

Craig

Ted Mulry! I went to see him at the Tathra Hotel in 1980 something.

I haven't watched Spinal Tap for years, I'll have to get it out. I played in a band very much like Spinal Tap in the 80's. We even had a song called 'Stonehenge'. The words were something like:

Stonehenge (big power chords),
Monumental Rock (awesome lead lick)

Terrible really. Don't know what we were thinking...

Silent C,

Your poll short-changes classical, lumping it in with jazz. And, now that the the 10-variable limit has been lifted, it could easily be subdivided, with categories for Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Gregorian chant, Baroque, Tchaichovski, Khachaturian, Opera, Gilbert and Sullivan, and so on. For some of us, the Beatles were after our time:)

Rocker

Gees Rocker. you must be ancient? :D

Music is one of the things that make life worth living ... one of the cheapest pick me ups going. I don't know if i've encountered a genre that I could find nothing I liked ... although rap and house seem to be better in VERY small doses

even some of the "artificial" bands can be quite fun ... has anyone listened to the Monkees recently ... i picked up an album cheap recently and have to say they have has lasted quite well ( although have yet to play it to anyone who isn't old enough to remember the monkees ... so it might just be nostalgia kicking in )

to the great embarassment of my son I like what I describe as "jumping up and down music" ... punk, ska, irish ... something that makes you want to tap your feet and throw yourself about the dance floor ...

recommend Motorhead when you do the ironing ( not my favourite occupation I hasten to add )

do not recommend The Living End as the sound track when you play roller hockey ... our accident rate went sky high so its probably to be avoided while in the car or using power tools too

and if you really want to get someone out of bed on a Sunday morning my dad discovered Mahler at full blast worked a treat:)

Quick survey of what's currently loaded into the CD player in my car (in no particular order):-

2 Dire Straits albums
John Coltrane (very cool!)
Eric Clapton x 2 (both plugged and unplugged)
Rod Stewart
Paul Simon
Bob Seger
The Beatles
George Harrison
Ry Cooder
Steve Miller

I guess that places me firmly in the 60s, 70s & 80s rock category with a bit of jazz to salt the mix. I'm also partial to Beethoven and I've been known to listen to opera now and then (particularly Verdi). There are not many forms of music that I actively dislike. As a kid I had a pretty good grounding. Both my parents were musicians and the house was always full of music: live, canned and radio. Interestingly, neither I nor my two siblings can play a note on any instrument. However, we all love music and several of our children have some talent - it clearly skipped a generation.

Jackie - I reckon your dad's choice of Mahler as a Sunday morning reveille was inspired. About the only music I can think of that might be a more effective wake-up would be a Highland regiment pipe band at full throttle and point blank range. George McDonald Fraser writes feelingly about that experience in his book: "McAuslan In The Rough"

Col

Aaaah, Saturday afternoon in the workshop, with ABC Radio National and 'Singers of Renown' turned up so I can hear it over the assorted machinery. Haven't had the neighbours complain yet, but...

I could live with SilentC's and Driver's taste in music plus

Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Jethro Tull
Miles Davis
Jimmy Cliff
Talking Heads
David Byrne
J.D. Lang
Pearl Jam
Techno et. al.
The Who
Steve Earle
Latin Dance Music
Roots Music - Check out http://www.abc.net.au/dig (great internet radio)
Leonard Cohen
Classical inc opera
etc. etc.

Basically anything exluding Rap, those sickly sweet girl singers, cookie cutter pop songs (Kylie etc.)

Steeley Dan
Van Morrison
U2
Pink Floyd
The Doors
T Rex
and heaps of one off songs by artists that touch the soul, rev you up or remind you of a special event.
examples like
The Captain - Kasey Chambers
Unchained Melody - Rightous Brothers
Take a Long Line - The Angels
Forgiven not Forgotten - Corrs
Tusk - Fleetwoood Mac
etc, etc ,etc

Meatloaf - played VERY LOUD

... and we shouldn't forget cajun/zydeco, great fun to dance to and any old twaddle sounds good when sung in french ...

Long live Rock 'n' Roll

Hahah, I added to the poll, now looks like Neil did. Lets see what & Christopha add..! ;)

Rocker, thankyou, my thoughts exactly, long live ABC FM.
I also know that shares these views although he probably won't admit it.
Neil, you bloody musical cretin, stick with Shellawax and other wonderful finishes;).
Long live Sanz, Bach, Vivaldi etc etc (they already have)

When you start thinking about this, the question of musical genres becomes irrelevant. It's all good - just that some music is better.

Neil has made me feel guilty because, all other influences aside, what got me interested in music was the stuff that made me tap my feet when I was only half as high as I am now - back in the 50s.

Eddy Cochrane
Gene Vincent
The King! (Jailhouse Rock era - his best stuff by far. I reckon Douglas Adams was slightly off target when he had him singing Love Me Tender to Arthur and Ford in the domain of the king bar scene towards the end of "Mostly Harmless")
Jerry Lee Lewis
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Buddy Holly (How could I have left him off the list? My first pair of glasses were modelled on his).

That stuff led to a later appreciation of the blues - influenced by some gentle prodding in that direction from my big brother.

Muddy Waters
Sonny Boy Williamson
John Lee Hooker
BB King

(Back in the early 80s I made friends with a cab driver in St Louis because of a mutual appreciation of some Muddy Waters growling out of his dashboard-mounted 8-track. After he dropped me off at my hotel, the concierge told me that was the first time for several years that he had seen an African-American cab driver carry someone's suitcase into the hotel. We were still debating the rival merits of Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker as we crossed the lobby! Good bloke).

Ah! - golden memories. Music is the most evocative of all the arts, I reckon.

Col

Rod Steward of the old rockers;

Guns & Roses, red hot chilli peppers, garbage, nickelback & emenem. Also have ABC’s top 100 clasic hits in the car.

Regards,

Theva

Some of the early Metallica gets my blood flowing also John Butler trio and Korn.
But then I grew up with the Beatles so they get the nod as well.
Regards
Bob

what about Engelbert Humperdinck.....nah mates, just kiddin with ya, punk, punk and even more punk. And weirdly enough some of that international punk in diff languages (even though i can't understand it) it sometimes sounds pretty good to me. As long as it's got a good beat, and unfortunatly even though i have never even heard old engelbert, that name alone proves that his music has no taste. Now i don't mean to offend you engelbert fans out there, but seriously...what's with the name?

It's amazing how some things come together. I bought a new home theatre / 5 stacker CD combination on Friday and tonight I've loaded it with 5 Beatles CD's on random play while I check out the latest posts. The DG(Domestic Goddess) bought the full Beatles set for Xmas a few years ago.

Absolute Nirvana (the place, not the group)

Larry

Engelbert Humperdinck stole the name from Engelbert Humperdinck who was a 19th century opera singer.
I don't recall going to any of his performances:p

I think (may be wrong) that the original Engeldink was a composer...'Pictures at an Exhibition' one of his works?

That's right, Alex. He was a composer. Mostly of opera. His most well-known work was 'Hansel & Gretel'. He also wrote incidental music for Shakespeare's plays.

Don't think 'Pictures at an Exhibition" was one of his, though.

Col

... if we are now talking classical pieces Ray Stevens takes a lot of beating.
I'm sure you all recall the beautiful melody of "Ahab the Arab"

... and weird Al Yankovic's absolute classic
"There's Something Weird In The Fridge Today".

Pictures at an exhibition was by Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky. He also composed "Night on Bald Mountain" if you watched "Fantasia" that's the piece that the scene with all the witches and devils is set to, very dramatic music. Worth a listen, even to someone who grew up (well sort of) on Ska and Punk.

Mick

I checked my concerts so far this year

Queensland orchestra in the park
Rehersal for the ballet - Peer Gynt
Meatloaf
Deep Purple .. Billy Thorpe supporting
Got tickets on my desk for the opera (Carmen)

Most of my CDs are 60s, 70s but also love Paul Robeson, Nina Simone.

I dunno... everthing except cRAP.

John Scott

gigs attended so far in 2004,

the real mackenzies - canadian scottish punk ( and we found out what is not worn under the kilt! )

dropkick murphies - american irish punk
paladins + bill kirchen - rock-a-billy
von bodies - american, sort of pop rock I suppose
the dirtbombs - r&b

tickets bought but not seen yet

the mikado
swan lake

missed seeing

Richard Thompson
Burning Spear

Shuffle shuffle, may I have sauce with the humble pie, I actually knew that but the response was posted in haste.
Anyway I'm bloody classical guitarist not an opera buff although do tolerate some Operetta.

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Originally posted by echnidna
... if we are now talking classical pieces Ray Stevens takes a lot of beating.
I'm sure you all recall the beautiful melody of "Ahab the Arab"

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Not to mention that RS evergreen "The Streak"
Regards
Bob:rolleyes:

We Built This City was recently voted worst song ever. Achy Breaky Heart came second.

What about:

One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater
Itsy Witsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Not to mention "McArthur Park" by Richard Harris. The only thing I can think of that might be worse would be a cover version by Rolf Harris!

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Originally posted by Driver
Not to mention "McArthur Park" by Richard Harris. The only thing I can think of that might be worse would be a cover version by Rolf Harris!

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Not too loud, he might hear you. Any cover by Rolf would be enough to give me an Achey Breaky Heart.
Arghh
Bob