What's your favourite music genre?

[Grunt]

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.)

[rodm]

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

[Alix]

Meatloaf - played VERY LOUD

[jackiew]

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

[Neil]

Long live Rock 'n' Roll

[Shane Watson]

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

[Iain]

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)

[Driver]

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

[Theva]

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

[bob w]

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

[nik]

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?

[Larry M]

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

[Iain]

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

[AlexS]

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

[Driver]

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