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Nate wrote: "Derek wrote: "Cool Nate! I was waiting for the young, hip guy around here to speak up. On second thought, Daydream Nation might be my favorite album. No, make it Doolittle! I can never decide on fa..."

Ah man. You're still hip in my book Nate Dog. Most of my friends like Steely Dan.

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Bryn wrote: "Um, David Bowie (early). Favourite album, Diamond Dogs."

David Bowie's early stuff is definitely classic. He's one of a kind.

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Jane wrote: "Wagner--yes, yes, yes! I don't have as many versions as you, Bryn, but I do have two Tristans, three Götterdämmerungs [my favorite of the Ring Cycle], and single versions of many of his other oper..."

Won't forget House Of Fun

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Hey Nate. Are you familiar with Kurt Vile? I saw him at SXSW a couple of years ago & have been hooked ever since. Smoke Ring For My Halo is one of my favorite albums of the last few years.

[Bryn]

Jane wrote: "Wagner--yes, yes, yes! I don't have as many versions as you, Bryn, but I do have two Tristans, three Götterdämmerungs [my favorite of the Ring Cycle], and single versions of many of his other oper..."

@Jane Hah. I love 'Salome' too. Handel's Julius Caesar, and much else by Handel.
Russians. Prince Igor by Borodin.
Benjamin Britten, Gustav Mahler.

@Derek kind words on my David Bowie craze.

Favourite Mongolian group: Yat-Kha, album tuva.rock.

[[deleted user]]

I'm getting ready to google Yat-Kha. Thank you all for chatting about music with me. It's made a lonely night much more fun. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

next question.

Daggiest most uncool album you will admit to ever having owned?

To answer myself...I don't think I have ever owned/bought an uncool album, but if there is one, it would be Whitesnake.
I bought it for this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RH...

(BLUSH)

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In the still of the night!!!!!. Yes, I must admit I owned that one too. The 80's were a strange time.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh and I shouldn't mention this one..but I owned this on single.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xzll...

Nobody spill my secret!

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I must say that I'll never forget Tawny Kittain(spelling?) crawling all over the hood of that car.lol.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Derek wrote: "I must say that I'll never forget Tawny Kittain(spelling?) crawling all over the hood of that car.lol."

In the Whitesnake vid? Yeah, that is a classic scene of the 80's pop music revolution.

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Terri wrote: "Oh and I shouldn't mention this one..but I owned this on single.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xzll...

Nobody spill my secret!"

HAHAHA! I might have had a poster of her on my wall. ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think every red blooded male did. ;)

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Oh man..I can't believe I'm going to admit this, but I went through a rap phase in high school & I bought the Ice, Ice Baby single. It doesn't get any uncooler than that.

[Bryn]

Derek wrote: "I'm getting ready to google Yat-Kha."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yat-Kha

try the voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpySd5...

[Bryn]

But this is soulful, from a traditional song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGa-3j...

and one I like... sorry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9fvh...

[Bobby]

Terri wrote: "Oh and I shouldn't mention this one..but I owned this on single.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xzll...

Nobody spill my secret!"

I won't tell if you won't tell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5Vx...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Derek wrote: "Oh man..I can't believe I'm going to admit this, but I went through a rap phase in high school & I bought the Ice, Ice Baby single. It doesn't get any uncooler than that."


Oh mate. Yes. I think you just took out the trophy for uncoolest album or single owned.

At least you didn't get any Milli Vanilli.....or did you...???

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bobby wrote: "Terri wrote: "Oh and I shouldn't mention this one..but I owned this on single.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xzll...

Nobody spill my secret!"

I won't tell if you won't tell!

http://www.yout..."


That's what friends are for. Thanks pal. :-)

[Nate]

I haven't heard him, but I'll certainly check him out :)

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Bryn wrote: "But this is soulful, from a traditional song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGa-3j...

and one I like... sorry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9fvh......"

I like them Bryn. You can't give me too many music links. Not possible.

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No Terri. I never stooped so low as to buy any Milli Vanilli. I had those frauds sniffed out from the get go. And let me add that I crushed that Vanilla Ice cassette into a million pieces within a week of buying it.:)

[Jane]

Derek wrote: "Hey Nate. Are you familiar with Kurt Vile? I saw him at SXSW a couple of years ago & have been hooked ever since. Smoke Ring For My Halo is one of my favorite albums of the last few years."

I never heard of him and looked him up. I thought his name was a corny pseudonym until I read his dad gave him that punny name--Kurt Vile = Kurt Weill,[ pronounced the same as Vile], the German-born Broadway composer. I like "September Song" (Broadway), "Mack the Knife", "Alabama Song" and others of his Berlin Theater songs (Weimar Republic-era). Weill left Germany and came to the U.S. when Hitler came to power.

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I thought the same thing, Jane. I didn't think Kurt Vile could possibly be his real name. When I first heard it, I instantly thought of Johnny Rotten.

[Jane]

Johnny Rotten = John Lydon, wasn't it?

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Yep. Sex Pistols.

[Linda]

My younger son took me on a Jeep ride and had one song he wanted me to hear: HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU. I don't know the hard rock group who slipped that one mellow song into that album, but it was beautiful.

[Jane]

Oh my gosh--Roy Rogers and Dale Evans! That's an oldie but goodie!!

I hope you and your hubby had a great night painting the town red the other night!

[Anne]

Bryn wrote: "My other favourite is Wagner: Parsifal, Tristan & Isolde (I have three each of them) and chiefly The Ring (I have six).

Also have stacks of baroque opera. Monteverdi my favourite there."

I am glad to see I am not the only classical music lover here. Classical is my love and the main genre for my listening. I also like Musicals, some film music(mostly from the swashbuckling older movies) and Exotica- Les Baxter, Martin Denny, etc.

[Jane]

@Bryn and Anne: I had thought I was the only classical music and opera lover but I'm glad I'm not alone.

[Dawn]

I imagine there will be a few of us classical lovers lurking around. I'm one too. Bach, Puccinni, Mozart, Verdi, Vivaldi, Orff..... :)

[Dawn]

Terri wrote: "next question.

Daggiest most uncool album you will admit to ever having owned?"

Backstreet Boys
I bought it for this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug88HO... some 13 years ago!

[Jane]

Anne wrote: "Bryn wrote: "My other favourite is Wagner: Parsifal, Tristan & Isolde (I have three each of them) and chiefly The Ring (I have six).

Also have stacks of baroque opera. Monteverdi my favourite the..."

Anne wrote: "Bryn wrote: "My other favourite is Wagner: Parsifal, Tristan & Isolde (I have three each of them) and chiefly The Ring (I have six).

Also have stacks of baroque opera. Monteverdi my favourite the..."

@Anne-- then you must like Korngold's movie music. :)

[Linda]

HAPPY TRAILS, not Dale Evans and Roy Rogers singing it. It was a hard rock group, but I don't which one. But, I like THE LONE RANGER theme too. LOL

Yes we did have a good time on our night out!

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Linda wrote: "HAPPY TRAILS, not Dale Evans and Roy Rogers singing it. It was a hard rock group, but I don't which one. But, I like THE LONE RANGER theme too. LOL"

That was Van Halen, Linda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYcsM...

[Jane]

I just looked it up; Dale Evans wrote it. As far as what I could make out, Van Halen was the name of that rock group you heard.

I like the Lone Ranger theme, too. In fact I can't hear the original music it comes from without thinking of the Lone Ranger. :)

[Anne]

Jane wrote: "Anne wrote: "Bryn wrote: "My other favourite is Wagner: Parsifal, Tristan & Isolde (I have three each of them) and chiefly The Ring (I have six).

Also have stacks of baroque opera. Monteverdi my ..."
I do, but I also love Korngold's Violin Concerto.

[Linda]

Thank you! If you haven't heard him/them do that song, find it. From classical to rock, everybody has named a winner in this discussion, and you all know how to spell those names. A button to each and all!

[Jane]

Anne wrote: "Jane wrote: "Anne wrote: "Bryn wrote: "My other favourite is Wagner: Parsifal, Tristan & Isolde (I have three each of them) and chiefly The Ring (I have six).

Also have stacks of baroque opera. M..."

So do I. I have about 3 different versions of Korngold's Violin Concerto.

[Anne]

I have the Heifetz one. I also have him doing the Brahms and another of my favorites, the Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco violin concerto called "Il Profete" GORGEOUS!!!
And Bryn, I too love "Tristan."

[Jane]

Another favorite is the Barber Violin Concerto -- beautiful!! I'll have to search out the Castelnuevo-Tedesco; I thought of him as mainly classical guitar.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn wrote: "Terri wrote: "next question.

Daggiest most uncool album you will admit to ever having owned?"

Backstreet Boys
I bought it for this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug88HO... some 13 years ago!"


Haha! Mate. I would never have guessed that would be your uncool secret. Funny.
:-)

[Dawn]

And never fear, I also own The Best of Whitesnake, though I never managed to buy any Vanilla Ice.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Oh you had a Whitesnake secret too! That makes me feel better. :-)

[Anne]

Jane wrote: "Another favorite is the Barber Violin Concerto -- beautiful!! I'll have to search out the Castelnuevo-Tedesco; I thought of him as mainly classical guitar."

Have you ever heard Katchaturian's Violin Concerto? Another of my favorites. Even though I majored in Piano in college I have a very soft spot for the violin.

[Jane]

No, I'll have to investigate that one too.

I love the Schoenberg 'Verklärte Nacht' sextet. It's been arranged for string orchestra. It was written pre-atonalism. It always reminds me so much of the "Tristan" music.

[Bobby]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.ne...

[happy]

Anne wrote: "Bryn wrote: "My other favourite is Wagner: Parsifal, Tristan & Isolde (I have three each of them) and chiefly The Ring (I have six).

Also have stacks of baroque opera. Monteverdi my favourite the..."

I have season tickets to our local symphony. I would say my favorite is composers are Beethoven, with Mahler or Mendelson coming next

I also really enjoy late '50s - early '60s folk - Limeliters, Kingston Trio, Weavers, PP&M etc

[Anne]

Jane wrote: "No, I'll have to investigate that one too.

I love the Schoenberg 'Verklärte Nacht' sextet. It's been arranged for string orchestra. It was written pre-atonalism. It always reminds me so much of..."

Another beautiful one, Jane. I wish Schoenberg had stuck to that type of music.
And Happy, as a youngster, I had season tickets to the Cincinnati Symphony for many years back in the 50's and early 60's.

[Jane]

So do I!! The only one of his atonal stuff I like is Erwartung. That's fairly short; I'd get a headache if it went on and on like Wagner.

Another pre-atonal one I love is Gürrelieder.

We used to have tickets to the Binghamton Philharmonic, but since they changed venues to one less convenient, we'll wait until the local public radio station rebroadcasts it about a week or two later, even though it's not the same as a live concert.