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Jun 10, 2012 06:13PM
Has anyone heard any songs by Alex Clare? I would guess the one most people know is Too Close, but there are some other really good ones on his CD. I've been listening to it for the last couple days.
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I used to listen to a LOT of classic, alternative, and indie rock, but in recent years that has been declining, and somewhat replaced with more mellow and instrumental music. "New Age" music is a good example, especially rhythms by William Joseph. It's like listening to modern classical music with more vitality and energy. Though Classic music still have a special niche in my heart. I also thoroughly enjoy music/songs in other languages, like Chinese, French, Spanish, and Italian. Buena vida. :)
Really? I am always annoyed that I cannot understand what they are saying and thus cannot sing along. But it is restful when reading a book orsomething where it is more of backround noise.
Have you ever heard of "Muse"? I like their music quite a bit. Uprising is one of my favorite songs by them.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmp...
Uhmm, Crunk! Family Force 5 is my favorite band, but I listen to a lot of musicals. From RHPS, to Quest For Camelot, to Phantom of The Opera XD. I also listen to a bunch of instrumental stuff, The Saint's Hallelujah by the Canadian Brass is my favorite XD.
Oh that sounds good, the Canadian Brass. I will have to look them up. My little brother is really into trumpets right now with the William Tell overture (the lone rider anyone?) being one of his favorites. Granted he is only three but I hope to give him some backround in classical music.
Hahaha those guys are great. I will have to get some of their music.
The Canadian Brass is AMAZING, they are hilarious too. They seriously know how to put on a show, so look them up on Youtube. ^_^
Yeah I did, now I want their CD. My step-dad plays trumpet but he is not nearly as fun.
I like Muse quite a bit. I've never heard a song that I just LOVE by them, but I always like what I hear. Muse and Keane are one of my friends two favorite bands in the world.
Veronica (Ron Paul) wrote: "Cindy: Luciano Pavarotti is wonderful. He's my favorite male opera singer."I love Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma!!
I don't really have a preference as long as its not rap, or country, I usually listen to it all. I am a huge fan of Bonnie Raitt! She is a fabulous and extremely talented woman. Of course I am a Tracy Chapman fan as well!
I enjoy listening to old fashion blues, classical music, and oldies from the 60’s through the 90’s.
Do you listen to Blue Grass? My roots are southern and I have to admit to being deeply tied to Blue Grass music.
Ooh ooh! *hand raised* I listen to bluegrass a lot!!! XD Been to several local concerts as well....love listening to it and watching them play at the same time.
Veronica (Ron Paul) wrote: "Cindy: Luciano Pavarotti is wonderful. He's my favorite male opera singer."I love opera as well, especially Placido Domingo. He's going to sing his 140th role this month.
Wow, imagine singing in that many operas! You would have to take really good care of your voice to last that long.
The only opera I've really only listened to, (and I don't know if it counts as a real opera lol) is Phantom of the Opera. LOVE that!!!!!
That is totally a real Opera. I like dit alot but my family hates it so don't tell them I said so :D
Heehee I'm in the family where everyone likes it lol. and the original cast is the only one I listen to lol...that's the best! XD
I'd like to mention a group I recently stumbled across: Steam Powered Giraffe. They started out as mimes and then brought in their fantastic musical talent, added this whole steampunk theme, and got my attention. They're not dark and grim, but sometimes melancholy. They're something my kids can listen to. Altho they wish I would stop singing along.
Hahha, they sound good, I'll look them up this afternoon while I am baking.
As a Hispanic American I have to say I adore the spanish music I grew up with. I love Cumbia, Salsa, Merengue, Punta, Reggaeton and Bachata. Basically anything that I can dance to. I also love listening to a lot of Beatie Boys, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Pixies, The Smiths, Joy Division, Led Zepplin and The Killers.Oh, and J'adore Edith Piaf.
This might sounds a little silly, but I am on a huge Disney music kick. I created a whole channel for it on Pandora and have been listening to it non-stop for three weeks now. Mulan and The Lion King are my favorites movies as a whole, but "Trashing the camp" song from Tarzan and "Under The Sea" from little mermaid just get my body moving. Very nice when cleaning the kitchen.
I like to listen to indie rock, folk and alternative for the most part. I don't like to listen to mainstream music from big time labels because the artists usually don't write their own songs and are forced to change their image to fit what the people are liking. Also I don't like big attention seekers cough cough Miley Cyrus cough cough. My favorite bands are the Freelance Whales, Someone Still Loves you Boris Yeltsin, Paramore, The Staves, Great Lake Swimmers and Ray Lamontage. There's lots more but those are who I mainly listen to.
I can only laugh at Miley Cyrus, although I admit to pitting her slightly in my better moods. I have only heard one or two song of the Indie rock, what are some of your favorite songs from that genre?
I have not heard of any of the bands you put up, but I am already inclined to like them. There is something about people who write their own music that I like very much, even if I don't always agree with them.
Some of my favorite songs are Everything is Moving So Fast by The Great Lake Swimmers, Spitting Image by The Freelance Whales and All These Things That I've Done by The Killers. I feel the same way about artists who write their own music. I guess I just naturally respect them a little bit more when the songs that they write are based off their own emotions and ideas, not words put in their mouths by another person
Some of my favorite songs are Everything is Moving So Fast by The Great Lake Swimmers, Spitting Image by The Freelance Whales and All These Things That I've Done by The Killers. I feel the same way about artists who write their own music. I guess I just naturally respect them a little bit more when the songs that they write are based off their own emotions and ideas, not words put in their mouths by another person
Has anyone seen/listened to the sounds track of "That thing you do!"?Here is a link to my favorite song in the movie but there are a lot more and all of them are great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpErX3...
I have this song stuck in my head, and though I don't usually like Katy Perry I really like this song. Why? I DON"T KNOW!!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voWegW...
The other day I was watching the cartoon of "Dr. Suess's: Horton Hears a Who" with my little brothers. This song The Wickersham Brothers got stuck in my head. I was laughing at all the horrible things that they said would happen because of what Horton was doing and the tune is great. Here is a link to the words if you need it.
Make sure somebody younger you know gets introduced to Mozart and Beethoven.So many have never heard!
Shelley
http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com
Oh wow Emily! That song is so beautiful, peaceful but a little playful. Woodland Fairies indeed. Here is a song I am in love with right now. My brother says it is dumb and talks like the guy won't do anything for the girl unless she loves him fist, but I think he just misheard.
Gone gone gone .
Yeah, I mean com eon, who does not want a man who would do anything for here? That might sounds very princessy, and I don't think all women deserve that simply because they are a woman, but in the end doesn't everybody want someone like that?
Good afternoon,One of my favorite topics! At age 50 I don't listen to much music made later than about 1989. "Call me a relic, call me what you will/Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill/Today's music ain't got the same soul/I like that old time rock n roll". (Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, "Old Time Rock and Roll", from *Stranger in Town*, 1978.) I like classic rock (especially the Eagles, Beatles, Genesis, Allman Brothers, Beach Boys, Chicago, Dixie Dregs, Traffic, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Santana, etc.); classical (baroque--such as Vivaldi, Bach, Teleman; orchestral; and chamber music. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky); blues; jazz (especially Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, John Coltrane).
I've recently began listening again to guitarist Pat Metheny. Born in Lee's Summit, Missouri, USA on August 12, 1954, a guitar instructor at the University of Miami's (FL USA) music school at age 18 and at the same position a year later at Boston's Berklee School of Music, Metheny is a legendary, eclectic guitarist both as leader of the Pat Metheny Group and as a solo artist and collaborator, incorporating hip-hop, Brazilian, classical and rock influences. My favorite CDs by him are the first album by the Pat Metheny Group (recorded in Oslo, Norway, in 1978 for ECM and featuring Lyle Mays, Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb), which includes the songs "San Lorenzo", "Phase Dance", and "Jaco"; *First Circle* (1984, also on ECM) which includes the amazing nine-minute title track; and *Letter From Home* (1989 on Geffen) which includes "Have You Heard?", "Beat 70", and the title track and album closer. The track "Letter From Home" is a two-and-a-half-minute solo piece performed by Pat Metheny on the tiple (pronounced TEE-pluh), a small, four-string Latin American acoustic guitar.
Sorry if I went on too long.
Jim
My favorite music genres are definitely country (particularly older country, but I like the new stuff too) and rock. I also enjoy pop music that doesn't involve techno or autotune, and I also enjoy listening to film scores, particularly John Williams.
Jim wrote: "Good afternoon,One of my favorite topics! At age 50 I don't listen to much music made later than about 1989. "Call me a relic, call me what you will/Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill..."
Being young as I am I only recognized every other classic old rock band, but I love the Eagles, And -"That old Rock-N-Roll" is one of my favorite songs!
I did know all of the classical composers you mentioned and I have to agree, they were called the "Masters" for a reason. I am taking musical theory from my Piano teacher and what those folks could do was spectacular, not to mention all the rules Back in particular was working around.
Jacob wrote: "My favorite music genres are definitely country (particularly older country, but I like the new stuff too) and rock. I also enjoy pop music that doesn't involve techno or autotune, and I also enjoy..."John Williams is the bomb! Love his stuff. I have a 2 CD set of his most poplar scores and it is addictive, I just can't stop with one song.
Country is the best working music. In the house or outside if I am working I have Country going on in the back round. Pop is all well and good (Okay it is not either but more on that another time) but I only like it when I am riding in the car.
Hello everyone!So glad to be here again, looking for inspiration among the book (and music) lovers :)
Now I am on a project to write stories about some songs as a part of its promotion. But, it's not to write the meaning of the song, but what's the story behind it. I would like to ask if any of you can tell me where I can publish the stories after it finished? I mean, is there a website or something where I can promote the song, the singer, or even the stories?
About the songs, actually it's not mine. Several days ago, I just helped the artist to write story behind the song (the one with title I'm Your Wonderboy). I would like to share the story here, but it written in my language. So, I think I have to translate it before.
By the way, one of the song has the same title as the book of Guy de Maupassant. And the other song, it's about the floods that hit several major cities in my country a few months ago.
I hope you'll like it. Enjoy!
You can find out the songs in here
https://soundcloud.com/alexlie-musics or
http://www.reverbnation.com/alexlie
If you like the song, you can find the lyrics in his facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AlexLie.musics
PS: I'm still looking for your opinion, any of you. Thanks!
I agree with those above about the Canadian Brass.I'm usually a Beethoven person, but I admit I was surprised by how much I enjoy the "Happy" song.
Shelley
http://dustbowlstory.wordpress.com
Music and literature are my favorite forms of art with not one over the other.
I love ambient especially, but I will just put a list of what--and who--I listen to when it comes to music:
Enigma/Michael Cretu (forth and foremost)Delerium, Moby, Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard, Helium Vola, Magna Canta, Blackmore's Night, Sibelian, Qntal, Lesiem, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Mazzy Star, First Aid Kit, Priscilla Hernandez, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, James, Blondie, New Order, Morrissey/The Smiths, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Arcana, Dark Sanctuary, The Cruxshadows, London After Midnight, Faith & the Muse, Era, U2, Sleepthief, Clannad, Ataraxia, Diary of Dreams, Garbage, David Bowie, Mike Oldfield, Fleetwood Mac/Stevia Nicks, Tangerine Dream, The Beatles/George Harrison/John Lennon, Emmylou Harris, The Dreamside, Lacuna Coil, Epica, Metallica, Opeth, Concrete Blonde, The Doors, Donovan.
I have long had a penchant for Gregorian chants. I like some East Indian and Arabian music as well.
I am fond of old 50s music and from that era, I especially love Sam Cooke. The Platters, The Drifters, The Flamingos, The Inkspots, The Danleers, The Penguins--all are simply lovely!
I listed some 60s music above, but also add to that list folks such as Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, Procal Harum.
Of course, being a child of the 80s--there is some truly great music and some wonderful songs to have come out of that era..."I'll stop the world and melt with you" ;) (Modern English).
Blues are awesome: B.B King, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf' (Aaaaaarrrrrrrooooo! ;)), et cetera!
Jazz-wise, I like Louis Armstrong--a lot.
I love the voices of women who can truly sing with gospel-like soul such as Mahalia Jackson and Odetta.
I like Edith Piaf quite a bit.
I love classical and opera--absolutely! Mmmm...Maria Callas, Geraldine Farrar, Isabelle Bayrakdarian, Placido Domingo, Puccini, Tosca, Verdi, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart--all brilliant!
Is it not obvious that I just love my music? My number of 'scrobbles' over the past 2 1/2/ years at, "Last.fm" attests to that! ;)
I love ambient especially, but I will just put a list of what--and who--I listen to when it comes to music:
Enigma/Michael Cretu (forth and foremost)Delerium, Moby, Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard, Helium Vola, Magna Canta, Blackmore's Night, Sibelian, Qntal, Lesiem, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Mazzy Star, First Aid Kit, Priscilla Hernandez, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, James, Blondie, New Order, Morrissey/The Smiths, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Arcana, Dark Sanctuary, The Cruxshadows, London After Midnight, Faith & the Muse, Era, U2, Sleepthief, Clannad, Ataraxia, Diary of Dreams, Garbage, David Bowie, Mike Oldfield, Fleetwood Mac/Stevia Nicks, Tangerine Dream, The Beatles/George Harrison/John Lennon, Emmylou Harris, The Dreamside, Lacuna Coil, Epica, Metallica, Opeth, Concrete Blonde, The Doors, Donovan.
I have long had a penchant for Gregorian chants. I like some East Indian and Arabian music as well.
I am fond of old 50s music and from that era, I especially love Sam Cooke. The Platters, The Drifters, The Flamingos, The Inkspots, The Danleers, The Penguins--all are simply lovely!
I listed some 60s music above, but also add to that list folks such as Jefferson Airplane, The Animals, Procal Harum.
Of course, being a child of the 80s--there is some truly great music and some wonderful songs to have come out of that era..."I'll stop the world and melt with you" ;) (Modern English).
Blues are awesome: B.B King, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf' (Aaaaaarrrrrrrooooo! ;)), et cetera!
Jazz-wise, I like Louis Armstrong--a lot.
I love the voices of women who can truly sing with gospel-like soul such as Mahalia Jackson and Odetta.
I like Edith Piaf quite a bit.
I love classical and opera--absolutely! Mmmm...Maria Callas, Geraldine Farrar, Isabelle Bayrakdarian, Placido Domingo, Puccini, Tosca, Verdi, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart--all brilliant!
Is it not obvious that I just love my music? My number of 'scrobbles' over the past 2 1/2/ years at, "Last.fm" attests to that! ;)
I am a fan of Indie music and Easy Listening. :) When I am lost in a book, Classical is my first choice of background noise.
For me it's mostly metal/rock....love Bruce Springsten and some Aussie Hip Hop too
Jazz, especially 50's, 60's and 70's small group jazz.
I listen to a lot of indie music and instrumental music
I listen to just about everything! Except old gospel and country twang! Lol
oldies like van morrison, paul simon, simon & garfunkel, 90s alt rock, amy winehouse, the weeknd, band of horses
I listen to almost everything except gospel and certain country songs.
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