Preparing for a really important interview tomorrow, so obviously it is essential to come on the website to talk about something entirely unrelated, that I have been wondering about for years, and could have waited for another few years, I am sure, before I needed to do anything about it, if ever. But, that's interviews for you.
I was wondering as I sit here about the range of people's musical tastes. Today I started listening to Tommy Peoples, obviously, Had another quick look at the planxty video, may God be good to their sweet souls. While cooking I listened to that Sharon Shannon live album which is so musical and fun. After that started listening to french pop music of the 1940s, particularly Edith, and Jean Sablon (of all people! I am not proud I am looking for answers!). Currently I am listening to the art of fugue, JSB, the voice of God.
For by all that Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan. Thin Lizzy is the only rock music I listen to now.
Is this normal. Should I seek help. Please answer quickly and I won't have to learn this bloody boring shite for tomorrow's interview
i have a friend in college whose dream it is to write renaissance choral music--he ashamedly admits to liking black eyed peas. as long as you dont foray too deeply into pop hip-hop, then you should be ok.
We like what we like - and who else should judge?
Our tastes are similar, Pol........ and if you like jazz keyboads:
check out Kit Walker/Fire in the Lake, Phillip Aaberg or Phillip Saisse.
(You're right - JSB had a direct line to the Almighty)
Neither Bach nor Mozart nor Beethoven had any sort of direct line to "the Almighty" (my religious views are of no interest to anyone but let's just say that Kirsty Young can ditch the Bible and substitute it with a copy of a certain Dawkins tome...). It is very important to understand that these chaps achieved what they did by having a modicum of talent (how I love understatement) and a penchant for very hard work laced with a healthy dose of perfectionism. Beethoven responded to a fellow who invoked the assistance of God by riposting "Oh, man, help yourself!" Anyway, bugger all that. Pol, you have good taste and I hope your interview goes well. If it doesn't, heaven forfend, just think of all that tasty music you already love from which you can take solace.
Richard Dawkins merely proves that our genes program us to act selfishly, even when appearing to act altruistically. And evolution doesn't a god to happen. I mostly go along with that but no scientific proofs can account for individuals' personal experience. In fact all science, philosophy or in fact any field of knowledge has first to be interpreted via personal experience.
Irish and old-time american. The irish old-timers Rough deal stringband are class. Pete Seeger's great too. Doc Watson et al certainly have class, and there's some newer groups, the Morgantown Rounders in W Virginia, who have a brilliant sound.
Id also throw an ear to anything Neil Young does, even his "Impeach the President" stuff.
I'm the guy who borrowed 2 LP records out of Aberdeen City Library one day - "Never Mind The crap" by the Sex Pistols, and Strathclyde Police Pipe Band. Hope the interview went well.
ah - I wrote b*ll*cks to see how it would come out
I suspect you weren't the only one Kenny. Good old Aberdeen library.
I spent most of 1977 in a Western Australian mining camp with only two cassette tapes for company - "Never Mind the B*ll*cks and "Slim Dusty - This is your Life". Luckily the camp's Irish Club (consisting of mostly Maori) had a Dubliners tape as well.
I grew up listening to jazz (mostly Dixieland) and show tunes, which is what my dad liked. As I grew up, I listened to rock music like my peers, but had a fondness for the musicians that mixed their rock with folky stuff (like James Taylor) or jazz (like Blood Sweat and Tears). As I grew older, I listened to quite a bit of jazz and folk, but began leaning more and more toward folk, and then toward Scot and Irish trad, and that is where my tastes are today. And I enjoy this music enough that I think this is where I will remain.
I have been listeningb to the same stuff since the early seventies, Chieftains, Planxty, Bothy Band, Dubliners, McPeakes, and singer song writers, Taylor, Dylan, Simon, Lightfioot, Drake etc. I could always listen to classical and "bluesy type " jazz, but I don't know who it is, be it Beethoven or Wagner.
Recently I have come across, via my son, artists like Dire Straits, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton (the right wing git) and a few others.
I don't really think missing 30 years of recording artists has been a loss.
Interview? A bottle or two of Baileys and an album of The Singing Clams And Panpipes Of The Great Barrier Reef ( with Enya guesting) would probably be my choice of preparation.
I shouldn't go into this..........
but if we each didn't have a soul we wouldn't have anything to respond to music WITH. Souls are sparks of something higher (you know, like...........God).
Ok now I've said it. If you disagree that's fine, I just wanted to vent a little.
Slan.
I keep thinking about it. "I don't believe in God but I do believe in J.S. Bach." I love that. Dave, mind if I use it as my hotmail signature? With your permission, though, I might just have to change J.S. Bach to Beethoven...
Taste in music
Taste in music
Hi all,
Preparing for a really important interview tomorrow, so obviously it is essential to come on the website to talk about something entirely unrelated, that I have been wondering about for years, and could have waited for another few years, I am sure, before I needed to do anything about it, if ever. But, that's interviews for you.
I was wondering as I sit here about the range of people's musical tastes. Today I started listening to Tommy Peoples, obviously, Had another quick look at the planxty video, may God be good to their sweet souls. While cooking I listened to that Sharon Shannon live album which is so musical and fun. After that started listening to french pop music of the 1940s, particularly Edith, and Jean Sablon (of all people! I am not proud I am looking for answers!). Currently I am listening to the art of fugue, JSB, the voice of God.
For by all that Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan. Thin Lizzy is the only rock music I listen to now.
Is this normal. Should I seek help. Please answer quickly and I won't have to learn this bloody boring shite for tomorrow's interview
# Posted on June 10th 2007 by Pól
Re: Taste in music
Right at this minute I'm listening to Blind Willie McTell while sat in the garden, works for me, anyway !
# Posted on June 10th 2007 by strayaway
Re: Taste in music
i have a friend in college whose dream it is to write renaissance choral music--he ashamedly admits to liking black eyed peas. as long as you dont foray too deeply into pop hip-hop, then you should be ok.
# Posted on June 10th 2007 by daiv
Re: Taste in music
We like what we like - and who else should judge?
Our tastes are similar, Pol........ and if you like jazz keyboads:
check out Kit Walker/Fire in the Lake, Phillip Aaberg or Phillip Saisse.
(You're right - JSB had a direct line to the Almighty)
# Posted on June 10th 2007 by morning star
Re: Taste in music
Neither Bach nor Mozart nor Beethoven had any sort of direct line to "the Almighty" (my religious views are of no interest to anyone but let's just say that Kirsty Young can ditch the Bible and substitute it with a copy of a certain Dawkins tome...). It is very important to understand that these chaps achieved what they did by having a modicum of talent (how I love understatement) and a penchant for very hard work laced with a healthy dose of perfectionism. Beethoven responded to a fellow who invoked the assistance of God by riposting "Oh, man, help yourself!" Anyway, bugger all that. Pol, you have good taste and I hope your interview goes well. If it doesn't, heaven forfend, just think of all that tasty music you already love from which you can take solace.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Re: Taste in music
seek help. your taste in music is sh*te
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by kings taxes
Re: Taste in music
....... anything said by one who calls himself kings taxes should be taken with a large dose of scepticism.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by morning star
Re: Taste in music
No bluegrass?
Shame on you Pól. Get your ears around Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs or Bob Wills post haste!
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by RockyRoader
Re: Taste in music
Bob Wills, bluegrass? That's *swing* man!
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Bren
Re: Taste in music
(falsetto) Aah-haaa!
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by fidkid
Re: Taste in music
Richard Dawkins merely proves that our genes program us to act selfishly, even when appearing to act altruistically. And evolution doesn't a god to happen. I mostly go along with that but no scientific proofs can account for individuals' personal experience. In fact all science, philosophy or in fact any field of knowledge has first to be interpreted via personal experience.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Rudall the time
Re: Taste in music
Sorry. ........And evolution doesn't need a god for it to happen.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Rudall the time
Re: Taste in music
Irish and old-time american. The irish old-timers Rough deal stringband are class. Pete Seeger's great too. Doc Watson et al certainly have class, and there's some newer groups, the Morgantown Rounders in W Virginia, who have a brilliant sound.
Id also throw an ear to anything Neil Young does, even his "Impeach the President" stuff.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by copo24
Re: Taste in music
I'm the guy who borrowed 2 LP records out of Aberdeen City Library one day - "Never Mind The crap" by the Sex Pistols, and Strathclyde Police Pipe Band. Hope the interview went well.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Kenny
Re: Taste in music
crap
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Bren
Re: Taste in music
ah - I wrote b*ll*cks to see how it would come out
I suspect you weren't the only one Kenny. Good old Aberdeen library.
I spent most of 1977 in a Western Australian mining camp with only two cassette tapes for company - "Never Mind the B*ll*cks and "Slim Dusty - This is your Life". Luckily the camp's Irish Club (consisting of mostly Maori) had a Dubliners tape as well.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Bren
Re: lobet den Herrn
well i don't believe in god but i do believe in J. S' Bach...
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by biggus dave
Re: Taste in music
I grew up listening to jazz (mostly Dixieland) and show tunes, which is what my dad liked. As I grew up, I listened to rock music like my peers, but had a fondness for the musicians that mixed their rock with folky stuff (like James Taylor) or jazz (like Blood Sweat and Tears). As I grew older, I listened to quite a bit of jazz and folk, but began leaning more and more toward folk, and then toward Scot and Irish trad, and that is where my tastes are today. And I enjoy this music enough that I think this is where I will remain.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by AlBrown
Re: Taste in music
I have been listeningb to the same stuff since the early seventies, Chieftains, Planxty, Bothy Band, Dubliners, McPeakes, and singer song writers, Taylor, Dylan, Simon, Lightfioot, Drake etc. I could always listen to classical and "bluesy type " jazz, but I don't know who it is, be it Beethoven or Wagner.
Recently I have come across, via my son, artists like Dire Straits, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton (the right wing git) and a few others.
I don't really think missing 30 years of recording artists has been a loss.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Re: Taste in music
Interview? A bottle or two of Baileys and an album of The Singing Clams And Panpipes Of The Great Barrier Reef ( with Enya guesting) would probably be my choice of preparation.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by nicholas
Re: Taste in music
I'm with you, biggus dave. The true gods of sound and stone and word and tint...they'll do me.
# Posted on June 11th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Re: Taste in music
I shouldn't go into this..........
but if we each didn't have a soul we wouldn't have anything to respond to music WITH. Souls are sparks of something higher (you know, like...........God).
Ok now I've said it. If you disagree that's fine, I just wanted to vent a little.
Slan.
# Posted on June 12th 2007 by morning star
Re: Taste in music
I keep thinking about it. "I don't believe in God but I do believe in J.S. Bach." I love that. Dave, mind if I use it as my hotmail signature? With your permission, though, I might just have to change J.S. Bach to Beethoven...
# Posted on June 12th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Re: pandora's box....
sorry to say that's not my line,Steve-i thought it was in (somewhat) general usage.
that said,it's always caught my fancy.
morning star,someone mentioned Bach and god in the same sentence and that quote sprang to mind.that's all it was.
i'm happy to give you my half-hour harangue by email/ phone or in person but not in these pages.at the moment,lol...
# Posted on June 12th 2007 by biggus dave
Re: Taste in music
Taste in music? Taste, when Mr Gallagher played with them.
# Posted on June 12th 2007 by bodhran bliss