When it isn't Irish traditional music, what kinds of music do you enjoy playing, or listening to?
For me its Classical music(Mozart, Rakhmaninov), Jazz(Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis), and, of course, any music that has an extended avante-garde bodhran solo.
I play mostly like "folk-rock" stuff.... (don't like that term). I like to play Paul Simon-esque stuff on the guitar but enjoy listening to probably Van Morrison the most. I just generally like 60's music. I also like Classical music, native american music, and bruce springsteen-eque music (bob seger, bruce, that kind of stuff).
I generally like all kinds of music that provoke thought.
I listen to bluegrass, and *god forbid* newgrass, I also like French Canadian, and also Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and The Punch Brothers. Two amazing bands that are imposible to discribe with just one genre
I recently moved to the "dark" side, borrowed a B/C box and determined to learn only Quebecois tunes on it. French Canadian is close to ITM in many ways, but I decided to break away and see what happens.
classical and some jazz; I also like some rock, for example
the grunge bands and early punk rock. Not too
much around at the moment that I like -- the Aussie band
Eskimo Joe, some of U2, Linkin Park were a good band.
Bluegrass and country --- can be nice, but has bad
connotations for me -- makes me think of the KKK, lynchings,
etc. Kasey Chambers from Australia is great.
Oddly, though I've played classical music for much longer, I find myself getting a lot more out of classical music now that I've picked up Irish trad. For example, I appreciate the music of Brahms and Rachmaninoff much more... listened to Brahms for the first time in a while, and - wow. Maybe it has something to do with having spent the time developing my ear? A nice added bonus.
When I am not playing piano at the local Irish session, I play bass with several different groups in several different places. I play my electric bass at a local blues session and with the band at the church I attend. I play my acoustic bass with a local old-time folk music group and with a song circle at a local church. When I am at home, I like to play almost anything and everything on the piano. I try to keep busy musically speaking because playing is one of my favorite things to do when I am not working at my day job at a local hospital.
Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, The Pixies, The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Hendrix, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie McTell, Horslips, (Early era) Rolling Stones, Howlin Wolf, Bob Marley, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Teenage Fanclub, Woody Guthrie, Dick Gaughan, Ry Cooder, The Byrds, John Martyn, Van Morrison..... I could continue but it's early morning and that's not a good time. Most played CD of the last week is "Inside The Human Body" by Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, great stuff. Also getting a bit of play in our house is "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" by Augustus Pablo - those Sly & Robbie guys are something else, no, no, no, not the Eddie Cochran song, mind you, he's pretty good as well. BTW, I just purchased Led Zeppelin 2 on vinyl again, one of the first albums I ever bought way back in the mists of time.
There's so much good music out there that I think this thread could go on forever!
For me (in no order):
-Traditional African, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Eastern European, Indian (as in India), French, French-Canadian
-Classical (mostly of the classical era [as opposed to the romantic], and also baroque as well, but I do like Chopin)
-Opera
-Pretty much anything on acoustic guitar
-Jack Johnson and Ben Harper
-Soundtrack scores (Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, etc.)
-Any piano compositions by Nobuo Uematsu
-Led Zeppelin
-Industrial Metal (Powerman5000, Static-X, etc.)
-Rage Against the Machine
-90's grunge/rock like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins
-I do like some hip-hop/rap like Fort Minor, K-Os and this really good Korean band called LeeSang
-Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, Johnny Cash (no I'm not lumping these into the same genre, they just sprang to mind and I typed them in the same line)
-bluegrass and good folky-country (none of that new country sh*te as some others have already mentioned)
-jazz that has limited instrumentation and a good walking bass line (ie. a piano, a bass, and a trumpet is all that's needed IMO!)
etc., etc.
All types of Country - Swing - Big Band - Jazz - Folk - Classical - Light Music (Mantovani etc) - Military Bands - Pipe Bands - Fife/ Flute & Drum Bands - Brass Bands - Any type of Accordion Music - Some Opera - Music from the Shows - All types of singers from Caruso to Nat King Cole to Delia Murphy - All types of Rock Music - Not too keen on Heavy Metal but I do like '16 tons' - Rap doesn't really do it for me although I would love to recite 'Nell Flaherty's Drake' to a Rap Beat. Lastly I do like a good whistler!
Why would country music and bluegrass music evoke lynchings and Jim Crow for someone, but Irish music doesn't evoke riots, terrorism, the IRA and scores of killings?
A. Because you're well aware that the pure drop trad, and more specifically, our modern enjoyment of it, has nothing to do with any of that.
B. You're more informed about the cultural climates of Ireland, Chicago and Boston than you are of the American south and west.
C. You need to get out more, and broaden your experiences, both musical and otherwise.
Saying country music reminds you of lynchings makes about as much sense as someone saying trad music reminds them of bussing riots in Massachussetts.
pipewatcher - that was cool. I was going to mention Ska - my son's gotten me interested in it, and I've been bugging he and his sister to teach me how to skank (my secret shame - when I'm not sessioning or working, I like to go out on weekends and make an arse of myself on the dance floor). They weren't exactly skanking in that video, but you get my drift.
I loved your piping, too, and the photos!
Cheers!
tomw we are on the same page. some people may tell you detroit *had* motown but it does not have any soul. & those people don't even look past the surface. funk brothers found the soul of music. they found it in detroit, their home. thank you motor city. thank you funk brothers.
An old one, this, but always fun to chew over. Here goes:
Genres I am inventing include: -
Newthumbrian, Ragnar-Rock (surely I'm not the first here?!..), Igloo Rebetika, Tunecrash, and many more I'll think of the moment I've posted.
(Rebetika is possibly the only dancing in the world that can be done in igloos.)
Dance concepts in which I see possibilities include: -
Durham Deranger - based on the interaction of people in North Road late on a Friday or Saturday night. Is there a pattern deep within this? Do those who find it ever come out?
Salmon Bombing - based on the local pastime of jumping fully clothed off Framwellgate Bridge, for any reason or none. Goes along with Bean Setting and other bucolic Morrisy stuff, really.
Mine-Cap Pogo - Adds a spice of hazard, this one.
Cashpoints - Another one based on traditional practice. Round here, cashpoints are harvested by forklift. The movements of tractors, getaway vans and police can surprise and intrigue a reader of the local press. All in all, again rather bucolic and Morrisy.
I can assure you there are. Way back in 1973 - the first year I saw adult salmon in the river - I caught one of 6 lbs 4 oz in Durham a little below the lowest of the town's weirs, on a fly-spoon. I never caught another, but stopped fishing long ago now - I have not been trying unavailingly to catch another salmon from that day to this!
Industrial and sewage pollution killed the middle and lower Wear in the c19-20. After WW2 the clean-up began and sea trout came back in numbers. Salmon were (and are) assiduously introduced and a run has established, but sea trout remain more numerous.
As in other North-East rivers, the sea trout can get pretty big but can be dour to fish for. I caught a few (not biggies), but very few for the time I put in trying to catch them. As for the salmon, springers are seldom caught - they turn up from around midsummer onwards.
Mind, a lot of game fishing round here seems to consist of hauling fifteen-pound rainbow trout out of barren lakes where they were put in as twenty-pounders some days before!
Listening: Ray Lamontagn, Bon Iver and the like, Andrew Bird, indie-pop and indie-rock (usually more musically innovative than the commercial stuff out there), Cash, Waits, Petty, most classic rock, 20s-30s Hot Jazz, Rage, Subliminal, The Shins, The Frames, Destroyer, Ska, 80's Punk, NY Dolls, Dylan, Rockabilly...mostly anything, at least once.
Fluffy girl singers who sound like large kittens being hung up by a hind ankle. (It is true, these are *always* the fluffy ones...)
Toyboys, ditto about the sound - wouldn't know about the fluffiness, don't want to either.
Modern jazz that sounds like an endless succession of metal dustbins being rolled down a mountain, played by muppets.
The hideous amplified caterwaulings of much Greek pop.
Creepy malign druggy songs by various late Sixties groups without redeeming talent.
Nick Drake.
All too much Nu-Folk.
Anything marketed as "a fantastic kick-ass brew of exotic and indigenous folk and other sounds", that is actually played by three guys who recently met at the Uni folk club and discovered that they had played a bit of violin, piano and recorder between them when they were little.
Cuban brothel music.
Any singing that suggests someone jabbing me in the chest and telling me what to do and how to live. There goes hip-hop, rap and suchlike.
Campaign songs written by earnest humourless women.
Singing that tries to cosy the hearers into turning against someone they don't know and the singer doesn't like. (That "someone" might be real, or imaginary, or generic.)
Duke Ellington is attributed with saying that there are only two types of music: good and bad.
Therefore I choose the genre "Good".
Assuming all country or or all Bothy Band or all hiphop or all Mauritanian dance music or Vulcan arse flute music or wotteffah is scheit is ignorant. All genres have good and bad. It's the same line of thinking that dismisses all people from a race, religion or culture as bad because one has met a bad apple of that variety before and therefore ignorantly assumes all people of that genre are bad.
One assumes most people here like ITM (as a genre) but it still produces bad music on occasions.
the schedule on http://www.raidiofailte.com has a variety of good music. aside from the traditional Irish music and Celtic music, there are a few cracking blues shows and even some Spanish/Flamenco music
I had very bad experiences when studying classical music (oboe) so can't listen to it now. It sounds inane to me. These days I listen to about 50% celtic (but that includes groups like Kila who are totally UNtrad) and the rest a mix of rock (with my partner as he loves it), or female singer/guitarists like Joni Mitchell, Indigo Girls, Joan Armatrading, etc and some of the male ones likeNick Drake and Ben Harper. Some of the newer roots music is great including kiwi groups like Fat Freddy's Drop and Trinity Roots.
Other Music Genres
Other Music Genres
When it isn't Irish traditional music, what kinds of music do you enjoy playing, or listening to?
For me its Classical music(Mozart, Rakhmaninov), Jazz(Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis), and, of course, any music that has an extended avante-garde bodhran solo.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by stupidwhistler
Re: Other Music Genres
blues..jug band stuff...jewish music... anything but bluegrass...
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by steve...r
Re: Other Music Genres
I play mostly like "folk-rock" stuff.... (don't like that term). I like to play Paul Simon-esque stuff on the guitar but enjoy listening to probably Van Morrison the most. I just generally like 60's music. I also like Classical music, native american music, and bruce springsteen-eque music (bob seger, bruce, that kind of stuff).
I generally like all kinds of music that provoke thought.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Donagh17
Re: Other Music Genres
for me listening would be anything but country or hip-hop
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by steve...r
Re: Other Music Genres
I listen to bluegrass, and *god forbid* newgrass, I also like French Canadian, and also Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and The Punch Brothers. Two amazing bands that are imposible to discribe with just one genre
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by reaghan
Re: Other Music Genres
I recently moved to the "dark" side, borrowed a B/C box and determined to learn only Quebecois tunes on it. French Canadian is close to ITM in many ways, but I decided to break away and see what happens.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by jtrout
Re: Other Music Genres
classical and some jazz; I also like some rock, for example
the grunge bands and early punk rock. Not too
much around at the moment that I like -- the Aussie band
Eskimo Joe, some of U2, Linkin Park were a good band.
Bluegrass and country --- can be nice, but has bad
connotations for me -- makes me think of the KKK, lynchings,
etc. Kasey Chambers from Australia is great.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Hup
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Hup- that's exactly how I feel about country music.
but that's today's POP country like garth brooks and the dixie chicks (ew.)
Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson are great you have to admit that. That's real country.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Donagh17
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I only play traditional.
I listen to everything. Latest genres . . .
Northumbrian pipes & fiddle
http://www.kathryntickell.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=tvm2ZsRv3C8&feature
Yundi Li - Chopin "Fantasie" Impromptu, Op. 66
A band from Zhengzhou, China
Irish music ~ traditional chinese instruments.
http://www.thexiansi.com/music.html
country's grand! Some of my best times were slow dancing.
Most recently;
http://www.robertearlkeen.com/index.php?page=rektv
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Random_notes
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When I hear the dixie chicks, I don't necessarily think of the KKK, but I definitely think of lynching...myself.
I also like some Rock, but its all across the board and selected on a per song basis.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by stupidwhistler
Re: Other Music Genres
When i have too much time on me hands; I've been known to listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzX5fTE5tTw
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Lint - upon - Tweed
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I'm a double bass player in a really good volunteer symphony orchestra; that's my non-trad cup of tea.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Other Music Genres
Classical music. I loooove Bach.
Oddly, though I've played classical music for much longer, I find myself getting a lot more out of classical music now that I've picked up Irish trad. For example, I appreciate the music of Brahms and Rachmaninoff much more... listened to Brahms for the first time in a while, and - wow. Maybe it has something to do with having spent the time developing my ear? A nice added bonus.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by fuzzygreen
Re: Other Music Genres
Oh, and I also like some bluegrass.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by fuzzygreen
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Tango La Cumparsita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpLqCth7DrY&feature
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Other Music Genres
Carthy is God.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by sechan
Re: Other Music Genres
When I am not playing piano at the local Irish session, I play bass with several different groups in several different places. I play my electric bass at a local blues session and with the band at the church I attend. I play my acoustic bass with a local old-time folk music group and with a song circle at a local church. When I am at home, I like to play almost anything and everything on the piano. I try to keep busy musically speaking because playing is one of my favorite things to do when I am not working at my day job at a local hospital.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: Other Music Genres
Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, The Pixies, The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Hendrix, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie McTell, Horslips, (Early era) Rolling Stones, Howlin Wolf, Bob Marley, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Teenage Fanclub, Woody Guthrie, Dick Gaughan, Ry Cooder, The Byrds, John Martyn, Van Morrison..... I could continue but it's early morning and that's not a good time. Most played CD of the last week is "Inside The Human Body" by Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, great stuff. Also getting a bit of play in our house is "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" by Augustus Pablo - those Sly & Robbie guys are something else, no, no, no, not the Eddie Cochran song, mind you, he's pretty good as well. BTW, I just purchased Led Zeppelin 2 on vinyl again, one of the first albums I ever bought way back in the mists of time.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by strayaway
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What I like
--------------
Well, apart from Irish trad ...
1) Scottish, English, Welsh, American, French, Breton, Italian, Swedish and Austrian trad etc.
2) Rock. The old original rock, that is. Chuck Berry, and the like. They seem to call everything "rock", these days.
3) Jazz. Favourite musician : Sidney Bechet. Jazz never to be used in an Irish trad context, of course!
4) Classical. Some of it - not all of it.
5) ABBA. Although I usually prefer to play AABB.
6) Ha! Nearly forgot. Accoustic Dylan. Not to mention the late great Adge Cutler, of course ....
What I don't like
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1) ANY form of muzak or piped music that gets rammed down your ears from loudpeakers placed in so many pubs and department stores these days.
2) So called "soul" music sung by British artistes in fake American accents. Ugh!
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Other Music Genres
There's so much good music out there that I think this thread could go on forever!
For me (in no order):
-Traditional African, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Eastern European, Indian (as in India), French, French-Canadian
-Classical (mostly of the classical era [as opposed to the romantic], and also baroque as well, but I do like Chopin)
-Opera
-Pretty much anything on acoustic guitar
-Jack Johnson and Ben Harper
-Soundtrack scores (Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, etc.)
-Any piano compositions by Nobuo Uematsu
-Led Zeppelin
-Industrial Metal (Powerman5000, Static-X, etc.)
-Rage Against the Machine
-90's grunge/rock like Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins
-I do like some hip-hop/rap like Fort Minor, K-Os and this really good Korean band called LeeSang
-Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, Johnny Cash (no I'm not lumping these into the same genre, they just sprang to mind and I typed them in the same line)
-bluegrass and good folky-country (none of that new country sh*te as some others have already mentioned)
-jazz that has limited instrumentation and a good walking bass line (ie. a piano, a bass, and a trumpet is all that's needed IMO!)
etc., etc.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Tasia
Re: Other Music Genres
All types of Country - Swing - Big Band - Jazz - Folk - Classical - Light Music (Mantovani etc) - Military Bands - Pipe Bands - Fife/ Flute & Drum Bands - Brass Bands - Any type of Accordion Music - Some Opera - Music from the Shows - All types of singers from Caruso to Nat King Cole to Delia Murphy - All types of Rock Music - Not too keen on Heavy Metal but I do like '16 tons' - Rap doesn't really do it for me although I would love to recite 'Nell Flaherty's Drake' to a Rap Beat. Lastly I do like a good whistler!
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Free Reed
Re: Other Music Genres
Why would country music and bluegrass music evoke lynchings and Jim Crow for someone, but Irish music doesn't evoke riots, terrorism, the IRA and scores of killings?
A. Because you're well aware that the pure drop trad, and more specifically, our modern enjoyment of it, has nothing to do with any of that.
B. You're more informed about the cultural climates of Ireland, Chicago and Boston than you are of the American south and west.
C. You need to get out more, and broaden your experiences, both musical and otherwise.
Saying country music reminds you of lynchings makes about as much sense as someone saying trad music reminds them of bussing riots in Massachussetts.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by jwvansteenwyk
Re: Other Music Genres
Australian traditional music.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Hammurabi Breathnach
Re: Other Music Genres
Funk Brothers ~ Detroit ~ Motown
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Other Music Genres
OK, Random, I'll take your Funk Brothers and raise you Booker T & the MG's and Garth Hudson...
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by tomw
Re: Other Music Genres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLzCLbYdjIQ
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by pipewatcher
Re: Other Music Genres
pipewatcher - that was cool. I was going to mention Ska - my son's gotten me interested in it, and I've been bugging he and his sister to teach me how to skank (my secret shame - when I'm not sessioning or working, I like to go out on weekends and make an arse of myself on the dance floor). They weren't exactly skanking in that video, but you get my drift.
I loved your piping, too, and the photos!
Cheers!
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by tomw
Re: Other Music Genres
tomw we are on the same page. some people may tell you detroit *had* motown but it does not have any soul. & those people don't even look past the surface. funk brothers found the soul of music. they found it in detroit, their home. thank you motor city. thank you funk brothers.
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Other Music Genres
An old one, this, but always fun to chew over. Here goes:
Genres I am inventing include: -
Newthumbrian, Ragnar-Rock (surely I'm not the first here?!..), Igloo Rebetika, Tunecrash, and many more I'll think of the moment I've posted.
(Rebetika is possibly the only dancing in the world that can be done in igloos.)
Dance concepts in which I see possibilities include: -
Durham Deranger - based on the interaction of people in North Road late on a Friday or Saturday night. Is there a pattern deep within this? Do those who find it ever come out?
Salmon Bombing - based on the local pastime of jumping fully clothed off Framwellgate Bridge, for any reason or none. Goes along with Bean Setting and other bucolic Morrisy stuff, really.
Mine-Cap Pogo - Adds a spice of hazard, this one.
Cashpoints - Another one based on traditional practice. Round here, cashpoints are harvested by forklift. The movements of tractors, getaway vans and police can surprise and intrigue a reader of the local press. All in all, again rather bucolic and Morrisy.
I'll (possibly) be back...
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Other Music Genres
Are there salmon in the Wear?
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by Ebor_fiddler
Re: Other Music Genres
thanks tomw , cheers
# Posted on March 28th 2009 by pipewatcher
Re: Other Music Genres
@Ebor_fiddler: -
I can assure you there are. Way back in 1973 - the first year I saw adult salmon in the river - I caught one of 6 lbs 4 oz in Durham a little below the lowest of the town's weirs, on a fly-spoon. I never caught another, but stopped fishing long ago now - I have not been trying unavailingly to catch another salmon from that day to this!
Industrial and sewage pollution killed the middle and lower Wear in the c19-20. After WW2 the clean-up began and sea trout came back in numbers. Salmon were (and are) assiduously introduced and a run has established, but sea trout remain more numerous.
As in other North-East rivers, the sea trout can get pretty big but can be dour to fish for. I caught a few (not biggies), but very few for the time I put in trying to catch them. As for the salmon, springers are seldom caught - they turn up from around midsummer onwards.
Mind, a lot of game fishing round here seems to consist of hauling fifteen-pound rainbow trout out of barren lakes where they were put in as twenty-pounders some days before!
# Posted on March 29th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Other Music Genres
Playing: Classical, indie-rock, trip-hop/darkwave, straight-up rock'n'roll.
Listening: Ray Lamontagn, Bon Iver and the like, Andrew Bird, indie-pop and indie-rock (usually more musically innovative than the commercial stuff out there), Cash, Waits, Petty, most classic rock, 20s-30s Hot Jazz, Rage, Subliminal, The Shins, The Frames, Destroyer, Ska, 80's Punk, NY Dolls, Dylan, Rockabilly...mostly anything, at least once.
NOT: Fusion, Smooth Jazz, Death/Power/Thrash Metal.
# Posted on March 29th 2009 by meredithrachael
Re: Other Music Genres
Here are some I really dislike: -
Fluffy girl singers who sound like large kittens being hung up by a hind ankle. (It is true, these are *always* the fluffy ones...)
Toyboys, ditto about the sound - wouldn't know about the fluffiness, don't want to either.
Modern jazz that sounds like an endless succession of metal dustbins being rolled down a mountain, played by muppets.
The hideous amplified caterwaulings of much Greek pop.
Creepy malign druggy songs by various late Sixties groups without redeeming talent.
Nick Drake.
All too much Nu-Folk.
Anything marketed as "a fantastic kick-ass brew of exotic and indigenous folk and other sounds", that is actually played by three guys who recently met at the Uni folk club and discovered that they had played a bit of violin, piano and recorder between them when they were little.
Cuban brothel music.
Any singing that suggests someone jabbing me in the chest and telling me what to do and how to live. There goes hip-hop, rap and suchlike.
Campaign songs written by earnest humourless women.
Singing that tries to cosy the hearers into turning against someone they don't know and the singer doesn't like. (That "someone" might be real, or imaginary, or generic.)
I have heard more than enough of most of these.
# Posted on March 29th 2009 by nicholas
Re: Other Music Genres
Here's what I'm up to nowadays.
http://www.reverbnation.com/thelunchtimelegends#tab=photos
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by dafydd
Re: Other Music Genres
'Creepy malign druggy songs by various late Sixties groups without redeeming talent.'
'Nick Drake.'
You don't like Nick Drake? Philistine! And I love 'White Rabbit' so stick that in your opium pipe and smoke it.
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by dafydd
Bags and generalizations...
Duke Ellington is attributed with saying that there are only two types of music: good and bad.
Therefore I choose the genre "Good".
Assuming all country or or all Bothy Band or all hiphop or all Mauritanian dance music or Vulcan arse flute music or wotteffah is scheit is ignorant. All genres have good and bad. It's the same line of thinking that dismisses all people from a race, religion or culture as bad because one has met a bad apple of that variety before and therefore ignorantly assumes all people of that genre are bad.
One assumes most people here like ITM (as a genre) but it still produces bad music on occasions.
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by Krick Stahlschwanz
Re: Other Music Genres
the schedule on http://www.raidiofailte.com has a variety of good music. aside from the traditional Irish music and Celtic music, there are a few cracking blues shows and even some Spanish/Flamenco music
Gerard, http://www.raidiofailte.com
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by Raidio Failte
Re: Other Music Genres
All genres, and Irish traditional music is no exception, produce mostly bad music.
I've yet to find a genre that I couldn't find something to like in the best of it. With the possible exception of musak
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by llig leahcim
Re: Other Music Genres
I listen to Irish and Scots music in pretty much equal proportions. I also like Quebequois music, and most fok and roots music in general.
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by AlBrown
Re: Other Music Genres
All music requires effort and time, and I enjoy most of it, especially the likes of Paul Simon + LadySmith Black Mambazo, Pink Floyd, and Dire Straits
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by jlocky
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I meant folk music, not fok music. I guess I don't know what the fok I am typing today!
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by AlBrown
*
fok & rot ~ looks like internet jargon
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by Random_notes
Re: Other Music Genres
I like simple music mostly
It's a sensual reaction, not an intellectual decision
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by Bren
Re: Other Music Genres
Dylan, Simon, Waits, Drake, Taylor, Morrison, Lightfoot, Mitchell, Thompson, Cat Stevens, Cohen, in short singer song writers.
I can listen to classical but don't know who it is. I prefer the slower movements, as I do in songs and love ITM slow airs.
I like jazz, with the usual suspects.
The pop and rock world passed me by after the 1960s. I hear stories about a new Irish group called U2 but have never heard any of their stuff.
# Posted on March 30th 2009 by bodhran bliss
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I had very bad experiences when studying classical music (oboe) so can't listen to it now. It sounds inane to me. These days I listen to about 50% celtic (but that includes groups like Kila who are totally UNtrad) and the rest a mix of rock (with my partner as he loves it), or female singer/guitarists like Joni Mitchell, Indigo Girls, Joan Armatrading, etc and some of the male ones likeNick Drake and Ben Harper. Some of the newer roots music is great including kiwi groups like Fat Freddy's Drop and Trinity Roots.
# Posted on March 31st 2009 by Bredna
Re: Other Music Genres
I listen to a lot of what has already been mentioned above.
Most often to be found on my CD player - The Killers and The Afrocelts.
# Posted on March 31st 2009 by sashiko calico
Re: Other Music Genres
Deep Purple (original line up)
# Posted on April 10th 2009 by lisaniska