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12-17-2005, 05:49 AM
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12-17-2005, 06:07 AM
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Ripper, we have a few things in common! SOAD rock bigtime!
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12-17-2005, 06:18 AM
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12-17-2005, 06:26 AM
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12-17-2005, 06:54 AM
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12-17-2005, 07:41 AM
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12-18-2005, 09:30 AM
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12-18-2005, 10:19 AM
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Queen's early stuff was okay, but I don't think they were ever truly a metal band.
Now Led Zeppelin, on the other hand...they simply rule the metal roost. 
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12-18-2005, 11:32 AM
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My Queen reference was a joke... like DB's mentioning of Chicago.
I'm tempted to make a typical Zen response: "I live in California so I know what records and CD's are all about." Not all of us old codgers are Lawrence Welk fans... Zeppelin is probably the only headbanger/drums-carry-the-melody music I can stomach. Like chemo...in small doses.
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12-18-2005, 06:27 PM
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Given that I went in for punk rock in a big way, I find that much heavy metal is a bit "soft", musically. System of a Down have some lovely folksy bits in their music, as well as the rocky edge that floats my boat - and I can hear echoes of the Dead Kennedys in the vocals. But I have an incredibly broad taste in music (I'm listening to some Bach violin cantatas as I write, and for the next course I'm cueing up that amazing album by Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder). What turns me off is purely commercial music. Yeah yeah, who am I to decide what that is? Well, a bit like torture, it's hard to define but I know it when it's in front of me.
Sin, round here we called him "Dead Fred" for a while! Queen were a rock band, but not heavy metal, and I'd say the same for Led Zep. |
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12-18-2005, 11:33 PM
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I too like a hugh variety of musical styles.
Classical is probably my favorite. Little Fugue In G Minor For Organ - Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach - probably my favorite.. especially when played on my Harmon Kardon in our Mini Cooper. The bass is responsive to about 5 cycles. You can't hear that low it but your chest vibrates. :LOL Take Five - Brubeck is still my favorite jazz album. Country - I like the old guys. Merle, Willie, Johnny etc. Standards - Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis etc. Rock - Credance, Santana, Doors, Peter Frampton, etc. Ever listen to "Green Onions? Still one of my favorites. Very few heavy metal songs on my list and rap? I'm trying to think of one..... nah |
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12-19-2005, 12:00 AM
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There's not much rap that I go for - gangsta rap is completely out - but there are a few French rap artistes that do it for me - MC Solaar, Zebda, and the like. Despite being in French, the lyrics are much more thoughtful than most, and ain't about guns and ladies' bottoms. Massive Attack are another band that use a lot of rap without having any antisocial messages - if anyone cares to check out "Safe From Harm", "Karmacoma", and pretty much anything else you'll see what I mean.
Country - yes, in small doses and of the right sort. Jazz - agreed about Brubeck, DB, and Stan Getz, Miles Davies (in his more sane moments), Art Blakey, and many others. My favourite Bach thing is the Brandenburg Concertos, sometimes it verges on being blues music. My favourite dancing music is psytrance, but there's little point in listing preferred artists as nobody has heard of them anyway! I go big time for reggae, dub, ska, and most anything else from Jamaica. African jazz too - probably the greatest musical moment I have had so far was seeing Fela Kuti live at Glastonbury festival in 1984. Hmm, I like the Doors, but don't much like Jim Morrison. Old blues I like too, such as Leadbelly, Memphis Slim, Tampa Red, Victoria Spivey, and the like. Big Mama Thornton - oh yes! Then there's Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and many others of that 60s crowd. Ok, I'll stop there! |
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12-19-2005, 12:54 AM
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No bonus points awarded... "Freddy's Dead...the Last Nightmare" was #6 of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series...
"Freddy's Dead" was also a Curtis Mayfield recording of the 1970's. I believe it was a feature song in the movie "Shaft". Ok...ok... I'm going back into my sarcophagus now... Try to keep that damned music down and you kids get off my lawn!  :zip "Green Onions" --Brooker T and the MG's? YEAH! I got several speeding tickets while listening to "Time is Tight" by those guys... 
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12-19-2005, 02:15 AM
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I guess we're all a bit eclectic.
Lately I've been listening to Dylan, Zeppelin, Sam Cooke, Squeeze, Dionne Warwick, The Kinks ("Village Green Preservation Society" is IMO the best pop-rock album ever made--exquisite), various classical. I just got a 2-CD compilation of 60's girl group classics that's very cool. I even like listening to the 1812 Overture on occasion... |
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12-19-2005, 04:25 AM
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12-19-2005, 05:26 AM
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Hell... the 1812 Overture was "pop music" when I was a young man.
Down at the corner meade-shop, I'd pop a farthing into the juke-harpsichord and rock out! 
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12-19-2005, 07:31 AM
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