What sort of music is everyone into?

Joined: Dec 06, 2007 Posts: 17

Rock n' roll, reggae, pop, ballads, 60's and 70's, blues, celtic

What music do you like to listen to?

Joined: Dec 06, 2007 Posts: 17

Mostly into Irish/scottish stuff/ aussie bush music. That's what I play mostly, fiddle, mandolin, accordian, bones.

To listen to I like the above and some of my favourite artists are -

Cat Stevens
Peter Paul and Mary
Dylan
Simon and Garfunkel
Seekers
Creedence

I love old rock and roll but find it hard to play alone, so when I play guitar I usually stick to ballads and country rock.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 01, 2006 Posts: 210 Location: Gaia

I don't listen to as much music as I did when I was younger. It seems most of the music I enjoy is from the 60s & 70s. It's amazing how well much of that music has withstood the test of time. Smile

I enjoy watching videos of concerts from that period, esp. ones I never saw before. I just watched a new documentary about Bob Dylan's performances at the Newport Folk Festival in 63, 64 & 65. It showed how he progressed from an acoustic folk musician to a rock icon. Some incredible performances there.

I've always thought Dylan was best when it was just him and an acoustic guitar. There's a reason for that. When Dylan plays with others, he can't seem to stay in the same vocal key as everyone else. When he plays electric guitar he can't seem to hear himself. I'm really beginning to believe that Dylan has some kind of hearing impairment and that is why he is always shit in concert with a band behind him.

If you watch that documentary you'll see what I mean. In the studio he does better because he can sing and hear under controlled conditions. In live performance he usually sucks, unless he pulls out an acoustic guitar and plays with it.

Even when it's just him & the guitar he sometimes sounds like a cat in heat. But I now know he does that purposely whenever he's upset about something - usually the audience, promoters or band. So if Dylan's pissed off at something forget about seeing a good concert (very rare with him).

Sorry to go on about Dylan, but I had to get that out after seeing that doco. Smile

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject:

Im pretty sure i seen the same documentary on dylan a couple months ago on pbs,,it was cool to see the old footage of his folk influences.

I wore a groove in the tea for tillerman cat stevens album back in the seventies,,i still love his music,,,

i love all sorts of music

Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 17 Location: Kona Paradise

I've seen Dylan live in concert and I've never thought he sounded like shit (it's probably because I fantasize that's that he's my daddy). I found him fun and fresh, and that was in '02.
I'll take him anyway I can get him. Except on satellite..

i love: peyote songs & drum
intertribal round drum songs, 89ner songs
african
reggae
folk
some 60's rock
some 70's rock
some 80's new wave, punk, hardcore
only like some performers in the 90's
xylophone jazz
heart songs

ps, I used to know peter yarrow (I was good friends w/his daughter bethany for a while)
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Joined: Dec 13, 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Michigan

I mostly listen to oldies like Sonny & Cher, Jefferson Airplane, The Monkees, Strawberry Alarm Clock... stuff like that. I also like country, and some of the new stuff. I love classic rock. My whole family is saying I was born in the wrong decade. Cool

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New Member Joined: Aug 29, 2006 Posts: 35

glacially cool alternative tecno ambient like rogue elements, numina, aeterna, and berlin school like tangarene dream and klaus shultze.

that's my main favorite genre. i also like "folk music of folk that haven't been born yet", what is called filk, which is created folk like balads set in the contexts of speculatively fictional story telling.

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Joined: Dec 14, 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Virginia

Primarily I love classic rock, R&B of the 60s and 70s, and a lot of today's Indie stuff. I also love Indian classical music, and music from South Africa and Brazil. Jazz too, but I have to be in a mood for that.

Joined: Dec 18, 2007 Posts: 1 Location: USA

I like a lot of classic rock. I like some new bands like The Mars Volta, Type O Negative, Lacuna Coil, Fall of Troy.

I also LOVE drum and bass and acid jazz, that just says a nice summer night to me...

Joined: Dec 06, 2007 Posts: 17

Wow, we sure have some diverse tastes here lol.

About Dylan Skip, yep I agree with you totally, he's much better on his own, doing what he does best.
Sometimes I think that making a comeback is not such a good idea lol.
I want to remember him how he was, like most of us lol, he's getting too long in the tooth to be doing concerts.

Thanks for all the replies people, enjoyed reading them, cheers Hippymuso

Joined: Mar 08, 2008 Posts: 3

Bob Marley is my all-time favorite! He's truly missed but his legend will live on forever.

I listen to reggae mostly and the old greats...Cat Stevens, The Beatles, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Monkees. I like techno/trance like the Cynic Project. I like the Scorpions, too. They just don't make music like they used to!

Joined: Mar 18, 2008 Posts: 5 Location: brisbane

I love Lennon, Beatles, Dylan, anything promoting peace & love..

Joined: Apr 24, 2008 Posts: 1

Yeah, I grew up in the 90s but never felt like I fit in. I look back on the 60s with a nostalgia I can never have, but somehow still feel. To my generation, I'm something wrong - a sort of deviation - but to those of the peace-lovers 'it's just my thing, man' - so music tastes, eh?

Well, music of all types has something to give. Even rap has some cool beats but I don't agree with the predominant aspirations that rap tends to be devoted to - No, I'm into the 60s and 70s stuff mainly (got into it as a child). Favourites include: Pink Floyd (like entering another world! Seriously!), Captain Beefheart, Sun Ra, Neil Young (beautiful, timeless voice!), Grateful Dead and The Mamas & The Papas.

I also have a 'thing' for Trip-hop, World, Classical, Acoustic and just general rock n' roll baby!

But then, music is music - from the echoe of a heartbeat to the tremors of Mozart - what can't you love about music?

Joined: Nov 11, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Finnland, Oulu

I like nearly evrything form the 60's like Jimi Hendrix Expierience,The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, CCR and Frank Zappa
But my fav is Bruce Springsteen (the stuff from the seventies Born in the U.S.A was still good but after then he haven't done so good)
I also love Reggae like Marley,Israel Vibaration and many finish reagge band are great like Nopsajalka, Paarma and Pelle Miljoona & Ylivoima
Then there is Jethro Tull and Ac/Dc
But i like manykinds of music Smile

Joined: May 07, 2008 Posts: 1

Hmm.. not much of an old stuff nowadays.. anyway Jimi Hendrix's guitar is amazing and inspiring.. Bobby Dylan's songs are sincere and honest.. The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane are sunshining and psychedelic..
And all that music is a big and important part of me..
Last days im listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, PJ Harvey, The Knife.. open for myself The Mermen.. and playing myself alot

Joined: Apr 22, 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Michigan

Artists like Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Jim Croce, Lobo, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin.

Anything that makes good travel music.

~ Peace and Love

Joined: May 07, 2008 Posts: 1

I love music with a message so it's really anything with good lyrics....however at the moment I am really getting into Syd Barrett's stuff and Robert Plant's solo works.

Peace and love x x x

Joined: Jan 06, 2009 Posts: 3 Location: the great wide open

I grew up in the 90s also and my father worked at a radio station and introduced me to "classic rock"
I grew up with it.
I often find myself imagining what it'd be like to be at woodstock.
that's when I feel music was alive. simplicity worked.
just close your eyes and let go.
supertramps great, the doors, janice joplin, that song "rightnow" by van halen was good. anything that can take your mind away.

90s one hit wonders were a big thing for me as well.
circa survive is amazing.
anything that my soul can dance to catches my ear.

Joined: Jul 05, 2009 Posts: 2

drum n bass and bassline or niche as we call it in sheffield after the niteclub which is where bassline started, also known as 4 by 4. An example is the album The Sound of Bassline by The Ministry of Sound. Great music with or without drugs.

Joined: Jul 27, 2009 Posts: 5

311 is the best i cant get enough of em.

i feel like theres music, and then theres 311.