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Post by bellyshere on May 3, 2016 19:31:34 GMT
When i was a nipper, most of my friends at school mostly liked one type of music. There was people who liked metal, those who liked indie, those who like pop etc. I was never one of those and liked stuff from Nic Jones, Nick Drake to Iron Maiden and Duran Duran. I still meet lots of people with very narrow tastes, especially musicians. Are you lot the same? Is it mostly folk peeps on here?
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Post by delb0y on May 3, 2016 19:57:44 GMT
On my iPod I have a lot of each of jazz, classical, gypsy jazz, finger-picking (ragtime, blues, country, bottleneck etc), bluegrass, flatpicking, country, swing, rock'n'roll, rockabilly, and singer-songwriters. I have a medium amount of classic rock and classic pop - Beatles / Stones / Kinks / Who / Hendrix / UFO / Clapton etc. A very small (but growing) amount of folk. And no opera at all.
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Post by bellyshere on May 3, 2016 20:07:25 GMT
That's a decent amount of variety delboy. I've listened tonight to The Chameleons, The Sound, Bert Jansch, Human League, Porcupine Tree, Mike Harding, Savages and King Crimson.
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Post by scorpiodog on May 3, 2016 20:45:51 GMT
Seems your iPod and mine are similar, Delboy, though mine has a folk bias and I'm only now discovering jazz. As for favourite albums, Bellyshere, that's hard. I become obsessed with albums for a time then I put them away and listen only rarely. Some I always seem to go back to, though, are Joni Mitchell, Ladies Of The Canyon and Blue; Roxy Music, Avalon; The Beatles, White Album; John Martyn Solid Air; and Show Of Hands, Witness. A bit folky, as you see, but this doesn't make up all of my listening by any means. Good idea for a thread, this. Thanks for posting.
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Post by ocarolan on May 3, 2016 22:50:03 GMT
When at school you could only like one sort of music - Beatles et al. But by the mid 60s I'd diversified into folkiness as well. Pretty much where I still am!
I do love folky things of various persuasions, but also a lot 1960s/70s rock and pop, a fair bit of classical; lots of stuff in fact.
Never did get on with opera or more recent classical or jazz. Not over fond of heavy metal either.
I don't have an iPod, or indeed an i-Anything, but I do have a load of LPs mostly bought in 1960s-1980s which I love, and a ridiculously large number of CDs of more recent stuff, many of which could do with binning.
Recently have been mostly listening to early Beatles, Richard and Linda Thompson, Ry Cooder, early Rolling Stones, June Tabor, Chuck Berry, Dire Straits, Kinks, Gallagher and Lyle, Eagles, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, Peter Skellern (yes, really!), The Nice, Cat Stevens, Fairport, and John Betjeman reading some of his poems with musical backing in 1920s/30s style arranged by Jim Parker.
Keith
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Post by yorkie on May 4, 2016 5:38:46 GMT
When i was a nipper, most of my friends at school mostly liked one type of music. There was people who liked metal, those who liked indie, those who like pop etc. I was never one of those and liked stuff from Nic Jones, Nick Drake to Iron Maiden and Duran Duran. I still meet lots of people with very narrow tastes, especially musicians. Are you lot the same? Is it mostly folk peeps on here? Hi B My musical taste, like yours, is fairly eclectic and to be brutally honest I don't spend lot of time on this forum as it seems to be predominantly folk centric. Good music is good music. I do like inventive and innovative stuff so I'm pleasantly surprised to see you are listening to savages amongst other things. Have you sampled the delights of Ruth Theodore? Quirky, smart and arresting.
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Post by bellyshere on May 4, 2016 6:19:14 GMT
I will check out Ruth. I was going to stick my top ten albums on but that opened a right can of worms. Just couldn't decide.
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Post by stringdriventhing on May 4, 2016 6:32:36 GMT
"Folk" music acounts for about 5% of what I listen to. I'm mainly into "indie/alt rock" stuff, a bit of 70s prog, 20s-40s Blues and "classic" stuff like Neil Young, Dylan, Bowie, Kate Bush, etc. i like all sorts really, but I'm basically an Indie Kid at heart.
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Post by brianr2 on May 4, 2016 7:47:54 GMT
I was a heavy metal fan until University when I literally stumbled across Nic Jones, who changed my musical tastes forever. I now enjoy driving as I can connect my phone to the car stereo. I am heavily into acoustic music but my taste encompasses folk, country, classical and modern, including: Derek Gripper (If you haven't heard "One Night on Earth: Music From the Strings of Mali", give it a go on YouTube), Nic Jones, Brigit St John, June Tabor, Sandy Denny, Show Of Hands, Richard Thompson, Sharon Isbin, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker (thanks ocarolan ), Jens Kommnick (thanks Akquarius ), Kate Wolf, Steve Tilson, Joni Mitchell, Clannad, the Chieftains, Buffy St Marie and Melanie. Just an aged hippy folkie with a contemporary twist (as the TV designers would have it) I guess.... Brian
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Post by Martin on May 4, 2016 8:05:17 GMT
I really only got into 'folk' music as a result of taking up guitar again in my thirties after a long absence. It seemed that the music encompassed much of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar stuff I wanted to play, so it was a logical choice of listening. My tastes now are broader than ever before. I used to be a real rock fan, went to all the Motorhead, Maiden and Megadeth gigs with all the leather gear on Didn't have any time for much pop, hip hop or country. Now, I like it all, listen to it all. Rock, metal, folk, country, blues, jazz, hiphop, dubstep, house/garage, trad, world, classical.... The only music I really can't stand is what is now confusingly referred to as RnB. Rhythm and Blues it ain't, but it's the bland, tuneless, regurgitated stuff that generally populates local commercial radio stations in my experience.
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Post by ocarolan on May 4, 2016 8:14:25 GMT
................. The only music I really can't stand is what is now confusingly referred to as RnB. Rhythm and Blues it ain't, ................. Agreed - esp when the so called singer uses 17 notes (accompanied by weird hand movements) where one would do.... bring back proper RnB! Keith
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Post by Phil Taylor on May 4, 2016 8:39:08 GMT
When I was a little boy in the 60's the first group I liked was of course The Beatles and I tended to like all chart stuff up until the age of 12/13 in 1970 when I discovered rock and in particular prog rock after hearing 'The Yes Album' which is my desert island LP - favourite band 'Yes'. From then on it was Yes, Genesis, Focus, Groundhogs, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Free/Bad Company, Wishbone Ash, Camel, Brand X etc. Being an 'old fart' most of the modern day stuff doesn't really do it for me because generally it was all done before in the 70/80's in my opinion. Later on in the 80/90's I became interested in acoustic guitar and got more into folky stuff such as Martin Simpson, Paul Brady but really whatever it was it had to be mainly acoustic guitar instrumental music and that is what I listen to probably 85% of my time now. This covers generally any type of guitar including jazz such as Eric Skye, Martin Taylor, Julian Lage etc. I soon lose interest in songs but having said that I have just received the Clive Gregson & Christine Collister updated triple CD 'Home & Away' which is top notch and I like Sam Carter's acoustic stuff So basically I am a instrumental acoustic guitar nerd - next CD on the way to me as we speak? Trevor Gordon Hall - 'Mind, Heart, Fingers' Phil
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Post by walkingdecay on May 4, 2016 9:27:23 GMT
I can do the folk stuff, but learned from a very early age to let whatever sounds good and feels right in. My young uncle and aunty were always playing records, so I grew up with the idea that music was something you had to have in your life. For them it was Lonnie, Cliff, Bobby Darin and the like, but the real waking point for me was seeing The Beatles on Thank Your Lucky Stars. I was buying records occasionally from then on, with no particular focus until Sergeant Pepper, when I started reading Melody Maker and becoming a little more discerning. After that one thing led to another. The British species of psychedelia typified by The Move and Traffic led to me checking out the American varieties in the form of The Byrds and Jefferson Airplane; they in turn led to Dylan and The Grateful Dead. The busy, eclectic sounds and poetry of The Dead became very important to me at some stage, and they were at the centre of things from then on, like the mainrib of a leaf leading off in all sorts of directions.
The Yanks seemed to arrive at just the right time, just before I had to accept that The Beatles really had broken up, that Marc Bolan was actually a complete tosser, no matter what John Peel said, and that apart from Slade glitter pop was simply not for me. The Dead, Byrds and Dylan pointed me in the direction of country music and more rootsy music in general, so following up on a tip-off from my uncle I started visiting the junk shops in the mining villages at the edge of Cannock Chase, where, it became apparent country was king. On one glorious day I found LPs by Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and Marty Robbins and I became hooked. There was also an astonishingly propulsive instrumental track on a country compilation by a pair who wore the unlikely names of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. So it was them I'd seen on The Beverly Hillbillies and heard on the soundtrack of Bonnie and Clyde. I already had a guitar. Now I had to get me a banjo.
And that's how it went on. Scruggs led to a Doc Watson double album called Doc Watson On Stage and a lot of woodshedding; Doc, Dylan and The Dead turned me in the direction of the folk section in records shops, to Pete Seeger, Libba Cotten and Big Bill Broonzy; in the folk section I found an album by Steeleye Span and - oh, doesn't Melody Maker love them?; from Steeleye to the extraordinary revelation that Britain had its own folk music. About that time I went to the Cambridge Folk Festival for the first time, along with Trev Moyle and some other local lads, and they introduced me to stuff they liked, like The Chieftains. Later I graduated from playing in a band that often backed visiting American country singers to a fully pro outfit that played anything that was thrown at them, and they led me deeper into the Great American Songbook and jazz - especially Duke Ellington - than I'd been before. Meanwhile I found myself liking punk despite myself, and joining other unreconstructed hippies in going to see The Sex Pistols appear as The Spots in Wolverhampton. (I wasn't going to get a kicking for wearing a Neil Young T shirt after all.) I'm already well into TL:DR territory here (nobody will read that I have a list of people I'd like someone to put through a garden shredder), so I'll conclude by saying that I do lean towards folk and back catalogue stuff these days. That's not so much because "music was better when I were a lad" as that pop/rock has reached the point where it seems to endlessly repeats itself, just as jazz did before it. The kids are producing some high quality music, but to be honest the last of the great rock originals were The Smiths, country only pays lip service to its roots and there are a lot of fakes in there, and while folk music does foster new voices like Emily Portman and Chris Wood on occasion they are rare exceptions. I keep my ears pricked though. Maybe the 21st century equivalent of Joni Mitchell is hitting on that particular combination of chords, melody and idea at this very moment.
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Post by walkingdecay on May 4, 2016 9:42:46 GMT
................. The only music I really can't stand is what is now confusingly referred to as RnB. Rhythm and Blues it ain't, ................. Agreed - esp when the so called singer uses 17 notes (accompanied by weird hand movements) where one would do.... bring back proper RnB! Keith Exactly. One of the reasons I retracted a promise to gig with a singer was that she took the perfect statement of time and melody that is the opening phrase of Blue Skies and turned it into something that somehow managed to sound like a drowning parrot burbling out nonsense and a siren at the same time. There's room for improvisation in any tune, but the good singers who instinctively know when they're going too far seem to have become an endangered species.
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Post by bellyshere on May 4, 2016 9:44:18 GMT
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates the use of RnB now. RnB it most definitely is not.
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