What music do you like?

[Cranky]

franko said:

habsaddict said:

I threw out Leonard Cohen name and no one made any snide remarks. The guys is BRILLIANT....and SICK.

How can you make snide remarks about a classic poet like that? You can slam his life but not his work.

Snide? Qui moi? LOL!

Have you heard some of the lyrics? Have you heard Wild Rose?

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lyrics:


They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day

From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
As she stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the colour of the roses
They grew down the river, all bloody and wild

When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped the tears that ran down my face

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day

On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, 'Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?'

On the second day he came with a single rose
Said: 'Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?'
I nodded my head, as I layed on the bed
He said, 'If I show you the roses will you follow?'

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day

On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, 'All beauty must die'
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day teeth

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I stand by my declaration! LOL! But I still LOVE his music!

[Cranky]

franko said:

seventeen said:

Yep. I have those on 33's. Sigh.

33's? Man, you are old.

Oops . . .

My kids think the only thing vinyl has been used for is the flooring we took out a while back. Gee, Dad, tell us about the old days when you had to watch a TV program when it was on . . .

We still have all our albums starting from about 40 years ago (did someone say Aqualung?). Jeesz...if we bought stock instead of all the money we spent on albums/cd's, by now I would own the Hab's. The upside is that da boss and I have fairly similar tastes.

Thank GOD for mp3's.......and the net.

[mic]

habsaddict said:

franko said:

How can you make snide remarks about a classic poet like that? You can slam his life but not his work.

Snide? Qui moi? LOL!

Have you heard some of the lyrics? Have you heard Wild Rose?

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lyrics:


They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day

From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
As she stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the colour of the roses
They grew down the river, all bloody and wild

When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped the tears that ran down my face

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day

On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, 'Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?'

On the second day he came with a single rose
Said: 'Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?'
I nodded my head, as I layed on the bed
He said, 'If I show you the roses will you follow?'

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day

On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
As I kissed her goodbye, I said, 'All beauty must die'
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day teeth

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I stand by my declaration! LOL! But I still LOVE his music!

I like Nick Cave's version of this song too. A terrifying voice. I like Cave's work overall (especially No More Shall We Part). Got the chance to see him live a few years ago, was a great performance. So, let's see:

Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Ernest Ranglin, Erik Truffaz, St-Germain's Tourist

Miles Davis

Neil Young, Jeff Buckley

Morrisey

Skin

Beth Gibbons (and Portishead), Perry Blake, Craig Armstrong

Massive Attack (and Horace Andy)

Pink Floyd

The Roots, The Beastie Boys

Alain Bashung (Fantaisie Militaire is terrific)


Probably forgetting a few...

[seventeen]

franko said:

seventeen said:

Yep. I have those on 33's. Sigh.

33's? Man, you are old.

Oops . . .

My kids think the only thing vinyl has been used for is the flooring we took out a while back. Gee, Dad, tell us about the old days when you had to watch a TV program when it was on . . .

Vinyl flooring. And you call me old.

[franko]

Let's add Joe Satriani, Joe Bonamassa, and Pat Metheny to the mix, shall we?

[Skilly]

thehabsomeone said:

[/li][li]Fleetwood Mac (ageless stuff)
[/quote]

Have "Rumours" in vinyl ... never opened it, in fact I dont think I ever listened to it. It was given to me by my aunt for my 6th or 7th birthday. And I like Fleetwood Mac .... hmmm wonder why I never listened to it?

As for Leonard Cohen ..... I absolutely hate the guy's music. Depressing sheeeeeat!! Closing time, closing time, closing time, closing time closing time .......... there I just said all the lyrics to that song ..

I like most stuff. Hate rap, but will listen if it has a good melody to go with it.

My favourites are the 80's rock bands ..... Guns N Roses, Metallica, Judas Preist, Motley Crue, Skid Row .... stuff like that.

The nineties music was pretty much crap in my humble opinion ... but the late nineties switch to alternative got me intrigued again and I started listening to Live, Creed, Stone Temple Pilots, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo dolls, Collective Soul ....

But in my collection I have everything from classical (Mozart, Strauss), classic rock (Kansas, Golden Earring, CCR, Lynarrd Skynard), country (Little Texas, Garth Brooks, Deana Carter, Trisha Yearwood), pop (Michael Jackson, Robyn - dont ask), rock, heavy metal, everything ....... its hard to build up a good collection without having something from everything but I do find that as I grow older I buy less and less CDs .... good thing too cause there is no room for them anymore.

[franko]

skilly said:

As for Leonard Cohen ..... I absolutely hate the guy's music. Depressing sheeeeeat!! Closing time, closing time, closing time, closing time closing time .......... there I just said all the lyrics to that song ..

Ya but htere's just something so . . . Canadian about him . . . makes you want to puke and cheer him on at the same time. Maclean’s article: feel sorry for him

My favourites are the 80's rock bands ..... Guns N Roses, Metallica, Judas Preist, Motley Crue, Skid Row .... stuff like that.

Young punk.

The nineties music was pretty much crap in my humble opinion

My feelings on 80s music.

... but the late nineties switch to alternative got me intrigued again and I started listening to Live, Creed, Stone Temple Pilots, Matchbox 20, Goo Goo dolls, Collective Soul ....

Yup. But maybe because it sounds like 70s music.

[franko]

seventeen said:

franko said:

My kids think the only thing vinyl has been used for is the flooring we took out a while back. Gee, Dad, tell us about the old days when you had to watch a TV program when it was on . . .

Vinyl flooring. And you call me old.

Don't laugh . . . I'm going to head to E-Bay (maybe hi-jack Skilly's Fleetwood Mac album) -- I'm looking at my retirement fund.

One of my best deals ever: found a "Bargain Bin" with new 33s (just being dumped, I guess). Recognized a name on one of the albums -- guy got big in his genre after he left the group (just after the album was put out, actually). Cost of the album: 25 cents. Sold to an acquaintance a few years later -- a guy who wanted it "to fill out his collection " (it was a really -- and I mean really bad album) for 20 bucks. Wish I could make that percentage of profit on everything I did!

[MC Habber]

A little of (almost) everything, including some country and a little rap. Some good ones, in no particular order: Goo Goo Dolls, Matthew Good, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Steve Earle, Rage Against The Machine, Thornley, The Pogues, Lifehouse, Ben Harper, Sam Roberts, Sarah McLachlan, Emm Gryner, Metric, K-os, Radiohead, Remy Zero.... Hmm, half of that list is Canadian, and it's almost all from the 90s or later. I do listen to older music too, but I guess it doesn't speak to me as much.

[Cranky]

machabby said:

A little of (almost) everything, including some country and a little rap. Some good ones, in no particular order: Goo Goo Dolls, Matthew Good, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Steve Earle, Rage Against The Machine, Thornley, The Pogues, Lifehouse, Ben Harper, Sam Roberts, Sarah McLachlan, Emm Gryner, Metric, K-os, Radiohead, Remy Zero.... Hmm, half of that list is Canadian, and it's almost all from the 90s or later. I do listen to older music too, but I guess it doesn't speak to me as much.

You want to be spoken too? Stick a 70's hard rock, cocain juiced band in your ears and you'll see scrambled eggs hatch.

There is a ton of high quality older stuff but there is also two tons of brain scrabling, buzz bomb junk pretending it's rock. Maybe it's me, but I think somewhere in the eighties to nineties, we went through a decade of noise. I don't know if "original" music is back. I don't follow todays music that closely, but judging from programs like INXS, they seem to be recycling a lot of the old stuff.

[Cranky]

skilly said:

thehabsomeone said:

[/li][li]Fleetwood Mac (ageless stuff)
[/quote]

Have "Rumours" in vinyl ... never opened it, in fact I dont think I ever listened to it. It was given to me by my aunt for my 6th or 7th birthday. And I like Fleetwood Mac .... hmmm wonder why I never listened to it?


[/quote]

Are you serious? I think we wore the groves off that one. Mind you, their music was somewhat original but not that great. More like easy, no committal listening.

[MC Habber]

Nobody's mentioned Alanis Morissette... I'm not really a fan of the stuff she did after Jagged Little Pill (or before, for that matter), but I still think that was a great album.

[franko]

machabby said:

Nobody's mentioned Alanis Morissette...

There's a reason for that . . . ;D

[Cranky]

What the heck, a hundred replies and NOBODY has mentioned Brittany! I LOVE Brittany! I love Brittany so much that I needed her "inspiration" on my bedroom wall 37 years ago.



By the way, somebody said to me that she also pretends to sing.

[franko]

The idea that she sings/is more than eye candy reminds me of . . .

[MC Habber]

But you can't see her on the radio, so why do they play her musicnoise?

[IamCanadiens]

The 5 CDs in my player at present

Cake Prolonging the Magic
Jane's Addiction Ritual de lo habitual
Metric Old world uderground.....
Zepplin II
Jack Johnson In b/t dreams

[Disgruntled70sHab]

vinna said:

I'm into alot of hard rock/metal latlet.

The second album I ever bought was Black Sabbath, Master of Reality (1970 I think). (my first was the Best of the 5th dimension ... go figure the odds) I've got Metalica, Monster Magnet and The Headstones in my collection as well. There is a lot of inspiration in some of Metalica's songs as well.

BTW, I could use some help on this one...On a Rickers Red comercial, there is a chorus doing some some classical song that I have always liked but never knew who it was. Can someone help me out with the composer and song title?

I heard this before but couldn't place it. Then it dawned on me that I first heard this as part of the musical score for Exaclibur (1981). The composer is Trevor Jones. Scroll down the page, click on his name and you'll see what else he has composed.

Cheers.

[PTH]

franko said:

thehabsomeone said:

[Enter the Music Genome Project.]

www.pandora.com

That's if you want to find more music that you'll like.

Hey . . . you forgot to mention that we have to make up a US postal zip code if we want to sign up.

But, but, but, that would be unethical !

[PTH]

disgruntled70shab said:

BTW, I could use some help on this one...On a Rickers Red comercial, there is a chorus doing some some classical song that I have always liked but never knew who it was. Can someone help me out with the composer and song title?

I heard this before but couldn't place it. Then it dawned on me that I first heard this as part of the musical score for Exaclibur (1981). The composer is Trevor Jones. Scroll down the page, click on his name and you'll see what else he has composed.

Cheers.

Carmina Burana ?

[Cranky]

pth said:

disgruntled70shab said:

I heard this before but couldn't place it. Then it dawned on me that I first heard this as part of the musical score for Exaclibur (1981). The composer is Trevor Jones. Scroll down the page, click on his name and you'll see what else he has composed.

Cheers.

Carmina Burana ?

BINGO!

When he asked the question, my ears where ringing with it and yet I could not remember the name.

Go here and scroll down. Click "Listen to All".

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001G5X/102-0406915-8697714?v=glance&n=5174

[Vinna]

Thank you very much gents. The score was also used by Ozzy Obourne to open his concerts once upon a time and I have heard it before but never knew where or what it was.

[habsburgher]

Eagles, Neil Young and Pink Floyd (with Roger Waters) would be my top 3.

[Doc Holliday]

I'd have to go along the lines of :
AC/DC
CCR
Styx
a bit of Thoroughgood and Iron Maiden for good measure
ease it all down with some Supertramp

And every now and again pop out some good Old Frank.

[Skilly]

docholliday said:

I'd have to go along the lines of :
AC/DC
CCR
Styx
a bit of Thoroughgood and Iron Maiden for good measure
ease it all down with some Supertramp

And every now and again pop out some good Old Frank.

Zappa or Sinatra?

[Disgruntled70sHab]

docholliday said:

I'd have to go along the lines of :
AC/DC
CCR
Styx
a bit of Thoroughgood and Iron Maiden for good measure
ease it all down with some Supertramp

And every now and again pop out some good Old Frank.

Ah, George Thoroughgood and the Delaware Destroyers. They played in Ottawa back in the late 70's at the Civic Centre. He wouldn't play in the rink itself though. He'd select one of the salons located elsewhere in the complex. He didn't like larger crowds such as concerts. George liked a smaller crowd back then. Since then though, I heard he's played in front of some pretty large crowds.

Have to add certain selections by Supertramp and I saw them during their "Breakfast in America" tour as well. The concert was at Lansdowne Park, or present-day Frank Claire Stadium. The guy who opened for them was Jean-Luc Ponte.

Cheers.

[franko]

Thorogood played the (so-called) Bluesfest here a couple of years ago (actually in 2001 and 2004) . . . mostly entertaining, but in the end pretty boring, really. The same song over and over again (every five minutes he'd take a break and give us another name for the seemingly same song).

[PTH]

pth said:

franko said:

Hey . . . you forgot to mention that we have to make up a US postal zip code if we want to sign up.

But, but, but, that would be unethical !

Hmm, after trying a few things, I've found the system never seems to forget us.

How does it match my profile with me? It can't be anything related to my PC or my browser, because I clear those out every time I reboot. If it doesn't work by IP address, I'm gonna be seriously spooked.

[MC Habber]

pth said:

pth said:

But, but, but, that would be unethical !

Hmm, after trying a few things, I've found the system never seems to forget us.

How does it match my profile with me? It can't be anything related to my PC or my browser, because I clear those out every time I reboot. If it doesn't work by IP address, I'm gonna be seriously spooked.

I don't know, it's weird. I first went there using firefox, and then when I went back there using IE (works better), it remembered me! What's strange is I then tried it using a second PC on my LAN (so it had the same IP address), and it didn't remember me there.

[MC Habber]

machabby said:

pth said:

Hmm, after trying a few things, I've found the system never seems to forget us.

How does it match my profile with me? It can't be anything related to my PC or my browser, because I clear those out every time I reboot. If it doesn't work by IP address, I'm gonna be seriously spooked.

I don't know, it's weird. I first went there using firefox, and then when I went back there using IE (works better), it remembered me! What's strange is I then tried it using a second PC on my LAN (so it had the same IP address), and it didn't remember me there.

Ok, this is really strange. I just tried creating a new firefox profile and using it to connect to pandora through a proxy server, and it still knew who I was. I had a different ip address and hostname from ever before, and no cookies. I even checked the headers coming from my browser and couldn't see anything that should have identified me. Now I'm spooked.