What else do we listen to?
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Topic: What else do we listen to?
Posted By: horza
Subject: What else do we listen to?
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:15
I can recommend Frank Sinatra 'Songs for swinging lovers' and The Blue Nile 'Tinseltown in the Rain' - I love music in general and Steely Dan,Nat King Cole and loads more keep me sane - what about you ?  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
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Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:28
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I love any psychedelic music from the '60s, but I also listen to a bunch of other stuff including classical and jazz. Non-prog music I own includes: Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Beatles, Jeff Beck, Blodwyn Pig, Bob Dylan, Byrds, Cream, CCR, Crosby Stills and Nash (and Young), Donovan, Doors, Fairport Convention, Marvin Gaye, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Linda Perhacs, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Move... You get the idea. I got tired of writing it all. ------------- My recent purchases: 
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:34
^ i know what you mean ....music is an important part of my life .... probably important to us all  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: CandyAppleRed
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:48
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A reasonably selective list of bands that do not appear in these pages that I listen to... Runrig, Afro-Celts, Robert Plant, Golden Palominos, Jeff Beck, FSOL, Portishead, Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, Terje Rypdal, Cocteaus, Waterboys, Miles Davis, Enigma, Global Communications, Sheryl Crow, Keith Jarrett, Capercaillie, Pat Metheny, Van Morrison.
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:50
Oh and i love Dead Can Dance as well - VERY interesting band  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Lorak
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:56
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I listen to 60's, 70's and some 80's classic rock. List could go
on forever, but there I some in that genre that I avoid as well.
That list would be easier for me: I avoid - Journey, REO Speedwagon, Bob Seger, Phil Collins. Aloha ------------- Two heads are better than one, but if you want something done right, do it yourself. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but better safe than sorry. Look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost |
Posted By: ShW1
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:15
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recently - Nitin Sawhney his last album is a little bit too commercial for me, but stilll good. It didnt get out from my CD player for a while.
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Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:27
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I enjoy a lot of classic rock from the 60s and 70s, also classical and jazz. Some of my favourite bands not in the prog genre: Ten Years After Blood, Sweat, And Tears Neil Young Fairport Convention The Zombies Buffalo Springfield Cream T. Rex Joe Walsh Edgar Winter Group The Doobie Brothers Bob Dylan Zeppelin Jefferson Airplane The Grateful Dead Blue Oyster Cult CCR The Guess Who Donovan Lighthouse Some jazz i've been digging lately: Of course the essentials John Coltrane - A Love Supreme , Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Also: Pharoah Sanders - Karma - Fantastic album featuring two tracks including one 32 minute jam " The Creator Has A Master Plan" Absolutely fantastic composition and outstanding performances from all musicians involved, namely Pharoahs amazing saxaphone. Some really beautiful passages aswell as very chaotic and psychedelic passages, one of my favourite Jazz tracks of all time. Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice - one of the leading men in the free jazz movement, he's released alot of quality material. It may not be the nicest on the ears but Ayler is a madman on the sax. I'm relatively new to the jazz genre but i'm enjoying it alot. I plan on going deep into this genre, but i've got alot of ground to cover..! ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 20:56
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Beside prog I listen to a lot of: -------------  |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 21:00
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Besides lots of prog (
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 21:01
| Classic rock (Queen, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin), classic metal (Maiden, Metallica) and power metal (Stratovarius, Blind Guardian) are what I listen to when I don't happen to have prog on. I suppose there's sports radio too, but that's not quite a music genre. |
Posted By: FishyMonkey
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 21:26
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Metal of all kinds...from Iron Maiden to Behemoth. I like some jazz and some classic rock too. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/FishyMonkey/?chartstyle=artists"> 
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Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 15:58
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Dose anyobody of you guys know the band "Jamiroquai"? I like their old stuff... It's great!  |
Posted By: ChadFromCanada
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 16:02
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Soft Rock, Folk, Country, Jazz, British Invasion. Early 90s
Grunge (PJ and ALice in Chains), Psychedelic Rock, 80s pop. I
don't know what I don't listen to, other than rap, hip hop, and
punk. Though I don't mind some of the older rap, the kind you
hear on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. I can
admit to liking that stuff, but not the new stuff. If you're interested, a list of my musical possessions can be found http://www.freewebs.com/chadfromcanada/CDs%20and%20Vinyls1.txt - here . Edit : I forgot that I listen to some metal, though only in moderation. |
Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 16:04
| jazz, classicel rock and psychadelic rock, hiphop, reagge.... anything really. |
Posted By: RoyalJelly
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 16:21
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For people used to the many transitions, variations and
stylistic complexity of progressive, I can only recommend film music by the great film composers: Nina Rota, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenmann, Alex North. Especially Morricone uses a lot of pop and rock styles, and is therefore covered a lot in prog and avant-garde circles. The music for "Exorcist II" really is in part awesome progressive rock, I first heard the cover by Snakefinger in the early 80s. This music kept me sane during the famine years when there was no progressive worth mentioning, and even the interesting pop and art-rock of the 80s had totally dried up. The other area I can totally recommend is Brasilian music. While never deliberately complex in structure, it always has a complex, intricate and fascinating rhythm, and an endless wealth of masterful songs that are constantly reworked and covered, and brilliant arrangements and musicianship all around. Some names to check out are Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Chico Buarque, and of course Antonio Carlos Jobim. Also the genius composer, guitar & piano virtuoso Egberto Gismonti (who records on ECM). I can also say that some of the most interesting fusions of indigenous music rock with heavy rock, electronic, drum 'n bass, etc. is happening there. The greatest rock singers I've heard in the past years come from there, especially the late Cassia Eller, and the young & brilliant Rebeca Matta. |
Posted By: ElwoodHerring
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 16:51
I'm a classical nut; my classical collection is HUGE. I'm actually writing a book about the development of the symphony at the moment, and I've written four myself. 
I'm also into modern jazz, a bit of trad jazz, medieval music, and even avant-garde electronic and electro-acoustic (and again I've made some of my own)... Enough for ya?  ------------- [IMG]http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DRMkillb.JPG"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816930.stm - Right the Copyright Wrongs (Bill Thompson's BBC blog - essential reading!) |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:01
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Sting, Split Enz and the Beach Boys / Brian Wilson are the only non-prog acts in my favourite artists top 10. And: I like some albums by artists like (amongst others): Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel ('60's) Poco, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Buggles ('70's) Captain Sensible, Buggles, Jon & Vangelis ('80's) Bjork, Massive Attack, Hector Zazou, Los Lobos, Donald Fagen ('90's) Air ('00's) And I like lots of different classical music pieces |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 17:37
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Theres probably a lot of music outside of prog that id like but since money is limeted ive decided to fist expand my knoledg of prog In 10 years i might have a more diverse collection ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 20:38
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Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, Derek Trucks Band, Duster Bennett,
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tempest, Neil Young, Bob
Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson, John
Coltrane, Juicy Lucy, Peter Green Splinter Group, Gary Moore, Champion
Jack Dupree, Memphis Slim, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Pearl Jam, Cream
and Jimi Hendrix. Plus stuff I plan on buying (because I've heard it in clubs and I like it): Queens of the Stone Age, System Of A Down, Rage Against The Machine, Soundgarden, Audioslave. Oh and Tool, but they're prog... -------------   
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Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 20:55
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Classic rock- the Allman Brothers, Cream, Zeppelin, Hendrix...
Alternative rock/Ska/modern stuff- Rx Bandits, Sublime, Pearl Jam, thrice, streetlight manifesto... Guitarists- John Scofield, Robben Ford, Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Bluesbreakers (with Clapton or Peter Green, or even recently with Robben Ford)... ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: ulver982
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 21:02
Metal (black, death ,avant-garde, doom), ambient, some darkwave. Yeah, that's pretty much it, kinda closed-minded eh?  ------------- Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement, are roads of genius. Silence is the music of the future. |
Posted By: darren
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 23:40
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When the mood strikes me I can listen to pretty much anything. I can listen to a song only because I love the bass or a certain guitar sound. Thus, I have a varied music collection on vinyl, cassette, video cassette, cd, dvd and mp3. From big band jazz to classical piano to punk to hip hop to spoken word. From mainstream to obscure. I sometimes listen to Abba, The Bee Gees, Barry Manilow and The Carpenters... mind you I'm pretty much doubled over in laughter. Sometimes you want to lose yourself in a 20 minute epic, sometimes you want a 20 second blurb. Music is the spice of life, enjoy the flavours. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: jefmoret
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 19:18
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Most of my non-prog stuff is the exact opposite end of the spectrum...
mid-80's to early 90-'s punk. 3 chords, 2 minutes, verse chorus
verse..makes for a wonderful counterpoint, both in terms of composition
and mentality (cerebral music vs feral music) All/Descendents...Mr. T Experience...Black Flag...Dead Kennedeys...Overwhelming Colorfast..Rites of Spring...Dag Nasty...Husker Du...Bad Brains...Crimpshrine...Operation Ivy...Jawbreaker...Naked Raygun.. as well as there being a handfull of bands that I am huge marks for that may or may not be punk, and an argument could be made that they may or may not be prog related Faith No More...Sonic Youth...Firehose...Minutemen..Soundgarden...Fugazi...Butthol e Surfers |
Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 19:54
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I like plenty of female vocalists... Aimee Mann, Julia Fordham, Anita Baker, Everything But The Girl, Kirsty MacColl. ------------- If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud! |