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13 Apr 2007, 8:48 am

I love the Animals! Eric Burdon. I remember seeing interviews with him.

I like some of the new stuff. Otherwise I wouldn't be quoting Godsmack and NIN. Techno I can dance to, but I don't listen to at home. It's more mindless rhythmic movement to me.

I actually liked Black Sabbath back in the day. I thought Ozzy probably felt a little strange growing up and I could relate, although it doesn't appear we had the same issues. LOL I loved Iggy Pop. I did and still do like the Sex Pistols, New York Dolls and quite a bit of the Ramones. I even like the Motels and I had forgotten about them.

I seem to be able to jump music genres easily depending on my mood, but I never listen to country music, although I do like Johnny Cash. I have no idea why that is. I think I like his voice and his angst.

I loved Nirvana, but I went to see them and a month later Kurt Cobain killed himself. This is a trend with bands I see so I tend to stay away. Completely illogical.

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13 Apr 2007, 9:27 am

Lau wrote:

tomart wrote:

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Pink Floyd, Warren Zevon! Remember Al Stewart? Jethro Tull! Yes, Genesis, Cream, the blues, jazz...!

I saw The Animals live at the Ram-Jam club in Brixton, London. Club was almost black-only. I was a member. I'm Caucasian, through and through, so far as I know. My, aren't I just the show-off.

I find it interesting that no one here has risen to the challenge... of saying anything positive about today's progressive music.

While I feel that all the more popular (played on radio) stuff is... pointless.

I thought about what word I wanted there. Started with "meaningless", but a lot of what I like is exactly that. "Pointless" fits my thought better, I think. "Derivative" would be apt, too. "Tedious". "Predicatable" (I sing along to things I have NEVER heard before).

Anyway, here I am on repeat with techno - music to stim to. With word pictures: "I've seen a lot of women in my life, and you know something, you gotta to be the ugliest one I've ever laid eyes on.", "Surrender at once.", "Nothing means anything to me.", "I can feel my head exploding...", etc.

Followed by a bit of trance (styled with "the X Files" theme).

Does no one other than me like anything post 60's? Does no one else dance? Have you all died?

Another track... "Xev... are you trying to seduce me?". Beat at 7 cps? Maybe more. "I'm getting desperate". "I've been waiting for this for thousands of years.".

I dunno. My kid listens to a lot of imported music. DarkMoor, somebody from Finland, Pillow, Evanescence, and a whole lot of Japanese gothrock/metal.

I spent 9 hours on the sidewalk outside of the Wiltern up in LA a couple of months ago, sitting with her and her friends (and freezing my backside off), to see Dir En Grey. Second time they've come to the States. Saw them last year, and the show was awesome - sold out in like two days, rabid fans. This time there were a bunch of little emo-girls in the audience, the edge was off the crowd, the openers weren't as hot, and the show felt a bit flat. Too bad, because they were giving it everything they had up there.

Nice of the kids, they bought me a seat up in the balcony so I wouldn't get moshed. And the earplugs worked just fine.

Ears didn't hurt all the way on the drive back down home afterwards, this time.

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13 Apr 2007, 9:27 am

ZanneMarie wrote:

... It's more mindless rhythmic movement to me...

Just what I like about it.

(Sort of) The last 2.5 minutes of this 30 minute Lexx convention mix is... pleasant. Centred around "O Fortuna"

(Which distracts me onto the "Kyrie Eleison" sequence in "It" that I've always liked.)

Linux wrote:

KMIDI KARAOKE FILE
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LLATI
TO Fortuna!
Tfrom 'Carmina Burana' by Carl Orff

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

"Ladies of the universe. I am Stan, your man, Tweadle. The ultimate in sexual ecstasy."

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13 Apr 2007, 9:42 am

Warren Zevon probably wrote the funniest songs I've ever listened to, with the possible exception of Harry Nilssen. He wrote a song about the break-up of a relationship with a refrain that made sure it got no airplay. In fact I can't even write it here ! ! But "Werewolves of London" is an all time great.

I saw a werewolf drinkin' a pina colada at Trader Vics,
His hair was perfect ...

No body writes lyrics like that anymore ....

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13 Apr 2007, 9:49 am

Thanks for the kind words all! :oops: I love you all too, and will enjoy meeting you! Hendersonville - know it well (er,.. at least, its only 24 hour pharmacy) Thanks ZanneMarie, Merle and DogDancer: I am rather airdale retrieverish! Have always loved the terriers: mind of their own, won't listen to anyone, bundles of energy, feisty, boneheaded little fearless b*stards - just like me!

Lau: I liked Queen, DEVO, David Byrne's Talking Heads. Could never understand lyrics very well, so started liking powerful sounding music: listened to a lot of ACDC, Type O Negative, Metallica, Pantera in the mosh pits . Have enjoyed some Indie Rock [Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" from 1998 - weird, but loved it (now disbanded)]. Psychobilly cracks me up. But I enjoy Gregorian chants, ENYA, soundtrack to Clockwork Orange, EMINEM,.... wide range of music!

But dancing? I enjoy skanking 'cuz it cracks me up! And that's about the best I can do.

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13 Apr 2007, 9:51 am

tomart wrote:

Thanks, cosmic cat [You suggested an anthem - Ayn Rand wrote an anthem...]

The last paragraph of Ayn Rand's Anthem:

And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.

The sacred word:

EGO

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13 Apr 2007, 9:59 am

oh my flipping gods!! !!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah :lol:

http://members.aol.com/zevonfan1/private/MRBAD.HTM :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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13 Apr 2007, 10:33 am

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

That's because LSD is no longer the drug of choice. LOL

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13 Apr 2007, 11:15 am

What is everyone listening to today? I think I shall start with Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys on Mobile Fidelity 200 gram vinyl.

*turns on the tube amp to warm up*

BTW, can anyone else hear digits? Some CDs make my ears bleed they are so harsh sounding.

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13 Apr 2007, 11:27 am

I don't hear digits, but I can see the instruments being played in my head. I can separate it all out as well and often do that for my own entertainment.

This was something my aunt, great aunts, grandmother and great grandmother could do. They could all play anything they heard even once on any instrument whether they had ever even seen the instrument before. I don't have that ability. Their ability was perfect. I envied them the whole time they were alive. What an amazing gift.

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13 Apr 2007, 11:39 am

sinsboldly wrote:

ZanneMarie wrote:

I kind of like Chuck. His A/R habits remind me of my husband. It makes me feel more calm. I want my Pink Floyd blaring though.

but Chuck is not the only one that tidies up here at the Cafe and Pub. Lau used to take a turn and I remember distinctly using the john in the far corner.

Merle

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's not a john, in the corner. It's my Alternative Rhodedendrons. If it's a problem, try to be quieter next time and maybe, no one will notice..

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13 Apr 2007, 11:56 am

Lau wrote:

I find it interesting that no one here has risen to the challenge... of saying anything positive about today's progressive music.

Nah, I'm with you. I listen to all music. Not much commercial radio, though. I have found quality music in the local university stations, quite often.

I like guitar rock (even metal), chordy jazz, classical, various blues styles, yellow-corn, old school country, alternative, even some early band oriented rap, but I get bogged down in the hip-hop radio hits, featuring the latest synth tracks. I have tried to become a musician - I can't, but real live musicians still do it for me. Live music performance of almost any ilk makes me whole, again, most especially new music (even teens). I'm not sure how to be positive.

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13 Apr 2007, 12:04 pm

ZanneMarie wrote:

I really enjoy hearing a stereo image of instruments in three dimensional space. Sometimes I hear very harsh digital artifacts in CDs, but it is getting better with SACD and other formats. I'm not particularly musical unfortunately. But I have good ears and can hear the difference between transitors and tubes as well as digital vs. analog. Distortion drives me crazy.

My kids are musical. My son came home from school in the 3rd grade where he was taking Orff music and got his toy piano and sat down and played the melody of "Ode to Joy," from Beethoven's 9th totally by ear. Just like the kid in the Peanuts cartoon. That blew me away.

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13 Apr 2007, 12:07 pm

Lau wrote:

Does no one other than me like anything post 60's? Does no one else dance? Have you all died?

No, no, and no.

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13 Apr 2007, 12:11 pm

SeriousGirl wrote:

Lau wrote:

Does no one other than me like anything post 60's? Does no one else dance? Have you all died?

No, no, and no.

Don't be wishy-washy about it Serious, tell us how you REALLY feel. :wink:

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13 Apr 2007, 12:16 pm

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ZanneMarie wrote:

Is he on the spectrum? None of my female relatives could read a note of music, but they could play Beethoven, Mozart or whoever else perfectly, as well as anything else they heard. I've seen it written in some places that this may be a spectrum trait.

Ode to Joy is the absolute quintessential piece for laying on the grass and looking at the stars. There is nothing better in life! In fact, I like the entire 9th.

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