Selecting All Music on my audio player and random these are the first 20 songs that come up. I'm really surprised no Willie Nelson came up...
1. Beatles Concerto Grosso No. 2 (in the style of Vivaldi): Paperback Writer 2. With This Love ~ Peter Gabriel ~ Passion soundtrack 3. Shenandoah ~ Various Artists ~ Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys 4. Money ~ The Beatles ~ With The Beatles 5. The Peter Gunn Theme ~ Ray Anthony ~ Ultra Lounge: Leopard Skin Sampler 6. Taxman ~ The Beatles ~ Revolver 7. Take It On The Run ~ REO Speedwagon ~ The Hits 8. Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) ~ Santana ~ The Best of Santana 9. Working in a Coal Mine ~ Devo ~ Heavy Metal Soundtrack 10. Got to Get you Into my Life ~ Beatlegras ~ Beatlegras 11. Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous ~ Good Charlotte ~ The Young and the Hopeless 12. You Ruined Everything ~ Jonothan Coulton ~ Live in LA 13. Bad ~ U2 ~ The Best of 1980-1990 14. On The Loose ~ Borrah Minevitch ~ Inspiration - 22 Great Harmonica Performances 15. All I Really Want ~ Alanis Morissette ~ Jagged Little Pill 16. Live from the Stage ~ Team Sleep ~ Team Sleep 17. brainsbrains ~ Jacob Borshard ~ The Last Brontosaurus 18. Another Park, Another Sunday ~ The Doobie Brothers ~ Rhino Hi-Five: The Doobie Brothers 19. Buffalo Soldier ~ Bob Marley ~ Confrontation 20. Tides ~ Jerod Dudgeon ~ Jerod Dudgeon
That's a fun way to do it. First 20 things on my ipod:
1. Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan - Spancil Hill
2. Elivs Costello - Blame It on Cain
3. Tom Waits - Grapefruit Moon
4. Billy Joel - Vienna
5. Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - 'Ama'ama
6. Green Day - She
7. Elvis Costello - New Lace Sleeves
8. mc chris - Geek
9. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
10. Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light
11. Luciano Pavoratti - il Pagliacci (lmao)
12. Splitlip Rayfield - Tennessee
13. Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World
14. George Jones - These Days (I Barely Get By)
15. Colin Hay - My Brilliant Feat
16. Boston - Peace of Mind
17. Counting Crows - Up All Night
18. Ace of Base - The Sign
19. Tom Waits - The Ballad of Jack and Neil
20. Muse - Hysteria
My 2 big finds in the past couple of years (besides JoCo) are Sufjan Stevens and Nellie McKay (1st album is best) Both are very young, extremely talented song-writers and performers. I am also a huge Ben Folds fan. The other Bens (Lee and Kweller) are worth checking out as well.
Hmm, I love all kinds of music, I have lots of songs I like from various artists whom I wouldn't list as my favorites just because of a couple of songs. Bbut if I had to list some artists that I particularly like, they would be: The White Stripes (my fave band next to JoCo), Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mariah Carey (pre-rapper collaboration phase), Matchbox 20, Blur, Fallout Boy, and Blink 182.
I need to do this 20 songs thing... Everyone else has such great songs on their lists...
1. Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance (Demo) - JoCo 2. Drink To Get Drunk - Sia 3. Deep Red Bells - Neko Case 4. Leslie Anne Levine - The Decemberists 5. Backstabber - The Dresden Dolls 6. Hail To Whatever You Found In The Sunlight That Surrounds You - Rilo Kiley 7. The Pink Life - Mike Doughty 8. Morning Cup - Joseph Arthur 9. Au Suivant - Jacques Brel 10. Go - Daniel Johnston 11. Look At Your Game, Girl - Charles Manson (yes... THAT Charles Manson) 12. The Old Revolution - Leonard Cohen 13. The Christians and The Pagans - Dar Williams 14. I Like A Boy In Uniform (School Uniform) - The Pipettes 15. Wait A Million Years - The Grass Roots 16. Gracie - Ben Folds 17. Lily's Eyes - Mandy Patinkin and Robert Westenberg (from OBC The Secret Garden) 18. Lang Jeen - Faye Wong (Tori Amos' "Silent All The Years" performed in Chinese) 19. Le Grand Voyage du Pauvre N
This is a pretty cool way to share music unbiased. It may not be your favorite but it's in your collection.
1. Build the Robots Dr. Steel 2. A la luz de la Luna Caruso 3. Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World Johny Clegg & Savuka 4. Me & You & Her Itis 5. Sultans of Swing Dire Straits 6. A Perfect Day Paul Robeson 7. Frogs With Dirty little Lips Frank Zappa 8. Sebrina, Paste and Plato Jellyfish 9. Waking the Witch Kate Bush 10. Spooning Good Singing Gum Cocteau Twins 11. I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) Hoosier Hotshots 12. Honey White Morphine 13. Oh No Paul and Storm 14. Reptiles and Samurai Oingo Boingo 15. Town called Malice The Jam 16. I Wont Dance Jane Monheit 17. Monochrome The Sundays 18. Moving Up Jason Falkner 19. The Lesson of Love Dream Academy 20. Je Retiens Mon Souffle Patricia Kaas
@Glenn: I liked that about it too. My list is a good mix of the sort of thing I listen to, but none of the tracks that came up are favorites.... Just things I dig enough to have in my collection. Also... I love that Kate Bush song.
@vagabondmonk: I love Ben Folds as well. I managed to have him come up in my listing, fortunately. I got to see him live about a month ago... Such a fantastic show. Also, Elvis Costello is amazing.
1. At Least I'm Known For Something - New Found Glory 2. Come Hell or High Water - Poison 3. Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie 4. Never Enough - The Cure 5. I'd Rather - Big D & The Kids Table 6. Stand - R.E.M. 7. Judas Rising - Judas Priest 8. AedO - La Larme 9. Bram Vermeulen - Afscheid 10. Time Bomb - Rancid 11. Shangri-La - The Kinks 12. Prisoners of Today - Billy Talent 13. Slow Twistin' - Chubby Checker 14. Brown Sugar (Live) - D'Angelo 15. Number 4 - Congress 16. Kristina She Don't Know I Exist - Catch 22 17. Ska Robot Army - The Aquabats 18. Carribean Blue - Enya 19. The Real Life (Raven Maize) - Simple Minds 20. Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
I like a lot of stuff.
I listen to music in cycles it seems.
I go from my '80's new-wave' cycle to my 90's "grunge" cycle and then to my "60's and 70's classic rock" cycles.
About the only thing I have never really liked a lot is rap and 80's hair metal.
Although my first date with my wife was a WhiteSnake concert, so hats off to Mr Coverdale for that.
I dig:
The cars
The Psychadelic furs
The cure
The Cult
Soundgarden
Chris Cornell's solo album 'Euphoria Morning'
Eleven
King's X
Pink Floyd
Zeppelin
Failure
Ken Andrews other work
Slim Cessna's AutoClub
Big Wreck
Autolux
Colin Hay
i like juanes. i think he might be colombian, though, and he's wildly popular in at least some parts of the spanish-speaking world, so if you find that distressing you might not be interested.
that's a neat concept for learning a foreign language, though. what better way to begin to grasp its unique idiom and character than by looking at song lyrics or poetry?
Pandora has helped me re-discover "Jukebox the Ghost" (can't link the homepage at the moment because its on MySpace, blocked by work), whom JoCo tweeted about once (IIRC, they had opened for Tally Hall). Great multi level instrumentation and tight multi vocals that remind me why Jellyfish had so much (unrealized) potential. I was sitting with my son when I suddenly realized I was singing their song "Hold It In", even though I've barely heard it or know it.
(BTW, my "Seed" bands for the station were JoCo, Schoolhouse Rock and Queen. I later added the aforementioned Jukebox. It really can't decide what I like .. I get spats of classic rock, unsigned alternative ... it even decided I liked nouveau country at one point [I really, really don't.])
that's a neat concept for learning a foreign language, though. what better way to begin to grasp its unique idiom and character than by looking at song lyrics or poetry?
I think I listen to more French-language songs than most native speakers. I find that after I've listened to a song enough times, I remember not just the gist of what's said (as I would with prose) but the exact words, pronunciation, and (if not obscured by the tune) intonation. So if I ever find myself wondering what the gender of a certain noun is, or how to conjugate a verb in a particular way, I have a bank of sound clips in my head to refer to.
So to get on topic, my favourite French-language singer is J
My favorite French singer is Patricia Kaas. I just love her voice. I even watched a movie I might not have otherwise because she was in it. About ten years ago I found a series of world music by EMI called hEMIspheres that I absolutely loved and bought everything in it. It was music of the world by continent then by individual countries then by music styles within the country, then by individual artists. I found so many artists I love that I might not have ever heard otherwise. Like George Dalaras and Yosefa who is very similar to another favorite Ofra Haza not available through the series or Hedningarna. I learned the different languages enough to understand the words and sometimes the liner notes.
@three08 - hehehe, Juanes. We used to listen to him in class in high school. It was fun. I mean, okay, I'm not honestly upset by popularity. I just ... I don't know. I'm just really self-conscious about what music I like, which is augmented by uncertainty.
i know what you mean, shruti, about being self-conscious. i can't tell you how many times i've heard, "you like THEM?!" or words to that effect. my b/f is much kinder about it but even he's prone to saying things like, "cake is okay but they're kind of like a lamer version of the talking heads." i mean i'll be first in line to announce to the world that he knows a ton more about popular music already than i ever would if i studied it all my life henceforth but at this point i'm like, whatever. i don't care what you think because i can keep turning up motorcade of generosity until i can't hear you anyway. i like what i like and for me that's the end of it.
i like what i like and for me that's the end of it.
Yes. It is very freeing when you can finally say with complete confidence: "The Carpenters had some great songs." In high school (early 70's) I wouldn't have been caught dead saying this but we were all secretly singing "Close to You."
I used to work at a convenience store and always had Boingo or Devo kind of music playing then one day I was in the mood to listen to the Carpenters. The whole day regular customers kept asking if I was okay.
Not surprising to find a bunch of closet (or not so closeted) soft-rockers here. :-) I spent a lot of time as a kid listening to Barry Manilow and Barbara Streisand on 8-track. And like Our Hero, I'm a Billy Joel fan. My guilty pleasure is Sade.
I heard this on Pandora a short while back, but it just played again and I thought of our "math geek" friends on the board (Lookin at you, Dr. Cox ... )
Yeah, the downside of my "station" is that when I feed it with smaller artists (3 artists totalling 5 albums avail on Pandora) is that I'm getting a lot of repeats. For example, I hear Weird Al every day. But here's the thing .. I *only* hear Melanie .. EVERY .. DAY. There are what, another 10 tracks on that album alone? And there are others on there! And for some reason, Pandora doesn't seem to think I'll like any TMBG before 2003 or so.
i've never had really satisfactory results from pandora. maybe when i get home i'll find and post the link to the one my b/f uses. he knows about these things.
I really like pandora but it's hard for me sometimes because songs I really like come on and I have to thumbs down them because they are not right for my station.
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1. Beatles Concerto Grosso No. 2 (in the style of Vivaldi): Paperback Writer
2. With This Love ~ Peter Gabriel ~ Passion soundtrack
3. Shenandoah ~ Various Artists ~ Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys
4. Money ~ The Beatles ~ With The Beatles
5. The Peter Gunn Theme ~ Ray Anthony ~ Ultra Lounge: Leopard Skin Sampler
6. Taxman ~ The Beatles ~ Revolver
7. Take It On The Run ~ REO Speedwagon ~ The Hits
8. Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) ~ Santana ~ The Best of Santana
9. Working in a Coal Mine ~ Devo ~ Heavy Metal Soundtrack
10. Got to Get you Into my Life ~ Beatlegras ~ Beatlegras
11. Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous ~ Good Charlotte ~ The Young and the Hopeless
12. You Ruined Everything ~ Jonothan Coulton ~ Live in LA
13. Bad ~ U2 ~ The Best of 1980-1990
14. On The Loose ~ Borrah Minevitch ~ Inspiration - 22 Great Harmonica Performances
15. All I Really Want ~ Alanis Morissette ~ Jagged Little Pill
16. Live from the Stage ~ Team Sleep ~ Team Sleep
17. brainsbrains ~ Jacob Borshard ~ The Last Brontosaurus
18. Another Park, Another Sunday ~ The Doobie Brothers ~ Rhino Hi-Five: The Doobie Brothers
19. Buffalo Soldier ~ Bob Marley ~ Confrontation
20. Tides ~ Jerod Dudgeon ~ Jerod Dudgeon
1. Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan - Spancil Hill
2. Elivs Costello - Blame It on Cain
3. Tom Waits - Grapefruit Moon
4. Billy Joel - Vienna
5. Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - 'Ama'ama
6. Green Day - She
7. Elvis Costello - New Lace Sleeves
8. mc chris - Geek
9. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
10. Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light
11. Luciano Pavoratti - il Pagliacci (lmao)
12. Splitlip Rayfield - Tennessee
13. Nine Inch Nails - All the Love in the World
14. George Jones - These Days (I Barely Get By)
15. Colin Hay - My Brilliant Feat
16. Boston - Peace of Mind
17. Counting Crows - Up All Night
18. Ace of Base - The Sign
19. Tom Waits - The Ballad of Jack and Neil
20. Muse - Hysteria
1. Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance (Demo) - JoCo
2. Drink To Get Drunk - Sia
3. Deep Red Bells - Neko Case
4. Leslie Anne Levine - The Decemberists
5. Backstabber - The Dresden Dolls
6. Hail To Whatever You Found In The Sunlight That Surrounds You - Rilo Kiley
7. The Pink Life - Mike Doughty
8. Morning Cup - Joseph Arthur
9. Au Suivant - Jacques Brel
10. Go - Daniel Johnston
11. Look At Your Game, Girl - Charles Manson (yes... THAT Charles Manson)
12. The Old Revolution - Leonard Cohen
13. The Christians and The Pagans - Dar Williams
14. I Like A Boy In Uniform (School Uniform) - The Pipettes
15. Wait A Million Years - The Grass Roots
16. Gracie - Ben Folds
17. Lily's Eyes - Mandy Patinkin and Robert Westenberg (from OBC The Secret Garden)
18. Lang Jeen - Faye Wong (Tori Amos' "Silent All The Years" performed in Chinese)
19. Le Grand Voyage du Pauvre N
1. Build the Robots Dr. Steel
2. A la luz de la Luna Caruso
3. Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World Johny Clegg & Savuka
4. Me & You & Her Itis
5. Sultans of Swing Dire Straits
6. A Perfect Day Paul Robeson
7. Frogs With Dirty little Lips Frank Zappa
8. Sebrina, Paste and Plato Jellyfish
9. Waking the Witch Kate Bush
10. Spooning Good Singing Gum Cocteau Twins
11. I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) Hoosier Hotshots
12. Honey White Morphine
13. Oh No Paul and Storm
14. Reptiles and Samurai Oingo Boingo
15. Town called Malice The Jam
16. I Wont Dance Jane Monheit
17. Monochrome The Sundays
18. Moving Up Jason Falkner
19. The Lesson of Love Dream Academy
20. Je Retiens Mon Souffle Patricia Kaas
@vagabondmonk: I love Ben Folds as well. I managed to have him come up in my listing, fortunately. I got to see him live about a month ago... Such a fantastic show. Also, Elvis Costello is amazing.
1. At Least I'm Known For Something - New Found Glory
2. Come Hell or High Water - Poison
3. Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie
4. Never Enough - The Cure
5. I'd Rather - Big D & The Kids Table
6. Stand - R.E.M.
7. Judas Rising - Judas Priest
8. AedO - La Larme
9. Bram Vermeulen - Afscheid
10. Time Bomb - Rancid
11. Shangri-La - The Kinks
12. Prisoners of Today - Billy Talent
13. Slow Twistin' - Chubby Checker
14. Brown Sugar (Live) - D'Angelo
15. Number 4 - Congress
16. Kristina She Don't Know I Exist - Catch 22
17. Ska Robot Army - The Aquabats
18. Carribean Blue - Enya
19. The Real Life (Raven Maize) - Simple Minds
20. Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
I listen to music in cycles it seems.
I go from my '80's new-wave' cycle to my 90's "grunge" cycle and then to my "60's and 70's classic rock" cycles.
About the only thing I have never really liked a lot is rap and 80's hair metal.
Although my first date with my wife was a WhiteSnake concert, so hats off to Mr Coverdale for that.
I dig:
The cars
The Psychadelic furs
The cure
The Cult
Soundgarden
Chris Cornell's solo album 'Euphoria Morning'
Eleven
King's X
Pink Floyd
Zeppelin
Failure
Ken Andrews other work
Slim Cessna's AutoClub
Big Wreck
Autolux
Colin Hay
Here is the link to Robgonzo Radio
"Next time I hear a pagan interval, I'll write a report to the Pope!"
I'll have to try that one on my children when they sing wrong notes. ;-)
I just saw Josh Ritter recently and he is worth checking out.
I also have been running a lot to Tally Hall.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n2eD4GcLohE
Wow anyway.
that's a neat concept for learning a foreign language, though. what better way to begin to grasp its unique idiom and character than by looking at song lyrics or poetry?
(BTW, my "Seed" bands for the station were JoCo, Schoolhouse Rock and Queen. I later added the aforementioned Jukebox. It really can't decide what I like .. I get spats of classic rock, unsigned alternative ... it even decided I liked nouveau country at one point [I really, really don't.])
So to get on topic, my favourite French-language singer is J
About ten years ago I found a series of world music by EMI called hEMIspheres that I absolutely loved and bought everything in it. It was music of the world by continent then by individual countries then by music styles within the country, then by individual artists. I found so many artists I love that I might not have ever heard otherwise.
Like George Dalaras and Yosefa who is very similar to another favorite Ofra Haza not available through the series or Hedningarna.
I learned the different languages enough to understand the words and sometimes the liner notes.
A great scene from Tommy Boy
Why do birds suddenly appear...
And Barry Manilow! THERE! I SAID IT! I LIKE Barry Manilow!
You can drum me out of the forums now, I will go peacefully.
(While humming "I write the songs" under my breath)
What? The women at those concerts were HOT.
Math Prof Rock Star