What does anyone listen to? Favorite bands/singers? Have an insanity for a particular style?
The White Stripes make me salivate.
Discuss!
I like rock, a bit toward the metal side, and classical. But I'm also with a group that plays vintage stuff on ukuleles.
White Stripes? I don't know them, or I may not know them by name.
ETA,
Googled, listened to an NPR interview, well, a part of it, and some not too clean live recordings. They're good, not me, but good. I can see why you like them so much. They have a nice variety, lyrics can be heard.
I'm a classical music/classical crossover fan. Please don't cringe! ;-)> but I love to hear those soaring arias!
dc's are trebles in disguise!!
Bach to Beatles really, but if you're pinning me down, so to speak, then it'd have to be Pink Floyd, Kinks, Madness, The Who, Nat-King-Cole, Rod Stewart, ermmmm how's that for starters??
Katiex
And ukes are way cool, I have one and I know few songs on it, although im more for guitar myself
Haha, I pin no one down, you're talking to a girl who will listen to pearl jam, the zombies and outkast in one day (:
And I LOVE Pink Floyd and the Kinks, sweet (:
Ok, just had to add the following: here goes
Blues Brothers sound track, all of it, so that bring Arethra Franklin into the equation!
Sacred choral pieces, Mozart, 'Ave Verum Corpus' and Bruckner, 'Locus Iste'
Les Miserables, esp 'I dreamed a dream' and 'bring him home'
Fiddler on the roof esp, 'sunrise, sunset'
Classical Composer: Tchaikovsky, esp 'Sleeping Beauty' ballet
that'l do for now lol
My huswband has me listening to Chemical bros. right now. Going to see Genesis this weekend in LA. I can hardly wait. Love Pink Floyd, especially "The Wall". I know it tells my age but even my teens love it.
I've been enjoying Rod Stewart - The Great American Songbook collection. Who would have thought we would ever hear Rod do the old classics? He's got the voice for it, that's for sure.
Isn't he brilliant! I love that album
I'm terrible about finding new music. I cannot stand to listen to the radio because I am way too impatient if there is a song I don't like. Plus, at 34, I've turned into one of those old people, "is this what passes for music now? sounds like 2 cats humping on a treadmill!".
Mostly I rely on recommendations from friends.
I'm also an NPR junkie, so that doesn't help. But with all the talk of Radiohead's new album I had to throw in OK Computer yesterday and sing Karma Police at the top of my lungs.
Radiohead, Mike Doughty, BMRC, Ani DiFranco, Gang Starr, Ted Leo, AC Newman, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Willie Nelson, Mason Jennings, The Be Good Tanyas.
Counting Crows, August and Everything After. I know it's so lame. It's sheltered suburban girl 'safe-boy' music. But the album is way awesome to sing along with. David hates it so much (and rightfully so) and refuses to let me play it in my car when he's in there (which COMPLETELY violates my rule of 'the driver is in charge of the music!' but I concede on this point because I'm super awesome).
Hardcore? Hardcore is for babies. I'm HOOKCORE!
Well, the past few days have been anomalous. Not only have I skipped past my favorite bands and albums, but I have been leaning towards songs one belts out. So, this week, I have been obsessed with the soundtrack to "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and some random Iggy Pop songs. Although, the Iggy Pop songs aren't really for belting out, more for blasting in the car on the drive home.
However, my favorite bands remain Belle & Sebastian, the Pixies, and The New Pornographers. I discovered these all before I went on a media blackout and cancelled the music magazines. Now, I am a podcast fiend, which is why when I talk about what I'm listening to now with my friends, I sound like those hipsters who cling to an artist because he/she/they is/are undiscovered. Only to have the hipsters revoke my temporary hipster status once they learn that I didn't stop listening to Of Montreal just because of the Outback commercial.
oooh, it's the Theory of Hipster Relativity!
It's that exactly. Although, I have yet to meet a hipster who can talk physics with me.
yeah, I suck at physics. Too much math. Kept me out of the astronomy program in college. BUT I can talk about evolutionary biology and evolutionary modeling, it's not as interesting but it lets me talk about dinosaurs. Hooray for nerds.
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