What is you favorite bands, songs, or singer?

Don't you just love You Tube???
My latest daily listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYidtTkfiPE

You & I have similar tastes in music, Victor.
Love the 60's. Love Motown. Hate CRap (as I call it).
The exception, again like you - Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang.

Oh - and I liked the Chicago Bears & their "Super Bowl Shuffle".
LOL! I have that on tape. It's cool to see Walter Payton again.

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LOL!

Nancy

Oh Victor this is for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdhZwK7cS8

This song makes me laugh all the time!! I love it too!

Here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MEL84yXh0

I had to get up & dance!
Check out the outfits. ROFL!

And the 1985 Chicago Bears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJNC3dgreaU

Sheesh! It's been 23 years!

Nancy

manymanymany musicals, particularly those by:
stephen sondheim
adam guettel
jason robert brown
ahrens & flaherty
lerner & loewe

AND
my hero: harry chapin
my antihero: leonard cohen
my teenage (and then some) obsession: david bowie
the best live band i ever heard (and i saw them a LOT in STL): the rainmakers
the most beautiful woman in music: emmylou harris
the selfdestructive devil-saint of songwriters: townes van zant
borderland bohemian bard and man of mystery: tom russell
my rock poet-goddess: patti smith
the new love of my life: josh ritter

and so many others, particularly in bluegrass, folk, and real country that i hesitated to even post a list...

Anyone remember this guy in the prime of his life?? OMG it is so sad whatever happened!!! I remember when I was the ripe old age of like 10 my BEST friend got tickets to his concert and I was sooooooo JEALEOUS!! Honestly now you couldn't pay me to go and see him! OMG look how old this video looks!!! To me it is back from the dark ages!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8

Springsteen fan here, after banning him for ten years that I won't go into, although it had nothing to do with him. Funny I was just sitting here listening to Paradise and I can't stop crying when I hear that song. Love his Seeger sessions. Rap, Hip Hop, etc....some is great, some is horrible like every genre of music. Teddy Pendergrass was brought to my attention lately...alot of sexy stuff. Yep I'll listen. I truly would love to see U2 in concert. Ryan Adams is blasting my ears right now. Love Boccelli. And bring me Ry Cooder and Robert Cray, Nat rules all. I guess I'm eclectic also.

OOps, cowboy junkies just came on, love them too.

Anybody remember Elvis...........Costello? Loved him too

oh that's hard for me...

I love classig music ... Jazz, Bossa Nova...
Love Andrea Boccelli, like Josh Groban... like people with really pretty voices (Celine Dion, Charlotte Church, Nat King Cole, Lui Armstrong! oh I love him!
I love Henry Mancini!!!!! oh I miss listening to my dad's records!
music of the 50s ...
Some 70's music...
Love christian music

I have no idea of what is the music of the 80's, 90's - that time I only heard classic music and christian music... and since 2000 some of my co-workers decided to educate me... so for the first time I heard Duran Duran (not very impressed) Barenaked Ladies (really like the Million dollars song!)

I love Counting Crows song "Acidentally in love"...

Songs and singers I never heard any songs or never heard them sing...
No rap of any kind...
Never heard Britanny singing any song !
Jessica Simpson and the ex husband
Only heard Beyonce once!
Never heard JLo sing in English... just in the movie Selena!

Not very exciting...

Celeste, I loved Peter Frampton... only 2 of his songs...

Okay, here's something I NEVER thought I'd EVER see (or hear)

Pavarotti and Klaus Meine, together!!??? I never knew this existed, just found it on you tube by accident! Too bad Klaus is the first to sing and the recording is bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufQNajHPd4

Here's my boy Klaus from 1983:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxQ4kBwFBc

And from last year (with barely a trace of his accent):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVTLq28_y4

Don't worry - I picked ballads, lol - no heavy stuff here. Besides, you can hear his voice better.

Forgot to say that when I took my kids to see the Scorps in the fall, my daughter wore the t-shirt I bought when I saw them on their 1979 tour in Passaic NJ. No one had heard of them then. At first she didn't want to wear it, what with "1979" plastered on it, but I convinced her it would be very very cool. I would have worn it if I could still fit in it, lol!

Gabagoo, my son and I were just watching the SuperBowl Shuffle a few weeks ago! What a hoot! I was all set to post it here and saw that you beat me to it.

Dave Matthews!....sp?

Kassia - that wasn't JLo singing in Selena.
That was Selena, herself. JLo was doing lip-sync
Selena's family allowed the movie to be made provided that Selena's voice be used for all the songs.

Nancy

That was a very sad movie..I hold high regard for those that can sing, act, dance write etc because I can't :~)
By the way, Victor your writing is way above par, very enjoyable and humorous.

Now here's a guy with a phenomenal voice - Andrew Strong. Ever since I saw the movie The Commitments way back when, I have never been able to figure out why this guy never became a worldwide star.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKmrQfxRHQ

I was just reading - supposedly he was only 16 when this movie was made. Not sure if I believe it or not, but I read that the movie, though released in 91, was made in 1989. Strong was born in 1973...

Like you, Venu, I have a high regard for (and a deep jealousy of, lol!) those that can sing!

Digger--was that the Irish movie? Sally song??

Wow - just back from watching a movie with he family. I'll have to catch up with most tomorrow - especially all the YouTubes! Maybe this should be renamed! YouTube us great for all these clips. Thanks Weeze! Nancy - so funny - I loved the Bears one. I liked the NY Knicks one from '94 also - Go NY, Go NY, Go NY Go!

Yes, just clicked on your link and that was what I was thinking of....Mustang Sally. Why does one person make it and not another? Wrong place, wrong time, bad manager etc. Se La Vie and that's the best answer I can give so there is no right answer. PS..loved that movie but that's another thread

Fascinating!
My taste in music is widespread & I could ditto Al's list.
While I was growing up, my folks had music on everyday, and weekends were devoted to albums. (Those are the big, black discs that are played with a needle on a turntable...lol) Swing, Dixieland & jazz, along with Sinatra, Ella, Nat King Cole...
My father bought me a radio when I was 8, so I was exposed to all the early-60's pop along with Motown, which was pretty darn good.

I lived in San Francisco (early - mid 70's), so concerts/musical events were a constant.
Particularly the San Francisco-based bands like Santana, Janis Joplin (Big Brother), Jeff. Airplane, Quicksilver...... From the same era: The Band, Eagles, Frank Zappa, Doors.......
late 60's/early 70's English progressive rock had greater appeal to me & still does - ala Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Bowie, Cream, Traffic, Who, Jeff Beck, King Crimson, Procul Harem & early Genesis (Peter Gabriel days), among others too numerous to list. And Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green. After he left, they ceased to be blues-based.
These days I tend toward jazz or old blues. And if I had to select only 1 artist, it would be Pat Metheny, guitarist extraordinaire.

wow, now I feel even older.

loved The Commitments - i watched that so many times in the early 90s...

BTW, Victor - did you know that Rupert Holmes, the writer of The Piña Colada Song, also was one of the book writers on the current B'way musical Curtains? Also the musical Edwin Drood. And he has written a couple of books, including the totally incredible Where the Truth Lies, which was made into a somewhat less incredible movie.

Katye, it must have been cool living in SF in the early 70's!

Storm's over - guess I'll go to bed! See you all tomorrow!

It was at the time, & I cherish the friends I had & the experiences I went through.
The Music scene was like watching a tree grow at hyper-speed: exponential.
It literally exploded into a myriad of directions: so much creativity unleashed at one time.
I met lots of very interesting people, that's for certain!

I feel guilty about the weather here - not that I can control it. But if I could - !!!
Possible storm coming in tomorrow evening, but the low will be a balmy 34°.

I'm so glad Pink Floyd was brought up, I had forgotten how I loved 'The Wall'.
Jeff Beck was one of the all time best guitar players i've ever heard.
I did not think I would see King Crimson mentioned here but glad someone else knew who this band was, along with The Moody Blues.
Janis Joplin was one I loved listening to but my parents could not take much of her. I just watched one of her concerts on the Bio Channel last week.
I still have my E.L.O. tapes, along with The Doors, The Who, Boston, Journey, Foreigner, Jackson Browne, Pat Benatar and The Eagles.

Gilbert and Sullivan.

At this time of the year when catalogs start piling up I always think of Ko-ko's song from the Mikado...."I've got a little list!"

60's-70's rock/hard rock mainly. I'm 49 for reference.
A list of the bands I've seen over the years (first show I ever saw was the winter of 74/75)

Not in any order:

Blue Oyster cult (first rock show I ever seen)
Kiss (16 times)
Ted Nugent (3-5 times)
Joan Jett
Judas Priest (warmed up for Kiss)
Cheap trick
Blotto
The Tubes
Good Rats (original band)
Queensryche (opened for Kiss)
Accept (opened for Kiss)
Warrent (opened for Joan Jett IIRC)
Ozzy
Asia
J. Giels (twice, once with Kiss)
Bob Seager (opened for Kiss)
Point blank (opened for Kiss
Jo Jo Gunne (opened for Kiss)
Frehley's Comet (4 times)
Twisted Sister (during their bar band days)
Frank Zappa (broadway the hard way tour, finally saw the master!)
Savory Brown (opened for Kiss)
Nightranger (opened for Kiss)
Triumph (thrice)
Pink Floyd
Romantics
Rainbow ------------------
Aldo Nova Triple bill show, I went to see Rainbow with Richie Blackmore)
Dokken ------------------
Quiet Riot (original band)

Very interesting. Many similarities & many differences. Like lots of folks here, I grew up in the 60s and early 70s during the wonderful days of rock & roll and still had a foot in Motown and doo-wap The sondtrack to the Big Chill is very much the music of my growing up.
I love jazz (Grover Washington, Miles Davis Louis Armstrong), (classic rock, anything with Paul Simon or Eric Clapton connected to it, Beatles, Van Morrison, the Band) no rap and little country (more likely to like the old school country-Hank Williams, Johny Cash) not a lot of modern "rock" or pop.

"If stranded on a desert isle" 10 albums would include:
Rubber Soul -Beatles
Moondance--Van Morrison
The Band--The Band
Kind of Blue-Miles Davis
Winelight- Grover Washington
Graceland-Paul Simon

Best Concerts:
Springstein
Elton John
Billy Joel
Tower of Power
Maybe James Taylor
the Jazz festival at Newport whic gave a young me exposure to Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Cannonball Adderly, etc, etc,

Best surprises in concert:
Art Garfunkle (wasn't expecting much)
Fleetwood Mac (I went to see Malo, a 1 hit wonder featuring Carlos Santana's cousin. They couldn't make it and this unheard of group filled in)
Foreplay (atSCSU-Amy)

Favorite "bad voice" Joe Cocker

That's a whole 'nother argument with the Beatles best album, I still prefer St. Peppers. I always thought it odd that there most tripped out song(Tomorrow Never Knows) was on a fairly straight laced album.

Katye - I like your list. I am a big Bowie and Robert Fripp fan. I like Tool, but they pretty much just updated thei sound from King Crimson's'Discipline'(their best)

Haven't been to a ton of shows: Zappa,Buzzcocks,Steely Dan. Cannot stand Green Day as a crappy version of the Buzzcocks.

Yeah, I forgot Billy Joel - one of my faves. Also liked Foreigner, Boston, ELO, Police.

I think Sgt Pepper was probably the best but Rubber Soul and Revolver were not far behind. I don't think Revolver was straight-laced. (They were already into the hallucinogens by then!)

Amy, I did not know that about Rupert Holmes. How interesting.

Never went to many concerts - The Who at Shea was one of the few.

wow I am shocked how many gardeners are into heavy metal..... ROCK ON!!!!.... here I am thinking I am alone

I have been to 10 Metallica concerts (stopped those after the black album), 3 Judas Priest, 4 Iron Maiden, 2 Queensryche, 2 Ozzy, Monsters of rock featuring van halen, 3 Sepletura, and 1 Black Sabbath with Dio (in a local club)... & numerous others....

love AC/DC, Anthrax, Guns & Roses, Green Day, Mr. Big, Kix, Bad Religion, The Police, Faith no more, STP, Sublime, Sabbath, Doors, Rolling stones, Sum 41, Smash mouth, Blink 182, Disturbed, Seether, most of the 80's stuff... gotta love the big hair & of course I am from NJ.. gotta love Bon Jovi

and moved on to country when I had the horses
Pam Tillis, Faith Hill, Jo Dee Messina, Garth, Dixie Chicks, Steve Warner, Martina Mcbride, Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Brooks & Dunn, Carrie Underwood...etc

can you tell I am a Gemini?

I will admit to my first concert ... Shawn Cassidy (HaHa)... and my first coolest was The Police ghost in the machine in 1982, I was 11 and the first time I smelled what they were smoking in the arena.... I came home stinking with it and my mom flipped out on my older sister for giving it to me (which she didn't)... but was very funny at the time

:)

oh and Venu I hate that Elivs Costello song... ever since it haunted me when I was in high school... I had a group of friends who used to sing it to me every time they saw me ..... and used to go as far as being outside my house in the middle of the night drunk.... screaming it.... my dad used to yell at me when they did that.... like I can control those maniacs

Allison

another message for Venu... me singing pat benatar with my friends.... the band name is Overboard... they play in south jersey a lot over the summer... they are a really fun bar band

www.overboardnow.com

Wow - I'm expecting to hear Pirl say she's into metal now too! Pirl Jam???

heehee

calling pearl jam metal would be stretching it a bit...

My 1st concert: the Stray Cats, when i was in 7th grade. i went with my best friend, and my DAD, cause my mom wouldn't allow it otherwise...

Allison, growing up i HATED Pure Prairie League's "Amie", cause drunk guys would sing it to me at parties all the time. But by the time i was in my 20s, i loved it, and consider it one of "my songs" (though a bit ironically)! (i also have a deep personal historical attachment to America's "Sister Golden Hair," though i am not often really a blonde anymore...) (And Patti Scialfa "Rumble Doll", Emmylou's "Deeper Well", and "You Can Always Count on Me"from Cy Coleman's City of Angels) (And back in the day, "Wild Wild West" by the Escape Club!)

Do other people have songs they feel like are "their" songs? Not "couple" songs, but just for themselves?

(edited to remove silly grammar mistake)


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No one's mentioned the Bee Gees yet. I fear I'm too old for this thread.

I think I am too, Polly! I forgot the Patridge Family!! Hee hee.

Are you daring to compare the Partridge Family to the Bee Gees? Well then how about the Monkees?

how about the Brady Bunch.