What is you favorite bands, songs, or singer?

You do!

Wow, too bad I didn't find this thread sooner reading all the threads made my head spin!
I love old jazz, Ella and Nat and Benny etc.
Love rock ac/dc, collective soul, creed, ozzy
Love blues BB King is the best
Classical-The Nutcracker is my fav
50's music
Christian comtempo and rock
Some country unless it's too "twangy"
I hate C-rap!!!
Agree with Victor, Bohemian Rhapsody is the best song ever!

Flowerjen, my daughter danced in the Nutcracker for 7 years - with four months of rehearsal each year, several times a week, and then 7 or 8 performances over a long weekend. Not to mention all the hundreds of "performances" in the living room which we all had to sit and watch, lol! Most of my family runs screaming from the room when they hear the Nutcracker, lol!

After she decided to stop dancing, she wanted to attend a performance so she could actually SEE the show - she had never actually watched a full performance in full costume, etc. Needless to say, no one else would go and it was just me and her! I have to admit to still liking it, even after a million listens!

funny, flowerjen - i only like country if it is "twangy" enough!
goodness, The Nutcracker. Much like your family Dee, people who work in theatres and performing arts centers run screaming within a few measures. But, yearly performances of The Nutcracker are what keep an awful lot of dance companies afloat so they can do other work throughout the year.

I thought of something very fitting for this website. The Secret Life of Plants was a soundtrack Stevie Wonder wrote 15-20 years ago for a movie that was never released. Largely instrumental, I think it's some of his best work. Pretty obscure though. Anyone else ever heard it/

Yes - I remember it. One of his best songs was one it - 'Send One Your Love'.

I thought I was the only one who would remember it!

Not one of his best though. I am serious when I say that when I look back on growing up on my block in the 70's, there is a soundtrack to it and Stevie has a lot of songs in that soundtrack.

Last year I got a Shuffle for Christmas. I've had a blast ever since. I put my favorite CD's on to my laptop and now I enjoy strolling through ITunes. Being a Flower Child all the heavy metal of the 70's still speak to me. Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Jethoe Tull, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton... If Led Zep goes on tour in the US...I'm taking my college-age daughters with me!
I love just about all music..used to go to the Opera frequently. Anyone intersted in the the Metropolitian Opera Auditions..they are held late Jan, early Feb in Boston. Very entertaining and all auditioning are young and promising upstarts.
I understand the Rap movement but just can't get into that space. Some country is appealing but it all starts sounding the same to me after a while. Carrie Underwood is amazing.
I'm thrilled to discover new sounds, textures and movements. I think those opportunites flourish with young people hanging around the house...:-) Numerous current artists are packed in to my little Shuffle to drown out my ride on the subway in to Boston each day.
Musicals; Rent, Miss Saigon and Moulin Rouge are comtemporary productions that produced fantastic music. I grew up with my parents singing Ella Fitzgerald, hymns. Broadway, and Gilbert & Sullivan.
Music is a gift of the spirit..right up there with gardening.

For those of us that spun vinyl, did you ever imagine a day when you'd be able to carry your music with you? A superb invention - the mp3 player...

You know it's funny because I remember them saying 'someday music will be on a chip' - this was in the late 70's before PC's even.

Hmm, no one's mentioned Lynyrd Skynyrd. My son was just talking about them, and I thought of this thread, lol! Great band, not with us long enough. (Sorry, but I don't consider the sad attempts to keep the band going as true Skynyrd. If they want to form a new band and keep playing and performing, more power to them, and so they should, but it just ain't Skynyrd, IMO.)

Reminds me of a line - "you can tell who the original guy is, because he's real fat - huh huh'

How could I of forgotten "Free Bird"? Thanks for the reminder DiggerDee!

Or my favorite = Gimme 3 Steps!

I'm trying to FORGET Free bird. The song was too long.

It's still playing.

LOL! I wouldn't doubt it!

dunno if it is still playing or not, but drunks still yell for it at just about every concert ever...
: )

Lunatic Fringe
from the Red Rider


Lunatic fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you're after














We're wise to you this time
We won't let you kill the laughter.

Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
This is open season
But you won't get too far
We know you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we're on guard this time
Against your final solution

We can hear you coming
[these lyrics are found on http://www.songlyrics.com]
(We can hear you coming)
No you're not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps
(We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic fringe
We know you're out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be light

An eye for an eye;
Well before you go under...
Can you feel the resistance?
Can you feel the thunder?

Back in the day I was a drummer, I really got sick of that song!

OMG..I think our next Flower Fest should include music..:-))

UGGGGGHHHHHH!!! I hate Free Bird. When was husband was in the fire department they used the same DJ for all their events and he always played that song...Drove me NUTS!
Hey, how about Blue Man Group??? That is one awesome concert!

We had to sing Free Bird for our middle school graduation song. All my classmates elected for that song. I'm sure the choral director was rolling his eyes.

For grammar school graduation, we sang Diana Ross' song - Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To).

Ugh, ack!

Not easy for a large group to sing that!

I guess not! I prefer it as a Diana Ross solo

How about your son in the shower? Can he do that one?

At my ring dance, way back when during the disco era (yuck) our DJ had about three records, one of which was a song called "Ring My Bell". We heard these songs over and over and over...

Finally, at one point, my friend at my table stood up and yelled out, "For God's sake, will someone PULLEEZ ring that woman's bell already!"

LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtC-xvmFJI

I'd have to teach him it first. He's out of the shower and gone to bed now. He was singing the Monty Python song about the Galaxy. Then he was doing some kind of tribal chant. Then he was singing about soap in Alabama. Don't think he covered any Diana Ross, but you can't be too sure! He's been in there singing Tom Waits songs before. His favorite is "The piano has been drinking".

I know that song Dee! I like disco, but I'd hate to hear that song over and over again. Those are just about the only words in the song! The only one that's worse, I think, is 'Fly Robin Fly'. What's a ring dance?

Well, it's really hard to remember that far back, lol, but a ring dance was just that pretty much - a dance you went to after you got your class ring, usually in your junior year. I never got a ring (no $$$$) but I went to the dance with my friends anyway.

Darn, after looking it up on youtube, guess what stinking song is stuck in my head, lol!

Digger I remember that song... that was before I found metal and I had a ring dance too.... a dance when we received our school rings.. for what other reason not real sure

:)

The theme for my junior ring dance, held in the gym, was "Walkin' on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. Everything was decorated in yellow. It was hideous. What a stupid theme.
And the guy i took (yes, i asked him) spent the last part of the night making out with this girl whose boyfriend drove. In front of him - even in his car. blech. By then i thought he was a jerk anyway, but it was pretty embarassing.

wow - such fond memories!
I spared myself the pain of HS dances by going to concerts, instead. It was exasperating watching people try to dance to Pink Floyd or early Led Zeppelin.
Disco had not happened at that point yet, and I can only imagine the difficulty one would experience if subjected to disco at such a tender age.
Never heard "ring my bell" - and why oh why did I click on that link? It's right up there in the irritating song category with "it's a small world" at disneyland.

aaahhh is Katye and O&A fan?

Amy, that's awful!

For anyone who doesn't remember just how awful it was:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhwm7_katrina-the-wave-walking-on-sunshin_music
This was not the proudest moment of 80s music. Or fashion. (though i wore chuck taylors and thrift store trench coats thru most of high school. i'm afraid i also wore a lot of vests and owned something all too much like her black and white rolled up sleeve shirt.)
But most of all - what a stupid theme for a semiformal dance!

Oh, and my "date"? Transferred to the seminary the following year, and within a couple years i heard he had a nice boyfriend.
Sigh - i should have suspected when he told me i wore too much black (i was a proto-goth) and that i should wear "more spring colors."

The Kinks still make me laugh with Lola and Father Christmas,
Beatles, 'Stones, Herman's Hermits, Turtles, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Mountain, Who, Jethro Tull, J Geils Band, Allman Bros,
Santana, Cream, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, all good possibilities as to why I don't hear so well anymore. Chet Atkins
has been a pathway to other countrified people like Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. I
have a ritual before each test where I listen to Willie's CD "You Don't Know Me" Songs of Cindy Walker. It's great. Willie can be a little disappointing at times but this is four star. I was watching
Eric Clapton's first Crossroads festival DVD today and there are
some good performances there like Vince Gill and Robert Cray,
as well as E.C. himself. I wish he and M.K. would collaborate on a CD together. I saw them play together at E.C.s Great Woods
performance in Mansfield, Mass. in 1987? I think. Great version of Money For Nothing. Someone answer the phone!! That !#*%
ringing in my ears is back!