What is you favorite bands, songs, or singer?

I like Barry too.

Michaela, my favorite song of all time is also a Hollies song -- "The Air That I Breathe," followed closely by Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," the Beatles' "Hey Jude," and the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin."

Ditto, Zuzu! I love all these songs - and I actually recognize them. DH is a bit older than me, and he is always amazed that I don't recognize much music before the late 60s. He has a phenomenal mind for music and remembers stuff from the early 50s when he was just a little kid.

Yes - all great songs. The Hollies have a number of good ones.

Tower of Power was great - they are still playing.
They offered a completely different sound: it was crisp & exacting. Very good shows, excellent performers and ahead of their time. They were not given the recognition they deserved back then, imo...

Dave, I do remember Tower of Power very well. I went out with the drummer, Dave Garibaldi, for a while.

that would probably cause you to remember, eh?! (unless you'd rather forget...) One of the TOP members played a show at SCSU a couple years ago - a sax player...

How about songs we hate? I think one of the worst has to be Muskrat Love by the Captain & Tennille. And for anyone who went to a wedding in the 70's, Love is in the Air. And from the Gong Show days - Feelings and You Light up my Life!

Muskrat Love

everything from Phantom of the Opera, except maybe "Think of Me". Mostly because of the lyrics.
"My Humps" the Black Eyed Peas. Couldn't escape it on campus a year or so ago.

Um, Ring My Bell?

:)

Again?!

LOL!

Actually, one of my most-hated songs is a song that my DH has been singing for days, for some unknown reason. It's Skyrockets in Flight or Afternoon Delight or something like that. Despicable song! Yuck!

Afternoon Delight.

lyrical content and musical style seem to go oddly together.

I was forced to listen to Ray Stevens yesterday. The torture lasted 1hr. 10mins and 14seconds. the entire ride to my DB's house.

"the horror... the horror!"

Music I don't like . . . . country and western "crying in my beer" music. Though I do like country rock and ZZTop .

I never heard of him - had to google him. Country - that's why I didn't.

Not to insult anyone who likes Country, but there was a tv commercial in NYC years ago for a new radio station that was going to play light stuff or love songs or something. They played exaggerated versions of punk and country as something you would never hear on their station. For the punk you heard, in a frantic, freaked-out tempo, 'I love your eyes so much I want to poke them out. I love your legs so much I want to break them off...' For the country, in a real whiny voice, 'I wanna marry my horse, but I can't afford a bridal suite...'

You havent heard a story till you hear Ray Steven sing "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_067ahbXfg

sigh... i know what you mean Victor, but i feel like i have to step in periodically and say:

the stuff they play on the radio and call country music is NOT the totality of country music. some of it i would not call country music at all - it is adult contemporary or pop or something that involves generic songwriting and overly slick production. it gives real country music a bad name. it's getting a little better - sometimes one can even hear fiddle or mandolin on country radio now. Not too much banjo - that'd be too country.

i love bluegrass. roots music. americana. old-timey music. actual twangy stuff.

sigh...

And "The Streak" , "Blue Cyeclops" and now you know the torture I was forced to endure. DH's antena broke off and that was the only CD in his truck!!!!!!!

That was funny Celeste, but I can't imagine actually listening to it!

Up until yesterday...me either.

threegardeners; Zucchero! 'Accendi un diavolo in me!'

amethystsm; I was at that Stray Cats concert!!! I caught Slim Jim Phantom's drumstick and kept it for the longest time. : )

Best concerts:
Radiohead in Grant Park- magic
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk tour
the Police w/ English Beat as the opening act
UB40 in Prato, Italy. Paramedics kept rushing over to me because I was falling down from dancing so much

Okay, guilty and not-so-guilty pleasures:

The Clash
Police
Led Zeppelin
Radiohead
Sinéad
Nina Simone
Neil Finn
XTC
Andrew Bird
Bjork
Mikey Dread
Jimmy Lunceford
Mahotella Queens
Van Morrison
Split Enz
U2
Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life in particular
Yes
Jon and Vangelis (I'm blushing)
Jeff Buckley
Rufus Wainwright
Betchadupa
Boyoyo Boys
Bob Marley, but I am sick of 'Three Little Birds' and 'Lively Up Yourself'. 'War' is just amazing.

Here's a very good quality video of House of the Rising Sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBGXwX-TdTY&feature=related

nice list!
Nice catch!
i saw the Stray Cats again in the 90s down at Mississippi Nights - it was a lot of fun - i got a window card signed by all three - ah, climbing down the wall to where the buses would park - i don't know if anyone else got all 3 of them.
i'd have to add Tim Buckley to Jeff Buckley.

Zuzu dated David Garibaldi!!!
Tower of Power were so tight, so energetic, especially in concert. One of the times I saw them they toured with AWB. That was a lot of funk!
Plantaholic, Songs in the Key of Life was IMHO, the pinnacle for Stevie. Many artists have that ultimate album where they transcend musically, spiritually, etc.
Amy, probably Lenny Picket. He was TOP's featured sax guy. He now leads the SNL band

Good C&W song: Your Cold, Cold Heart by Hank Williams (others he wrote are great too). Norah Jones covered this song on her first CD. Nice job and I'm glad she spread it to a wider audience. I'm not big on C&W but I'll take Hank or Johny Cash over the modern crossover folks.

Love 'As' from Key of Life. Vastly underrated song.

I dated them all, Dave. I went out with Frank Sinatra, Jr., for one whole summer, hoping to meet Senior, but I never did.

Great video, Victor. I love that song. It's funny how much better they look in the video than they look in my memory. We used to call them "the ugly Beatles." They were known as the second-ugliest band of the British Invasion. No one could take the top honors away from the Rolling Stones. The Animals did look awful at the time, though, in comparison to the Beatles, the Zombies, the Dave Clark Five, Chad and Jeremy, etc.

Worst song ever, in my opinion, is "Knock Three Times" by Tony Orlando and Dawn. In fact, I can't remember that group singing anything good. "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" was another clunker. Also, just for sheer stupidiy, Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie" takes the cake.

Did you really date Sinatra?? Yes, the Animals had awful Beatle rip-off outfits, didn't they?

Yes, Victor, but it was the wrong Sinatra. I was mad about his father. Junior and I were in the biz together in Las Vegas. That's a joke, actually, because he was the lounge act at the Flamingo and I was singing at the Rendezvous, a truly ratty piano bar downtown.

He did not inherit too many performer genes from Dad!

Well they ripped off Dylan's song too.
Actually, the animals were probably a little "headier" than most of their British contemporaries.( Eve of Destruction vs I Want to Hold your Hand) . Adolescent form of heady, but at the time those dramatic early rock songs seemed so brilliant to me. Paul Simon wrote a bunch of them that must make him blush when he hears them today (Sounds of Silence, I am a Rock, Homeward Bound ) Great stuff!

Zuzu, what kind of stuff did you sing??

All kinds of stuff, Dave. That summer (1963) I was a jazz singer. I started out professionally a lot earlier, when I was 12. The Star record label used to put out cheap 45's of the big hits, but with unknowns copying the voices. I was the poor man's Joni James then. I did some folk singing at the coffee houses and bars in North Beach when that was big, and I later sang with most of the rock groups in San Francisco. They'd call me when their lead singers were too drunk or stoned to perform (which was often). I guess I was a better impressionist than a singer. My own sound never caught on. I actually got out of the business forever the first time I turned on the radio and heard Linda Ronstadt singing "Long, Long Time." There was no way I could copy that voice or compete with it, so I became a professor of comparative literature instead.

Wow - quite a story, Zuzu! Impressive to say the least.

Dave, wasn't that Barry McGuire and later than Wanna Hold??

I enjoyed a bit of nostalgia the other day. "A Hard Day's Night" was on.
Early Beatles - Loved it! Sang along with all the songs.
That first guitar chord for the title song always gives me goosebumps.
I'm immediately transported back to what now seems like such an innocent time.
I kinda miss it. While I don't want to go back, I'm very glad I experienced it all.

I was ROFL at Paul's "grandfather".
He's a "clean man".

Nancy

Yes, I remember that - 'a clean old man!'

Dave, you had to make me go and look it up. Richard Eliot. *yawn* I think i even ran a follow spot for that and managed to forget it. There is some jazz i like, but it ain't the kind we get in the jazz series at Lyman. (Will Downing, Brian Culbertson, Chris Botti, Boney James, Mindy Abair, etc...)

Here is the spring lineup you were asking about some time ago:

+Eric Darius Band & Paul Brown's Guitar Night - Paul Brown, Marc Antoine, Kenny Rankin: Saturday, March 29
+RnR Featuring Rick Braun and Richard Elliott: Saturday, April 19
+Norman Brown: Saturday, May 3