What music do you listen to?

[will]

Hi guys, Just a quick post before I go to class.

Me and Lynn have been corresponding about music for a couple days. I'm wondering what music you guys like to listen to.

G,W

[Rev R]

Rock, Jazz, Classical, Electronic, Ethnic Music, Anime Music(which is often a combination of all of the above), some Hip Hop, and on rare occasion Country

[Eika]

Outside of the stuff I use in my teaching (mostly music from the common-practice period of music) here are some of my favorites:
The Bad Plus
Brad Mehldau
Herbie Hancock
Chick Corea
Steely Dan (Becker and/or Fagen solo as well)
Miles Davis (the 60s quintet with Hancock, Williams, et al)
Beck
The Beatles
Paul Simon
Bruce Hornsby (his new jazz record is really great -- yes, it's an actual jazz record)
Lyle Lovett
Etienne DeRocher
McCoy Tyner
Little Feat
Ravel

Bill

[will]

Sorry Rev. I should of said what groups, Cds, musicians etc...

Do you teach in a school Bill? Some good musicians in your list.

Currently, I'm going through the free download section of Badman records:

http://www.badmanrecordingco.com/downloads/default.aspx

A couple of my favs on the page so far :

Hayden: Bass Song
http://www.badmanrecordingco.com/audio/ ... 6_bass.mp3

Kyle Andrews: get mad

http://www.badmanrecordingco.com/audio/ ... et_mad.mp3

Also:
Eric Metronome
http://www.ericmetronome.com/

Gassho

[Eika]

Hi, Will.

Yeah, I teach at Maryville College in eastern Tennessee--teaching music theory, ear-training, jazz improvisation, ethics, and some other interdisciplinary courses. My professional gigs are mostly jazz things.
I'm always interested in new music --I'll check out the links you listed.

Do you play an instrument/sing?

Bill

[will]

Hey Bill,

Yeah. I play various things. Mostly guitar and sampling. The new stuff I've been recording recently has singing. I studied classical guitar for about 3 years. Rock for about 20. I've ventured into chillout and a very little Jazz.

G,W

[Hans]

Hello folks!


....the freedom of Jazz scares me......(a quote for all those of you who may know "the mighty Boosh", the best comedy series ever in the history of sentient beings)

Opera: Wagner, Wagner, Wagner (the Ring cycle mostly, Karajan version, though Solti has arguably more emotional depth to it, whilst Karajan is more precise) a bit of Beethoven once in a while NO Italian fluffy stuff!

Jazz: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock

Metal (mostly Viking, Speed, Power and Black-Metal): Amon Amarth, Bathory, Blind Guardian, Manowar, Iron Maiden, Amorphis, Nightwish...

All the RnB and Soul from the time when these terms referred to people like Sam&Dave, Aretha Franklin etc. Why do they call it RnB these days???

Folk, Folk, Folk...(now does Jim Croce count as folk Folk or Country?)

at this very moment I listen to the Finnish band TENHI a lot....a bit like Sigur Ros in very deep and dark forests. And I recently discovered the great Bluegrass singer "Tim Eriksen", absolutely fantastic stuff.

Vangelis, Peaches...NO Techno music (with some very rare exceptions)

I absolutely loathe 90% of almost all the mainstream pop-music these days. I've never been a huge Rap and Hip-Hop fan, but I do have a very soft spot in my heart for the Wu-Tang Clan and the Beastie Boys.

Nuff said. Gassho,

Hans

P.S. I didn't mention some of the more local German bands I sometimes like to listen to...

[will]

Hang on a minute. I'm in a Jazz Trance...

Whew. Thanks Hans. I'll check some of that out.

Gassho

[Shohei]

i am down with a variety of music, but my current playlist contains:

tragically hip, blind melon, alice in chains, queens of the stoneage, sublime, beastie boys, led zepplin, pink floyd, winter sleep, matt mays, sex pistols, system of a down, rage against the machine, beatles, nofx, cypress hill, daft punk, ac/dc, g n' r, aerosmith, portishead, queen, cake,moby, neil young, tool, metallica, pearl jam, sloan, beck, sound garden, stone temple pilots, janis joplin, jimmy, mad season, gord downy, fat jebus, radio head, primus, squirrel nut zippers, and some odd old country now and then.

whew

[greg]

I have a lot of favorites... I'm currently listening to:

of montreal (the Sunlandic Twins )
the chemical brothers
metallica (mainly master of puppets and garage days '87, I can't handle anything newer)
Slayer
the Teddybears
Erika Badu
Cherebini's Requiem in C Minor
Miles Days (50's and 60's)
Kronos Quartet
the Beatles (Revolver, on)
Yello
the Legendary Pink Dots
Grada
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Chris Isaak
Big Night OST
Imagine (amnesty intl tribute)
Ben Harper

[PapaDoc]

I like to think of my love for music as broad. I have a huge predisposition toward any kind of music that comes from various subcultures, for example bluegrass from Appalachia, Cajun from northwest Louisianna, jazz from New Orleans, Irish folk music from, let's think, Ireland. I have been fortunate enough to write about this on various occasion which gives me an excuse to explore!
I love Vaughn Williams, Beethoven.
The Beatles are still in my head. Coltrane, Miles, Monk. I used to play bar jazz so Oscar Peterson is my favorite. Those days, I was introduced to Sinatra who can stylize a song better than any one.
I enjoy Delta blues starting with Robert Johnson and continuing to the more contemporary BB and all the other Kings.
I lived in Austin so I love me some Willie, Lyle Lovett, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kelly Willis, Asleep at the Wheel ( I am asleep at the Dharma Wheel!) and the dusty Bob Wills.
I cut my teeth on bluegrass so I'll mention Bill MOnroe, New Grass Revival, Hot Rize, and Alison Krauss.
Popular bands are too many to number but The Boss is there, Pink Floyd,who I will see in two weeks!, Tower of Power, JT, I could go on.
But my FAV is my son's band in Athens, Ga with the name of Mama's Love. They are the new hot jam band there and my son Thomas writes most all the words and music. I was pleased that I introduced him to music many moons ago, and it took. It is his passion, for good and ill.
Thanks for the chance to think about this and reflect.
David aka PapaDoc

[will]

Does your son's band have a website?

G,W

[greg]

Lookie what I found on MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/mamaslove4sale

they are really good- They definitely sound older than they look! I love 'Ragtime Rug'

I even found I could download the whole album from iTunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... =264471800

Thanks David!

[will]

I heard one song: Long Willie Jackson.

They sound pretty tight. Nice. I'll definitely check out more. btw their website is:

http://mamaslove.net

G,W

[Rev R]

oh name dropping.

um well let's see
Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam, Miles Davis, Coltraine, Charlie Parker, St. Germain, Mark Farina, Jimi Hendricks, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Propellerheads, Chemical Brothers, Herbaliser, Nujabees, Jurassic 5, Gangstarr, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Flogging Molly, Kodo, Iron Maiden, Rusted Root, Chillum Brothers, Tinylite, John Williams, Devo, Anthrax, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Yoko Kano and the seatbelts, Bad Religion, White Zombie, Mozart, Beethoven, Paganini, Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder, Unkle, Gorillas, Cypress Hill, Better Than Ezra

Just off the top of my head.


R