Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

SingleSue

zagubov wrote: »

That's the best way to be. When I was growing up people dressed to show what kind of music they liked which I think narrowed everybody's musical "spectrum".

It was a kind of self-defining fashion accessory. Always much preferred the attitude of John Peel and Jools Holland had/have got the broad-mindedness to listen to a wide range of music to find the best.

Some of the best concerts i've been to were accomanying others to really good concerts in genres I wasn't heavily into - e.g. Dr Hook, joan Armatrading, Simply Red, Eric Clapton and others. I'd recommend that everyone accompany their friends to a concert they wouldn't normally go to and expand their horizons.:beer:

When I was younger (very very much younger), I badgered my dad to take me to a Nik Kershaw concert, he agreed to come with me if I went with him to see Tina Turner, I reluctantly agreed.

I loved Tina Turner, Nik Kershaw was ok :rotfl:

SingleSue

lemonjelly wrote: »

In a way, I envy you. There's so much good stuff out there to be discovered.
So much music I remember hearing for the first time, & how it moved me.
I don't get people who don't go to gigs...

That is why I'm trying to explore classical music now. I mean, there's so much of that out there, stuff I've heard, but don't know what it is, as well as amazing stuff I'd never imagined, but it is amazing!

I went through a period of not going to gigs, not because I didn't want to but because money and lack of baby sitters got in the way. Now, because middle son is in a band, I get to go to gigs again.

Still, I can't wait until I can go to big concerts again, middle son is trying to get me to go to Download next year, my heart says yes, my wheelchair says no (I don't have a blue badge or DLA, so can't get one of their special disability tickets!)

Oh, and I love classical music too, forgot that on my previous post. Got loads of vinyl from my dancing days which have been played to death.

SingleSue

Nikkster wrote: »

Hmmm... Not convinced. I'll raise you http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=_endkEcUN58&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_endkEcUN58&gl=GB

Very tempted to put the links up to middle son's band now....:rotfl:

lemonjelly

I remember seeing this fella for the first time (on Jools Holland - this is the actual clip) & just being jaw droppingly amazed at how he did all the sounds & sheer goddam funkiness of it all!

Have seen him live 2 or 3 times since, & he's awesome live too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BeTZihJTus

Nikkster, have a gander/youtube at:
Son of Dave
Lemon Jelly (of course...)
Spiritualized (if you like radiohead etc, you'll love these)

I'd also heartily recommend Underworld, Beck (especially Odelay album), Garbage (1st 2 albums), James (the whole laid album is awesome, whiplash, hey ma, wah wah, the night before all brilliant), Leftfield (amazing), Massive attack (blue lines or mezzanine albums), Sigur Ros...

One of the best gigs I went to recently was Mika.

For those who like blends of different types of music, I can heartily recommend Girl Talks 3 recent albums (night ripper, feed the animals & all day). It sounds like your record collection in a blender!

Generali

Wheezy wrote: »

About music...I used to be very narrow minded late teens/early twenties. It was metal or nothing.

Then I grew up and now I like loads...rock, jazz, classical, R&B...

Currently listening to Coltrane's My Favorite Things. So good...

It's a great album. Ole is a cracker too if you like Coltrane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rnN67Y7_lg
and obviously Blue Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjI8ruaL4D0

If you like Ole then Sketches of Spain might appeal too (Miles Davis):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KDQNoqKya0
It's very different to Ole but recorded just a couple of years earlier.

John Coltrane and Miles Davis played together a lot in the late 50s and early 60s, especially on Kind of Blue, Miles Davis's most famous album and the only one most rock/pop writers have ever heard of (it's also bloody good):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB669XXjnUg

Best Jazz album ever? Maybe. Rhapsody in Blue must push it close for a start.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Really liking the classical stuff LIR! Listened to classic fm on the way home from a gig last night.
I appear to be liking Mozart, Wagner, & Elgar.
I'm finding that I don't like opera. I appreciate the talent, but it doesn't move me.

I really love music with big sweeping string movements too. I love stuff like the last 7-8 minutes that was in the opening ceremony of the olympics, where underworld worked with the london symphony orchestra (in the "pandemonium section).

Went to something at symphony hall recently & loved the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvsVSWB4TI


Any suggestions will always be looked into!:)

A friend (a pixel friend from another forum) has offered to compile some interesting listening when he returns to the UK at christmas. (He's a music teacher who works abroad).:)

Ok, I hate classic fm, but it is really good at capturing interest....it's like hearing the sellout single from a great album that people who don't know the band don't hear.

Make notes of the pieces you really like and then PLEASE try listening to one or two in their entirity.

Don't be afraid to read about them too, the big stories behind some things aren't so obvious, but when you know the story, read what's represented in each bit you start to hear it, and see it in your mind.

It's fine to not like some things.....

But, remember, even in genres you don't like there might be gems that move you. Also, if opera leaves you cold you might want to have a less hard nosed try at listening to some Gilbert and sullivan. Smug, yes, but also funny and often quite clever.

sss555s

SingleSue wrote: »

Huge music lovers here, the whole blooming family...no surprise middle son has gone into music really.

I mainly like rock but I also like music such as Glen Miller, The Carpenters, Buddy Holly, a whole host of 80s New Romantic stuff and trance music.

I was buying Dare (Human League) around the time I was buying AC/DC as a teenager. Girls on film (Duran Duran) The power of love (FGTH) is still a great song. Then I got into GnR and Appetite for Destruction is my favourite album of all time.

Your sons band rocks :T

LydiaJ

Avatar-dog was a lab-greyhound cross (we think - he was rescue).

We told the rescue centre we only wanted one who was already known to be good with children, because although we had none at the time, we were planning some soon. (DS came along just over a year later.) We got one whose previous owners had said he was good with kids and good with cats.

He was a wonderful family dog: endlessly patient with children of any size, welcoming anyone who turned up to be a temporary member of his family, and so good-natured that I lost count of the number of people who said "I don't usually like dogs but I can't help liking him."

I wanted a dog who was easy to exercise, so I deliberately chose one who was interested in retrieving a ball. We used to say that the greyhound half ran after the ball and the lab half brought it back. It made it easy to give him lots of exercise without the human having to do very much. He was absolutely unable to resist the ball if it was thrown. If he was hot/tired, he would try to stop you getting the ball from him, but if you got it and threw it, then he simply had to run after it.

Last night we went round to spend some time with next door's labradoodle puppy. We took an old ball-on-rope of Avatar-dog's and tried to play with her with it. She was not remotely interested in running after it, although after a while I got her to bat at it with her paws (like a cat would) when I dangled it in front of her. Then she decided she'd rather chew the rope, and DD got tearful at the minor damage to the rope and implied desecration of Avatar-dog's memory, so I had to take the ball away.

I would definitely go for a labrahound again if I could, but my actual list of priorities for a dog would be:
Good with kids
Retrieves ball for easy exercise
Short hair for easy grooming
Not the kind that really needs to work in order not to be bored, but one that's temperamentally suited to being "just a pet"
Ears don't drag on ground and tail not curly - just my personal preferences for appearance

lostinrates

Lydia.....

Sight hounds usually aren't intersted in balls at all....but....they are easy to exercise if you have somewhere they can run....and run...and run.....for about fifteen minutes!

Some like longer walks. dog dog and dh walk upto aout eight or ten miles when both fit, but there is no doubt she prefers short, fast, and ending with a sofa...

SingleSue

sss555s wrote: »

I was buying Dare (Human League) around the time I was buying AC/DC as a teenager. Girls on film (Duran Duran) The power of love (FGTH) is still a great song. Then I got into GnR and Appetite for Destruction is my favourite album of all time.

Your sons band rocks :T

I was buying The Nutcracker at the same time as buying Iron Maiden...now that got some looks!

Middle son treated me to FGTH CD last Christmas, it wasn't as good as I remembered but Two Tribes is as great as ever.

Re the band, there appears to be some disagreement on what they should be doing with one of the them wanting to narrow them down to classic rock, middle son wants to do some heavier stuff (Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot etc - although Slipknot do some really slow, mellow stuff too) as do some of the other members. Also middle son wants to show off more of what he can do vocally and with other instruments...the other band members admit he is their best vocalist and their second best guitarist but seem to want to restrict him to being just the drummer.

This week, middle son played with a different group of people at school as band practice was cancelled (mock exams the next day meant they couldn't get the drum kit out) and they were shocked to realise that he could play the guitar pretty well and that he had a voice....they had always known him as the drummer (albeit the best drummer in school but still....). He was even teaching the known guitarists songs on the guitar and it blew their minds when he sat down at the piano.....