Favorite music - we love to hear

I'm to young to be a flower child of the sixties (but always wanted to be one) so as an 70/80's/90's one, my favorite urbane folk singer is none other than Billy Bragg. You may like him for his politics or his song writing, none-the-less he's a brilliant lyricist and a very funny guy. Every show I've seen I've enjoyed - his music, his lyrics and his humour and down-to-earth realism :) "Harsh words between bride and groom the distance is greater each day he smokes alone in the next room and she knits her life away" "You know why girls get their belly-buttons pierced, don't you? Because they can't grow goatees." Thoroughly entertaining and intelligent, Bragg is a breath of fresh air in a grunge world of shallow, substanceless music. - Karen Pace's review of Billy Bragg at The Horeseshoe, Toronto. September 22 1996.

Yes yes love Billy Bragg. I like the way he sings in his own accent, not in American like many non-American singers. I like his interesting lyrics, and his political opinioins and the way he's not reluctant to be critical of the establishment and his understanding of the relationships between people and... One of my favourites is "Valentines Day is over"

So let's indulge in this and pray others to bare with us this passion : Valentine's Day Is Over Some day boy you'll reap what you've down You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own And you will see that what's wrong with me Is wrong with everyone that You want to play your little games on Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats You've gone to the dogs again and I'm not placing bets On you coming home tonight anything but blind If you take me for granted then you must expect to find Surprise, surprise Valentine's Day is over, it's over Valentine's Day is over If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is Don't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is God didn't make you angel the Devil made you a man That brutality and the economy are related now I understand When will you realize that as above so below there is no love For the girl with hour glass figure Time runs out very fast We used to want the same things But that's all in the past And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard That love between two people must be based on understanding Until that's true you'll find your things All stacked out on the landing surprise, surprise And this is the classic one of all and one of many favorites : Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying Over luxury's disappointment So he walks over and he's trying To sympathize with her but thinks that he should warn her That the Third World is just around the corner In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell At the first hurdle In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear Is the sound of people stacking chairs And mopping up spilt beer And someone asking questions and basking in the light Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses While looking down the corridor Out to where the van is waiting I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted You can be active with the activists Or sleep in with the sleepers While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards One leap forwards, two leaps back Will politics get me the sack? Here comes the future and you can't run from it If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole If no one seems to understands Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

How 'bout Sexuality ? ;) My personal favorites: The Beatles, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music, Duran Duran, The Cardigans, Level 42, Dave Matthews Band, INXS, Bing, Glenn Miller, Patti Page, Mozart, The Russian Romantics, anything Baroque, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow)....the list goes on and on...I'm very fond of several alternative flashes in the pan, which I probably shouldn't even mention...;)

Oh...and I love EVITA! Great music...

Great topic idea, Johanne. The Bragg lyrics you posted: "Harsh words between bride and groom the distance is greater each day he smokes alone in the next room and she knits her life away" Reminded me very much of a Paul Simon song, The Dangling Conversation: And you read your Emiily Dickenson And I my Robert Frost And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we've lost

OK my favourites other than Billy Bragg are Annie Lenox (and the Eurythmics) Enya, Indigo Girls, Suzanne Vega For the Australians out there Paul Kelly, Deborah Conway (It's only the beginning - one of the best love songs ever), Midnight Oil, Tiddas (excellent aboriginal women's group - those harmonies!!) And Wolfgang Amadeus of course (the clarinet concerto - music of the gods)

I like music from the '60's--British invasion, beach, folk, soul, and being from the Detroit area--MOTOWN Every year I catch the Temps and the Tops concert--Levi Stubbs can still belt out a song. Also catch Peter, Paul & Mary every year. Below is a song Paul Stookey wrote about the internet. VIRTUAL PARTY (see_you@party.net) (Noel Paul Stookey) copyright/neworld media music 1995 It's 11 o'clock in the evening - I'm barefoot - And I'm logged-on to the INTERNET. I usually pickup my e-mail in the afternoon But on weekends sometimes I forget... I yell down the hall to the bedroom, "Honey, I'll be right there..." she says "that's ok, dear, I got a brand new book here and I'm not going anywhere". A 'funny thing about a couple when a couple of years've gone by. You don't talk; you think you know each other so well you don't have to try... you take for granted what you used to called enchanted just a while ago... when does a mystery turn into history? I don't know... Anyway, I got another MEG of data coming down the line; wall street profile...spreadsheet from a friend of mine... when up on the screen pops a little green box that says 'click on me'. Somewhere I swear Alice in Wonderland's callin'... I look at the clock (not as late as I thought: maybe quarter to one). 'Download's finished, I could take five minutes and have me some fun. The invitation's from a web location in Hong Kong. Already started, this virtual party runs all night long! All night? You're invited to a virtual party tonight... You're invited to a virtual party tonight... (instrumental break) Computers in the automobile, computers in the microwave, computers in the phone. And even my wife who used to tell me to 'get a life' has got a computer of her own. I spend so much time saving time I can't find any time to spend ... I've taped sixteen episodes of "Star Trek" but when am I gonna show them?! Un-believable, must be sixty, seventy people at the party site. Icons, Avatars, Images of Movie Stars surfing tonight... I'm looking for a chat when I get a note that says 'ya wanna go...to a place real private? I guarantee you'll like it...' I say 'I...yi...' She says her name is 'Mata Hari' and that she's particularly fond of older men... Maybe so, maybe not, maybe she's a guy who's got this urge to pretend... And then it occurs to me, I don't need this fantasy... after all, everything I'd be looking for, I've got and even more, sleeping at the end of the hall... I shut down the box, still it's two o'clock by the time I get to bed... I lift up the covers; snuggle next to my lover; find a note there instead... it says "the book was dumb, logged on, found a message from Hong Kong... about a virtual party (think I'll go as 'mata hari') may be all night long..." I say all night? You're invited to a virtual party tonight... You're invited to a virtual party tonight... Going to a virtual party tonight... (ready or not here comes the 21st century) Going to a virtual party tonight...

Carolyn! I want to hear that song. Thank you. It not only ties into the relationshit(p) ennui we were talking about but speaks to this other obsession of ours. I love it.

That does sound like a cool song. Where can we hear it?

Like the Billy Bragg and Paul Stookey! Always felt I should get to hear more Billy Bragg. Amy, do we share a liking of Paul Simon as well as Van Morrison?

I guess so, Hil. Not surprised....

FAvorites: Classical: Rachmanioff(especially piano concerto no. 2), Mozart, Debussy, Chopin..I love opera too-Puccini, Verdi, Bizet....Placido Domingo rules! And KAli-ditto on Lehar(love the Merry Widow) and Die Fleidermas too. And INXS & Duran Duran-Sigh( I fell in love with Simon Le bon after seeing the reflex video)Also, Love Bing and Miller-love big band music. As well: Gershwin, Cole Porter, Andrew Lloyd Webber(ESpecially Sunset Boulevard), Garland, Billie Holliday(I wish I sounded like her), Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Edith Piaf..... Anyone like Take that? My sister got me into them-great for exercising. Like oasis too. In the past, Corey hart-still have my sunglasses at night.

Virtual Party is on the Lifelines Live album/cd (whatever).

I love the pop/Broadway immortals of the 20s, 30s & 40s: Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Kern, Rodgers. Nobody writes like that any more. Anyone else love the Weavers, the great folk group of the 50s and 60s?

ditto on the Mozart, PP&M, Paul Simon, and add James Taylor, Fogelberg, Spyrogyra, esp. baroque brass, Grogorian chant stuff, Taco Bell's Canon, the Nat/Nat. Cole duets, Take6, Linda Ronstadt,...

Folk music.English/scots/Irish/Welsh/Breton/CapeBreton/Cajun/Acadian/Australian and Pacific.Toomany individual artists to list but what is in my car rightnow is Enya, Loreeta McKennit, Gordon Lightfoot, The Barra McNeils, Dan Gibson Stuff, Queen (YES! Queen) Bryan Adams. At home on the CD- Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Opera selections, Holst, Gregorian chants, Billy Joel

OK -- over at "drooling" I posted a different list, but this one will start with the same person --- Jackson Browne!!!! My other favorites are: The Roches, Kate & Anna McGaragle, Maria Muldaur, Emmylou Harris, my P&P & S&S CD's, and of course I couldn't possibly leave out the best dance band in the greater Sacramento area, Red Rose (my husband's band).

Jackson Browne.....

Amy he beats women

One of my favourite CDs right now is Wrecking Ball, by Emmy Lou Harris. Its different from her real country stuff. Another perenial is A Meeting by the River by Ry Cooder and V.M.Bhatt. Its an instrumental meeting of west and east. The Paul Stookey reminds me (in topic only) of the dreadful 'Pina Colada' song.

Taco Bell's Canon? ROTFLOL!

]Taco Bell's Canon? I knew Pachelbel had been overcommercialised, but I didn't realise it had gone that far....

Amy he beats women __ Impossible. Really Laura. I am flabbergasted.

Van Morrison How could we have forgotten him over in the Voices drool? Fogelberg "Once Upon A Time" is an out-of-character rocker -- excellent! Ry Cooder "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" -- 'nuff said. Amy he beats women __ Impossible. Really Laura. I am flabbergasted. Yep, just ask Darryl Hannah. I love ZZ Top -- anything they do. Sometimes I need that driving rhythm like any addict needs a fix. I think you guys know what I mean, right?

And of course THE GREATFUL DEAD!!!

OK -- What did I do wrong? Where's my picture?

Another try...

Rats!!!!!

Ok Amy -- now I've read the fine print on your tutorial -- One more try for Jerry... And of course THE GREATFUL DEAD!!!

Well I am exceedingly proud of myself!

I'll put out a press release.

Kali, HELP I am such a simpleton. I am ever so slowly catching on, but ROTFlol??? I feel sooooo stupid help

Cindy, you are not stupid, just learning a new lnguage. Roll On Floor Laughing Out Loud! Took me a while too, and I was too proud to ask.

I finally broke down and asked one day...the worst thing they did was LOL me! ;) Some others: LOL = Laugh Out Loud ROTFLOLAN = Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud and Attaining Nose (when you're drinking something and you snort at just the wrong moment...) IMHO, IMO = In My Humble Opinion, In My Opinion (I just figured this out in the last few weeks...!)

Oh, I had assumed it was Honest. which, of course, leads to a problem distinguishing between the opinion and the honest opinion. immediately after I asked, I thought I had it figured (wrongly, I suppose) to be Right On, Too Funny, LOL but, indeed, I prefer rolling on the floor to my brilliant presumption thanks, everybody for all the help

Hey, the time stamp on that last one was right!!! I used to get a 26 minute delay (the Magic 30 Minutes? - nah) even as recently as last night! Does that mean I'm official now?

Cindy: I used to get a 26 minute delay (the Magic 30 Minutes? - nah) Ahh, Cindy, we each of us wish for the Magic 30 Minutes, from time to time (I want it all to myself, of course, but the rest of you may share your times!);-)

Cindy, I have started a new topic,#199. So you can help the others out!;-D

I forgot Debussey...Claire de Lune...

Debussy's Claire de Lune, love it, any �rik Satie fans out there?

Oh Johanne, love to play the Gymnopedies and Gnoissiennes on the piano, some of my favorites!

Check this Cheryl : Samples of Satie using MP3 or Midifiles: http://www.af.lu.se/~fogwall/samples.html

Always pictures Satie with looking at an endless meadows of wildflowers or on a rainy day

Thanks ever so much for Satie link Johanne...I simply love his music!

I just got the cd of Wynton Marsalis' "In Gabriel's Garden" - some really great trumpet playing and it starts with one of my favorites, the music for "Masterpiece Theatre" by Mouret, followed by Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary! This music even replaced P&P for one day in the car, but not for longer!!

This is somewhat mundane, but I really love Rachmaninoff.

Gymnopedies! I love it! One of the girls in our house used to play that piece on our grand piano (vintage 1927 Steinway...this house was very West Egg in a Mediterranean sort of way) late at night...it was a wonderful thing to listen to while you looked out across the deck at the lights of Ess Eff across the Bay...

I just bought Nozze di Figaro, and also a really interesting collection of early music called encounters with early music - lots of plainsong and recorders and lutes.