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Top of the Pops (What music are you listening to?)
Oh now I’m dating myself here. The Temptations Greatest Hits. Just love me some Motown. Lol
LOL no music here. Saturday is my silent day; no tv, radio, or music. I do laundry and read. I teach 3rd grade. Friday afternoon car dismisal with 23 children in my room is still ringing in my ears...... it is a 35 minute process.
We generally listen to music when we're eating dinner, or at lunch as well.Now is my quiet time. But the Forrest Gump soundtrack is one we frequently listen to during longer car journeys, which don't happen much in the winter, because it could be snowing where you're going, but not where you live.
One of our favourite groups while we're eating dinner in the evening is Quarteto Gelato.
Rosemarie wrote: "We generally listen to music when we're eating dinner, or at lunch as well.Now is my quiet time. But the Forrest Gump soundtrack is one we frequently listen to during longer car journeys, which do..."
The Quarteto Gelato sounds lovely. ...amendment. I looked them up. They are NOT a traditional string quartet. How fun! Not your typical instrument assortment but it really works.
When I was at college I remember seeing the Audobon Quartet live. I have been fans ever since. Here is a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sc7C...
Of course another band I saw live in college was REM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Dek...
They played in the basketball stadium. They said "This is our first concert outside of Athens, GA. We're a house party band and we don't want you to sit in the stands. Come dance on the floor with us." I spent the concert with my friends about five feet away from the speakers.
The last concert my husband and I saw was the B52s in a small room - 150 people with tables, bars, and a dance floor - at the Opryland Hotel complex. Our Alan Parson's Project tickets that we never got to use are still on the front of our refrigerator.
LOL now I'm listening to REM on my quiet day!!
My wife is singing along with The Pogues as we do some housework and check emails. A common weekend occurrence in my house.
You can't go wrong with REM. I'm just glad my daughters were teenagers in the 90s, when there was such a variety of music available. We used to watch music videos together, on a Toronto channel called MuchMusic. That was when they played music videos all day.
So Lynn, are you listening to The Sound of Silence? 😂
I love everyone's choices and Lynn those are great stories, thanks so much for the links! I picked up two cds today, so i'm sitting in the dark listening to the second one now....
She - The Best of Charles Aznavour
https://youtu.be/e1uqfO2-oJA
It's one of the songs we played when Cosette (my son's cat) died.
Right now I'm listening to The Season of the Witch by Donovan, on his Greatest Hits CD.
That sounds dreamy. I recently picked up a Donovan CD i'll have to see which one!
Jazzy wrote: "So Lynn, are you listening to The Sound of Silence? 😂"LOL yes. I cannot tell you how much I love that sound.
"..."It doesn't have a tune and I can't dance to it, but i'll give it a 10!
Jazzy wrote: "I love everyone's choices and Lynn those are great stories, thanks so much for the links! I picked up two cds today, so i'm sitting in the dark listening to the second one now....
She - The Best..."
I have loved Charles Aznavour since I was about 13 and got an LP for Christmas because I was studying French. I think I own every album he ever made (not counting rereleases) and that is a lot! I also have DVDs of a lot of his TV appearances and concerts. I got to see him person 3 times over the years. I have also read a couple of his memoirs. He's not that well known in the US these days, but he was named Entertainer of the Century by Time Magazine, I think it was, in the year 2000. He wrote literally hundreds of songs, performed all over the world, sang in multiple languages, acted in movies, and was on TV regularly. He defied all the critics who said he'd never make it because he was too small, too ugly, didn't have the right kind of voice, etc.
I am planning to download the music from the movie Encanto so I'll be listening to that.
I'm swooning over your Charles Aznavour stories!! I only got my CD player a month or two ago (maybe the end of November?) So this is my only one so far. How wonderful you got to meet him.I don't know the movie Encanto, so I will look it up now!
i'm listening to Les Paul - The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection
Nat King Cole The Velvet Voice
Great choices Jazzy! I actually met old Les Paul and saw him play a number of times. He lived and recorded up the road from where I grew up. An incredible innovator.And Nat King Cole! Beautiful stuff.
Wow you got to hear him live! What a great memory that is for you! Was he playing with Mary Ford?She's not credited on the album but it's definitely her.
I have the soundtrack to Moulin Rouge and hadn't realised Nature Boy and been covered by Nat years before.
No, no Mary when I saw him. As a young man (my early twenties) I worked nights at an audio house/recording studio near Times Square. One night one of the old timers that lurked the hallways there brought over and introduced this kindly, old man to me. Introduced him as Les Paul. I knew of the man and knew that he had a house near where I grew up. And I knew that his name was on thousands and thousands of electric guitars. At the time (2000 or 2001?) Les was playing weekly gigs at a club close by called The Iridium so I went to see a number of shows. Great memories!
I have four Nat King Cole albums, of which one is a Christmas album. He is so easy to listen to.
Aye, Rosemarie, as the postman said when he brought me a new pack of CDs, Here's your Easy Listening music 😂You have some fabulous stories Chad. I'd always wanted to go to New York City.
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Legend album
Ah--I don't listen to music when reading or typing, so can't participate, but this is a fun thread :)!
I might be tidying the house! And Karen, you can just put something in you listened to recently if you want 🍭💕and I couldn't resist, I bought this on ebay.
https://www.discogs.com/release/16588...
There are 5 CDs and it was under a tenner!
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That looks like a fun collection! One of our favorite CD sets used to be a collection of American garage rock from the 60s called Nuggets From the Past. Or something like that.
Chad wrote: "That looks like a fun collection! One of our favorite CD sets used to be a collection of American garage rock from the 60s called Nuggets From the Past. Or something like that."You know you're going to make me search for that!!
I used to have a collection of surf music - The Cowabunga Surf Box, but it costs a fortune now.
I used to know a guy on facebook who made the greatest 60s garage rock playlists from his private collection - but he changed his name and I can't remember what he changed it to.
Yes, I was hoping you'd say that. I have rather eclectic taste, from classical to Christian pop, to Peruvian mountain music to yodelling... Things I have been listening to lately:Ginna Clare Mason singing "Another Life" (hope to learn this someday)
Sandrine Piau singing this lovely classical art song by Debussy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PqmQ...
Adèle Chauvet singing "Amor" (humour, cabaret) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlXPX...
one of my favourite CDs has this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6xjA... but I first was exposed to this type of music by one of my close university friends with a different group, but the album of theirs I have has never been put onto CD
If I make typos, it's because I am still listening to the song above and I have trouble doing this to music (music is a very kinesthetic and aural experience for me)
Melanie Oesch because, like a select few, I love good yodelling. The best I can figure out why I like it when no one else in my family does, is because two of my dad's friends would yodel at parties--one did Swiss yodelling, and one country music. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJND... (Swiss pop music yodel)
Florence Price's music, including https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMRTU...
So many more things and I'll have to come back when I have been listening to others (and not all the same as this stuff)
I have a friend named Rob Heron who is in the band Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra and he can yodel... a skill I have not acquired! I love this Karin. now I have to go and carefully look and listen to all the links!
Jazzy wrote: "I have a friend named Rob Heron who is in the band Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra and he can yodel... a skill I have not acquired! I love this Karin. now I have to go and carefully look and ..."
I really want to learn to yodel :)
Jazzy wrote: "I might be tidying the house! And Karen, you can just put something in you listened to recently if you want 🍭💕and I couldn't resist, I bought this on ebay.
https://www.discogs.com/release/16588..."
I think I still have that exact Francoise Hardy record. I must have bought it around 1967. I also have Bécaud, Adamo, and a few others from that era. From earlier eras, I have Trenet, Montand, Piaf, and others. In modern times, I like Thomas Dutronc (the son of Francoise Hardy!) and Patrick Bruel. Both of them do some songs that are throwbacks to 2 generations before, the time between the two world wars.
My husband and I own many LPs. We have a turntable from the 1970's which we are finally planning to replace. We have speakers that are 2 feet tall, which we hope to replace with some small wireless device.
That’s awesome, Robin P! I still occasionally put on 78s. And I was born in 1976! Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, all kinds of fox trots. Couldn’t find that stuff digitally when I was younger so I bought old records. We still have an old Philco that handles both 78s and 33s. It’s got two arms. It’s fun to hear that crackle and pop of an LP now and again. But then you have to flip the record....Hope you find the right setup.
Last month I bought a wee colourful record player that is plastic and takes batteries but it only plays 7" records. So I had to buy some. I got Michel Polnareff, Jack Wild, Paul McCartney and Wings, and the Bay City Rollers. Robin I love all your records,
Oh! Chad, Bessie Smith!
Chad wrote: "That’s awesome, Robin P! I still occasionally put on 78s. And I was born in 1976! Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, all kinds of fox trots. Couldn’t find that stuff digitally when I was younger so I boug..."Wow--we never had 78s at home and I was born before you were--we kids were born in the 1960s and 1970s, but all before 1976.
Tom Petty Dancin' at the Zombie Zoo🧟♀️🧟🧟♂️
Rosemarie I just had a listen to that. I can't remember if i heard it before!
Okay, my friends, while I grew up eschewing country music other than John Denver, when I watched Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter I changed my tune. I canNOT listen to country music as a genre--drives me batty--but there are a few country songs I love.This is due, in large part, to that country music singing (and sometimes yodelling) friend of my dad's who was VERY talented even though he was an amateur (but he didn't write songs, and to be authentic in country music you really ought to be writing at least some of your own songs) and worked as a logger (aka lumberjack, but we don't call them lumberjacks in British Columbia except in jest.)
I know you can't abide country music, --and there is more than one song with the same name--was written for and about that friend, who helped a young musician in his youth (but that musician's family moved before my parents moved there--much older than me.) If you can hack it, here's the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4_Lp...
My parents, who do NOT like country music, first heard this song at the funeral for Red Nicholson (aka Phil Nicholson)--my parents met him before I was born, but I don't remember him before he was married to his second wife.
Thanks Karin! That was some good yodelling.I started looking at Ricky Skaggs giving a mandolin lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZ_1...
Cool! I like the mandolin. That reminded me of one of my favourite recorded versions--and I realize this is out of season--of the Christmas Carol O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by the Petersons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEUl... (but you don't hear the mandolin until the second song in this 2 song video for a few verses because the build, which is oen of my favourite ways to hear that song.) Plus it has banjo, which I also like for no reason that I know since I didn't grow up hearing them.Another version I love has no words, and is the Piano Guys with a cello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7yS... --it has over 39 million views, so I guess many people love it.
I love that stuy! There's no way to describe good music. It's different for everyone.
O Come, O Come Emmanuel is one of my favourite Christmas songs as I like all the ones in minor keys. I love the way the guy is playing his guitar like a slide guitar in the first video! And the video of the piano and cello is brilliant. You don't often see buskers with cellos but when I do i usually give them some coins.
I'm currently listening to the Forrest Gump Soundtrack.
(I just bought it at the Charity Shop on the corner for £1.99 less than half an hour ago)
1-1 Elvis Presley– Hound Dog 2:18
1-2 Duane Eddy– Rebel Rouser 2:25
1-3 Clarence "Frogman" Henry–(I Don't Know Why) But I Do 2:22
1-4 The Rooftop Singers–Walk Right In 2:35
1-5 Wilson Pickett–Land Of 1000 Dances 2:26
1-6 Joan Baez–Blowin' In The Wind 2:39
1-7 Creedence Clearwater Revival–Fortunate Son 2:21
1-8 Four Tops–I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) 2:44
1-9 Aretha Franklin–Respect 2:29
1-10 Bob Dylan–Rainy Day Women 4:38
1-11 The Beach Boys–Sloop John B 2:58
1-12 The Mamas & The Papas–California Dreamin' 2:42
1-13 Buffalo Springfield–For What It's Worth 2:41
1-14 Jackie DeShannon–What The World Needs Now Is Love 3:14
1-15 The Doors–Break On Through (To The Other Side) 2:30
1-16 Simon & Garfunkel–Mrs. Robinson 3:51
2-1 Jefferson Airplane–Volunteers 2:08
2-2 The Youngbloods–Let's Get Together 4:39
2-3 Scott McKenzie–San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) 3:02
2-4 The Byrds–Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 3:57
2-5 The Fifth Dimension–Medley: Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In 4:50
2-6 Harry Nilsson–Everybody's Talkin' 2:46
2-7 Three Dog Night–Joy To The World 3:19
2-8 The Supremes–Stoned Love 3:02
2-9 B.J. Thomas–Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head 3:03
2-10 Randy Newman–Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) 2:48
2-11 Lynyrd Skynyrd–Sweet Home Alabama 4:45
2-12 The Doobie Brothers– It Keeps You Runnin' 4:22
2-13 Gladys Knight And The Pips–I've Got To Use My Imagination 3:32
2-14 Willie Nelson–On The Road Again 2:33
2-15 Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band–Against The Wind 5:36
2-16 Alan Silvestri–Forrest Gump Suite 8:50