Off Topic: Favorite Music?

[MultiEye]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04kaH8_u2CQ&list=PL2lTfsqVAcPFhfy9uw-aAGtiLfbLKTNwI&index=5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0rha6YRB2o&list=PL2lTfsqVAcPFhfy9uw-aAGtiLfbLKTNwI

[DownGoesFrazier]

GayDivorcee, is that Carole Lombard in your "avatar" photo? Great pic, whoever it is.

 

I love Carl Orff. I remember my father playing "Carmina Burana" when I was a kid. This is one way he used to relax on weekends, listening to his beloved classical music. And it's how I came to know and love classical music; just a sort of osmosis, it was always there, I heard it whether I liked it or not, whether I was paying attention to it or not. There was no conscious effort to understand it, this music was just an ambient part of my life. So, after years of this, I guess I just kind of absorbed a lot of it.

 

My dad used to talk to me about that dramatic piece you just posted. He'd tell me about the "great wheel of fortune" that was life, that the music was about. 

There's also an opera by Orff that he used to play, "Der Mond" (the Moon). And of course, the lovely "Gassenhaur", which is really music composed for children, and with the idea of children being the musicians for it.

This last was used throughout Terrence Malick's Badlands.

 

I feel as though I ought to apologize to all the non-classical music people out there. I really did not intend to get all "esoteric" or pedagogic or gawd forbid, just plain pretentious.

But it's not pretentious, because I'm not pretending to care about this music. I really do.

All three adjectives apply. My mother was a classical pianist. She tried hard to get me interested in classical music, but failed miserably.

[misswonderly3]

All three adjectives apply. My mother was a classical pianist. She tried hard to get me interested in classical music, but failed miserably.

 

I actually find that hard to understand. Maybe she tried to make it too much like "work"?

 

My parents didn't "try hard" to get me interested in classical music, they just played it all the time. For themselves, not for me. So I just heard it all the time. There was no conscious effort to like it, it was just a part of my life. 

 

Still, if your mum was a classical pianist, I'm amazed none of it rubbed off on you. Well, I guess some did...after all, you do take a more active interest in music than most people. Just not classical.

 

But fi, say you don't like it if you don't, that's fine, the majority of people don't like classical music.But don't say it's pedagogic or esoteric (nttawwt) and it's certainly not pretentious. It's just a different kind of music than you care to listen to. (Those three words are mine, not yours', true, but you just said in your post that all three words applied.)

[misswonderly3]

Anyway, big change of pace...Here's The Who with 5:15, from the album Quadrophenia. There was also a movie with the same name - I believe Pete Townshend worked closely with the filmmakers on this. The music from The Who's recording is used throughout the film. And of course, the narrative is based on Townshend's loose storyline of the album, about a confused and sensitive mod named Jimmy.

 

This song rocks hard. Good stuff.

 

 

[DownGoesFrazier]

I actually find that hard to understand. Maybe she tried to make it too much like "work"?

 

My parents didn't "try hard" to get me interested in classical music, they just played it all the time. For themselves, not for me. So I just heard it all the time. There was no conscious effort to like it, it was just a part of my life. 

 

Still, if your mum was a classical pianist, I'm amazed none of it rubbed off on you. Well, I guess some did...after all, you do take a more active interest in music than most people. Just not classical.

 

But fi, say you don't like it if you don't, that's fine, the majority of people don't like classical music.But don't say it's pedagogic or esoteric (nttawwt) and it's certainly not pretentious. It's just a different kind of music than you care to listen to. (Those three words are mine, not yours', true, but you just said in your post that all three words applied.)

I've been rocking since I was seven years old (to Elvis' "All Shook Up", in my basement), and have never stopped or slowed down....To me, rock and soul have the energy and vibrance reminiscent of youth. Classical music is music to grow old to. My condo, in which most of the residents are doddering fogies, has a huge number of regular patrons of classical music concerts. I, as a rocker, am viewed as a miscreant.( I am as old or older than many of them.)

[misswonderly3]

I've been rocking since I was seven years old (to Elvis' "All Shook Up", in my basement), and have never stopped or slowed down....To me, rock and soul have the energy and vibrance reminiscent of youth. Classical music is music to grow old to. My condo, in which most of the residents are doddering fogies, has a huge number of regular patrons of classical music concerts. I, as a rocker, am viewed as a miscreant.( I am as old or older than many of them.)

 

Well, as you can see from the song I just posted, as well as from the majority of music I've been posting on this forum ever since I started here, I love rock and soul too, and that music is, truth to tell, more important to me, more a part of who I am, than classical music is. 

You know most of the stuff I post here is rock  - or soul, or r and b, or country/folk. Or pop. 

You don't have to be old to like classical music, although, sadly, you're right, it does seem as though most people who listen to it are old, at least in years.

But I love it, and I'm pretty sure I'm younger than you (albeit not by a whole lot.)

 

I just like many different kinds of music. And if you were to become familiar with classical music (but I'm not holding my breath), I'm sure you'd recognize that a lot of it has "energy and vibrance" too.

[DownGoesFrazier]

Well, as you can see from the song I just posted, as well as from the majority of music I've been posting on this forum ever since I started here, I love rock and soul too, and that music is, truth to tell, more important to me, more a part of who I am, than classical music is. 

You know most of the stuff I post here is rock  - or soul, or r and b, or country/folk. Or pop. 

You don't have to be old to like classical music, although, sadly, you're right, it does seem as though most people who listen to it are old, at least in years.

But I love it, and I'm pretty sure I'm younger than you (albeit not by a whole lot.)

 

I just like many different kinds of music. And if you were to become familiar with classical music (but I'm not holding my breath), I'm sure you'd recognize that a lot of it has "energy and vibrance" too.

Most people who listen to classical music are old in outlook and bearing, more so than in years. If I have offended anyone. sorry.

[misswonderly3]

You know you haven't offended me, and I'm sorry that you feel the need to say you're sorry. Pax.

[DownGoesFrazier]

You know you haven't offended me, and I'm sorry that you feel the need to say you're sorry. Pax.

Message boards should mean never having to say you're sorry.

[TheGayDivorcee]

GayDivorcee, is that Carole Lombard in your "avatar" photo? Great pic, whoever it is.

 

I love Carl Orff. I remember my father playing "Carmina Burana" when I was a kid. This is one way he used to relax on weekends, listening to his beloved classical music. And it's how I came to know and love classical music; just a sort of osmosis, it was always there, I heard it whether I liked it or not, whether I was paying attention to it or not. There was no conscious effort to understand it, this music was just an ambient part of my life. So, after years of this, I guess I just kind of absorbed a lot of it.

 

My dad used to talk to me about that dramatic piece you just posted. He'd tell me about the "great wheel of fortune" that was life, that the music was about. 

There's also an opera by Orff that he used to play, "Der Mond" (the Moon). And of course, the lovely "Gassenhaur", which is really music composed for children, and with the idea of children being the musicians for it.

This last was used throughout Terrence Malick's Badlands.

 

I feel as though I ought to apologize to all the non-classical music people out there. I really did not intend to get all "esoteric" or pedagogic or gawd forbid, just plain pretentious.

But it's not pretentious, because I'm not pretending to care about this music. I really do.

You have a good eye, yes, Carole Lombard.  It looked so contemporary, almost as if it could be from today.  Interesting about your dad introducing you to Carl Orff.  And I hadn't realized that about "Badlands"--I'm really curious to watch it now.

 

I grew up hearing my mother play classical music on the piano (her sister was a concert pianist) and records.  I liked some of it, and pretended not to like some, being a bit of a brat.  She also played blues, folk, Edith Piaf, all sorts of records, and I'm happy I had that exposure.  My work involved classical music, and my husband is in that world, so I'm pretty much immersed in it.  It hadn't occurred to me it's thought of in a derogatory way--shows how out of it I am!   Maybe you and I can convert some members?     Just kidding!  Each to his own.

 

That said, I also love hardcore punk, rock, especially from the 60s and 70s, and love hearing death metal in the car.  But in the morning there is nothing like Ravel or Debussy with my pot of tea, and maybe a little Satie before bedtime. 

[TheGayDivorcee]

Anyway, big change of pace...Here's The Who with 5:15, from the album Quadrophenia. There was also a movie with the same name - I believe Pete Townshend worked closely with the filmmakers on this. The music from The Who's recording is used throughout the film. And of course, the narrative is based on Townshend's loose storyline of the album, about a confused and sensitive mod named Jimmy.

 

This song rocks hard. Good stuff.

 

This IS good stuff; I love Quadrophenia.  In fact I just heard "Sea and Sand" on my iPod today (well, now yesterday!)  I was very lucky to hear The Who play some the album in concert years ago.

 

And thank you, by the way, if it was you who gave the tip about deleting the video to make for a more condensed thread.

[DownGoesFrazier]

You know you haven't offended me, and I'm sorry that you feel the need to say you're sorry. Pax.

To Miss W.-----Once again, I am getting responses that I'm not allowed to use the private messaging system Maybe this is the bizarro equivalent of getting a warning point.

[misswonderly3]

To Miss W.-----Once again, I am getting responses that I'm not allowed to use the private messaging system Maybe this is the bizarro equivalent of getting a warning point.

 

That explains it ! I was getting a little nervous. Not only had you not responded to the two pms I sent you, my pm page indicated you hadn't even read them ! I thought you must be really p i s s e d off.

It must be a technical glitch, I can think of no earthly reason why the private message system would be verboten to you.

(Unless you've been sending encrypted porn via the pm service. )

 

Anyway, all the pms said was the same as I've said right here. I'm not offended, everyone likes what they like, we all have the right to express our opinion, blahblahblah.

Hey, you can't even pm the moderators to find out why they won't let you pm. Crazy.

[Guest TCMModerator1]

To Miss W.-----Once again, I am getting responses that I'm not allowed to use the private messaging system Maybe this is the bizarro equivalent of getting a warning point.

 

Hi fiance.  Normally I wouldn't post something but you seem to indicate you are not able to reply to PMs.  I checked your account and there isn't anything that I see preventing the sending of or replying to PMs.

 

What is the message you get when you try to reply to a PM?

[DownGoesFrazier]

Hi fiance.  Normally I wouldn't post something but you seem to indicate you are not able to reply to PMs.  I checked your account and there isn't anything that I see preventing the sending of or replying to PMs.

 

What is the message you get when you try to reply to a PM?

I believe that I may be getting this "not authorized" message when I try to reply to a PM that I see in my E-mail, before I log on to the TCM boards.

[darkblue]

I believe that I may be getting this "not authorized" message when I try to reply to a PM that I see in my E-mail, before I log on to the TCM boards.

 

The simple answer to that is to reply to pm's from inside the TCM site and not from your e-mail account.

[Guest TCMModerator1]

I believe that I may be getting this "not authorized" message when I try to reply to a PM that I see in my E-mail, before I log on to the TCM boards.

 

Ah yes, more than likely you will need to log into the site before you can reply to the PM.  

[MultiEye]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qX34kFcgHw

[darkblue]

If I Loved You

 

[Casablanca100views]

Soul Train's feeling  HAPPY

 

[Casablanca100views]

Jazz pour les vaches

 

[misswonderly3]

I was in Toronto recently to see Neko Case. Her stuff's hard to label, which is fine with me. She's got a great voice. I saw her at Massey Hall ( remember Massey Hall, db? It's still around), along with a pretty darn good little band called the Dodos.

 

Here's a tune from a few years back, "Star Witness". After listening carefully to the lyrics numerous times, I've come to the conclusion that I still haven't the faintest idea what it's about. But I don't care, it's a good tune, especially the melodious chorus. So pretty.

 

 

[DownGoesFrazier]

I was in Toronto recently to see Neko Case. Her stuff's hard to label, which is fine with me. She's got a great voice. I saw her at Massey Hall ( remember Massey Hall, db? It's still around), along with a pretty darn good little band called the Dodos.

 

Here's a tune from a few years back, "Star Witness". After listening carefully to the lyrics numerous times, I've come to the conclusion that I still haven't the faintest idea what it's about. But I don't care, it's a good tune, especially the melodious chorus. So pretty.

 

You seem to go to Toronto pretty frequently. You don't live that close these days, do you?

[misswonderly3]

You seem to go to Toronto pretty frequently. You don't live that close these days, do you?

 

fi: listen, this is easy. If I can do it, you can do it. When quoting someone's post, if it contains a video or some kind of link, you will see the quote and also the url (that's the line with a bunch of letters etc. that when clicked takes you to the site of the video) in the space you're using to write your post. Just put the mouse at the end of the url and backspace it out. That way, we don't have repeat videos taking up unnecessary room on the threads. 

 

Anyway, yup, it's kind of weird, the number of times I've been to Toronto lately. Well, it is my hometown, and I do have family living there. But lately it's been to attend some concert or other. It's kind of expensive, actually, I'll have to curtail my Toronto-visiting ways soon.

 

Hey, I found a Teena Marie video called "Lovergirl". Can't say it knocks me out, but I picked it because wikipaedia claimed it was her biggest hit. Of course that's not necessarily an indication of quality. Maybe I'll pick something different next time. Very 80s/funk -sounding. 

 

 

[DownGoesFrazier]

fi: listen, this is easy. If I can do it, you can do it. When quoting someone's post, if it contains a video or some kind of link, you will see the quote and also the url (that's the line with a bunch of letters etc. that when clicked takes you to the site of the video) in the space you're using to write your post. Just put the mouse at the end of the url and backspace it out. That way, we don't have repeat videos taking up unnecessary room on the threads. 

 

Anyway, yup, it's kind of weird, the number of times I've been to Toronto lately. Well, it is my hometown, and I do have family living there. But lately it's been to attend some concert or other. It's kind of expensive, actually, I'll have to curtail my Toronto-visiting ways soon.

 

Hey, I found a Teena Marie video called "Lovergirl". Can't say it knocks me out, but I picked it because wikipaedia claimed it was her biggest hit. Of course that's not necessarily an indication of quality. Maybe I'll pick something different next time. Very 80s/funk -sounding. 

 

 

It's not bad, but my three favorite Teena Marie tracks are "Behind the Groove", "Portuguese Love", and "I Need Your Lovin'"