Forum menu
Absolutely anything and everything in the sixties. I/we didn’t distinguish between genres it was just music.
Less so in seventies as bands disappeared or reformed into ‘super groups’ that became less accessible both musically and physically.
Eighties I was busy.
Ninetees nah. Lost interest when bands became their own tribute band. Modern music phw.
Since then listen mainly to classical and jazz with new discoveries daily.
Current fav
That piece of music is actually Italian Baroque pop music, written by a complete prodigy. How did you find that? Look up Marco Beasley if you like that kind of stuff, I emailed to ask if he had any plans to tour the UK and the man himself replied that so far, nobody has invited him.
I always thought the Baha Men were rather good
Really? Across all shows, what sort of stuff don’t they play? Seems they have ‘eclectic’ pretty well covered. 🙂
6music only have to play it and I don't like it 😁 Context init. I mean there is some shite (Steve Lamaq and interchangable indie..., L Laverne. Dad's Job. Pro Scouser. The list goes on without getting into the ex R1 brigade.) I guess I've antibodies to the notion of 'quality' music for music lovers.
Off to see snarky puppy when their world tour brings them to Manchester at some point in the distance. I think Antarctica is the only continent they miss. Oh, and Africa.
I love pretty much all genres of music from medieval stuff through to various classical bits and then on to extreme of death and black metal with stops through the all of various alternative subcultures and randomly beautiful. about the only thing that makes my soul die is really bland manufactured safe music with no real passion.
My normal musical playlists have changed over time though with less 80's goth, punk, new wave, more extreme grindcore, hardcore and most the brutal of face melting techno/electronica/noise terrorism
Another vote here for Snarky Puppy.
That said, I first realised I was really getting into classical music was coming home a bit tipsy (okay, more than a bit) one night and sticking the 1812 Overture on at full volume. That really was 19th century heavy metal. Still love it cranked up loud and cannons blazing.
Then let me recommend the Cincinnati/Kunzel recording on the Telarc label with real cannons.
I'm looking forward to playing in the 1812 this summer but sadly I understand there won't be cannons.
6music only have to play it and I don’t like it 😁 Context init. I mean there is some shite (Steve Lamaq and interchangable indie…, L Laverne. Dad’s Job. Pro Scouser. The list goes on without getting into the ex R1 brigade.) I guess I’ve antibodies to the notion of ‘quality’ music for music lovers.
Inverse snobbery.
Some interesting stuff on here. Seems like I am very much in a minority finding much of the music of my teenage years completely unlistenable now.
Sabbath, Led Zep, Rush, ELP - a huge part of my teenage years now just has no appeal.
I would suggest prog rock/classical have closer links. ELP (as mentioned above) and The Nice for “classical covers” (not just “Pictures”), Yes, Genesis, Zappa were all part of my journey to classical music. Classical makes up by far the majority of music I listen to and play these days, but it all started with prog rock in my teens and I still listen to a lot of that old stuff.
Not so sure about classical being the only link, there’s just as much of a jazz influence in the majority of Prog(ressive) music. Even Jethro Tull, mainly seen as a Prog/folk band have jazz in the mix, listen to Boureé, for example; a JS Bach tune, with added jazzy bits!
Yes have a strong jazz influence, especially their early stuff, but it’s far stronger in the music of King Crimson, Greenslade and Gentle Giant, all of whom I love, but I really don’t like jazz itself! Soft Machine and Steely Dan are also jazz-influenced.
Back to the main point of the post - I guess my tastes haven’t changed that much, more expanded through years of hearing new stuff. I’ve always liked rock, pop, folk, some classical, which has expanded to include punk, indie, some rap, electronica,just whatever catches my ear, so Massive Attack, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Aphex Twin, Orbital, then into Canadian bands like Arcade Fire, Metric, Stars...
There’s just so much I can’t keep up, every time I listen to 6Music I hear something I like, like Idols, Sleaford Mods, BC Camplight, La Luz, Ex:Re, King Princess...
There are lots that I still like from forty-fifty years ago, but others I’ve just grown out of, like Sabbath.
Tj ; )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zC-QYFK7Ro
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLBaBeo1k4
time to think again? (although I’ll admit, to not listening to Zeppelin much any more).
Seems like I am very much in a minority finding much of the music of my teenage years completely unlistenable now
Yeah, I don't really find much of it unlistenable, just hardly any interest in going back to a lot of it cos there's so much new stuff to listen to.
But then I do have a problem. Trying to find something new ALL THE TIME! It gets so expensive, buying stuff off Bandcamp and juno - just can't stop it and really don't get time to listen to the stuff I've bought enough. "Oh that's good! I'll buy that... oh er, already got it. Duh".
I still don't like country and western, but I am more open to jazz than I ever used to be.
6music only have to play it and I don’t like it 😁 Context init. I mean there is some shite (Steve Lamaq and interchangable indie…, L Laverne. Dad’s Job. Pro Scouser. The list goes on without getting into the ex R1 brigade.) I guess I’ve antibodies to the notion of ‘quality’ music for music lovers.
Inverse snobbery.
Hey there's nothing inverse about it.
(I've obviously zero to base any snobbery on, this is just habit. Music was a huge big deal to me in my late teens and isn't anymore. That's the main change. I still listen, but everything is so easy to get hold of now -unless you're a sad hobbyist, see above 😉- there's no homework to be done, unless you particularly want to, to get into a band. So it's mainly just surface listening to the music without getting hooked in and feeling part of something. Which is fine.)
unless you’re a sad hobbyist
Hiya! 😆
Dez..there is very little of the type of music that you like that floats my boat ..but man I've really come to admire your passion in the relatively short time that I've been on this forum
10/10 ..
Hello, this is my first post on STW.
Born 1958. In the 1960s at 9/10 years old I was captivated by Motown and other similar music from black (mainly) America. I'm 60 now and RnB/soul music is still my default choice and listening preference. There's something about it that just gets some people and it got me.
I've got it for life - there are others with it too, they can be seen in their 60s and 70s, shuffling round any number of soul nights around the country at the weekends, addicted for the last 50 plus years.
So no - my tastes haven't changed...
Hello newby!
Dez..there is very little of the type of music that you like that floats my boat .
I betcha there’s some crossover somewhere... Mainly because I don’t like any one “type of music”! 😊
Nice one Dero ..
Dez..it could take a while to find it though 😁
Thanks DezB and hodgynd!
I'm enjoying a Friday night beer in the kitchen listening to Vince Peach's show from Australia:
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/soultime, the longest running soul show in the world apparently.
Vince has lived in Aus since the early 80s. Notably though, he's taken on absolutely zero of the accent and is still 100% Liverpool...
Not so sure about classical being the only link,
That's not what I was suggesting. I said I thought there was a closer link between prog rock and classical than between heavy metal and classical (in answer to kennyp).