Music Choices

[rebeccaC]

ani difranco

buildings and bridges


overlap
http://youtu.be/Ghoq37ykENk


patty griffin
heavenly day
http://vimeo.com/50399254

[Norse]

My tastes are rather eclectic, but I mostly listen to jazz and love the free streaming stations found on the Jazz Radio app. I also listen to classical, latin guitar, opera, some pop, folk, new age and on a rare occasion, country - until a cheating or drinking song comes on, then I turn it off, well ... unless the song is Garth Brooks' Friends in Low Places; then I am likely to crank it up and belt it out with him.

[Irulan]

I really like certain kinds of country music: Texas Swing, Bluegrass, Americana, folk but something in most commercial country eludes me. I mean, rhyming "butt crack" and " greasy ball cap"? ....ew. I really heard that, more than once, on a Pandora station they were streaming at the gym.

[smilingcat]

I really like certain kinds of country music: Texas Swing, Bluegrass, Americana, folk but something in most commercial country eludes me. I mean, rhyming "butt crack" and " greasy ball cap"? ....ew. I really heard that, more than once, on a Pandora station they were streaming at the gym.

Listening to Sissel's version of O Helga Natt (O Holy Night) and reading your post about lyrics in today's country music sort of ruined a beautiful music. Country music left me long time ago. Something much nicer is needed. Det Vackraste (living in a dream) There is an English version on Youtube. Original by Cecilia Vennersten is just as nice as the English version.

[OakLeaf]

something in most commercial country eludes me. I mean, rhyming "butt crack" and " greasy ball cap"? ....ew. I really heard that, more than once, on a Pandora station they were streaming at the gym.

LM"GBC"O ...

Most commercial *music* eludes me, whether it's rock, hip-hop or country. Both music and lyrics are inane at best, and the lyrics are often offensive whatever the genre. Basically, they're just a vehicle to keep people listening while they string commercials together.

Truly? The way I usually find new artists is by *reading* about them. A critic or publication I respect, or an artist I enjoy, will give a shout-out to their favorites. If the description appeals to me, I'll listen to a youtube clip and buy if I like them. (And it really takes that verbal hook, to me. I have a few FB friends in the music industry who are constantly posting videos, and I almost never watch unless they TELL me what I'm in for, first.)

Music festivals are the other main way I get exposed to new artists. No less than three of my new favorites were artists I heard for the first time at Nelsonville this year.

[rebeccaC]

great documentary on Joni Mitchell…it's 90 minutes of going from her youth in Saskatchewan to 2003 when Susan Lacy made the documentary.

[Helene2013]

Reviving old thread here..

What free music app do you listen the most for training purposes.

So far we use Songza, sometimes Spotify. There is also Rock my run I like as their mixes are nice.

Free apps like Songza are good but without paying for their playlists, you cannot skip more than 6 songs I think without being blocked due to some rights. And you do have ads once in a while (mostly on spotify), but that is the price to pay if you do not purchase a membership.

Generally, I use my own made up playlist on my iPhone but sometimes, it is fun to listen to other songs. So I may try the Latin (for zumba type music), rock or pop, etc. for my workouts.

Anyone out there you think is cooler than another one that I (and even some of us) may not know about yet? Someone mentioned 8tracks.com but I have not looked at it yet.

Thanks.

[ny biker]

I have to control the music I listen to, otherwise I end up listening to music that I don't want to hear. So I don't use any apps. I have the TuneIn app installed on my mobile devices but that's only so I can listen to the college radio station where my nephew does sports broadcasting. (While waiting for his shows and games sometimes I listen to the music they play, and it's uniformly awful. I think they call it new wave.)

I am old school, I like to buy CDs. I don't have much time to create playlists. I rip new CDs to my pcs at work and home, then copy them to my Sansa clip MP3 player if I want to be able to listen to it at the gym or while I'm out taking a walk. My car has a 6-CD changer so I use the actual CDs there. I will be sad when I have to get a new car since they don't come with CD players anymore.

As for what I listen to, mostly Foo Fighters. They have more than enough albums out now so I can switch between them and not get bored. (I like to eat the same thing for breakfast every day too -- creature of habit. ) And they have more than enough up-tempo music for working out. If I listen to music at work, I jump around -- sometimes classical, sometimes Marshall Crenshaw or Stevie Ray Vaughn or Steely Dan or CSNY or Led Zeppelin or Willie Nelson or Clapton or whatever else is on my hard drive. My newest additions are from Gary Clark, Jr (I do like a good guitar), the most recent from U2 and a greatest-hits compilation of Willie Nelson.

Some years back when I used the stationary bike at the gym I would usually pick one great up-tempo song and put it on repeat. Springsteen's Thunder Road worked well for that, and Born to Run.

I freely admit that I am stuck in a rut, musically. But when I hear recent hit songs I usually end up wondering how such an awful song could be so popular. I did like Taylor Swift's Shake it Off, though.