Music

[hammers1man]

Interested what music interests we have here, we all like golf but here is a thread to talk about music passions and why you love what you love also feel free to post youtube links to share

[andersnm]

I have been interested in music since I started playing piano and drums. Didn’t continue with drums after I quit school music, but started playing guitar at age 11. And guitar is now my instrument.

My taste has evolved and I appriciate a wide variety in music genre. My main music when I do designwork etc is progressive rock. My top group is Transatlantic. That is pure epic music with fantastic melodies which is the most important for me. Other very good bands are Introitus (Sweden), Circle of Illusion, Yes, Nightwish, to name a few.

I also listen to prog metal/death metal, trance, classical music, and some pop music. I have been a Eurovision fan since 1985
The only music I rarely like are R&B.

[hammers1man]

Jan 18, 2020 0:46:13 GMT andersnm said:

I have been interested in music since I started playing piano and drums. Didn’t continue with drums after I quit school music, but started playing guitar at age 11. And guitar is now my instrument.

My taste has evolved and I appriciate a wide variety in music genre. My main music when I do designwork etc is progressive rock. My top group is Transatlantic. That is pure epic music with fantastic melodies which is the most important for me. Other very good bands are Introitus (Sweden), Circle of Illusion, Yes, Nightwish, to name a few.

I also listen to prog metal/death metal, trance, classical music, and some pop music. I have been a Eurovision fan since 1985
The only music I rarely like are R&B.

R and B to me is rhythm and blues, not the crap they play now. Remember John Belushi saying we are putting the band back together in The Blues Brothers, a real rhythm and blues band. Blues with a real groove, Aretha Franklin is pure R and B to me.

[andersnm]

Yes, old r&b is much better.

I can also name my biggest influence as a guitarist:
My first was Metallica, but soon found John McLaughlin and Al di Meola and Eric Johnsen. I also played lots of Pink Floyd. I was never able to play very fast, but I practiced some stuff from John Petrucci as well (solo, Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment). In later years Hank Marvin and The Shadows has been a great part of what I play.

[hammers1man]

Big fan of Pink Floyd especially David Gilmour, if you like your guitar Anders I really recommend Mike Stern some of his stuff is on a different level. I have always love piano and I do dip into the easy listening contempary Jazz scene and find stuff that really stands out to me. Might not be everyones cup of tea but I love stuff like this.

[polekatt/josia]

Music has always been a big part of my life.

When I was young, my sister got to take piano lessons.  I did not, but I picked up her books and basically taught myself.   In high school, my job was at a musical instrument store.   During the weeknights, when no one was around, it would get very boring there by myself.   So I played with the instruments.   At that time of my life, I could play at least a scale, on every instrument in that store.   During the nights that I got very bored, after that, I would do crazy things, like hook up the autoharp to the guitar pedals and things like that.  hahah.

But after that, I finally settled on the piano/keyboards, and thats pretty much what I play to this day.   My earliest influences were Prince, and 80's pop stuff, and I loved to play classical on the piano.

I am the pianist at my church, so I play at least three times a week.  Obviously I listen to Christian music a lot for that, plus I just like the encouraging lyrics.  But I also still enjoy my 80's pop, Celtic, Bluegrass, and Classical.     I love classical instrumental, with techno or rock beat,   like Lindsey Stirling does now, or Bond used to do.

[booze]

I’m very weird with music. I’ve never in my life been able to answer the question “Who’s your favorite singer/group?” I just like a little bit of everything. I used to karaoke regularly lol, but I have no particular favorites and would be all over the place with genre. I can like one or two songs from someone, but despise everything else they do. If you really pin me down, I’d say I’m really more of a movie/tv  soundtrack guy than anything else, more leaning towards instrumentals. Definitely ones that have a more emotional or haunting type vibe. For example, Cast Away theme when he loses Wilson, Braveheart the final scene, end of Shawshank, Gladiator,  etc. Or something so simple, like this -



Doesn’t have to be just instrumental, the show DARK features great music I really like, such as this-





When I’m just driving in the car though,  aside from Christmas season I’m usually just listening to local sports radio complaining about my teams lol (Detroit, you can’t blame me)

[booze]

And since this is a music thread in a golf forum... can we please get this version of the Masters theme back?!!! I’ve never been able to find a clean version, just this -

[hammers1man]

Jan 18, 2020 6:11:16 GMT booze said:

I’m very weird with music. I’ve never in my life been able to answer the question “Who’s your favorite singer/group?” I just like a little bit of everything. I used to karaoke regularly lol, but I have no particular favorites and would be all over the place with genre. I can like one or two songs from someone, but despise everything else they do. If you really pin me down, I’d say I’m really more of a movie/tv  soundtrack guy than anything else, more leaning towards instrumentals. Definitely ones that have a more emotional or haunting type vibe. For example, Cast Away theme when he loses Wilson, Braveheart the final scene, end of Shawshank, Gladiator,  etc. Or something so simple, like this -



Doesn’t have to be just instrumental, the show DARK features great music I really like, such as this-





When I’m just driving in the car though,  aside from Christmas season I’m usually just listening to local sports radio complaining about my teams lol (Detroit, you can’t blame me)

I am a big fan of film scores also, love Thomas Newman's score for Shawshank Redemption. The music in the opening scene when we get a birds eye pan over the prison gives me goosebumps.

[artvandelay]

Jan 18, 2020 6:11:16 GMT booze said:

When I’m just driving in the car though,  aside from Christmas season I’m usually just listening to local sports radio complaining about my teams lol (Detroit, you can’t blame me)

I am along the same path, but since I have taken to listening to podcasts I can now listen to PTI, ATH and the like bashing sports from a national perspective.  Just means they don't jump on my Tigers and Lions as often, instead they dump on Jerryworld, OBJ and bigger more notorious knucklheads.

[jeff]

My dad was a big audiophile. Growing up, he introduced me to classical and jazz, rock and folk. The Bugs Bunny cartoons also cemented certain classical melodies in my head. (I watched a lot of Saturday morning cartoons!) He's responsible for me liking The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and The Who; Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. Peter, Paul & Mary, The Limeliters and The New Christy Minstrels are his influence too. Thanks, Dad!

To put things in perspective, I was seven years old when I watched The Beatles perform live on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was 10 and well into music when Sgt Pepper came out.

As a teenager, I became more interested in the lyrical side of rock and pop. Folk was always about the lyrics. Bob Dylan, The Kinks, David Bowie and Jethro Tull were my favorite rock artists. One of my friends introduced me to Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Uriah Heep and Pink Floyd, so I got into prog rock. To this day, and with apologies to King Crimson fans, I think that Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play" is the best melding of lyrics and music ever to grace the rock scene. Ian Anderson is a genius! If you haven't heard Steven Wilson's remixed versions of the Yes and Tull catalogs, you should. It's a musical treat.

I was in the band in Junior High all the way through my junior year at UCLA. I played tenor saxophone. I was very average, and I couldn't play a jazz solo to save my life. Too technical, not enough feel for the music. I do way better feeling the music when I listen. When I retire I want to take up the guitar, which I experimented with in high school. My son, who can play, says I can develop a feel for the music. I intend to try.

Today I rarely listen to jazz or classical. I listen to a pretty equal mix of music from each decade of the last 40 years. I listen to more country music now than I ever have before. I try to listen to some of the things my kids listen to, but Radiohead and Green Day are as deep as I usually get. I have occasional forays into Nirvana, Fall Out Boy, Cage The Elephant and Arcade Fire, but they require a conscious listen. I don't like having them on in the background. I'm rediscovering Iggy Pop, and The Velvet Underground. And despite Giles Martin's excellent efforts, just how many versions of The White Album do I actually need?

[LKeet6]

Music has probably been my biggest passion in life. But I have so many! And when you're sharing your life with someone, often things can fall by the wayside. I'm also massively into movies and TV shows, and so is my wife, so we do that together, and when I have my own time, that's often taken up by watching sport, so music sometimes gets neglected!

My first love in music is electronic/dance music. I'm a bedroom DJ. I play house and techno. The good, underground stuff, not the cack you see beautiful people with their tops off dancing to in videos

I used to be massively into clubbing, and although it's seen as a young people's game, I still get out for the occasional boogie. I want to see the music I love in a club played loud!

I'm also into many kinds of other music. I like all kinds of rock and folk as well. Some of my favourite bands are queens of the stone age, idles, mark lanegan, fontaines DC, arcade fire, Richard Dawson, Beirut, Eurythmics. We go to one festival every year, and I've been to a few others down the years as well...

[LKeet6]

Jan 18, 2020 6:11:16 GMT booze said:

I’m very weird with music. I’ve never in my life been able to answer the question “Who’s your favorite singer/group?” I just like a little bit of everything. I used to karaoke regularly lol, but I have no particular favorites and would be all over the place with genre. I can like one or two songs from someone, but despise everything else they do. If you really pin me down, I’d say I’m really more of a movie/tv  soundtrack guy than anything else, more leaning towards instrumentals. Definitely ones that have a more emotional or haunting type vibe. For example, Cast Away theme when he loses Wilson, Braveheart the final scene, end of Shawshank, Gladiator,  etc. Or something so simple, like this -



Doesn’t have to be just instrumental, the show DARK features great music I really like, such as this-





When I’m just driving in the car though,  aside from Christmas season I’m usually just listening to local sports radio complaining about my teams lol (Detroit, you can’t blame me)

Agnes obel has done two tracks that have absolutely blown me away- run cried the crawling and Riverside.

[andersnm]

hammers1man:
It is definitely my cup of tea. I listened quite a bit on fusion when I was younger - like John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra. I think the Inner Mounting Flame is the best album. So if you haven't heard that, I would highly recommend that.
If you ask me for my favorite guitar player, I think it has to be Eric Johnson:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fXb7Zhki8

jeff:
Jethro Tull is fantastic. Though "A Passion Play" is not on the top of my list. For me, Aqualung, Songs from the Wood and Thick as a brick is the best, and live performance show how fantastic musicians this band have - though I prefer the old videos from the 70's and early 80's - it's a shame Ian Anderson got problems with his voice. And, when you mention Steven Wilson - Porcupine Tree is also amazing - I first got into them with Stupid Dream - and love In Absentia, Deadwing, not a huge fan of Fear of a Blank Planet, but The Incident is again fantastic.

[jeff]

Jan 19, 2020 16:16:42 GMT andersnm said:

hammers1man :
It is definitely my cup of tea. I listened quite a bit on fusion when I was younger - like John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra. I think the Inner Mounting Flame is the best album. So if you haven't heard that, I would highly recommend that.
If you ask me for my favorite guitar player, I think it has to be Eric Johnson:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fXb7Zhki8

jeff :
Jethro Tull is fantastic. Though "A Passion Play" is not on the top of my list. For me, Aqualung, Songs from the Wood and Thick as a brick is the best, and live performance show how fantastic musicians this band have - though I prefer the old videos from the 70's and early 80's - it's a shame Ian Anderson got problems with his voice. And, when you mention Steven Wilson - Porcupine Tree is also amazing - I first got into them with Stupid Dream - and love In Absentia, Deadwing, not a huge fan of Fear of a Blank Planet, but The Incident is again fantastic.

Aqualung is my favorite album musically, but Passion Play as a complete work of art (music and lyrics) betters it overall. 

I agree with your assessment of the Porcupine Tree albums, and of Steven's solo work I am most fond of Hand Cannot Erase and To The Bone. The Raven That Refused To Sing is his most difficult album for me to enjoy.