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I like a lot classic music, specially piano. My list of favourites is:

-Piano concert nº 1 Rachmaninov
-Piano Concert nº 1 Tchaikowsky
-Piano Concert nº 1 Schumann
-Nocturnes from Chopin
-Impromptus by Schubert
-Piano works by Beethoven
-Some works of Mozart (Nice but a bit too "soft" for my taste)
-Violin Concert Vivaldi

Of course Artur Rubisntein on the piano is a guarantee of the best result in any of those works :up:

And a lot of other works from the mentioned classics plus some more, like Cesar Frank, Davorak, Listz...

And music from the 80s, mainly disco and also U2, Dire Straits, ...

In my younger days I was a fan of what is now called classic rock. Now pretty much all I listen to is good old American Blues:

BB King
Pinetop Perkins
John Lee Hooker
Robert Cray
Albert Collins
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Muddy Waters
Buddy Guy
Duke Robillard
Koko Taylor
Susan Tedeschi
Robert Johnson
James Cotton
...and so forth

:) Some nice German songs from the Second World War

Country(the tears in my beer kind), and the 60's. I'm stuck in a time warp.

Soundgarden
Offspring
The Pixies (fav)
Ween
Primus
Lard
Metallica
Faith No More
Mr Bungle
Pearl Jam
Live
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
U2
Oz Rock -
The Hard Ons
Screamfeeder
YouAmI
The Living End
Powderfinger
Most things on Triple J (esp 90's stuff - best years of my life)

That's all I can think of atm, I'll have to get home and check my CD collection :lol:

what ever comes on the radio at that time

COLDPLAY!!! :rock:

My top 3 whould be...

Howard Jones
The Who
Boston

The Music Thread
 

Hey folks, thought I might start this thread so's you can post about your favourite music, band, singer, and anything else, and perhaps convert some people to liking them too!

Me to start (an aquired taste, be forewarned :P)

Kraftwerk:

(JPEGs)
70's Years
80's Years
90's Years
Today

Official Site: www.kraftwerk.com
Best Site: www.kraftwerk.technopop.com.br

I like Kraftwerk primarily because they're a breath of fresh air from all of today's sound-alikes. To this date, no-one has been able to reproduce the kind of sound Kraftwerk do, and they've been around for over 30 years. What does that tell you?

Their first major break in the US and UK markets was 'Autobahn'* in 1974, which lasted a mammoth 12 minutes (it was actually designed for long drives), but their only number one was with 'The Model' in 1978, as part of their famous 'Man Machine' album

Give them a listen, and try to appreciate true music pioneers, before someone comes in and says something about Nirvana being revolutionary :roll:

*And by the way, that isnt the original version, I couldnt find one without a crappy voiceover :(

You just cannot compare anything to a bit of french punk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITnJAnmjqw

I heard Autobahn back when it was new. Sorry, but it turned me right off.

Not bad, just not anywhere near my taste.

i have just spent a few minutes looking for the better version of the above song but it has been removed because of a violation on youtube-shame!

The unforgettable Clash:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jJVveiYmMU
My wife looked after Mick Jones when he had chickenpox pneumonia-she got a niced signed album off him.

Don't know about French punk but I have been listening to a lot of mid-nineties French Hip-Hop recently.

Dj Egan's playlist for the Subsim massive this week:

Afore mentioned French Hiphop stuff.

Dylan's soundtrack to Pat Garret and Billy the Kid.

Stravinsky - The Rites of Spring.

Both of the Gorrilaz albums

'I bet you look good on the dancefloor' by the Artic Monkeys. THE best song of the last two years even if they do shamelessly rip off a whole bunch of punk and hardcore bands I listened to back in the 80's.

And a pile of Pogues cd's as well.

I was going to go see them at new year (they play here every year at the Barralands.) but then I was going to go see Derrick May and then I just couldn't be bothered so I went to see my familly instead which worked out pretty well because my niece was born the day after I got up there. :up:

Is it possible to copy from you tube?

I have 2, Santana and The Style Council. I took the huff when TSC disbanded and haven't listened to Paul Weller since.
Santana have stood the test of time; I went to see them in the Royal Albert Hall 26 years ago ! They were in the UK 2005 at 2 venues, sadly didn't realise this until it was too late and tickets sold out immediately. Took a look on E-Bay and tickets where available for both [G-Max & Wembley] running at £150 and where they genuine ? Recommend Santana to everyone.

PS Also like Kraftwerk and like Steve, had the original 'Autobahn' also collected a few LP's .. Radioactivity, Exceller 8 etc. but haven't listened to them for a while.

PPS Simon & Garfunkel are magic too but could somebody tell me what caused the rift between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel ?!

My favourite current album is Radioactivity (the original version), especially the Airwaves and Antenna tracks :D


Airwaves:

"Wenn wellen schwingen, ferne stimmen singen" (When airwaves swing, distant voices sing)

Antenna:

"I'm the antenna, catching vibration, you're the transmitter, give information!"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpRHAgTVCTwFor something a little more modern try anything by Rob Dougan.

I'm a big fan of Coldplay *ducks to avoid rocks thrown by Chris Martin haters*;) I genuinely think they are the best band out there right now, their stuff is really very good.:up:

I have a fairly... developed music taste - both 'vertically' and 'horizontally'. On the 'vertical' scale (in terms of weirdness/complexity/inacessability), I'm known as a fan of progressive and avant-garde music of various sorts and times. Names like Captain Beefheart and King Crimson should suggest something to those in the know :p

On the other hand I have a huge 'horizontal' range, I really listen to a huge variety of stuff from folk music to Russian punk to acoustic jazz to alternative pop to progressive metal. I'm as likely to be listening to Mahavishnu Orchestra as to Rage Against the Machine; as likely to Vienna Teng as to Opeth.

Of the stuff I found lately, my most favorite album of 2006 - and probably the most impressive and unusual thing I've heard in a while - is a Russian album by ZHELANNAYA+MALERIA called 77RUS. It takes traditional Russian folk songs from the Tver' region, sung by the excellent female vocalist Inna Zhelannaya, and uses them in an amazing musical arrangement which combines everything between progressive rock, folk, electronic ambient, jazz and hard industrial grunge - at the same time maintaining a mood that's equally somber and edgy.
Here's a sample from it from the artist's official website, even :hmm:
http://www.inasound.ru/mp3/77rus/ina...bylo_vetru.mp3


Otherwise, I can be a shameless afficionado for any sort of music - as long as it shows signs of taste and intelligence. My catalogue of favorite artists has been steadily building, in a way that's accellerating in the past few months. I'm always annoyed by people who say something like "music today is trash, blahblahblah" - there's just so much good stuff out there, I personally can't find nearly enough time to listen to even a substantial fraction of it.