Sean, what the hell is wrong with you, man? I already love your brother and father.Miles Davis and John McLaughlin are the most important musicians in modern,let's say,jazz.Next thing I know you'll say that Paco De Lucia can't get flamenco right and that Dead Can Dance is nothing to write home about.I hate Kind Of Blue and some of McLaughlin's albums, by the way.Parker,Monk and Armstrong have no place in my collection. |
I get it all now!
I can't figure out a lot of hip-hop these days. Good lyrics, but as music to turn on, its beyond me. My musical evolution in that direction stopped a long time ago with the incomparable Grandmaster Flash.
In Jazz, Miles leaves me cold (maybe that's his point!, curiously. Not so Mingus, Monk and a host of other 'cerebral' jazz musicians. I dislike soft jazz.
People I wish were on the Titanic? Kenny G, Michael Bolton, and the Titanic woman herself, thankfully out of sight in Vegas. Actually, you can get any of half a dozen pop divas tickets with her, as far as I am concerned. Mariah Carey is saved from that fate by reason of her honorable early career.
I love most older rock 'n roll, all manner of pop music and one hit wonders, western classical until around 1930, most world music that does not attempt to be 'fusion' (John McLaughlin, please note). That's personal musical evolution, I guess. 35 years ago, Cream was the standard I measured everyone else's music by...used to think the Doors were on the 'soft' side of rock :-).
Happy days, when 'Who's Next', Led Zep or 'Exile on Main St.' were still surprises the future still held. Would that we could live in such times again. |
Jewel, Waylon Jennings, Miles Davis, The Grateful Dead, Most of Bruce Springsteen- especialy his boxed live set(s), Carmen, Justin Timberlake, The new Fleetwood Mac album, Aerosmith-Nine Lives & "Just push stop". Special mention: Pretty Woman the movie. |
Opera. Or, maybe I just need to learn Italian. Actually, I don't like opera no matter what language it is in. |
Miles Davis
"Kind of blue is really great an easy one to listen to.
I like Jazz; I listened to Bitches brew many years
ago and I did not get it." my feelings exactly. |
First of all I like the rules Thanks
Grateful Dead
Kind of blue is really great an easy one to listen to. I like Jazz; I listened to Bitches brew many years ago and I did not get it. I have been meaning to give it another try.
Most Classical, its nice mind you I even recently bought this LP because a fellow at work said it was a masterwork and played it once. Good, but did not move my soul or start my engine. I like going to the symphony and some operas but to listen to at home noway!!
RAP!!!!!!!
disco!!!!!!
80's hair bands
Bob Seager
Country & western
Bluegrass
modern pop music and a lot of the older stuff too. |
Stehno - your description of your reaction to jazz sounds just like my wife's. I think she even used some of the same phrases to describe it! She can't stand it if I put on Miles or Casandra, or anything remotely sounding like jazz. She equates it to a kind of musical masturbation. I love the stuff though, so it stays at work, or is played in her absence (just like masturbation...hey, maybe she has something there!!).
I don't get most rock'n'roll anymore. I did like it at one time I guess, but I've become an old fart in my 40's already. In highschool I never did get that "Stairway to Heaven" band that everyone else my age seemed to be crazy about. I'm utterly nauseated by heavy metal...makes me want to run screaming from the building! House Music.....Pulllleassseee! I'd rather have an ice-cold enema!
More specific artists outside those genre's: Never did get the Grateful Dead either. Who's that Canadian female vocalist that the world is nuts for that is supposed to have a "perfect voice"....you know, the blonde who does some numbers in Titanic? That's just right over my head.
Audiophile don't-get-it's: Diana Krall (she just doesn't get inside me like Eva Cassidy can - to apply an audiophile definition; too analytical sounding..no soul). Terry Evans (Tried and tried on him and still don't get hooked).
On an interesting tangent, there have also been some artists that I couldn't understand for the longest time, yet I held onto their music just out of some kind of instinct. I'd give it a try every now and then, and in some cases would come around to really liking it. Patricia Barber's music was like that for me. I tried listening to Cafe Blue over the years and never really connected with it till only last year. Now I listen to her stuff frequently and enjoy it very much. I'm just coming around to Pink Floyd as well, though repeated listenings to Dark Side of the Moon never flipped my switch over the years and left me wondering what everyone was talking about. I do enjoy it today though and am glad I hung onto the vinyl pressing I had.
Marco |
Spoken Word. Uh, isn't that just poetry? What's a "slam" anyway? Puh-leez! Grown up! |
Marilyn Manson - I just don't get it, too old I guess.
Mike |
I agree with Stehno on both counts i.e. most rap and a lot of "jazz". While dissonance in rock music is one thing ( they usually at least maintain a steady beat of some type ), some jazz sounds like you've got various performers in different rooms of the studio all playing at the same time and they can't hear each other !!! For that matter, even "rap" or "hip-hop" will maintain some type of beat or rhythm, even if it is pre-recorded sound snippets from another band !!!
Having said that, my Brother and Father both LOVE John Mclaughlin / Mahavishnu Orchestra. Personally, i HATE this stuff. I can pretty much count on getting a headache if this stuff is playing when i visit either of them. Needless to say, if they won't put something else on, i'm out the door.... Sean
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radiohead
string cheese incident
phish |
Kenny G for starters. Late career John Coltrane, Arthur Blythe, Regina Carter, Roland Shannon Jackson, Ornette Coleman, Kenny G (almost any of the instrumental pop called smooth jazz is awful!) and Holly Cole come to mind. Strangely I love Ornette's compositions when played by others! In the rock area...Kiss really rubs me wrong among many others. Did I mention Kenny G? |
Forgot one: Yawnni... oops, I mean Yanni. |
Almost all rap and hip-hop artists. Eminem has a few catchy performances (they aren't "songs," are they?) that I could get into about once a year, and I've heard a few other "catchy" ones too, but nothing that would even remotely entice me to go out and purchase (or even download) one of their albums. Most of the rest of the rap and hip-hop artists sound the same to me and I can't stand listening to them. For me they are worse than the current country music artists, which I can sometimes tolerate. |
I've tried and tried, but I just can't get into most of Dave Mathews Band. I wanted to like it because so many people think it is the greatest. I don't get it!
I REALLY don't get the whole Metallica thing! The last few things I heard from Metallica had to be some of the most poorly constructed tunes in the history of music.
Of course, this is all IMHO!!!
Rock On!!
TIC |
Most any kind of real jazz and rap.
I have Miles Davis Some kind of Blue along with a few others. Every time I take MD's Some Kind of Blue out for a spin I think maybe this time I'll hear what others claim to hear, but no. After about 3 minutes I'm shaking my head and after 10 minutes it's back in it's case and back on the shelf.
Only to try again about 8 months later. Every time, same feeling.
This kind of jazz (almost regardless of the artist) always, always sounds to me like a bunch of guys having individual impromptu sessions in someone's garage. Only they are impromptu'ing together.
Rap? About the same feeling only worse. Only I ain't got no rap cd's.
-IMO |
Cowboy Junkies- I tried I really did it just wasn't working for me. |
