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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I didn't see a post on this through the search section, so I figured it was due to ask:
What type of music does your "O" or "A" prefer to sing with you? |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Voted.
Interessant question !! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I'd say the majority of my playing is 'Country Rock' or 'Southern Rock' with a spattering of classic Pop.
My intention is to learn some Blues - and learn it PROPERLY. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Your list made me think.
We had an ethnomusicologist (look it up) do a seminar at a worship conf. once. He talked about the "music of your heart": that style of music that speaks to you more than any other. All over the world, people worship with this factored in (except in most liturgical churches, where not much has changed for 500 years). He asked what the avg. age was at our church (40ish), and pointed out that our chosen style is sort of soft rock/country rock (Eagles, CSN,etc.)...the music of OUR hearts.
So I had to answer "praise/worship,easy listening/soft rock.
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Location: NJ | i hate polls |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I expected more reggae from this group. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by alpep:
i hate polls Al, Witkoski isn't all that bad, in small doses... |
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Location: NJ | don't you mean Bukowski? |
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Location: PDX | I play anything the catches my ear and i can beat out on the guitar. Ranges from Aguado to Ellington. Beatles to Willy Nelson.
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| Wonder how many others hate Polls?
Hey any answer would ba a Poll! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | USA Today ran a poll on Empathy and Apathy in America. The results were that 47% didn't know anything about it and the remaining 56% didn't care.
Almost 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Rap and Hip Hop are not forms of music.
What are they doing on the list? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Well, as long as we're nit-picking. Why are there two categories of church music and no category of athiest music? I filed this same complaint with Best Buy and Borders. And yes, I did vote for the tropical category.
About 3-4 years ago I had a discussion with my daughter about the difference between punk and emo. She said that musically they were pretty much the same except that emo kids got good grades and their parents actually cared about them.
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Location: Midland, MI | ...About 3-4 years ago I had a discussion with my daughter about the difference between punk and emo. She said that musically they were pretty much the same except that emo kids got good grades and their parents actually cared about them. A clever quip to be sure.
But, punk is The Ramones, New York Dolls, The Sex Pistols, etc. Emo is crap like Green Day and easily identified by bed-head coiffed metrosexuals wearing heavy mascara. To say that the music of Johnny Thunders is pretty much the same as that of, oh, Deathcab for Cutie or My Chemical Romance is ridiculous, IM!HO.
Or, maybe I'm getting old. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by cwk2:
Rap and Hip Hop are not forms of music.
What are they doing on the list? I'm well aware of that - call it random stuff from the brain late at night...besides, I'm trying really hard to be all-inclusive and all-embracing on this one. After all, each to his own...
Dave, I did include "athiest" music, as that would be anything not expressly "church." Counting the miscellaneous category, that gives 2 religious options and 18 secular ones...take your pick!
BTW, I would have loved to pick the tropical one myself, but I truly have no idea how to play that, and my legs look horrible in a grass skirt. :eek: :eek: :eek: |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | To me, emo(tional punk) is pop punk adopted by the mainstream. Nothing more. It's evolution, baby. As to rap, I think that it's in an evolutionary dead end, like australiopithicus. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I suspect that I'm like many who are stuck in a time warp. I play stuff that was popular when I was in high school and college. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by an4340:
...As to rap, I think that it's in an evolutionary dead end, like australiopithicus. Except rap has been kicking around making money for how many decades? Figure rap has been earning for 20 years. Nearly half as long (ok, little more than a third) as rock has been around? Not that I'm defending rap, I'm just surprised at it's longevity.
Australiopithicus? Harumph! I'll see your autraliopithicus and raise you a simosuchus! ;) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Rap, Hip Hop, and the like are older than thier modern popularity. Aren't they just evolutions of spoken poetry entertainment, of the sort 'Lord Buckley' shared wa-ay back? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, it's just some sort of spoken poetry that requires no musical talent. Must be able to say F@#k 12 times in the same sentence. I'll admit, THAT does take a bit of talent. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by cwk2:
Yes, it's just some sort of spoken poetry that requires no musical talent. Must be able to say F@#k 12 times in the same sentence. I'll admit, THAT does take a bit of talent. Come on, W2. Even you have to admit that putting out album after album of 'the man keeping me down' and 'the police messing with me' and 'all the women want me' while maintaining an image of 'poor, downtrodden, misunderstood gangsta' takes talent.
I laugh every time that MTV Cribs thing is on. It'd be like finding out that Leadbelly grew up in the main house and summered at The Breakers, dining on aspic and melons with the Vanderbilts. Would you still believe his complaints about big legged women scaring him to death? ;) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I would. Big legged women scare me to death too. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Which category includes surf instrumentals? |
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Location: Tennessee | I checked both the Island and the Other boxes to cover surf, although spiritual would've covered it too. :cool: |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Hey, australiopithicus lasted a good long time, and rap could last a long time too, but I'm just saying that this knuckle dragging branch of music will eventially die. I hope. |
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| So who are all these jazz players?
And the ability to say fook 12 times in a sentence makes Templeman P Doggy Snoop Thang. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | When we were young, were we smarter and more refined, or were we just too poor to waste money on albums that made talentless morons rich? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Ask Mark Farner. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | I guess I did miss a few:
Emo
Ska
'Oldies' (whatever that means to you)
Any of about 18 other types of rock
There's just way too many categories for music anymore...and not enough great musicians for all of them.
So far, this is an interesting mix:
1. Classic Rock
2. Blues
3. Folk
4. Soft Rock/'Easy Listening'
Classic rock is by far the favorite, with the next three VERY close. Obviously not many metal, grunge, or punk fans here, and NOT ONE admitting to playing rap...of course that's difficult on a guitar anyway!
Thanks all for your input - I was curious to see this.
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Would I be alone in having a thing for 'Country Rock' or is that an Australian term.
I've also heard it referred to as 'Southern Rock' - includes Lynyrd, Doobies, Ozarks. What category would you put these bands in? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Southern Rock would be where they would be here, muzza. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Yep, southern rock was another one I missed, though a lot of the good southern rock bands now fall under the 'classic' title a lot.
Oh, and I missed gospel too. Just too many!!! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | For a long, long time now (okay 30 years or so) music has been wa-ay too 'over catagorized.' Really, what's the difference between Speed Metal and Thrash? Punk and Grunge?
“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.” Duke Ellington.
I think all music that successfully conveys it's objective is 'good' music.
I don't have to like it for the music to be good.
I never cared much for Hendrix (apart from a few specific tunes) but I recognize the genius of his playing. I can't stand Dvoraks' New World Symphony, doesn't mean it's no good. But those are both examples of music that succeeds on its own terms. |
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Location: East Tennessee | What catagory would "John Tesh" music be in? :confused: |
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Location: NJ | Blonde Frankenstein. |
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Location: Scotland | To paraphrase Jake and Elwood; I play both kinds of music..... Country And Western. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
What catagory would "John Tesh" music be in? :confused: tesh/yanni |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "And the answer is John Tesh"
"Thank you Alex, let's leave "NORDIC GODS" and may I have MUSIC YOU TOLERATE TO IMPRESS YOUR DATE/SPOUSE for $500 please?"
$500 = "A former love of Linda Evans, his music was eventually banned by the American Dental Association due to its ability to negate the effect of Novacain in some patients". |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Yanni, Tesh, Manheim Steamroller = New Age |
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Location: NJ | Some of his very early stuff wasn't "too" bad ("Garden City" and the music he wrote for CBS's coverage of the Tour D'France a bunch of years ago).
It was when he married Connie Sellecca that he kinda' took himself a bit too seriously . . . |
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Location: Cicero, NY | That move was the only one that gave him some cred in my eyes. And if I want to listen to 3 hours of crap music and non-stop, unasked for advice after dinner, I'll go to my in-laws, thank you very much. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Tesh played a concert at Red Rocks here in Denver a few years ago. The news ran a story the next day giving a glowing report about how he provided a soundtrack to a gymnastics floor exercise demonstration by Nadia Comaneci. That might have been worth the price of admission. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I have the DVD. Any of you hate me now?
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Hate is such a harsh word.....
....pity, yeah, that's it, pity..
Bet you sleep like a baby though! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Don't give New Age such a broad brush. Alex DiGrassi, Michael Hedges and even Preston Reed all fell under the New Age category with Windham Hill and Narada. |
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Location: Tucson, AZ | FWIW -- I play "chordal jazz" mostly ballads and Bossa Nova songs. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I think all music that successfully conveys it's objective is 'good' music.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. "Good" is a very subjective word, but even if it's not your cup of tea, if there's an obvious skill and mastery to the presentation, then that is successful music.
To me, music that's not just instrumental has to convey a theme, and idea, or a story. If it does that, no matter what the musical style, I put it in the "good" category. ***
Now, whether I'll intentionally listen to it or not is another story.
*** excludes rap :D |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | "Rap and Hip Hop are not forms of music." ...
I agree that these are not forms of music, but an alternative for the musically challenged. As far as them being poetry set to rhythm, I would have to say that most of it would be considered bad poetry. With all that said, I guess if you had absolutely no respect for your Ovation instrument, you could RAP or HIP HOP on it. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
To paraphrase Jake and Elwood; I play both kinds of music..... Country And Western. LOL. When I read the earlier post with the Ellington quote, that was the first thing that popped in to my head! |
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Location: Oregon | Originally posted by fillhixx:
For a long, long time now (okay 30 years or so) music has been wa-ay too 'over catagorized.' Really, what's the difference between Speed Metal and Thrash? Punk and Grunge?
I disagree. There is a huge difference. You just have to be a fan to know. Metal for example: Symphonic Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal, and Heavy Metal are all different, while falling under the same main genre of Metal.
Like dogs, just 'cause it's a dog does not mean it's the same. Husky is way different than a chiwawa(sp).
My point is, all those categories are not superfluous, 'cause they're needed for the fans to differentiate. |
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What do you play?