The Music Thread - General Discussion

I have such a large base of artists, groups and music that I love.
I am a true 70's child - although I was born in '68 and didn't hit my teens until the 80's - I am most attached to the 70's in general.

I have favourites from the 80's, 90's and beyond also though.

Way too many artists to list. I prefer fairly mainstream music - and music has always been a major part of my life - a genetic thing that comes from my Mum
We always had music playing in our house - and Mum introduced us to her favourites (Elvis, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, The Platters plus many more) but then she also loved the 70's music and even got into the 80's stuff.
When music is good, it's good - no matter when it is from:)

Neither am I. Almost all the music I have on CDs and cassettes (remember those?) is from the '60s and '70s, by such artists as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons, The Supremes, and The Carpenters.

Mike

I enjoy music from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's! We always had music going in our house and I enjoy most music but rock and pop are what I mainly listen to.

I'm with classical 98% of the time. For example, I've been listening a lot to Sibelius and Nielsen lately - this year it's the 150th of their birth, and there were many new recordings of their works released this recently, especially the symphony cycles. So it's a lot of fun (Sibelius is easily in my top ten favorite composers of all time).

Coincidentally I was surfing YouTube for Pink Floyd tribute bands on the day that you posted this. 'Think Floyd', one of the better tribute acts (though not quite TAPFS or Brit Floyd level), is playing a gig near where I live and I was checking them out. This led me once again to the amazing Great Gig In The Sky vocal performance of Ola Bienkowska and Amy Smith with TAPFS at the Royal Albert Hall in 2007 (before they defected to Brit Floyd):

Yes, someone on YouTube commented on Ola & Amy along the lines of 'it takes two singers to replace Clare Torry', as if individually they couldn't manage both hard and soft parts. I pointed them in the direction of Amy's Phoenix performance, as well as Ola solos. If I had to choose between them it would be Amy. But in terms of getting closest to the original (which isn't necessarily the way to judge), Ola has a slightly more authentic scream, whereas Amy has the edge in terms of purity. So allowing both of them to share the honours at the Royal Albert Hall was perfection for me.

It must be a headache for top Pink Floyd tribute acts, having to keep two or three excellent backing singers happy with their respective roles. A stellar GGITS is such a pre-requisite that they couldn't afford to only have one vocalist up to the job, in case she is ill on the night. But then you have to manage the inevitable rivalry and ambition. It's a bit like having two fantastic goalkeepers in a football squad, either of which could leave and walk into any other first team in the country.

I've listened to many excellent live renderings of GGITS. But for me, Amy and Ola are the best; better than Clare Torry's live versions even. There, I've said it! Here's a particularly impressive Ola performance, so that abbachatters can compare it with Amy's and enjoy them both:

i guess i have pretty weird taste, and i like to talk about it, so prepare for that, i guess

here's my spotify playlist of things i recommend. i throw new stuff in there at least weekly. i'd shuffle it, because it's in no particular order.

i'm pretty big into a lot of swedish acts, older and modern. i'm really bad at being specific because there are so many acts i like, but if i had to pick a non-ABBA favourite i'd probably go with monica zetterlund (though veronica maggio, säkert!, and anna järvinen are all a close second). i'm also pretty into finnish music. PMMP are probably my favourite finnish band followed by Leevi and the Leavings. One of the former members of PMMP, Paula Vesala, actually translated a lot of Mamma Mia! stuff and Kristina från Duvemåla into Finnish, so that's pretty neat as well. Their music is really, really good, and i'd recommend it, even if the lyrics are a whole world apart. finnish is weird. iisa, regina, eppu normaali, jimi sumén, juice leskinen, etc.

i've just recently started getting REALLY into kate bush. what can i say; i like Weird

other favourites (not swedish or finnish) are probably Wir sind Helden, YELLE, anything new wave/new romantic, Alphabeat, edith piaf, death grips, björk, dolly parton, my chemical romance, françoise hardy, france gall, anamanaguchi, tUnE-yArDs, sigur rós, kirsten og søren, barenaked ladies, cocteau twins, any classic jazz, grimes, shakira, madonna, the sugarcubes, KUKL, susanne sundfør... really, i could go at this for hours.

That must be her version of Herb Alpert's 'This Guy's In Love With You'. I haven't heard Petula Clark's version, but I have heard Dionne Warwick's version.

The Rubber Ball Man , what's your favourite non-ABBA music? 

I agree about the poverty of melodic ideas. Spot on.

However, I do like a lot of so-called modern music. I like Sia, London Grammer, Goldfrapp, Lana Del Ray, Disclosure, Robyn, Tove Lo. So many....too many to list. But I have some favourites I return to time and time again. Kate Bush. Björk. Nick Drake. Fleetwood Mac.

And many, many more.

I have no idea where to post this, sorry, but I spotted a similarity between a remix of a Kylie song, Confide in Me, and the Soundfactory mix of Agnetha's When You Walk In The Room. There's a little sound effect that pops up, don't know how to describe it, that immediately think of what I believe became Agnetha's gay dance anthem. I know not everybody is keen but I do like club mixes, especially when it's done with such aplomb.





I doubt this will get much response but you never know.