What music do you listen to??

[pat]

Apologies - I seem to have hijacked the thread with my question about goose bumps. But as Techno has answered it so fully (wow!) I won't start another thread. Techno, you're a star! Will you marry me? I have an enormous pile of eggboxes that desperately need converting into a computer but I haven't a clue where to start.

In humans, it can even extend to piloerection as a reaction to hearing nails scratch on a chalkboard or listening to awe-inspiring music

The music that gives me goose bumps certainly fills me with awe. I do a little bit of (very amateur) composing myself for the band I play in and I've got very sophisticated software to enter the music into and have it played back to me. It astounds me that classical composers, with the assistance of only a piano, were able to write such incredible music for so many instruments, many of them transposing instruments which meant that their parts had to be written in different keys. They must have been able to hear the music in their heads.

[Toni]

Mostly I listen to classical music, but I like a fairly wide range of music.  I love VNV Nation and Bob Dylan and Joan Baez as well as a lot of other stuff that my sons play, although most of the time I don't know who they are!

[technomc]

One of the urchins is heavily into Girls Aloud.....

Not only do i suffer in silence at home, but there 'music' is on every bloody soap, every advert...it drives me nuts.....

[birdy]

There's an easy answer to that, T:  "Back into the shed, kid!"

[Linda]

Surely you model yourself on Cheryl, mate!   I'm often being mistaken for her!! 

[EdHunter]

Personally my favourite genre of music is heavy metal (scary scary satan wooo bla bla bla); though i do enjoy big band music, classic and modern rock, funk music, classical music, folk music and other acoustic music (cat stephens and bob dylan are amazing). I like a little tiny bit of more mainstream contemporary music, but not much, and I do enjoy classical music. I have quite an eclectic music taste and I am proud of that! 

[rogue_mother]

Sounds like we have a fair amount of overlap, EH. Isn't Metallica's S&M album one of the greatest ever? Metal and classical in one amazing package!

[Linda]

Oh and I forgot to mention The Pogues ... how could I forget them! 

[technomc]

Sitting here looking at my CD's i am thinking...what is that all about???

There is....[and in no particular order of preference];

Wet Wet Wet
simply Red
Shakira
Anita Baker
Level 42 [my all time favourites]
Gloria Estefan
Blue
Daniel Bedingfield
Deacon Blue
Crowded House
10 Sharp
Barry white
Liberty X
Elton John
Toni Braxton
Kaci
James galway
Whitney Houston
Duffy
Beverly Craven
Lee anne Rimes
Mozart
Rachmaninov
Style Council
Communards
Plus others..

As to vinyl- now that is a different story again;
Jimi Hendrix
Pink Floyd
Yes
Genesis
Lindisfarne
Beatles
Joni Mitchell
Carole King
George Benson
Capercailie

Too weird...

[rogue_mother]

Too weird? Not at all... I think most of us have similarly far ranging musical tastes.

Now, if you had said you loved Mahler or Sibelius, that would have been too weird.

[pat]

R_M! How can you say such a thing!

Sibelius's 5th symphony is another piece that does the old goose bump thing for me. And I love his Karelia Suite, especially the Intermezzo. I quite like Mahler (well some of his stuff); his main problem is that he doesn't know when to stop!

[technomc]

I've always wondered about goose bumps Pat...now why do they occur? Does anyone know???

[rogue_mother]

Pat, I'm afraid I like my classical music a little more ordered. For me listening to Sibelius (or Mahler) is rather like looking at an artwork where one can't figure which is side is the top. I see critics refer to Mahler's "beloved" second symphony, and I think, "Say what?" It sounds like a kludge of random musical thoughts. If you enjoy those, more power to you. Everyone's taste is different. I'll stick to Mozart and Bach.

For goose bumps, though, "The Call of Ktulu" from the aformentioned S&M album does it for me.

[EdHunter]

The Call of Ktulhu on S&M is very good, but that is the only album that I really like from metallica. At the moment, my itunes library is shuffling between Slayer, Benny Goodman and Wagner. A good mix, if I say so myself.

[pat]

I know what you mean about Mahler, R_M, and the more recent you get in 'classical' music the more that applies. For instance some modern composers (whose names I've never even bothered to find out) have written pieces with the violins bowing the strings on the wrong side of the bridge - a truly cacophonous racket. But some of Mahler's music, for example the Adagio from his 5th symphony, is truly beautiful.