05-09-2005, 07:41 PM
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| Wordly Music.
Is there a really weird kind of music that you love? A foreign kind of music that really gets you going? Like African music, or reggae, or Hawaiian, or Indian, or even something a little more mainstream like Jazz or Bluegrass? Like I love Celtic music. I listen to it all the time on my comp. It's awesome because all the music is so much the same that they have to find interesting ways to make it new with the same stuff. They don't have distortion or other things- it's all the same. And it's awesome. And when it's mostly instrumental, but every once in a while a song will have a singer and their voice just seems to pierce through your soul. And it's awesome, and it's uplifting, and it's all yours, because who the hell else listens to celtic music? Anyone else have something like that? | 
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05-09-2005, 07:46 PM
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| I love J-pop and J-rock.... its really fun to listen to and sing along at work. Hmm...maybe that's why my coworkers think I'm insane. 
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05-09-2005, 08:02 PM
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| (Listening to Sleepy Maggie- celtic song) I didn't even think of Japanese. I love Jap music. And Jap TV. I found this awesome Japanese show/Soap-Opera kind of thing, but it's way better than our crappy shows. I forget the name though. Anyway, Jap music rocks, and it's not too hard to figure out you like them- with that avatar. I swear he's wearing pink lipstick though... | |
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05-09-2005, 08:43 PM
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| Umm... this is really left field.
Ragtime. or Stride. On a Harpischord.
And no, I'm not making this up... http://www.uwf.edu/music/hsalanki/Re...%20Joplin.html among others.
A piano strikes the keys with a hammer, which makes the notes a bit muddy. A harpsichord plucks the strings so you can go really REALLY fast, and each note is very precise and brilliant. Same with Stride or Boogie Woogie. Technique is slightly different, in that the note is damped the moment you let go of the key and the action comes down, plus dynamics are pretty much out -- but man you can smoke the keyboard.
I learned this in college when I took a harpsichord class for grins, and found I could play ragtime on a 'chord and it was like really cool.
Celtic music is cool though -- just so its not the new age stuff, that doesn't use any of the traditional instruments. And African vocals are awesome.. | |
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05-09-2005, 08:55 PM
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| Funny - just today I heard Scott Joplin played with classical instruments, on the local classical music radio station. It sounded, well, odd... ("Huh? What was that?")
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05-09-2005, 10:04 PM
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| I hate Scott Joplin. I was forced to sit through "The Entertainer." By the end I wanted to puke up my insides just so I could leave faster. | |
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05-09-2005, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Westley I swear he's wearing pink lipstick though... | That's entirely possible...
I also have a thing for Broadway... so my desk drawers at work are filled with mostly musicals and J-pop. I also like the Arrogant Worms. There's only one person brave enough to borrow music from me, and most of it frightens him. 
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05-09-2005, 10:12 PM
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| I want you to burn me some..... Do you have Pippin? | |
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05-10-2005, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Westley (Listening to Sleepy Maggie- celtic song) . | If you like Celtic, you might enjoy Celtic Rock "Great Big Sea" (they're out of Newfoundland, on the east coast of Canada). Their stuff has a great beat and in some cases quite funny (Newfies are known for their humour, the best comics are East Coasters.... but I digress).
Even more obscure is "The Tiller's Folly". I came across the CD "The View from Here" by happenstance.
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05-10-2005, 02:15 PM
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| Would now be a bad time to say I love Celtic music? Dude, I work at a Renaissance faire. What ELSE do you think they play all day?
I'm also a huge showtune fan. And I love movie soundtracks.
Yes. I'm a geek.
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05-10-2005, 04:13 PM
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| I really like Brazilian Samba, soft vocals and a nice beat.
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05-10-2005, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Westley I want you to burn me some..... Do you have Pippin? |
Aiiieeee!!!!! not Pippin! *whimpering* I saw that play like 3 times because I had a series of dates who "really, really, really" wanted to see it..
Oh pleaseeeeeeee not again!
[I was 2 classes short of a medieval history degree at the time, speciality in Dark Age Europe.... and that just made it worse.... ] | |
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05-14-2005, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Westley I want you to burn me some..... Do you have Pippin? | No, I don't. Sorry. I have a mix of strange things...
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05-14-2005, 03:54 PM
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| I love reggae and arabic music.
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05-15-2005, 12:05 AM
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| I like bands that most people have never heard of, mainly indie music and traditional chinese music.
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05-15-2005, 02:47 PM
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| And here is another person saying she loves Celtic music.  My favorite band is Gaelic Storm, and some of the Chieftain’s music is really good. I'm also a fan of Reggae, African music, and New World instrumental. Has anybody else heard of the music company Putamayo? They sell all different types of new age and world music.
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05-15-2005, 04:32 PM
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| Bagpipes. Great Highland or Uilean, either one. And hornpipes played on a concertina.
Oh, yeah, and polkas. Love them polkas...
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05-15-2005, 06:31 PM
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| I'm surprised nobody mentioned Klannad yet. But they're not quite the same kind of folk as most celtic music. | |
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05-16-2005, 06:40 AM
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| I like very much Celtic music it is nice,but there others music that is nice too such as Hungarian music and Russian folk music. Other music that I like much is the 'Acritiki' Greek music which its roots are from Byzantine music.
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05-16-2005, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Westley I'm surprised nobody mentioned Klannad yet. But they're not quite the same kind of folk as most celtic music. | Clannad is absolutely fantastic! Love them......
Best music to relax with and clear your mind. Funny that I had to get to know about this European Band in the US. 
I really like cuban/south american music, as long as it doesn't get too noisy and too melancholic. Southing rythmes, dark voices, tons of emotions in their music.
Otherwise pretty open to everything, there's still so much around I have never heard but which surely would be worth wile the time to listen to it.
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