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Mon Oct-25-04 04:59 PM
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Question for you old folks: What contemporary bands do you like? |
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OK, it's a copycat thread, but I post it with sincerity. Personally, I've always followed new trends in music, preferring not to stay locked-in with the music of my adolescence or young adulthood. I kept current throughout the seventies with progressive rock bands and seminal punk, the eighties with new wave, the nineties through grunge and later alternative rock. I admit that I haven't followed trends in music for the past few months, tuning in NPR on the radio whenever I drive and foregoing listening to music while DUing or pursuing some other form of online activism. I have two sons, age 19 & 17, so I get a lot of exposure to gangsta rap from the older one & to other current music from the younger one (he also listens to a lot of music from MY day, oddly enough! Big fan of the Beatles & Led Zeppelin!).
My current favorite contemporary musicians:
Green Day (been a fan of theirs for some time; like 'American Idiot')
Linkin Park
Sevendust
Ben Folds
White Stripes
Good Charlotte
Note that I couldn't identify most of the members of these bands if I saw their photos, and I don't have the motivation to find out more about them or their personal lives that I used to have back in earlier days. I still like their music, however, and hope to continue following new music for a long time. I'm not content to tune in a 'Classic Rock' station and try to relive my youth vicariously.
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:03 PM
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I'm 35 but think I'm still consider myself totally up on indie, alternative, metal, and punk music. Probably more so than most teenagers. But only recently have I become less aware of what is going on in mainstream pop music, but I'd still say I'm in the top 25% as far as awareness level of people my age.
I'll be curious what my daughter (who is 3) will like musically since I listen to a lot of weird, bizarre, and heavy stuff which is more typically what kids listen to in order to piss their parents off. Does this mean my kid will like ragtime jazz or country or the worst pop music ever to rebel against me?
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:31 PM
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13. They Will Always Find a Way |
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I don't care for the gangsta rap that my older son listens to exclusively, and some of the music my younger son listens to - pop from the seventies like 'Alone Again, Naturally' and 'Kung Fu Fighting' set my teeth on edge.
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Mon Oct-25-04 06:58 PM
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23. There's always bubble-gum pop. |
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It mutates a bit, but it's always identifiable.
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:03 PM
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2. Oooo...I Kinda Like That New-Fangled Tommy Dorsey Band |
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Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Circa 1941Source: http://www.tuxjunction.net/
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:10 PM
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4. do you recognize the guy on the far right last row? |
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:26 PM
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10. I Believe That's A Young Guy Named Francis Albert Sinatra |
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Edited on Mon Oct-25-04 05:27 PM by CO Liberal
He just may make a name for himself one day...... :-) Source: http://www.tuxjunction.net/
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:04 PM
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just whom are you addressing as old?
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:11 PM
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5. I had to put my teeth in for this one! |
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Back when I was a young feller, I used to listen to that "hep" band, the Great and Full Dead. I also used to like that James Hendricks chap, but he scares the Mrs. now, even though he's gone to meet his maker. Now that I'm gettin' up there in the years, I mostly listen to Henry Mancini and such.
Once in a while, when the Mrs. gets into the elderberry wine and "snoozes" all night, I crank up the old Victrola and put on some of the modern combos like Green Day, especially "American Idiot." I also enjoy Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Skinny Puppy, and Bone Thugs and Harmony.
The best thing about being old is not caring which combos and genres are "hep," but, instead, having developed an appreciation for a variety of genres over the years, listening to everything and liking it for what it is.
So, dude, what it is! Now where the hell did I put my damn cane?
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:33 PM
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14. You know what a Grateful Fan says when he runs out of weed? |
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'Man, this band sucks!' Just kidding!
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:14 PM
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6. I love the Outkast and the Black Eyed Peas |
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:16 PM
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Sez this old hep cat, who once saved up his allowance to buy a nice new vinyl copy of the "Hard Day's Night" soundtrack...
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:20 PM
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:24 PM
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9. I'm ancient according to the posts I'm reading, but |
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Green Day, old but dependable Linkin Park Used to like Kid Rock, til I found out the Hillbilly thing wasn't a put on and he supports Chimpy Beastie Boys are always great Marilyn Manson
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:34 PM
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15. Forgot About the Beastie Boys |
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I've heard their latest album has some political content, so I'll have to give it a listen.
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:45 PM
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21. Listening to it right now, not their best work, but doesn't suck. |
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:39 PM
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ended up on my 'shit list' after he revealed himself as a chickenhawk. Go enlist, punk! (and I don't mean punk in a complimentary way, either!)
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:29 PM
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11. I like any number of them. |
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It would take too long to list them all -- plus I generally remember songs -- not groups.
But I am going through a Four Star Mary phase right now.
Lyrics: "Pain".
Feeling i've been lost for years you can never understand me unless you've seen those tears but you never get to sleep when i'm away i don't mind the deeper that you lay out of time
pain, i can't sleep pain, i can't sleep
running, running from those things there's another one inside me guess i've gone insane but you always run away when i come around i don't mind the day i'll track you down run you down
pain, i can't sleep pain, i can't sleep
don't stop, don't talk do not fuck with me don't stop, don't talk do not fuck with me
loaded, i've loaded up this gun there's a killer in me hoping, hope that you're the one but you always run away when i come around i don't mind the day i'll track you down and terrify
pain, i can't sleep pain, i can't sleep pain, i can't sleep
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And it really does sound like "things", not "days".
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:30 PM
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12. I guess I'm old here too |
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(Same age as Johnny Rotten - to within a week)
White Stripes are very good. System of a Down I enjoy, especially the hints of middle eastern.
I also like Sleater Kinney and have been getting into Deerhoof too.
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:36 PM
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I like very much! I hadn't included them because I didn't know if they were still current. I listened to them quite a lot around the turn of the century :P
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:34 PM
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16. I honestly don't know |
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I rarely listen to the radio these days, unless it's Air America over the 'net, and the only time I hear what accounts for modern music is when I watch a TV show that happens to feature some music. Having said that, how "old" some group is doesn't really mean much to me, because I can barely tell one current pop group from another. I did hear Barenaked Ladies, which from what I saw are neither, and I found them comfortably nice, and I do like Seal, but he's not really a "band" so I guess he really doesn't count, but unless a song is particularly appealing to me, it's not going to have much impact to make me find out more about them.
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:44 PM
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20. Barenaked Ladies are OK |
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I discounted them when I first heard them, but they grew on me after a while.
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Mon Oct-25-04 07:02 PM
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24. I don't understand the BNL cult. |
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They're rather bland to have such a rabid following. But maybe that's a sign of the times.
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Mon Oct-25-04 07:23 PM
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They were born of a publicity stunt over 10 years ago. Their :15 are so up.
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:42 PM
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19. Catheters, Visqueen, White Stripes, Stuck-Ups, the Valley |
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Just a few that pop into mind.
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Mon Oct-25-04 05:49 PM
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22. Pink Martini, The Bad Plus, Plastilina Mosh, Kinky, Flogging Molly... |
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Edited on Mon Oct-25-04 06:06 PM by HuckleB
BTW -- this is a much better thread, in my humble opinion.
My fave contemporary list would include:
Pink Martini The Bad Plus Plastilina Mosh Kinky Flogging Molly White Stripes Paris Combo Madeleine Peyroux Martin, Medeski & Wood Stanton Moore Bebel Gilberto Dido Ozomatli Tanghetto
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Mon Oct-25-04 07:14 PM
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Maroon 5 - best new band CD I have heard in a long time
Matchbox 20
Cheryl Crow
Green Day
Santana - okay he's not new but his last two CDs are some of the best ever.
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Mon Oct-25-04 07:17 PM
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26. Trail of Dead, Amen, Hellacopters, Fu Manchu, Air, System of a Down... |
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All relatively new, in that I'm older than most of the members. Im's 37.
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Mon Oct-25-04 07:25 PM
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28. Well, I guess WE OLD FOLKS (lol) haven't heard a decent tune |
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since Sitting Bull told them to strike up the Drums and head down the hill ! Duh....I like a lot of the stuff now and loved the 70, and 80's. That was a funny question. But here lately its Johnny B Goode by anybody. Bruce Springstein and the E Street Band and last I heard the Stones are still together. Cher is kool but not a band. I have had a band, very hard to keep together.
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Mon Oct-25-04 07:28 PM
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29. uh I've only heard GreenDay on your list |
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and I think I have an old CD of theirs (the first one) but I don't know-I like Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Scissor Sisters, Massive Attack, RATM, NIN, OutKast, Pink. Gwen Stephani, Cibo Matto, de la Soul...I don't know how much of that is still current. I grew up with Elvis, The Beatles, The 4 Seasons, James Brown, The Shirelles, Ray Charles, Little Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Little Eva, Mary Wells, Leslie Gore...
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