Okay, how weird is this?

[Aristus]

I just finished listening to Guns 'N' Roses 'Use Your Illusions I', and have just put on a CD of some of Bach's Lute Suites.

Is that eclectic, or what?

[lenidog]

1. For me it would be normal

But it is eclectic

[aeolian]

2. That's nuthin'

throw in NIN, Korn, Mozart, Dr. Dre, Metallica, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Medelssohn, Brahms, Snoop Dogg, Redman, Wu Tang, Blind Faith, The Chieftans, the Doobie Brothers, Eminem, Bach, Haydn, Handel, Verdi, the White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, and Rage against the Machine...

...and you have one of my stacks of CDs...the one closest to me right now :)

Listening to Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto (c minor) right now as a matter of fact. Thinking of putting on the new NIN after that.

[Aristus]

3. That's some musical variety, my friend.

Good call! :thumbsup:

[aeolian]

4. Good call on yours, too

I've got G'n'R around here somewhere...

:toast:

EDIT: half the fun of having an eclectic CD collection is the look on friends' faces when they look through your CDs. :evilgrin:

[Aristus]

5. When I was in the Army, I was the go-to guy for anyone with musical

tastes that went beyond heavy metal and country and western. One or two classical music guys would come by my barracks room and shyly ask to see what good CD's I had.

"Oh, some guys told me if I liked classical and needed something to listen to to come talk to you, man."

It was kinda cool. :-)

[aeolian]

17. nice

the Company DJ :thumbsup:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. That is very eclectic, my dear Aristus!

My musical tastes don't run quite the same gamut as yours do, but close! I've just started to collect CD's since I now have a lovely CD/radio combo here in my study where I am most of the time...I've got Billy Joel, lots of classical guitar pieces, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and the Russian Easter Overture...and I'm just getting started collecting...

I LOVE music! Can you tell? lololol:yourock:

[Aristus]

7. Hi, CalPeg! How's it going, babe?

B-)

I've always loved "Scheherazade", ever since my dad appeared in a community theater production of 'Kismet' when I was a kid. I love the way movies and musicals and even cartoons can bring old music to a new audience.

BTW, have you ever heard the Billy Joel song "This Night"? The chorus is based upon one of Beethoven's clarinet sonatas. How cool is that?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Hi, Aristus! I'm good!

I feel the same about bringing old music to new audiences; for instance: the 2 movies Fantasia and Fantasia 2000...Full of incredibly gorgeous music and wonderful animation. Wow, your dad was in a production of "Kismet"? How great is that! LIve theater is so very exiting, imho. My college did a production of "Brigadoon" when I was a student, and wow, I loved it. That was more than 40 years ago too....How is it that I don't feel that old?

My Billy Joel CD's (4 of them; his greatest hits) don't contain his song "This Night." Unfortunately...I would have liked to hear that. Beethoven is one of my giant favorites. His symphonies just light me up, esp. the Sixth, Pastoral. It's very cool that one of his clarinet sonatas ended up in Billy Joel's song! The man has a very good ear, I think. He must have had some classical training; do you know?

Hope you're having a good weekend! I am...Don't forget my pic, now!

:loveya: :pals:

[Aristus]

10. The pics may be up on the net as soon as next week.

"This Night" is on his 'An Innocent Man' album. It's kind of a '50's pastiche a la "The Longest Time", also on the same album, but got no airplay.

Yeah, my dad played the Wazir in 'Kismet' in a military production in the early seventies. Back in the day, the Army spent loads of money on Morale and Recreation programs like theater. They did some masterful professional caliber shows like 'Kismet', 'Oklahoma' and even '1776', in which my dad played John Adams. The production values were high enough that they rented the costumes that were used in the film. Cool, huh?

As far as music goes, well, my mother and my sister are both music teachers, so I grew up with a lot of good stuff inthe house.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Thanks! I'll be keeping an eye out for it....

I'm impressed at the Army doing stuff like the plays. I'll bet they don't do that anymore...

Sounds to me as though you had a very musical childhood. Nothing like getting exposed when you're young! One of my earliest memories is of listening to Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." (spelling?) I've always loved it....

:yourock:

[Aristus]

12. Yeah, back before video and the Internet, the Army did lots of stuff

to keep servicepeople and their families happy. Nowadays.......not so much.

One of MY earliest memories is my mom listening to "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" by Richard Wagner. Talk about hitting the hard stuff early in the day, huh? I was a Wagner expert by the age of twelve. No wonder I got beat up so much! B-)

[libodem]

8. Very!

whadya some kinda democrat flip-flopper....

[bridgit]

13. so...

which did you put on to not feel bad about listening to the other :shrug:

[Aristus]

14. The Bach to sooth the Axl-jangled nerves.

"Don't Cry" is a terrific song, but Axl Rose has a singing voice that sounds like a bobcat being strangled with barbed wire.

[bridgit]

15. lol...

:rofl: oh so right on that one :rofl:

[aeolian]

16. well put!

:rofl: