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What kind of music do you listen to? Do your tastes clash with those around you? Is someone in your office fantasizing this very second about beating you to death with your Ziggy Stardust CD?

Spill.

-- Sara Astruc (saraastruc@aol.com), June 16, 2000

Answers

Under You

ALONG THE EDGES, COLORS BLUR AND SEEM FAMILIAR. WHILE YOU READ YOUR MAGAZINE, I WAS COUNTING ALL THE MARKERS.

AND CALIFORNIA SEEMED TO DRAW YOU LIKE A SIREN FROM A POSTCARD, OR A LETTER, IN A FRAME OF FILM MELTING.

BUT UNDER YOU, I HEAR YOUR BREATH MOVE IN, OUT SLOWLY. UNDER YOU, LET GO COMPLETELY FEELING YOU TAKE OVER ME.

A HOLLYWOOD FLAT WHERE WE'D LAUGH ABOUT OUR FORTUNES WELL WE HELD JOBS IN THIS BAR DOWN AT 3RD AND SAN VICENTE. AND RAMEN NOODLES AT 4:30 IN THE MORNING, WHEN WE BARELY COULD SURVIVE, I WAS NEVER MORE ALIVE.

UNDER YOU, I FEEL YOUR BLOOD FLOWING OUT SLOWLY. UNDER YOU, LET GO COMPLETELY FEELING YOU TAKE OVER ME

YOU MOVED IN SLOW DEGREES A SUDDEN MEMORY YOU'RE A LEONARD COHEN SONG

BUT EVERY NOW AND THEN I'D SWEAR I SEE YOU STANDING ON A SIDEWALK, IN A RESTAURANT, FROM A TAXI CAB PASSING.

UNDER YOU I FEEL YOU MOVING IN/OUT SLOWLY UNDER YOU LET GO COMPLETELY FEELING YOU TAKE OVER ME.

TAKE OVER ME

Better Than Ezra's "How Does Your Garden Grow." Really. Money-back guarantee.

-- Jon Meyers (champ67@starpower.net), June 16, 2000.


Ooof.

-- Sara Astruc (saraastruc@aol.com), June 16, 2000.

Well. a) I second the Better than Ezra suggestion. b) I am the only young'un I know who listens to Steely Dan. I was RAISED on Steely Dan. I fit in very well with the early-40s managers at work, who all love the Dan. c) But yeah, my taste matches no one's. I have found, though, that Beth Orton makes good falling-asleep music.

-- c bechter (notified@mailcity.com), June 16, 2000.

Strong-arm tactics.

-- Jon Meyers (champ67@starpower.net), June 16, 2000.

Elliott Smith (sigh!). Air, Morcheeba, Portishead, Bjork, Paula Cole, Travis, Lenny Kravitz. Frank Sinatra, Lounge music, Ambient. I have not succumbed to the 'Latin Explosion'.... p.s. John - do behave, pal!

-- Elisabeth (egrant@fs.com), June 16, 2000.


I should add a "money-back guarantee" to the Morcheeba cds. Everyone I've recommended Morcheeba to thanks me more than once. It's second to none, really (in my opinion). -eag

-- Elisabeth (egrant@fs.com), June 16, 2000.

The following 109 artists and bands make up the vast majority of the 1,725 MP3's I have on my machine here at work, about 95% of them encoded from my own CD's and the remainder from my brother's. The few artists not listed here only have one or two songs in the collection, sent to me by friends, and don't really count as my own taste. Voila: Andy M. Stewart, Manus Lunny
Bad Religion
Bauhaus
Billy Bragg
Bim Skala Bim
Blondie
Brenda Kahn
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Bruce Cockburn
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Chris Isaak
Clarence Carter
Cocteau Twins
Concrete Blonde
Dance Hall Crashers
Danielle Dax
David Byrne
Desmond Dekker
Desmond Dekker And The Specials
Dick Dale
Dire Straits
Dream 6
Easy Big Fella
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Ennio Morricone
Foetus Inc
Frente!
George Jones
Go Gos
Graham Parker
Gun Club
Herb Alpert
Hindu Love Gods
Hole
Juliana Hatfield
Kate Bush
Kirsty MacColl
L7
Laurie Anderson
Let's Go Bowling
Lisa Gerrard
Liz Phair
Lou Bega
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Lush
Madder Rose
Madness
Mary Coughlan
Mary's Danish
Men Without Hats
Meryn Cadell
Metro Stylee
Michelle Shocked
Morrissey
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nightcaps
No Doubt
Oingo Boingo
Patti Smith
Percy Sledge
Pere Ubu
Peter Gabriel
Poe
R.E.M.
Ray Charles
Reverend Horton Heat
Richard Thompson
Richard and Linda Thompson
Robbie Robertson
Robert Cray Band
Sam Cooke
Sam Phillips
Sarah McLachlan
Sarge
Shakespear's Sister
Silly Wizard
Siniad O'Connor
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Skatalites
Sleater-Kinney
Social Distortion
Stan Ridgway
Stevie Wonder
Suzanne Vega
Talking Heads
The B-52's
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
The Cars
The Chieftains
The Cure
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Manatees
The Neville Brothers
The Pogues
The Police
The Posies
The Pretenders
The Simpsons
The Skatalites
The Smiths
The Specials
Thomas Dolby
Tom Waits
Tori Amos
Wall Of Voodoo
Warren Zevon
Wilson Pickett Something to annoy everyone! -Bill

-- William R. Dickson (wrd@awenet.com), June 16, 2000.

My husband listens to Hair Bands from the 80's, and I listen to everything but. Blondie, Lucious Jackson, Dead Can Dance, Sisters of Mercy, Fluke, Curve, Sonic Youth, Breeders, Better Than Ezra, Sarah McLachlan, PJ Harvey, Paul Simon, CSNY, Steely Dan, Leonard Cohen, Fuel,Patsy Cline, Train, Macy Gray, 10,000 Maniacs, Dramarama, Kate Bush, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Prince, the Meices, Guided by Voices and a shameful, shameful love for 80's new wave mixed cds and the rhythm and blues collection I ACTUALLY ordered off of the tv...how dreadfully pedestrian of me, of all the ways to be introduced to old rhythm and blues, the shame. However, I would like to beat my father to death if he ever makes me listen to one more note from Janice Ian or Joan Baez, ever.

-- blanche blank (mireillie@yahoo.com), June 16, 2000.

I don't have what you'd call "mainstream" musical tastes..

Leonard Cohen for a good slow burn..

Willie Nelson's "Stardust" album (even people who don't like country like this album.. it's weird)..

Liz Phair appeals to my angry chick..

Voice of the Beehive's first album is always fun to sing to..

and my latest find is a really great guy out of New York named Mike Errico who sometimes sounds like Stevie Wonder and sometimes like Ani Difranco and always with humor and his own flair. I've just fallen in love with his music. Check him out.. he's got soul.

Oh.. and Roger Miller singing "King of the Road" don't ask me why.

-- Melissa Hammon (hammon@digex.com), June 16, 2000.


blanche blank:

I just ordered "Singers & Songwriters" off the television, myself. I feel so dirty...

-- Sara Astruc (saraastruc@aol.com), June 16, 2000.



I'm 19 and in college, and I listen to "classic rock" which translates to.... CSNY, especially the Y, he is my favorite. Rolling Stones, lots of Dylan, Lou Reed. For newer stuff, I listen to Black Crowes, Widespread Panic, Wilco, Steve Earle.... so basically I listen to stuff kids my age have either heard of through their parents, or don't know at all. Also 80s nostalgia, Def Leppard in particular, and the Beatles.

No Ziggy (yet). I don't rule anything out, and the only person I care about meshing taste with is whoever I happen to marry. If I can't share the love of blasting Down By The River with someone, it's not going to be as much fun.

Lauren

-- Lauren (floweroffire@hotmail.com), June 17, 2000.


Wow. All this musical disembowelling. Like Andrew Lloyd Weber doing Kirasawa. LOL. Not going to heave it all up, BUT.... 'Logozo', by Angelique Kidjo. I don't know what language they speak in Benin let alone understand it, but she makes my spine tingle. Also 'Treaty' by Yothu Yindi. A band described as doing Top End Koori Rock. Or, in a more internationally understood form: Indigenous Australian Rock Music from Northern Queensland, and the Northern Territory.For guitar and didgeridoo. Try it at your next party. You can stop laughing now, Sara.

-- Stephen. (mrwolf@iinet.,net.au), June 17, 2000.

Within arm's reach right now: Spike Jones. Weird Al. Stan Freberg. Talking Heads. Ennio Morricone. John Williams. Aerosmith. Warren Zevon. Annwn. Frank Zappa. Brian Eno. J.S. Bach. Ravel. P.D.Q. Bach.

I can annoy more people than Bill can.

-- Rob Furr (rsfurr@curie.uncg.edu), June 17, 2000.


I listen to Ani DiFranco whenever I want some real feeling. Other than that, it's usually blues, or funk, or punk, or metal, or reggae, or whatever appens to be playing.

-- Tony Zag (mraroma@aol.com), June 19, 2000.

I know Steely Dan, but I don't listen to them that much any more. I don't like what passes for "Classic Rock" around here - it's all 70s stuff that I'm tired of. There are so many things that are perfectly fine, but I've heard them enough times, thanks, and want to not hear them for ten years or so so that they'll feel fresh again.

However, I still like most of the 80s music I liked in the 80s. I like electronic music as well.

-- Lizzie (crow@well.com), June 19, 2000.



Oh yeah, and those around me. My husband, who's 8 years younger than me, drives me insane by playing Neil Young and Tom Waits. I tell him how lucky he is that I'm not like the other 45 year old women I know who want to listen to CSNY and Motown all the time. Neither of us like those.

-- Lizzie (crow@well.com), June 19, 2000.

I have an incredibly eclectic taste in music. It would be easier to say what I don't like: techno, house electronica, anything too repetitive.

I'm a big jazz fan, I love be-bop. I also love classical, especially Chopin & Satie, but am not so much in to opera. Steely Dan (since people mention it a lot) is a classic. Love it. Lately I am listening to: The Beatles (always, always) XTC (Apple Venus I & II) Neil Finn (& Crowded House & Tim Finn & The Finn Bros, and Split Enz) Elliott Smith (his latest is very good!) Owsley World Party The Lackadays , the band in which I play bass and sing...

Peace, b0b0

-- Bob van Pelt (bob@lackadays.com), June 21, 2000.


Oldies night--I grow old, indeed.

I saw General Public last night at the Double Door. General Public--really just David Wakeling founder of GP and the (English)Beat,with a really great band--were great. Often when I go to see bands and it isn't that much fun--the music isn't uplifting, the band doesn't seem happy, the crowd is prissy. Last night was the antithesis of this--music swung, the band was having a hoot, and the crowd danced all night--for two hours plus an encore. The band split time between General Public tunes and Beat tunes and they just rocked. When they played a long, sweet version of "Save It For Later" as a finale, people were so happy that the band could have played that riff for another three hours and nobody would have complained--everybody would have just kept dancing. Best of all, I had just stopped by to see my friend who owns the Double Door and I didn't even realize General Public were going to be playing--I just stumbled into a great show.

-- Nick Scratch (Nick_Scratch@godisdead.com), August 13, 2000.


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