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Post by dreampolice on Mar 28, 2023 9:33:05 GMT
Not from me, this is the stuff I listen to and have done for a long time. Edit. Perhaps I'm just weird with weird tastes.  My post was tongue in cheek!! Although I've never heard of some of the stuff that's listed here = and that has to be my age.
Mick
I was playing some Rammstein videos the other night on Youtube on the TV. My 82 year old mum was with us. She loved it, including the one above "Dicke Titten" lol. I think she'll carry on playing her Country Music and Michael Bubble etc over and above that. When my dad was alive (died 1990), he was massively into Pink Floyd and Deep Purple, I listened to alternative music as a teen, as did my brother who is 7 years younger, so I guess she has had more rock type music in her life from long ago so some of it may have worn off on her. |
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Post by mick on Mar 28, 2023 11:30:04 GMT
I think that you guys are trying to find the weirdest things to list -or maybe it's my age!!
Here's my contribution. Some piano pieces by Ludovico Einaudi played and recorded by one of my sons. Pleasant enough but, in my book, not in the same league as a 'real' composer. Just my opinion of course. Apparently quite difficult to play.
Mick
The bold bit with knobs on. I find Einaudi more muzak than music. I'm sure I would feel somewhat different about it if played by a family member, of course. Agreed. My son plays it because, in his words, it's less demanding than some other composers - relaxing. Although, as I said, it's quite difficult to play. I'm not a musician but I understand that some of the left hand stretches are tough (over an octave) and there's a danger of RPI with a lot of the left hand!!
I have strange tastes. I am very fond of piano music (comes from listening to the 'boy' practise for hours). I'm an absolute wizard at hearing the wrong note in Beethoven/Chopin/Rachmaninov etc - again from hearing the pieces so many times. I also very much like a lot of jazz piano but I tend to avoid 'modern classic' if I can coin a phrase.
Mick
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 28, 2023 11:34:57 GMT
The CDs for driving to the Lakes have not been finalised yet, but Half Man Half Biscuit, Fairport Convention, and Wet Leg are all shoo-ins. Make sense of those choices!
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Post by dreampolice on Mar 28, 2023 11:37:36 GMT
The CDs for driving to the Lakes have not been finalised yet, but Half Man Half Biscuit, Fairport Convention, and Wet Leg are all shoo-ins. Make sense of those choices! I find it harder to make sense of the use of CD's nowadays. None of our cars have had one for a while. Very rarely put one on at home either. Even if I own the CD it is easier to stream it. How things change. |
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 28, 2023 11:45:59 GMT
My "new" car is a 2008 model. It has a CD player, which is a step up from its predecessor that still had a cassette player. Hence the CDs.
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 28, 2023 11:49:58 GMT
My "new" car is a 2008 model. It has a CD player, which is a step up from its predecessor that still had a cassette player. Hence the CDs. Mind you, it's much the same colour as that Ferrari you were showing off... |
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Post by spinno on Mar 28, 2023 12:01:35 GMT
My "new" car is a 2008 model. It has a CD player, which is a step up from its predecessor that still had a cassette player. Hence the CDs. Given up on the eight-track already? |
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Post by dorsetmike on Mar 28, 2023 12:09:08 GMT
I think that you guys are trying to find the weirdest things to list -or maybe it's my age!!
Here's my contribution. Some piano pieces by Ludovico Einaudi played and recorded by one of my sons. Pleasant enough but, in my book, not in the same league as a 'real' composer. Just my opinion of course. Apparently quite difficult to play.
Mick
The bold bit with knobs on. I find Einaudi more muzak than music. I'm sure I would feel somewhat different about it if played by a family member, of course. Einaudi for me is not a real composer, just a tinkling noise; my father would have described it as an "unked row" (I'd also apply the description to works by Gorecki) I listen to quite a wide range from Baroque classical to Jazz and big bands like Basie & Ellington but excluding almost everything written since about 1980
(Dictionary definition unked
variants or less commonly unkid
1 dialectal, British : unknown, strange, odd
2 archaic : uncouth, awkward
3dialectal, British : desolate, lonely
4dialectal, British : uncanny, weird, ghastly)
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Post by willien on Mar 28, 2023 12:09:13 GMT
The CDs for driving to the Lakes have not been finalised yet, but Half Man Half Biscuit, Fairport Convention, and Wet Leg are all shoo-ins. Make sense of those choices! I find it harder to make sense of the use of CD's nowadays. None of our cars have had one for a while. Very rarely put one on at home either. Even if I own the CD it is easier to stream it. How things change. I would have to check whether the Beemer has a CD player. The Yeti did but I never used it. |
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Post by petrochemist on Mar 28, 2023 12:32:52 GMT
My "new" car is a 2008 model. It has a CD player, which is a step up from its predecessor that still had a cassette player. Hence the CDs. Mind you, it's much the same colour as that Ferrari you were showing off... Even before 2000, I'd started using MP3s in the car as my standard music choice. Back then it was with a radio transmitter that plugged into the lighter socket. It read SD cards & USB sticks & had a phono input. My car at the time (a 1977 Celica) only took cassettes directly. |
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Post by dreampolice on Mar 28, 2023 12:35:38 GMT
My "new" car is a 2008 model. It has a CD player, which is a step up from its predecessor that still had a cassette player. Hence the CDs. Mind you, it's much the same colour as that Ferrari you were showing off... Such a shame it wasn’t mine, lol |
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Post by willien on Mar 28, 2023 12:38:31 GMT
Mind you, it's much the same colour as that Ferrari you were showing off... Even before 2000, I'd started using MP3s in the car as my standard music choice. Back then it was with a radio transmitter that plugged into the lighter socket. It read SD cards & USB sticks & had a phono input. My car at the time (a 1977 Celica) only took cassettes directly. I tried one of them but travelling to places like Skye and Campbeltown I found the as you moved to a different transmitter area all of a sudden you had a heavily distorted radio station blasting out rather than ones chosen music. On the home area commute I listened to the radio anyway. Latterly Radio 3 after Virgin radio was sold to Chris Evans and went to hell in a handcart. |
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 28, 2023 16:33:39 GMT
My "new" car is a 2008 model. It has a CD player, which is a step up from its predecessor that still had a cassette player. Hence the CDs. Given up on the eight-track already? Edison cylinder, mate. |
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Mar 31, 2023 19:09:30 GMT
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, followed by his violin concerto - two of his most enduring works.
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Post by willien on Mar 31, 2023 20:01:54 GMT
Heard the Violin concerto on R3 many years ago heading up the bottom of the bray that eventually leads to Rannoch Moor. Both Maggy and I were stunned. Did not search out which concerto it was when we got back. Yeah, just googled.
Any particular recordings you would recommend?
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