What do you listen to?

[dyl]

Apologies if this has already been discussed - can't recall that it has, so here goes!

What are your other musical tastes apart from brass bands? What else do you listen to? I would have made this into a poll, but I would be sure to leave something out! ;)

Personally, I've been really into dance music for a few years, but find my taste changing now as I get older. In the office we alternate between listening to Radio 1 and Classic FM - depending on how stressed we get!

Current and old favourites include:

Underworld
Massive Attack
New Order
Royksopp
Banco de Gaia
Cafe Del Mar series of CDs
Film Soundtracks (anything by Morricone, John Williams and Hans Zimmer among others)
and loads more that I can't remember at the minute!!

Just thought we'd get an idea of how wide our musical tastes are as banders.

[Euph-Bari]

most things exept dance, R&B and garage. can you call that music???

[TheMusicMan]

Progressive Rock: Genesis, Steve Hackett, Floyd, Yes, Witsend, Marillion, many others
Synth: All manner of synth stuff.... Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Oldfield, Tomita, Gary Newman
Classical: Barber's Adagio, Goreci - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, minimalist genre, Gregorian Chant, loads more
Other: My own stuff!, Eminem (some), U2, Instrumental, Jose Padilla, dance r&b, 80's electro-pop, Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran

just my .02c worth dyl...

[dyl]

Agree on Barber's Adagio, Eminem, Jose Padilla, Pet shop Boys, and 100% agree on 80s electro, John!

[TheMusicMan]

Agree on Barber's Adagio, Eminem, Jose Padilla, Pet shop Boys, and 100% agree on 80s electro, John!

from the same mould eh dyl... :) oh, and I forgot on eof my fav's.... Waterboys - the Whole of the Moon.... yeah!!!!

[andywooler]

to answer this I thought what better place to look than the CD rack in the car! This is what I've been listening to of late:

Jazz - Arturo Sandoval, Maynard Ferguson (loads!) , Vince Jones (Australian Trumpet/singer), Spike Jones (Comedy musical genius!)
Rock - Yes, Jimmy Page and the Black Crows, Genesis, Pink Floyd
Orchestral Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto, Elgar Cello (Dupree)
other Jeff Foxworthy - US comedian/country, Shania Twain

Interestingly, not a single brass CD in the car right now.

[PeterBale]

Very broad tastes, going in phases:

Classical, especially late nineteenth/twentieth century (Mahler, Strauss, Bruckner, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Hovhaness, Hanson, Walton, Vaughan-Williams, some Britten)

Jazz (mainly early - pre 1940) and dance-band

Films and shows - particularly early recordings, original cast etc

SA band and vocal

Brass band / wind band(horror of horrors!) - currently enjoying Made In Harrogate

[Cornishwomble]

My fav band is Chumbawamba
I love bands like The Transplants, the Chilli peppers (still waiting for the brass band version of "give it away"!)
Also love Eminem and Dr Dre
Like most indie stuff really

I find brass band music is a bit hard to listen to on a car stereo as you can never hear the quiet bits, if you turn the volume right up you get a horrible shock when the FF kicks in

[Fishsta]

I like quite a lot of music... especially Queen. I was building up my collection, I've got all the studio albums, just waiting for the day when I have enough spare money to buy the live ones too.

It would be easier to describe the music I DON'T like, which basically consists of rap, and music which is described as "dance" or "trance".

And my real pet hate is talentless artists who take a perfectly good song, and use a cheap synthesizer or a Yamaha keyboard to add an extra drum beat to it, and release it as a "new song". For example: The Logical Song. Great song, terrible re-release by Scooter.

Brass Bands have more talent in their little fingers than people like that... and you don't see us in the charts like you do with them. There's something basically wrong with that.

[blondie]

I am quite catholic as far as music goes, but then it doesn't surprise me that musicians enjoy such diverse types.

I like Jazz, Classical, Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal, Ganster Rap, R&B, Garage, some Trance, 70's Disco, some Soul, 30' & 40's studio orchestra stuff, BB of course, some chart music and various chillout beats, Film Soundtracks, Classic singers - Dean Martin, Al Martino, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole etc and lots of Neil Diamond........the list is endless.

[Straightmute]

I listen to just about anything, the notable exceptions being Country and Western music and anything involving bagpipes, owing to a traumatic experience a few years ago which still keeps me awake some nights.

Current listening includes:

Cuban dance music
anything by John Adams or Steve Martland
some trance music composed by one of my students
Basie's Atomic album

...and an awful lot of band music...mainly test pieces and heavier stuff but also marches and good concert music.

Currently playing: Earth Dances by Harrison Birtwistle.

D

[Caveman Dan]

This week, I 'ave been mostly listening to... Meat Loaf, Elvis, Acker Bilk, and Maynard Ferguson. :bounce

[picju96]

most things exept dance, R&B and garage. can you call that music???

Ditto. Also can't stand organ music or bagpipes.

[TheMusicMan]

Also can't stand organ music or bagpipes.

Awww picju96...... come on.... can I ask you 2 questions please.. each to their own I appreciate but...

1 - have you heard Vidor's Organ Symphony?
2 - have you heard the massed pipes and drums at the Royal Edinburgh Tatoo?

:wink: :D

[Straightmute]

2 - have you heard the massed pipes and drums at the Royal Edinburgh Tatoo?

Yes I have and it was hell on earth!

But worse was the York Millennium Tattoo. Just imagine a nightmare in which a there's this huge band where no-one counts and no one watches the beat and everyone hates each other, and there's a million bagpipers playing independently of one another and trying to outdo each other, from dawn till dusk. The nearest pub is more than five miles away, and worst of all, you're in charge and have to bring order and musicality to this chaotic scenario...

Oh no, it's all coming back to me. Nurse, nurse...?

D

[PeterBale]

2 - have you heard the massed pipes and drums at the Royal Edinburgh Tattoo?

A solo piper can be very good, massed pipers aren't too bad, but small numbers are terrible! When we did the Berlin Tattoo with a couple of pipe bands, the pipe-major took ages carefully tuning all the drones and chanters, but they stilll sounded just as bad when he had finished.

[groovy]

As well as our school CD ( :shock: ), BB and a Russian quintet called [b]Baroque Brass, I like the Red Hot Chillis latest album, Eminem, and some other odds and ends.

Bagpipes are alright! :wink:

[super_sop]

Well if i look behind me in my cd racks i have, a variety of music.
mainly musicals, brass band stuff, and queen. also in there i can see classical, from all earas, and miliotary bands. plus some popular music that my wife listens to and nursery rhymes!!

[Pythagoras]

Basie's Atomic album


This is my favourite album at the moment. Other stuff I'm listening to are Madness, The Streets, Blondie, 'O Brother where art thou?' soundtrack, Queen and John Coltrane.

[geordiecolin]

My tastes are far ranging,

At one end of the spectrum i have some contemporary classical stuff (The Planets etc), the mandatory Brass Band stuff, through to Jazz (Ellington, Armstrong, Beidebecke, Basie), through to funky jazz (Tower of Power, Herbie Hancock, NYCJO). From there i suppose the most natural leap is Electro Jazz (Mr Scruff, Ninja Tunes) and from there to Trip Hop (Herbaliser, Coldcut, DJ Food), then across to Drum n Bass (Roni Size). Next we have Big Beat (FatBoy Slim, Lo-Fi Allstars), general Electro stuff (Underworld, 2 Many DJs, Chemical Bros, Prodigy, Massive Attack). We leads us nicely in a 90's stylee to BritPop (Stone Roses, Oasis, Blur, Charlatans, Dodgy, Space, Cast, The Verve, Pulp) and then to more contemporary Rock (The Coral, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives).

As you can tell, i'm a bit of a music whore (is that allowed? edit if needed)!

This week i have listened to, Oasis - Definetly Maybe, Coldcut - Let Us Replay, Herbie Hancock - Headhunters, The White Stripes - Elephant, YBS - Windows of the World, Blur - Leisure, Mr Scruff - Keep it Unreal

[Straightmute]

Very broad tastes, going in phases:

...

Brass band / wind band(horror of horrors!) - currently enjoying Made In Harrogate

Thanks Peter. What a recommendation! I just thought I'd post this in case anyone missed it the first time!!!

CD available from www.harrogateband.org

Here endeth the blatent plug!

D

[horn1]

I'm also fairly eclectic in my music tastes, I love BritPop - Blur, Stone Roses etc. and Indie - Cast, The Verve etc. At the moment I'm listening to The Coral, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Turin Brakes, The White Stripes, The Hives, Blurs new album, Super Furry Animals and the list goes on.... I also love jazz of many different types, classical (particularly russian), world music, soul and of course brass bands, although my collection of bands is rather dismal. My pet hate is opera, I've tried to like it but no, it's painful!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

[sparkling_quavers]

My pet hate is opera, I've tried to like it but no, it's painful!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

yeah that is about my only real dislike as well :?

I listen to alot of mind music but also other classical stuff light rock like red hot chilli peppers etc and dance music (mainly trance)

[cornetgirl]

Absolutely anything really - I have 800 CDs to choose from and about 200 cassettes!

Mainly classical - from Bach through to Arvo Part. I love huge orchestral works, string quartets and choral music, but will listen to most stuff except Wagner!

Jazz / Funk, particularly James Taylor Quartet and anything chilled

Rock / Pop from the cheese of the 80s to Queen via my fave group Beautiful South. Currently listening to Justin Timberlake - gets better after a few listens!

Don't really like hardcore dance but will listen to the charty stuff.

This week I haven't really had chance to listen to much but did stick Galore - Kirsty MacColl's Greatest Hits - on tonight - what a voice.

Rach x

[Maestro]

2 - have you heard the massed pipes and drums at the Royal Edinburgh Tattoo?

A solo piper can be very good, massed pipers aren't too bad, but small numbers are terrible! When we did the Berlin Tattoo with a couple of pipe bands, the pipe-major took ages carefully tuning all the drones and chanters, but they stilll sounded just as bad when he had finished.


Peter,

Do you remeber doing the Wembley Pageants and getting up there T 7:30am, only to be greeting by hundreds of drummers tap-tap-tapping then hundreds of pipers droning?

I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking of that :cry:

[Heather]

Hey, no mention of BLUE yet??
I admit to loving BLUE and I'm off to their concert next Friday with LIBERTY X and BIG BRUVVERS.
Phew, that's the embarrassing bit over!!
I love loads of different sorts of music.
I tend to like listening to Band test pieces rather than concert stuff.
I also love Andrea Boccelli. I could listen to him for hours...and do!!

[cornetshell]

Anything that gets me going- makes me feel good, or isn't Edit: Keppler- Expletive deleted

Edit: Keppler - here too :? = dodgey dance tunes, songs about fast food, and ANY boy band....

:hammer

[Pythagoras]

Very broad tastes, going in phases:

...

Brass band / wind band(horror of horrors!) - currently enjoying Made In Harrogate

Thanks Peter. What a recommendation! I just thought I'd post this in case anyone missed it the first time!!!

CD available from www.harrogateband.org

Here endeth the blatent plug!

D

'Made in Harrogate' arrived through the post today!, but haven't had a chance to listen yet as the only decent music system in the house is in the lounge, where my flat mates exercise a strict brass band veto.

[ukdrummerboy]

I usually listen to film scores! Its also my favorite genre to play. John Williams is by far the best on my opinion!

[sparkling_quavers]

'Made in Harrogate' arrived through the post today!, but haven't had a chance to listen yet as the only decent music system in the house is in the lounge, where my flat mates exercise a strict brass band veto.

Oh dear Daniel! Mine would have never dared say that to me :twisted: You will have to educate them :wink:

[frisp]

most things exept dance, R&B and garage. can you call that music???

Ditto. Also can't stand organ music or bagpipes.

The Saint-Saens organ concerto is fantastic (second movement especially if you want to be converted) although it was completely *******ized in that seventies record 'If I had words etc.

It's interesting how quickly you end up as an old person-I now completely refuse to listen to Radio 1 or watch TOTP cos it's all sh1te but happily dance round the living room to Madness or UB40.

Queen rule!!

I'll wait for the shroud now (at 36) :P

[Mike Saville]

[quote=horn1] My pet hate is opera, I've tried to like it but no, it's painful!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

yeah that is about my only real dislike as well :?
[quote]

Got to agree with the guys there.

For me its anything and everything - as long as I can appreciate the musical talent involved (so that rules out most of the produced pop pap we get these days by people that can't actually sing, someone like Sting however I can admire cause he can actually do his stuff live!)

Particular favs: Tower of Power (horn led funk), Earth Wind & Fire, Brass stuff, Trombone stuff, Period Instrumental recordings (not into bad baroque, or baroque/rennaisance by brass bands for that matter - the style/phrasing is all wrong), Orchestral , Film Scores, TV Themes, etc.

[andywooler]

I'm not a great fan of listening to opera but going to see it - that's another thing altogether.
Birwhistle's "Last Supper" at Glyndebourne last year (or yr before) was fab as was this years Tristan.
However, from a playing perspective, my definition of hell would have to be permanent 2nd trumpet in Puccini's house band.

[Steve]

I dont function unless I have music playing somewhere. I am a big heavy metal / rock / punk fan which never seems to sit well when you try and explain you play a brass instrument. You tell someone you are off to a gig and they go "Oooh, a bit of Mozart, or even some Bach" and I say "No, Iron Maiden", then the whispering and the pointing starts!! I do like most things though. I love classical music (in moderation) I adore jazz and funk, pop is bareable (at best) but garage and r&b do drive me insane.

CD's i've listened to this week.... Rancid,Metallica,Incubus,Stravinski's Firebird Suite,Tracy Chapman,The Jamm,System Of A Down,Portishead,Smashing Pumpkins,New Orleans Funk etc etc etc etc etc

[Dave Payn]

Similarly to Andy Wooler, I decided to look at my CD collection at work. It is mainly classical (and anyone who knows me won't be surprised by that!) Currently listening to John Rutter's Gloria, but I am a complete Bach freak. To me, he was harmonically and inventively way, way ahead of his time, as Mozart was very much OF his time (I know that remark won't go down well in some quarters! Sorry, not a Mozart fan....) There isn't much of Bach's output I don't have in some form of recorded format! Other than that, my collection (other than brass) ranges from swing/big band (I'm a particular fan of that 'space age' orchestra of Esquivel's!) and even cheesy-easy listening! And from the pop world, Queen and 60s/70s Motown.

Regards

[TheMusicMan]

I've recently been hooked on a fantastic Internet Radio station that perhaps isn't everyone's cuppa, it's called Radio Ambient.

Easy new age listening that takes you wherever you want to go and believe me, ensuring this tMP CiN event goes ahead and runs as smoothly as possible... this is the best medicine.

[Dave Payn]

As for what I don't listen to, though; not a great deal but just don't get me started about the merits (or otherwise) of the following....

Lesley Garrett
Russell Watson
Charlotte Church
Pop Idol (When I first heard that, I thought someone was trying to flog a Popeye Doll! :roll: )

and worst of all

Victoria Beckham. Talking of which, how's this for an acronym?

Patently Obvious She Hasn't Sung Properly In Career. Ever

[Alice]

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[drummerboy]

1 - have you heard Vidor's Organ Symphony?

Which one? Widor, wrote at least six symphonies for organ. The one I'd guess you mean is the Toccata from his 5th symphony, as that's the really famous one.


Back on topic, I listen to loads and loads of different things. But things I love though, are musical theatre, good rock (such as Queen (so sad I've got all the albums, inc. the live ones! :D )), really like jazz too. I do enjoy orchestral music too.
And what's so wrong about wind bands (whoever said that)?!? The county youth wind band I played for was amazing! So good we were 8) , we played Land of the Long White Cloud, Incantation and Dance, Dance Movements, Festivo, Dawn Flight... :D :D
Indeed, was the first time I played kit on Toccata in D Minor. I tell you I was so scared doing that break for the first time (though was only 12 at the time!!!)

[JessopSmythe]

I am a big heavy metal / rock / punk fan which never seems to sit well when you try and explain you play a brass instrument. You tell someone you are off to a gig and they go "Oooh, a bit of Mozart, or even some Bach" and I say "No, Iron Maiden",

Me too steve. Are you going to any of the concerts this year? My wife bought me tickets for Cardiff in december :P . One extreme to the other, playing xmas music in abergavenny and pontypool saturday and sunday then moshing to Iron Maiden on moday night :twisted:

[drummergurl]

i listen to rock fm, (only available in the north west of england!) evanescence, green day, eminem, muse, feeder, linkin park, coldplay, P.O.D., blink 182, good charlotte. stuff like that.

[Vickitorious]

I used to listen to loads of different types of music, but ever since I started to get really serious about my brass band music and playing, thats all I tend to listen to nowadays :)

[shedophone]

I listen to so much music, from System of a Down to Bach. As long as i enjoy it i dont care what category it falls into. If you're into classial music at all though, i must recommend listening to the Ballad of Heroes by Britten, its just fantastic. :)

[shedophone]

By the way Dave Payn... Rutter? i agree its definately easy listening, but if you want some music with a deeper meaning yet still incredibly moving, go to Britten, Tavener, or possibly Carl Jenkins- his new music's not at all bad...

[MoominDave]

but I am a complete Bach freak. To me, he was harmonically and inventively way, way ahead of his time, as Mozart was very much OF his time (I know that remark won't go down well in some quarters! Sorry, not a Mozart fan....)

Not even of Mozart after he discovered Bach? I find his earlier stuff often rather vapid but his later works (such as the famous Requiem) speak much more powerfully. Had he, like Bach, lived to 65 rather than 35, I'm sure he'd be remembered as more than 'the ultimate tunesmith' that he tends to be perceived as now.

Speaking of those who were harmonically ahead of their times, the madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo are well worth a look... His biography is interesting reading too.

Dave

[neiltwist]

I like listening to all sorts of music, from resphigi to the darkness via jamiroquai, with the odd brass piece thrown in.

At the moment I'm listening to Tutti's Trumpets and Trombones, briliant CD, and for some reason Wuthering heights by kate bush, no idea why, but i quite like it. But my favourite has to be the Phantom of the Opera, All I ask of You, and right at the end the the medley. Pure class.

[Steve]

I am a big heavy metal / rock / punk fan which never seems to sit well when you try and explain you play a brass instrument. You tell someone you are off to a gig and they go "Oooh, a bit of Mozart, or even some Bach" and I say "No, Iron Maiden",

Me too steve. Are you going to any of the concerts this year? My wife bought me tickets for Cardiff in december :P . One extreme to the other, playing xmas music in abergavenny and pontypool saturday and sunday then moshing to Iron Maiden on moday night :twisted:

No, I have already seen them this year at Download, went on a festival frenzy this summer and they headlined the first day at Donnington. Absolutely excellent, even if Bruce Dickinson does look a little odd with a neat tidy haircut!! Sorry, not (brass) band related.

[Dave Payn]

but I am a complete Bach freak. To me, he was harmonically and inventively way, way ahead of his time, as Mozart was very much OF his time (I know that remark won't go down well in some quarters! Sorry, not a Mozart fan....)

Not even of Mozart after he discovered Bach? I find his earlier stuff often rather vapid but his later works (such as the famous Requiem) speak much more powerfully.

Trouble is, it was his pupil Sussmayr who completed his Requiem. Having said that, the opening sections (by Mozart's own hand) do contain some of his best writing.

Had he, like Bach, lived to 65 rather than 35, I'm sure he'd be remembered as more than 'the ultimate tunesmith' that he tends to be perceived as now.

Maybe, Dave, but sadly, we'll never know! Each to their own, anyway. I certainly don't belittle any Mozart lovers, it's just not my cup of tea.

Speaking of those who were harmonically ahead of their times, the madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo are well worth a look... His biography is interesting reading too.

I must admit, don't know a great deal about him. Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a try!

Cheers Dave.

Dave

[PeterBale]

Speaking of those who were harmonically ahead of their times, the madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo are well worth a look... His biography is interesting reading too.

I must admit, don't know a great deal about him. Thanks for the tip! I'll give it a try!

Cheers Dave.

Dave

The Stravinsky reworkings of Gesualdo are also well worth exploring!

[timbloke]

Mine is similar to geordiecolin's i know this cos he's asked to "borrow" half of them. Personal favs of all time....

...actually i think i might start a nick hornby-esque high fidelity stylee top-5 thread.

see my top five there.

but the funkier side of drum and bass and beats, anything Gilles Peterson would play (Worldwide - midnight weds on Radio 1).

but also classic indie/britpop/guitar. especially the quieter side (belle and sebastien, gorky's, SFA etc. or soloists like ed harcourt, damien rice or beth orton) and the new stuff like the thrills etc.

[lynchie]

ooo, musical tastes!

well here goes

recently I have been mostly listening to

Pat Metheny
Nirvana
Chili Peppers
Dido
Jaco Pastorius
Marilyn Manson
Thin Lizzy
Pavement
and Sebadoh

However, included in my CD collection are...

Further seems Forever
Guns n Roses
Queen
The Darkness
The Coral
The Who
Feeder
Oasis
Blur
Happy Mondays
Nine Inch Nails
Disturbed
Led Zeppelin
Godhead
Beastie Boys
Smashing Pumpkins
Pearl Jam
The Offspring
System of a Down
The Specials
The Cult
and a few more I can't think of at the moment...

oh yeah and a few Christian Lindberg CDs and a couple of YB2K CDs, gotta have some exposure to trombones eh (ooh that reminds me... less than jake!)...

and I too cannot listen to bagpipes without feeling physically ill!