What's on your iPod?

Anyone can post anything they are enjoying on this thread I thought. I enjoy the older tunes myself for they depict a more gentle time and a time where lyrics could be understood and heard. Today with death rock and others of the same vein one cannot understand a thing they are saying. Then when you can understand them thy really don't make much sense and aren't very melodic as the older tunes were. I have never said that those posting such music should not do so nor have I expressed for anyones music to be deleted because I don't care for it. I do listen to some of the music from this era but I just can't get into it like I can the older tunes which I use to dance to. Anyone ever dance any more I don't think so because how do you dance to death metal?
 
cosmictraveler said:
Anyone can post anything they are enjoying on this thread I thought. I enjoy the older tunes myself for they depict a more gentle time and a time where lyrics could be understood and heard. Today with death rock and others of the same vein one cannot understand a thing they are saying. Then when you can understand them thy really don't make much sense and aren't very melodic as the older tunes were. I have never said that those posting such music should not do so nor have I expressed for anyones music to be deleted because I don't care for it. I do listen to some of the music from this era but I just can't get into it like I can the older tunes which I use to dance to. Anyone ever dance any more I don't think so because how do you dance to death metal?
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What station is your car radio stuck on, that the only modern music you hear is death metal??? You need a new radio!

There's lots of wonderful music out there that has nothing to do with death. In fact, most high-popularity radio stations won't even play death metal because their listeners don't like it any more than you do.

Check out Audioslave. It's Chris Cornell, the vocalist from Soundgarden, with the band from Rage Against the Machine, including fabulous guitarist Tom Morello.


Check out Jann Arden. She's one of the top five female singers in Canada, but she never gets any gigs in the USA. Her recent Canadian hit, "Where No One Knows Me," is sweet, sad, sassy and beautiful.

 
Fraggle Rocker said:
What station is your car radio stuck on, that the only modern music you hear is death metal??? You need a new radio!

There's lots of wonderful music out there that has nothing to do with death. In fact, most high-popularity radio stations won't even play death metal because their listeners don't like it any more than you do.

Check out Audioslave. It's Chris Cornell, the vocalist from Soundgarden, with the band from Rage Against the Machine, including fabulous guitarist Tom Morello.
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I only used that genre as an example I can give more as you know there are. Sure there are some rockers out there that aren't to bad but my radio is tuned to classic rock and where I live that's about the only thing they will play. There are other radio stations that play alternative rock, mew soft rock stuff and other types of rock besides classical but their audiences are small, but growing, compared to classic rock.
 
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WILD BILLY'S CIRCUS STORY
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A-one, two, three, four

Well the machinist climbs his Ferris wheel like a brave

And the fire eater's lyin' in a pool of sweat, victim of a heat wave

Behind the tent, the hiredboy tightens his legs on the sword swallower's blade

And circus town's on the shortwave

Well now the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn

Whoa, Fat Lady, Big Mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns

And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffing popcorn

the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn

and circus town's been born...

Whoa, and a press roll, drummer go, ballerina to-and-fro
Cartwheelin' up on that tightrope with a cannon blast, lightin' flash
Movin' fast, through the tent, Mars bent, he's gonna miss his fall

Oh, God save the human cannonball
And the flying Zambinis watch Margarita do her neck twist

And the ringmaster gets the kids to count along:

"Ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven"
A ragged suitcase in his hand, he steals silently away from the circus grounds
And the highway's haunted by the carnival sounds
They dance like a great greasepaint ghost on the wind
A man in baggy pants, a lonely face, a crazy grin
Runnin' home to some small Ohio town

And circus boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire

And the barker romances with a junkie, she's got a flat tire
And now the elephants dance real funky, and the band play like a jungle fire

Circus town's on the live wire
And the strong man, Sampson, lifts the midget, little Tiny Tim, way up on his shoulders, way up

And carries him on down the midway

oooh past the kids, past the sailors, to his dimly lit trailer
And the Ferris wheel turns and turns like it ain't ever gonna stop

And the circus boss leans over, whispers in the little boy's ear, "Hey son, you wanna try the big top?"

All aboard, Nebraska's our next stop
 
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!
There behind a glass is a real blade of grass
be careful as you pass.
Move along! Move along!

Come inside, the show's about to start
guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you'll get your money's worth
The greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth.
You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo.
You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll ....

Right before your eyes we pull laughter from the skies
And he laughs until he cries then he dies then he dies
Come inside the shows about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart

You gotta see the show
It's a dynamo
You gotta see the show
It's rock and roll

Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of Vaseline
Will perform on guillotine
What a scene! What a scene!
Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand
to Alexander's Ragtime Band
Dixie land, Dixie land
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!

Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool
Seven virgins and a mule
Keep it cool. Keep it cool.
We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown
were exclusively our own,
All our own. All our own.
Come and see the show! Come and see the show! Come and see the show!
See the show!
 
cosmictraveler said:
I only used that genre as an example I can give more as you know there are. Sure there are some rockers out there that aren't to bad but my radio is tuned to classic rock and where I live that's about the only thing they will play. There are other radio stations that play alternative rock, mew soft rock stuff and other types of rock besides classical but their audiences are small, but growing, compared to classic rock.
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I'm quite happy with the latest crop of rock'n'rollers. I've gone to see Kelly Clarkson, Rob Thomas, Creed, Alice in Chains, Joan Osborne, Velvet Revolver, Maroon 5, Kate Voegele, Seether (originally from South Africa), Apocalyptica (a Finnish band that plays blistering hard rock on four cellos), Jesse and Joy (Mexican rockers), Within Temptation (from Holland), and dozens more.

But sure, I've also gone to see Sheryl Crow, Foghat, Janis Ian, Robin Trower, Zappa Plays Zappa, Marti Jones, the Cult, the Doors of the 21st century (with Ian Astbury from The Cult singing). It's all good.
 
The discussion of old vs new got me to thinking about a recent wave of covers of oldies. And some of them are truly ingenious. Just compare this recent adaptation/update of an oldie and judge for yourself.

One eskimO "Kandi"

Candi Staton "He Called Me Baby"

 
Also it occurred to me that "retro" has long been in vogue. See if you agree that this current artist has carved out a new kind of old.

Lana del Rey "West Coast"

 
cosmictraveler said:
Anyone can post anything they are enjoying on this thread I thought. I enjoy the older tunes myself for they depict a more gentle time and a time where lyrics could be understood and heard. Today with death rock and others of the same vein one cannot understand a thing they are saying. Then when you can understand them thy really don't make much sense and aren't very melodic as the older tunes were. I have never said that those posting such music should not do so nor have I expressed for anyones music to be deleted because I don't care for it. I do listen to some of the music from this era but I just can't get into it like I can the older tunes which I use to dance to. Anyone ever dance any more I don't think so because how do you dance to death metal?
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Oh I dance, in the gym, to Enrique mostly, he seems to have made his way into the sh'bam classes on a permanent basis, to which I don't mind. But couples dancing? Went to a birthdayparty some week ago and one of my overly refreshed relatives insisted to dance with me. I still have nightmares about it. It's not my thing, at all. Same goes with Lana. Bitch. :eek:
 
My mp3 player has quite a bit of variation, ranging from soundtrack type music by Immediate Music etc, to classical music by Vivaldi, to older rock songs by bands such as The Who or Queen, to 90s music such as the Manic Street Preachers and so on.
 
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