What is your favorite music...:)

[Philothei]

Just for fun.... This thread is for posting your favorite music...

This is not a debate thread...

I will start first...

With Phil Collins... one of my favorite singers

One of my favorite songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftlYLcEW_I4&feature=related






This version is as beautiful...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMrmJ4Zva4&feature=related


Also our very own Othodox "Free Monks". Actually they are a brotherhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAX2bdceU3E&NR=1


Glo1 (thanks for the encouragment... )

 

[Arthra]

Classical (Russian composers) for me but sometimes folk or Bluegrass...

- Art

 

[BruceDLimber]

Greetings, greetings!

Classical (Russian composers) for me...

Art, you should hear the concert we sang at the North American Baha'i Temple's annual choral festival (200 voices!) in Wilmette, IL this spring!

One of the songs we did is "Salvation is Created," which was composed by Chesnokov. Tragically, due to the Stalinist regime he never got to hear it performed before he died in the 1940's. It's a truly gorgeous piece which, as is generally true of Russian Orthodox music, has truly high soprano notes and truly low bass notes!

There will be a CD and DVD of the concert coming out shortly (and you may be able to hear part of it on an upcoming Baha'i Newsreel, too).

So now you have something to watch for.

Best,

Bruce

 

[BruceDLimber]

Hi!


>What is your favorite music?


In general, my favorite is Renaissance music (aka "early music"), with the occasional foray into radical, new-age stuff like Johann Sebastian Bach!


As to Baha'i-oriented music, I sing in three different Baha'i choirs (I'm a second bass), including two touring choirs!


And while I like all of that music, I'd have to say my single favorite piece is "Render Thanks," which was composed by Tom Price.


Oh--and I'll just add that the Baha'i scriptures stress very effusively how important and how uplifting music, singing, and chanting can be!


Best regards,


Bruce

 

[PassionFruit]

I like all sorts of music, because I seem to listen to pretty much anything. I like Japanese pop music. Hikaru Utada is one of my favorite Japanese pop artist. I'm in Arabic rap music, it's actually quite nice.

I also like alternative rock, R&B, early rap music (like Run DMC). Though every now and then I like to listen to Kanye West. And I like smooth jazz.

 

[sidhe]

I've been rocking the '80s lately...Dead or Alive, Nena, Depeche Mode, Squeeze...good stuff.

 

[Eudaimonist]

The 80's is still the Golden Age of pop music for me. It was creative and varied, and had something for everyone. When the quality of pop music hit bottom in the 90's and the current decade, I only like various alternative music, such as techno, trance, industrial, and some others.

However, here is something I like from the 70's... from Japan!

It's the theme song to the seminal japanese animation Uchuu Senkan Yamato, otherwise known as Space Battleship Yamato or Star Blazers. It's sung by the original artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHORDBZuOA


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Sitswithamouse]

I love 80's music.
Nik Kershaw
Howard Jones
10cc Amongst others.

I like allsorts of music from Heavy metal to classical. I'm not too keen on rap music , although I do like the old skool rap like Run DMC.
Nirvana and Foo fighters
My chemical Romance
Aerosmith
Pink floyd.

Just a few there to be getting a long with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqqXMXpyAkE&NR=1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjVVS96GYc

 

[sidhe]

Other stuff I enjoy - Jeff Buckley and the rest of that anti-folk movement, especially Ani Difranco (three good things came from Buffalo, NY - the wings, Ani, and Eudaimonist).

And I'm a Mike Patton fan. Not liking Mike Patton is a sign of a failure in moral fiber. While you were sleeping last night, Mike Patton probably created a work of art that would make you weep with its beauty and make you nauseated with how uncomfortable you are (re: "Retrovertigo"). Or did something hopelessly syrupy and poppy (re: "Pink Cigarette"). Or just straight-up offensive (re: "The Girls of inappropriate content"). The above are all with the late, great, Mr. Bungle. Or he did something just incredibly bizarre...like the entire series of Fantomas albums. Or he sold out one persona to make money to support another, like when he used his royalties as the frontman of Faith No More to invest in Mr. Bungle. In other words - whatever you did last night, Mike Patton did it better. Including if you were intimate with your SO. Mike Patton came to your house and did it better than you. That's why they're in a good mood this morning.

And, for his comments on Wolfmother, Mike Patton should be made a god. He was getting interviewed at some festival, and Wolfmother was doing their set far in the background. The great Mr. Patton cuts off the interviewer and demands to know who's playing. Upon learning the name "Wolfmother," he nods, and proceeds to rant about how the '70s were over, Led Zeppelin did this better, and that "Wolfmother - you suck. I just thought you should know."

For those of you who can't figure it out - I'm a Mike Patton fan.

 

[Philothei]

Thank you all for your responses... wow I guess those of us who grew up in the 80's are "stuck in time"...lol.... I also like the 80's music. I also like techno and rock but not heavey metal... I like soft rock mostly.

Gethro tull was my favorite growing up I loved their music. Their mixture of intstruments... and their vocals. They were "passe" for my times but still liked them. They such a good example of how folk music can blend with rock...

One kind of music that I never listen to is country... No matter what kind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUw6t3b6oE&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Q2L1Tt1Hk&NR=1

And from the Greek this is what I like artists who use traditional folk instruments...this is one of the "easy listening" ones.The same artist has more traditional ones.

edit: I had to add another song, the previous link was not working...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5F20PGDjw&feature=related

 

[Kutte]

Toccata d-minor. BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Kutte

 

[Arthra]

Thanks Bruce for sharing that piece of music by Pavel Chesnokov.. I'm looking forward to it! Here's some information about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Grigorievich_Chesnokov

Here's a You-tube of the House of Worship Choir:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1mjbbW_wZU

- Art

 

[Secundulus]

I like especially 17th and 18th century Baroque and any of the hard rock from the 70's, especially Led Zepplen, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, ZZ Top, Nazereth, and at the top of the list - Lynard Skynard.

I also like Enya, Celine Dion, Enigma, Blondie, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

Pretty diverse huh.

My all time favorite is this song, which is about God, but which the artist says has nothing to do with Christianity. (kind of hard to believe given the words)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epow4VXhnW0

 

[Sitswithamouse]

I like especially 17th and 18th century Baroque and any of the hard rock from the 70's, especially Led Zepplen, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, ZZ Top, Nazereth, and at the top of the list - Lynard Skynard.

I also like Enya, Celine Dion, Enigma, Blondie, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

Pretty diverse huh.

My all time favorite is this song, which is about God, but which the artist says has nothing to do with Christianity. (kind of hard to believe given the words)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epow4VXhnW0

I love that song too, it gets me on so many levels.

I like a lot of the 80's rock Bon Jovi being my top favourite and Def Lepperd.

 

[Pogue]

I like quite an odd range of music- Irish folk music is probably the most normal genre I like, especially when it goes into punk (the Pogues!). I also like more traditional bands like the Dubliners, the Clancys and the Chieftans, and then American Irish bands like Flogging Molly- anything but the Dropkick Murphys.
And then there's German music- I secretly love Rammstein, die Toten Hosen and die Aerzte. E Nomine are also growing on me.
The weirdest would have to be Frisian pop music. They do covers of Beatles songs...in Frisian. And finally, I'm starting to like the music of Jaques Brel.

 

[Druweid]

Greetings!

I have a quite a wide range of taste myself, but if I had to choose my most favorite, it would have to be Queen.

Unless you are, or have been, a fan, here's one you may not have seen before. It's a particular favorite of mine. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvWuZ7pfyY
-- Druweid

 

[Philothei]

wow you guys I love that Jane Osborne song... I always trying to find songs that talk about God.. Thanks Secundulus. Melancholy nice choice of bands... from 80's...Also Pogue what a variety of European music cool....Druweid thanks for the Queen song

Arthra that choir is magnificent... I love Russian slavonic and this just sounded so wonderful...

Some of our (easter Orthodox) Ecclesiastical music that is after all my favorite as I listen to it not only every Sunday but also everyday...


"Lord I have cried out to you" This is from psalm (septuagint 140) Mazoretic 140.
It is chanted during vespers service... Byzantine style chanting that is characteristic of the Greek, Antiochean, Jerusalem and maybe Alexandrian Patriarchates...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yys0Y1MSMg&feature=related

Some sacred Russian Music of Tchaikovsky Music that the Slavic Orthodox Churches so beautifully chant...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rftjRraJLEU&feature=related

 

[HumbleSiPilot77]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1XETZvQ0Do

 

[sidhe]

And, to plug them again -

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Similarly, Babalon will make you swoon in ecstasy.

 

[Thekla]

die Toten Hosen

gotta admit, "Hip Hop Bommi Bop Bop" w/ Freddie Love is one of my favorite die Toten Hosen singles