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| From | "Judy B" <HeyJude@socal.rr.com> |
| Subject | Preferences.... |
| Date | Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:38:32 -0700 |
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Right, Greg. I agree with you. I do listen to the newer material. I even
went to IPO Nashville and will go to IPO Los Angeles as much as possible
because I love music. The Dollyrots are great. My son plays them on his
Live365 show, too. We talked to them in Nashville. They are really nice
kids and very talented. But, I am still discovering so much obscure older
material, too. I am tired of the Top 40 songs from the past and that's why
I don't listen much to oldies radio, but I love finding older, more obscure
songs that I missed growing up since all I knew was Top 40 material. There
is so much out there that we never heard (or that some heard but others
never did depending upon where you lived...we had Gloria by Them here in the
L.A. area but others in other parts of the country got the Shadows of Knight
version which I didn't even know until the last few years and don't like
very much).
So, I mainly listen to music on my computer here and most of it is very
obscure from some of the earlier artists. I have made up a bunch of CD's
for my car of these songs, too.
I do like newer songs and artists. I just listened to my son's latest radio
show last night and it was great (Arthur Bang). I just prefer late '50s,
'60s, and some '70s and '80s material. I guess we all have our special
preferences....some prefer jazz, some prefer R & B, some prefer Doo Wop,
some prefer pop, some prefer British Invasion. I like it all except rap but
I still prefer the older sound and my very favorites are the '60s Brit
songs. I guess that's what I was trying to convey. I love instrumentals,
too, but we don't hear too many new ones anymore.
This is a great topic, though. What are all of your preferences in music?
I would assume most here prefer pop - new and old!
HeyJude (Judy)
www.superoldies.com
www.topshelfoldies.com
for the best in obscure '50s and '60s music
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: some stuff, both new and old
> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:23:31 -0700
> From: "Judy B" <HeyJude@socal.rr.com>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: favorite songs growing up...
> Message-ID: <013001c44d85$b44582e0$628e1c41@homesystem>
>
> Haha, Barry! I know what you mean! Boy, I miss my KHJ. It was just a
> magical time......the station, the music, the '60s. We can't live in the
> past, but I listen to my old music most of the time. I still prefer it.
I
> guess every generation is like that!
>
> I suppose so, but once again I will happily delight in being the
contrarian
> to generational stereotypes. If I had to spend most of my time listening
to
> the music upon which I cut my teeth back in the day, as much as I love it,
> I'd go nuts. Besides, just like Josh Chasin I have heard every Beatles
song
> so many times that I can spin each one in the ol' mental jukebox anytime
> that I choose.* "I want something new" is my motto.
>
> I realize, though, that I've been somewhat remiss on Audities lately with
> regard to revealing what new stuff's been rotating around my CD spindle.
> Considering how much new music I pick up every spring when IPO comes to
> town, I should be sharing my discoveries more. Having still only worked my
> way through about a quarter of the CDs I picked up at IPO Chicago, here's
a
> couple that've jumped out at me thus far:
>
> Last Of The Showmen, *Darker Side Of Light* -- Last Of The Showmen is a
> Chicago-area quartet that has a very aggressive sound, a bit early Cheap
> Trick-y with a generous helping of the Buzzcocks ladled in. Terrific songs
> -- it's a 14-song album that doesn't get appreciably weaker towards the
end
> the way that you'd expect of a lengthy debut -- and Adrian Dimu is a solid
> singer. They didn't wow me live at IPO, but based upon the album I figure
> that I should give them at least another shot in a club setting in which
> they're playing their full set.
>
> The Dollyrots, s/t EP -- Dunno if they've landed a recording deal or not
> yet, but this female-fronted, L.A.-based punkpop trio is more fun than a
> bagful of squirrels with sparklers tied to their tails. Part of L.A.'s
Kiss
> Or Kill punkpop scene, the Dollyrots have a nice sweet-and-sour combo
going
> with the tough menace of their sound combined with the insouciantly
> kittenish vocals of their bass player. And the songs are good, especially
> "Kick Me To the Curb", "New College", and "Jackie Chan". They aren't
likely
> to change the world, and they aren't doing anything new, but what they're
> doing they do well. RIYL the Donnas and the Muffs.
>
> Plus, there's an old LP from '87 that I've just acquired that's been
taking
> up a lot of my listening time lately: The self-titled debut from the
Bears.
> *Great* album, and anyone who's skeptical that the trademark avant-garde
> squall of Adrian Belew's guitar is suitable for a power-pop context will
be
> disabused of those doubts after just one listen. Belew and his three
cohorts
> sound like they had the time of their lives recording this. The songs are
> uniformly excellent, and although they're pretty basic pop songs they
> certainly aren't rote genre exercises; they take a wide array of twists
and
> turns that, coupled with Belew's skronk and some nice vocal interplay
> between Belew and fellow guitarist/vocalist Mike Fetters, really make the
> album distinctive. I don't know if this has ever been made available on
CD,
> but I'd highly recommend it in whatever format in which it's available.
>
>
>
> Gregory Sager
>
> * Well, I might have a bit of difficulty mentally working my way through
> "Revolution 9"
>
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