Re: How much applause is too much ?
- From: "George Z. Bush" <georgezbush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 05:13:53 -0400
emily2@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:43:10 -0700, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My favourite decade for pop music was the '60s, with the
Animals, Beatles, and Stones at the beginning, and with
Janis Joplin and Pink Floyd with Roger Waters at the end.
That's largely in retrospect though, since I didn't get into
Janis Joplin until she was dead, or Pink Floyd until I met an
Italian guy in Amsterdam who was really into them in 1972.
The only Animals song I could identify is "House of the Rising Sun".
I never got into the Beatles except for "Let It Be", and always
preferred the Joan Baez version. I wouldn't know Pink Floyd if I met
him/them in the middle of the road. I like a couple of Stones songs
-- You Can't Always Get What You Want and Memory Motel. The only
Janis Joplin songs I ever liked, and I liked them very much, were
Bobby McGee and Mercedes Benz.
I missed a lot of music groups because I stopped listening to the
radio sometime in the 60s, but somehow I stumbled onto Jackson Browne,
Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Jimmy Buffett and a few others. I
could be content listening to the music I have without ever hearing
anything new for the rest of my life.
I'd recorded a Bruce Springsteen thing that was on PBS recently and we
watched it last night. My husband is from NJ and apparently it's
required that if you're from NJ, you have to like Bruce. I've liked a
few of his older songs and some of the folk stuff he's done more
recently, but most of the other stuff he did at this concert, which
was in Dublin, Ireland, seemed to me to have about four lines which
were repeated endlessly. That seems to be the current trend if the
music I've been subjected to recently is representative. It must make
writing songs pretty simple.
Music, like so many other things, is an acquired taste. I've never been
fond of operas, but I did appreciate the magnificence of Pavarotti's voice.
My favorite music is classical with the swing music of the late 30s and 40's
a close second. Some soft rock is pretty good, although I never much cared
for the hard stuff or heavy metal stuff. I put jazz, country and western in
about the same category.....I can take them or leave them, but given my
druthers, I'd leave them.
George Z.
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