Music Tastes?

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:12 pm

anyone here into Jazz 'n Blues?

dubpolo · Post by **dubpolo** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:02 pm

blues is quite good but i hate jazz! it has no beat!

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Fri May 13, 2005 8:37 pm

dubpolo wrote:...jazz! it has no beat!

riiiiiiiiiiight... Anyone else?

toXXin · Post by **toXXin** » Fri May 13, 2005 8:40 pm

I'll listen to anything.

Present me with a good tune, and I'll happily enjoy it.

I have to say, I can't name any Jazz or Blues artists though :S

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:20 pm

Yeah...... from time to time. Couldn't be too much of an expert though. I can recognise Ray Charles and maybe some Miles Davis / a couple other really, really big names, and that would be about it. It's easy going garnish on my not-as-alternative-as-i'd-like-to-pretend main course of rock, pop, and dance.

Mini sized threadjack!
Right now* though I AM just rocking back and forth through a massive slab of M J Hibbett and the Validators that I bought last week. Turns out what I thought was their "new" album actually came out in 2003.... ouch

It is utterly superb, however, and so - mostly - is the deleted 7"s collection that followed (and the pair of EPs i also nabbed ... all 4 from the website, for thirty quid, delivered two days later in a well padded jiffy bag with a hand written address and personalised compliments slip - a touch of class).

I'd highly reccommend you check him / them out

Waiting on my Spray and Jims Big Ego CDs too, also fantastic, yet undeservedly small-time bands. I think it may well be the passing-over of the spotlight that gives them the extra drive to be brill. Cult favourites that get a fair bit of TV / indie film tracklisting but never quite make it onto radio further than Peel-esque and student programmes as they're not quite cookie-cutter commercial enough.

* right now, as in, an MP3 disc containing ripped copies of the tunes off those discs (plus a few other recent purchases / borrows / steals) was burning as i wrote that and is about to.... is... has just ejected from the CDRW drive..... whilst Winamp played Fat Was A Feminist Issue, Good Cooking and Easily Impressed.
/jack

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:48 pm

that's pretty cool, gunna have to go find some of their stuff then by the looks of it (unless you can hook me up with a copy?

)

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri May 13, 2005 10:57 pm

er, mkay, well its not exactly blues and jazz stuff though i suppose there is some influence ....... maybe?

i can certainly drop you some websites where you can download and/or splash out to buy one or two, depends on how flush you are to randomly experiment (suppose i'd better put my flak jacket on if you try that & hate it all

)

or...... *casts eye over a couple largely forgotten packs of TDK FE-90s* there's always the oldskool mix tape, which is maybe a better way to put together a hollywood trailer style introduction (i.e. spoil it for you by giving away all the best bits)...
while im at it i could include BeatCivilian, a local outfit i've followed on and off since they were The Retards - and in my class. Still haven't got any worse... still haven't moved very far (they're bunking in a house next to the local station) but the style has changed a lot from punk to ... well, i dont know what it is, but it's a lot more chilled though there's some remnant of ska in there somewhere

damn, it's been ages since i did a good mixjumble tape. the odd cdr, yeah, but no tapage. it's a forgotten art... juggling the stuff so it neatly fits each side (FEs are usually 46m 40secs, factfans!) but still holds together as a tasty segue.

hmmm.. *casts eye over keyboard* i don't remember staring at any light bulbs, why have my keys got a pinkish tinge? *spots red splodges on fingers* .... oh, i knew that CD pen was crap, but this is.... argh! (well, thats definately any cdr business quashed until i can clean up and get replacements). ew. i hope it's easy to get red "permanent" marker out of eighteen year old plastic.

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:32 pm

cheers,

ruddy CR-R marker pens! Had black fingers the other day from a cheep set of pens

. I'll probably ask a mate about people he's heard.

Then again there's the "Blue's 'n Jazz" bar back in my home town

. I'll probably spend the spare days over the summer in there

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:34 pm

lol heres where i make a tape, send it, and get a response online four days later to the tune of "what's this crap you've sent me? i thought it was going to be something totally different"

(the beauty of it is of course....... they're easily "recyclable")

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:36 pm

Tahrey1043 wrote:lol heres where i make a tape, send it, and get a response online four days later to the tune of "what's this crap you've sent me? i thought it was going to be something totally different"

(the beauty of it is of course....... they're easily "recyclable")

oh on that note, don't worry about making a tape.... Only reason being I haven't got a tape player on my house at home or at uni

but thanks anyway

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:01 am

lol in that case...... i could do a cd

kind of in the swing of it now. been ages since i made a mix disc for anyone but myself, too. no one i know has had a birthday with a party recently

though im sure you'd understand if i dont label it at all and just include a cd case insert or something..

... i think i'm going to have to crack open the vodka to get this stuff out. One shot for the keyboard and my fingers, three shots for my head.

13twelve · Post by **13twelve** » Sat May 14, 2005 6:42 pm

jazz musicians are having far more fun than anyone listening to it.

having said that, jazz musicians are often very talented.

a thread like "music tastes?" is dangerous though: people get very protective over their taste in music

even though music itself doesnt judge
it does seem fit to judge people by it

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sat May 14, 2005 7:51 pm

i pretty much like everything when the mood is right, but dislike hard rock cos it just does my head in
prefer rap, hip-hop (underground & unreleased) basically stuff that people dont listen too!
-Ben-

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat May 14, 2005 8:09 pm

you mean stuff that you can't listen to, because all you can do is feel it after your ears shut down with the volume?

i tell you what has been a surprise - country music these days is actually very enjoyable. its not all the old don't steal my man / i'm driving a truck nonsense of days gone by any more. and it's pretty cool. (been exposed to a lot of it my mum's radio 2 habit..... still can't hack the godawful showtunes that come on afterwards though)