How broad is your musical taste?

[Morlock 12]

Morlock- who's playlist for the past four days included 3 Zeppelin albums,

I was just listening to Led Zeppelin I the other day. Great album. Stairway to Heaven, The Battle of Evermore, and When The Levee Breaks are all fantastic.

Justin

It is a fantastic album, my favorite Zepplin and one of my all time favorites, just it's Zeppelin IV, not I.

Morlock- who loves all the songs on that album, which is quite a rarity for any album in any genre

[BigMacGyver 0]

I am a purist. 100% filmmusic all the way through. I have listened to more popular music around the age of 6, long before I discovered scores and started collecting them. But over the time, I realized that there is nothing that other genres could give me that filmmusic can't.

In addition, I find listening to the radio is a major annoyance these days. I just can't make it through the bombardement of words during the commercials and there is no point in listening to something like classic radio to catch some bits of filmmusic when I can assemble my own program from my collection.

[pi 0]

I love different things, the more I listen to everything the more I appreciate everything.

Check out Ladysmith Black Mazambo.

[Diego 21]

I like ATMP a lot, but it is far too long with a good share of mediocre stuff on it.  Everything on disc 1 (of the 2CD set) though is great.  "All Things Must Pass" is my favorite George song ever and despite the sub-par material it is my second favorite solo-Beatle album behind Band on the Run.

By the way, some of those songs on ATMP were written before the breakup of the Beatles.  Have you heard the Beatle version of "All Things Must Pass" that is on Anthology 3?

Jeff

"All things must pass" is probably my favorite George song too along with "Beautiful Girl" (from 33 and 1/3). Yes I've heard the Anthology version which is I believe a demo, I've also heard bits of the Beatles playing it on the Let it Be-Get back sessions, with John singing along with George, great stuff, I hope they release it someday. BTW, Paul played it during the Concert for George, so that's another nice version.

As for the album ATMP, it does have some flaws, I really don't count the all the jam stuff as part of the album and some good songs are hurted by Phil Spector's production, and "Hear me Lord" is just boring, but it's still a great album. Band on the Run is excellent too, but my favorite solo-Beatle album is Ram.

[nicholas 1]

I listen predominantly to "classical" music. I wouldn't ever describe myself as a "film music" fan as such, just as a John Williams fan. 95% of my film scores are by him. I occasionally listen buy "pop" or "rock" when something grabs me as being new or interesting.

I find it strange that people can be into film music yet have no interest in "classical." I'd have thought that orchestral film music, at least, had much more in common with "classical" than with "pop" or "rock."

Sorry about all the inverted commas. I'm not comfortable with all these imposed genre definitions.

[MrScratch 296]

As for the album ATMP, it does have some flaws, I really don't count the all the jam stuff as part of the album and some good songs are hurted by Phil Spector's production, and "Hear me Lord" is just boring, but it's still a great album. Band on the Run is excellent too, but my favorite solo-Beatle album is Ram.

So let me ask you, as a Beatle fan who do like better, solo John or solo Paul? I'm really on the fence about this one because no doubt Paul had way more output (even before John died) and more hits but if you take the best of John vs the best of Paul, I think I like Johns best more than Pauls best.

Jeff

[Diego 21]

That's a though and interesting question, I'd say Paul, but I'm biased since I'm a huge Paul fan and I know his output a bit better than John's (I've listened to all of Paul's albums, but I haven't listened to John's "Mind Games" completely or Yoko's stuff on "Double Fantasy").

It's hard to compare since after the break up, they took very different styles. "Plastic Ono Band" can't be compared to anything Paul ever did, it's a great album but it's definitely not easy listening and very strong on lyrics. It's also hard because for example I think Paul's recent works are quite good, but sadly there's nothing from John to compare, too bad I think a lot of great music was to come from John had he not been killed.

John's output after "Imagine" got a little worse I think. "Sometime in New York City" is actually quite bad and with all the political stuff it hasn't aged well at all (I don't know who John Sinclair or Angela are) and it really didn't recover until Double Fantasy, were ironically he's sounding a bit more like the music Paul does. That said the Wings period for Paul, while very fun to listen it's far from being a masterpiece, with the exception of "Band on the run" and Paul's eighties stuff also leaves a bit to be desired.

I understand what you say about Paul's best vs John's best, I too prefer a John greatest hits CD (like Lennon Legend or the almost perfect "working class hero") to a Paul greatest hits. My theory for that though is that Paul's hits are not really his best songs, for example since you're familiar with Band on the Run, one the songs I really like a lot is "Mrs. Vanderbilt" a song no one knows.

Anyway, I get carried away when I talk about this stuff, so sorry for the long rant.

[MrScratch 296]

but I haven't listened to Yoko's stuff on "Double Fantasy")

Ugh, don't. Have you heard Milk & Honey? It's a Double Fantasy type album, half John half Yoko that was released after his death. Some of Johns songs are finished and some were finished demos, but all of them are good. So I like to think of the John parts of Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey (together) as the last John album.

It's also hard because for example I think Paul's recent works are quite good, but sadly there's nothing from John to compare, too bad I think a lot of great music was to come from John had he not been killed.

Yes, like I said Milk & Honey is great and I read that John was planning on touring again, he talked about playing everything from his early Beatle stuff to his new stuff. Can you imagine? (pun)

John's output after "Imagine" got a little worse I think. "Sometime in New York City" is actually quite bad and with all the political stuff it hasn't aged well at all (I don't know who John Sinclair or Angela are) and it really didn't recover until Double Fantasy, were ironically he's sounding a bit more like the music Paul does. That said the Wings period for Paul, while very fun to listen it's far from being a masterpiece, with the exception of "Band on the run" and Paul's eighties stuff also leaves a bit to be desired.

Yes, as much I like Wings, it's just basically rock music. John's music always had depth and meaning behind it. And yes, Sometime in NYC = awful.

I understand what you say about Paul's best vs John's best, I too prefer a John greatest hits CD (like Lennon Legend or the almost perfect "working class hero") to a Paul greatest hits. My theory for that though is that Paul's hits are not really his best songs, for example since you're familiar with Band on the Run, one the songs I really like a lot is "Mrs. Vanderbilt" a song no one knows.

I love Mrs Vanderbilt, and I also like Picasso's Last Words and Let Me Roll It. You are right though, a lot of Pauls solo hits are pretty bad... Silly Love Songs, My Love, Let 'Em In, Listen To What The Man Said. Even Hey Jude (the Beatles biggest hit, 9 weeks at number one) is one of my least favorite Beatle songs.

Jeff

[nightscape94 968]

I was just listening to Led Zeppelin I the other day. Great album. Stairway to Heaven, The Battle of Evermore, and When The Levee Breaks are all fantastic.

Then you were obviously listening to Led Zeppelin IV :?

Tim

[Diego 21]

Have you heard Milk & Honey?  It's a Double Fantasy type album, half John half Yoko that was released after his death.  Some of Johns songs are finished and some were finished demos, but all of them are good.  So I like to think of the John parts of Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey (together) as the last John album.

I have (again not the Yoko songs), "Nobody told me" is one of my top 5 Lennon songs. I actually burnt a CD with that concept some time ago, as a last John album, only I think I put the anthology version of "I'm losing you" and "Grow old with me" with the orchestal arrengement by George Martin which is very beautiful (a bit over the top though). That way it's actually one of the best albums.

It's heartbreaking to hear John sing "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be..." knowing what happened shotly after that. Considering Double Fantasy, Milk and Honey and some other demos he left (like the ones the other three Beatles "completed") it's obvious John was at a high point in his career when he was murdered, so sad.

After seeing Paul in concert, we can only imagine how amazing it would have been to see John, or maybe even a Beatle reunion, not to record though that would have been a bad idea, but a concert with modern technology so they could actually hear themselves, it would have been fab!

And yes, Wings did have a string of rather borings singles, the most amazing to me is "Let'em in", it's long, it's repetitive, it's boring, neither the lyrics or the melody are nothing special, Paul's performance is nothing special either (you know there are a few songs that don't have much going for them, but Paul's great vocals make them worth listening), yet it was a hit. It reached No. 2 I think!

[Romão 2,473]

Morlock- who's playlist for the past four days included 3 Zeppelin albums,

I was just listening to Led Zeppelin I the other day. Great album. Stairway to Heaven, The Battle of Evermore, and When The Levee Breaks are all fantastic.

Justin

It is a fantastic album, my favorite Zepplin and one of my all time favorites, just it's Zeppelin IV, not I.

Morlock- who loves all the songs on that album, which is quite a rarity for any album in any genre

Houses of the Holy is my favorite. It's like a huge suite.

[nightscape94 968]

Oh, I didn't see that someone already correct the particular Led Zeppelin album that those songs are on. My bad.

Tim

[John McClane 1]

Morlock- who loves all the songs on that album, which is quite a rarity for any album in any genre

That's very true, it's doesn't happen often with me as well. Now that I think of, of all my 400+ CDs, there probably are less than 5 that I could listen from start to finish without skips.

[BLUMENKOHL 1,110]

Anything that's not rap, or polka...I can enjoy.

[Justin 2]

Oh, I didn't see that someone already correct the particular Led Zeppelin album that those songs are on.  My bad.

Tim

Indeed. My bad.

Justin

[John McClane 1]

Anything that's not rap.

That's the risk of generalizing too much.

There's rap and rap, that's rap with beat and few melody, there's rap with a lot of melody. Very different type of lyrics, very different style of beats, very different melodies. "Rap" is as much various as "rock".

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,386]

90% of it is about the exact same thing though.

[John McClane 1]

You mean the lyrics?

In that case, then you don't know much rap. Rap isn't just "yo" and "Parental advisory explicit content" words. That is a common place for mainstream and commercial rap.

[Morlock 12]

Maybe the lyrics are varied, but the beats and melodies are not amazingly varied. I've heard more variety in some of the best rock albums I have than in all the rap songs I've heard (I'm talking exculsively rap here, not hip-hop).

[Johnnyecks 44]

There are many different styles of music that I like to listen to. It all depends on my mood. While the bulk of my music collection is reigned on with soundtracks, I do listen to a bunch of others. Ranging from musicals, to Celion Dion. Against All Authority to, Def Leppord. From Classical to Eddie Izzard.

I have in my collection;

Spoken word (comedy albums, and everything Garrison Keillor has put onto cd)

Musicals

Wyndham Hill New Age music

Enya

Rock

Punk

Ska

Caberet music

Elbis

The Faint (ska-techno ish)

Manheim Steamroller music

Midnight Syndicate

Disney

80's collections

and so on and so forth.

I listen to every type of music except;

Bollywood

Rap

Hip Hop

R&B

(Which I cannot determine a difference between those last three... it's all undeciperhable crap to me)

and

Country.