What's everyone listen to?

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Armacielli

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I know we have a rather diverse age group in here, and not everyone's musical tastes are products of their time. I was wondering to what everyone listens. (I used the awkward sentence structure at the end there to avoid ending it with a preposition partly because Mrs. Barber would be disappointed in me if I did but mostly to appease Cav)

I personally grew up in the wrong decade. While my youth was mainly the 90's, My mother bred me into an 80's fan. I grew up during the time of Hootie and the Blowfish, Nirvanah, and R.E.M. (while good music)I should have grown up with glam rock and hair metal. I still do listen to these 80's music despite popular opinion of others my age, my favorite bands being Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, and
Bob Segar(yeah, I can dig some 70's, too)
I also take a liking to anything with a groove (James Brown comes to mind)
I like what I like despite peer opinion. Like Segar says: "Call me a relic, call me what you will/ Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill/ Today's music ain't got the same soul/ I like that old time rock and roll."

So, what do the rest of you guys like?
 
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I like:

Don Henley/Eagles
Lenny Cravitz
Bon Jovi
Michael Learns to Rock
Toto
Phil Collins
Celine Dion
Faith Hill
KennyG
Whitney Houston
Bryan Adams
Queen
Beatles
Bee Gees
Elvis Presley
Elton John
Cat Stevens
ets, etc

:D
 
Consider me appeased! :D:D:D

Good question. If I could only pick one band, it would be ZZTOPP. Given more choices, I would add Dire Straits, Bob Segar, David Alan Coe, Kris Kristofferson and Tom Petty. I'll cut you a break and not mention my tastes in classical music.
 
Classic Rock, 60's and 70's mostly. My preferred sound is toward the bluesy rock. Stevie Ray Vaughn, Judist Priest, Heart, Bad Company, Grand funk Railroad. But, if it sound good, I listen to it. My latest fave is Back Door Slam from the UK. I even lean toward Heavy Metal on occasion, like Metalica.
 
I grew up in the 60's and 70's so naturally I love clasic rock. No band beats the Beatles IMHO. I do have an older brother so I also like the older oldies too. For 70's and 80's Queen, ZZTOP, Squeeze, Dire Straits, Billy Joel, Robert Gordon, David Bowie and Ron Stewart. There was also a brief time I thought Cat Stevens and Neil
Diamond were tops.
I would like to thank wdcav1952 for sparing us his tastes in classical music.
[}:)] :D
 
Being a teen in the 50's most classic rock on XM 50's on 5 channel 802 on Direct TV,also fan of the outlaws Willie,Waylon,Kris,etc.).
 
I discovered jazz and blues in high school and still listen to it, but not this atonal crap that people try to pass off as jazz. I mean real jazz like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Horace Silver, early Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong. But, my mp3 player also has Bob Segar, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Eagles, Simon and Garfunkel, Buddy Holly, Beach Boys, Leon Redbone and lots of Jimmy Buffett on it.
 
Black Oak Arkansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Sabbath, Doug Kershaw, Moe Bandy and George Jones. From one extreme to another.
 
I span the gamut from 80's hair stuff..Cinderella, Bon Jovi, RATT, GnR, etc. Some blues-rock type stuff....SRV, Jeff Healy(sad face here), Michael Katon, Albert Cummings and my favorite guitarist Joe Bonamassa..... classic rock....Eric Clapton, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who...... softer stuff....Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, Simon & Garfunkel (best sound live I ever heard) etc.....to the modern stuff....Buckcherry, Godsmack, Disturbed, Hinder and current fave Papa Roach.

Just depends on my mood at the time.
 
OK you asked the question......I listen primarly to the blues...Luther Allison, Son Seals, Ronnie Earl, Tinsley Ellis, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era), Robben Ford, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Luther Johnson, Albert King, BB King, Freddie King, Earl Hooker, Robert Lockwood, Doug MacLeod, Duke Robbilard, Magic Slim, Memphis Slim, Omar & the Howlers, Jimmy Dawkins, Kenny "Blue" Ray, John Leee Hooker, Otis Rush, Savoy Brown, Son House, Hubert Sumlin, John Hiatt, Melvin Taylor, Jimmy Thackery, Robin Trout, Robin Trower, U.P.Wilson, Sonny Boy Williamson and lots of others that aren't as well known. Also like the classic groups, ZZ Top, Crosby Stills Nash Young, Stones, Kinks, Who, Ten Years After, the Faces, Procol Harum, Queen, Climax Blues Band, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Moody Blues, Marshall Tucker, Little Feat, Led Zeppelin, Mark Knofler/Dire Straits, Grateful Dead, Elton John, Jethro Tull, Inxs, Dylan, Doors, Doobie Bros., Clapton,..wow getting tired. Seldom listen to classical and country. I have around 1600 CD's and 600 lp's so I can spin alot of discs without having to repeat the same thing.
 
Hey Grunster, I hear you about Jeff Healey. I have most of his albums and it was a shock to hear of his passing. I too like Bonamassa, saw him open for Buddy Guy in Portland. He's quite the guitarist. On the same vein is Robin Trout, check him out if you haven't heard of him.
 
Favorites include

Rock: Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service (early), Janis (with Big Brother), Yes, Savoy Brown, Cream. Never really cared for much that came out after about "72 or so, except for some of the Dead stuff.

Blues: James Harmon, Hollywood Fats, Duke Robillard, Howlin Wolf, Janiva Magnes, Muddy Waters

Country: Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson

Americanna: Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou again, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, David Grisman

Jazz: Miles Davis, Paul Desmond era Brubeck, Django Rheinhardt, Bassie and Ellington, especially their small group stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Herb Ellis, Kenny Burrell

All right, I'll be the first to go this far---

Classical: Mozart, Wagner, Mahler, Beethoven, lots of others.

Dan
 
I listen to both kinds of music. Country....and....Western

And give me early ZZTop like Eliminator Album....She's Got Legs, Sharp-Dressed Man, TV Dinners and Give Me All Your Loving!!!!!!
 
I'm all over the road on this one. I grew up in the 70's, however I really like a lot of the 80's music. My favorites are:
Boston
Journey
Meat Loaf
Led Zeppelin
Queen
Petty
Bon Jovi
Cheap Trick
Faith Hill
Heart
Guns n Roses
Grass Roots
Latest CD I purchased is Daughtry. It's awesome!
 
I'm just gonna throw this out there: I don't know anyone's opinion of Michael Jackson(and I'll be the first to admit that the dude is a freak), but the guy has some good music and he can dance like none other.
 
Originally posted by Armacielli

I'm just gonna throw this out there: I don't know anyone's opinion of Michael Jackson(and I'll be the first to admit that the dude is a freak), but the guy has some good music and he can dance like none other.
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I love his Thriller album but felt it was all down hill from there.
 
Beatles
Simon & Garfunkel
Eyna (if you like Celt everything else is a copy)
Now don't beat me down, Opera. In the shop while turning. Up loud and I sing with it. The neighbors close 500 YDS. away can hear it.
Phil Collins
Have good Bose system in shop.
 
I listen to just about anything except rap and country. At the moment, I tend to gravitate towards contemporary christian music groups such as Third Day, Mercy Me, Casting Crowns, etc.

jeff
 
I'm like Frank... I prefer the silence (as silent as a woodshop can be with the lathe running and the dust collector)... even when I was working in an office that would allow people to play their radios at their desk, they were annoying to me.. I don't even like the radio on when I drive... it's the first thing my wife does when we get in the car...tune in the radio ... she even goes through the house first thing every morning and turns on the TV .. but I get enough noise with my ears ringing all the time.
 
Life is strange, the only place I do listen to music is in the shop. Keeps me from hearing the he wife on the intercom telling me its time for dinner! Trouble is when I don't come when she calls (just like the one dog)she now sends the dogs out to get me. If the door is closed they stand outside and bark. After 28 years of she still does not have me trained.
 
60's and 70's rock. Jimi, Deep Purple, Cream, Eagles, The Who, Janis, Quicksilver, Boston, Steve Miller, SRV, Allman Bros., Doors, Zappa, Jethro Tull, Johnny Winter, Kansas, Marshal Tucker, Paul Butterfield, Santana, Rainbow, Rush, Tom Petty, Steely Dan, Steppenwolf, Yardbirds, Yes, ZZ Top.
My top two are Ambrosia and The Sons of Champlin.
No Country or Rap!!
Too many Blues greats to mention!!
Big Band Jazz like Basie, Ellington, Maynard Ferguson and Stan Kenton.
Off the top of my head.;)[8D]
 
Anything except speed metal or "whiney" country.

Right now I'm listening to Drowning Pool on my MP3 player, before that I had some Digital Underground on. Next will most likely be some CCR, Boston, Beatles followed up by some Rob Base and maybe Metallica.

TM
 
In the shop I have an XM radio. Usually either Hiway 16(16 country) or Big Tracks(49 older rock, not yet "classic"). Then on other time I have the iPod hooked up to the speaker system. This could be Eagles, Jimmy Bufett, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, Big & Rich, The Blues Brothers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Fleetwood Mac, Gary P Nunn, George Thorogood, Jack Ingram, Meat Loaf, Nickelback, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd/.38 Special/VanZant, Sheryl Crow, Texas Tornados/Freddy Fender, Tom Petty, Van Halen, ZZ Top. I could go on but I ned to get back to work.
 
Mostly 30's & 40's Jazz - in particular swing music

Artie Shaw
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Anita O'Day

Current stuff

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Royal Crown Revue
Brian Setzer Orchastra

Are you beginning to se a pattern here?:D

Oh, and Selena;)
 
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