Let there be music
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Music Inspired Art (M.I.A) music links/lyrics requiredLike most people I like music. Nothing unusual about that of course. Other than news broadcasts I listen to it most of the time. I have almost two days’ music on my iPod. Nothing unusual I hear you say. You are right.
My taste in music is eclectic. Again nothing unusual.
But it is the style/s of music I listen to that is perhaps a little different. Or maybe not so different.
As an adolescent in the so-called Psychedelic Sixties I liked the Psychedelic style and it has prevailed in one sort or another ever since. Starting with artists like Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Prunes, The Beatles, of course, and The Byrds to name a few. Into the Seventies a little heavier with artists like Cream, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath before I went out in to the unknowns of space with the emerging German electronic bands Tangerine Dream, Cluster, Klaus Schultze and the Progressive Rock purveyors Yes, Moody Blues, Hawkwind, King Crimson and the Cosmic Jokers. Then into the Eighties with the Industrials Test Department, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Nurse With Wound on to the post-Industrials like Skinny Puppy, Lust Morde, In The Nursery, Legendary Pink Dots, Zoviet France et al. Through all this, and since, folk and world music are there as well with artists Ravi Shankar, Loreena McKennitt, Dead Can Dance, Azam Ali and Clannad. Not forgetting the experimental sound collages and numerous soundtrack excerpts (mostly from Sci Fi and Horror films). Heavy Metal is represented by My Dying Bride, Arcturus and Rammstein. And there are a few Classical bits there too.
Anyway I must be sounding like a stuck record so I will now turn off the music, for now.
adgray
I too would rather listen to music all my waking hours than have the TV on
[Oh how I loathe and detest advertisements!]
Music helps to feed my creative style and calm my inquisitive nature
Being a singer of all styles I have sung every style from Gregorian Chant through to Heavy metal [mind you I skip hip hop and just cant get the right grunt to techno!] So I have such a wide eclective taste that I cannot list all my favourite artists.
All the classics, All the folk I have ever heard in as many different renditions as there are recordings. Most of the Jazz [although acid jazz is an acquired taste] All of the Swing, Most blues [yes it can be repetitious] and Most of the soul. Then there is our Australian country rock and the gorgeous tones of Most of our pop. But I’ve never owned the records as a child nor could I tell you who played what I have only my preferences and gladly the radio station I listen to [Vega 91.5] gives me all the music I love.
Thanks for sharing the love of Oral Art :o)
retepk
Thank you, adgray.
Elizium
Wow! great eclectic array of music! As a kid i loved Rock, Thrash, Death metal….then i heard Nick Drake and then the whole gamut of musical colours opened up to me….I’m still a Rockhead at heart but there’s so many other beautiful soundscapes out there…..I saw Yes about 4 years ago and they blew me away!!!
retepk
Thanks Elizium its good to hear from another Rockhead.
MuscularTeeth
i like a good chunk of those bands mentioned.
retepk replied
Thanks mate.
blamo
I grew up on most of them too ever heard NEU krautrock band retepk
retepk replied
Yes I had a couple of their vinyl albums back in the late 70s and still have three tracks of theirs on the Ipod. Yeah there was also Can, Cluster, Novalis, Harmonia, Kraftwerk (of course), Cosmic Jokers, Wahnfried, Grosschnitt, and the list goes on. Great stuff. A lot of it can be found on ITunes. I’m still into the early material of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schultze .
Thank you for your comment Blamo.
Cheers.
blamo
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you certainly know your music retepk…...........i see harmonia a few years back in London