Northern Soul, Ska, 60's, Disco, Funk & Soul (I do like a wee boogie. 7 pints usually triggers it - particularly if bit of Boogie Wonderland comes on. Yip, Neil Sedaka, Luther Vandross, War on Drugs, Saults and all things Burt Bacharach.
Music I like. Not in any order:
Meatloaf, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Beatles, Bee Gees, ABBA, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, Ed Sheeran.
Mozart, Beethoven, Max Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Ralph Vaughn-Williams, Antoine Dvorak.
Northern Soul, Ska, 60's, Disco, Funk & Soul (I do like a wee boogie. 7 pints usually triggers it - particularly if bit of Boogie Wonderland comes on. Yip, Neil Sedaka, Luther Vandross, War on Drugs, Saults and all things Burt Bacharach.
Very sad news this evening on the music front, that Eddie Van Halen has left us, aged just 65. Dont know why, but just makes we want to weep, a gifted, you might say inspirational musician, taken way too early, not right, not fair, not just.
Was certainly into a lot of the bands mentioned thus far...and then when I wanted to mellow out somewhat, I'd switch to the likes of Cat Stevens, Donovan, Neil Diamond (early days)....
Industrial goth. Anything out of Ireland from Planxty to Horselips to Kopec.
Depache Mode, Tea Party, Dave Matthews, Chris Rea, Jim Jones Review.
Velvet acid Christ, Dead Can Dance.
Usual 60’s 70’s 80’s...
Rip EVH.
Love music of all calibre depending on my 'mindset of the moment' and all folks choices above I like too.At the 'mo Royal Blood is on my headset.
Choosing to work through the night to accommodate family life I always go to bed with Ralph Vaughan Williams playing (Lark Ascending,my favourite).For years my good buddy Leeds fan Alan Moulder (the record producer) without fail once a week at 3am (as he works through the nights) sends me a 30 minute demo of what he's working on and what's trending - so I'm always all ears for new stuff good or bad and have quite a backlog of demos off him.
For 'school runs' I'm presently 'enduring' French progressive reggae/ska dubs that my kids are into which is surprisingly okay.
When Cycling,running I listen only to metal especially Pantera.
If driving alone I only listen to mellow Irish folk/Breton folk stuff nowadays.
If in a bad mood (very rare) Rage Against the Machine will be on loud or Beastie Boys.
For the tough moments of life The Editors,Placebo,Ian Brown,Fleetwood Mac and yes the Smiths have got me through some lows.
Yep,sounds of the Stones,Hendrix,Kinks,Doors,Faces,Beach Boys,Led Zep,Deep Purple,Cream,T- Rex,Slade,Alice Cooper,Black,Sabbath,Eddie and the Hotrods,Pistols,Sham 69,Ian Dury of Punk era,Stray Cats,Dr Feelgood,Joy Division,all Electo stuff particularly Depeche Mode,AC/DC,Stone Roses are all floating around the home at the ready if required.
Out and about I love to hear buskers playing live street music, whatever wherever especially the sounds of a French accordion and banjo.
I do like to collect late 50s/60s/70s Ska/early Dub,Rocksteady Reggae vinyl and have a decent collection built up cheaply as it's widely available in my nearby cultural quarters of Nantes and Paris for me.
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Sisters of Mercy - Ben Gunn their guitarist was a real character and helps many folks through Mental illness initiatives,nothing was to much trouble for him to do.Blokes a unsung hero to many including my daughter.Top geezer !
MOT
This weeks song for me, as the anniversary of my wife's passing approaches, is Sandy by the Hollies. The last concert we went to together in Harrogate was the Hollies, now fronted by my old school pal Peter Howorth, who does an amazing job. I went and had a chat with Peter in the interval for which my wife gave me a rollocking for disturbing him 'at work'. Peter dedicated Sandy to my missus, we cried all the way through it. A brilliant piece written by Bruce Springs**** and later recorded by him as Asbury Park 4th July.