[Nick]

I'm a million percent a music person - there is music in my ears to some degree, all day long. A definite soundtrack that suits my mood or helps to change my mood. As such I guess consider myself a connoisseur of music rather than a fan of any particular genre - my tastes range anywehere from straight up pop music to film scores, jazz, and country music, with anything and everything a possibility in amongst it all!

What about you?
I thought this thread could be a place to share YouTube clips of videos of music that we love. Also - no such thing as a guilty pleasure - just a pleasure!

Let me know what you like to listen to?

[Rolebama]

I have a wide range of musical tastes, from classic to rock with everything in between. One thing I cannot abide though is whatever that bass thing is that emanates from young men's cars when they park outside our local shops.
I used to be in a group in the early 80s which was frequently described as Bizarre Folk. We had the usual 15 seconds of fame in our own lunchtime amongst our following, and I spent many happy hours writing music and lyrics for us.

[Drivingforfun]

Roughly the same here as above, I like most stuff, I quite like a lot of older music that's from well before when I was born. Genesis/Phil Collins, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin etc. 👍 but also some totally opposite stuff like Dolly Parton 😆

[Nick]

As a child of the '80s and '90s a lot of my favourites come from those eras, with a healthy influx of earlier stuff from my parents. I also like music that makes me feel something, whether it's happy, or sad, or anywhere in between. This track from Deacon Blue is one of my favourite songs about hope:

[Rolebama]

I am not associated with them in any way, but recommend Boom Radio. You need a DAB+ radio, or an Alexa-type thing, or a PC to listen to it, but 60s/70s DJs playing 50s/60s/70s/80s music in the main. Memories brought back and plenty of nostalgia stories.

[olduser]

It's powerful stuff is music, it sooths, and yet invigorates, it sets us marching or dancing, and of course the tunes of our youth stay with us.
At the time they were a form of rebellion, our generation cocking a snook at our parents generation.

As a child I knew there would be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, and it was a long way to Tipperary but we would, hang out the washing on the Siegfried line, and meet again some day on mother Kelly's doorstep down paradise row underneath the arches where someone would marry Sally from down our ally after leaning on a lamppost at the corner of our street, and so on.

Later I was taken over by classical music and jazz.

So I was brought up in the days when singers stood on a stage alone, and acted the songs they sang, on special occasions there may be a duet but in the main the singer was the focus of attention.

Then we imported the idea from America that concentrating on the song/singer/music was too hard so we would have a chorus, then even better the chorus could jig about, that's it, movement will stop the audience going to sleep!

I have never understood how anyone can drive and listen to music at the same time?
Apart from the obvious, (driving is a 100% thing, like being pregnant or dead, you are or you are not!) it is an insult to the performer/s.

Unfortunately, I now have a Cochlear Implant, through which music is just a rhythmical noise, I have been unable to relearn musical sounds.

[Nick]

One of my favourite tracks by The Police, King of Pain - Sting is one of my bucketlist live show artists - a list of the artists that I would love to see live. Are you folks in to live music? Do you get to see much?

[Drivingforfun]

@olduser

I'm similar with driving! I like driving and I like to listen to music, but with both of those things I want to concentrate on appreciating it, combining both at once results in a naff version of both

Similar with food to be fair... with the exception of soldiers and mountain explorers and stuff, I don't get eating while working, food is to be enjoyed

[Rolebama]

@olduser Love it! 😁

[Rolebama]

After we had been married a couple of years, my wife told me that I tend to drive faster when we have up-beat music in the car. So for the last 45yrs or so, when she is in the car, she insisted we have down-beat music on. Then along came Classis FM, so that is the now permanent station on the radio. I tend to play my CDs when alone, but when Classic FM play something like this, she casually leans across and turns the radio off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQHGpxrz-8

[NMNeil]

This goes hand in hand with another thread, that of changing tastes as we age.
Back in the day a friend offered me a job as a roadie with a new band, so I went to see them play and though they were complete c**p so I declined. Anyone know whatever happened to a band called Iron Maiden?
So I disliked heavy metal but loved Keb Mo, JJ Cale, Stevie Ray Vaughn etc. As the years went by that music began to get predictable and almost boring
But I watched a movie the other day about Genghis Khan where part of the soundtrack was by a band called the HU who performed Mongolian throat singing. That should have been enough to put me off but I fell in love with it because it was so primitive and basic.

[olduser]

Originally Posted by Drivingforfun

@olduser

I'm similar with driving! I like driving and I like to listen to music, but with both of those things I want to concentrate on appreciating it, combining both at once results in a naff version of both

Similar with food to be fair... with the exception of soldiers and mountain explorers and stuff, I don't get eating while working, food is to be enjoyed

I see food as fuel, I think it comes from liking in the country as a child, we played away from home, and scavenged if we were hungry.
Working in the glass fibre industry, if there was a stoppage the objective was to get restarted ASAP, breaks for food just added to the down time we kept going on endless mugs of sweet tea.
When it was all over, we were very hungry, even a bar of soap looked interesting.😝

[Nick]

As we move into September this song always reminds me of the end of Summer Holidays in the South of France as a boy with my family:

[NMNeil]

Just lately, CW parody 🤣

[Rolebama]

@NMNeil That, and the links, knock my old Star Trekkin' into the weeds. Thanks for sharing.