Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
What are you listening to? Part III
- Thread starter S.B.G
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Share A Little Joke - Jefferson Airplane...Being a bass player since the late 60's, Jack Casady has totally blown my mind and made me a better player. I bow to him, the bass god!
I've seen The Dead many times since the late 60's, early 70's in New York..... .. It was a heavenly experience my friend. What else can I say??
What a fantastic selection of really wonderful classic music - well chosen, great stuff.
As to what I am listening to, it is a wonderful, haunting, bitter-sweet song called 'Hawai'i 78'. Listen to those lyrics. The singer is the extraordinary Hawaiian singer/songwriter/composer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
With an exquisite heart-breaking aching beauty. I have a CD of his greatest hits on my iTunes (and iPods). Awesome.
Another of his songs that I love is "Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World" - a song that always 'gets' me right in the solar plexus, that place where reluctant acknowledgement of piercing pain and aching beauty converge.
I love sharing my musical taste with people like you who probably didn't live through the 60's and 70's. I'm guessing you're fairly young, but have s great appreciation for quality music. If you're old like me, I TOTALLY apologize. Anyway, I always get a kick out of your comments. Seriously makes me feel good..
Actually, I am probably somewhat older than you seem to think; I was an undergrad in the 80s, which would indicate that some of the music from the 60s and 70s is not exactly alien to my ear.
Having said that, my musical tastes are very broad and eclectic - there is little, musically, that I dislike (although rap, hip hop, and heavy metal and uber-heavy techno do challenge me to view them as music rather than noise ..)
I'm not sure why I thought you were much younger than me. Sorry about that. BTW, I was born in 1952
Basically I'm not into the music made today. After the 90's ended, I haven't come across anything that interests me musically. That being said, I especially dislike rap, hiphop, techno, although I do like some older heavy metal like Metallica, etc.
Well, I am a fair bit younger than you, just not around a quarter of a century or so younger than you!
Therefore, in fairness, when I was growing up, my parents never really made much of a distinction between types of music. I was encouraged to listen to classical music, but they also liked jazz and popular music, so I am from a world where it was considered quite normal to want to listen to both Bach and the Beatles.
However, I am from a world where a lot of teenage identity did derive from music - as I posted earlier, we did spend ages arguing about, and listening to, and discussing, and debating music, musical choices, musical preferences, and making character judgements based on musical preferences. Getting one's own personal stereo - and those things were expensive - was a huge rite of passage, one that most people didn't have until they were already at university, and able to get a decent part-time job in the summer to fund such an extravagance.
Last edited:
The Bee Gee's - New York Mining Disaster 1941 (this is before they got into that Disco crap)
Last edited:
Splendora In the Grass
I've been listening to the only album produced by the band responsible for the theme song of MTV's Daria.
The complete album is in this playlist.
I've been listening to the only album produced by the band responsible for the theme song of MTV's Daria.
The complete album is in this playlist.
Great music. Thanks for posting .
Sometimes, I feel tempted to point out to some of our younger members that not only was much of the music (composed, produced, recorded, played, sung) superlative, even the names these people chose to call themselves when they came together in a rock or music group had verve, wit, inventiveness, irreverence, and utter originality ..
Great stuff. I've always been a big fan of The Dead. I was lucky enough to see them several times back in the late 60's, to mid 70's. Them and The Jefferson Airplane were my 2 favorite American bands at the time. Being a bass player myself, Phil Lesh and Jack Casady rocked my world...
The sound of your wife's hair dryer probably sounds better than 90% of the music produced today
The sound of your wife's hair dryer probably sounds better than 90% of the music produced today
What makes you say that?
I don't care for today's music, that's why. Also, I was joking. Who likes the sound of a hair dryer???