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kerouac
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response 50 of 255:
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Mar 28 01:20 UTC 1996 |
I get a kick out of those 70's blacksploitation movies...my
favorites were "Shaft in Africa" and "Blacula"
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bruin
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response 51 of 255:
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Mar 28 01:25 UTC 1996 |
RE #50 At least African American performers got the leading roles at the time,
althpugh they did reinforce negative stereotypes of Blacks cussing, killing,
and doing the nasty with their leading ladies.
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gull
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response 52 of 255:
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Mar 28 03:54 UTC 1996 |
My favorite music of all, hands down, is practically everything done by
Boston. Other groups I like are Mountain (*great* stuff!), Steppenwolf,
Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Dave Matthews Band (are they ever gonna put out
another album?), and They Might Be Giants. Jethro Tull is also great --
I need to get more of their albums. "Locomotive Breath" and "Steel
Monkey" are currently my favore Tull songs.
Hmm, not much of a pattern there, though the majority seems to be late
60's/70's stuff.
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meg
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response 53 of 255:
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Mar 28 06:31 UTC 1996 |
re #47 - Iggy is god...
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clees
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response 54 of 255:
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Mar 28 07:34 UTC 1996 |
Iggy as in the Stooges or solo?
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yo
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response 55 of 255:
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Mar 28 09:03 UTC 1996 |
I listen to anything Coolio- Neil Diamond, You name it Their cool with me,
But unless a remake is trying to sound different from the origional leave it
alone. There are some bands that are over played, those songs suck. I Think
music should be varied not the same style forever I like to change styles
frequently.
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meg
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response 56 of 255:
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Mar 28 12:52 UTC 1996 |
re 54 - both!
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slvrwolf
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response 57 of 255:
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Mar 28 15:19 UTC 1996 |
Damn, I forgot one of my absolute favorites! Yaz! Great group...I think
my fave Yaz song is 'Winter Kills', off of Upstairs at Eric's.
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birdlady
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response 58 of 255:
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Mar 28 19:13 UTC 1996 |
Yes, koggie and I were referring to the *band* Rush...not the radio
personality. <g> I forgot to mention that I also love stuff like Dead Can
Dance, Clannad, Enya, Enigma...anything really Celtic, soothing, or
mysterious.
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beeswing
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response 59 of 255:
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Mar 28 22:13 UTC 1996 |
Although I started this item, I have no clue how to link it to the starving
music conf. If one comes across here who CAN link it, please do so!
Anyone know of the late Guadalcanal DIary? They were an 80s band that played
college rock and kicked ass doing so. They brokw up around 1988 and their
albums are no longer being made. Sick. Any suggestions as to gettingmy paws
on their CDs? I guess I'll have to order from someplace but I fear it will
cost lots of dough.
Also, RIp to Casey Scott's "Creep City" CD. Made in 1993, it is so honest and
twisted, an electric Ani DiFranco, only WAY more angry. Don't know about what
happened to Ms. Scott, but the CD is also no longer being made. Such a loss,
it's an incredible CD of a woman who seems to have thought of everything I
have ever thought or said, and everything I will want to think of or say in
the future. :o
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meg
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response 60 of 255:
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Mar 28 23:14 UTC 1996 |
I like that Yaz album too, though I haven't listened to it for quite a
while. Maybe I'll pull it out again.
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kerouac
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response 61 of 255:
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Mar 28 23:23 UTC 1996 |
Beeswing, I know Guadalcanal Diary quite well. They were a local band
where I went to college (Athens, GA USA) and I saw them play on many a
weekend in one club or another.
They had a major label deal but the record they put out bombed commercially
and they were dropped. I have one or two of their tapes. They were a really
good band, great to see in small clubs and the like.
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slvrwolf
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response 62 of 255:
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Mar 29 00:28 UTC 1996 |
meg...definitely a good one to dust off. I'm listening to it, right now.
<heh>
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coyote
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response 63 of 255:
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Mar 29 01:50 UTC 1996 |
I've noticed a couple albums that I own that seem to be really good music to
listen to when you're working. Don't ask why, I've just found that these two
albums are just much easier to work to than some of the others I own:
M C M X C a.D. (Enigma)
and Leroy Anderson Favorites (Don't know who preformed it)
I know that that's a pretty odd combination, but at least for me, they're good
albums to work to.
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font
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response 64 of 255:
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Mar 29 03:41 UTC 1996 |
STeve: Re 26: Yes, and no. George Crumb (no relation) is another person
who did this sort of thing. 'minimalist' is *not* it. It has the structure
of clasical music (not strictly speaking, of course, look to more modern non
computer clasical composers for refrences, like, george crumb, schonberg, etc.
for refrences. The stuff i am talking about *includes* minimalism, but
minimalism is only a branch of the stuff I am talking about.) but uses
computers for mixing, creating sounds, etc. Where I was, you could create
the sound from the sine wave itself, and *see* the difference as well as hear
it. (the change of the sound will change the shape of the wave, and the
computer makes it possible to see it in a diagram of the wave as you change
it) It is performed on various college campuses, (mainly Bowling Green,
and Oberlin, but some is here, too...) The thing is, my biggest contact no
longer wants to talk to me. I want to get "in the know" without having to
rely on him to find out what's going on. Somehow, Grex sounded like the kind
of place people who know what I'm taking about would hang out. Keep me
posted, and I will feed you guys more information as I dig more up from my
own personal files.
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raven
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response 65 of 255:
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Mar 29 03:54 UTC 1996 |
I know the U of M scof music performs electronic pieces about
once a month. Check in the Current for more info. George Crumb is who
I was trying to think of (Songs for Ancient Children). Funny you should
mention Oberlin, that's my alma mater (sp??). Have you been down there??
Feel free to send me e-mail if you find out more info about electronic
music or Oberlin. <set drift=off>
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beeswing
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response 66 of 255:
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Mar 29 05:31 UTC 1996 |
Kerouac... I was thinking they had something in common with REM, now I
remember they are both from Athens (my aunt lives in Rome.. heh). The stupid
part is I had 2 of their tapes... 2x4 and some other one released before that,
which I don't recall (had songs like "Michael Rockefeller" and "Trouble").
I think Flip-Flop was their last. I sold the tapes, along with a bunch of
others, at a garage sale when I was very strapped for cash. I figured I'd just
buy the CDs later on. Stupid me.
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krj
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response 67 of 255:
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Mar 29 22:13 UTC 1996 |
<<spring agora #21 <---> music #185>>
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orinoco
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response 68 of 255:
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Mar 29 22:16 UTC 1996 |
Ooh....another enigma fan. MCMXC is great!
Yes...in fact, the U of M digital music ensemble is performing this weekend
at the Macintosh Theater (in the U of M school of music on north campus).
Saturday at 8pm. and Sunday at 4pm. are the performance times, if anyone in
the area is interested in hearing an example of what font and raven are
talking about. Very wierd stuff, but worth hearing if you enjoy modern music
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krj
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response 69 of 255:
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Mar 29 22:29 UTC 1996 |
My principal musical interest is in British Isles and European
electric folk, folk-rock, and plain old folk: I came into the field
through the 70's English bands Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention,
and then I just kept digging for 20 years.
I like a lot of rock music, though in the last few years I have
begun to feel that I am outgrowing it. The last rock band which I felt
a strong emotional connection to was R.E.M., and that's been broken
for maybe 5 years now.
I'm listening to a lot of "alternative country," bands like Son Volt,
the Bottle Rockets, James McMurtry, and also drifting back into some
American folk and bluegrass.
My sweetie Arabella has been making me into an opera fan for the
last six years. My opera tastes are pretty conventional, the
Mozart/Verdi/Puccini mainstream.
I flit about in the jazz and classical genres, led mostly by hearing
interesting things on the radio or in record stores. In jazz,
I'm very big on Duke Ellington, and on the Ellington revivalists such
as Abdullah Ibrahim and Toshiko Akioshi. In the classics, I seem to
go for the old warhorses; recent obsessions have included
Stravinsky's FIREBIRD SUITE, Dvorak's NEW WORLD SYMPHONY (#9),
and Rimsky-Korsakov's SCHEHERAZADE.
Oh, yeah, I've been a fairwitness of the Grex music conference,
through various levels of attentiveness, since Grex was started.
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beeswing
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response 70 of 255:
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Mar 29 22:48 UTC 1996 |
I got REN's Life's Rich Pageant CD (Ren! Eeep. REM) the other day and I
hadn't heard it since high school. I forgot how much it rocks. Back when
Michael Stipde had hair...
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bruin
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response 71 of 255:
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Mar 29 23:02 UTC 1996 |
RE #70 Too much "Ren and Stimpy" on your mind, beeswing, eh?
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beeswing
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response 72 of 255:
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Mar 30 05:37 UTC 1996 |
You eediot!!
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wolfmage
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response 73 of 255:
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Mar 30 14:08 UTC 1996 |
I wish I had some music to listen to while I work at the computer. What do
you think birdy? Think I need a few tapes or CDs?
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beeswing
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response 74 of 255:
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Mar 30 16:31 UTC 1996 |
Incidentally I got the "Mood Music For Grexers" title from my parents record
collection. When they first got married in the 60s, they had this 6-record
set called "Mood Music For Dining". Each record was themed around a different
party, like dinner parties, cocktail parties, and so forth. You were uspposed
to play a record for whatever type of party you had. Cheese dog! You could
sit with your friends and go "uh excuse me I have to turn the record over...
keep the mood..." My parents said they didn't use it much, they couldn't
afford to entertain anyway.
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