I need help

[ericcoleman]

Deciding what to listen to this morning ...

someone pick a genre ... the first person who picks a genre that I have on my computer wins a winky button

Comments

[ntrlstgrl.livejournal.com]

LOL Of course you need help!

Celtic rock.

Not certain that you'll actually have it, but it amuses me. I like it.

That's easy

[ericcoleman]

Hmmm ... Black 47 or Flogging Molly ???

I'm feeling agressive today ... Flogging Molly

Re: That's easy

[ntrlstgrl.livejournal.com]

HEY you mean I picked one you had? Interesting...good for you.

Flogging Molly...sounds interesting!

Where's my button???

Re: That's easy

[ericcoleman]

Combination of trad and punk. They are astounding. Fiddles, banjos and big loud guitars.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Balinese Gamelon music... oops, I'm too late.

[ericcoleman]

I have some at home ... but kinda no use for my purposes at the moment

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Dementia

English beat punk.

[ericcoleman]

Dementia - next ... also easy

Define English beat punk ...

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Im not entirely sure that I can.

[ericcoleman]

Can you think of someone who you think might fit the genre ... whatever it is ... cause I know my punk rock ... and I have no idea what you mean ...

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Im thinking that I am thinking english (british) punk rock scene, circa 70s ish.

[ericcoleman]

That's just good old fashioned punk rock. I have a lot of that on my computer ... bugs the people I work with, but that's the point I suppose

[herculesmusic.livejournal.com]

MPB - Música Popular Brasileira

[ericcoleman]

Music I am aware of (mostly because of recent write up sof Os Mutantes in some of the brit music magazines) but something that I have none of

[herculesmusic.livejournal.com]

I recommend Marcos Valle and Milton Nascimento. Better than the tropicalia guys (or equal to Mutantes and Gal Costa). Nascimento is like Van Morrison with the musical chops of McCartney. He is a major talent.

Try "Clube de esquina" for size.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Music of the Spheres for Squares.

[ericcoleman]

define it ... makes no sense to me

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I don't have any of that chart-busting genre myself so all information is second-ear. You take The Music of the Spheres -- the dance of the celestial bodies -- and give it the ol' Lawrence Welk treatment. If you will, Musak of the Spheres. It's what you'll hear on the Space Elevator.

[ericcoleman]

So .. basically ... it's something that you made up yourself.

This is supposed to help how ???

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Whenever I don't know what I want to listen to, I'll pick something I haven't heard in a long time. Perhaps even something I didn't like. Most often it will kick my ears into gear to decide on a real listen, but every now and then I'll like the tangent. Making up new genres is fun, especially if they're on the periphery of old ones.

Heck, as I was typing the last reply, I realized that I have some music that might (by stretching the definition) be classified as Music of the Spheres for Squares. Basically, it's Mozart done semi-Musak to give massages by. No, I don't listen to it very often (or at all), and tend to give massages to Celtic Harp. But still. If I thought too hard I might be able to come up with more examples.