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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
 Posted - 07/01/2008 : 3:40:05 PM
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Aloha,
Just wanted to know what everybody on the forum listens to when it's not Hawaiian music?
Me? Anything.
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He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
'Alika / Polinahe |
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FROPPE
Akahai
USA
81 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2008 : 3:55:37 PM
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Classic rock
Blues
Celtic
Soft rock (singer/songwriter-type)
Jazz
Some classical
It's all great! Just like some days, I prefer beef; others, chicken; others, seafood; sometimes, just veggies. |
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808robertr
Akahai
72 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2008 : 4:04:57 PM
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| blues, jazz, pop in that order. sometimes country |
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
398 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2008 : 4:30:21 PM
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Pretty much any style of music has some great pieces. The only style of music I really DON'T care for is rap- it isn't the style, it is the lyrics. I just don't feel that money is the only thing important in life; and how they talk about women? Spare me!
Sad thing is, this is the music I listen to every day. My current occupation is purchasing, rehabbing, and renting houses, and my helper likes to work to rap music. Since he has the boom box and I am not a controlling person, rap is what I get. I got him to switch to a jazz/soul station for a while, which I like a fair bit of, but now he has his CD's and I'm stuck. Went with my I-pod for a while, but it's hard to communicate or hear the phone and the boom box interferes unless I listen at a level my ears don't like.
So now I know far more than I want to about the urban black view of life. NOT the sort of lifestyle and belief system I am interested in participating in!
Chris
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2008 : 8:35:40 PM
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| I'm all over the place in terms of genres...if it's good music I'll listen to practically anything (country and opera still haven't bent my ear in a favorable way). When it comes to contemporary genres, however, I prefer Christian bands...I'd rather listen to hope than despair. (Chris, check out TobyMac.) |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
Edited by - cpatch on 07/01/2008 8:36:55 PM |
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 12:24:57 AM
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It has been several years since I have listened to any music in my car CD player other than Hawaiian. I find it hard to listen to any other music, because I am unconsciously comparing anything else to Hawaiian music. A lot of rock & roll music I do not like because of the electronic sounds. I do not like distorted sounding guitar, Jimi Hendrix kine. Sounds like the guitar had bad solder or something. I do not like any music that uses electronic kine drums. For some reason the frequency of the sound just hits an area in my hearing that gives me such a headache and then it is almost like my headache throbs in time with the icky music.
I do love old timey country music. Not what passes for country music now days. I love the old fashioned bluegras. I like to hear Patsy Cline, Hank Williams (papa not Jr.), Bill Monroe, Stanley Brothers.
I like to listen to Andrea Bocelli because of his beautiful voice.
I like some salsa music;p some Tejano music, some Caribbean music - not reggae, but kinda like Harry Belafonte.
I think the bottom line of the music I like is whatever has beautiful poetry in the song. It is the words that touch me and make me like a song.
Some songs that have amazed me by the power of the poetry in the words are:
Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson. Also Me & Bobby McGee -- Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Wow - to me that is profund.
Wahine `Ilikea - Wahine `Ilikea i ka poli o Moloka`i.... or Koke`e -- He mele au no ka beauty...
I used to love the Beatles and the Monkees when I was a teeny-bopper. Now when I think of some of the Beatles music I am amazed that I liked some of it. So much of it makes no sense to me: Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly? What da heck is juju eyeballs??? A girl with kaleidoscope eyes? Scary dat!
But one thing about our house -- if we ain't got nothing here, we've got music. I just about every form you can think of. Paul is the one who appreciates so many different genres of music. Our girls were exposed to such a variety of music and I think that is almost as important, maybe as important, as exposing your children to a love for reading. Both loves will serve them well through out their lives. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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slipry1
Ha`aha`a
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 04:16:49 AM
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First, my motto: There are only two kinds of music: good and bad. And I play them both!
I play pedal steel - classic country, Cajun & western swing.
I play piano - jazz, blues, Cajun & zydeco
I play banjo - old time string band & folk (some bluegrass, too)
I have season tickets to the Seatlle Opera
I love classical music.
Of course, Hawaiian.
I cannot remember a time, as far back as my memory goes, when I didn't want to play music - any kine! |
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Retro
Ahonui
USA
2368 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 06:16:10 AM
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I should get Momi to take some pictures of our record/CD library at home - about 3000 LPS & 4000 CDs, I think. Orchestral classics, progressive rock, classic jazz, Tibetan chanting, experimental sounds, rock, show tunes, new age, modern jazz, Balinese gamelan, opera, chamber ensembles, contemporary Japanese, 1960s & 1970s pop, film scores, bootleg live recordings, jazz singers ... and Hawaiian (among many others).
Hey Wanda - I still have my original Monkees LPs, as well as the CD reissues, rarities collections and so on. |
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Trev
Lokahi
United Kingdom
265 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 06:23:12 AM
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Like many others here I like (and have played) all sorts of music.
But whatever else I have been doing, I have always played in my local pubs –our version of Kanekapila, which we call a ‘session’. This has mainly been the traditional acoustic music of the British Isles. This runs very deep with me, and with all of us. I do this three or four times a week, and sometimes more.
But we don’t just play that – we play some American style music as well. A bit of bluegrass, a bit of jazz, a bit of ‘contemporary’, a bit of blues, a bit of country. So far as I’m concerned, if you can play it on acoustic instruments and it’s fun, then why not? I’ll have a go at anything, me.
I’m lucky enough to belong to a little musical community of really good players. It’s enriched my life immeasurably over the years, it really has.
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
1635 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 07:14:32 AM
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| I tro to listten to a wide variety of styles and genres. That said, I have a life long love of classical, especiall vocal and small ensemble, music. It's my "home" base and I frequently return to it. I also love to listen to music of other cultures, especially that which has close ties to folk traditions. And I am very interested in the multitude of forms of Latin American music. |
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Pops
Lokahi
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 2:47:19 PM
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| Old time fiddle music, old style zydeco (lala), Cajun, country blues, and cowboy songs. |
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
1597 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 3:32:17 PM
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Well Jeeez...
...I guess I am more like Retro, in that there is not a "class" of Music that I do not like at least some examples of.
I am especially drawn to certain "folk" songwriters, i.e. Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Steve Goodman, Mike Smith, Dennis Kamakahi, Noel Brazil, Townes Vanzant, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dougie McClean, Tom Jobim, (and a few others) for their excellent words and melodies.
Along the lines of Kristofferson's writing what do you think of this song e Wanda:?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_M1MHXbfqA
(written by Julie Mathews)
And another poignant one written by Michael Smith:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GUqUi6Hjd18
Some favorites from Tom Jobim
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=thi4LUOy_oA
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y4MFn4bHdY
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dwLJhBzs-jo
On very different note "but it rings and I rise, wipe the sleep out of my eyes...My shaving razor's cold and it stings" 
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Mahope Kākou...
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Edited by - Lawrence on 07/02/2008 4:02:09 PM |
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Retro
Ahonui
USA
2368 Posts |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 4:33:43 PM
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E Wanda why you no like da Beatles? I think they're so good!
BTW, here's a trivia question: Where did they record all of their albums? No cheating by looking it up or anything! |
He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
'Alika / Polinahe |
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
398 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 5:08:17 PM
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Das too easy, dat, fo us oldah folk- get album title and eberyting. So I goine leave dat one fo da youngah set.
Chris
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2008 : 01:54:44 AM
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'Alika - there are periods of time when the Beatles, either collectively or individually produced some of the best music the world has ever seen. Songs like Yesterday or Imagine or Something will live on and on. But in days when they were using drugs, the music sorely suffered. I have a wonderful CD of Beatles music which is a tribute to George Martin. It has various people singing Beatles songs, people like Bobby McFerrin and Robin Williams singing Come Together; Sean Connery reciting the words to My Life and Goldie Hawn singing A Hard Days night like a cocktail lounge torch singer. It is very good and worth listening to.
Retro - how do you & Momi store all that music? I am running out of places to put the music. Any storage and organization tips would be most appreciated. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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