What music you listen to

[ChrisW63]

I love listening to 1970's, especially its love songs. I never get tired on listening to Bread, England Dan, Lobo, Christopher Cross among others from seventies

[IrishIroamed]

I've got over 500 songs on my phone to listen to in dead spots on the road. My favs are the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac & America, but other moods may have me listening to the Brat Pack (love Dean Martin more than Frank Sinatra, jazz and R & B.

Fun topic!

[Bethers]

Mainly 60's and 70's rock and roll for me. Throw in some blues and folk music from the same era and I'm a happy camper.

[Cudedog]

I mostly like to listen to classical music. My favorite composer is Tchaikovsky. Favorite composition is "Swan Lake". All of it (most versions are at least two hours long). I can't count the times I have listened to this piece, and I have also seen the ballet many many times.

Current favorite "Swan Lake" ballet performance is by the Vienna State Opera Ballet, amazingly the complete ballet is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYR2hd3QDUI&t=133s

This company is doing a new production this year and I swear, if I had the bucks, I would fly to Vienna to see it in person.

For those who are unfamiliar with the ballet, it is a haunting, tragic fairy tale/love story, about mistaken identity, betrayal, and seduction (yes, seduction!).

Most people would recognize the fabulous music from this ballet, if they heard it. Bits of it are often played in shopping malls (!). And, no, I have never seen the film of a few years back, "Black Swan", which is - kind of - a version of "Swan Lake".

And. . . oh, yeah:

I also really like watching those georgeous, muscular, men in tights,
whose costumes leave, er . . . "little to the imagination". Mmmmmm.

Anne

[Rufflesgurl]

Easy listening and all of the above for me.

Linda

[BarbaraRose]

70's and 80's for me, what I grew up with. Also love smooth jazz and blues music. Country, only if it is the older classic stuff (Cash, Merle, Willie, etc).

[havingfunnow]

Brandenburg Concertos are my go-to, especially the version directed by Pinnock and performed by the European Brandenburg Ensemble. It's amazing -- joyous and energizing.

I also like some early blues (especially the women -- Sippy Wallace!), lots of swing/big band, rhythm-and-blues, some jazz, and rock-and-roll and folk from the sixties and seventies.

Anne, I don't know if you'd enjoy "Black Swan," but I can say that the last dance scene was truly powerful. I actually dreamed about it after I saw it!

[Acadianmom]

I have always liked Country Music but not the new Country. I'm a new comer to Jimmy Buffett. I have a couple of his CD's in the motorhome that I will listen to going down the road sometimes. The radio in my car is on KBON, a South Louisiana station that plays country, cajun french and zydeco music. But 99% of the time I don't listen to any music.

Martha

[snowball]

I'm an oldies person...rock and roll, easy listening, country folk but oldies in all of it not fond of the new stuff... but even of the old some I don't like at all like the Day the Music died... nope don't like it... I always liked the flip side of the record...
on the station here in Q which is a oldies station... occasionally they will play think on a Saturday night it goes to some syndicated station... they play this really looooooooooong song it starts out with some lyrics like what I recall do you know I love you repeated several times and hold my hand then it goes into this lack of a better word instrumental forever I wrote down when it start 12:19 ended at 12:30 then back to the lyrics same ones for another 5 minutes... I am curious who is it and what the name is can't seem to find it though...and no I don't like it
sheila

[retiredhappy]

The fifties which I grew up with; the sixties folk songs, Indian flute music particularly Carlos Nakai; old country - not the new stuff and classical mostly piano (Chopin). I'm pretty eclectic just NO rap - its NOT music.

[SoCalGalcas]

I always look for a classical station first. When I had satellite radio, I liked the forties music, or light easy listening. I also loved the talk radio for a long drive. Lyn

[snowball]

there is a station in Vegas that I really like 104.7 don't know the call numbers but goes by jewel love it and am listening too it here in Mesquite bet I won't have it long tomorrow
sheila

[Cudedog]

I'm an oldies person...rock and roll, easy listening, country folk but oldies in all of it not fond of the new stuff... but even of the old some I don't like at all like the Day the Music died... nope don't like it... I always liked the flip side of the record...
on the station here in Q which is a oldies station... occasionally they will play think on a Saturday night it goes to some syndicated station... they play this really looooooooooong song it starts out with some lyrics like what I recall do you know I love you repeated several times and hold my hand then it goes into this lack of a better word instrumental forever I wrote down when it start 12:19 ended at 12:30 then back to the lyrics same ones for another 5 minutes... I am curious who is it and what the name is can't seem to find it though...and no I don't like it
sheila

Hi Sheila.

I believe the song you are thinking about is "American Pie", by Don McLean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHTpGog0IY

It is an "Oldie", and it is quite long - over eight minutes. And has always been one of my favorites - years ago, I used to play the autoharp, and this is a fairly easy song to play on that instrument.

Probably the "oldie" radio disk jockeys like it because it gives them time "to run down the hall".

Sheila, you jogged my memory! Thanks!

Other favorites of mine are "Hotel California" by The Eagles, "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel, "Mr. Bojangles" by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, "House of the Rising Sun", by The Animals (! as a teen, I didn't realize this last one was about prostitution!). And, of course, "The Sounds of Silence", also by Simon and Garfunkel.

I have always liked songs that "told a story".

Anne

[snowball]

I'm an oldies person...rock and roll, easy listening, country folk but oldies in all of it not fond of the new stuff... but even of the old some I don't like at all like the Day the Music died... nope don't like it... I always liked the flip side of the record...
on the station here in Q which is a oldies station... occasionally they will play think on a Saturday night it goes to some syndicated station... they play this really looooooooooong song it starts out with some lyrics like what I recall do you know I love you repeated several times and hold my hand then it goes into this lack of a better word instrumental forever I wrote down when it start 12:19 ended at 12:30 then back to the lyrics same ones for another 5 minutes... I am curious who is it and what the name is can't seem to find it though...and no I don't like it
sheila

Hi Sheila.

I believe the song you are thinking about is "American Pie", by Don McLean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHTpGog0IY

It is an "Oldie", and it is quite long - over eight minutes. And has always been one of my favorites - years ago, I used to play the autoharp, and this is a fairly easy song to play on that instrument.

Probably the "oldie" radio disk jockeys like it because it gives them time "to run down the hall".

Sheila, you jogged my memory! Thanks!

Other favorites of mine are "Hotel California" by The Eagles, "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel, "Mr. Bojangles" by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, "House of the Rising Sun", by The Animals (! as a teen, I didn't realize this last one was about prostitution!). And, of course, "The Sounds of Silence", also by Simon and Garfunkel.

I have always liked songs that "told a story".

Anne

did have the wrong name to the song and yes that was the name of the first song I mentioned but not the very long one that is around 25 minutes....
sheila