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Ear Candy 23 months ago

Today’s question is a slightly mundane one with a slight twist to it.

1. Who was your favorite singer/band when you were 18 years old?
2. Who is your favorite now?

Me:
1. I have to list three here. I had pretty much equal affection for Metallica, Nirvana, and The Doors.

2. I still like all of the above, and I have a fondess for both Hip Hop and Elvis, but my favorite now is Johnny Cash. Quite simply, I think he is the greatest American songwriter ever. the way he combines storytelling, politics, and romantic imagery all together simply amazes me.



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plumcheeks (Sara) Poppy, my furbaby is my spazo of joy

bang your head

1. Guns N Roses, Metallica, Megadeth, Flotsam & Jetsam, Pantera (Cowboys from Hell had just been released)...

I was going to list a bunch of other bands but when I looked at the release dates it was 1992, I was 20-21.

2. I still listen to alot of the older metal but I stopped buying Metallica after the black album. I actually hate newer Metallica. :\

My fav band now is Alter Bridge! They are beyond my fav. I’ve seen them live five times within 9 months…3 times in two weeks. Stood in line a few times for over 5 hours to get front row. I got to hang out with them 4 times so I have many photos and autographs. My cat Monti got his name from the guitar player, Mark Tremonti. :D

I also really love Diana Krall. I’m really into jazz now too.

plumcheeks (Sara) Poppy, my furbaby is my spazo of joy

almost forgot

I was just listening to Chevelle and…why do I always forget how much I love Chevelle?!

funniculee is dredging up old memories of past literary loves

Hmmm.

When I was 18, my favorite band was Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Emphasis on the Young. Tied with The Who.

Now my favorite band is definitely Talking Heads!

wren is mightier than grief.

When I was 18

my favorite band was definitely The Doors.

Now, my favorite band is definitely The White Stripes.

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My faves were

Metallica, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues. I really jumped around depending on my mood.

I still like all of those bands above and like Plum stopped buying Metallica after the black album (with the exception of the Garage Days album – had to replace my old worn out cassette from back in the day).

These days my favorite band hands down would have to be Muse. I discovered them about 3 years ago and can’t seem to get enough. I’ve seen them the 3 times they’ve been in concert here and have been blown away each time. I also really dig Sublime, Pearl Jam and Tool.

plumcheeks (Sara) Poppy, my furbaby is my spazo of joy

\m/

You rock Nikita!

And so do you Plum

ROCK ON!!!

Adar is back.

Oh my...

1. At 18, my favorites weren’t bands, they were singer-songwriters: Jim Croce, James Taylor, Carly Simon.

2. Now I am wildly eclectic in my tastes. Currently I listen a lot to the Dropkick Irish, Boiled in Lead, and a lot of klezmer. And Elvis.

Hmm. I’ve gotten fiercer in my old age.

I like that.

beelikethebug is here! Woo!

This one's hard!

1. At 18, I was so angst-ridden…I loved Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, etc. Anything where people played really loud guitars and sang about how miserable they were.
2. This is way too hard…I like hip-hop (K-Os, Blackalicious, etc.), old, old-school country (Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, etc.), alt-country (Wilco, Ryan Adams, Son Volt), indie (The Shins, Calexico, Iron and Wine), and some slightly more mainstream (Radiohead, Foo Fighters).

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

18 huh... wow, I have to remember back that

far. I love all music types. I grew up on R&B and Rap was just starting it’s force when I was a teen so Run DMC was a huge favorite of mine.

I’ve always love Etta James and to this day, she can make me cry with ease.

Great choices

I love Run DMC. I was like 8 when they hit it big, but I remember my friends and I would listen to their albums when we thought our parents weren’t listening, badasses that we were. :)Looking back, I think almost every rap group after them is still trying to catch up to them.

I also like Etta James, but I am more of a Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday kind of guy.

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

Bessie Smith, Billy Holiday

Howlin’ Wolf, Ella… I could go on and on.

I love old soul music. I am a lucky woman, my mom and Uncle {even my dad, but that was more Tejano and Marinachi} they exposed me to so many different styles of music.

When my Uncle would come over there was always dancing and singing. Music played all the time.

So I LOVE it. I personally grew up in a school where only Rap and R&B was listened to. So I am very thankful for all the exposure I had.

I dearly love Opera.

I am talking a lot huh.

I always try

to include Blues, R&B, Soul, and Hip Hop in my African American Lit class that I teach. I include it in the poetry unit that I do. I always emphasize the performative and oral nature of poetry, so it fits in perfectly. I also talk about it as a mianstream mode of storytelling and how many older soul and blues songs have a message that goes far beneath the surface. My students almost always love it, espeically when I mix someone like Louis Armstrong with someone like Langston Hughes or Paul Laurence Dunbar with Tupac.

Don’t worry about talking a lot. I love hearing about people and I am perhaps the grand champion at talking a lot. :)

Enore is

So I assume that all the students you have...

...in your Black Lit class are white?

Out here on the Left Coast I do believe that white folks, de rigeur, are prohibited from trying to teach black folks black stuff.

Wharn’t that a way when I was a commin’ up, but I do believe it’s the politically correct way of approaching education out here now.

~*Serenity*~ ... Smiles...

Langston Hughes and Tupac

Now you are teaching a class I could sink my teeth into.

In black history that was the only way for many years of telling their stories, I guess it’s not just black history. I know other races have done so as well.

I love story telling through song and poetry. I’m not much of a poet though I do try.

I Love writing, I don’t care if I’m any good at it. It is cathartic for me

Who would be your favorite Black Author?

Enore is

Johnny Cash?

Well, if he’s so fuckin’ smart, tell me how he commits a murder in Nevada and ends up in a California prison for it.

Plus, even allowing that this song was written some time ago, there wasn’t then any passenger train service going anywhere near Folsom prison, never mind going to San Antonio, Texas from there.

Watch it

You can talk smack about Christianity and Islam, but don’t mess with Johnny. That is sacred. LOL

Off the top of my head: I think he got from Nevada to California the same way that most of our prisoners here in Kentucky are from Connecticut, New Mexico, and the Virgin Islands. I’m sire there’s a joke with three guys walking into a bar in Kentucky somewhere.

As for hearing the train, maybe he has dimentia or just likes to make shit up to fuck with the guards who can’t hear the train.

Enore is

Virgin Islands?

There are islands full of virgins?

Holy shit, maybe we can just start sending young muslim men there before they start blowing themselves up.

let me tell you, Unc

With all of the garbage I’ve been reading from my students today, my sanity may depend on you continuing to crack me up.

Sending Muslims to the Virgin Islands? You kill me. One snag in your plan, I don’t think there would be enough virgins to maintain the 76:1 ratio.

By the way, who wants 76 virgins? Wouldn’t you want at least one who knew what she was doing?

Abby is sick

I LOVE music

I really, really love it. I listen to whatever strikes my fancy, period. But, you asked for faves, so . . .

When I was 18, my faves were Ozzy and Alice Cooper.

Now, my faves are Ozzy and Alice Cooper . . . and Three Days Grace. :)

Other faves (although not as high up as Ozzy and Alice) would include but are not limited to, Neil Sedaka, John Denver, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Dolly Parton, REO Speedwagon, Air Supply, Blessid Union of Souls, Glenn Miller, Michael Stanley Band, Black Sabbath, Patsy Cline, Barry Manilow, Journey, Foreigner, Night Ranger, Loverboy, Ramones, Rob Zombie . . . um, yeah . . . and lots more. Like I said, I listen to whatever strikes my fancy . . . and I annoy everyone else with my mix CDs that don’t ever stick to one genre, or by setting my stereo always to random play. :)

Enore is

LOL...in glancing thru the list you tossed up there...

I’d kill myself if I had to listen to Sedaka, Denver, or Manilow again, ditto Parton, and I adore Journey and, of course, Glen Miller.

I wouldn’t know the music of the rest of them if my life depended on it.

Abby is sick

I knew you liked Glen Miller

although I didn’t know that you liked Journey, and that both surprises me and doesn’t surprise me.

But geez, suicide threats if you have to listen to Sedaka, Denver, Manilow, or Parton?? You’re being a bit of a drama queen there, dontcha think? :)

As for the others, I suspect you’d hate most of them, although I think there is a chance you may enjoy Air Supply and Blessid Union of Souls. Unfortunately, I don’t currently have access to my music files or I would send you a song by each of them.

Enore is

I MAY have been SLIGHTLY histrionic, yes.

Yes, I really love Journey.

I’m really glad Steve What’shisname’s testicles never descended.

Maybe his testicles

and Robert Plant’s testicles are playing Euchre against each other somewhere. Just an idea…

Collector of junk and lots more Moving some time in the next millineum.

Would You Believe?

When I graduated grom high school when I was 17 I was really into several different groups and didn’t have any one favorite. My roommate my sophomore year in college (I was still 18 at the beginning of that year) had an album called The Stranger by Billy Joel. I fell in love with him and went out and bought my own copy and eventually several other of his albums. I have since replaced them with cds. Needless to say He is still my favorite and I finally saw him in concert in Kansas City in December after 30 years.

I started listening to Billy Joel

when I was a Senior in college, and I was drawn in by his songwriting. I used to drive my roommate crazy by making mix tapes that alternated between Billy Joel and hard rock groups like Metallica and Guns N Roses. It all made sense to me. :)

My Dad took my Mom to see Billy Joel a few years ago for her 50th Birthday. She still talk about how much she loved that concert.


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