Most of the music I listen to is from before 1982. After that I only really listen to metal, Dead Can Dance & Hedningarna (a Swedish/Finnish folk band).
Probably the stuff I'm most into now is Lee Hazlewood and John Barry.
Lee Hazlewood is the guy who wrote "These boots are made for walking", but don't let that scare you (I think that song sucks!!=). The reason I'm such a big fan of his, is because he has made such beatiful and sad music! All of the best music I've heard is beautiful and sad and gives me chills when I hear it. On my top 50 of songs there's only a small handfull of metal songs, as I can easily find music that impresses me more than 200 mph and growls.
If you can relate to this I can recommend Hazlewood songs like "Wait and see", "Forget Marie", "Friday's Child", "What's more I don't need her", "The Night before", "Paris Bells" and "Bye Babe". He also wrote "Summerwine" and "Lady bird" which he recorded with Nancy Sinatra, but besides Nancy's half-crappy voice I think that the versions that Virgil Warner & Suzi Jane Hokom recorded were far superior. The are both among the 10 best songs I have EVER heard!!!!!!
John Barry does soundtracks. Some of his songs gives me chills like "Midnight cowboy", "Have you got a story for me" (from "Out of Africa"), "End title - Petulia" (from "Petulia") and "Candlelight" (from "Until September").
My favorite song of all time is Gershwin's "Summertime" and especially Ray Conniff's version is absolutely Divine. Bob Tracy's version is the next best. The best vocal version I've heard is probably from the Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø.
If someone is interested, I can post a list of songs that give that special feeling...?
Other than that my record collection mostly consists of funk from the 70's and other stuff from the 60's and 70's. I have rock (Beatles, Bowie, Whitney Sunday etc.), Funk (James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic etc.), Jazz (Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, etc.), Singer/songwriter/folk/hippie stuff (Cris Williamson, Alzo, Shocking Blue etc.), soul (Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Isley Brothers, etc.), prog. rock (Yes, Camel, Mannfred Mann's Earth Band, etc.), Pop (Dusty Springfield, Animals, later Lee Hazlwood)etc.) semi-prog pop/rock (Moody Blues, Procul Harum, Jethro Tull, etc.), acid rock (The Nice, Cream, Pink Floyd), classical (Mozart, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, etc.), "french top" (Mireille Mathieu, Eddy Mitchell, etc.), country (early Lee Hazlewood, Merle Haggard, etc.), film music (John Barry, Randy Edelmann, Nino Rota, Henry Mancini, etc.), metal (Type O Negative, Emperor, Iron Maiden, etc.), "Trucker rock" (Hellacopters, Guns N' Roses, Skid Row), musicals ("Porgy & Bess"), jazz-funk (Grover Washington Jr., Bob James, Hubert Laws) and just plain weird music like George Brassens and Dumitru Farcas (romanian folk music played on a bassoon and oboe). I even have a record of Japanese music.
I have a little over 1000 records, so you can probably understand that I wouldn't be able to have that amount if I only listened to 1 or 2 kinds of music.
I used to be very into hip hop, a little trip hop, downbeat and house but has grown tired of that like almost everything else from 1982 till now. I had around 100 hip hop/electronic records, but have taken them all out of my collection. There's music I know I will never like and it's drum n' bass! A friend of mine is a major fan of that crap and it makes my head ache every time I listen to that shit! I hate it. The only thing I've ever heard in Goa that I liked was Inscape's "Nothing like a good friend", but have grown tired of that too. As I started out saying I mostly have records from before 1982. I have around 75 metal records, 4 Dead Can Dance and a few 80's shit that's okay. To me 99.99% of the music today is worthless!
I buy records in second hand shops or at record fairs and I'll usually buy a record if I find one that has Gershwin's "Summertime" on it, Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight" and Bill Withers' "Ain't no sunshine".
When I choose music I first of all go for the melody then the mood. Energy can come later. I don't like music that is pure energy, but no melody. Why not just listen to a vacuum cleaner eating rocks then?
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