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Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: Highmac on April 11, 2003, 02:45:00 AM

Love BBC Radio 2, on as I write - where else would you get Willy Nelson with City of New Orleans, Buddy Holly's Rave On, Carly Simon's You're So Vain, Michelle Shocked, ELO,  and Shania Twain and.... tell you what, I'll link you to Tuesday's playlist for the breakfast show to see the variety we get. Other programmes give us everything from classical to country, big band jazz, blues (station jingle used to be 'different every time')

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: snuffysbluff on April 11, 2003, 07:55:00 AM

I LOVE    Michelle Shocked. Wore out a couple of her tapes. Saw her once...what a smile. Glad to know someone else has heard her.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: tacit on April 11, 2003, 11:19:00 PM

I rarely listen to the radio, as radio stations don't tend to play the music I like.

I listen primarily to industrial music (Numb, Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin) and old-school goth (Sisters of Mercy), with a bit of neo-folk (Holly McNarland, Indigo Girls), thrash (Disturbed), alternative and grunge, and electronica thrown into the mix for good measure.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: CyberPet on April 11, 2003, 02:53:00 PM

I'm in a Jazzy mood right now, have fallen in love with Diana Krall and am listening to 4 of her albums. Great music!

I listen to different music depending on what mood I'm in, sometimes it's disco pop, sometimes it's metal rock... that's the great thing with music, there's always something for different moods.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: Highmac on April 12, 2003, 01:33:00 AM

Snuffy The only one we seem to hear from Michelle over here is Anchorage - great song though!
Tacit A friend of Caroline's is in a goth band called Scary Bitches (I've met her and she is.... not the least bit scary. Very nice woman). Not my sort of music  - but each of us to our own... I appreciate there are different types of goth music, just as in rock and jazz, so I don't know whether they play your preference.
Petra Not too much into jazz either but, having said that, one of my favourite all-time albums was Charlie Byrd's Blues for Night People - very chilled out guitar sound which really lived up to its title. Hadn't realised it was such an old recording till I found that link!! I bought it in the early 60s and still drag it out occasionally to play in its glorious mono...

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: tacit on April 13, 2003, 08:03:00 PM

I checked out the Web site; not really my cup of tea. They're closer to death metal than I really like; there are several other bands (such as Christian Death and Big Electric Cat) in the same basic genre, and I'm not particularly crazy about any of them.

Side note: Someone at Adobe is rather fond of Big Electric Cat--so much so that it was the official code name for Photoshop 5 during development.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: LR827 on April 14, 2003, 09:06:00 PM

Y'never know about people -- I wouldn't picture tacit with a cup of tea.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: tacit on April 15, 2003, 04:34:00 PM

I'm quite fond of tea--particularly dark, heavy teas like Russian Caravan, though such teas aren't always easy to find.

I don't like flowery teas such as Earl Gray, but I am quite partial to English Breakfast tea.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: LR827 on April 15, 2003, 08:53:00 PM

Jasmine for me.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: krissel on April 15, 2003, 10:26:00 PM

Vanilla Maple.

Hmm, maybe our choice in teas is a reflection of...of...of...

Oh, heck, probably nothing.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: sandbox on April 15, 2003, 10:47:00 PM

http://www.sozra.com/

Coffee Yuban  
 
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Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: Paddy on April 16, 2003, 01:55:00 AM

I couldn't survive without my tea! Can't drink coffee anymore - it gives me stomach aches, though I still like it.

I like English Breakfast, good old Orange Pekoe (but PLEASE no Salada...worst blasted tea on the planet...and it's always what they serve on airplanes) - pretty much any black tea. I don't like the fruit flavored black teas much or herbal teas, with a few exceptions (I've had a few good raspberry/cranberry teas). A good green tea with Chinese or Thai food is always nice. Of course, so was the Thai beer I had last time we went out!!

Well, I'm off for a cuppa - gotta do something to stay awake, since it looks like I'm not going to get any shut eye at all tonight - we're off to the Bahamas in an hour! See you guys in a couple of weeks, unless I get TS-withdrawal and decide to log in from our rental house! (maybe I'll even post a pic or two...    ) Taking the digital cameras, husband's Lombard (for kid entertainment, primarily) and leaving all my work AT HOME! I think.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: Thomas S. England on April 16, 2003, 06:31:00 AM

Like CyberPet, I find myself listening to more jazz vocals these days. I've recently discovered Jimmy Scott and have made several CDs of his material.
Have you also listened to Etta James or Cassandra Wilson?

My two faves:  Mister Dylan and Mavis Staples. Recently read that they have been in a studio together.

I have made my own collection of Dylan's stuff:  15 full CDs of his work, 4 CDs of his songs done by others artists.  I'll be adding to the latter since I just got CDs by Barb Jungr & Mary Lee's Corvette which are all Dylan covers.

My iTunes library currently has 3400+ tunes.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: LR827 on April 16, 2003, 08:49:00 PM

krissy, the first time I had maple tea was in Montreal 2 summers ago... LOVED it!  I forgot about that.  By the way... what DOES that tell about me??? (Oh, if God the gift would gi' us, to see oursel's as others see us...)

sandy, I don't know what that picture has to do with tea, but it sure is cool!!  I want to download it, okay?

paddy, can I come visit you at your rental house?  We're very neat and clean, quiet, and if you prefer, you don't even have to be there!

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: sandbox on April 16, 2003, 10:20:00 PM

Sure Lorraine, there's more here...... http://www.sozra.com/    

Tea, TEA, we dumped that stuff in the harrrba.....
Somethin to do about April 15th me tink?  
The toons were just sent to me so it's what I was listening to at the time. This is called "Pulse"
 
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Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: Highmac on April 17, 2003, 01:27:00 AM

Good Morning America (and the rest of the world of course), how are you?

It's what I just love (and I'm being sincere here, not sarcastic) about TS - where else could a thread on favourite radio stations turn into a thread on what people like to drink without someone complaining?

Anyway - tea, Sainsbury's Red Label tea bags... coffee Kenco "Really Rich" instant... (Pretentious... moi? as Miss Piggy said)            

Also        the new banner... very red!
 
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Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: RogerF on April 17, 2003, 08:07:00 AM

Whatever happened to Tetley. Not a tea drinker, myself.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: Highmac on April 17, 2003, 08:50:00 AM

It's still around in in the UK and also, apparently in the USA too.

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: beacher on April 17, 2003, 08:59:00 PM

Hey, TACIT, I know there's a pretty big difference in our ages (I'm a bit "beyond" you, lad!), but one of my students dropped by last night and gave me the new Linkin Park album, Meteora, to listen to, and I LOVE it!  Being a guitar teacher keeps stretchin' my ears, but for some reason, although I worked for 6 yrs. in a CD store, and am aware of your "faves", I've never been exposed to them, aurally.  Have to admit to being severly disappointed Tuesday, when I slipped by Circuit City to pick up the new ZZ Top album, Mescalero, only to find that it's release had been delayed.  Next one I'm anticipating is the June realease of Metallica's newest. . .Weird taste for a cat that's almost 60, eh?

And,  HIGHMAC, you might check out Kenny Burrell, if you haven't already, although you might want to shop in a place where you can listen before you buy, because he plays with everything from a jazz trio, to full orchestral backings.  Quite a library. . .

 PETRA, you might want to check out 2 albums of Ronnie Earl's, called "Still River" and "Language of the Soul".  He's an incredible blues player, in a jazz setting. . .guitar, bass, Hammond B-3 organ and drums.  Wonderful stuff for sitting with a glass of wine, and watching the rain or snow!

Title: OT - Someone asked recently what we listen to
Post by: tacit on April 20, 2003, 10:19:00 PM

My girlfriend Shelly just turned me on to Linkin Park...good stuff.