The Other music cafe, speak your mind on music in general and your tastes besides SW

Rokangus, I saw Weird Al about this time last year in concert. He did an amazing show!I don't know if you ever have seen him in concert, but there was always something going on, on-stage, if he wasn't performing then he had a big screen down and he was showing little parody type promos, like "30% chance of rain"

I like the 1 song by 'They Might Be Giants', the 1 that goes "no you can't go back to constantanoble"


Calli~

 

They Might Be Giants! They might be fake, they might be lies, they might be big big fake fake lies....

My fave album of theirs is "Lincoln". Who could argue with a lyric like, "If it wasn't for disappointment, I wouldn't have any appointments"?

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Some questions for those assembled herein:

This "Emo" music . . . does that term come from "Emotion" or "Emotional"? Is that a major aspect of this music?

And is anyone here familiar with that whole realm of Club/DJ/electronica music, and its sub-genres (e.g., Drum&Bass, Jungle, Trip-Hop, Acid, etc. etc.), that could really explain what it's about to me? I am curious to investigate it further; I'm only vaguely aware of it.

**Piett**

 

Favorite albums:
Sticky Fingers(Rolling Stones)
Appetite for Destruction(Guns and Roses)
Nevermind(Nirvana)
Led Zeppelin: Live at the BBC(Led Zeppelin)
A Hard Day's Night (Beatles)
Raising Hell(Run DMC)
Paul's Boutique(Beastie Boys)
Bob Dylan(Blood on the Tracks)
Horses(Patti Smith)
Achtung, Baby(U2)
Straight out of Compton(N.W.A)
Born to Run(Bruce Springsteen)

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Well we all need someone we can bleed on

 

I think Emo is short for Emotional.

 

Back when I was like 7 or 8, my cousin Eric came up from Florida to visit. At the time, I (and my family, and friends) listened to a lot of country music. He gave me 3 mix tapes - Eric's Music Ed 101-303. These contain my favorite music ever - Techno, trance, alternative, and of course, They Might Be Giants.

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Istanbul was Constantinople
Now its Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now a Turkish delight
On a moonlit night

Every girl in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've got a date
In Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York
Was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say

People just liked it better that way

So,
Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
why did Constantinople get the works?

That's nobody's business but the Turks

Woah!

Woah-Oh-Oh-Woah-Oh-Oh-Ohhhh-Oh-Oh

Istan
Istanbul!


Woah-Oh-Oh-Woah-Oh-Oh-Ohhhh-Oh-Oh

AGGHHHH!
Istanbul?

Even old New York
Was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say

People just liked it better that way

So,
Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
why did Constantinople get the works?

That's no
//crash//
Body's
//crash//
Business
But the Turks!

IS-TAN-BULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
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I remember first hearing that song on Tiny Toons. It was a music video thing starring Plucky Duck in the desert.


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Well you can't always get what you want...

 

Waheennay, I like you sig! That is 1 of my fave. Rolling Stones songs.





Calli~

 

First heard it in The Big Chill.

 

Some of my favorite artists are:

Uncle Tupelo (R.I.P.)
Son Volt
Wilco
Widespread Panic
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty

 

waheennay, that is so funny! I remember hearing for the first time on Tiny Toons, too! I used to love that show.

 

Actually, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" wasn't a TMBG original. It was done originally by a group called the Four Lads back in 1953 or so . . . but TMBG's version is the best . . .

This are some lyrics from my fave TMBG original:

"Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desktop globe
Exit-wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for

"My apartment looks upside-down from there
Water spirals the wrong way down the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends

"Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words, they're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you"

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Now *that*'s a love song!

 

I listen to everything except rap. My cd collection has everything from rock to alternative to christian to (a very little bit) country to pop.

My fav bands (though I don't own cds from all of these bands) in no order:

Mighty Mighty Boss Tones
Red Hot Chili Pepers
Smash Mouth
Savage Garden (lol, I get bashed by all my friends for owning this cd. So then I crank it. )
Sugar Ray
U2
3 Doors Down
Creed
Lifehouse
Blink 182
P.O.D.
Papa Roach
Green Day
Rage Against the Machine
Powerman 5000
Filter
Virtical Horizan
Foo Fighters
dcTalk
Newboys
Five Iron Frenzy
Supertones
Garth Brooks (although that cd gets almost no play)

 

Five Iron Frenzy! They're my favorite. I love Arnold and Willis and Mr. Drummond, as well as Oh, Canada. Their newest one was all that great, but Giants and All the Hype were the best songs from that offering.

 

Bon Jovi
RHCP
Van Halen
Weird Al