NO! Wux... JJ had an awesome voice... don't link it to something other... that she was was fugly is a completely secondary issue... mho,
She was simply beautiful... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV_QjenbDw

There is no accounting for taste. I never liked her voice. Or her music. Her lyrics were excellent, but I did not speak English at the time. So she left me cold.

There was much in her that you folks, who understood her lyrics as well, could enjoy about her, and the complete picture of her music was phenomenally great. To me too much of her whatever was missing, her music did not congeal for me as something enjoyable. Too much on enjoying her depended on too much.

Whereas the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Doors, etc. were immediately and obviously palatable to me, even as a very young teen-ager. Many others too, like Melanie, The Mamas and Papas, etc. Even Nancy Sinatra!!

I don't wish to take your joy out of listening to JJ. I just say that there was a lot to her. You needed be cognescent or sapient or sentient of ALL her parts in order to like her, and if you took something away from that lot, even just one of the ingredients that made her into her, the whole thing collapsed like a card-castle.

She was an icon, I don't deny that, she was a lot of things come together just so that enabled her to become that icon, but she did not come together for me, due to my lack of English knowledge.

No Sky Rockets for you? Unfortunately, I can't help but get it stuck in my head from time to time. Hehehe.

ahh, Wux... in this I hear you deeply.
There was a woman, just recent, whose character rocked me to the core... her voice, not so much. She was nothing short of a Goddess... take 142 as enough, okay? Not alot... but something.
I grant you... JJ was a mess. Taste is taste. And "Lick the Bosses' Azz" had it's way with me.
Still, I was a lad... little made sense!! haha.
Beatles Stones and Doors... you are correct... right in my face... apparent!! I agree. Boots made for Walkin'... yeah, I'm still doing that too... haha.

But check this out... me daddy played Blues Alley in DC, okay? Jazz R&B with all the players of the day.... 60's and 70's, right?
And at times he'd haul his kids along... me. So I met 'em. JJ was no slouch in that crowd.... she held her own. I don't hold her higher than say... Dizzy. Ella, Etta's or the many, many others. She was just "another"... I hated Pops too much to learn music... but I did learn "theory", see? Osmosis has it's way.
Still, I like JJ because, I like JJ... nothing more than that, haha.
He loved Rag-time... Grrr. And he was smarter then I will ever be... in regard to music.
Wux, you are a wiser man then I first imagined... and your english is just fine.
But take it from me... JJ rocked, haha.
But who did you love??

Who do you love, chile? Tell now, who do, who do you love?

Grateful to the Beatles who started it all if you ask me.

Small Faces were magical, before Rod Steward destroyed them, of course. Ask Daddy if he remembers Ogden's (Celebrated) Nut Gone Flakes.

Love? This is a secret, I never told anyone: The Deep Purple. They were... the epitome of SEX for me. Especially on their first album, with the songs Hush, Mandrake Root, Hey Joe, and I'm so glad.

I loved the music in a sixties movie called "Zabriskie Point".

If I watch "Concert at Pompeii" I get mellow and sexy.

I lived in a country with no drugs in the sixties. But there was something. You could not deny it. A click, an aroma in the air, no matter what language you spake. There was nothing like it before that time and since. It was undescribable, and in my case probably had to do with my maturing in to a man.

If I watch any Beatles movie, esp. "A Hard Day's Night" I start to cry uncontrollably and to sob with my body shaking, so hard, five minutes into the movie, and I never stop until the end.

In the sixties every effing Beatles' album's release was a gift from the gods. People could not get over to be lucky enough to live through that.

I still live in the sixties. I included some more modern and some more ancient music in my listening realm as well, but I listen to those as if they were, because deep down they are, sixties music.

Recent discovery was "Colosseum: Live", a few retro takes of standards by Canned Heat ("When things go wrong..." talk about blues for christ's sake) and Nancy Sinatra's song from Kill Bill "Bang bang".

Old discovery was Ludwig van Beethoven, who was the Beatles' equivalent. Or even better than that. Ludwig was so far the best musical composer of all times in human history, if you ask me. Bach has a lot of respect, he was a ground-breaker, but Beethoven had it in his soul. Johann Sebastian Bach was a technical genius, and he approached music with a mathematician's pedantry. He lost that in "Toccata and Fugue in G minor" for a moment, but his very religious diminutizing of his own self (a cancer of the times he lived in) restricted him from becoming a spirited musician.

Haha, somehow I think you're tryin to fug with my head Wux... and it's workin'. :-)

Still, I cut my own path... even if it was cut before.
So, no, no fugues and pomp&circumstance have no place... just what moves me, see?
Monday/Wendsday this... Tuesday/Thursday another... simple as that.
Trends, Number one with a bullet... ho hum. Fans=fanatics. Right?
Carry that to the forums and maintain a hero status.... never in a million years my friend.
Fuggin Neitzshians... they all want power. Few have it.
Here's a quote... "I'm not upset that you lied to me... I'm upset that I can't trust you anymore."
So who do I love?... Who can a body love?
Surely not some cyber-punk.
You love yourself... or none at all.
Cause trying to love others when you're not at peace with you.... ha, garbage.
But, that's my own silliness..

Oh Man! I DIG Jump Swing from Hell : by Lee Press On and the Nails. I also dig the Cherry Poppin Daddies and Big Bad VooDoo Daddy.

I can work my fool @$$ off to some hard core jump swing big band tunes. ...and yes...I believe Gene Krupa was one of the best who ever lived.

:)

I also dig Hard core metal and classic punk.

I'll go with that!

Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, FM, PFM, ELP, UK, (running out of abrevs!), Camel, Gryphon, Nektar, Ant Phillips, Steve Hackett..

But then also into jazzier explorations like Brand X, LTE, RTF, Bruford, Steve Hillage, Jerry Goodman, Eric Johnson...

Or more electronic like Jean Michel Jarre, Yello, Space Art, Phillip Glass, Eno, Mike Oldfield, Group 87, T-Dream, Vangelis, Tomita, Synergy...

Or how about new wavish, like Ultravox, Devo, Telex, Sousxie, Lena Lovich, YMO, Missing Persons, ODW, Logic Systems...

Or more new agey, like Andreas Vollenweider, Kitaro, Hiroshima, Steve Kajula, David Arkenstone...

So much good music, so little time to hear it all!



FantasyArtMan

i love music. i love metal, i love violin, david garrett brings the two world together, amazing, if you want to give it a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKhgSNdko58&feature=related

A fine musician and wonderful performance, but not a trace of metal in sight. This would fit pretty firmly in the new age bin. For heavier violin I think Nash the Slash or Ben Mink of FM might fit the bill of metal violinist a little closer.

But I did enjoy David Garrett's emotional playing! Thanks for sharing!


FantasyArtMan

only metal is the metallica cover song... and that's the beauty of it, to the unsuspecting, it's just a beautiful classical peice. he does a cool rendition of 'kashmir' too, among others.

Ou, I'd love to hear his version of Kashmir! Gonna look that up right now! Thanks!


FantasyArtMan

Possum Rock...
or whatever.

Speaking of mixing metal into gold - here's bit of a genre-bender with a hint of classical.

Liquid Tension Experiment (LTE) playing "Another Dimension" live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqaM4ynvylc&feature=related



FantasyArtMan

easy listening music, the kind they play on the weather channel, ryan farish is my favorite. but i also listen to heavy metal, southern rock, blues rock, etc.