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Fingolfin
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This topic may have appeared sometimes in this forum history, but...
I would like to know, what music (bands, singers, songs, maybe classical music) you like and why.
I am also interested in learning whether it happens to you (to me it certainly does!) that you have certain song (band, album) connected with a specific occasion in your life.
I will start with myself:
I like classic hits from 1960s through 1990s.
Out of mainstream I am fond of metal music, especially black metal and folk/viking/pagan metal.
How about you?
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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yusime
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I'm not picky I like ballads the most. I don't care much for music where I can't understand the words they are saying, or if its excessive in volume. I do enjoy County, musicals, some pop, and many others. I was actually in middle school chorus and high school advanced chorus.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him a spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein
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Fingolfin
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I need a special mood when I listen to country music. However, not American country, but Czech, actually, however, it is based on lyrics (a lot of fun due to similar jokes, word plays, and well, common history(being parts of one state between the world wars and after the second until 1993)).
There are ballads that go to one's heart, yes.
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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unsui
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Dear Fingolfin,
Why are your messages from Mark but signed Marek?
As to music, I'm completely classical. More or less everything since gregorian chant up to when people like Stockhausen and Reich seems to throw out harmony and melody and make noise (sometimes interesting but not, in my ears, music).
So I have records of most of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Scarlatti, Bach, Stravinsky, Vivaldi, Albeniz, and so on plus a few things like Scott Joplin and some jazz - mostly 'traditional'.
Now I've proved beyond all doubt that I'm truly square, can I go and sulk?
Love,
Anthony
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marc
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I like big band, and a genre called lounge music.
Mel Torme, Tony Bennet, Billy Holliday... that sort of thing.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Damn Anthony, I can't believe that your pathetically square list of favorite composers doesn't also include Brahms, Chopin, and Bartok, like my pathetically square list of favorite composers does. I'm listening to a new CD of Scarlatti as I write this.
Brit
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Marek,
Like Anthony, I listen to and own primarily classical music. One piece, Dvorak's first piano quintet [performance by Richter and Borodin Quartet], is indeliably linked to my period of deep introspection three years ago. In fact, I have not dared to listen to it since then for fear that I'll drown in a puddle of tears.
Brit
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OK. Now that others have taken the plunge I won;t feel so 'different'.
In classical music, apart from the universally recognised 'greats', I like the music of the following composers (not in any order of preference):
Bruckner, Britten, Elgar, Kentish - and many others (for orchestral and instrumental music).
Halevy, Britten, Bécaud, Wagner (!) for opera.
Ivri Lider, Gilbert Bécaud, Rita - and many others (for popular music).
I must admit that I am rather surprised that those posters here who showed a liking for classical music did not mention composers such as Britten, Barber, Tippett and all the other modern gays.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Dear Brit,
It does, but I was starting to write a catalogue; you don't want that.
Love,
Anthony
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timmy
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There'd be a huge catalogue. I like music ranging from Metallica to Mozart
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I listen to quite a mix of stuff at assorted times.
Usually 1970s/80s hippy acid country rock when I'm doing my physio exercises - stuff like Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
Lots of 1970s & 80s UK stuff from the festival / pub rock scene - these are often bands or people I've worked with, or who insp[ired me to be a political animal: Jimmy Sommerville in his various incarnations, Tom Robinson, global Village Trucking Company, and I'm currently having a Nick Lowe phase.
In a nostalgic mood it's music from shows I've worked on - "Follies" (Sondheim) and so forth.
And as general music to do housework to it's usually something like Mozart, or the amazing Telemann.
Music to narrowly avoid slitting my wrists to - yes, I do get fits of depression - has to be either Bruckner or Velvet Underground.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Fingolfin
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Location: Slovakia
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Hi,
hm, I think almost everybody is capable of producing a catalogue of likes and dislikes not only in music...
As to your question, ID is Fingolfin, real name is Marek, but I use Mark when communicating with English speakers. Marek is Slavonic version for Mark, in this manner it appears in Slovak, Czech, Polish etc, even in Hungarian (not a Slavonic language). When I sign down, it is often by accident whethe I manage to hit the E button or not. Call me Mark, Marek or Fingolfin, I listen to all of these...
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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Fingolfin
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Location: Slovakia
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Hey,
I can see your point. Different things are good in different times (Chris from Chris and Nigel; hi Timmy). 
Classical music, well, as a background when I study or do some school preparation (I like Gregorians, especially the boy chorus), when in spleen there are songs like Total Eclipse of the Heart or Stay...
When I need a boost, I listen to black metal, most preferably Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir.
However, there are 2 songs, like anthems for me. Anthem for the circle of life is Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Marlene Dietrich's version) and for all who are suffering in their difference and minority: Streets of Philadelphia (by Bruce Springsteen).
Thanks for all your replies, I am still hoping for more, I'm gonna look for some stuff that you wrote about... 
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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Wot, Timmy? You only like music beginning with an M? You're missing rather a lot.
Hugs
N
[Updated on: Thu, 21 August 2008 21:00]
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
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…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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NW I've never heard it called acid country rock before!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM2kAgLvhQM
People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm
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Fingolfin
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Location: Slovakia
Registered: August 2008
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Many of you mentioned classical music. I decided to post a link here, the combination of classical music and heavy metal. Four Seasons by 2 guitarists from Children of Bodom (Finland), a cult heavy metal band, which gave the name to a sub-style: bodom metal (due to the fact, that their music could not be labeled...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWx_GyTLGmQ&feature=related
Enjoy
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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