Music - What Floats Your Boat?

One of the upsides to enforced confinement - playang through stacks and stacks of music that I haven't heard for some time.  I'm not a great fan of groups with one or two notable exceptions (Beautiful South, Deacon Blue, Steely Dan) but I love the singer/ songwriters of the 70's and 80's - Van Morrison, Neil Young, James Taylor, Carol King etc. But my all time favourite is Joni Mitchell - I wish I knew how to do the "insert a video thing" because I'd recommend listening to anything from the album Hejira - especially the title track and the closing track "Refuge of the Road" - very prophetic for current times.  

Mmmm .... will this work?

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qGTeMBNuGM

Thanks for the thread Freddy, music helps to distract me from what is going on just now. I usually like all sorts of music but I'm mostly listening to the (for me) more relaxing sounds. A favourite at the moment is switching on Alexa and asking for "Coffee Shop Jazz" (I've just noticed OH has asked Alexa to stop!) He's on the phone to someone. 

I'm missing hearing the musician in the family playing with his Big Band, all the concerts have been cancelled and the quirky cowpunk band that my daughter plays the fiddle in, they do a good version of the Johnny Cash "We got married in a fever" song but it's south west style....something like "we got married in Bridgwater...and then "we're all going to Weston."  It's cheerful and makes me smile. 

Popular Classical [Vivaldi Four Seasons, Strauss, Copeland, esp, Fanfare for the Common Man, and thenfollowed by the Emerson, Lake and Palmer version, Sprach Zarathrustra by Richard Strauss].

Then lots of Rock: Steppenwolf, Bachmann Turner Overdrive, Alice Cooper, Free, Thin Lizzy, interspersed with stuff from Georgie Fame, Alan Price and a few quirky items such as 'Mendocino' by the Sir Douglas Quintet [popular during my first foreign holiday [Austria 1967], so some special memories ...

'Eloise' by Barry Ryan, 'Son of Hickpry Hollers Tramp' by OC Smith, Cream {School detention for writing this on my Latin Exercise Book; another detention the following week for attempted translation to 'Spuma Lactis' as a more cultural version...]

Dave Brubeck 'Take 5'.

And lots of Elkie Brooks [Bought 'No More the Fool' when I met Elaine and we used to play 'We have tonight' at the end of our weekends together, soppy romantic that I am ]

And many more ...

Steve

Adge Cutler & The Worzels? 'Don't Tell I, Tell Ee'

'I had a lift to town, with Good Old Farmer Brown, In a Ten Ton truck that were full of muck, and when he set I down, the barmaid Rose, she held her nose, I said 'Don't smell I, smell eee ...'

Steve

Our daughter's band played with them recently in Bristol (obviously not the originals) but still going as a group. They were intending to do another show but now postponed, she said everyone had a great evening singing along.  (I've said previously that she would never have contemplated the idea when young!)

Ralph McTell, after years of refusing to revise or update 'Streets of London', has agreed to a request to add an extra verse to reflect the plight of the Homeless in the face of Coronavirus.

It's really moving ....

In shop doorways, under bridges, in all our towns and cities

You can glimpse the makeshift bedding from the corner of your eye

Remember what you're seeing barely hides a human being

We're all in this together, brother, sister, you and I.

Steve

Hi all, has to be this at this awfull time. Hope it works. Harold Melvin wake up everybody.

https://youtu.be/7pspeIJS7XQ

Supertramp are a very good example of the way that I heard most of my favourite music-I would hear the single, buy the album and fall in love with other songs than the one that led me to buy it in the first place!

I bought Breakfast in America and then the live album Paris which is still, now in digital format, one of my favourites.

Much of the music that I listen to is from live recordings, youtube is great for that, with the most played in the car-I can have it as loud as I want it-being Supertramp, Sterephonics and Elbow but with a range so wide I could not really classify it but much of it is an audible link to a particular place or time.

Iam a bit different 55 years ago I used to have my dansette record player plugged into the light fitting ( no sockets in the attic) and played LPs by Charlie Parker, yes I listened to radio Luxembourg etc went to clubs but always fell asleep listening to the great Charlie Parker. I still listen still have my collection of his recordings but sadly no record player now, it is 100 years since he was born this year and I still find his recordings well worth a listen if you never have.