Artists, bands, groups and music you like!

Coffee break
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What kind of music do you like?

I love Swing Out Sister! Listen: http://www.deezer.com/search/swing%20out%20sister

And you? :slight_smile:

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Well there is this. :santa:

Don’t think it’s my favorite though


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I like lot of genres, hard to say i’m keen on one.

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I like all kinds of music. Here are 2 that are native to where I am (Southeast Louisiana).

Seeing Otis Redding and BB King in Mississippi nightclubs was one of the musical highlights of my partially misspent youth.

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I could make a never ending list, but here are a few randoms:

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Same here :smile:

Among a lot of others:

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and so on 
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Neil Young <3 (also Sixto Rodriguez)

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and from my top 10



 but a few hundred songs are in my top 10 :wink:

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So true. At least a 100.

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great, thank so much

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What about Zydeco/Gregorian chant fusion? It’s what’s happening now all along the “Redneck Riveria”.

(Apologies to Tibetan throat singing fans.)

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I never heard of them found them 20 minutes ago.
The lyrics are haunting frankly it tears me up

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Why do people in Louisiana put the valves on the outside of their accordions? Elsewhere, such as in the Upper Midwest and Texas, the valves for the reeds are on the inside of the box. Never mind, the Hengel concertinas from Minnesota have them on the inside as well.

It just seems a bit odd to me to do it different. There must be a reason. Tone quality perhaps?

Changing the subject just a bit to something more local to where I grew up:

Where I grew up, we had both kinds, polkas and waltzes. OK. I am stealing a line from that movie where Jake and Elwood end up in the middle of Indiana.

The truth is, what I grew up with was something completely different from most of the world. We merged several European musical traditions.

My mother had several of their recordings, as they had disbanded in 1962:
Cousin Fuzzy And His Cousins
I still remember watching the 1979 reunion. As if I had any choice in the matter. My parents made sure all five of us watched. Even if two of them are too young to remember. This link is a bit different from the rest. It is a compilation of music and short interviews put together by WBAY-TV in Green Bay.

There was the Dick Rodgers Orchestra, every Sunday at noon. Dinner time with the Dick Rodgers Orchestra on the television from the Danceland Ballroom. The Dick Rodgers Orchestra resulted when he added Dick Metko, the equivalent to Eddie Van Halen’s guitar work but on accordion, to his band. Later, when they disbanded, Dick Metko went on to play with many other bands in the area. You could always tell when he was playing.

I can’t forget the king: Romy Gosz
My mother had quite a few of his recordings on 45 and 33 LP. Nobody could play like Romy.
But there are plenty in Northeast Wisconsin who have tried. According to local legend, Romy was too old for WWII but too important as a local musician to be building submarines in the shipyards in Manitowoc.

The US Navy drafted his entire band to entertain the submarine sailors and workers on lunch break and at dances in Manitowoc. True? Don’t know. I heard that after the war, some sailors moved to Manitowoc “just because.” Do the math.

When Romy passed away, the entire city shut down. The county fair was going and everything stopped. The fairgrounds went silent. That was his local status as a musician. Even the pope at the time sent condolences, as the pope had several of his recordings and enjoyed them. They said when Romy played, the ballrooms were packed three deep outside, with cars parked for two miles down the roads. For his funeral, the church was packed five deep outside the door at Francis Creek, nobody made a sound.

Going a bit off-topic:

Manitowoc Shipbuilding did build EEE-rated Gato and Balao class submarines, 28 of them, in record time, with double welded hulls, under budget. When was the last time you heard of a military contractor doing that? Why double-welded? They had to survive the rigors of crossing Lake Michigan on the way to Chicago. How good was the work? EEE rating and the top welders were sent out east to the shipyards on the East coast to teach them how to double weld because their work was just that good. You can still see their work on display at the local museum, along the river.

Back on topic:

Don Schlies Orchestra from Kewaunee, Wisconsin, married my parents, as they used to say. Quite a few musicians came from Kewaunee and Manitowoc counties. A very large German/Czech mix in those counties, with both cultures mixing their musical traditions together.

We had a few Polish bands, because, why not?
Alvin Styczynski was from Pulaski, Wisconsin and was the most popular, playing on television on Sundays. He could sing in both English and Polish as requested. He always spoke with a thick Polish accent because he wasn’t exposed to English until he started school. Which was not unusual back then.

Back then, almost every AM and FM station had at least one polka show during sometime in the week. So I didn’t have much of a choice in music, growing up. I didn’t hear “modern music” (rock and roll) until I was 14 and in high school.

Northeast Wisconsin is mostly German, Czech, Dutch, Walloon Belgians, Polish, Irish, and French. That explains why this music was so popular until about 1980. It is still going with one station, WRJQ Goodtime Radio still operating from Appleton, Wisconsin.

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I always gravitated towards the heavier side of rock.
Led Zeppelin. Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Grand Funk Railroad, Blue Oyster Cult, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alice Cooper, Procul Harum, The Who, Heart, Joan Jett, The Pretty Reckless, In This Moment, Metric, Rush, and many many more.

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Totally incomplete, just the first things that come to mind:
Tool, Opeth, Cynic, Unleash the Archers, In this moment, The Pretty Reckless, Butcher Babies, Jinjer, Baby Metal, Death, Metallica, Disturbed, Pantera, Lacuna Coil, Rhapsody of Fire, Nightwish

That pretty much defines my main contemporary genres.

And then almost everything classical: Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Liszt, Dvorak, Vivaldi, etc.

:person_shrugging:

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I’m glad that you mentioned Opeth. I’m a really big fan of theirs as well as other things the members/former members have done, particularly when Mikael was in Bloodbath or Martin’s band Soen.

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Soen → yes :slight_smile:

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A list of everything music that terrified my parents. :grinning:

Now add AC/DC to the list. Along with Kiss. Both terrified them too.

They were 100% convinced that there really was a blue oyster cult out there doing demonic things with blue oysters. Do blue oysters even exist?

Alice Cooper was a woman. Yes, that is what they believed.

To them, Grand Funk Railroad was simply someone doing a typo on the Grand Trunk Western Railroad.

Nothing says out of touch with music reality than being the only kid in school who has no clue about what everyone is listening to outside of school because my parents decided social isolation was the best policy.

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I learned classical music by watching Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, along with some Tom and Jerry.

For decomposing classical music, there was Spike Jones. If it wasn’t for the classical music, there would be no Spike Jones. He did to classical music what Weird Al Yankovic did to rock and roll.

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