[B5JMS] ATTN JMS - Favourite music?

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: smileoftheshadow at aol.com (SmileOfTheShadow)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 02:47:21 +0000 (UTC)
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>I haven't really posted a message here for awhile. I always say that
>you can judge a person by their taste in music. So what is all of your
>peoples taste in music?

I like my band best :)  It's called April's Rain, and the album'll be out
sometime next year.  look for it!  After that shameless plug, I love:

The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Postal Service, Death
Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, Frank Sinatra and any of the rat pack...too much to
name.  I definitely suggest Death Cab and the postal service to anyone who
hasn't heard of them :)

Jon


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:25:07 +0000 (UTC)
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I'm pretty broad in my musical tastes; I like pretty much everything except
hard-ass country music and, at the absolute other end of the spectrum, most
opera (though I love classical music per se).

I have a playlist set aside as "writing music," which has everything from
musicals (JC Superstar to Chicago and Chess and Phantom of the Paradise and
Hair) --

-- to current artists (Aimee Mann, who is just terrific, Moby, Mariliyn Manson,
Fluke, Juno Reactor, and Rob Dougan, whose instrumental pieces on his most
current two-CD set are freaking brilliant) --

-- to the "music of my people," being the stuff I grew up with...huge walloping
sections of Simon and Garfunkel, Meatloaf, John Lennon, the Red Clay Ramblers,
Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Who, Billy Joel, the Doors, the Beatles,
Elton John, Leon Russell, Leon Redbone, Talking Heads and so on.

Classically, I'm a Mozart fan, then I go to Vivaldi, Beethoven, and on from
there.

Internationally, I go for Celtic music (Enya, several others...also saw and
loved Riverdance, go thou and do likewise), and Japanese music (especially
Kodo), some East-Indian music (the Buddha Bar CD sets are a good place to
start, as kind of samplers of this style). 

So at the end of the day, I'm kind of a mutt, musically speaking.  But it works
for me.


 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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