Who's on **your** iPOD?

[Stinky The Clown]

Mine has a lot of Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin ...... Manhattan Transfer and Cherry Poppin' Daddies ...... Soundtracks for various Fosse musicals ........ Carlos Santa, Tito Puente, Arturo Sandoval and Perez Prado (anyone ever hear the whole 23 minutes of Voodoo Suite?) ....... just about every Janis Joplin track, some Hendrix stuff ....... a whole big bunch of hot rod songs and Doo Wop ............ Benny Goodman, including the original Radio City recording of Sing Sing Sing ......... Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Sara Vaughn, Duke Ellington ....... Paul Anka, Tony Bennett ....... Diana Krall, Gloria Estefan (only her Latin stuff, none of her top 40 crap), early Harry Connick, Jr. .............. Fred Astair ........... a bunch of George Carlin routines ............

[liberalmuse]

1. Sounds like you go for a lot of jazz.

I love it, too! I don't have quite the selection of jazz that you do, but have tons of Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, a decent smattering of very old blues artists from the 1930's & '40's (Billy Holiday, Robert Johnson, etc.), and classic rock staples: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Dylan, Clapton, Hendrix, Arlo Guthrie, Grand Funk Railroad, ELP, Moody Blues, Sly and The Family Stone, The Supremes, Edith Piaf, Joplin (no one before or since can do it like Janis), The Who, Traffic/Blind Faith, The Beatles, The Mamas and the Papas, Queen, The Cowsills, Bowie, Santana, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, and sadly, only one Rolling Stones song, along with slightly newer stuff: Gogol Bordello, Dandy Warhols (everything), Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mad Caddies, Alice in Chains, Sublime, System of a Down, B-52's, Faith No More (they're more than just that one song), Green Day, Okean Elzy, Cowboy Junkies, Rusted Root, Bad Religion, Muse, The Cult, Dead Kennedys, The Killers, The Ramones, The Mars Volta, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Kula Shaker, REM, Jeff Buckley, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The English Beat, The White Stripes/Raconteurs, 311, XTC, Elysian Fields, The Vines, Radiohead, The Specials, Rage Against The Machine. Guilty, Unrefined Sugary Pleasures: Boston, Linkin Park, Lily Allen, Avenged Sevenfold, KC and The Sunshine Band, Kim Wilde, The Monkees, Goldfrapp & Mindless Self Indulgence. I'm probably getting old, but the new stuff I'm hearing on the radio is starting to sound very generic. Other than Muse, what's happened to composition and the use of unique harmonies?

[TuxedoKat]

5. I see you like

Edith Piaf, did you ever listen to Charles Aznavour? My mom used to play Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour albums nonstop almost
at our house when I was a kid. Probably why I became so good at French! Aznavour's song, Comme Ils Disent, is a sad song, but
very beautiful. The English translation is "What Makes a Man, a Man", it's about a transvestite. It made a big impression on me
the first time I really listened to the lyrics around age 15.

I'm going to check out some of the other bands you have listed.

[pipi_k]

2. Some old, some new

I like melodic stuff, even if it's rock.

Like "Would?" by Alice in Chains

I like lots of different instruments and melodies/countermelodies playing at once. Like Barry White's music..."Forever In Love" is a good example.

Lots of oldies from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s

Jade, En Vogue, Mark Morrison

Not really a fan of Country Music, but I do like Conway Twitty and Charlie Rich.

Classical music..."The 1812 Overture" is one of my favorites

Pavarotti, Boston, Jethro Tull, Foghat, Three Dog Night, Samuel Barber, Santana, Country Joe and the Fish ("Gimme an "F"!!!!), Hendrix, Alison Kraus, etc.

Just about every genre available...although I'm not really a fan of Jazz unless it's Dixieland.

Vangelis, Kitaro

And I have some really cool Native American "music" by John Richardson ("Song of Fire")

Music for every mood

:)

[TuxedoKat]

4. My tastes are pretty eclectic too.

I like just about something from every era and genre too. I'm going to check out the songs you mention.

Have you heard "Ghost Dance" by Cusco? You might like that one.

TK

[TuxedoKat]

3. Here's some on my iPod that I think you would like

as I have alot of the same artists as you (including Sinatra, Martin, Man. Transfer, Latin music groups):

1) Dancin' Fool - Barry Manilow - I WISH he had done more songs like this! My daughter's competition dance team just danced to this one and it was great!
2) Goody, Goody - Robert Palmer* - Alot of versions of this, but I like his.
3) Hip, Hip, Chin, Chin - Club des Belugas, I like the #3 version on ITunes, just because I'm used to the voice on that one, but they are all pretty much identical.
I think you will really love this one, if you haven't heard it all ready. The dance team danced to this one also -- fantastico!


*Re Robert Palmer, I like his older stuff better from the Sneakin Sally Through the Alley Album, the first three songs on that album go really well together. I notice in ITunes though, they took off one of the best songs from that album -- Man Smart, Woman Smarter! His early stuff is alot like Little Feat, one of my favorite bands too. The Feats Don't Fail Me Now is a great album. I like every song.

I don't have too many show tunes yet. Here are a few:

1. Le Jazz Hot
2. Will-A-Mania
3. If My Friends Could See Me Now - Shirley MacLaine

I've been trying to remember one I heard years ago in a neighborhood show I was in, it had something about "Wisconsin" in it, going to there or from there or something like that -- very catchy tune. I'm getting ready to add some songs from 42nd Street, and other musicals from that era. Dick Powell sang some nice songs, Dames, etc.

This is another interesting group, Toadies, for alternative, indie rock music. Their best album is Rubberneck, I think. I like the whole album but my favorite songs are
Possum Kingdom (they should put that in the new Twilight movie soundtrack because it is about a vampire) and I Come From the Water.

TK

PS I'm going to check out Voodoo Suite... sounds good. If you like any of my suggestions, lmk, I love feedback.