What are you listening to?

[Ovid's Exile]

I'm surfing through a playlist of popular music I put together recently:
Henry VIII- Greensleeves
Richard Shuckburgh- Yankee Doodle
John Newton- Amazing Grace
Francis Scott Key- The Star-Spangled Banner
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle- The Marseillaise
Julia Ward Howe- Battle Hymn of the Republic
John Owen- Men of Harlech
Jesus Gonzalez Rubio- Jarabe Tapatio
Daniel Decatur Emmett- Dixie
Patrick Gilmore- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Percy Montrose- My Darling, Clementine
Gilbert and Sullivan- Major-General's Song
Eugene Pottier- The Internationale
John Philip Sousa- Stars and Stripes Forever
Banjo Paterson- Waltzing Matilda
Anonymous- I've Been Working on the Railroad
Charles H. Brown- The Yellow Rose of Texas
Frederick Weatherly- Danny Boy
Chauncey Olcott- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
20s
Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych- Carol of the Bells
Paul Robeson- Ol' Man River
Al Jolson- I'm Sitting On Top of the World
Joseito Fernandez- Guantanamera
30s
Comedian Harmonists- Veronika
Robert Johnson- Crossroad
Benny Goodman- Sing, Sing, Sing
Cab Calloway- Minnie the Moocher
The Andrews Sisters- Bei Mir Bist du Schoen
Cole Porter- Anything Goes
Leadbelly- Pick a Bale of Cotton
Carlos Gardel- Por una cabeza
Judy Garland- Over the Rainbow
Fred Astaire- Cheek to Cheek
Glenn Miller- In the Mood
Artie Shaw- Begin the Beguine
Duke Ellington- It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got that Swing)
40s
The Ink Spots- Maybe
Bing Crosby- White Christmas
Lena Horne- Stormy Weather
The Mills Brothers- Till Then
Woody Guthrie- This Land is Your Land
John Lee Hooker- Boogie Chillen
Vera Lynn- We'll Meet Again
Edith Piaf- La Vie en Rose
Tino Rossi- Besame Mucho
Louis Jordan- Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
50s
Elmore James- Dust My Broom
Muddy Waters- Mannish Boy
Hank Williams- Your Cheatin' Heart
Bo Diddley- Bo Diddley
The Platters- Only You
Eddy Arnold- Cattle Call
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
Little Richard- Tutti Fruity
Buddy Holly- Peggy Sue
Ella Fitzgerald- Blue Skies
Jerry Louis- Great Balls of Fire
Elvis Presley- Jailhouse Rock
Chuck Berry- Johnny B. Goode
60s
Howlin' Wolf- Spoonful
Etta James- At Last
Ray Charles- Hit the Road Jack
Sam Cooke- Chain Gang
The Animals- House of the Rising Sun
The Kingsmen- Louie Louie
The Four Seasons- Walk Like a Man
Gene Chandler- Duke of Earl
Patsy Cline- Crazy
Jacques Brel- Amsterdam
Ennio Morricone- The Ecstasy of Gold
Bob Dylan- Like a Rolling Stone
Wilson Pickett- Mustang Sally
Aretha Franklin- Respect
The Beatles- Hey Jude
Cannonball Adderly- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Johnny Cash- Ring of Fire
Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower
The Velvet Underground- I'm Waiting For The Man
Credence Clearwater Revival- Bad Moon Rising
The Doors- Break on Through
Frank Sinatra- My Way
Steppenwolf- Born to Be Wild
Otis Redding- Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World
Crosby, Stills, and Nash- Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Janis Joplin- Me and Bobby McGee
David Bowie- Space Oddity
70s
B.B. King- The Thrill is Gone
The Rolling Stones-Angie
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On?
Black Sabbath- Iron Man
Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Eric Clapton- Layla
John Denver- Rocky Mountain High
Deep Purple- Smoke on the Water
John Lennon- Imagine
Aerosmith- Dream On
Led Zepplin- Stairway to Heaven
The Who- Baba O'Riley
Neil Young- Heart of Gold
KISS- Detroit Rock City
Alice Cooper- No More Mr Nice Guy
Pink Floyd- Eclipse
Lynryd Skynyrd- Free bird
Van Halen- Eruption
Sex Pistols- Anarchy in the UK
The Eagles- Hotel California
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
Sugarhill Gang- Rapper's Delight
80s
Ozzy Osbourne- Crazy Train
Rush- Tom Sawyer
Iron Maiden- Run to the Hills
George Thorogood- Bad to the Bone
Dio- Holy Diver
Saxon- Crusader
Anthrax- Madhouse
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Megadeth- Peace Sells
Run DMC- Rock Box
Bruce Springsteen- Born in the USA
Guns N Roses- Sweet Child of Mine
Poison- Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Jane's Addiction- Jane Says
Danzig- Mother
Public Enemy- Fight the Power
90s
LL Cool J- Mama Said Knock You Out
Pantera- Cemetery Gates
AC/DC- Thunderstruck
Pearl Jam- Black
Metallica- Enter Sandman
2pac- Changes
Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
Kyuss- Thong Song
Dr. Dre- Nuthin' But a G Thang
Green Day- Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)
Alice in Chains- Rooster
Nine Inch Nails- Closer
Smashing Pumpkins- Today
Radiohead- Karma Police
Blind Guardian- Mirror Mirror
Rammstein- Engel
The Offspring- The Kids Aren't Alright
00s
Rage Against the Machine- Renegades of Funk
Daft Punk- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Eminem- Stan
Wolfmother- The Joker and the Thief in the Night
The Darkness- I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Queens of the Stone Age- Go With the Flow
JayZ- Dirt Off Your Shoulder
Kanye West- Jesus Walks
Judas Priest- Judas Rising

[caldwell.brobeck]

Alas Ovid, I think the Greensleeves is misascribed! General consensus seems that it is Elizabethan in origin.....Not that Henry VIII didn't absolutely rock; my favourite of his is Pastime with Good Company. Cool lyrics.And a youtube clip! The Jethro Tull version is also worth a look....

[Kathrynlovespets]

Bjork and kings of leon

[circular]

To many to mention; of late though Melody Gardot and AC/DC during the Bon Scott era, but rest assured ask me in a month and answer will be completely different.

[Kevin...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3zkkLckeyM

[caldwell.brobeck]

Originally Posted by Kevin...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3zkkLckeyM

Good stuff, now try this one, circa 1953 by Rambling Jack Elliott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7s1IIg9CdA
Actually, I think this is closer to the iconic version, by Red Ingle and the Natural 7 (my grandaddy gave me a 45 of this when I was around 2...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqk3osxS4wQ&NR=1

[Lowyatar]

I love listening to music, especially when I paint, craft, and garden.

Here are just some of my favorites that are on my ipod and computers (I especially like soundtracks):

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
Green Day
Bruno Mars
Kill Bill Volume I And II
Enigma
Nickelback
Gorillaz
Korn
Muddy Waters
Queen
Pink
Elton John
John Lee Hooker
Eminem
My Chemical Romance
Bob Dylan
Kings of Leon
Tori Amos
Godsmack
Robert Johnson
Dixie Chicks
Enya
Disturbed
Weezer

[olive oyl]

I listen all day to Pandora or my iTunes at work and I guess it's mostly "alternative" with a little bit of this and a little bit of that thrown in. A mishmash. Everyone from The Acorn and Beach House through to XTC and Yo La Tengo.

But my true obsessive love these days is Nick Cave and has been for a few years. He's been around as long as I have and is a great wordsmith. Perfection to me. He's dark and funny and usually pissed off. He doesn't tour the US often but he happens to be doing that RIGHT NOW and I'll be seeing him this weekend at the House of Blues in Boston. Really, I'm squealing inside like an annoying 12 girl year old girl (Like, OMG! OMG!).

Can hardly focus on real-life stuff and ain't that a big pity?

[benchs]

[brianvds]

Originally Posted by caldwell.brobeck

Alas Ovid, I think the Greensleeves is misascribed! General consensus seems that it is Elizabethan in origin.....Not that Henry VIII didn't absolutely rock; my favourite of his is Pastime with Good Company. Cool lyrics.And a youtube clip! The Jethro Tull version is also worth a look....

Around the 16th century, various forms of Greensleeves were floating around, both in England and in Europe. Perhaps Henry VIII created one of these, but as far as I know the tune isn't original with him. He seems to be one in a long and venerable line of people with great talent and, er, not such great personalities... ;-)

I'm guessing his version of the song went something like this:

Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have loved you well and long,
Delighting in your company.

Chorus:
Greensleeves was another wife
Greensleeves caused me such endless strife
Greensleeves to the block I sent
Her neck ever slightly to be bent...

[Kevin...]

Originally Posted by caldwell.brobeck

Good stuff, now try this one, circa 1953 by Rambling Jack Elliott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7s1IIg9CdA
Actually, I think this is closer to the iconic version, by Red Ingle and the Natural 7 (my grandaddy gave me a 45 of this when I was around 2...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqk3osxS4wQ&NR=1

Good stuff as well, Caldwell!

[Kevin...]

Watch for the little quotes on art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGSba...&feature=share

[caldwell.brobeck]

brian - like the variation,
But re. the date, the tune itself was first licensed to print in 1580 (the version we generally know best in 1584), and Henry died in 1547. If it had been popular before 1580, it would have most likely turned up as a ballad sheet, and because it isn't all that scurrilous, it would have been legally licensed. (By 1602, it was popular enough to be referred to by Shakespeare, who was consumate at playing off popular culture)...So I figure it's most likely post-Henry, though melodies & variations on them do float around for centuries.

Kevin... - thanks! One of the things I love about C&W is the way it can produce good but humorous music (as well as poke self-deprecating fun at their genre, but that's a different story....). Richard Capehart - the Washington Post writer - has a pretty funny suggestion to help John Boehner & Barack Obama get along - the Cigarette Caucus (both are smokers) - so I'll suggest this might be their caucus theme song:

Tex Williams and Smoke, Smoke Smoke that Cigarrete

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Speaking of songs that might just help people get along, I heard one of my favourites yesterday on the radio, so I thought I'd post it here:

Lili Marleen .

That version is by Marlene Dietrich, the original by Lale Anderson is also very good, but very different in tone.The story of its popularity with troops on both sides of WWII is fascinating. English lyrics are on that page as well.

[Clive Green]

'Whirling Dance' by Chung Yiu-Kwong for flute and orchestra.

I can't stand most C&W, maudlin rubbish for the most part. But there are exceptions. The Topp Twins are hilarious and the older stuff (closer to it's bluegrass and folk roots) can be pretty good.

[stlukesguild]

I can't stand most C&W, maudlin rubbish for the most part. But there are exceptions

Most Country and Western is "country" in name only. In reality it is but pop music sung with a southern drawl... with perhaps the added advantage that the lyrics deal with more mature concerns than the average pop song. Overall, however, I tend to agree with you and prefer the "country" music that is closer to the true Appalachian Bluegrass roots... which itself is rooted in English/Scottish/Irish folk music and ballads.

Currently, I'm listening to Michael (not Joseph) Haydn's choral music... specifically his Requiem Pro Defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo and Missa In Honorem Sanctae Ursulae. (That's one of the great things about Classical Music... the great catchy titles!). Micheal Haydn was the brother of the far more famous Joseph... but it seems he was a rather brilliant composer in his own rite. His symphonies and choral music are being rediscovered as part of the current HIP (Historically Informed Performance) movement which has focused upon appropriate manner of performing older music... as well as an exploration of many forgotten composers. The Baroque is no longer thought to be limited to Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi and the Classical Era is no longer thought to offer nothing beyond Mozart Joseph Haydn, and early Beethoven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US17X...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbG7m...eature=related