OK so what's wrong with me?

Subject: RE: OK so what's wrong with me?
From: DougR
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 02:31 PM

Jed, when I saw your original message, I thought probably you and I would really be in the minority on this one. I was really surprised so many people agreed with us on Elvis and the Beatles.

I also join you in your dislike of Streisand (and not just because of her songs).

I was a teenager when Sinatra burst on the scene and the 14 year old girls (and some a bit older) reacted to him just as the 14 years olds did to Elvis. I never understood it. As far as Crooners go, I felt Sinatra didn't hold a candle to Como, Haymes, and Crosby.

I listened mostly to country and big band music in my teen years. Eddy Arnold, Gene Autry, Bob Wills with Tommy Duncan and The Texas Playboys, Tex Williams, Spade Cooley, Jimmy Wakely, some of Ernest Tubbs stuff, Tex Ritter, and several others were my heros. Lady vocalists I liked were Jo Stafford, some of Dinah Shore's music, and Margaret Whiting.

DougR

Subject: RE: OK so what's wrong with me?
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 02:50 PM

I love Johnny Cash, and I love June's personality... but she is one of the WORST singers I think I have ever heard.

Subject: RE: OK so what's wrong with me?
From: GUEST,Mudweasel
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 02:51 PM

This whole thread reminds me of the Garnet Rogers song "Jesus and Elvis", which is really the closest I've ever gotten to appreciating mr. Presley.

I do like the fact that the 4-chord sequence to "Blue Moon" segues rather humorously into several traditional folk-songs, and it's a good vocal warm-up.

Though I am a die-hard folkie, my guiltier pleasures include 80's heavy metal, Jimmy Buffet, and the broadway musical "hair"

And, in defense of my fellow canadian, Mr. L. Cohen, he's a brilliant, if depressing, songwriter who should jsut sit bakc and let others, with a vocal range more than a half-octave, cover his work. Jennifer Warnes did an entire album of cohen covers, and it was great, if a little bit poppy in places.

My 2 cents.

Cheers, -Mudweasel

Subject: RE: OK so what's wrong with me?
From: lady penelope
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 03:47 PM

Kendall, have you ever heard Cilla Black? Now how she ever got termed as a singer I shall never know, vile vile vile. Makes Barbara Streisand sound like a choir boy. Yech!

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: OK so what's wrong with me?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 05:46 PM

What I don't get is why people get so excited talking about the things they don't like.

Subject: RE: OK so what's wrong with me?
From: Firecat
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:30 PM

Sorcha, don't slag off Limp Bizkit! I love them. Fred Durst is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!! And Marilyn Manson's supposed to be weird! My favourite song of his is "Disposable Teens", even though "The Beautiful People" is great as well. Mind you, I can't comment on Nine Inch Nails, cos I've never heard any of their music.

Hate Elvis, though. And Cliff "I'm too angelic for my own good" Richard! He makes me feel sick. Even George Michael slags HIM off!

As to not liking the same bands as everybody else, a few years ago, there was a band called North And South. You may remember I've mentioned them before in "Favourite song" threads. Anyway, when I was at school, I was (still am, for that matter, even though they've split up now) a massive fan of them, and I mean MASSIVE!! I couldn't stop talking about them, never missed an episode of their TV show, was always singing their songs, had a picture of them inside my locker, all that sort of stuff. My mates really took the p*** out of me for that, but as far as I could see there was nothing wrong with it!

I still get got at, even now, cos I like stuff like Hear'Say and Steps.

I got teased when Take That were big as well, cos I HATED them. I didn't really get into pop until I was 13. Mind you, having said I hated Take That, I'm a really big Robbie fan now!

I even got teased for liking folk music! Can you believe it?! While everyone else was singing stuff like "Back For Good" at parties, I was singing "She Moves Through The Fair" or "Lowlands", stuff like that. That's the sort of stuff I was brought up with!! Sure, I heard pop on the radio, but I never paid much attention to it!

Subject: RE: OK so what's wrong with me?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 09:14 PM

Jed, I'm a "born and bred" Texan, and sacrilegious or not, here's my opinion on Elvis:

My older brothers took me to see "Love Me Tender" when it first came out, at the old Canadian movie theater. Elvis' character was killed in the movie. At the end, they showed a "ghost" of his face, full-screen. All around us, teenage girls were sobbing. My brothers and I looked at each other and with a single voice shouted: "Shoot him AGAIN!"

Don't care for the Beatles, never did.

DougR, your cowboy list almost matches mine, with the addition of Hank Williams and Hank Thompson. I was raised on country music, the only kind any of the radio stations in our area ever played. Well, there was KOMA in Oklahoma City, but we really didn't pay much attention to it, except when it turned up its power so far you couldn't HEAR anything else...

And although it's really sticking my neck out, I've never been able to listen to Bob Dylan, although I adore some of his songwriting--done by almost anyone else.

Lin