BS: Did You Ever...

Subject: BS: Did You Ever...
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 Jul 05 - 11:06 PM

Okay...so this is silly, but it's true.

I had the opportunity to listen to some Janis Joplin today. I had heard her briefly on other occassions but today was different....I was just listening and taking it all in and LOVING IT!!! I know her music has been around for years but I never had paid much attention to it.

Has anyone else found that they really liked some kind of music that they have heard as background noise over the years yet never paid attention to it until that one day came along? Who was it for you?

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: Peace
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 12:22 AM

It was a group known as Les Double Six (The Double Six) of Paris.

If you have Realplayer, you can hear one of their numbers here.
I first heard them when I was about 13. I didn't pay much attention at the time because I didn't recognize the artistry as being such. They are WOW. A year ago their name popped into my head for no reason I can determine and I looked for their CD. Had to get it 'special ordered'. They are phenomenal--if ya like jazz at all. I gave the CD away and this thread has remined me to get another. Thanks, Michelle.

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 03:41 AM

The traditional Irish musician Maire Ni Chathasaigh.

WOW, eric

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From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 01 Aug 05 - 12:35 PM

happens to me all the time. Even to things have listened to for ages, suddenly strikes me as WOW.

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 10:13 AM

"What a swell party this is"...

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From: Cluin
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 04:07 PM

Merle Haggard, at the moment. I still can't stomach that "Okie from Muscogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me" crap, but he's quite a good singer/songwriter for all that.

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: number 6
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 04:16 PM

Yup ... a British techno group called 808 State. When our son was off in the Orient teaching for 2 years he left his cd collection with us. I went through it, discovered 3 cd's by this group and ... well ... liked it ... like it a lot.

sIx

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From: Allan C.
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 05:05 PM

Funny, I had the same experience with Janis Joplin just a few years ago. I once had a roommate who thought that JJ and the Holding Company was the greatest thing ever; however, at that time in my life, I could hardly bear to listen to it. The epiphany came when I happened to see a TV documentary of her career. Wow!

Maybe some sounds need to settle for awhile before I'm ready to hear them. In 1964 I bought the "Meet the Beatles" LP. I played it all weekend, hoping I could hear what all the excitement was about. I didn't. On Monday I gave away the album. Five years later I liked them so much that I opened and closed my radio shows with cuts from Sgt. Pepper's.

It took a long time for me to appreciate the Rolling Stones, too. It took even longer to like Dylan.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 06:38 PM

It took me a few years before I actually listened to Bob Dylan. I was crazy about the other folksingers of the 60's, like Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ian & Sylvia, etc...but just avoided Dylan till 1969.

I had the notion he was unpalatable or unlistenable or something.

When I finally DID sit down and deliberately listen to him in '69, I was totally amazed. It unquestionably changed my whole life. I have loved him ever since.

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From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 07:02 PM

What an elegant, SWELLEGANT party this is!

Appropriately enough considering the thread title, much of the music that I failed to appreciate at first, and never appreciated until advanced adulthood, has been Broadway show tunes and similar American "pop standards" from the pre-rock/pre-folk-scare era. Including Cole Porter (composer of "Well Did You Ever"), of course, and the Gershwin brothers, etc. etc.

For many years, I dismissed all music remotely associated with this branch of show biz as hopelessly uphip and "commercial." I had to learn to love this stuff from my wife, who spent several years of her youth studying acting in New York. I don't think she ever entertained ambitions to be a singer or dancer in musicals, but even as an aspiring "straight" dramatic and comedic actress, she's always loved those muscials, on film or on stage.

The two of us share much of the same taste and many of the same musical enthusiasms, including Dylan, the Grateful Dead and most psychedelia and "folk-rock" of the 60s (certainly including Janis), and definitely New Orleans music of all eras and genres. But just as I never got into the theatrical music that was such a big part of her life in the years before we met, she never had much interest in the traditional folk and hard-core blues that I was into during those same years. We're still learning about each other's "specialties."

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: kendall
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 07:40 PM

After 50 years I still can't stand any of them.

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From: Dave'sWife
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 07:56 PM

For me it was The Grateful Dead - I spent most of my life sneering at them because all I ever heard were lousy bootleg tapes. On top of that, the folks who my age that were into them were the stoners whose judgements on anything weren't exactly trustworthy.

I was born in 1964.. so picture me as a teenager in the late 70s trying to grasp The Dead when my only exposure to them were bootleg cassettes blared by troubled kids who were either drunk or stoned or both. It didn't help matters any that the Studio Albums The Dead put out were hardly representative of their style.

I went on Poo-pooing them until I met my Husband in 1994. He had spent some time following them around and he just didn't understand how I, a Folkie, couldn't grasp what was good about The Dead. I finally took a listen to some of the more inspired songs and something clicked in my head.

Now I'm a little sorry I didn't take a closer listen sooner.

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 08:11 PM

Exactly the same could be said about many artistic endeavours, from Classical Opera to African Gumboot Dancing.

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 08:39 PM

The question is... when am I going to learn to love Jerry Lewis?

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: Peace
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 08:45 PM

When you become Dean Martin.

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From: Cluin
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 09:19 PM

I had a university residence stoner of a roommate with poor hygeine and only one tape in his collection: that Led Zeppelin one with the old man carrying a bundle of sticks on the cover. He played the everlovin' piss out of it when he wasn't comatose and when it wore out, he went and bought a new one.

I had liked Led Zep up till then...

Now Robert Plant's voice still makes my eardrums contract.

Remember when we swore a solemn oath to break the other guy's fingers if we ever caught him playing the intro to Stairway to Heaven, Clint?


(p.s. Clinton Hammond was NOT the roommate mentioned above. It was long before his time)

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 09:46 PM

I never could stand Robert Plant's voice, and that ruined Led Zeppelin for me. Plus, I was living with 3 guys at the time who were playing Led Zeppelin constantly. ARRRGGHHH!

Bruce, that is a really disgusting thought! (about being Dean Martin, I mean)

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From: bobad
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 09:50 PM

Dean Martin - closet hoser - "That's Amor-eh?"

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From: Beer
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 10:04 PM

Ray Materick resides in the Hamilton Ontario area. Great great song writer and a pleasent voice to listen to.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Aug 05 - 10:53 PM

"Remember when we swore a solemn oath to break the other guy's fingers if we ever caught him playing the intro to Stairway to Heaven"

I do indeed, and it's an oath I still take VERY seriously!

Music That Took Time To Grow On Me?
Hummm... nothing leaps to mind... There have been a few things that I sorta started off liking that, the more I listened to, the less and less I liked 'em... (Luka Blume and Clannad come to mind... )

I keep wondering if one day I'm gonna grok what all the hoopla was over The Beatles....

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: Cluin
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 11:40 PM

You must be one of the newer fellas...

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: number 6
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 12:37 AM

I don't think you will CH ... they weren't really that good.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 07:37 AM

Ah! You must not have heard "Stairway to Gilligan" - "Gilligan's Island" sung to the tune of "Stairway to Heaven" then!

Copy and paste this search...

http://search.ninemsn.com.au/results.aspx?srch=104&FORM=AS4&q=%22Stairway+to+Gilligan%22&gcs=1

Subject: RE: BS: Did You Ever...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 07:43 AM

The song came out in the 70's by "Little Roger and the Goosebumps" and was immediately pulled from the shelves because of the legal action that Led Zeppelin's lawyers took!

No sense of humour this guys... which is why I stopped buying their albums...

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 07:58 AM

http://www.gilligansisle.com/real/stairway.rm