The Syndicate

I think we should talk about what we like without denigrating what we don't by calling it names. Making fun of the listeners of some kinds of music discourages people from joining the conversation.

I happen to like folk music. I grew up with it, it is the soundtrack of my childhood.

thellama73 wrote:

S~V~S wrote:Can you point me to where I might have heard a melodica?

Here's a particularly annoying melodica rendition of an already bad song. When played well, it can almost sound like a crummy accordion, but they are almost never played well.

So it's like a kiddie toy organ? You are right, that was pretty terrible, lol.

thellama73 wrote:

S~V~S wrote:People are of two minds about pipes; either they love them, or they think it is an awful caterwauling. I never knew someone to be indifferent. My husband was a Fenian & a Hibernian. We had pipers at our wedding, and at his funeral. They are precious to me, and I don't often meet a kindred spirit!

The first instrument I learned to play was the accordion, so I am well acquainted with love it or hate it instruments. I happen to love bagpipes, and most of the other instruments everyone else dislikes. The only one I really can't stand is melodica.

Now see, I am a HUGE fan of Gogol Bordello, which has a heavy accordion element. I don't love traditional accordion, like L. Welk, but I love a bit of rock/punk accordion! Can you point me to where I might have heard a melodica?

It never would have occurred to me to think I was here in a nest of pipe lovers all this time!

People are of two minds about pipes; either they love them, or they think it is an awful caterwauling. I never knew someone to be indifferent. My husband was a Fenian & a Hibernian. We had pipers at our wedding, and at his funeral. They are precious to me, and I don't often meet a kindred spirit!

Epignosis wrote:

S~V~S wrote:I like to play bagpipe music in public places. Like in the summer, I roll my car windows down & blast those pipes at red lights. LOL.

Love me some pipes. I listen to Seven Nations and Bad Haggis, for instance.

I do everything from Real Mackenzies to Queens Pipe & Drum Corps. One year my husband & took a friend of ours who was a Uilleann piper to the St Patricks Day parade/party in Butte,MT (they shut down the whole town. Little old ladies sell Beer at card tables in the street. Small children hand out green trinkets. They have shuttle buses from the hotels & motels to downtown; we used to go every year) and we would stand outside a packed bar, and he would start piping, and they would part like the waters of the Red Sea for the piper.

It was a beautiful thing

I like to play bagpipe music in public places. Like in the summer, I roll my car windows down & blast those pipes at red lights. LOL.

I do not because super music people make me feel plebian, lol. I'll be all cool and liking all the right stuff, then I *squeeee* for Hungry Like the Wolf, and my cred is destroyed.

How is the Beach Boys Christmas Album higher on your overall than the White Album?

That's a rhetorical question,obviously. Taste in music, film, everything, really, is intensely personal.

Queensrÿche

What you have to do is copy & paste the name with the umlaut (it works with all diacritical marks)

I have to agree here; I am not a big WHO fan, BUT Quadrophenia ranks highly in my favorite album lists. It stands the test of time, while most Who recordings are now pretty dated.