This weekend's musical treat

[TwoTankAmin]

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[fishorama]

My fav is "Good Vibrations". Who doesn't love the electro theremin effects & vocal harmonies? I like many of the surf pop songs. Just happy singing & dancing tunes, nothing too profound or their depressing songs (Sloop John B for 1).

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Here is what a Gen Z Music peoducer and composer had to say when he decided to listen to the Beach Boys for the first time.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Sorry between health, tank issues and news I failed to post any tunes. Sorry, this is the most appropriate song I could post:



edited to add this song-

 

[simonas]

Sly and the Family Stone grew on me - they were a touch before my time music wise, but they were a great discovery later. The Beach Boys, with all due respect, are a band I could never even get through one song of. I read the critics calling Pet Sounds a masterpiece and don't know anyone who has listened to it more than as a curiosity. It seems to have really stayed in its decade.
If you're going with the Beach Boys, please put up something from Pet Sounds that you like and I'll give it another try.

totally agree with Pet Sounds. I followed a poll on FB where there was voting for the best album of all time. From memory it was Abbey Rd and Pet Sounds in the final and I gave it some listens to see why it was so highly rated. I wasn't around to experience what impact it may have had but I thought it was woeful. One of them that I just don't get

 

[GaryE]

I gave the Beach Boys another listen there. They may have been big at a certain time in one culture, but they don't translate for me. I'm not a Beatles fan either, but I can see why they'd still be listened to. Surf music, no, it's a wipeout.

You can hear the sound influencing other bands that came later - I was left thinking of the Hoodoo Gurus' Australian beach sound (which also didn't grab me). The Beach Boys must have liked doo wop a lot.

We're all different, and there's no better or worse taste. I really enjoy jump blues and 1950s R&B, but I can't stand mainstream, "white" Top 40 American pop of that era. It strikes me as very much like mainstream music now, crafted for cash rather than for invention or fun. From the 50s to the 90s there were different things breaking through the formulas occasionally, before it all got driven into the 'alternative' stream.

The first time I heard Edwin Starr's 'War' was at one of those diesel traveling carnivals when I was 13 and feeling very grown up hanging around where the carnies were. They played it, bang a gong by T Rex, and Eli's Coming by 3 dog Night in an endless 3 song loop all night.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Unless you are pretty old you have no idea about the state of music in the 50s and early 60s. It was all corporate controlled and there was a big illegal pay off scheme to get music played on the radio. back then most of it was on A.M. With the advent of F.M. become more in use a lot of the music business changed.

I learned to like old blues because of a Columbia Univ. radio station that use to play this music regularly.

Think about what it costs to see a live concert today. Then consider that my first live concert was Jim Hendrix at the outdor Wollman Skating rink in Central pack in NYC. The tickets were $1.

There is an old saying which applies to may peoples musical preferences: "Everybody is entitled to their own bad tatse." I listen to almos no contemporary music because to me it is more noise than music.

What makes the Beach Boys so great are their vocal harmonies. In my sound company days we did a show with Sha Na Na and another with the Persuasions, a vocal group without instruments. I have a funny story about that show.

Payola

the practice of bribing someone to use their influence or position to promote a particular product or interest.
"if a record company spends enough money on payola, it can make any record a hit"

Edited to add the payola info above and to correct more typos

 

[Fishmanic]

I like the sound of the beach boys. They had a unique sound with awesome harmonies. Songs about surfing, relaxing, and fast cars. I will be playing some of their music in a family BBQ soon along with other songs from the 50s through the 70s.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

There is a big difference between on no liking music which they know is of great quality v.s. not knowing the difference. However, I have pretty varied taste in music here are some genres I like which I would guess many of the younger members here have never heard.
Ragtime
Big band Jazz
New Orleans Jazz
Jazz from the early 1900s
Barbershop Quartets
Some Calypso
Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera
Some Show Tunes try his (play it in 1080p)


So, all the music I post in this thread is quality music I like- after all I started the thread. The one thing I will never post is poor qaulity tunes whether those who listen like the genre or not.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have been torn between two possibilities for what I want to post. Once option is to feature groups for whom we did sound at a concert where I did the live mix. Then there are the YouTube recordings of some great live concerts. It is a lot easier to post a single vid of a show than assembles a series of tunes which represent a single theme.

I came to Jimmy Buffet later in both my and his life. MY car is old and has a CD player in it. I owned almost no CDs which I would play on my PC which has a good speaker system. I had not bough a CD in a long time and then I found Jimmy. I have a few of his CDs now. He was prolific. I was never a fan of what started hum on the path to become a billionaire- Margaritaville. What I found was his later stuff.

And then I discovered there are a lot of his live shows on Youtube. So this weekends tune is a single long show. His music is most certainly joyful noise. But the audiences are huge and they are always having a great time as are the musicians. This is one of my favorite shows. it runs for just under 2 hours. You can listen to it all at once time, or in sections and you can FF though anything you do not like. I have watched/listened to is a few times.

Jimmy Buffett: Don't Stop The Carnival 1998 Tour | Columbus, Ohio Concert​

Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band
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[GaryE]

All music is a lot of noise, and we balk at unfamiliar noise sometimes. Once you get used to it, it can become your noise!

My grandfather, a musician, swore all electrified music wasn't music anymore. When it comes to these things, we don't change. I keep listening to current stuff, and find things I really like. But if I go to I-tunes to buy releases (very old fashioned behaviour) it can be hard to find good recent stuff. Back in the seventies when I'd cash my paycheque and do a Thursday night record store visit, it was exactly the same. If your tastes are a little quirky and you're a mainstream music misfit, finding good stuff is work. Always was, is and will be.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I define joyful noise this way. If you cannot tell who is enjoying the music more, the audience or the musicians making it, there you go. Jimmy Buffet and his band clearly loves every note they play and every word they sing and so do there huge audiences.

In the 1070s I was a part owner in a sound company and I did the mix for a number of the shows. In the 1960s an LP cost about $1.

 

[GaryE]

I remember going to a Frank Zappa show, and he was into interminable, self indulgent guitar solos. He'd start and you could go for a pee, buy a beverage, go back, and he's still be artsing away hopelessly. It was one of the worst shows I ever attended. He wasn't playing for the audience, but for himself. I found that with a few jazz shows I saw, and with a couple of 'classic rock' acts that had read their own album liner notes too much. It kind of went along with artists who had decided they had an audience of idiots who would never get their genius (Dylan was awful too).

I don't like Jimmy Buffet's sound, and other than Margaritaville, can't name any of his songs. I gave them a listen, but they didn't stick in any way. But I agree that with whatever you like, artists who can connect with their audiences are the most fun to see. I also tend to like artists who write well, as on record, what they have to say adds a dimension if it's intelligent.

 

[gwand]

I’m sitting in my fish room/office listening to Preludes, Book 1 composed by Debussy. It’s excellent programmatic music for a fish room. Try it.

When I was 14 I was in Greenwich Village at The Bitter End listening to Richie Havens. The warm up band was Frank Zappa and entourage playing their Susie Cream Cheese LP. Blew my young mind. Before he died of prostate cancer in his early 40s he composed a few symphonic pieces.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I never liked Zappa. The only good thing that came from Zappa was when he fired Lowell George who then started Little Feat.