What music do you like that no one who knows you would be able to predict? I figure everybody's got a few outliers here and there.
For me, it's "If Loving You Is Wrong" by Luther Ingram. My usual tastes are more along a rock/metal/punk/industrial axis, with a side of hard funk, but damn if that song doesn't send chills up and down my spine.
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I like the song Walk Away by the James Gang. I don't own it or anything, but I would listen the hell out of it if I heard it on Classic Rock radio.
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Gigi D'Agostino and Donovan.
But, as Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason! Also, eat plenty of oatmeal, and animals never had a war... who's the real animal?
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Hardcore gangsta rap and 1234 by Feist. Sometimes one after the other.
It surprised me, too.
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my enduring love for (post brand nubian) grand puba?
current 93?
vashti bunyan or joanna newsom?
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I can't predict why anyone would like Joanna Newsom.
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Because she's rad?
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I did see Queen in concert when I was around 11 and to this day I consider it one of the best concerts I ever went to. That has gotten me some interesting looks over the years.
The thing is, I think it is cool if I like it. I'm always surprised when people react that way.
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joanna newsom is the elf queen with a harp of gold or something.
good stuff.
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As for my unpredictable tastes, there are many. To name a few: Chris Isaak, 50's & 60's girl group and doo wop, Middle Eastern/Arabic music, gypsy music, bossa nova.
Basically all of my musical preferences are unpredictable to others. This is because I've always judged each musical act on their own merits and I don't favor any given genre in particular. Although from what I've gathered about my own tastes, I tend to favor strong melodies, harmony, and structured songwriting.
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Come to think of it, I like early blues, too. But maybe that does fit, since heavy metal is a kind of turbocharged blues when it comes down to it.
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man you know what people find unpredictable? (at least according to yesterday's conversation)
i hate guitar solos, but i really like grindcore, which is basically stupid drum solos that just happen to have everything else playing at once.
i don't know when i realized i hate guitar solos, but it's all i can do get through the otherwise awesome live version of angel of death on decade of aggression.
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I tried, but I don't think that I like anything that would surprise people who know me. Bah.
Paul Simon maybe? I grew up listening to Graceland on vinyl, and know all the lyrics to One Trick Pwny.
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I love Paul Simon...I actually sang a Simon & Garfunkel tune in my high school show choir's spring concert when I was a singer.
Unpredictable...I dunno, I think my tastes are pretty predictable for the most part: Imagine a white guy, no nerdier, now imagine what he'd like, there you go (especially if he's skinny and has a lot of hipster friends). Then again, I really like a lot of old-school rap (pre-gangsta) and a fair amount of blues, old country (like willie nelson/waylon jennings era), classic rock. I guess that I LOVE Black Sabbath/Ozzie Osbourne is a bit unpredictable, as I'm not otherwise much of a metal guy. I also though System of a Down put out a couple of decent albums.
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I think my only unpredictable taste is classic country (up until the early 70s or so). Other than that, if given the names of the artists where I own six or more of their albums, I think someone could derive all the bands I enjoy.
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With my preferences towards IndustrialMetal/ Neue Deutsche Härte I think the two most unpredictable in my playlist are Mike West and Billie Holiday.
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Jamiroquai and the Postal Service...
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Most of my unconventional tastes are songs I associate with someone in particular--"Lola," for instance, is a girl I almost got involved with Freshman year (yes, she was actually a girl). And sometime when I'm not on a public forum you'll have to get me to tell you the story behind my fondness for Gary Puckett's "Young Girl." But in terms of actual music, and not random one-offs like that....well, it's probably...um...uh...it's...Avril Lavigne.
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I'm not sure what kind of tastes people would expect me to have, but some of my favorite CDs include:
- Rob Roy soundtrack
- Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
- Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
- Fumbling Towards Ecstasy by Sarah McLachlan
- The song "Young Until I Die" by 7 Seconds
- Home Base by Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff
- Jaws of Life by Hunters and Collectors
- Toward the Within by Dead Can Dance
- Miami Vice (TV series) soundtrack
- Throwing Copper by Live
- Worldes Blysse by the Mediaeval Babes
- The Eminem Show by Eminem
- 8 Mile soundtrack (contains about a 20-year supply of the N-word -- Eminem doesn't use it, but all the other rappers on this CD do)
- Various Dick Dale CDs
- Best of the Four Tops
- Best of the Animals
- The song "Silent Running" by Mike and the Mechanics, and various songs from the Phil Collins Face Value and No Jacket Required CDs, and possibly a couple Genesis songs
- Lexicon of Love by ABC
- The three big hits that A Flock of Seagulls had
- Book of Secrets by Loreena McKinnitt
- The songs "Live to Tell" and "La Isla Bonita" by Madonna
I'm not sure which of those are predictable and which aren't. Several of them are a bit embarrassing, however.
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with apologies to smacky, most people are surprised when I play the album Fever by Kylie Minogue.
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Are they surprised because it is coming out of loudspeakers attached to the pintle mount of an APC, as it drives over them?
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I thought of another one:
I have a soft spot for The Cars.
I know the songs are mostly so simplistic that they may as well have been composed on a Muppet Babies keyboard. But still. Maybe I should chalk this one up to having been born in the 80's.
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Peter, Paul and Mary. Particularly Day is Done and Early Morning Rain. Well done folk music has its attractions.
Everbody likes Puff the Magic Dragon!
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It's a bit more like whiny country music than most of the stuff I like, but I have been listening to Chris Isaak's Heart-Shaped World lately.
I like "Wicked Game," of course, and also like "Kings of the Highway," "Blue Spanish Sky" and "Wrong to Love You," even though the last one stinks of pedo a bit. (And makes me recall that explicit references to liaisons with underaged girls -- "just seventeen," etc. -- were perfectly acceptable and unquestioned in American pop music not so long ago at all.)
However, I have noticed that Isaak is apparently compelled to use either the phrase "the one I love" or "dream about you" -- or both -- in every song.
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I love that album! See my comment above here (Chris Isaak is also in my list of Unpredictable Tastes). I, too, mostly hate modern pop country (assuming he even falls into that category...I always considered him more rock), but I have to make an exception for him.
Point conceded.
EDIT: Chris Isaak is really more bluesy, in the tradition of Elvis Presley, than he is country. I am categorically keeping him in the "rock" category, therefore. That way I am still free to hate on pop country, which sucks pumpkin balls.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
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Cool, smacky, I feel validated! (The smackster would never like a musical artist who does not have some degree of niftyness.)
It doesn't freak me out or anything -- I could also interpret the reference to "little girl" to mean "petite woman" or "innocent/vulnerable/protectiveness-inspiring woman" or even "smart-assed spunky woman." But you can't help but think that the implication is there.
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Yeah, I always get a little squicked whenever I hear that track. But it's a good tune, lyrics aside.
"Little girl" could also be interpreted condescendingly (which is the only proper way to take it! *feminism terrorist fist jab*) as in, "little woman" or "little lady". Or on the same note (see "Run For Your Life" by the Beatles), it could also take a threatening overtone, although it doesn't in this particular song. But it could theoretically, in a given context, be used to convey intimidation, too, is all I'm saying.
EDIT: But yeah, in the context of a song called "Wrong to Love You", a listener can't help but wonder...just exactly how young is this little girl we're talking about?!
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
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I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
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The version with the extended drum solo has been known to cause spontaneous ghost drumming in lab rats. ...and, okay, maybe in people too.
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In the past week I listened to Whipped Cream and Other Delights* by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
It was one of the first records that I listened to when I was a kid. It was my parents', and I listened to it on their giant 400-pound cabinet stereo set. (I think they were called "hi-fi's" back then.)
As a kid I listened to it while wearing headphones. The headphones weighed 5 pounds, and each earcap was bigger than dhex's fist. Decoratively, each earcap was covered with a small replica of half of a St. Louis football Cardinals helmet. The cord that attached the headphones to the jack in the stereo was coiled like the headset cord on a land-line telephone, only thicker and stiffer. The wire was probably almost a centimeter thick. Sometimes I would attempt to do calisthenics while listening to the Two for the Show album by Kanasas via these headphones, but the cord wasn't really long enough so they would frequently yank themselves off my head in mid-exercise and many breaks/shorts were induced in the cord. More often I would listen to WCAOD while lying on my parent's avocado green sofa, which was upholstered in pterodactyl leather.
*Yes, the cover is awesome.
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Which reminds me -- I still need to buy this. I think I will, soon.
"My intellect is gigantic, monstrous, terrifying."
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My folks had the Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass Christmas album. I think it was called "A Tijuana Christmas".
I find it slightly less annoying than the Chipmunks Christmas album.