Canada forum 2013 Awards!
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:27 am
#196
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Re: Canada forum 2013 Awards!
To each their own...standard top 40 makes me hit the off button...c and w is too parochial for me......hair band rock/classic rock offers no surprises in general, dance music can be very lightweight.
My tastes range from Miles Davis, to Dylan, to Roxy Music, to Leonard Cohen, to the Jam, to Bob Marley, to Hendrix, to Blur to post-Rubber Soul Beatles to Cowboy Junkies.
I agree that Miles Davis does take some work to get into but I enjoy the complexity of it. I do understand why you never hear it on 'best of the 80's/best of the 90's, best of today' type radio stations.
My tastes range from Miles Davis, to Dylan, to Roxy Music, to Leonard Cohen, to the Jam, to Bob Marley, to Hendrix, to Blur to post-Rubber Soul Beatles to Cowboy Junkies.
I agree that Miles Davis does take some work to get into but I enjoy the complexity of it. I do understand why you never hear it on 'best of the 80's/best of the 90's, best of today' type radio stations.
Is jazz still popular? I listened to a bit back in the day (ok, the 80's) but I listened bits of your Miles Davies track and it does sound so dated, in a way. Obviously no music ever dies, but jazz does seem to have faded in popularity?
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:34 am
#197
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Sawdust making harpy
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Re: Canada forum 2013 Awards!
I tend to listen to 1st Wave all the time on sr.
Well until hubby gets in the car and starts complaining.
I don't think early new romantic / late punk really ever hit rural Canada. My money is on him not knowing who Steve Strange is
Well until hubby gets in the car and starts complaining.
I don't think early new romantic / late punk really ever hit rural Canada. My money is on him not knowing who Steve Strange is
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:43 am
#198
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Yeah but I bet he knows who Ted Nugent is !
Jan 7th 2014 | 12:49 pm
#200
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The two YouTube Videos were from albums released in the 60's, so they will sound dated today. You are probably right that jazz is not as popular as it has been...songs that have the titles in (brackets) and with .....featuring 'artists' are more what the young folks listen to these days on 'hot' radio stations.
Jan 7th 2014 | 12:50 pm
#201
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If you couldn't slow dance to it in a plaid shirt it wouldn't be a hit.
Jan 7th 2014 | 2:06 pm
#202
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Re: Canada forum 2013 Awards!
My tastes range from Miles Davis, to Dylan, to Roxy Music, to Leonard Cohen, to the Jam, to Bob Marley, to Hendrix, to Blur to post-Rubber Soul Beatles to Cowboy Junkies.
I agree that Miles Davis does take some work to get into but I enjoy the complexity of it.
I agree that Miles Davis does take some work to get into but I enjoy the complexity of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kkr0e_dTQ
Jan 7th 2014 | 6:38 pm
#203
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Re: Canada forum 2013 Awards!
Jan 7th 2014 | 11:44 pm
#204
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Re: Canada forum 2013 Awards!
I moved to Canada in 1981 at age 17 and bands like the Jam had not really hit these shores (Town Called Malice was a minor hit in 1982), Madness was a non-entity...and Visage certainly never hit the back 40 of rural Alberda.
If you couldn't slow dance to it in a plaid shirt it wouldn't be a hit.
If you couldn't slow dance to it in a plaid shirt it wouldn't be a hit.
Jan 8th 2014 | 12:02 am
#205
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http://bootleg-rambler.blogspot.ca/2...on-canada.html
and the following year they played at the cne coliseum...I was at that one.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-ja...-13dc9571.html
Jan 8th 2014 | 12:32 am
#206
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That fits, we arrived in April. The following Spring a friend came to visit, carrying, appropriately, a copy of The Gift. Recent records were hard to get and expensive in Toronto in those days, it's only since the internet that one has really been able to be in Toronto and feel attached to the modern world.
Jan 8th 2014 | 9:36 am
#207
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Jan 8th 2014 | 11:47 pm
#208
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If you subtract Cowboy Junkies and add Jacques Brel, our tastes are surprisingly congruent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kkr0e_dTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2kkr0e_dTQ
Jan 9th 2014 | 2:13 am
#209
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Re: Canada forum 2013 Awards!
<It's Johnny Halliday>
