What music you into?

[Thurston Garden]

Jane

Tull's music spans 40 years (as a result, Ian Anderson's voice is knackered!) and each album has a different bent. Wander into HMV and you will notice that they are one of very few bands where almost the whole discography is available.

They are touring next year and I hope to be able to go and see them.

I would recommend Thick as a Brick - a concept album 40 minutes long. I have it on vinyl too and the record sleeve is a fully functioning but totally fictional newspaper: The St Cleve Chronicle.

One of my all time favorites is Songs from the Wood. I bought it when I was in the Navy, listened to it and hated it. Threw it in the back of my locker where it lay for weeks. Then about a year later I unearthed it and really got into it - listened to it solidly for weeks.

Tull is not really background music - you need to listen to it. It lead me to Fairport Convention, Maddy Prior and, more recently Steeleye Span.

Happy listening! http://www.j-tull.com/

Anyone for Shopping Boots? There is an ad on page 4 of the St Cleve Chronicle. Even Tull were aware of the plastic carrier bag situation in 1972!!

[Thurston Garden]

Fee - I have just discovered 3 Daft Monkeys and noticed they were on your list of fav bands on yer myspace! Hoping to go to Cropredy in August and they are on the bill

[chookwoman]

Oooh, Three Daft Moneys! We saw them on Saturday night supporting the Levellers and Dreadzone, and they were brilliant. Another Jethro Tull fan here, Maddy Prior, and Steeleye Span were some of the first records I ever bought.

We've just bought or tickets to Beautiful Days in August, and they're on there too.

[old tree man]

Ok no laughing showing my age now

Led zep................. saw them at knebworth
deep purple
cream
mathew southern comfort
jimmy hendrix
alice cooper
zz top

the list is endless, i like the new stuff too foo fighters, linkin park,evanesence.

to be perfectly honest i like alot of different music as long it isnt boy or girl bands

[justskint]

[quote="old tree man"]Ok no laughing showing my age now

Led zep.................
deep purple
cream
jimmy hendrix

LOVE & PEACE MAN

[oldfella]

Ok no laughing showing my age now

I use to work in the theatre and in my first job worked with Howard Keel in the London Palladium, ( look up Howard Keel all you young folk). My musical taste's have changed through the years beginning with New Orleans marching bands then into the Oscar Peterson jazz era, Aker Bilk, Lonni Donnigan, but now my taste is more classical and the music of many of the shows I worked on Cats, Les Miserable, Phantom, Miss Saigon, so I suppose taste is related to to many things and in my case, the past.

[Eigon]

Ah, Howard Keel! Wonderful voice!

I also have a sneaking regard for John Hanson, best known as the Red Shadow from The Desert Song - even though he did make me cry when I first saw him live. It was panto; I was about five, and I complained that "That master's singing too loud!"

My tastes run to folky stuff, too - Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Katherine Tickell on the Northumbrian pipes, Vasmalom (Eastern European wild fiddle playing).

I also enjoy old show tunes (hence the Howard Keel), eighties bands like Ultravox and the Pet Shop Boys, and a pretty eclectic mix of pop. The last CD I bought was Katie Melua for the song "Mary Pickford used to eat roses".

Alan Titchmarsh has a Radio 2 show on Sunday evenings and, apart from the opera, we seem to have almost identical taste!

[chookwoman]

Gosh, Pentangle. I'd forgotten all about them. I'm also a huge Beck fan.

[Shirley]

Fee - I have just discovered 3 Daft Monkeys and noticed they were on your list of fav bands on yer myspace! Hoping to go to Cropredy in August and they are on the bill

Thanks for mentioning 3 daft monkeys - good stuff. I ended up on the Levellers site and downloaded 2 free Levellers tracks too... free download until the end of March! http://www.levellers.co.uk/

[Thurston Garden]

Shirlz I have most of the Levellers albums but have gone off them a wee bit. That said they are playing at Cropredy too, so I had better get back into them!

[Millymollymandy]

Howard Keel - he was in Dallas - how could we forget him!

I don't listen to any music anymore, except for when I'm watching X-Factor!

[circlecross]

Thurston Garden - I love Tull too. I have Thick as a brick aswell.

I am dancing at Oxford Folk festival this year, and 3 Daft Monkeys are playing. I may check them out based on all y'all recommendations.

I like most folk rock, but from 70s/80s. I went through the goth/hippy phase and then a kind of slunty grungy phase at college.

I have a lot of classical music.

I have been bypassed by about the last 5 years and although we have an MP3 it hasn't left its box!

Music used to be an integral part of my day, now I treasure the silence.

[Thurston Garden]

Nice to see lots of Tull fans creeping out of the woodwork! They are just about to start touring again

[Gytrash]

Ooooh yeah! Tull and Led Zep must be my all-time faves...

I love most music. The only 'new-ish' bands that can give me goosebumps though are New Model Army and The Levellers.

These guys are cool too: http://www.myspace.com/bleedingheartsonline


*Wanders off to check out the 3 Daft Monkeys and everyone's MySpace sites*

[the.fee.fairy]

Check out Kilnaboy too!

I got into 3DM after Daf from Kilnaboy recommended them to me.