Barbara Striesand, Paul Anka, Old Songs....

Yes, I do like some Opera, but the thing is I can't seem to find sources to get operas that I like, Carmina Burana , is the one opera I surely like to listen to it fully.

And to those of you who like Arabic Music, I'm a Fairuz lover.. :)

I can almost say I listen to all types of music, but not every song for for single singers, I like to pick the best of every one of them.

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I do not claim wisdom, but the ability to sense it.!.!.

Very good taste...:) I love her also with Bocelli on "Prayer". It just cannot get any better, I melt away with this song.

I like Celine Dion and Pavarotti's take on "I hate you then I love you" (I think the title of the original version was "Never, Never, Never")

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Reba McEntire and Martina McBride!! lovely lovely, I have their CDs. I like Jovi too.

Do you by any chance listen to Opera singing? Maria Callas, Bocelli, Late Pavarotti??

I can go on talking about music forever! I just got started..:))

I don't know any of these hammers, scaffolds and tractors, but I like Bob Marely "She's Gone", and "Sun is Shining" , As for Elvis Presely this guy is great, his love songs are so sweet, and his beat songs just drive you nuts :)

I mostly listen to slow songs, but when I need something loud, then Bon Jovi's Blazy of Glory, or Gary Moore.

Have you guys heard any thing for Reba McEntire, "like Falling out of love"

Good lyrics From confrontation LP, Blackman Redemption.

From Black Sabbath Paranoid, Iron Man.

From Genesis Home By the Sea, Turn it on Again.

From Macy Gray, I try

From Metallica, Nothing else Matters

From Nirvana, Smell like Teen Spirit

From Peter Tosh, Legalize It

From Eric Clapton, Layla. I LOVE IT, My niece dance it like a rock star and she is 1 year old.

Pink Floyd, Time or Money

The Clash, Should I Stay, Should I go

The Cure, Boys dont cry

The Offspring, Self Esteem (VERY LOUD, DONT TRY TO PLAY IT JUST FOR YOU)

Bon Jovi, You give Love a Bad Name

Elvis Presley, All shook up (Play it Loud, and make everyone thing you are nuts LOL)

Well more and more and more, music is life!

by the Doors is my recommendation or Civil War by Guns 'n Roses. Two very good old songs. Very nice songs in a gentle kind of way

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi

I'm listening now to hammers, scaffolds and tractors upbeat music!!...:)) Just that a construction site is close by and it’s driving me nuts.

This morning, in the car, I had Jo Jo and Phil Collins on. Have you heard Daughtry’s "It’s Not Over"? I want to buy that one.

Perfect Day

Salam

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It's amazing how talking about old songs brings such memories, these songs relate so much to feelings aren't they..

"Let me get to know you", by Paul Anka, What kind of fool for Barbara are of my favorites, also there is a song by Paul Anka and Celine Dion "It's hard to say goodbye" if any one know is , avery nice song.

I like some of Frank Sinatra, but I think the 50s is not my most favorite time for music,

Whitney Huston, Modern Talking, Madonna, Michal Bolton, I like and listen to all of those, also Elton John, Chris De Burg has very nice songs. beside Lady in Red :)

So, who wanna exchange music...

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Sitting in his nowhere land,

Making all his nowhere plans

For nobody..

am wandering off quietly singing:

Our house, is a very very very nice house ....

:D

Music discussions are fun to tackle before hitting the sac. Thanks to nowhereman.

Sleep well and sing in your dreams.

Salam

I appreciate the older music too, specially Arabic and Turkish music. But with English music, I’m into mid-late 80s-90s.

I'm not sure, is it that one is attached to the music they grew up listening to?

I'm sure I do, but I'm hopeless with remembering the names of the artists ... WHitney, Madonna, Bolton I know, not sure about the others.

I'm off to bed now, but will go and check the CDs on the shelf here to give me inspiration! and come back tomorrow with some names.

Sleep well

to both xx

Be careful next time you try it..:)

Do you like Whitney Huston, Modern Talking, Madonna, Michal Bolton, Richard Marx.

How about country music....I'm an addict!!! my friends give my the YUKE every time my Tim McGraw, Martina Macbride and Travis Tritt are on!!

Poor me!

Then that's the start of new wave era... yes it has also a special place in my heart because of the soiree I would attend during my college years.... the all girls school usually invited us for dance parties... had a lot of wonderful memories too...

I still giggle every time I watch Saturday Night Fever and see Olivier Newton John skip cutely across the screen, can-can petticoat and hands neatly folded behind her back.

I try it, and I fall on my face! lol

I still sometimes get the BBC Radio 2 up on my computer and click on 'Sounds of the 60s' - a regular Saturday morning show, I think, on BBC Radio 2 - and either listen to it live, or hear the replay of it.

I bop about at my desk and wallow in youth club nostalgia. :P

It was fun music! And, better still, the nuns banned us from doing that evil of all evil dances ........

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THE TWIST !

shock horror!

Is there any place in you heart for mid 80s music? or do you consider it trash..:))

I cannot find myself with today's music. I miss the stong voice and deep lyrics.

Salam

By the way the author of this thread is "nowhereman", I guess he is a Beatles fan after all....

"He's a real nowhere man,

sitting in his nowhere land,

making all his nowhere plans, for nobody...."

Music of the 60s... still influencing today's music.

I grew up during martial law years in the 70s back home and restrictions on media and content was there. So my only source of lyrics and tunes were 60's songbooks and old vinyls of my aunts and uncles... that maybe the reason I know a lot of songs from the 60s and early 70s.

forgot about that one - lots of swaying youngsters on God knows what sitting crosslegged around on the floor. Or was that ga ga ...

Wonder if I was there? They say if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there lol

The longest lalalas I know of is the first televised version of "Hey Jude" by the Beatles.... I think it went on for 5 minutes....

La ....la... la... la la la la ....la la la la.... Hey Jude

I always thought the original went on for AGES lol all that la la-ing :D

Do you remember them singing the Judy Blue Eyes Suite? You probably aren't old enough to remember that from Woodstock. That had lots of la las in it too! lmao That's probably the one I'm thinking of!

Yes it is! You can picture in your head what they sing about.... I really like those kinds of songs.

but I agree the original version was better

and a pretty tune and 'visual' words, if you see what I mean.

Bit like a scene from an old chocolate box :D

Bit of an old dreamer, me.

Yes Jauntie... it has a very catchy tune. I remember it was one of the songs I used to play while I was learning to play the guitar. Of course while learning I started with the Beatles tunes.

Today I suddenly remembered a song very special to me. It's called 'Our House' and was sung by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young around the early 70s.

We are moving to a new apartment in a couple of days time and that song always reminds me of how I felt about my husband when we first met. It suddenly sprang to mind again because we are moving to a quite small, but cosy, little apartment. Silly old thing, aren't I :D

The words go something like this:

I'll light the fire

You place the flowers

In the vase that you bought

Today.

Staring at the fire

For hours and hours

While I listen to you

Play your love songs

all night long

for me

Only for me

Come to me now

and rest your head

for just 5 minutes

everthing is calm

such a cosy room

the window are illuminated

by the evening sunshine

through the firey gems for you

only for you

Our house

Is a very very very nice house

with 2 cats in the yard

life used to be so hard

now everything is easy

because of you

There's link where they sang a version of it in 1976 - the original was better, but ...

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I used to have "The Best of Tony Bennet Volumes 1 and 2". I start playing one on the CD player just before going to bed. I never get past 2 songs and Tony has already knocked me out. "Used to have" because last year's flood back home destroyed them. :(

I sing Streisand's "All I ask of you" (from the Phantom of the Opera) and Anka's "I think I'm in Love Again" to my wife whenever we have our karaoke on. But our theme song is "What matters most" sung by Kenny Rankin.

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