Not quite 365 days questions for day 16.

[pattrose]

I'm posting a little early. I'm going to try to sleep tonight. What a concept.

16. Do you have a favourite genre of music?

I like so many things that it would be hard to pinpoint. I love musicals and love to listen to them while I work on a story. The next music is soft rock and classic rock. BTO, CCR, and ELO are three examples. I love some hard rock, but not too much. I listen to Christmas music all year long. I've even liked some by country artists. When it comes to Christmas music, I'll listen to just about anything. What about you? What is your favorite music?

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

I love 80's 'hair bands': Poison, Bad English, Whitesnake, etc. Next is Alt Rock, like 3 Doors Down and Nickelback, and classic rock, of course. Melissa Etheridge is one of my favs, too.

[pattrose]

I loved your list. 3 doors down, used to be one of my faves. Melissa Etheridge is one of my faves, too.

[mxcatmoon]

I've loved Melissa ever since her first album. I do prefer her early stuff better, but an album I really dig is "One Way Out." Which makes sense, because I read that those songs are actually ones she wrote back in the 1980s but never recorded.

[lucy_roman]

When I was young I liked classical music, then I encountered The Beatles, and then a group called They Might Be Giants. But these days I listen to all sorts of music usually stuff with interesting lyrics. Most recently I've been listening to Hamilton on cd.

[pattrose]

Hamilton? I haven’t checked it out yet.

[lucy_roman]

It's really good. I saw it at the theatre, didn't expect to like it, but I did. The music is wonderful.

[tinnean]

I love the oldies. Originally, for me, that meant the doo wop music of the 50s. For the longest time, I couldn't listen to music of the 60s--I don't really have the best memories of that decade. While we reached the moon, we lost JFK, MLK, and RFK. In addition, we were in the middle of the Vietnam conflict. (I won't go into meeting my ex.)

Along came the 70s, which were better. My daughter was born at the start of the decade. I loved Just My Imagination by the Temptations. I divorced the ex, danced to My Eyes Adored You, (Frankie Valli) married Bob, and had our first son. I listened to John Denver's The Garden Song and Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand singing You Don't Bring Me Flowers. Joey was born in 1980, and that was the decade that, thanks to Dawn, I found KISS, Queen, and Rick Springfield.

We moved to Massapequa, and after WNEW changed formats, my radio station became WCBS-FM 101.1. It was thanks to this station that my kids heard the music I grew up with. They moved on to Heavy Metal, but I stayed comfortably with the oldies. :-)

[pattrose]

I like them too. We have good taste.

[fairyniamh]

My music taste runs from classic, opera, rock, country, Japanese, Chinese, German, Irish, folk...

It's easier to say what I dislike: Death Metal, Screamo, Dirty Rap. I don't want to hear a lot of cursing, cop killing, gangster rap.

[pattrose]

We dislike the same things.