Berenstain bears we used to listen to

[frase]

I am quite eclectic in tastes though love Hard Country of Blues Saraceno just totally rocks, great to work to.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I'm all over the place. Closer to 60 yo than I am 50, I can get into 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, even some stuff 2000's and on up.
I lean more towards towards classic rock, from Stones, Allman Bros, Clapton, to more southern rock like Molly Hatchet. And heavy blues, like SRV!

Yet, I can get into modern-ish music too.

 

[DRPCNZ]

Pretty much anything except Rap and Opera

 

[mikeroq]

I'm 32. My main squeeze is 90s/2000s alt/rock. Various bits of pop, screamo, metal, grunge, etc. Listened to a lot of 70s/80s too so I do that from time to time. Mainly just run off my 1200 some likes songs in Spotify.

 

[HCHTech]

All kinds of stuff - I was the guy with the wall of record albums back in the day, replaced by the wall of CDs, replaced by huge MP3 collections, etc. etc. Focuses are Jazz, Blues, American Songbook, Indie Rock, Balladeers. I'm old @ 62, so don't add much new stuff to the mix anymore.

Recently listened to, according to Pandora:

Red Garland
Blossom Dearie
Mark Knopfler
Alison Krauss
Chet Baker
C.W. Stoneking
Paul Simon
Manhattan Transfer
Julie London
Stan Getz
Tom Waits
Oscar Peterson
Leo Kottke
Ella Fitzgerald
Dr. John
David Bromberg

 

[GTP]

Anything and everything really. I grew up with the Beach Boys, Beatles, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Status Quo, T.Rex, Kiss, etc etc.
I listen to lots of different music genres, from Country to Rap.
I quite like - and regularly listen to - Cardi-B, Meegan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat, Dua Lipa, Lizzo etc.

I really like Australian music (some from the outer suburbs; like New Zealand ) from the 60's to the 90's.
Some incredible talent came from NZ!

I think my favourite music era was the 60's ~ 70's but there is some great stuff from the 80's and 90's too.

 

[frase]

This was my era, a punk rocker used to play gigs in Melbourne with a band of friends. Crazy time and even more crazier nights.
Going to see Bad Religion next year with Social Distortion. Oh the Marshall stacks and Les Paul, such an iconic sound.

 

[GTP]

I guess everyone has to start somewhere...
I remember, as a boy of 16~17, growing up in a small country town.
There was a pub in the town known as The Imperial Hotel or better known to the locals as "The Impy."

My older brother was a friend of the son of the owners of the Imperial Hotel and on many occasions we heard stories from the proprietors of entertainers that were booked to play there.

Entertainers like the band Inxs, with Michael Hutchence being boo'd off the stage for being too "girly!"

I remember when a little known ragtag band called ACDC came to play. They were mostly drunk, very loud, out of tune and swore at everyone, but we yelled for more as we did with Cold Chisel. Jimmy Barnes had the roughest voice...

John Farnham was booked to play on a Friday night but only one person turned up to watch him and they left after about 10 minutes. The proprietors gave him $5 (about $25 today) for his trouble.

Then there was Air Supply. An unknown duo that were booked to play "The Impy", but the proprietors decided at the last minute to pull the plug so to speak.

So Air Supply had nowhere else to play apart from the podium in the adjacent Mall. People listened as they walked around shopping, eating lunch etc.

How times change.....

 

[frase]

@HCHTech an absolute legend, is Tom Waits. FDon lane on the other hand an absolute wanker.

One of my fav Tom Waits songs.

 

[GTP]

Oh and I just remembered that unknown trio who called themselves the "Bee Gee's." They were booked to play The Impy but cancelled the week before in favour of doing a formal at a high school in Dubbo...

 

[frase]

Loved the Bee Gees such a great unison of voices

Another if I may add sorry that means a lot to me is this song from The Moody Blues

 

[HCHTech]

an absolute legend, is Tom Waits.

I saw him live once - and he sang the weather report read from a newspaper - it was awesome. His covers of some of the old old songs just knock me out - Waltzing Matilda, Good Night Irene, there are tons of them in his discography. His version of 'Somewhere' from West Side Story is just jaw-dropping -- rips your heart out.. I certainly prefer his version of Jersey Girl (he wrote it, after all) over Springsteen's, so much good stuff. I'd say 95% of his catalog is A-level, quite a feat for such a long career. 'On the Nickel' from Heart Attack & Vine was my intro to his music back in the 70's. I went out that very day I first heard it and bought that album with my poor college student grocery money. Worth it.

 

[NviGate Systems]

My range is huge, from Classical (Mozart et all), Classic Rock (I grew up in the 80's/90's so many of those songs can evoke a strange sense of deja vu).

Lately I enjoy soundtracks and I guess JPop. JPop is mostly from the anime I watch, and the Soundtracks again, Anime.

I also enjoy audio dramas, most of the new ones I enjoy are related to the anime I watch, audio dramas used to be a big thing in American/British culture but then with the advent of motion pictures most died off, the few that remained were on BBC/CBC radio. Japan's voice actor industry is quite strong, in fact it's how tech was over here, if you were a voice actor, you were dime a dozen.

If anyone is interested here are some soundtracks I currently am listening to, one is a Japanese remix of a German folk song.

 

[britechguy]

audio dramas used to be a big thing in American/British

I listened to CBS Radio Mystery Theater when I was a kid, and it was a revival of the form that had gone off the air over a decade prior.

 

[Blues]

@HCHTech & @frase

I love this one

 

[frase]

@HCHTech & @frase

I love this one


His best comment I have heard or many in any interview, cheers for reminding me loved it

 

[frase]

Dayum no ya al started something The Tom Waites Train.....

 

[Fred Claus]

I am quite eclectic in tastes though love Hard Country of Blues Saraceno just totally rocks, great to work to.

I tend to listen to 80's rock. Motley Crew, Bon Jovi, Poison, Ozzy. That sort of thing. But I do listen to a lot of country, as well as blues music. Really anything that I'm in the mood for.

 

[Diggs]

I used to be a sound engineer with a 2nd rate rock band back in the late 70s (or was that early 80s, it was all a bit fuzzy back then...?). We opened for some of the big names so I got to party with the crews of Yes, Stones, Rufus, etc. but never the band themselves. To this day I struggle to listen to music. All I hear is the mix. Are the vocals mixed right. How is the EQ. Are the drums mic'd correctly. To that end I rarely listen anymore which is disappointing to me. I do play and record my own stuff occasionally but that's mostly entertaining from the technical side of things.

 

[britechguy]

All I hear is the mix.

The tragedy of being a technician or an audiophile (as most seem to define it, themselves).

One thing I've not done in my theater tech career is sound, and I'm glad for that because the outcome you describe is all too common.