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Originally posted by KappaKittyCat
What's the opposite of what you hear? Bob & Tom? I may be a feminist, but self-righteous I am not. Bob & Tom is fourth-grade humour at its best. It leaves me giggling for the rest of the day.
I like the more upbeat DMB for morning music because it has horns, sax, and a beat. It makes me want to dance. If I had any recordings of it right now, my first choice for morning music would be a really awesome local band called Know Boundaries. KB has great beat and creative instrumentation. It's the closest thing to hip-hop I'll listen to. Mostly I'm jazz, classical, chick folk music, and classic rock. Being a music major, I am somewhat of a priss about what I listen to.
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Don't get me wrong, I love those fellas from classic days as well. I took a music appreciation course that opened me up to a realm of music i never cared to know about. Muddy Waters was the man. Billy Holiday, man had talent. Jerry lee lewis, Little Richard----I still love those guys. The beatles-----words cannot express my thankfulness to them. The Who, Hendrix, Sting, MaMa's and the Papa, All the Doo Whop groups......I like all of them.
That class made me realize something, all Elvis really did was make acceptable to the public what Black artists had been doing for generations. Surburban america didn't like the fact that their children were listenting to colored artists. Elvis was the go between guy who brought what they had been doing for generations and sold it to the middle class protestant white families. He was very talented no doubt and his looks, in my opinion, helped him tremendously. If you want to take a look at an artist who has NO looks yet has all the talent.....look at Steven Tyler.....he might one of the ugliest people on the planet along with Mick Jagger but their talent alone made them what they became.
As for hip/hop......I don't care for it a bit unless I've had some kind of Liquor. Dave Matthews kinda of stuff makes me want to puke though. It just makes feel like I'm in some bar, drinking cheap beer and chillin with a bunch of smokers. I'm an energetic type of person......Maybe thats why I listen to 4 on the floor type of stuff.
Classical stuff is also one of my favorites as well. Most people think guys who listen to that stuff are fags but I've been playing the piano for 14 years and still love it. I'm also the furthest thing away from being gay.
I didn't know you were a music major as well. That was my first declared major upon entering college. I later dropped it to have History and International buissness degrees. A music degree wouldn't gotten me anywhere in the world.