Wrong generation?
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Give me a cigar, some bourbon, and i'll put on a happy face. Not that I don't like modern music but give me Frank, Tony, Dean any day of the week. I'm 33...
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Grew up listening to them and still do, Herb Albert was playing in the background lot's too. There was always music at home in the background growing up. Country back then was different than now but always liked Johnny Cash, Charlie Pride, Johnny Horton. Some of the old blues, do they call it "slapping", just a harmonica and knee slapping, lol body instruments. Mostly listen to blues or classic rock but have been known to put on some classical when in the mood. Actually anything but opera.
Thats beautiful bro, nuthin wrong with classics, or opera, I'm an exception, being a musician since I was kid I like everything from The RatPack, to Katie Perry, Redman and Method Man to Job for a Cowboy
Bottom line if the music speaks to you , then ROCK IT
When it's my turn to do dishes, it's usually dubstep and trap. When I mow my lawn, a mixture of Primus, BUcket Head, Sepultura, Mudvayne, Static X .....
Never really cared for the Beetles or Rap.
Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Nothing wrong with opera at all, maybe I'm just not refined, lol. Now I have never seen opera performed maybe that's why. I don't have any in my collection and really don't look for it to play. Usually play music while I'm puttering around the house. If I was to ease into opera what would you suggest?
Listen to mostly classic rock and blues, live versions preferred. Going to concerts back through the 70's saw some good bands, good jamming. I think, lol.
But, if you're interested in Opera as a whole, Maria Callas as Lady MacBeth in Verdi's MacBeth is haunting. But her voice is kind of an acquired taste.
Puccini's Turandot is one of my favorites and pretty accessible to a new listener. It has the famous "Nessun Dorma" an aria for tenor made famous by Pavarotti, perhaps most popularly as part of the "Three Tenors" at the 1994 World Cup (even though he'd done it at the previous WC and it was better). This might be the complete opera I'd start with, and that 3 Tenors collection was pretty good as I recall. I'm not seeing it on my shelf of old CD's so now I'm going to have to go dig around. Haven't listened to it in years.
Another option is to find a piece or two you like and then expand into other stuff by that composer. I'm not a huge Mozart fan, but many people try to start with his operas because they're somewhat familiar with his other music. But Rossini, Puccini, Verdi, Wagner (meh), Gluck, Glinka, Offenbach, Bizet (for Carmen alone), Saint-Saens (for Samson et Delila), Berg, Gershwin (Porgy and Bess is a great intro for an American audience), and Britten are composer names that come to mind for me. Oh, and one of my favorites is John Adams, but he's not very approachable (kind of like Berg, even though I think he may have some of the best operas around). If you do foray into Adams, dear God, don't start with Nixon in China.
Okay, now I'm going to go counter all the opera running through my head by listening to some Johnny Cash and Bob Marley.
But it works both ways. If I feel nothing, I won't be back.
Cigar / music pairing suggestion: Any robusto and "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake. The whole album is on Youtube. Thank me later
Thanks for those tips, do like Mozart, Verdi and Wagner. I got into classical from listening to The James Gang believe it or not. Rides Again album had a cut that Joe Walsh played Bolero as part of the song, really grabbed me. Listened to the classical versions and on from there. Saw the James Gang back in 74 or 75, really can't remember the dates but what a show.
Trans Siberian Orchestra is great too, they have it all
The original movie "Bolero" with George Raft and Carole Lombard (1934) was one of the better movies ever made and the sound track was outstanding. I highly recommend it to anyone who has not seen it. (The one with Bo Derick should never have been made.)
Keep an eye out for that, like old movies but never seen that one. That's right the sex scene in 10 was to bolero, well almost. Always liked that movie maybe because Dudley Moore's character was named George, lol.