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A place to share how music has changed our lives...
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Created By: Dan Goodwin
Latest Activity: Aug 5
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Welcome to Music Lovers!Music Lovers is a place to share the music that's changed your life, as well as discussions about how vital a role music plays in your creative life...
Share with us also your own musical heroes, and why they've been an important influence on your own creativity...
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Electronica... 9 Replies
I follow a range of different alternative music styles, and probably take it for granted sometimes and think everyone else does too! I've always been interested in exploring new and different musi...
Tagged: electronic music, electronica
Started by Dan Goodwin. Last reply by Dan Goodwin Aug 5.
Most Creative Music Videos 20 Replies
Thought I'd start a discussion on some of the most creative music videos. Here are some I particularly like, share your comments on these and add your own... Portishead - Only You Bjork - All...
Tagged: music video
Started by Dan Goodwin. Last reply by Barbara Ann Storrier Aug 4.
Musical Heroes - Cocteau Twins 10 Replies
Cocteau Twins were one of the most original bands ever to record music. Formed in 1979, here in the UK they were hugely revered and influential but never had major mainstream success. They were on...
Tagged: cocteau twins
Started by Dan Goodwin. Last reply by Dan Goodwin Jul 31.
Musical Heroes - Kate Bush 19 Replies
Kate Bush is one of my biggest musical heroes, in fact one of my biggest creative heroes full stop. Kate is exceptionally talented as a singer, songwriter, visual artist and performer. But what I ...
Started by Dan Goodwin. Last reply by Dan Goodwin May 18.
Music To Create By... 4 Replies
What music do you have on in the background to create by? Do you have different music for different types of creating? Does certain music always inspire you to be more creative? Share your favou...
Started by Dan Goodwin. Last reply by Dan Goodwin Mar 10.
Musical Heroes - David Bowie 42 Replies
A long overdue discussion on the genius of David Bowie, probably the single most innovative musical artist we've ever known. A man of many talents, here are a few of his songs and videos to remind...
Started by Dan Goodwin. Last reply by Camille Mar 2.
Musical Heroes? OMG, Queen! 8 Replies
Who wants to live forever? I don't know, but I sure wish Freddie Mercury could have :-( I get so sad every time I hear Queen with Freddie Mercury and realize he is gone.
Started by Malinda Neisess. Last reply by Malinda Neisess Mar 1.
Musical Heroes-Too Many to just pick one 5 Replies
I love music! I have so many musical heroes it's so hard to just pick one. There is a new artist on the scene by the name of Dilana that I think is just fabulous. If you watched the reality show Ro...
Started by Cynthia. Last reply by Barbara Ann Storrier Mar 1.
This one's decicated to you Dan, 2 Replies
here's the iBand!
Started by Malinda Neisess. Last reply by Malinda Neisess Mar 1.
Musical Heroes - John Lee Hooker
I got to see John Lee Hooker once, shortly before he passed on. Bonnie Raitt is going to be at the Doheny Blues Festival this year in May, at Doheny Beach in Southern California, along with Johnn...
Started by Barbara Ann Storrier Feb 15.
THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND 2 Replies
Since 1974 I have admired the talents of a Scottish band called The Incredible String Band. While undergoing numerous changes of line-up, the two main stalwarts have been Mike Heron and Robin Willi...
Started by Dave Edwards. Last reply by Dave Edwards Jan 10.
Musical Heroes - Tori Amos 3 Replies
A friend today reminded me about Tori Amos - music to feel comforted or depressed by! Beautiful sad and wistful music... perhaps not something to create to... but certainly to be reflective to. Her...
Started by jane. Last reply by Barbara Ann Storrier Dec. 30, 2007.
Choirs 1 Reply
People I know find it interesting that I was a choir girl back in the day...I guess I don't look the type (my choir director would have agreed *tee hee*) I was watching PBS the other night and came...
Started by Cynthia. Last reply by Malinda Neisess Dec. 10, 2007.
Musical Heroes - William Chrapcynski 3 Replies
William Chrapcynski runs the indie music label Pure Shift Productions, which has recorded such local bands as Communist Yard Sale and The Dreamscapes Project. And he is the force behind the solo el...
Started by melydia. Last reply by Malinda Neisess Dec. 10, 2007.
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Comment by Hannah on June 30, 2008 at 11:07pm -
Well, since no one is talking on my Musicians group I thought I'd chime in here. I loved you picked Cocteau Twins ;) It kills me that most of the real Greats are not very popular (David Bowie notwithstanding) -- and that includes a lot, and I mean a lot, of unknowns. You hear them when you go to a small club as a social occasion, not particularly for the music; when they play for ten dollars at a summer outdoor beer garden you stop by in cause they have a good deal on clams; when you run into them on YouTube as a student in a video about learning to sing; in the New York City subways -- sometimes some girl just letting loose with her friends while they're on their way out; on streets allover the world, I'm sure; someone's accountant uncle at a wedding -- it makes you realize that most of the time we don't hear them at all. And it's not just singers -- my sister's nanny is a creative dynamo. She draws like a dream, she makes high fashion clothes out of socks for the kids' dolls, she gives the kids a new hairdo every day. And the projects my niece brings home that her teachers put together out of cups and soda bottles are incredible.
But getting back to the music, all my heroes have only one thing in common: they are all completely different from each other, and they are all unique -- no one else sounds like them. It bugs me that I can't sound like them, like any of them. Singing is incredible in that regard. It is very difficult to sound like someone else -- though of course some people have that talent they call impersonation. It is really a god-given gift, and despite what voice teachers say, it cannot be developed much, no matter how much work you put into it. This brings me down.
Hannah
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Comment by Mary Hicks on March 23, 2008 at 3:05am -
I was just thinking that "making your own music" is a way to love music. I'm famous for humming when I'm not even aware of it. And I love to sing! Not just in the choir, but with the car radio, the stereo, I love to sing!
Oldies are so much fun to sing along with, but I also love to make harmony with "old standards." My favorites would be The Beatles (duh!), The Hollies, Elvis Presley, Andy Williams (yes, I date myself), and Tony Bennett. There are many others, but these stand out. Just today, I harmonized along with Elvis in my car to "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You."
What are your favorite songs to sing along with, or what tunes do you find yourself humming when you don't even realize you're humming?
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