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BlindFaith

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I'm a self confessed music junkie and nearly always have some going at some point during the day/night.

I use Last.fm for recommendations but lately it's been a bit hit and miss so I was wondering what you lovely people enjoy listening to (and whether anyone shares my tastes and can recommend things to me!)

Here's a list of what I'm loving at the moment:
E.S Posthumous, Two Steps From Hell, Immediate Music, Globus, Mythos, Fair to Midland, The Mayan Factor, Rishloo, Pain of Salvation, Stone Sour, A Perfect Circle, Alter Bridge (and Myles Kennedy in general), Breaking Benjamin, Bush (and Gavin Rossdale on his own), Evans Blue, Faunts, HURT, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence (their older stuff), Muse, Nickelback (don't judge :lol: ), Poets of the Fall, Prime Circle, Revis, Santana, Shamans Harvest, Katatonia, Opeth, Apocalyptica, Celldweller, Blue Stahli, Damage Vault, Rob Zombie...

There's loads more, but I'll be here all night listing them!
 
I don't understand music, I listen to it and I like stuff but I don't get it, I even do the DJing at our gatherings of friends and neighbours party's an everyone loves it. But for me I don't have any particular thing I like and I don't get all serious about it, I went to a James Blunt VIP concert once in London only about 300 people very personal thing, I thought that was really good and pretty much everyone had a front row position you could touch him and i thought that was great but I could do a big concert that would not appeal to me. I don't have any tastes of music. But I listen to anything (which scares my friends)
 
O dear, Blind Faith, I'm glad you don't live with me - I have never heard of ANY of your favourites.

I switch between Classic FM, Radio 3 & Radio 4.
 
BlindFaith wrote
Here's a list of what I'm loving at the moment:
Bush, Evanescence (their older stuff), Muse, Nickelback (don't judge ) Santana, ...
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I've edited your list to leave those I've got more than a nodding respect for, yeah even Nickelback
If I had to choose one of those left it would be Santana. Loved him/them since the second album.

Looks like you're into Metal (not sure which sub genres , though.) I've got plenty of time for decent metal. Possibly fave track Hangar 18 by Megadeth. Spent many a happy year recording Radio 1's Rock Show, which gave me two hours to explore during the week.

I'm also into Rock, Blues, and Classical.
Favourite artists Neil Young (especially with Crazy Horse,) Yes.

Just love the availability of music to listen to and explore. I'm often on Spotify, checking someone out.

And Blind Faith were too short-lived !

Geoff
 
IanD said:
O dear, Blind Faith, I'm glad you don't live with me - I have never heard of ANY of your favourites.

I switch between Classic FM, Radio 3 & Radio 4.
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Thank goodness for that. I was beginning to think I had been wrongly diagnosed and that no diabetics listened to classical music. I am on a moderate dissonance, low-sugar diet of Messiaen. Seems to work for me. Do you think the VLC 4% club would like Webern? Or would he fit Sid's low portion sizes better?
 

This diabetic likes classical too. A stressed day can be soothed away with the rippling hair tingling power of a full orchestra - bliss!!
 
desidiabulum said:
There Defren -- I could tell you had taste! What do you think of the sugar content of Tchaikovsky?
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Sadly I think sugar plums may not be good for out BG's :lol:

I am listening to Bach at the moment, his music is just perfect for violins, and a good orchestra playing, can take your breath away.
 
Just to raise it back to this century - I have a love of Steve Harley, The Eagles, Meatloaf, Queen, AC/DC - I know before you say it - hardly rocking this decade!oes this make me very mixed up
My favourite music to listen to is Les Mis but I also like Adele and classical music and sing with a church and choral society!

Does this make me very mixed up?

Sorry BlindFaith - have only heard of Santana!
 
I had a funny feeling that most of my favorites would sort of go over peoples heads :lol:
I do listen to what I call classic rock/metal - Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Bon Jovi (seen him live, it was awesome), etc...
I like some blues, jazz, swing, lounge and folk as well.

I do like classical music - Toccata and Carmina Burana are favorites. A band called Trans-Siberian Orchestra do some wonderful versions of the classics.

I didn't actually think of the band Blind Faith when I picked this user name, lol I was listening to a song that has the lyric "your eagle eye found the great blind faith" and nabbed it from there!

Truffle - doesn't make you mixed up at all, I love talking to people that have a big variety of music genres; I'm fascinated by what people enjoy listening to and why they love it.
 
Don't worry, there is hope..

Redline, Def Leppard, Motorhead, AC/DC are all regulars here..
As well as Napalm Death, Avenged Sevenfold, Rammstein and Hawkwind!

On the flip side Carmina Burana has to be the best piece of Opera ever to exist.. Ask Mr. (Ozzy) Osbourne!

Some alternatives as well, Tom Waits, Joy Division, Buzzcocks and Anti Nowhere league all find a place...

It's the one thing that always makes me feel 17 again is Rock Music!
 
desidiabulum said:
Definitely with you on Bach. We seem to have hi-jacked the thread -- hooray!
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:shh: I think we need to to try harder. :lol:

To be fair I like music from all kinds of genre's and decades. I love the new romantics from the 80's (Adam Ant's video strip, still sends me all un-necessary) as does Gary Numan singing cars. I love rock and soft rock. Even some of today's music I like, such as Dommin. I also like Nickelback :angel: Tracy Chapman's Subcity and Dear Mr President by Pink are my conscience songs. Keeper of the stars by Tracy Bryd is my song to himself Plain white T's hey there Delilah is his to me (why Delilah I will never know :lol: ). He does work away quite a bit hence the reference to miles apart etc.

Loads of songs have special meanings from different times in my life.
 
I agree with all the posters -- different music for different moods. On my i-pod I have Messiaen, Pink Floyd, Ella Fizgerald, Javanese gamelan music, Tangerine Dream, lots of Rachmaninov. I do remember Santana! Am still trying to find the best music for post-hypo.
 
I'm probably wrong, but post-hypo I'm guessing you'd need something to chill out to?

If so, try:
Air
Zero 7
Massive Attack
Gomez (I love Rhythm & Blues Alibi)
Delta-S (the album Voyage to Isis is just brilliant)
Damien Rice (9 Crimes is gorgeous to relax to)
Bush (Mouth - the Stingray Mix is lovely)
Jack Johnson
Jan Hammer (Crocketts Theme)
John Michele Jarre (Oxygene part IV)
Morcheeba
Prime Circle (As Long As I Am Here - the Cafe D'Afrique mix)
Pendulum (Streamline...sounds odd but it works)
Inon Zur (Rogue Heart, Fenris' Theme, Love Scene, Destiny of Love)

I also find these relaxing:
Withered, by Atomship
The Witcher Theme, by Believe
Comedown, by Bush
Colorblind, by Counting Crows
This Love, by Craig Armstrong
Louder Than Thunder, by The Devil Wears Prada (odd, I know)
Say When (Ozymandias), by Fair To Midland
Orchard of Mines, by Globus (I am so addicted to this song at the moment)
Dig, Incubus (and Drive as well)
Idle Blood, by Katatonia
Selfish, by Keith Caputo
Overcome, by Live
All This Time, by One Republic
Road Salt, by Pain of Salvation
October & April, by The Rasmus
My Body Is A Cage, by Sara Lov (it's also an Arcade Fire cover)
Hesitate, by Stone Sour
Heart of Courage, by Two Steps From Hell
Don't Take Your Love Away, by V.A.S.T
Hurricane, by 30 Seconds to Mars

Hope you find something you like!
 
Wow -- thanks BF! This lot should get me through a whole series of low blood sugar episodes. I've actually been able mostly to avoid them these last 5 months, but probably at the cost of raised BG levels (latest hba1c test will let me know the worst), so if I'm forced back into hypo-territory these will come in handy. I have my favourite pieces to play after good BG readings, but i don't hear them very often :lol:
 
I have wide musical interests but as a guitarist myself I have always preferred guitar music, a life long blues aficionado but I also like rock, indi and a whole bunch of other stuff too as long as it has a good melody or a foot tapping beat then its all good with me. Not a fan of dance music at all though and most techno stuff leaves me cold as it has no discernible soul to it, like all things though there are exceptions.

My all time favourite guitarists would be, in no particular order:

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimmy Vaughan
Paul Kossoff - Guitarist with 'Free'
Buddy Guy
Jimmy Hendrix
Jimmy Page
Keith Richards
B B King
Albert King
Jeff Beck
Eric Clapton

This list is endless so Ill stop now lol

Ive never been a fan of folk music either but in recent years I have come to like 'Show Of Hands' which is sort of folk with attitude lol A recent song by them is very relevant in todays society and shows that they are in touch with a modern audience, something many folk groups are not.

Show of Hands - Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u2ill7yOZo
 
Didn't know you were a guitarist, Sid -- that gives me an idea
Any suggestions for a name for a diabetic rock group?

Four's the Floor?
The FreeStyle Lites?
Novarapid?
The sulphonylureas?
Ketoacidosis?
 
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