In Reply to: Yea I think she's probably right. posted by Don T on December 15, 2006 at 06:58:53:
I don't like smooth jazz. I don't like Janet Jackson, nor do any women I know like her either. Lucinda's OK. I loathe ganagsta rap - they can take their bitches 'n hoes and shove their vile lyrics where the sun don't shine.I don't have brown eyes.
And I don't like metal, industrial or grunge.
Here's some artists I DO like:
Ella
Sarah Vaughn
Aretha
Betty Carter
Mel Torme
Sam Cook
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Charles Mingus
Marion McPartland
Bill Evans
Coltrane
Ray Charles
Van Morrison
Beatles
Who
Kinks
Stones up through Exile
Beach Boys
Four Seasons
Roy Orbison
Sam & Dave
Rascals
Buffalo Springfield
Arthur Lee & Love
Smokey Robinson
Four Tops
Stevie Wonder
Booket T & The MGs
Doug Sahm
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
Johnny Nash
Jimmy Cliff
Bob Marley
Tom Waits
Tom Lehrer
Original Allman Brothers Band
The Band
Traffic
Velvet Underground
Procul Harum
Turtles
Nazz/Todd Rundgren
Left Banke/Stories/Michael Brown
Dwight Twilley
Big Star
The Roches
Almost everything on the original Nuggets Elpeez
John Cale
David Bowie
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Peter Gabriel & Gabriel era Genesis
PFM
Roxie Music
Mott The Hoople
NY Dolls
Talking Heads
Steely Dan
Patti Smith
Blondie
Clash
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Steeleye Span
Richard (& Linda) Thompson
Pentangle
Stackridge
Sparks (pre disco)
Early 10cc
The Move
Joe Jackson
Elvis Costello
Pretenders
Pogues
Black 47
ELO
Cheap Trick
Smithereens
Flamin'Groovies
Split Enz/Crowded House/Finn Brothers
Marshall Crenshaw
The Las
Shoes
DBs
Plimsouls
The Replacements
Violent Femmes
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Los Lobos
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys
Lyle Lovett
Townes Van Zandt
k d lang
James Taylor
Nickel Creek
Allison Kraus & Union Station
Iris Dement
Dolly Parton
Hank Williams
Stanley Brothers
Claire Lynch
Gillian Welch
Carter Family
Johnny Cash
Marty Robbins
Fairfield Four
Stanley Brothers
White Stripes
M. Ward
Iron & Wine
October Project
Sufjan Stevens
Brendan Beeson
New Pornographers
Joanna Newsom
Rufus Wainwright
Shawn Colvin
Paula Cole
Sam Phillips
...and K. T. Tunstall & Feist...for now, at least.This list is off the top of my head, doesn't include much jazz nor world, folk, Afro-pop blah blah blah nor the roughly 1000 classical recordings I own.
So...careful, women are people too, and we like lots of different kinds of *interesting* music - be careful how you generalize.
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- LOL - yer right - I don't like Diana Krall. - Harmonia 22:54:15 12/17/06 (0)