Musica . . .
 

Keeping you in the loop - You guys use Accuradio?

I listen to the "Old School" subchannel of the "All That Jazz" station. It makes me happy.

Truly.

Who likes what?

It's pretty amusing, listening to this station. Just about any person who has to stand at my desk for more than a moment or two will ask me what it is I'm playing, they love it. :)

What do you think of it? The only complaint that I have on Accuradio is that they seem to go in a long cycle and over a few days there will be long stretches of time (an entire day, I mean) where the music is tooo slow or too bluesey. But for today, I am happy, for they are swinging. I like the swing, don'tchya know. It makes me happy.

Till later

Currently at hand for my car CD player:
Kill Bill Vol 1 (with movie clips edited out)
Buffy Musical Soundtrack
The Road North

No real connection between any of them, except that the first two are soundtracks. Even then, the first is a collection of older songs, and the second is all original. The third is primarily fiddle and piano.

Eh. I like 'em.

Is The Road North folk/Irish?

I like Gaelic stuff - I have Karen Matheson sing me to sleep every night. She's got the sweetest voice in all the world, I think. I don't understand a word of it (it's in Gaelic) but it's almost like magic to me.

I would have guessed so, but apparently he's Scottish. They probably influence each other culturally.

Check out Karan Casey, really nice stuff.

Country rock all the way baby!! :band:

Yee HAW!!!

:)

Boy that just reminded me..HEE HAW is out on DVD, man does that show bring back some memories!

Gloom...Despair...Agony on me!

OUCH. Country music hurts. Really, that's actual PAIN we're talking about there.

Though I do have to admit that while I know that country music has changed over the past few years, I haven't given it another chance. Too risky, dontchyaknow.

:D

dear, dear elf. i used to be like you.

and then i actually MOVED to the country and learned the exciting new world of New Country Rock. its not just music its a whole atmosphere! its brilliant!

im not talking slow boring love songs, im talkin the good stuff!

I wanna be a cowgirrrl babay!!

:cool:

do you think my tractor's sexy? (I Love country, your pic didn't strike me as such tho)

Sorry, only REAL pic I have:

My what a big tractor you have!!

i bet you could boot scoot that thing in many a cattle draught - eh?!

;)

-2 points for sunsparkz. i thought you were kidding at first.

country music....especially NEW country...is the absolute bottom rung. does anyone know of a new country song that is NOT based on some tired ass cliche?

sunny, sunny, sunny. here i was trying to make you appear all worldly with my lesbian references......and you tear it all down with a couple of offhand country music posts. a shame, i say. a shame.

SHUT UP LJ!, I think she's digging me.

come on guys!

:(


maybe our aussie country is slightly different to your twangy cliche american country? ive heard american country (brooks and dunn ect) and its nothing like that!

fair enough most of the time its better to listen to some rock or pop but you gotta give it a chance! its all i ask!!

:cool:

married.

whos married? :confused:

you... to your closed mind view on country music? :3eye:

yeah, that, and blue58...to his wife. you snuck your post in before mine.....i'll go make it make sense

oh well, at least i still have my other 4576 active points left hey LJ

:D

Yeah, good luck there.....I have no idea what you're talking about. I can't appreciate a nice looking sheila?

well, i have seen your big fat hairy ass...

:eek:

I knew this would come back to bite me in the ass one day....people, if you'll look closely at some of my other posts you'll notice I have the sort of ass that most people drool about.

Or over. Or on. In fact I've been told I have no ass, which in womanolgy speak means hard, tight & tanned and not the least bit hairy.

HAHA, ok..a bit of fun there...a little hairy, not very big, and I've never taken a picture of it.

Are you speaking of the Allman bros/ Lynrd Skynrd school of country rock?:)

Technically, Bruce, I believe that is Southern Rock. It should be required listening for all children raised in this country.

Country rock, wherein once proud country-western artists sell their souls to AOR, is an abomination before the Lord.

sun, say 3 hail-george-jones', have a longneck beer and kneel before the shrine of Hank Sr. Only then can your sin be forgiven.

you people dont know what your on about!

what about lee kenaghan!!

at an old country pub, drinking a beer with some battlers, with Lee on the juke box, you cant get better atmosphere than that!

Kickin past the dealers on the edge of town, saw a lot of pretty pick ups not a ute to be found, twin cam jap 4's a bloke'd be nuts! i told em straight, giv me a six or an eight, with the dents and the dust and the grasshopper guts!

shes got holes in the muffler and the gear box CLUNK! i cursed her and called her a piece of old junk, but when the works been done at the end of the day..... shes my ute, and shes here to stay!

:D

Ute?

I have a visual of one of those carry-alls they used to make. A big engine, some big tires, a steering wheel and a cargo bed.

A worthy vehicle.

You dont know what a Ute is?

a utility vehicle. its usually a 2 seater cab at the front with a tray in the back, farmers have them, builders etc.

like a mini truck.

Utes are the Aussie equivalent of ElCaminos and Rancheros. Basically a station wagon with the roof cut off and a cab roof like a pickup grafted on. Very cool personal pickup. Rides and handles more like a car but will still carry a date...er... sheep or two. :D

i thought "Ute" was New York Italian for "youth"

-ala my cousin vinny

Utes are very much an Australian Country symbol. more so than the hat and the boots.

each annual show we have our Beaut Ute Competition and our Feral ute competition. some cowboys go right over the top with their ute enthusiasm....

some of the fancy boys have a nicer holden ute to fang around in:

another feral ute
 

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and another
 

you get the picture.

when i get home Ill take a picture of my ute. its just a plain white steel tray 1 tonner but its my little piece o country.

ye ha!

hope this cleared it all up for you Elf!!

:cool:

feral ute and roo..
 

One of the things we all love about the Ute scene is that it's not infected with that Big Buck mentality which seems to permeate most other realms of modern life.

for more information on utes go to http://www.feralute.com/home.asp

The band that I heard by accident and got me into Celtic/Gaelic music is Clandestine. I found them by accident on mp3.com, by coincidence the same week they were appearing in Philadelphia.

I enjoyed them for 3 years until they broke up last year.

I love some of the Celtic female singers out there. Niamh Parsons is very good.

Clandestine has a song called Miner's Lullaby which is very soothing. It depicts the use of morphine suicide kits by miners in case of cave-in. I don't if it's historically true, but it's a very beautiful song, in a disturbing way.

Cannonball is an anti-war song with a great drumbeat.

Sun, most of the pictures are of what I understood a ute to be but the first one, of the stake body pick-up, puzzles me. Is that considered a ute also?:confused:

yes most definately the first one is a ute, its the same Ute my mum drives, minus a few elaborative signs.

I'm not sure what a pick up is.. but i am assuming its a tow truck?

there are different types of Utes: one tonners, feral utes, 4wheel drive utes (the 1st one), dual cab Utes and then normal front wheel drive two seater Utes.

OK then, What we call pick-up trucks, you call utes, also. I thought the utes were only the the trucks that were made on car chassis and used much of the car bodies, except for the open bed, like the Holden. Evidently that term has been expanded to include any small (1 ton and under) trucks. My bad. :)

RAM SRT -10
 

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GOD

:eek:

IWANTONEIWANTONEIWANTONE!

that KICKS ASS over our utes.



very, very nice :cool:

A little off topic, but I heard this (from the performer) at a celtic/gaelic concert:

"For a short time, I played Country, and I realized that Celtic and Country are the same music, just a different whiskey."

- Heather Alexander

Havent really ever had a chance to listen to Celtic music.

would Evenescence be celtic? Im not sure.

No.

I'm not sure if I have any such music, myself.

"The Wind that Shakes the Barley" by Dead Can Dance might be the closest that I have.

This is the first of emusics Celtic pages. Solas is my personal favorite, Seamus Egan and Karan Casey are spectacular talents. Celtic can be hit or miss running from lame Americanized drunk and rebel songs all the way past New Age stuff like Clannad. But in between there are wonderful bands like Cherish the Lady, which tend to be acoustic instrument driven with the fiddle out front where it belongs.

I feel so enlightened! Thanks, Sparkz. :D I was still on the Brooklynese 'youth' frame of mind, too.

If you want a taste of Celtic music - www.Accuradio.com has a celtic station in which you can choose different types - traditional, Celtic rock, female or male artists, or progressive.

Take a listen. :)