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Post by Beach Boys Fan on Jan 15, 2019 1:48:26 GMT -5
Answer to each or pick the question(s) you can answer.
1. Do you listen to music with earbuds, speakers, headphones? Which is the best to you? Explain shortly why.
2. Would you say you like any music genre/ style of any decade or it's not the case?
3. Do you try to listen to music daily? Or do you sometimes get tired listening to it and there's long/ short intervals when you don't listen to any music?
4. Would you agree with statement that it's easier to recognize black singers' voices due to their distinct singing style/ articulation? Can you quickly say if you hear obscure song with vocals "This is sung by black singer"?
5. Do you associate any song, lyrically-musically, with familiar people/ you? Bring examples.
6. Which song by any band/ singer would you REALLY like to have written?
7. Do you agree with statement that usually it's rule than exception when musician who gained popularity with the band he/ she began with is less successful, with inferior material when she/ he starts solo career? List exceptions, if any.
8. Is there any opening act in shows you went to that you didn't know about anything but, in the end, really liked the music by?
9. When you're at the show, do you usually sit thru it in its entirety or do you stand up when specific favorites start, to sing along/ dance/ get better stage view/ etc.? If the answer is "stand up", name these favorite songs.
10. Do you believe the phrase "music is timeless" is misguided? If the answer is negative, can you bring different interpretation?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 5:27:15 GMT -5
Well. I gathered people would find this thread fun to reply to and then compare different answers by different posters. Your enthusiasm knows no bounds, BBF.  01. Speakers, because they're not attached to my ears. (Plenty of time for that later.) 02. No (biggest majority I've ever belonged to). Let's say country opera is my least favourite genre. 03. No. Silence can indeed be golden. And music wouldn't be music without silence. Yes for the second part. 04. Not any more. There's been so much cross-pollination in that respect that that's no longer true. 05. I associate "Somebody To Love" musically with a major Surrealistic Pillow fan on this forum. 06. None. 07. No rule, so no exceptions. 08. No. 09. I stood on a chair at the Royal Albert Hall in 1972 when Free closed their farewell concert with "All Right Now". Otherwise I stay sitting down and sway gently. 10. No. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 19:18:42 GMT -5
I usually create different random surveys, around 15-17 people enjoyed answering them, said "It's fun". But, this time I decided to create strictly music survey. 1) Since this is music board, people like talking about music. There's many music-free threads but studying what takes people's attention here the best, they usually reply to music threads first than books/ movies etc. 2) People like various Top 10 list/ favorite/ least favorite/ who is biggest music influence/ best/ worst etc. threads. This survey is similar. It's got 10 fun music questions that I figured would be right up fun list threads-appreciating posters' alley. 3) This is to @iluvleniloud - it's good to retrieve past PS forum topics saved in Way Back archives but, at the same time, I decided to bring here something brand new, fresh, unique etc. They say EH is active forum. Well then prove it and chime in with your answers here, fellow EH'ers.  It would be interesting to compare different answers, precisely the same way as in mentioned list threads. For example you could comment to somebody else's answers by quoting etc. I'd like it if people replied to threads created by me, not just created by ex-PS posters. This is meant to be agenda-free community. I replied to some of your threads, folks, and would like to get the same back. Thank you and enjoy! Don't take it personally that your thread hasn't gotten a lot of comments yet. Sometimes it just happens. I remember in SS and PSF, sometimes I'd start threads that didn't get a lot of replies, but those they did get were really interesting. Or, alternatively, they'd sit mostly unanswered for months until exploding. Sometimes people just don't get around to seeing stuff, or they just don't have anything interesting to say to those particular questions. (That's the reason I haven't contributed to this thread.) It's not any kind of clique between ex-PSF users. Personally I don't even know who's all here from PSF/SS and who if anyone's new. There are some well-known personalities sure, and jk is my friend so of course I know him, but beyond that I don't know anyone here that well. What I'm trying to say is, it's a mistake to assume anyone is consciously shutting you out. Your thread just hasn't gotten a lot of attention; it's your choice to take it personally. As for backing stuff up from the wayback machine, I do so because I really liked those threads. I was really upset Andersson deleted all that work I put in to make PSF a fun place to go. I want to save what I can because I'm curious how new people here will think about those same topics, and now I want EH to have lots of interesting topics to attract and retain members. I don't appreciate being used as a negative example in your post. I stuck up for you in the past when you were in the hotseat at the Surf's Up thread and I don't think it's very nice to throw me under the bus in that way. Maybe this wasn't your intention but that's how it comes across. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 20:08:59 GMT -5
Answer to each or pick the question(s) you can answer. 1. Do you listen to music with earbuds, speakers, headphones? Which is the best to you? Explain shortly why. 2. Would you say you like any music genre/ style of any decade or it's not the case? 3. Do you try to listen to music daily? Or do you sometimes get tired listening to it and there's long/ short intervals when you don't listen to any music? 4. Would you agree with statement that it's easier to recognize black singers' voices due to their distinct singing style/ articulation? Can you quickly say if you hear obscure song with vocals "This is sung by black singer"? 5. Do you associate any song, lyrically-musically, with familiar people/ you? Bring examples. 6. Which song by any band/ singer would you REALLY like to have written? 7. Do you agree with statement that usually it's rule than exception when musician who gained popularity with the band he/ she began with is less successful, with inferior material when she/ he starts solo career? List exceptions, if any. 8. Is there any opening act in shows you went to that you didn't know about anything but, in the end, really liked the music by? 9. When you're at the show, do you usually sit thru it in its entirety or do you stand up when specific favorites start, to sing along/ dance/ get better stage view/ etc.? If the answer is "stand up", name these favorite songs. 10. Do you believe the phrase "music is timeless" is misguided? If the answer is negative, can you bring different interpretation? 1. Speakers only. Computer speakers, boom box in the bedroom, car speakers, and stereo speakers. Grew up on $5.00 transistor radios. I don't like the feel of things in my ears. After a while it usually causes my ears to hurt.
2. No, I don't like any music genre. Mostly rock/pop/some old country and mostly pre-1990. I am very selective and probably too picky and close-minded.
3. I listen to music almost constantly. When I wake up on the computer as I'm posting on this forum, as I am showering/getting ready for work, in my car, sometimes at work, and when I get home at night.
4. I can distinguish that it is a black singer but I don't necessarily distinguish between black singers any more than I do with other race's singers.
5. Yes, I associate songs with my parent's favorite songs, songs that remind me of ex-girlfriends, songs that remind me of certain family members, and songs that remind me of a specific time in my life and what I was doing at that time. That's part of what makes music special - memories and people that you associate with it.
6. "Caroline, No", the most underrated song in the history of popular music. "Always On My Mind", "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "Lay Lady Lay", "I Saw Her Standing There", "The Crystal Ship", and "Perfect Day" (Lou Reed).
7. Yes, I mostly agree with that statement. Exceptions? Dennis Wilson, John Denver, maybe Neil Young. I can't think of many. That would make a good thread.
8. I saw Willie Nelson open for Bob Dylan. I went to see Dylan; I knew only a few Willie Nelson songs. Willie was great, actually better than Dylan. I went home, downloaded a bunch of Willie Nelson songs, made a comp CD, and I've loved Willie ever since.
9. I prefer to sit for the entire show and try to take in as much as I can. Sometimes sitting then standing then sitting then standing can be a distraction. I sometimes will sing softly to myself as to not be a distraction. I do bop my head, tap my foot, tap my thigh with my hand, and maybe even rock back and forth. I rarely clap. I'm usually not, no...never, driven to dance. Maybe I'm going to the wrong concerts!
10. Music is timeless. well, some music is timeless. No doubt about it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 20:17:29 GMT -5
Hey BBF, don't take it so hard if your thread doesn't get much response. I've stared a number of topics on various boards that only got one or two posts, then died. It happens. Sometimes it takes a bit of time for it to get rolling.
I think this is an interesting topic and a good way to get to know fellow posters, so I'll play:
1. Speakers during reasonable daylight hours, so I don't piss off my neighbors (I like my music loud, so I can wander around my house. If it's nighttime, I'll use my professional studio-grade AKG headphones.
2. No I'm pretty picky about my musical tastes. Not into rap, country, or whatever is passing for "current pop".
3. Daily. Music is my life.
4. No.
5. Yes. Some songs remind me of friends or past girlfriends. One song, "Only Time Will Tell" by Asia, reminds me of an ex-girlfriend because it was playing on the radio as I was driving home the day she dumped me.
6. Surfs Up--Beach Boys, Nights in White Satin--Moody Blues.
7. Don't know.
8. Can't remember any.
9. Depends.
10. No.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2019 3:27:21 GMT -5
Relax, Beach Boys Fan! It was a long list of questions so people may take time to answer.
1. Over the ear headphones most of the time so as not to disturb my husband who works at home. Earbuds typically don’t stay in my ears
2. I can potentially enjoy almost any genre of music I think but usually only particular examples or artists. I like one or two country songs and singers for instance but can’t stand much of the rest. And I can’t say I like much of what I hear on the radio when I’m out and about in public spaces
3. I listen to music every day on my way to and from work, while cooking and cleaning the house, while excercising. I almost never simply sit down and listen to it while not doing something else cus I’m rather restless
4. No
5. Yes and I often associate music with particular times and places as well and can be taken instantly back there when I listen. Examples: Phil Spector Christmas album—my dad got it out every year while decorating the tree; Stairway to heaven—my brother was always listening in our teen years; Nick Drake—my brother gave me Pink Moon to listen to when I got dumped by my first boyfriend (way to cheer a girl up!); Frank Sinatra—listened all the time while writing papers in college for some reason; BBs—closest thing to being back in Southern California.
6. I can’t imagine writing any song because I have no musical ability but like Sockit I wouldn’t have minded writing the extraordinary poetic lyrics to Surfs up
7. Probably true. I have zero interest in any BBs solo material except for Dennis so I think he’s definitely an exception to the rule if the rule exists
8. No but I haven’t been to many concerts
9. I can’t dance, so I sit to avoid embarrassing myself
10. Music can be timeless, yes
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2019 18:16:07 GMT -5
Thank you & everybody replying here. It's been fun to read the answers. & few people even answered in detail, really cool. That's quite an achievement, BBF. Not every topic gets this kind of attention. |
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Post by The Cap'n on Jan 17, 2019 12:33:37 GMT -5
1. Speakers in the car or often at home; decent headphones usually at night, or if I am doing serious listening with attention to detail; and earbuds if I’m torturing myself (aka running or something). I’m not an elitist about audio and suspect a large percentage of what we hear is supplemented in our minds anyway.
2. I am open to liking music of any genre or decade. There’s nothing inherent in either that would make music good or bad, though. There is a tiny bit of great music in any period or genre; a huge quantity that’s fine in any period or genre; and quite a bit that’s atrocious in any period or genre, which luckily we don’t come across unless we’re out there conducting exhaustive surveys. (The good thing about older music is that the garbage is usually filtered out already, as it’s out of print, never got popular to begin with, or otherwise just slipped through the cracks.)
3. I neither try to listen daily nor try not to listen daily. I listen when I feel like listening to music, which does end up being almost daily. I might go a couple days without listening sometimes, but not often. I don’t really focus on this at all, though.
4. No, I don’t agree with that. Though I think it probably was easier in the past than now. Accents come into being based on being more or less separated from other people, and the more we’re exposed, the more we basically blend together. As traditionally black forms of music became more popular, more non-black people emulated those styles. So the “American black” accent has become almost the norm, I’d say, in popular music. I can identify that accent, sure, but that doesn’t mean the person him- or herself is black.
5. Off the top of my head I have no examples of songs that I associate with specific people, though I’m sure there are some. And now I’ve thought of one, actually. About a decade ago, my girlfriend and I briefly broke up. The song “Wild Sage,” by the Mountain Goats, was prominent in my life at that time, and I associate it with her and that period.
6. There are too many songs I wish I’d written to count or list, but none so much more than the others among them to warrant listing.
7. It does seem like people who leave popular bands to go solo are less successful once solo, but listing specifics off the top of one’s head isn’t easy. I suppose Ozzy Osboune probably became more popular after Black Sabbath: I’m sure he sold more albums, especially in the ‘80s. Probably Phil Collins was more successful solo than in Genesis. Other than some previously mentioned, that’s what comes to mind.
8. I’ve liked some opening acts quite a bit, but never in the situation described. Generally if I liked them, I knew that going in, and if I didn’t like them or didn’t know them going in, I continued not to like them (much).
9. Whether I stand or sit depends on the venue and environment. I suppose I prefer sitting more than standing, but if everyone is standing it’s silly (or creepy) to sit and look at someone’s behind. And if I felt like standing but everyone else chose to sit, I would not stand because it’s rude to the people behind me. But as I age, I go more to shows in theaters where sitting is the norm than to bars or festivals where standing and dancing is the norm.
10. I think the statement depends on the person speaking. Music itself appears to be timeless, in that people have made and enjoyed music at least as long as we’ve had history to tell us so, and probably into pre-history. Specific musical genres or specific bands and songs are not timeless, apparently. At least not so far, as we have no specific music from before some specific point in history: we know they had music and we know we don’t have it, so it wasn’t timeliness. I doubt strongly that specific music from any other period will truly be timeless, either. But obviously some music remains beloved for generations, and sometimes centuries. So if you’re speaking poetically and use timeless to mean “for a long time,” then sure.
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Post by kds on Jan 17, 2019 13:26:28 GMT -5
1. Do you listen to music with earbuds, speakers, headphones? Which is the best to you? Explain shortly why.
I prefer to listen to music with speakers. But if I'm outside, I'll use earbuds.
2. Would you say you like any music genre/ style of any decade or it's not the case?
I tend to stick to rock music from the early 60s to the early 90s. In my humble opinion, rock started to go downhill when grunge got big in the early 1990s, and I don't think it'll ever fully recover. It might be more of a case of the rock genre just running its course. Sure, there are still good bands out there, but I no longer have to time or energy to seek them out anymore. If I'm going to discover music that's new to me, I'd rather explore older groups. As I've gotten older, I've grown to like country a little more, but not really enough to invest a lot of time or money in it. I don't like disco, rap, electro, techno, EDM, or any kind of club / dance stuff. I've been called "closed minded" for my rock from 1962-1992 bias, but I don't care, it's what I like. And I'd hate to see what my CD collection would look like if I weren't "closed minded."
3. Do you try to listen to music daily? Or do you sometimes get tired listening to it and there's long/ short intervals when you don't listen to any music?
I'd say it's very rare for a day to pass without my adding some music to it. I've never really gotten tired of listening to music. I've loved listening to music ever since I was little. Granted, with a one year old, I don't have the time to sit down with a stack of CDs like I used to, but I find ways to listen to music, be it in the car, on my phone during my morning routine, or chilling out on weekend night after the baby's gone to bed.
4. Would you agree with statement that it's easier to recognize black singers' voices due to their distinct singing style/ articulation? Can you quickly say if you hear obscure song with vocals "This is sung by black singer"?
I think that was more the case 20-30 years ago, but not as much today, since genres and styles aren't as "race specific" as they once were.
5. Do you associate any song, lyrically-musically, with familiar people/ you? Bring examples.
Oh sure, too many to name really. God Only Knows was my wedding song, so I think about my wife.
6. Which song by any band/ singer would you REALLY like to have written?
None in particular. I'm more than happy being a spectator. But, for S&Gs, I'll say White Christmas for the residuals.
7. Do you agree with statement that usually it's rule than exception when musician who gained popularity with the band he/ she began with is less successful, with inferior material when she/ he starts solo career? List exceptions, if any.
I think, in general, artists in bands tend to have more success and better material within those bands. One exception I can think of is King Diamond. I think he's sold more records as a solo artist than with Mercyful Fate, and I think the music is better. Cap'n mentioned Ozzy Osbourne, who has probably been more successful, but I think his Black Sabbath material is far better.
8. Is there any opening act in shows you went to that you didn't know about anything but, in the end, really liked the music by?
Back in 2001, I went to Ozzfest, and saw a group called Beautiful Creatures that I liked. They put out one really good album in 2001 before the departure of their guitarist DJ Ashba. Their sophomore album was pretty bad, and I think they broke up 15 years ago.
9. When you're at the show, do you usually sit thru it in its entirety or do you stand up when specific favorites start, to sing along/ dance/ get better stage view/ etc.? If the answer is "stand up", name these favorite songs.
I tend to be unnecessarily self conscious at shows, so I'd prefer to just sit and listen to the music. I tend to not like all the standing and moving about that people do, especially when they crowd your space.
10. Do you believe the phrase "music is timeless" is misguided? If the answer is negative, can you bring different interpretation?
I think music is absolutely timeless.
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Post by Beach Boys Fan on Jan 28, 2019 19:32:39 GMT -5
Bumping this fun thread that new people will see it and answer the survey. Join the ranks.
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Post by treatzapiza on Feb 1, 2019 22:07:32 GMT -5
Answer to each or pick the question(s) you can answer. 1. Do you listen to music with earbuds, speakers, headphones? Which is the best to you? Explain shortly why. 2. Would you say you like any music genre/ style of any decade or it's not the case? 3. Do you try to listen to music daily? Or do you sometimes get tired listening to it and there's long/ short intervals when you don't listen to any music? 4. Would you agree with statement that it's easier to recognize black singers' voices due to their distinct singing style/ articulation? Can you quickly say if you hear obscure song with vocals "This is sung by black singer"? 5. Do you associate any song, lyrically-musically, with familiar people/ you? Bring examples. 6. Which song by any band/ singer would you REALLY like to have written? 7. Do you agree with statement that usually it's rule than exception when musician who gained popularity with the band he/ she began with is less successful, with inferior material when she/ he starts solo career? List exceptions, if any. 8. Is there any opening act in shows you went to that you didn't know about anything but, in the end, really liked the music by? 9. When you're at the show, do you usually sit thru it in its entirety or do you stand up when specific favorites start, to sing along/ dance/ get better stage view/ etc.? If the answer is "stand up", name these favorite songs. 10. Do you believe the phrase "music is timeless" is misguided? If the answer is negative, can you bring different interpretation? earbuds are best for public transport/loudspeakers are best for private playback yes, i like jazz/crooning/1920's electrical era recordings/and 1930's depression music No. I'm lazy. No. It's easier to be bland and unrecognizable if you are white. Sugar shack reminds of the pied piper of hamelin . The most profitable one I don't understand the question. No. I heckle all opening acts. Whatever the hell I want to do. I paid money to be in some stupid auditorium. I'll do whatever the hell I want, till I get kicked out. Music is not timeless. |
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You're a great person BBF.'' - iluvleniloud about me and I.
It would be interesting to compare different answers, precisely the same way as in mentioned list threads. For example you could comment to somebody else's answers by quoting etc.
