What you listen too...

[EuphTubaBassBone]

My favorite thing to listen to is a Bad *** Trombone ensemble, but i also like to listen to horns.
I listen to just about every instrument I can get a recording of, that sounds good of course .
Just because were tuba players doesn't mean we have to listen to just recordings of tuba players.
We can listen to anything from the beauty of an oboe player to the edge of a bad *** horn player.

-I want to get everyones opinion on this.

-What else do you listen to besides recordings of tuba players??

[jon112780]

Metallica
Rammstein
'various' film scores

[LARSONTUBA]

Mostly heavy metal (nasum, converge, today is the day, napalm death, opeth)
Sometimes rock and roll (CCR, Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding)
Somtimes classical (Mahler, Bartok, Shostakovich, Britten, Stravinsky)

I listen for the individual lines in all these different styles of music. When I hear music, I rarely hear the music as a complete whole. It is difficult to explain, but I feel like I am always dissecting it and focusing on one part, rather than the sum.

[The Jackson]

I very much like rap artists like Public Enemy and Gang Starr. A lot of that writing and rapping is very emotive, something I admire.

I really like John Cage's works for prepared piano. They add a nice twist that sets a mood not easily created by other means.

The Aquabats are also a very nice group. That's some of my favorite music.

[Tuba Guy]

Most played on my computer-tuba concertos (VW (Jacobs) and Gregson)
non-classical...a ton of reggae, Ravi Shankar, and Leonard Cohen...

[David Richoux]

My favorite thing to listen to is a Bad *** Trombone ensemble, but i also like to listen to horns.

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I hope you have everything by Bonerama!

I have listened to (and mostly liked) so many different kinds of music over the last 55 years (started young it would make way too long of a list. That is why I got into non-commercial radio - I could share what i like with an audience...

But bands that actually make me dance: Brave Combo, New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, Polkacide.
Mentally challenging & etc.: Frank Zappa, Don Ellis, The Residents
Tickles my funny bone: PDQ Bach, Spike Jones, Bonzo Dog, Louis Prima
What mostly fills my iPod: Balkan Brass, "Honk" bands, "Old-Time" jugband, blues & jazz.

Least favs: "Modern Symphonic" and most Opera

[David Richoux]

Mostly metal every time else (death metal, speed metal, that metal that you cant understand what they're saying ya know the real dark and (some people consider) evil stuff)

DEATH TONGUE!

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[Tubadork]

I hate to be the grammar police, but here goes.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000258.htm" target="_blank" target="_blank

To, Too, or Two?

To is a preposition which begins a prepositional phrase or an infinitive.

Too is an adverb meaning "excessively" or "also."

Two is a number. Many other words in English which reflect the number two are spelled with tw: twin, twice, between, tweezers, etc.

Examples: We went to a baseball game. (preposition)

We like to watch a good ball game. (infinitive)

What do you listen to?

We ate too much. (meaning "excessively")

I like baseball, too. (meaning "also")

Six divided by three is two. (number)

They own two Brittany spaniels. (number)

[Todd S. Malicoate]

I hate to be the grammar police, but here goes.

No need. It was clearly a typo in the thread title. The OP used the correct spelling throughout the post.

[The Jackson]

I thought those dots where replacing the letter b, a, and s.

[tubafatness]

Short answer: it depends.

Longer answer:

For the last week or so:
Mastodon's newest album, (Crack the Skye)
Kenna's album New Sacred Cow
Several albums from John Zorn's Book of Angels series
The new MewithoutYou album
A bootleg of Mike Patton's Italian pop music project Mondo Cane
the Kaada/Patton album Romances
Trivium's album Shogun
Henry Threadgill's Very, Very Circus Band
A lot of electronic music, (mainly Modeselektor, Boom Bip and Brian Eno)
Miles Davis electric period albums, (especially Panthalassa, the Bill Laswell remix of some of the stuff.)
traditional Turkish music
Antony & the Johnsons
Busdriver, Madvillain, and Jay-Z, (especially the Jaydiohead mix.)
A lot of Bjork.
I listened to Tom Waits 3-CD set Orphans the other day, all the way through.
Metallica's ...And Justice for All, (while thinking of how to do a tuba quartet version of "Blackened")


That's all I can think of for right now.

Aaron

[bearphonium]

Another vote for "it depends"...and I am very glad I can hook the ipod up to the patrol car stereo (no, not the police radio):

Marches, some Atlanta Symphony, Steven Mead, Carol Jantsch, marches, military bands, Adam Frey, marches
or
Jimmy Buffet
or
Indigo Girls/Girlyman/Sheryl Crow/Melissa Etheridge
or
Kingston Trio
or
"classic rock"

The guys who load and review the in car video say they can always tell my stuff from what music is going on.

[bort]

Well, the music stores call it all "Classical," but I listen to a lot of Beethoven, Mahler, Bruckner, and Dvorak. And it blows my mind how much other GREAT music is out there that is hundreds of years old, and how much of that hasn't made it to my ears yet in the last 28 years. And within that, how many GREAT recordings there are! Some of my friends laugh that I have 3 or 4 recordings of the same symphony. I also have been listening to a lot of Grainger, and a lot of professional and military wind ensemble recordings. I really wish these types of groups had a bigger following in the US.

I started listening to classical music on my own as a kid, and my friends teased me. I got to college, and having a lot of music major friends, people stopped teasing me. Seven years out of college, and people tease me again. Narrow audience I guess.

My fiancee loves to joke with me -- all the music on my iPod is either from the 90's or the 1890's.

[goldtuba]

my tastes in music spread the spectrum quite a bit. my classical ranges everywhere from solo cd's from any brass instrument, brass quintets, bands, ensembles, almost anything brass. I also listen to a lot of wind ensemble stuff. living in denton gives me access to the unt wind symphony on a regular basis as well as the dallas wind symphony. my overall classical tastes go all of the way from early gregorian chant to brand new band and orchestra music, excluding serialism. i never really developed a taste for schoenberg or his contemporaries.

when i'm not listening to classical, i listen to a lot of jazz and funk. the trumpet summit cd is one of my favorites. i also like almost anything bobby shew puts out. don ellis, return to forever, unt lab bands, arturo sandoval, frank sinatra, herbie hancock, miles davis, bela fleck and the flecktones are all good. my funk tastes leans towards groups with horns like tower of power, youngblood brass band and mingo fishtrap.

my second love in music is reggae. i have plenty of all of the marley's, plus every one else like burning spear, culture, matisyahu, peter tosh, easy star all stars, and jacob miller. sinead o'connor's reggae cd is a must have.

[tubatom91]

I like listening to classical music of the Romantic era. I'm not much for anything from the actual classical era (Handel for example). I also listen to moder "alternative" music such as Death cab for Cutie and Kings of Leon. I also listen to a lot of stand up comedy (Lewis Black, George Carlin, Jim Gaffigan, etc.).

[Mcordon1]

Mastodon! yesssss

[Davy]

It depends on what Im in the mood for...it could be Rock (the good stuff, like Kansas, Boston, Journey, etc) Big Band Jazz, any Orchestral Music, any brass music or nstumental soloists. I really have no desire ever to listen to Country or Rap

[Arkietuba]

It really depends on the time of year...the summer I really get into rap. In my car I'm listening to Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne and everything 50 Cent and Kanye West has released. Also, R Kelly (that man can sing!). Right now I'm listening to Billie Jean as I'm writing this...haha I like things with a cool beat/bass line...lyrics really don't matter but Kanye and Lil Wayne have some COLD lyrics.

Aside from that I love Schubert/Verdi/Beethoven/Mahler/Wagner/Bach/Mozart and Tchaikovsky...I have the most eclectic cd collection ever assembled. I have all of the Louis Armstrong "Greatest Hits" and I love anything by any dixieland group! I have all of the Frank Sinatra "hits" albums too. I even have the Spice Girls and everything by Wierd Al...I have no idea why I love all these types of music.

[TonyZ]

I like listening to classical music of the Romantic era. I'm not much for anything from the actual classical era (Handel for example). I also listen to moder "alternative" music such as Death cab for Cutie and Kings of Leon. I also listen to a lot of stand up comedy (Lewis Black, George Carlin, Jim Gaffigan, etc.).

Classical Music of the Romantic Era....

Curious statement!

[TonyZ]

This thread is also interesting in that very few of you list particular tunes. "I like Mahler." All of it, or does anything in particular move you? Just another curiosity.

TZ