Waltzing Matilda

For example "metal", "grunge", "jazz", "funk", "polka" as WORDS all pretty much sound like those genres. So, can you think of any that DON'T?

Also, if you could change the name of an existing genre to something more appropriate, which genre name would you change?

Also, if you could give one of your favorite bands/artists their very own genre that totally encompasses their sound, what would you call that genre? (please be descriptive and not just something like "awesomeness")

ex. "Throw Away Your Television" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

(try to stay away from political songs, please)

bq: Did you know that the average American spends 9 years of their life in front of the television?

bq2: Did you know that couples with a TV in the bedroom have sex half as often as those who don't?

bq3: Do you like people shooting statistics at you?

bq4: If not, what would you rather have them shoot at you?

Q2: What would it say about your dance moves?

BQ: Do you think your sound system (stereo, ipod, whatever you play your music out of) likes the music you make it play? Or is it just a job to them?

BQ2: Song Lyrics that use personification?

It could be something in the lyrics or the mood of the music or whatever. Just songs that make you go "Ahh, it all makes sense now, this life thing" or something to that effect.

Q2: What are some songs that make you feel like you don't know what's right and wrong anymore?

BQ: Have you ever participated in or been the recipient of a drug and/or alcohol intervention? If so, which group of songs that you listed for Q1 & Q2 would have fit the mood of that experience better?

BQ2: How often do you clean the cobwebs out of your head?

http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/series/?sid=6

Feel free to rank them, edit the list, make your own, whatever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW967Cf3E78

Also, could you tell me if you can't view my video? It says it's blocked in some countries.

Also, are you familiar with the "Compact Jazz" compilations? I have the Antonio Carlos Jobim and Bill Evans ones, which are both fantastic. Are there any others you know of that you would recommend?

Can you juggle to the Beatles?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f8drk5Urw

BQ: Favorite songs about "juggling"?

BQ2: Can you tell I'm really bored?

Well they better bow down to this one, cuz Manu Chao is the King of the Bongo Bong :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m7hxzwW0qw

BQ: I just discovered a rainstick in the back of my closet I had forgotten about....what (if any) sorts of percussion instruments can be found lying around your home?

I've been listening to "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" all afternoon, really digging every version, from Bill Withers to Sting to Michael Jackson to Tom Jones to Lighthouse Family to Bob Marley to Al Jarreau to Eva Cassidy to Jose Feliciano to Al Green to Jeff Beck to Marvin Gaye to DMX!!!

Q2: What do you consider to be a better song-- a perfect studio recording that nobody can touch or a timeless classic that works beautifully with all shapes and sizes of voices and genres?

and perform two songs of your choosing, would you snag it or chicken out?

Q2: What two songs would you choose?

BQ: Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen" or The Beatles' "Twist and Shout"?

BQ2: Are you/were you notorious for skipping class in high school?

BQ3: How do you celebrate Von Steuben Day?

Have you ever received a lot of thumbs up for an answer and no thumbs down and been tempted to edit it into complete rubbish, but didn't because you didn't want to let your contacts down? Well now's your chance!

Part 1: Write a music-related statement you think would get a lot of thumbs up from your fellow R&Pers.

Part 2: Wait for the thumbs up. (While you're waiting, feel free to thumbs up other great responses!)

Part 3: Go back in, delete everything you wrote, and enter in the most distasteful, absurd, politically incorrect nonsense you've been dying to shout out in public!

Go!

(I'm sensing this experiment will result in failure, but that's nothing I'm not used to, so whatever.)

jazzing it up with Elvis Costello:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GfSrzjzQv4

spicing things up with Perry Farrell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao_UFE_LNNM&feature...

getting cutesy with Iggy Pop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjejqJVUYOU

something else, perhaps?

bq: well, did you evah??

Are sad poems as prevalent in poetry as love songs are in music?

Well I for one have had enough! Let's get happy people! If only for a little while.... What do you think of my poem?

Ipanema….

The name alone

puts a Jobim bounce in my step

The boardwalk’s alive

but no see no hot papis yet

The pink thong bikini

is an invitation to stare

But the only accepts

are flabby men with too much hair

No matter, no matter

I enjoy their warm pervy grins

And how the sun’s juicy lips

leaves lipstick sweat on my skin

And how my Skol’s crispy taste

brings out the beach’s fuzzy glow

Like the sunshine on the ocean

swimming in the tide’s ebb and flow

Brazil! Brazil! I love Brazil!

Capoeira on sand

Havaianas on feet

Bronze on body

Romance on tongue

I’m melting! I’m melting! From the bliss of it all!

I’ll be a puddle for sure

if I live here for good

Better get back on the plane

And stay solid in the States

I probably should have stayed with the same form throughout, but I just got too excited, I couldn't help but break out of it!!! Is that forgiveable?

To explain-- My vocal coach (yes, I took singing lessons for a bit, but it didn't work out, so don't ask me to sing for you!) once told me that if a musician is trained on an instrument before they learn to sing properly, they sing like that instrument. For example, he said I was singing like a piano (my primary instrument) in that I wasn't sliding the notes together, but singing them more individually as if they were piano keys.

I think about this every time I hear Steve Vai (primarily a guitarist) sing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7L_4FgYUGk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uMxCREIRUI&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ybQNXA17Tk

Do you think he sings like a guitar?

Can you think of any other examples?

How 'bout a lot?

What do you think of The RH Factor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c5nShH2W80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LHP_15A9ew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIm4KdjSyYQ

BQ: Hit me up with a link back, something similar peut-etre? ou non? don't matter. just give it to me.

How awesome is this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1vPxXmCe8w

BQ: Favorite WWE superstars?

BQ2: Do you know any other songs about wrestling?

You know, like, there was a monster eating the songwriter up inside and they just needed to put it in a song to get it out of them?

BQ: This question was inspired by the real answer to why I chose writing as a profession. But there’s a line in a Tom Waits song—“If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too”. Should I be worried about that?

READ THE WHOLE QUESTION BEFORE YOU ANSWER!

In Neil Young’s song “Old Man”, there’s a line that goes, “Doesn’t mean that much to me to mean that much you,” the "you" being his fans. To Michael Jackson, on the other hand, his fans meant the world to him. When they screamed, “I LOVE YOU MICHAEL!”, he would say “I love you more” back and mean it whole-heartedly.

These are just two extreme examples, but in general, do you think a singer/songwriter’s attitude to their fans is reflected in their music at all? Or does it not make much of a difference?

BQ: In your favorite sport, how important is fan loyalty?

To rephrase-- What was the first dirty song you heard that you understood?

BQ: did you like it?

BQ2: if you received "dirty" money somehow, would you feel comfortable spending it?

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