Favorite (nonLDS) Music

[askandanswer]

I’ve got a new favourite piece of music. It’s the overture from Wagner’s Tannhauser. This is the music that I would like to hear being sung as I walk through the pearly gates into the Celestial Kingdom.

Picture this: After a period of mortality filled with struggle and difficulty and hardship, and slow but constant refinement, you eventually learn to fully submit your whole self to the will of the Father, and completely put aside the natural man. Having lived a good life and overcome the sorrows and snares of this life, you finally have your one-on-one interview with the Saviour. He listens to all that you have to say with perfect love and understanding, and you KNOW with all your soul that He knows you and loves you and understands you, and that He is so happy that you have endured mortality well and kept the faith. He puts His arm around your shoulders, looks into your face and says Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. After shedding tears and feeling His love for you, and being overcome with gratitude for the mercy and power and glory of the Plan of Salvation, you look over towards the pearly gates, and see your loved ones who have preceded you. You get up off your knees and start walking towards them, through those gates, leaving this world behind, and entering into a new and eternal life. And this is what you hear:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6OQCncAiC8

[zil]

7 hours ago, askandanswer said:

This is the music that I would like to hear being sung as I walk through the pearly gates into the Celestial Kingdom.

Except sung by MoTab.

[NightSG]

10 hours ago, askandanswer said:

I’ve got a new favourite piece of music. It’s the overture from Wagner’s Tannhauser. This is the music that I would like to hear being sung as I walk through the pearly gates into the Celestial Kingdom.

Nah.  

 

[mirkwood]

 

[askandanswer]

4 hours ago, NightSG said:

Nah.  

 

Nah - this would be for a waltz through the pearly gates, not a walk

[NightSG]

On 11/25/2016 at 5:41 PM, askandanswer said:

Nah - this would be for a waltz through the pearly gates, not a walk

Uh...that's a two step.

[askandanswer]

surely that depends on how close the gates are?

[Guest]

Any fans of Townes Van Zandt or Doug Sahm / Sir Douglas Quintet out there?

There is a reason I live in Texas.

(Or, if you want to be trendier, you could go Waylon Jennings / Willie Nelson).

 

[zil]

Free music, should anyone want it:

Blues, instrumental: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XHZB4NZ/

Country-ish: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XHYY451

Bluegrass: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C6MPTT2/

(But it will only be free for a while - eventually these things either disappear or they start charging for them.)

[cdowis]

On 4/23/2017 at 0:04 AM, zil said:

Free music, should anyone want it:

Blues, instrumental: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XHZB4NZ/

Country-ish: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XHYY451

Bluegrass: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C6MPTT2/

(But it will only be free for a while - eventually these things either disappear or they start charging for them.)

It is "free" for Amazon Prime members.

[zil]

4 hours ago, cdowis said:

It is "free" for Amazon Prime members.

I am not an Amazon Prime member.  They were free the day I posted.  They must have changed (as I warned) some time thereafter.  Sorry for the disappointment. 

[Blackmarch]

I"m liking this guy's instrumental stuff. (not so much his other works tho)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KNuo72QuYk

 

[Guest]

This morning, I was listening to the Jayhawks and the Drive By Truckers on the way to work.  I really enjoy both bands (and alternative country, as opposed to mainstream country music, in general) - they remind me of growing up in small-town West Texas, going to various festivals, and seeing "rock" bands with far more country influence than they would care to admit perform.

Edited May 24, 2017 by DoctorLemon

[Blueskye2]

I like it all. Though country pop will get on my nerves in short order. 

Rag and Bone Man

Kaleo

Two new discoveries for me. 

 

Edited May 25, 2017 by Blueskye2

[Blueskye2]

On 4/22/2017 at 4:36 PM, DoctorLemon said:

Any fans of Townes Van Zandt or Doug Sahm / Sir Douglas Quintet out there?

There is a reason I live in Texas.

(Or, if you want to be trendier, you could go Waylon Jennings / Willie Nelson).

 

Waylon and Willie are standard goto.

[Guest]

Music I have been listening to today: Reckless Kelly, Moonsorrow, Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard, Ensiferum, Mac Davis.

You don't meet too many people in both the alternative country and metal crowds! At the same time! 

(I also have a budding interest in Reggae music as well, but that is a different story).

Edited June 10, 2017 by DoctorLemon

[Guest Godless]

17 minutes ago, DoctorLemon said:

 Ensiferum

YAAASSS! My favorite Scandinavian metal band!

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, Godless said:

YAAASSS! My favorite Scandinavian metal band!

When it comes to Viking Metal, I tend to prefer stuff like Moonsorrow and Kampfar - stuff with a black metal base rather than death metal.

That still does not stop me from regularly listening to melodic death metal, such as Ensiferum and Amon Amarth, or even Power Metal, such as Rhapsody and Elvenking.

Edited June 10, 2017 by DoctorLemon

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, Godless said:

YAAASSS! My favorite Scandinavian metal band!

The cool thing about this music is it is the heaviest metal imaginable, yet perfectly clean lyrically!  The perfect kind of music for a good Mormon boy with an ever so slight wild streak.

[Guest Godless]

2 hours ago, DoctorLemon said:

When it comes to Viking Metal, I tend to prefer stuff like Moonsorrow and Kampfar - stuff with a black metal base rather than death metal.

That still does not stop me from regularly listening to melodic death metal, such as Ensiferum and Amon Amarth, or even Power Metal, such as Rhapsody and Elvenking.

Are you familiar with Korpiklaani? Great melodic viking metal, and probably my second favorite in the genre after Ensiferum. I just recently started getting into power metal. I'm a punk rocker first and foremost, so my metal IQ isn't great. So far I'm really digging Iced Earth, Hammerfall, and 3 Inches of Blood. 

[Guest]

51 minutes ago, Godless said:

Are you familiar with Korpiklaani? Great melodic viking metal, and probably my second favorite in the genre after Ensiferum. I just recently started getting into power metal. I'm a punk rocker first and foremost, so my metal IQ isn't great. So far I'm really digging Iced Earth, Hammerfall, and 3 Inches of Blood. 

Do I know Korpiklaani, he asks?  Do birds sing?  Does the sun shine?  I LOVE Korpiklaani!

I am also very familiar with Iced Earth and Hammerfall, though I am not familiar with 3 inches of blood.

Other favorites of mine include Einherjer, Rhapsody, Alestorm, Waylander, Falkenbach, Wolfchant, Heidevolk, and Equilibrium.

We will have to pull @MormonGator into this conversation!

I used to like punk, but Good Charlotte kind of ruined it for me.  (No offense if you are, in fact, a Good Charlotte fan!)

I remember going to see Jimmy Eat World live, before they got popular.

Edited June 10, 2017 by DoctorLemon

[Guest Godless]

18 minutes ago, DoctorLemon said:

Do I know Korpiklaani, he asks?  Do birds sing?  Does the sun shine?  I LOVE Korpiklaani!

I am also very familiar with Iced Earth and Hammerfall, though I am not familiar with 3 inches of blood.

Other favorites of mine include Einherjer, Rhapsody, Alestorm, Waylander, Falkenbach, Wolfchant, Heidevolk, and Equilibrium.

We will have to pull @MormonGator into this conversation!

I used to like punk, but Good Charlotte kind of ruined it for me.  (No offense if you are, in fact, a Good Charlotte fan!)

I remember going to see Jimmy Eat World live, before they got popular.

I like Alestorm and Falkenbach as well. I'm not familiar with the rest. 

Funny story about Good Charlotte. They're from Waldorf, MD, so they were a local sensation when I was a freshman in high school. Everyone loved them. One of my friends was one of the original "GC Girls". I started getting into more traditional punk like Bad Religion and Pennywise around the time GC started getting nationwide airtime. A lot of people hated them for going mainstream. I just hated them because I had outgrown that bubblegum punk sound in favor of SoCal skate punk (and later East Coast hardcore as I started really exploring the local scene). 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Godless said:

I like Alestorm and Falkenbach as well. I'm not familiar with the rest. 

Funny story about Good Charlotte. They're from Waldorf, MD, so they were a local sensation when I was a freshman in high school. Everyone loved them. One of my friends was one of the original "GC Girls". I started getting into more traditional punk like Bad Religion and Pennywise around the time GC started getting nationwide airtime. A lot of people hated them for going mainstream. I just hated them because I had outgrown that bubblegum punk sound in favor of SoCal skate punk (and later East Coast hardcore as I started really exploring the local scene). 

I always liked Operation Ivy.  Most of my exposure to punk from my teenage years would probably qualify as pop-punk (e.g. MXPX, the Offspring, Green Day, Blink 182) and some of the really old stuff (e.g. the Clash, the Stooges, the Ramones).  And there is always Nirvana.  

I STILL like albums from right where punk evolved into New Wave (e.g. Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Blondie's Eat to the Beat, the Cars self titled, the early works of Nick Lowe and Joe Jackson).  I feel that New Wave generally became less and less interesting the farther it got from its punk roots.

I have always found pop punk to be self contradictory.  I mean, isn't the whole point of punk NOT to be pop?  

I know very little about hardcore punk and would not be conversant in it, although I could have sworn I had a Pennywise album at one time.

Edited June 11, 2017 by DoctorLemon

[Guest MormonGator]

15 hours ago, DoctorLemon said:

I always liked Operation Ivy.  Most of my exposure to punk from my teenage years would probably qualify as pop-punk (e.g. MXPX, the Offspring, Green Day, Blink 182) and some of the really old stuff (e.g. the Clash, the Stooges, the Ramones).  And there is always Nirvana.  

I STILL like albums from right where punk evolved into New Wave (e.g. Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Blondie's Eat to the Beat, the Cars self titled, the early works of Nick Lowe and Joe Jackson).  I feel that New Wave generally became less and less interesting the farther it got from its punk roots.

I have always found pop punk to be self contradictory.  I mean, isn't the whole point of punk NOT to be pop?  

I know very little about hardcore punk and would not be conversant in it, although I could have sworn I had a Pennywise album at one time.

I grew up in a small New England town before the internet. I was stuck with what was on the D-list local rock station. Think hair bands. Don't get me wrong, I love hair bands, but that was basically it. Aerosmith, Kiss, Guns and Roses, Poison, Motley Crue. 

 My first exposure to punk was the Ramones when I found It's Alive on cassette tape. It's odd, but I forget where I found it. My life changed at that moment. I know it sounds melodramatic, but it's true. I began to look outside of mainstream radio for my music tastes. I immediately got into the bands you mentioned (Clash, Green Day, Dead Kennedys, Pistols).

When my family got cable I stumbled across headbangers ball with Matt Pinfield. Metal became my new god (little g). I remember listening to Peace Sells from Megadeth and feeling like it was created just for me. It was like the guys from Megadeth were reading my mind. 

I think in high school we all get into local bands. For me, it was Boston based ska. Letters to Cleo, Mighty Mighty Boss Tones, Bim Skala Bim, Dropkick Murphys. I saw all those bands live so many times. 

 

Great posts guys. Loved reading them. 

[Guest]

Been listening to early Soundgarden lately.  Nice, sludgy metal.  I think Soundgarden may actually be my favorite grunge band... certainly better and more purely grunge than Pearl Jam and Nirvana, both of which are way too mainstream for my tastes.