Mike Fletcher
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Carlos Santana picks a mean string!
Music that makes woodworking impossible
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Mike_Maple
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Love Genesis myself, anything up to and including the album 'Duke' is just fine by me. However I'm getting into King Crimson (particularly 'I Talk to the Wind') thanks to recommendations from my 19 year old nephew!
On the Classical side, may I add a Pie Jesu for your delectation?
On the Classical side, may I add a Pie Jesu for your delectation?
Andrewf
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I find music or radio distracting when working. However fired up Spotify whilst clearing out the shed and the first track was oh bandage, up yours by xray specs. Which resulted in going down the rabbit hole of 70s Punk.
thetyreman
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Tris
What am I doing here?
Loving this thread, it's really cheered me up. Thanks Rob
I'll add a few more if I may
I'll add a few more if I may
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thetyreman
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thetyreman
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I couldn't listen to this while doing woodwork - but for totally different reasons to other suggestions.
@thetyreman Love the Scandinavian folk. It made me think of this lovely piece by The Budapest Cafe Orchestra:
A group I love seeing live.
A group I love seeing live.
thetyreman
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I don't know if I should be embarrassed by my choices after seeing some of the excellent samples above. I love all music except Rap (it has a silent C to me). 99% of the time I will be listening to an audiobook but sometimes the book finishes near the end of the day and it's not worth starting a new one so I might put some music on. So the ones that will stop me from concentrating I can think of are Firestarter by The Prodigy, Channel Four's original version of the Big Brother theme by Element Four and Binary Finary - 1999.
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@Doris I love Genesis. I grew up with their music as they were my elder brother's favourite band.
For me the "Can't do woodwork and listen" Genesis track is Blood on the Rooftops from the Wind and Wuthering album:
The Steve Hackett (who wrote the tack and whose guitar playing is so integral to the original) post-Gensis version is great too:
For me the "Can't do woodwork and listen" Genesis track is Blood on the Rooftops from the Wind and Wuthering album:
The Steve Hackett (who wrote the tack and whose guitar playing is so integral to the original) post-Gensis version is great too:
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Those are great choices. Firestarter is fabulous. I don't know the Big Brother theme.
As for Rap - I was very much of the same opinion, but I'm mellowing. I now even own an rap album ... and it qualifies as I don't think I could safely do woodwork while listening:
I've not listened to Wind and Wuthering before. I felt that after Peter Gabriel left Genesis went kind of flat for me with their lyrics so that's probably why I haven't listened to it. A Trick of the Tail had some good tracks on it but not as good as some of the tracks on previous albums.
That's not a bad track though you've posted up though
Continuing the Genesis theme, this is Peter Gabriels "Here comes the Flood" from Robert Fripp's 1979 album Exposure.
Gabriel apparently wasn't a huge fan of the production on the original album, preferring a more stripped down version.
Plus this way I get to maintain a connection to King Crimson lol
Gabriel apparently wasn't a huge fan of the production on the original album, preferring a more stripped down version.
Plus this way I get to maintain a connection to King Crimson lol
For me, my favourite Genesis albums are around the breakup (Lamb lies down..., Trick of the Tail, Wind & Wuthering, And Then There Were Three). I also love Gabriel's first album after the break up. That is hugely influenced by that being the time I was most listening to Genesis (late 70s). For me it feels like the breakup actually fueled great music.
For me it's Duke that marks the point when Genesis started changing into a different band. Not that I don't still like later Genesis (and the Phil Collins albums that sort of fit the same genre), but nowhere near how much I like the pre-Duke music.
I also like that they morphed and changed over time. I don't want to follow bands that plow out the same music for decades at a time (<cough>Status Quo</cough>). And with modern recording it is not as if their earlier stuff is lost when they move on to new music. I think it is good that early Genesis is different to later Genesis. That's more music to listen to, and less same ole, same ole.
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