Your Music??

[Voronwen]

Originally Posted by Aeryn

What is everyone's favorite kinds of music? (please include at least 3 bands and at least 2 known songs)

I've gone on at length here about my favorite classical music, but i love other music, too...

The Moody Blues are probably my favorite band of all time. I'm especially enamored of their "Core 7" period - 1967 to 1972. It's before my time, but this music is just so timeless and amazing. Best-known song: Nights in White Satin. The stuff they wrote after 1972 i can mostly take or leave, but the core 7 albums will blow you away. My Dad introduced me to them when i was a kid, and i was hooked for life. It's notoriously hard among their fans to pick a favorite album among the core 7. I can't do it, personally(?!), but if i really had to pick one, it'd be Seventh Sojourn. ETA - If anyone wants to explore "Core 7"-era Moody Blues, i strongly suggest first getting This Is The Moody Blues - it's a compilation of some of the very best of that era.

Nights in White Satin video (isn't that place just beautiful!?!)


I also love anything Celtic, most notably Enya and Loreena McKennitt. They just have so much music that i'll name albums instead of songs - It's so hard to pick favorites, but for Enya i'd have to go with The Memory of Trees and Amarantine, and for Loreena McKennitt i'd go with The Visit and The Mask and Mirror. There are so many great songs on all of their others though, too. I'd rather make my own playlists of all my favorites and then just let them run randomly - which is what i usually do.