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Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 11:57:14 AM   
Missokyst


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Status: offline 		Ok I will say it up front, I detest the holiday season. It will inevidibly bring on the blues for me from just before Thanksgiving till sometime after the new year. And before you say anything, yes I have done the volunteer thing, yes I do give to charities, and I have even served dinners at homeless shelters in the past, I still do not like the holidays.

So, I was feeling like a bit of music and went searching in my 90 something Gig of music files, for Dolly Parton's "Hard Candy Christmas", which is one of my favorite country tunes for feeding the blue fire. And I realised that all my favorite bluesy type of songs were almost all sung by women. Norah Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Reba McIntire, Stevie Nicks, Janis... all belting out tunes that sing to my soul. But in 90 gig.. dang I have a lot of music... the songs I mostly choose when I am just wanting to get things done or when I want to kick up my heels are sung by men.
Oh there are a few exceptions, some rock songs can be remarkably compelling, especially in classic rock.

Do you find you favor one sex or the other when you want to indulge in any given mood?




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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 12:08:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yep, I like to listen to Dolly Parton when I'm in the mood to think about boobs.

I tend to listen to classic rock, mostly guy vocals, when I need to do chores. Something about the irony of rockin' to Aerosmith Hot Blooded when I'm cleaning dishes cracks me up.

When I'm looking for blues, I also go for guys - from the 20's and 30's with incomprehensible gravel voices. But when I'm looking to feel kinda sorry for my silly ass, I go more for female blues singers. I can understand the lyrics, so I can wallow in my emotions for a while.

And when I want sheer vocal beauty, I am almost always listening to women.

Interesting. Hadn't thought of music like that before.

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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 12:42:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Now that I really sit down and think about it, there are no female vocalists I search out at all.

In fact, the only two female singers I pay attention to are Emmylou Harris, for her work with Seger and Conor Oberst, and Mary Elizabeth Mcgwynn, for her work with Akira Yamaoka.

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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 1:25:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Only to the extent that I favour men because I have a lot more records by people who piss standing up* than by women.
Do you think that by applying certain vibes to gender you might be stereotyping a bit? There's plenty of bluesy torch songs by guys, to pick one example you've suggested. "Angel" and "Castles Made Of Sand" by the late Jimmi Hendrix spring to mind for a start.

*(and the late Curtis Mayfield, who couldn't piss standing up after that lighting rig fell on his head and put him in a wheelchair)

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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 2:07:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmmm, I don't think I would call this stereotyping, really. I have both a "thinking" and a "feeling" response to music. The thinking side might respond with "oh, wow, it's really amazing the way this rapper applies subtle nuance to describing how he smacks his ho", while the feeling part may be screaming, "Yeah! That's the way you do it!" lol. I'm going to have a different emotional response to this music depending on whether the artist is a man or a woman. Or Justin Bieber, since I can't tell which way to go an that one.

More to the point, I might watch some operatic Romeo dressed in silly duds singing his precious little heart out about his lost love, but some buried stereotype filter in my primitive brain keeps thinking, "Yeah, this is tragic and all, but will somebody just smack this wanker, buy him some real clothes, and tell him to grow a spine?". But when the beautiful Juliette walks out just to find that the wimp she fell for offed himself, I am somehow more sympathetic to her grief and more emotionally involved in the aria. Is it really stereotyping, or just emotional response that correlates to other life experience male vs female (mommy vs daddy, nurturing vs conquering, what have you) associations?

Perhaps sex-linked emotional response to music is kind of like (for me) the way that certain smells can inexplicably bring back vivid memories. Guess I have some stuff to ponder...

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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 2:11:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Lawdy, lawdy...music and my moods.,,

When in heat/feeling slutty, Cousteau Your Day Will Come http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YXU5Ma0HYU

LeAnn Rimes Got Nothing Better to Do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Xq31DqqMM

Rascal Flatts Bob that Head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LuLaVtLaDc

When tenderly passionate, Maria Callas O mio Babino Caro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6bSrGbak1g&feature=related

When wistful or heartbroken, Oleta Adams Get Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-CtBBcMgsY&feature=fvst

Eva Cassidy's Fields of Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwDYBWEDSc

Autumn Leaves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXYu-3r1S8

Billy Joel And So it Goes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHO6a2H-pqY&ob=av2e

Janis Ian Love is Blind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqTEh7IAhYI

Belle of the Blues http://mp3-music.su/?q=Janis+Ian# Scroll down to the song title and open

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbvcp480Y4

When I want to clean, Peter Allen Rio de Janiero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJazlXy0dEA&feature=related

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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 2:33:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh yeah. There are a few guys that can hit my blues cues without too much effort. I keep Three Dog Night's "God bless the child" on my phone (but also love Billie Holiday's version). And it has been a while since I heard Hendrix, but as I recally Castles was evocative. But for me there are more female singers whose vocals are heart twisting than I find in males. That may be a sexist view I know.
I considered it might be because I am female.
Most of my music that is just for fun are male dominated.

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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 2:40:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice list! I love Autumn Leaves and am glad you reminded me of it, it has to be somewhere in that big drive.


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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 2:44:30 PM   
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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 3:51:52 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Missokyst

Nice list! I love Autumn Leaves and am glad you reminded me of it, it has to be somewhere in that big drive.



Glad you enjoyed it, Misso.

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RE: Music ponderings - 12/23/2011 4:08:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have never thought about music in the way of male voice or female voice, when I am looking for specific music to listen too. I've always been interested in the lyrics or the beat / rhythum of the music, sometimes both depending on My mood.

Now that I am thinking of it, females vocalists that usually make My playlists time after time are Cristina Scabbia and Amy Lee. I like their voices, but its the lyrics and music that I am drawn to.

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