What Kind of Music Do You Like?
There's not much action in the Music section of MovieChat, so if we can get revved up about music š¶ here, it might create more traffic there. After all, music is our most powerful art form. It jacks straight into our central nervous system. It's the universal language. Movies use music to create our moods. Music is the Queen of the arts, just as mathematics is the Queen of the sciences--and they are two different ways of expressing the same principles: balance, harmony and proportion.
What do I like? I can find works that I like in virtually every category, except HipHop. What I like most is Hard Rock and Hard Classical: Joni Hendrix, Queen, Stones, Zeppelin, The Who and Cream for the former; Wagner, Dvorak, Beethoven Puccini and Vivaldi for the latter. I also enjoy cool '60s jazz. My favorite singer--and by a huge margin--is Eva Cassidy. Do yourself a favor and give her a listen. Unknown while alive, she's sold over 13 million albums posthumously as, on their own, fans one by one discovered her staggering talent. Start with her album, Eva Cassidy Live at Blues Alley.
Two other albums you might enjoy, in that they put two very popular artists in two very surprising settings: If I Can Dream, which has Elvis Presley singing some of his greatest hits remixed in front of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Cheek To Cheek, with Tony Bennett singing Gershwin tunes in duet with Lady Gaga! Rock on!