and the original recording from the album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyNBrnzvXVU&feature=related

I wouldn't worry about it, Bruce. Yes, Björk is quite popular -she sells a lot of CDs- but she is certainly not to everyone's fancy... and one can definitely understand why.

The CD to avoid at all costs is Gling-Gló, her "jazz" album dating from 1990, three years before her official debut album, called (appropriately) Debut.

All but two of the songs are sung in Icelandic (that could be a good thing), but the sound of her voice is utterly past bearing, all the appeal of a temperamental, screeching child at the local mall.

No thank-you.

Knuckles O'Toole and the Gang

Sorry mate, we'll have to agree to disagree!

Anyone heard of Unexpect? Certainly the most technical and diverse music I've ever heard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Lpds1P6sg

I have listened to their In a Flesh Aquarium one hundred times and there is still new things to discover.

Right. We Bjork fans are all just into garbage. Nice explanation, really simple one, too...

Funny you should say that, wr. I thought about mentioning Garbage too, some of their work was truly impressive (super-slick production values, lush "wall of sound" effect, etc.) but interesting productive output lasted only a few years. Björk seems to have better staying power and a pretty grand long-term vision.

BruceD, many people feel the same about many contemporary (20th century - present) "artists" whether music composers or, say, painters or sculpters. In fact, I often feel that way. But it's possible that I haven't heard or seen work of theirs which would appeal to me, I may not be "deep enough to get it", or it's possible that they're just not to my liking in general. So I refrain from declaiming all such work worthless.

We, the great unwashed, do deeply appreciate the sharing here in the fora of authoritative, all-encompassing judgement of what's good and worthy and what's not.

Kool and the Gang!

Steven

smashing pumpkins

Guilty pleasures?

I seem to like the lion's share mentioned so far, and bagpipe music (I am of Irish and Scottish heritage on my mum's side of the family). Though I have been listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider and Chilliwack in my mp3 player as well.

- Mark

OK, so this is what you like to do in your spare time, but what about music you like to listen to?

(- Society for Prevention of Violence to Vegetables)

Boira - great list of symphonic metal bands, I learned more from you than already knew ;-)

You can add in that genre "Almora" a Turkish metal band. Best harmony in 17ths (bass-soprano) I've heard for long time - in '1945'.

Also (older rock with symphonic links):
- Procol Harum (mostly known for 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' but I delight in 'Repent Walpurgis')
- Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, ELP, Mike Oldfield, Scorpions
- metal like ManOWar, Ozzy Osborne...

If I feel 'guilty' of some music, it would be ABBA and Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus' continuations (Chess, Kristina fran Duvemala, Helen Sjoholm, BAO!). Now feels back cheesy-popular with the release of Mamma Mia ! the movie (can you imagine Meryl Streep sing soulfully ? yes, she does!).
And their like (girl harmony): A la Carte, Maywood, Pussycat... and most Swedish country/dansband.

Couldn't agree more!

I barely recognized a few band names here and there...
I strongly recommend Yann Tiersen, he's really very good, he usually writes instrumental music, but he did a few soundtracks (amelie poulain, goodbye lenin for example)

For non-classical music, I'm more on the alternative rock side, i'm not sure it's called alternative, but it's that light, smart music you don't get fed up with after a few loops:
massive attack, muse, arctic monkeys, noir desir are just a few

My really[/b] guilty pleasure is Lacuna coil, an italian metal band with a cute lead singer who write absolute crap but for some reason i still like them (that some reason being a long story involving a crush on an italian girl back in high school :p )

Never heard of them before, but I'll search for some of their CD's.

I love these posts, you always get to know new music and make great discoveries

Sorry, double post.

Triple post! Somebody stop me, I'm out of control.

nice!