Music I like to listen to
Created: 2014-12-20
Status: draft
This was originally written as an answer to the Quora question “What music does Issa Rice listen to?”
I mostly listen to mainstream Western music from a few decades back: Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Velvet Underground (roughly in that order). I’ve also fairly recently discovered Fishmans, Sidi Touré, Detektivbyrån, Jean Michel Jarre, Jean-Luc Ponty, mostly through my father.
I also like some simple Japanese songs like ゴンドラの唄 (Gondola no Uta), Aogeba Tōtoshi and 赤とんぼ (童謡) (Red Dragonfly). I also like João Gilberto’s Chega De Saudade (even though I’ve never bothered to look up any of the lyrics) and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Stone Flower.
I do sometimes wonder why I don’t listen as much to Japanese music. It may be that since I’ve spent all my teenage years (when I first got interested in listening to music) in the US, my musical tastes were influenced that way.
I’m open to suggestions (e.g. sometimes Kristin Lie will show me a song), but I feel I’ve mostly discovered what I like, so I don’t spend time actively searching for new things to listen to. Finding more Japanese songs I like would be especially nice though.
I should also mention that I can go for long periods (weeks) without listening to any music. It might just be that my collection is so small I get bored of it quickly, but can come back to it after some amount of time has passed.
Some others:
- “Dream A Little Dream of Me”—Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day
- Taylor Swift—“Blank Space”, “22”, “Back to December”, “The Way I Loved You”, “Forever and Always”, “Ours”, “Red”, “Our Song”
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