Post by: Sean Smith on March 08, 2005, 01:00:05 PM
WIMPY can cover alot of ground. The criteria is that YOU think it is wimpy, AND YOU STILL LIKE IT in spite of yourself. Maybe it is a boo-hoo ballad, or a musical style associated with drag queens.
To give us some background, describe the kind music you normally listen to.
Guess I have to go first:
I normally listen to classic rock/hard rock/heavy metal. Examples: Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Metallica.
So my wimpy song or group is... "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran. A wussy ballad by Limey pretty boys. Where did I go wrong? :shock:
Post by: Wingshooter on March 08, 2005, 01:15:02 PM
I usually listen to harder(ish) rock: Korn, Sevendust, Skillet, Chevelle, etc... or classical depending on my mood and concentration level.
My wimpy music is electronica/club music. I like the tempo and it's mindless music that isn't distracting to me when I'm at the gym, running, or riding my bicycle.
Post by: Black92LX on March 08, 2005, 01:20:46 PM
An example would be The Luckiest by Ben Folds. I like a lot of stuff like that.
Post by: Unisaw on March 08, 2005, 01:44:12 PM
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Post by: spacemanspiff on March 08, 2005, 02:24:10 PM
heres some of my 'softer' selections
shakira
vanessa carlton
tori amos
something about women that write their own music and can actually play instruments just does something for me.
i also put on some of the 'string quartet tributes' to such bands as nine inch nails, tool, soad (the music without the political tripe!), and a few others, i cant recall.
also some of the motion picture soundtracks, like to Gladiator, Hero, Troy, Black Hawk Down, and a few others.
but usually i listen to stuff like slipknot, stone sour, mudvayne, mushroomhead, AIC, megadeth, and soundgarden.
in fact, the first hard rock/metal album i ever bought was soundgardens 'badmotorfinger'. saw the video to 'jesus christ pose' and i just had to hear more.
Someone let the dogs out
they'll show you where the truth is
the grass is always greener
where the dogs are shedding
I'm feeling that i'm sober
even though i'm drinking
i can't get any lower
still i feel i'm sinking
So now you know
who gets mystified
so now you know
who gets mystified
Show me the power child, i'd like to say
that i'm down on my knees today
it gives me the butterflies, gives me away
til i'm up on my feet again
I'm feeling
im feeling
outshined, outshined, outshined
Post by: jamz on March 08, 2005, 02:34:45 PM
I like listeing to "air" - imagine electronic elevator music performed by a buncha frenchmen.
*jamz hides in shame*
-Love, James
Post by: Iain on March 08, 2005, 02:37:02 PM
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Post by: Wildalaska on March 08, 2005, 03:37:58 PM
WildanddorisdayAlaska
Post by: macavada on March 08, 2005, 03:40:09 PM
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Post by: macavada on March 08, 2005, 03:57:41 PM
I guess I'm getting too old.
Post by: Modifiedbrowning on March 08, 2005, 04:02:08 PM
As far as current wimpy music goes I like some songs by Coldplay.
Oh yeah, Neil Diamond (earlier music) is awesome.
Post by: PlayTheAces on March 08, 2005, 04:11:40 PM
When there's nobody around though, I've been known to toss Harry Belafonte's greatest hits on the CD and really, really crank that dude. There's just something about rattling the windows with Day O.
Post by: Guest on March 08, 2005, 04:32:57 PM
Also Lobo " Me and you and a dog named blue".
Post by: Dannyboy on March 08, 2005, 05:09:55 PM
Post by: Guest on March 08, 2005, 05:32:17 PM
Some folks really came down hard on me and some others for liking them.
Understand I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show - the hecklers had not been born yet. Umm - not real sure some of their parents were.
Post by: jefnvk on March 08, 2005, 06:05:45 PM
Post by: Chuck Jennings on March 08, 2005, 06:11:15 PM
Enya
George Winston
Haydn String Quartets
Classical guitar music (usually Bach transcriptions)
Post by: Mabs2 on March 08, 2005, 06:40:04 PM
IE: Elton John, Grateful Dead, and America might be soft rock to you, but they jam for me...but of course, they're not the hardest I listen to. Zeppelin, AC/DC, and ZZ Top do quite a bit of jamming. So do Skynyrd and Blackfoot.
But for the softest music...I'd have to say...uh...Mandy Moore?
Post by: Old Fud on March 08, 2005, 07:36:04 PM
The best of Eddie Arnold.
Post by: jrob24 on March 08, 2005, 07:47:27 PM
Post by: mephisto on March 08, 2005, 08:08:11 PM
Bee Gees
Post by: Unisaw on March 08, 2005, 08:11:09 PM
Is that Zamfir, master of the pan flute?
Post by: Sindawe on March 08, 2005, 09:00:58 PM
Chill out tunes for me (at least on CD) are is Lorrena McKennet's The Visit, or the Chill-Out stream on www.di.fm
Post by: BillBlank on March 09, 2005, 12:19:31 AM
I listen to all the classic rock, modern stuff like Soil, S'garden, GnR etc, jethro tull, steeleye span and lots of other folky stuff and a lot of good classical on VINYL. Neil Diamond rocks, his double live album from the late sixties is genius. Nothing to be ashamed of there. All makes for a few puzzled glances if I stretch the legs on the system in the car, Wagner followed by cypress hill "pigs" anyone?
Imagine the laughter from my other half when she found four madonna albums tucked away in a corner :oops: . She has not found the Barry White yet, his version of "don't go changing" is being dragged out for my wedding, makes me cry like a baby when I hear that song. Soppy fellow at heart me.
Post by: kfranz on March 09, 2005, 05:44:23 AM
Post by: Mabs2 on March 09, 2005, 09:03:38 AM
Air Supply.
I guess that's mine too. o_O
Post by: crt360 on March 09, 2005, 09:24:07 AM
Post by: Kharn on March 09, 2005, 02:49:07 PM
Kharn
Post by: Bogie on March 09, 2005, 03:18:50 PM
NO DISCO.
I'll listen to old rap (lived in a football dorm through the early eighties - get me drunk, and on painkillers, with some buds, and I can step...), cryin' country, and even my Dad's opera, but I do not deal with anything you can shake your booty to.
Also like the rat pack, a lot of blues, old (and some new...) jazz, the more rockin' big bands, and rock and roll from the days of when FM radio was REALLY FM radio, and not a glorified corporate top-40 machine.
And a while back I more or less vowed to ignore every "musician" under the age of 30...
And then Joss Stone's voice slapped me across the face.
Post by: JAlexander on March 10, 2005, 06:37:14 AM
James
Post by: Taurus on March 10, 2005, 06:47:01 AM
Post by: Sean Smith on March 10, 2005, 06:49:55 AM
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WIMPY can cover alot of ground. The criteria is that YOU think it is wimpy, AND YOU STILL LIKE IT in spite of yourself. Maybe it is a boo-hoo ballad, or a musical style associated with drag queens.
Post by: mfree on March 10, 2005, 07:01:08 AM
Well, I enjoyed Keen right up until I realized that every time I listened to them I got depressed because i listened to them during the worst of the breakup with the ex. Ruined it. The jewel case now resides in a box somewhere, I'll shoot it someday.
I like Air. That's been covered before. French techno just... it's wierd. If there's one thing the French can do it's make smooth things, and smooth music appeals to me.
Muse. Big one. European alternative band. Dude sounds like a cabaret singer, but the music's complex, great guitar work, lots of "feeling". Can't get it out of my head sometimes.
Actually, the only music i really abhor is anything with cheesy late 70's-early 80's square wave synth, overtly fake drums, and anything by Big and Rich or Gretchen Wilson. Ex'es favorites,'nuff said.
Post by: johnster999 on March 10, 2005, 10:31:59 AM
Post by: Wedge on March 10, 2005, 11:32:57 AM
Oh yeah...wimpiest is probably Erasure. I like them.
Post by: Kor on March 10, 2005, 06:12:48 PM
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And then Joss Stone's voice slapped me across the face.
Hey, Bogie - count me as a new Joss Stone fan, too! I caught her on Austin City Limits, and just had to buy her DVD. Never thought a teenage Brit whitegirl could bust chops like that - Quentin Tarantino should have her on the soundtrack of his next movie. If you close your eyes, you'd swear you were hearing a classic Philly Soul act...
Oh, as far as "wimpy" music...I've been known to hum along to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Boublil/Schonberg showtunes. :oops: I'm also a James Taylor fan, and I've been to one of his concerts where a mosh pit formed in front of the stage. :shock:
Post by: ...has left the building. on March 12, 2005, 04:47:02 PM
Just kidding! Really the absolute wimpiest music on the planet is Emo and I listen to some of it like Dashboard Confessional every now and then.
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Post by: Para2 on March 13, 2005, 07:31:57 AM
However "The Sundays" especially "Here's where the story ends" can stop me in my tracks and have me listening closed eyed and open mouthed to what must be nearly the perfect human voice.
Post by: Winston Smith on March 13, 2005, 08:04:40 AM
Erm... Peter Gabriel...
*blush*
Post by: atek3 on March 13, 2005, 08:08:46 AM
atek3
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Post by: Hypnogator on March 13, 2005, 04:18:56 PM
Otherwise, mostly Country-Western and Western (Cowboy).
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Post by: Chris Rhines on March 14, 2005, 05:54:26 PM
Enya, Enigma, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Phillip Glass from time to time...
I'll even own up to listening to Emo once in a while.
- Chris
Post by: Guest on March 15, 2005, 02:28:24 AM
My buds also give me hell for occasionally listening to The Postal Service and Her Space Holiday.
Post by: ...has left the building. on March 15, 2005, 07:14:50 AM
Post by: Iain on March 15, 2005, 01:42:51 PM
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well, I don't listen to any BAD music. Probably the 'easiest listening' music I listen to would be The Shins. If you haven't, I suggest you check them out, they are fantastic.
My buds also give me hell for occasionally listening to The Postal Service and Her Space Holiday.
Zach Braff's apparent obsession with The Shins turned me on to them.My buds also give me hell for occasionally listening to The Postal Service and Her Space Holiday.
After watching Garden State I spent two days singing 'Only living boy in New York' (S+G)
Appreciate that this runs counter to the point of the thread, but I love 'Lua' by Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst) and several other songs on that album.
Post by: sven on March 15, 2005, 03:26:56 PM
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I feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach
The dead man on the beach
I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach
The dead man on the beach
I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab
Post by: Waitone on March 16, 2005, 04:49:41 AM
I marvel at the man's diction. Wish I had his verbal skills.
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Post by: aguyindallas on March 16, 2005, 07:02:33 AM
Wimpy, well, heck, I really dont know. I do like some songs by Dido that some would consider wimpy. I just love music....
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