What Music Are You Listening to Now or Your Favourite Songs of All Time

I've a 23reg Honda Jazz Crosstar. No CD player, but it will accept USB sticks.
So I've different genre files and several play lists.

For some reason Honda decided, this modest looking small saloon, needed two speakers in each of the front doors, one in each of the rear doors, one in the middle of the top of the dashboard and a bass speaker in the boot.
It will play very loud with no distortion.
I don't really play it loud, if I play music at all, but if I'm in a queue of traffic at the lights and there's a young person next to me in the adjacent lane, playing very loudly what seems to be a very popular recording amongst them, I believe it's called, "Boom Tish! Boom Tish! Boom Tish!"

I might put this on... loud. (I've actually a copy in one of my two vinyl jukeboxes).



Or maybe a bit of "old fashioned" modern jazz.



The record I mentioned earlier "Meet Me on the Corner," has sort of got into my head. It sometimes happens, so I decided I'd learn to play it. Complicated, for me, as "Musicnotes" where you can download sheet music of popular tunes for about a fiver, unsurprisingly doesn't have it. You can find sites that will give you the chord tabs, but in my opinion they are often wrong, so for some tunes like this I work them out for myself to play on this.





This will keep me busy today, with golf, football and tennis on TV to watch.
Fortunately, no work in the garden is needed today. It wouldn't get done if there were.

 

I missed all of the Beatles because i was young when they split up, but got to know them later.

 

They're a bit Marmite.
I've the "Please, Please, Me" album. It's in the loft. I bought it as a present for my young new wife when it was issued as I thought she might like it, she didn't, I didn't like them I guess because their early recordings were covers of MoTown artists recordings. I've no other recordings of the Beatles anywhere.

But I do like this.

 

@rodentraiser I do the same: blast my radio when I'm driving, but it's a Rock station I listen to. One of our city cops told me, since there are three people in town that have the same car as me, same color and all, he always knows it's me because he can hear me coming !!

 

This morning I decided to teach myself to play Lindisfarne's "Meet me on the corner." Bit difficult as I couldn't find the sheet music (free) on-line.
So I busked it.
https://app.box.com/file/1999643908112?s=osuks2v4gf5kxzrcc2uaxq3ryanseb9t

I do this sometimes with tunes that get into my head, but then usually hardly ever play them again.

 

" I could have been in Paris."

I had to do a bit of shopping this morning in our local small town. It has one main road through it, which is pedestrianised. We often get street musicians playing in it. They are usually young men or women with guitars singing rather unrecognisable or unmemorable songs, I think many of them are their own compositions, too loud.
But today, it was the turn of an elderly guy playing an accordion, (not my favourite instrument), but he played this about as well as the guy in this video.



It made a refreshing change.

 

@Doghouse Riley yes i agree, I only like some of the Beatles.

Not the Beatles but you might like this from the Carpenters

They did jass before becoming famous.

 

Full album version

 

I was stopped at a corner once and had something - I don't remember what now - but I guarantee it was something in the Steppenwolf genre playing and it was loud. There was a little old man at the corner and he turned around to give me the eye. I'm thinking, "Oh, no, here it comes, someone complaining about the loud music." But then the guy gives me a thumbs up and it finally hits me, yeah, all those hippies are in their late 70s and early 80s now. You know, I'd almost rather have been yelled at than realized how old I was.

I used to listen to one of the top ten FM stations in the country and I learned a lot from them. So now I listen to everything from AC/DC to any and all rock and roll to blues, to music I don't think there's a name for, like Shawn Phillips, Michaelangelo, Jr. Brown, kd lang, Loreena McKennitt, Pentangle, Steeleye Span. Come to that, how do you classify the Moody Blues?

 

Got those highway blues, can't you hear my motor runnin'
Flyin' down the road with my foot on the floor
All the way in town they can hear me comin'
Ford's about to drop, she won't do no more

Oh, rockin' down the highway
Oh, rockin' down the highway

 

Pop music is sort of a bad word in my world. LOL

However, just because a group does a pop hit doesn't make them untouchables to me. Look at the Youngbloods. Their "Come Together" was a pop song, but then take a listen to "Darkness Darkness". Or listen to "Turn Around" by the Beau Brummels. As far from a pop song as you can get. And no one would consider the Doors to be "pop artists".

 

The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in May 1964. The band initially consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals), Mike Pinder (keyboards/vocals), Ray Thomas (multi-instrumentalist/vocals) and Clint Warwick (bass/vocals). Originally part of the British beat and R&B scene of the early–mid 1960s, the band came to prominence with the UK No. 1 and US Top 10 single "Go Now" in late 1964/early 1965. Laine and Warwick both left the band in 1966, with Edge, Pinder and Thomas recruiting new members Justin Hayward (guitar/vocals) and John Lodge (bass/vocals). They embraced the psychedelic rock movement of the late 1960s, with their second album, Days of Future Passed (1967), a fusion of rock with classical music (performed with the London Festival Orchestra) that established the band as pioneers in the development of art rock and progressive rock. It has been described as a "landmark" and "one of the first successful concept albums".[2]