Music tastes amongst Munich Toytowners

Another poll question for my party this Friday, Nov. 14th. See Farewell Party in Munich Nightlife for full details. Know i'm trying to find a DJ, and I would like to see what type of music the TT crowd perfers... so let me know.

Ask the dude who just bought the Technics Turntable. (handle escape me at the moment)

mr. technics r u out there?

Yes, I'm completely openning myself up here for ridicule, now that I've already admitted going to a Def Leppard concert, but you forgot to list Country Western.

Yeah, point, that's me, but we've already talked about this.

Country & Western is hardly known here in Europe...way not as much as in the US.

barbie: sorry hun, but i didn't forget.
pao: yeah but, turntables are bit differnent then mp3 cds?
sparty: i agree!

That's funny, according to the MTV European music awards, until a couple years ago, Country was the top selling genre around the world (when Hip-Hop passed it up). Maybe that just means Americans spend the most money on music, or MTV is just wrong. . . I'm certainly no expert.

well there are a lot of americans buying music.
but i'm afraid as sparty said, country and western ain't that popular here.
Although I do remember that in the nevada desert it was the only station that we could get in the middle of nowhere!

Good people of Toytown: 80s/90s??? Please re-evaluate your lives. NOW.

Sorry, I should have known that the poll was only meant for the Europeans on this site and didn't necessarily mean to include Americans. Not surprising

maybe we can play on country track for you barbie, but again didn't say you wouldn't be able to come?

Jimbo, chart music in the 80's and some of the 90's was primarily shite. Much as it is now. But that period saw some of the most talented & most successful bands ever.

i don't care how talented they were, i can hear that shite at any disco / bar i want in munich. something a little different or interesting would be good.

thanks for the offer Pointman, and yes, I am unable to make it.

Just to clarify though, while I do enjoy country music, I don't usually find it the most enjoyable genre at a party and can promise that we didn't play any at our wedding reception. Not there this is anything wrong with if someone else reading this board did.

Err...actually, I think we need a poll on that:

Is it wrong to play country music at your wedding?

1. yes
2. Yes
3. Definitely

My aunt played "friends in low places" at her wedding... I gues it all depens on whether the grooms "dips" or not

Don't supppose anyone else likes jodelling, Austrian early 80's rap and Norwegian/ Danish aristocracy Calypso band do Bollywood-style Beatles covers (Nina and Frederik, Norwegian Wood - look it up if you don't believe me)?

Snow White. Please. For your sake. Stop there.

Aaaaaayyyyy once met a ghuuurrrrrrrllllll...

You need help

that is the best thing i ever heard of snow, where can i get me a copy??

Online - or I could always sing it on Tues if anyone's interested...

Oh yes, sing it! I'll bring my video camera

Like (almost) all music genres (except German Polka) Country has it's good artists. Wilco, Josh Rouse, Calexico are all respectable. Loose records in London send out some good stuff:
http://www.loosemusic.com/collections.htm

But not with the hoovering

What happened to Funk?

Get ur groove on and get funky!!!

jimbo: i'm with you 80/90's in the lead you can't be serious, guys where are you?
snow: in preperation for your musical debut should murphy's be handing out free earplugs w/ the beers tonight? j/k
foxy: yeah funk is great, just forgot, unlike country which i intentionly left off (still luv you barbie), and now i'm begining to think i should of done the same for the 80/90s genre.

That's ok, if I had made a list for what music to include at a party, I wouldn't have included country either, though I do enjoy it in the car sometimes.

BTW-- did you ever take a visit to the SaddleRack while it was open?

So, let's see how much of the 80's nstuck with those of you who were around for it.

http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html

I managed a score of 70.

That was pretty fun. I don't know if I should be ashamed of scoring an 83, but I did get 5 extra points and shamefully knew the Friends in Low places bonus question.

Very cool link Keydeck. I found myself immediately hearing the tune to about 20 songs as soon as I read the line from it. Bizzare what you can remember and what you can't.

I got a very miserable 62.5, but I hated 80s music. There are some classics on that list though.

Oh, and Pointman, the reason that people are talking more in the beer than in the music poll is because as long as the music isn't total shit, people will enjoy themselves.

Ooh, I only scored 41.5 :\

Oh well, I never listened much to the charts. Keydeck's right though, there was plenty of good music during that time - no need to write off 2 decades of music just 'cause your mom was still driving you to the mall and buying your clothes.

There's great music now, then, and fore. Really great, actually.

Oh, I think country can be swell at weddings - in fact, a couple I know was recently married and they had some Johnny Cash and the lovely Tennessee Waltz (old version - not Patti Page) playing. Put a tear in my eye, that did

I don't care for much Nashville country; but I think Mystery Man's spot on with the alt. country genre. Wilco's "Being There" is a fucking great, as are the other artists.

And going further back, My Morning Jacket's show was pretty good. Nostalgic 70's chord/solo rock done really well. Reminded me a bit of the Beach Boys mixed with definite Neil Young stuff, and a bit of VU at the end. Pretty cool time trip.

I managed to get 23.5 not bad I think.

I got 113.5

I'm scared...

Guess I'm too young because I didn't even get 20...

That or you just have better taste...

Hazza, impressive - it's hard to remember the lyrics without hearing them. I did get video killed the radio star, and am embarrassed to remember that he wished it was jessie's girl...

I came up with a great new version to that song.

"Internet killed the Video Star..."

When Opa was perfecting his English, I pointed out a fequent mistake with the pronounciation of the letter "V". To draw his attetion to it I would always sing, "wideo killed the wadio star", now he no longer needs that reminder. That's of course is why I got at least that one correct.