2020 Deaths.

[John Cook]

He really 'was a bit good (sic)'......and you lot think I just appreciate Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Howe..and all the others, too numerous to mention.
(Do you want a list ?) 

Great shame. ......Awesome 'finger plucker'.

Cheers - Phil

Quite agree.  There is good music and there is bad music, not just one kind of music.

[Ithoriel]

Quite agree.  There is good music and there is bad music, not just one kind of music.

I'd say there are two types of music - those I like and those I don't. My liking it doesn't make it intrinsically good, nor does my dislike make it bad. Conversely, the fact others like it doesn't make it intrinsically good, nor does the dislike of others make it bad.

Both music I like and music I don't can be sung/ played well or badly.

I have at times been "in" to folk, country, rock, heavy metal, Gregorian chants, Native American music, Tibetan monastic music, chart pop and gospel (an odd choice for one who is an agnostic on a good day and an atheist on a bad one!). Currently on a French female vocalists kick.

The world is too big and life too brief to try everything .... but I'm doing my poor best!

[Techno]

Good for you, Mike.

With you on that, Matey.

I can get enjoyment out of almost every 'genre' of music....From classical to folk to hard/heavy rock....with just about everything in between those two 'extremes...especially 'prog rock'.
Even stuff I used to sneer at. 

If it gives folk enjoyment.......

(But I STILL can't get any enjoyment from rap/hip hop etc......though I DO have one single CD that could 'fit that'.....and I think it's great. )

Cheers - Phil

[John Cook]

Absolutely.  I don't get modern jazz, most opera and some genres of popular music, but that is just me. 

[fsn]

I think I've got most kinds of Western music bar shouty rock. Hip hop/rap isn't music.

I tend to go back to the same genres in the odd times that I actually listen to music, rather than the spoken word. Usually it has no lyrics or lyrics I can't understand, so I don't sing along.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Doubt there will be much discussion on this one - Robert Trump - his brother. 71

[Techno]

Hip hop/rap isn't music.

With you on that, my friend.

VERY bad poetry set to a beat ??

What got me YEARS ago, when Von and I got our very first PC...after the Amstrad 'super dooper' typewriter....
It came with a number of discs......One of which allowed one (me) to create 'music'.

It took me five minutes to learn how to make 'a pile of poo'....which sounded JUST like some of the awful stuff that was about, at that time.
(I do understand chord progressions.....and what sounds good...and what sounds like cachu.)

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

I like some rap and hip hop, but most of it leaves me cold. Ditto '60's jazz, which I simply don't get at all.

[mmcv]

With you on that, my friend.

VERY bad poetry set to a beat ??

I'm not a huge fan of rap generally but can appreciate some of the lyrical and poetic talent that goes into much of it. As with all genres of music there's a lot of dross out there, probably even more so given how easy the internet makes it to distribute music, but there are some genuinely talented people in most genres of music, whether it be how they translate a cultural experience into three minutes of rapidly spoken poetry to a music sample or understanding how to shortcut directly into someones brain with that simple little chord progression or repeatable refrain that lodges itself into your ear canal and just will not leave. You don't have to like it, but you can appreciate the talent it took to produce and make money off it!

[Steve J]

Ben Cross the actor, only 72

[Techno]

 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Chadwick Boseman aka Black Panther. Aged 43 due to cancer.

Thought the film was awful, but he had charm and charisma.

[Steve J]

Far, far to young . Our daughter and son loved the film but we are yet to see it, so can't make any judgements on its merits.

[Leon]

This was a real shock this morning, such a young age and the fact that he'd been dealing with it privately for 4 years.  To have carried on filming/promoting his movies whilst silently going through treatment/surgeries must have been incredibly difficult and draining, both physically and emotionally.

Milady and the kids loved Black Panther, I enjoyed it but I'm not really a fan of superhero films.

[Techno]

'Fraid that one passed me by.....43 ?

Far too young, for what I understand to have been a damn fine actor.

Cheers - Phil