invisiblewasp - Posted - 09/27/2023:  14:41:14

What's everyone's favorite movie, song, album, and book? My favorite question...

Erockin - Posted - 09/28/2023:  04:10:32

Earnest Goes to Camp...The National Anthem...Meatloaf's "Hits Out Of Hell Album"....Webster's dictionary.

old cowboy - Posted - 09/28/2023:  05:36:31

Movie-The Gladiator Song-It Is Well With My Soul
Book- The Bible Album-Red headed stranger.

carlb - Posted - 09/28/2023:  09:42:39

Book
Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart, Parables of the Spiritual Path from Around the World
Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield

Lonesome Fiddler - Posted - 09/28/2023:  14:40:38

Movies -- Anything directed by Federico Fellini or George Lucas.

Music -- Don't get me started. My record shelves are crammed with music from Bach & Beethoven to Bowie & the Ramones. I have a shoe box filled to bursting with 45 rpm singles that stretch from 1940's pop & big band to the Sex Pistols. I regularly stream from both Classical and Pop websites.

I earned my living in the film industry, reading & evaluating written material for its motion picture potential. Genre didn't matter to me. The bottom line was always, as the President of the movie studio would always ask me, "Is it good?' In other words, does the piece of material bypass my intellect and just get me going on a deeper level?

Fiddler - Posted - 09/28/2023:  15:27:38

Movies - some recent ones that have stayed with me:
Cloudbusrt (Olympia Ducacas)
Maudie
Margaret's Museum (beware - NOT for the faint of heart!!! I still have nightmares!)
Spy (Melissa McCarthy - surprisingly good spoof of James Bond genre)
Face in the Crowd (Andy Griffith - a message for our time!)

Music - all over the place
Beethoven Symphonies - esp. #6 & #7
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Deep Purple
Yes
Rick Wakeman
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Brain Salad Surgery is a favorite)
Billy Cobham
Chick Corea
Herbie Hancock

Books - too many!! Here's a few.
Caste
Patient Zero
Frederick Douglass (biography)
Zookeepers Wife
The Aeneid
Homer's Iliad and the Odyessy
Dante's Inferno

Quincy - Posted - 09/28/2023:  15:54:15

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Earnest Goes to Camp...The National Anthem...Meatloaf's "Hits Out Of Hell Album"....Webster's dictionary.

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Ow damn these Ernest movies ... so nostalgic! We loved to watch these as kids.

Edited by - Quincy on 09/28/2023 15:54:28

buckhenry - Posted - 09/28/2023:  17:35:03

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Billy Cobham

 

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This would be the last place I thought to find a fellow Billy Cobham fan.

I first heard him in 'Mahavishnu Orchestra' and bought Billy's first two albums upon release. 

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 09/28/2023:  19:27:44

Boy am I a boring person...I don't listen to music, i don't watch movies, and I only read non fiction kinda stuff...except in college I did take a few various types of lit classes and it just made me crazier than I was before...so...no good in doing that. Well, but anyway, I did watch Ernest movies with my daughter while she was growing up...she loved Ernest Goes to Camp and we watche it together a lot. Yeah, Ernest was good...I think it was good for kids...good stuff.

Fiddler - Posted - 09/28/2023:  20:04:16

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Billy Cobham

 

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This would be the last place I thought to find a fellow Billy Cobham fan.

I first heard him in 'Mahavishnu Orchestra' and bought Billy's first two albums upon release. 

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Nice! I have a couple of his albums as well. I have to go look, but I think I have a MO album, too. Also, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Jethro Tull,  ...   Oh, and Maynard Ferguson - I was into him way before his "Rocky" fame! 

I went through a period in the late 60s/early 70s where I was rebelling against my classical music upbringing and went to jazz/funk/rock and then turned to the dark side in the mid-70s just after I graduated from college - yes, old time music. If I found a person or group whose music I liked, I tried to get all of their recordings - if I could find them and afford them. Many times, I found them in the "cut-out" bins (Remember those?). Those records were maybe $1 or $2. I enjoyed hearing how their music progressed over time. 

For example, the early Deep Purple records were actually quite a bit better than Machine Head (Smoke on the Water). Ian Guillan, the lead singer, had such a distinctive voice. But you could hear how the band changed and matured. When he was chosen to play Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 70s, it was a real scandal!

Now you got me interested in digging out those records and giving them all a fresh listen!!

Flat_the_3rd_n7th - Posted - 09/28/2023:  20:34:54

AI bot, IMO, but I enjoyed reading y'all's interests at least...

tonyelder - Posted - 10/02/2023:  07:33:40

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What's everyone's favorite movie, song, album, and book? My favorite question...

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movie?  I can't think of a favorite

song? Angel Eyes

Album? Willis Alan Ramsey (self titled)  this would be my "desert island" album   

            ....Moody Blues "Question of Balance" running a close 2nd.

Book(s)? The Hobbit; Screwtape Letters; Pilgrim's Progress

Edited by - tonyelder on 10/02/2023 07:47:23

NCnotes - Posted - 10/02/2023:  07:49:37

book: Good choice, fellow LOTR fan here, Tony! And our neighbor is a fan too, their license plate says "Tookish".
My favorite book used to be "Walden" by Thoreau but that was before I found out that he was kind of fake (he actually didn't live there for long, and he went into town frequently.) And the older I get, the more I appreciate things like modern medical care and nice restaurants...:-)

song/album: Tough question, impossible to choose! Right now I'd say "Humors of Ballyloughlin" because that's what I'm working on, but that will keep changing...and anything by JS Bach on any instrument...yet I also think Bob Marley is awesome...

movie: Pride & Prejudice/Jane Austen/Brit lit /BBC type movies (meanwhile, husband watches John Wick urgh)

And I think InvisibleWasp is actually not an AI bot, since they are asking questions about playing!

OregonJim - Posted - 10/02/2023:  09:28:26

New member here.

Since I don't have just one choice for each category, I'll give a few...

Movie: Paint Your Wagon, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, White Christmas, The Andromeda Strain (original one).

Music: always changing, but getting into the jazz standards lately. Christmas music is always a favorite.

Book: The Bible, anything by John MacArthur, useta read Robert Heinlein stuff, and travel adventures.

pete_fiddle - Posted - 10/02/2023:  09:34:01

Just a bit Bot-like though.....Maybe?



Interesting that one has to ask one's self such questions before replying though

Apologies in advance if you are not a bot @ invisiblewasp

Maybe i will change my name to notabot lol

Edited by - pete_fiddle on 10/02/2023 09:39:52

old cowboy - Posted - 10/02/2023:  13:03:12

Welcome Jim. Make yourself right at home!

Lonesome Fiddler - Posted - 10/02/2023:  14:13:52

One of the few concerts I've walked out on midway through the performance was one by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I think it was at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. I had an excellent middle-of-the-audience seat, as well. In any case, I eventually got exhausted by the relentless flurry of notes played as loudly as possible. It got to the point where I said to myself that "If John McLaughlin plays "that riff" one more time, I'm outta here." About twenty seconds later, he played the riff again. The next day, my buddies told me I shouldn't have hoofed it. "The concert went on for another hour!" "More guitar solos, too!"

The Violin Beautiful - Posted - 10/11/2023:  11:19:10

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What's everyone's favorite movie, song, album, and book? My favorite question...

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I've been thinking about this one for a while. I had intended to only provide one answer for each category, but after all this time, I can't do it!

Movies:

The Seventh Seal

Excalibur

Barry Lyndon

Songs:

Massenet's Elegie

Schubert's Du bist die Ruh sung by Roland Hayes

By the Waters of the James

Albums:

Heifetz Early Acoustic Recordings

Fritz Kreisler "My Favorites"

Michael Rabin's first recording of the Paganini caprices

Books:

"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne

Don Quixote

"Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis

I have a lot of favorites, so it's hard to narrow down, and my answers have changed throughout my life, although I'd say these choices will always be favorites. 

Quincy - Posted - 10/11/2023:  13:55:39

Ouch Barry Lyndon, we had to watch this movie at the university where I had optional subjects as film history. In Dutch we call this type of movie 'beklijvend': you see it once you never forget it. Like the 1976 movie Novecento. Heavy stuff.

I have been thinking about this question too for a while. My favorite all time movie must be Steven Spielberg's Münich, of all movies portraying intelligence services this must be one of the more realistic ones. I have seen this movie many times. Stuff that never gets old too are the first Indiana Jones movies hehe.

My favorite books of all time are The Secret Garden and Astrid Lindgren's The brothers Lionheart. I gave these two books to my little niece at age of eight or nine and caught her reading them again. The brothers Lionheart is her favorite book now too :-D And Oliver Twist. I used to love children's novels.

Song and album this one is dificult. There are so many. Maybe Roy Orbison Only the Lonely. And best album ever must be the soundtrack of the movie La Bamba or so. Or dirty dancing or one of these movies.

Lonesome Fiddler - Posted - 10/11/2023:  14:48:46

I've been pulling CDs off the shelf and putting them on the stereo, the last couple days. As I've been writing this, my recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting a selection of his classical works wound to an end. Do I head back to the CD shelf? Do I pick up the fiddle? Should I, perish the thought, actually do some chores?

TuneWeaver - Posted - 10/11/2023:  15:02:46

Documentary/movie.. "Searching for Sugarman".. A work of fiction could never be as amazing as is this documentary. The protagonist recently passed away..

As for fictional movies.. " Young Frankenstein".. is  FUNNY.. as is "Nothing But Trouble"....

Edited by - TuneWeaver on 10/11/2023 15:03:49

tonyelder - Posted - 10/11/2023:  16:34:59

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What's everyone's favorite movie, song, album, and book? My favorite question...

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movie?  I can't think of a favorite

song? Angel Eyes

Album? Willis Alan Ramsey (self titled)  this would be my "desert island" album   

            ....Moody Blues "Question of Balance" running a close 2nd.

Book(s)? The Hobbit; Screwtape Letters; Pilgrim's Progress

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OK... movie - "The Neverending Story" (that would not include the sequels)

...the child in me.

The Violin Beautiful - Posted - 10/11/2023:  18:18:29

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Ouch Barry Lyndon, we had to watch this movie at the university where I had optional subjects as film history. In Dutch we call this type of movie 'beklijvend': you see it once you never forget it. Like the 1976 movie Novecento. Heavy stuff.

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I love how the whole movie was shot using only natural light and firelight. Such a beautiful movie, in addition to having a great soundtrack and story.

Lonesome Fiddler - Posted - 10/11/2023:  19:38:54

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Originally posted by TuneWeaver

Documentary/movie.. "Searching for Sugarman".. A work of fiction could never be as amazing as is this documentary. The protagonist recently passed away..

As for fictional movies.. " Young Frankenstein".. is  FUNNY.. as is "Nothing But Trouble"....

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Hey! Nothing But Trouble was one of my movies! I can't quite remember what I contributed to help it get made (other than telling the studio they ought to buy the property and film it), but it's a real treat to know that a fellow fiddler found fun in it.

TuneWeaver - Posted - 10/12/2023:  05:12:50

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Originally posted by TuneWeaver

Documentary/movie.. "Searching for Sugarman".. A work of fiction could never be as amazing as is this documentary. The protagonist recently passed away..

As for fictional movies.. " Young Frankenstein".. is  FUNNY.. as is "Nothing But Trouble"....

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Hey! Nothing But Trouble was one of my movies! I can't quite remember what I contributed to help it get made (other than telling the studio they ought to buy the property and film it), but it's a real treat to know that a fellow fiddler found fun in it.

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Please elaborate upon your contribution to that great movie..!

Saltcured - Posted - 10/13/2023:  10:43:01

Might not be politically correct these days but Gone With The Wind, about my homeplace & ancestors