Reply To: Other music… *gasp*
Hmm. No particular order, and I realize very little of it is new…
Jonathan Coulton, of course.
The Beatles. And all of the individual Beatles’ solo work.
Bond. Elton. Billy Joel. Alexa Ray Joel. I used to have a bunch of Weird Al, but I gave it away.
I like Molly Lewis’ cover of Poker Face better than Lady Gaga’s version.
Sam Kinnison (yes, he did music). Neil Young. SuperTramp. Harry Chapin.
Tom Smith: most esp. “A Boy and His Frog”. If that doesn’t bring a tear to your eye you must be some kind of robot overlord.
The Monkees.
Jalea Bates (anybody else know who that is?)
Various soundtracks from Star Wars to LOTR to The Sound of Music. I’m also a sucker for Gershwin, the blues, and Rogers & Hammerstein.
My guilty secret, which I shouldn’t even mention, is that I like the music I write (until I hate it). I know it’s crass, and it marks me as an egotistical asswipe, but I can’t help it. At the time I’m writing them I invest a lot of “me” in the effort, so my “favorite song” is usually the very last one I actually wrote, even though I don’t record them very well. I know what the song should sound like, and that’s what gets stuck in my head. I wonder if that’s true of other songwriters, and they just don’t admit it…?