What’s your taste in Music?

What’s your taste in Music?

Musical Taste?

 

What’s your taste in Music?  English allows us to use the word taste in other areas of life than food.  You can have good taste or bad taste in fashion, music and even friends.  When one talks about one’s taste, we are talking about what we prefer or like.

 

When it comes to Music, Movies and Books we talk about genres (pronounced John rah or if you prefer Zahn rah) and it refers to the way we can separate these into groups with similar characteristics so we have comedy movies, romance, horror, action and Science fiction to name a few. The same is true for music.

 

So what genres of music do you like?

 

When we discuss our opinions on music, we can use expressions such as:

 

I’m crazy about it …

 

I love it…

 

I like it…

 

It’s Ok …

 

I don’t mind…

 

It’s not my cup of tea.

 

I’m not crazy about it.

 

I don’t care for it.

 

I don’t like it.

 

I hate it.

 

I’m sure I am forgetting some expressions.  Maybe you can supply some.

 

Anyway back to genres - 

 

Here are some of the songs that I would play for my class to (1) see if they knew the Genre and (2) to discover their taste in music.

 

Listen and tell us what you think.  Do you know the genre?  What’s your opinion of it?

 

  1. Funky Town - Blondie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiGxthv-Eoo

 

2. Don’t Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

 

3. I do!  - Toya - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byoCjcJwoO0

 

4. Unanswered Prayers - Garth Brooks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Xt89mGxqE

 

5. I am a man of Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFpEYOPBsDU

 

6. Stand by Me - Ben E. King - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QVJjE

 

7. Songbird - Kenny G. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2RnjFHmNY

 

8. Back in Black - AC/DC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA

 

9. My heart will Go On - Celine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3QAqZQYLIQ

 

10. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg

 

11. Born to Fly - Sara Evans -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvhutWc67k

 

12. Reflection - Leo Salonga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcC3rYEZv9o

 

13. Parents Just Don’t Understand - Will Smith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3PFC86UNI

 

14. Twelfth Street Rag - Fats Waller - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl958H8i9M4&list=RDcl958H8i9M4&start_radio=1

 

15. Imagine Me Without You - Jaci Valasquez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJfBabSVxaA

 

16. Word Up - Cameo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOSdI_91WM

 

17. Nutcracker Waltz - Tchaikovsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxHkLdQy5f0&list=RDQxHkLdQy5f0&start_radio=1

 

18. Yang Guan San Die  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8-1vfzpVWM

 

19. Old Time Rock N Roll - Bob Segar -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMY1ewg-e9w

 

20. Not Gonna Get Us - Tatu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HL-N9oOjcs

 

21. Let it Be - Beatles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYfEBY9NM4

 

22. Bidi Bidi Bom Bom - Selena - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGbjJarMeA

 

23. Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07Yq4zGTcI

 

24. Jane Monheit - Somewhere over the Rainbow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP_5veYs1vE

 

25. Complicated - Avril - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPBIwQyPWE

 

Did you find anything you liked?  Any you hated?  

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  • What kind of music you like depends on.your mood. In sadness, you enjoy slow motion music and with your beloves, you love to listen romantic music so on, but sometime it irritates you. You feel like being alone in pin-drop-silence. 

    I want to hear other people opinions 

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