How Often Do You Listen To Music? – Poll
Clearly, music is what brought us all together here in the MLT Club but that doesn’t mean that we all enjoy music the same way … or at the same frequency. We’re curious to know – How often do you listen to music?
Are you the type of person that has music on pretty much all day, or do you only listen to music on special occasions? We think it’s always fun to learn about other’s listening habits and you are all very welcome to elaborate in the comments!
Obviously, these habits can change over time depending on the chapter of life you’re currently in, living circumstances, mood etc. But which answer currently fits you best?
The two of us have pretty similar habits when it comes to enjoying music. We put on something several times a day whenever we’re not working on something that needs total focus. For example, neither of us can write (emails, song lyrics, journaling, …) while listening to songs with words. But we almost always have something playing while doing house chores, relaxing in the evening, driving, etc.
How about yourself?
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Mona & Lisa
I used to have all my favorite MLT videos on one playlist but it was too long and required a lot of scrolling so I started sorting them into categories. I currently have 10 MLT playlists including non musical ones with Q&As, Behind the scenes, Xmas videos, Cavern Club, even a “pirated” playlist which are MLT videos from other YouTube channels filmed by others, non professional videos with bad sound. It reminds me of listening to a band in a local club with bad acoustics and the sound board being controlled by a “weekend engineer” and you know what?, these girls sound great!!
i drive a tractor trailer at night. i drive about 9 hours. i tend to listen to music for about 3 of those hours. i have a playlist i listen too and the twins. i like to listen to songs multiple times. the more you listen the more you hear the different layers of a song. you can really appreciate the talent of the musician and the song writer when you listen to the different layers of a song. some things are subtle but meant something to the artist to include it. constantly impressed by good song writing.
m.l.t. very impressive.
john l
Work has kept me busy the past couple of months but I still usually find a couple hours at the end of the day to put in the ear buds crank it up and relax
I listen to YouTube a lot. Ever since I found Mona and Lisa I’ve had a YT playlist with every video of theirs that I could find in it, roughly ordered so my current faves are near the top. It’s got 188 vids in it right now, which is close to everything on YT, if not exactly everything. So I put that on and let it go. Sometimes I start it from the top, sometimes the middle or the bottom. Of course the stuff at the bottom includes Q&As too, which make me laugh every time.
I know Lisa once said that the Jukebox in the Club comes from YT too, so maybe it doesn’t matter in terms of $ to them, but I’ve wondered why YT would pay them for that, coming through the API, when there are no ads on that stream. And in any case, I like looking around at YT, it’s a living thing, so I use it a lot. And I’ve always been interested in watching how the algorithm works. Poking it with a stick, seeing what it does. The algorithm is the magic. Without it, I would never have found the Twins. I haven’t forgotten that.
I do use the Jukebox sometimes too though. I will log into the Club and run the Jukebox, then log in a separate session at the same time to read posts. The Jukebox is such a great feature.
I own all MLT music on CDs but really only use them in the car. Especially when I’m driving a distance, then I’m using the CDs. And other peoples’ CDs too of course.
I have a lot of other YT playlists for different purposes, like party lists, and lists of music I want to add to my repertoire, things like that.
I have a decent size collection of recorded music, but usually I listen to some of the same or related songs on YT. MLT has had a lot of good influences on me, including I bought a new turntable and speakers for Christmas to upgrade that. Someday I’ll finish setting them up probably too. lol.
I occasionally go to look at other social media sites too, mostly to support them when they post there, but also to look at music. I go to TikTok sometimes. It can be astonishingly annoying, like all social media, but interesting too. I have read so many things about how how TikTok is designed to help you go viral, how it doesn’t penalize newer/lesser known bands so much as other platforms do. TikTok is why YT has started doing so many shorts. YT sure knows that TikTok is the competition they have to worry about. And TikTok now supports up to 10 minute songs, which is more than any MLT vid.
I know of a few other artists who have absolutely exploded on TikTok, in a hurry, One day I was wondering if/when China discovered the Beatles. So I googled it, and found out they didn’t hear the Beatles in China until the ’80s. I’m sure they know them by now, but TikTok has over a billion users, a lot of which are in China. I could see our favourite Twins going viral — just in China. Someday. Like I say, very interesting. So I’ve been watching it.
First of all, congradulation Mona and Lisa, to have over a hundred million views, it is fantastic, bravo. I like to listen to music many hours, I like so many artists. Music is my life, without music I am dead.
Bonjour Claude!
I totally agree with you about the MLT’s & loving Music in general! I thought you might live in France, which is a country that I’ve visited 3 times and Love! I see you’re from Montreal, & I have been there one time. I have ancestors from Ontario, & my grandfather was a Mounted Policeman at the turn of the century in the Yukon.
I’m glad we have the MLT Club to exchange ideas and find out about our favorite young performers — Lisa & Mona/Mona & Lisa! — Bud
Listen to music when ever I get the chance throughout the day especially at evening after work as I don’t watch TV.
It is interesting reading some of these posts, I have found out some things about me that I knew, but hadn’t really analyzed?! Music is very important in my life. There is a band in my local area that I support anytime they need funds to do a concert in the park or whatever ….they have become good friends of mine, so I usually don’t hesitate helping. Also, I am still very much a workaholic and I do woodworking, so I have equipment running a lot. Of course I have music playing in the background ,when I’m alone it is 100% MonaLisa Twins. But when the shop is running, it’s whatever the first person that tells Siri what to play.🤓 so it is a variety of music but once the machines are turned on you really can’t hear it at all. I need to hear the machines run so that I can do my best on whatever I’m working on.
When I’m not a workaholic, I ride dirt bikes and adventure bikes. I ride a 300 cc dirtbike and I still ride very extreme trails. I do not listen to music at all when I ride because again, I need to hear the motor and what it’s doing so I know how much traction I have or what gear I should be in. The sound of a 300 cc 2- stroke motor is actually “music” to my ears. I also ride adventure bikes…. Which is mainly on the street, but I can go on some dirt with them. But on the street, I also don’t listen to any music at all because it’s probably one of the most dangerous things I do. And I want to be totally aware of what’s going on with my motorcycle and the crazy drivers around me. When I’m on my dirtbike in the woods trees, don’t come at me…. So if I hit a tree, it’s totally my fault! But on the street ,cars constantly are coming at me and I have no control on what’s going on in their minds! Come to think of it they’re probably listening to music and not concentrating on driving🤔😳! I love the sounds of my work or my favorite pleasure just as much!🎶🏍️ (and that is a very poor excuse for a motorcycle… but it’s all my phone has)🤓
Since I don’t have any online subscriptions, like Spotify, Pandora, etc. All my music is from our music library.
Usually, during or after breakfast (we’re home all day) we put music on that’s non-intrusive like Dan Gibson that has nature sounds with soft classical music, usually Piano Classics or English Garden.
However, when I’m doing something that requires strong focus (usually on the computer) I can’t have any music, I usually have the big headphones with nothing on to dampen the sound and help me focus.
If it’s repetitive stuff, then music helps to deal with the process.
If I need cheering up, I have my special playlist with MLT, Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel.
When we’re cooking, we blast some upbeat playlists (no neighbors to worry about), same when working out.
Obviously, MLT is a big part of most playlists and many are all MLT lists (like MLT soft, MLT Favs, etc.)
Lately we’ve also been blasting 80s “New Wave” music to help refocus the mind. I know this probably isn’t the most listened to music amongst our crowd, but it may offer some variety. Here’s a sample:
Tears For Fears – Shout – Mad World – Sowing The Seeds of Love – Pale Shelter
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again – Stripped – Policy Of Truth
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind – West End Girls
Erasure – A Little Respect
The Cure – Lovesong – Lullaby
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
New Order – Blue Monday
The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Morrissey – Everyday Is Like Sunday
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – If You Leave – Enola Gay
The Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away) – Space Age Love Song
When In Rome – The Promise
The Church – Under The Milky Way
Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
Talk Talk – It’s My Life
Re-Flex – Politics of Dancing
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon – Lips Like Sugar
Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
Big Country – In A Big Country
Thompson Twins – Hold Me Now
The Human League – Human
Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Alive And Kicking
Mr. Mister – Kyrie – Broken Wings
Maybe I should start a new forum thread?
Anyway, that’s my usual music listening schedule.
Hey Tomas, eighty’s much? That play list could have been taken from our library. Very nice!
JP
Sure, start a new forum thread.
I always thought I liked new wave too. But none of those songs you listed is on any of my lists. lol.
I didn’t seek out the pop/new wave stuff during the 80’s but you couldn’t help being exposed to it on radio and MTV. I enjoyed some of the stuff by Devo and I really liked the B-52s, still do. Now days I enjoy hearing this music once in a while and some of it is really good. Of the songs you listed I like Broken Wings and Don’t Dream It’s Over.
Friday was my 1 year anniversary in the Club.
Best decision I’ve made in a very long time was joining this Club.
And I want to thank Mona, Lisa, Rudi, Michaela and all the Club members for making the experience so enjoyable for me.
Thanks so much, everybody!
(Yeah, I still feel like a newbie. I’ll figure it out eventually. Maybe.)
As a teenager I listened to AM radio as that was all that I had available. After getting a job, I was able to get a stereo and began to buy records. I only bought albums as I felt most singles ended up on albums anyway (except for the Beatles). As CD’s came out that was what I purchased. I had all the original Beatles albums as they came out plus many other groups. Since our house burned down in the Marshal Fire (2 years ago), the only music I have purchased is ths MonaLisa Twins. Now I really only listen to music when I go to bed. I do that to get to sleep or I will lay awake thinking about things. It’s oldies 60’s, 60’s instrumental covers, Beatles and The Twins. I will put on the Juke Box (it’s great).
MLT just hit 100,009,684 YouTube views!
Woo hoo! Last I heard they were a few months, maybe a few weeks away! Congratulations ladies!!🤓🤙
YAY, that is awesome!!! Congratulation Mona, Lisa, Rudi and Michaela. 👍✨🥰
Superstars. Very awesome. Congratulations. Well deserved.
Dennis,
Do you mean that Mona & Lisa got over a Hundred MILLION views? That is insanely WONDERFUL! — Bud
Wow!!! You girls are rockin’ it.
Part of me likes looking at numbers like that – metrics.
I’d love to know how many unique humans that number represents.
If I just figure in the last year, 365 or so days, I’ll bet I’ve listened to MLT, idk how many times, but certainly 10s of thousands.
I’d love to know where those people were when they said oh yeah!! MLT TIME!!!
I’d love to know what they were checking out before they played it. And after.
I’d love to know their demographics. Age, nationality, education, gender. Mostly old men like this Club?
I’d love to know what other platforms they go to for tunes.
Do they buy albums? Singles? How many of them have bought MLT music or gear?
Are they Beatles fans? I’m guessing ja.
Okay, so at least I’m looking at what Google knows about MY YT usage. I’m downloading just my YT data. So I can see what I;ve been looking at anyways.
I’m the same way, when reading, writing, or doing anything that requires focus, instrumental music is great, but a song with lyrics can throw me off and distract in a good way.
But driving is different, lately driving and road trips is exclusively your music, it’s so enjoyable, I take the longer route just so the joy will last, I now have so many wonderful experiences and memories with my travels tied to your music.
Jung, since my truck does not have a CD player, a friend of mine put all the Mona and Lisa albums on a drive that I plug in to the truck and I have all their music on one drive, and I pick from the first CD with them playing with Pa Rudi and Michaela to Why Album and it makes my drive so much better.
Hi Bill, that is a great idea. I don’t have a CD player in my car, but there is a USB drive. I haven’t tried hooking up a drive to it, will look into it. Currently have all the MLT albums on my phone and do it through the blue tooth, but changing albums requires going through the phone menu.
Oh I just happen to think of “live music”….i enjoy eating dinner at restaurants that have “live” local talent playing….i don’t go to places that are strictly serving alcohol….i want to enjoy a relaxing dinner with music from local talent……many years ago when i was a country music radio DJ I would frequent the “clubs” and drink a little…most of these places weren’t serving food…I was actually there in the capacity of “talent coordinator” scouting out the bands and the players in the bands for the MCMA..Metroplex Country Music Association….so during that time period I was well known around the musicians and we always enjoyed sharing a few drinks and camaraderie….after the club closed for the night we’d be off to local 24-hour restaurant for breakfast…and then I’d be heading to the radio station to be on air at 6am…….for me…i was living the dream back then…..but those days are gone and onto something else….for the WAGNER FAMILY I have great respect for what you do and Thank You for doing it❤️🧡
I selected a “few hours of the day”….most nights when I go to bed I’ll have the MLT JUKEBOX playing all night.. or.. I’ll have Spotify playing soft music from EVA CASSIDY and that in turn brings in music from other similar artists such as Beth Nielsen Chapman……during the daytime for the last six years I’ve been a trucker and instead of listening to the radio I’ll have my ear pods on listening to MLT JUKEBOX….THANK YOU for the jukebox as it really is a very enjoyable experience for me….while driving in my car I’ll have any one of the 12 MLT CDs playing…….i don’t listen to music on the radio anymore as most of it is nothing but a pile of 💩 …maybe a little graphic there but it is my honest opinion ….Thank You Girls for what you do…i thoroughly enjoy MLT ORIGINALS and the Rock n Roll of the 60s……YOU should be on the radio…but without a major label it’s an uphill battle.❤️🧡
I often wonder what would be worse- to be deaf or to be blind, and I can’t decide because I listen to music every day and do gigs and rehearsals weekly with different Big Bands, and cannot imagine life without music. On the other hand, I love the beautiful world we are fortunate to live in, and love seeing, experiencing and exploring different places, and like you two I enjoy drawing and painting and have been fortunate to make a living out of creating textile design patterns. I just count my blessings that I can benefit from sight and sound. Sorry for getting a bit deep !!!
I agree David, it is such a blessing to be here in the moment, and experience all the beauty we take for granted by sight, sound, smell and touch. A few years ago something happened to my sight, and when I got it back, the sight of the blue sky, fluffy clouds, lakes, trees in crystal clear clarity was the most wonderful feeling. I remind myself of that to appreciate our beautiful world. Artists like MLT remind us of the beauty of the universe.
Yes, Jung, we have so much to be thankful for, and it’s so great that the girls have brought us all together from around the world. I’m glad you sorted out your sight issue.😊
Well… I have both ongoing eye/hearing issues… I do wear hearing aids …I’ve had 3 laser treatments on my eyes so far … both ongoing issues ….
Ooo, sorry to hear that Jacki, I hope they can sort it for you.
When I lived in suburbia, there was music playing the whole day and half the night. Radio at work (when radio was still listenable). CD’s, cassettes and LP’s at home. Gotta drown out the mindless and maniacal noise of modernity, right?
Now that I live in the bush, there no noise to object to and plenty to listen for so I don’t feel the need for music as much.
Playing bass for strangers as open mic nights is more about listening than playing so is a very intense listening experience.
Like Mona and Lisa, I find music with words tends to derail my choo choo trains of thought when I need to keep my brain on track. Instrumental or nature or nothing!
Now, I might go for days quietly or I might listen for several hours for several days. I ticked “a few hours a day” and “a few days a week” as both are true.
I hope I didn’t crash your site by such confusion. 🙂
No More Worries Company playing now.
No worries, Mate!
That reminds me when I’m on the big island in my primitive cabin… the only sounds I can hear is tropical birds…. Horses every now and then…. Wild pigs… snorting every so often. And Mona Lisa, twins music when I get tired of hearing nature. Oh…and that damn generator every now and then. 🤨🤓
I listen to music just about every day, almost always in the evening before retiring for the night. The music helps to clear my mind and relax me, like yoga does for some. I started this routine a short while after I discovered the Twins about 10 years ago.
I listen on a PC with good quality headphones and a cool little analog control box for quickly and easily changing the volume. It has spoiled me for listening to music in most other environments.
Hi Mona & Lisa/Lisa & Mona!
You’re BOTH equally important! As for Music listening, I listen & or practice all day long, but it depends on whether I’m working or not. Unfortunately for the last 4 months I’ve had one cold after another, because of working too many hours, especially after being retired after almost 3 years.
I’ve been doing a long-term Music Sub job since Dec. 4th, that will last ’til the end of the school year. I love it of course but teaching 6 or 7 classes a day can be stressful. I had to call in sick last Monday & today with a bad cold. So I did all my emails in bed!
The other Music teacher & I have been rehearsing our K thru 5th grade students in songs for our Black History Month Concert, & they’re really getting into it! Next Friday is the performance day!
So these days, I practice their pieces on my acoustic guitar to accompany them, and also Marimba pieces, which I’ll be starting up with them again soon. And Drum Circles, to improve their rhythm skills. Also, I teach Beginning Band with Flutes, Clarinets, Trumpets Trombones, Drums & Glockenspiels. I have all my own instruments to demonstrate & play with them, which is fun for me too!
As a kid, I liked movie music, such as from Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and many others. Some years I’ve taught songs from those movies. I also heard a lot of great Music of all styles on TV shows. I loved the variety Shows when they would have great singers & musicians playing Jazz, Rock, Pop, Classical, Folk & other styles. I have too many favorites to list.
Then I was interested in Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, which got me started on Trumpet lessons. Then it was Sergio Mendes, & the Baja Marimba Band which led to more interest in Jazz. Briefly, my list includes Louis Armstrong, Al Hirt, Doc Severinsen, Maynard Ferguson, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and many others! Then for Classical trumpeters there was Rafael Mendez from Mexico, & Maurice Andre from France. And today, I love the Classical trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth from Norway, listed in the Top 10 current great Classical trumpeters!
I’ve met and/or spoken to almost all of them listed except Louis, Maurice and Tine, but I met Louis’ 4th wife Lucille at a Louis Tribute concert in NYC! I listened to all of these artists on vinyl for years, then on cassettes, and later on CDs while “Drivin’ My Car!”
I practiced my singing for years while driving, and often practiced songs I’d sing on stage with various groups thru the years. Unfortunately, my CD player broke down and I haven’t replaced it yet — but SOMEDAY I will!
Besides teaching Music the past 32 years, first in Middle School, then High School Band, with Orchestra, Jazz Band, Guitar, & a little bit of Piano class, & rehearsing all those groups for concerts & performance trips, I’ve played in Jazz bands, Rock/Motown/Funk Bands, including traveling groups, Brass Quartet, & Jazz/Rock Combos, plus Broadway Show type organizations. All have been a lot of work, but so much fun!
Now I’ve been teaching mostly Elementary Music the past 14 years, so I can teach Vocal Music, Xylophones, Drums, Percussion, & Band, & sometimes Beginning Recorders, & Guitars, or even Violins!
Mostly now I listen to music on YouTube or on CDs at home, & at school for classes. I haven’t had my record player set up for many years. I listen for pleasure, search for songs for students in books or on YouTube, or from Music Teaching Seminars.
Today as usual, I listened to several MLT videos, two videos of Jazz vocal songs I’m working on, and DIDN’T practice, because of being sick! But usually, I’ll practice the
Guitar, Marimba, Trumpet & whatever other instruments that I have time for!
I’ve also been playing trumpet/flugelhorn and lately singing in a Jazz Big Band. We’ve been doing about 10 or so concerts a year, plus rehearsals most Tuesday nights. I have to catch my “Second Wind” to do that!
My perfect day off would be practicing all my instruments for 3 — 4 hours on a revolving basis, listening to Music, exercising, walking, family time, & of course some QUALITY CAT TIME! (My Boots spent all night & most of the day with me while I’ve been sick!)
I’m sorry if this sounds all like — ME, ME, ME, but I just enjoy what I do! And although I love all kinds of Music, I REALLY LOVE what Mona & Lisa have accomplished in their short time here on Earth. They have done SO MUCH to brighten peoples’ lives, while working hard and enjoying themselves, their Music & their fans so much! And they’ve produced many excellent, top-notch performances & very interesting videos! Ya Gotta Love Them!!!!
I hope I can keep up with what I’m doing for a while, but I do need a big rest after this school year is over! Until then, Mona & Lisa continue to brighten my days, usually after I get home from a “Hard Day’s Work!”
I read almost ALL of our Club Members comments & enjoyed hearing from everyone!
CHEERS to Lisa & Mona, their Parents & all Club Members! — Bud
Hey Bud
It is so wonderful what you do, teaching music and playing music. Not having the gift of making music myself, I know those who have that gift, it’s a virtue to make music and touch people and beautify this world in the little way they can. Just like how Vincent Van Gogh, despite his mental health challenges, created such beautiful colors in his paintings that enrich the world, even after he is gone. We are all so blessed Papa Rudi decided to let her beautiful girls explore and flourish their incredible talents to make so many lives better, and beautify the world. With all the hard work you do Bud teaching those young minds, the passion of music, who knows what musician will flourish and enrich this world, I am sure there will be many.
Thanks once again Jung for your kind words!
I had two drummers during the ’90’s in my middle school Band, Jazz Band & Orchestra. They were both intensely interested in playing, as were some of my other students. Those two, D’vonne & Adam are both professional drummers in the area, & I sometimes hear them on the local Jazz Radio station. There was also a trumpet player, Andrew who has been living & playing in NYC for years.
So that makes me feel like I did something right, but there are others who still play for fun. Honestly, I haven’t kept up with them much personally, but hear about them from other musicians I know. Adam played drums in a Jazz Big Band I was in for years, & he told me that he’s gigged in Europe, South Africa & other places. I played with D’vonne a few times, but that was over 20 years ago.
I’ve just been too busy with work & life to stay in touch. Maybe someday!
I found a video of Adam, but the Club lighting was dark, & he didn’t solo on that video. I will add a video of D’vonne doing some great drumming at a Jazz Festival in a nice semi–Free Jazz Band, I’d say. Wow, he’s really good!
I can’t personally take responsibility for their drumming techniques, but their first Jazz experience was with me at Hamilton International M. S. And I took those kids on many trips, including the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho. I had them in band for 3 years! Then they went on to the award–winning Roosevelt H. S. music program! Those 3 kids (& plenty of others were serious musicians, & very nice people.) Check it out!
Niswanger’s MAE SUN w drummer D’vonne Lewis @ San Jose Jazz Fest 2018 (youtube.com)
Hi Bud, thanks for sharing that video. It must make you feel so proud to see your students leading on with music in their lives, some professionally. D’vonne is very nice on the drums there, and that lady on the clarinet (I think that’s what it is) is having a lot of fun.
Jung,
Yeah, it does make me feel good, especially now when I’m struggling with student behavior issues. But some of them now are starting to come around, so there’s still HOPE!
The young lady in the video is playing a Soprano Sax. She’s very good! However, there were metal clarinets back in Sousa’s time. I have an old one but haven’t tried playing it. Most kids, & I have plastic clarinets, but the wooden ones are the best. Likewise, there are some new wooden flutes, but I’ve never played on one.
Another cool instrument you don’t see in Jazz too often is the Bass Clarinet. I guy in Miles Davis’s band named Bennie Maupin had one in the ’70’s.
CHEERS! — Bud
Wow Bud it sounds like you have a special gift of playing so many different instruments and the personality of being able to connect with students and create what you have done and are doing is wonderful…and having a”cold” that seems like it’s not going away can be very stressful….hopefully you’ll have full recovery and you and the kids can enjoy the life of music 🎶
Thank you, Rick!
I think I have some talent for various instruments, but I did have private trumpet, guitar, bass, drum & vocal lessons. (Mostly on trumpet.) And I took 10–week teacher courses in flute, clarinet, sax & other instruments, plus many seminars & various music classes for teachers, including African Drumming, Conducting, General Music & many others. So it was actually more just hard work & motivation. I think that many people could do that if they wanted to.
My cold & voice are slightly better, but there’s room for healing & improvement!
I was fascinated to see the few videos of Mona & Lisa in Drumming classes & performances! I hope they will share MORE of those!
I really enjoyed doing all the performance trips with my students in Middle & High School. In Elementary it’s a different challenge of getting them started from the ground up. I used to be able to do Holiday Performances in December after my band kids had just started on their instrument 2 months earlier! My secret was doing sectional rehearsals with each group outside of class, with just Flutes, then Clarinets, Saxes, Trumpets, Trombones, Drums, etc.
This year I took over from a teacher who had quit because of student behavior problems. I know that kids often have to face difficult issues at home, & just don’t have the experience yet to deal with those issues. Not that I haven’t had these problems before, but this particular school has more than its share! So that gets very physically draining. But once we get thru this 1st Concert, I’m looking forward to doing new songs & getting back to Xylophones & Drumming!
I’ve been in schools where I had advanced placement students who could do whatever I wanted them to do! And I have a few kids in each class now like that, but it’s a challenge with some others who are constantly not following rules & wasting everyone’s’ time.
I do get very frustrated also, because I don’t seem to have enough time lately to practice as much as I’d like to. Life gets in the way, & I’m hoping to get more balance into my life later this year! But I still have to count my blessings! If I can help these kids by developing their skills, & getting them to work together as a team, & not get distracted, that’ll be an accomplishment! And a good Music Program always helps the whole school to be a place where kids WANT to go!
OK, that’s all for now! Have a good weekend! — Bud J.
I had reached a point where I hardly ever listened to music. Never in the car, not on a home stereo, just an occasional Youtube video or a very, very rare concert. That started changing after stumbling across some of Lisa and Mona’s Beatles covers, then really picked up steam with the Twins Christmas CD and then the Duo Sessions songs that made it to Youtube.
I bought a little house in the country in early 2020, bought a proper stereo setup, and quickly was listening extensively and exclusively to MLT. Now during the week in the evenings I’ll listen to the Twins for a few hours while doing work at the computer.
It is no exaggeration to say that MLT brought music back into my life.
I also feel they brought music back into my life.
I can relate exactly David. Life events made me abandon music and everything beautiful for years. It took Mona and Lisa to bring that all back into my life. They one day let me feel the touch of amazing beauty again, and changed my perspective.
Although music has always been a huge part of my life, two significant things happened after I retired 5 years ago; I had a lot more leisurely time at home, and I finally got a pair of hearing aids. Wow, what a difference. I immediately purchased a high quality sound system and life was good. Just so happens that I came across two incredibly talented young ladies at the same time and their musical journey has fused with my renewed musical enjoyment on a daily basis. Of course I explore and enjoy many other artists and genre as well but, MLT are special. For me, a day without MLT is a day without sunshine.
I am constantly listening on my ipod. Have over 20,000 songs so never get bored. All from cd’s I have bought over the years. Have all your music on it. I enjoy creating playlists from my library to keep things interesting. Mostly listen when out walking or riding transit. Helps to drown out the sound of traffic. Only time I take off my music is when I am walking through the woods here at Stanley Park or any other park.
Now that I am retired i have more time to listen to music. While driving I listen to classic rock. While piddling around the house I usually listen to my cd’s. And depending on how my day has gone I will drink wine while listening to my LPs. I also watch several Yt musicians including y’all. Peace be
I drive a lot for my work so I have music on, usually it’s a radio station like Planet Rock. Then when I get home I listen to my cd’s.
I watch YouTube every morning I love looking at new bands I discover all over the world which is how I found MLT and sometimes in the evening, in the car it is always on Spotify playing a genre I’m in the mood for. I have many CDs, LPs maybe even cassettes but I haven’t played them for years now I can get it anywhere anytime on most devices
I always listen to music while driving – exclusively MLT! I also listen to music to distract myself from the drudgery of housework. Like others have mentioned, I cannot do anything requiring mental focus while listening to music. Music requires active listening, at least for me, and I prefer to put it on when I can truly engage with it 100%. I also don’t like to listen to music while walking outdoors. Nature provides its own music and I want to enjoy that when I’m outdoors. Not a day goes by without music, however! When I’m listening in the car, if I’m alone, I take great pleasure in singing along with Mona and Lisa – but only when I’m alone!
My day starts with waking up to music and listening while getting ready for work, then in the car on the way to and from work. Really any time I’m in the car there is music playing. If my wife has crafting or some other business, I will turn music back on. I used to actually fall asleep while listening to music but now I find that I prefer to read before nodding off. When I was deployed while in the service, I fell asleep every night plugged into an old Sony recorder.
That music monkey has been perched on my shoulder for several decades by now, and the two of us have pretty much passed through most genres and formats since I was in high school. I’m amused and delighted to see that cassettes are still a thing for some members. I’ve put together a “library” of music on cassettes with the assistance of my local public library, and in the way that one thing leads to another, it turns out that the Zombies’ Odessey And Oracle is available, along with the more recent Still Got That Hunger (2015). So, I will soon have the opportunity of “checking them out”.
Otherwise, I’m still a vinyl guy, and more particularly, in recent years, a jazz vinyl guy. Then there’s the YouTube rabbit hole, which can be somewhat overwhelming, but that, of course, is where we all discovered MLT whilst “researching” something else.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention live music. (MLT take note). It’s where people I know are trying to make a living. While I’m not one for big concerts anymore, I do routinely attend a weekly Saturday jazz jam, featuring both seasoned professionals and younger, up and comers. As well, a couple of weeks ago, I saw and heard a very fine Ray Charles tribute band at a local club.
So, all in all, fair to say, music is pretty much a major part of my daily environment. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Live music, yeah, I miss it. A Ray Charles cover band? Cool! Where I live there was a years-long building project that took out the cozy club where I saw Brian Auger play. As a jazz fan you would have loved it. His daughter sang and his son played drums. They played Wes Montgomery’s “Bumpin’ On Sunset”. Cassette tapes? You know it! I still listen to local college radio, but don’t record cassettes anymore because I have so many.
I stay in my music room either recording music🎼, making a video📽, playing the guitar🎸 or listening to music🎧📻 at least 8 to 10 hours a day.👱♀️👩🦰 you are the best!🎸🎤💖
If it’s a work day, I’ll spin one record in the morning, but if I’m off, I’ll spin 3-6 LPs or 45s per day. I’m going to quit working this year.🐇
Congratulations John! Enjoy!!!
Thanks Stephen! 😺
At least hours per day. But how much, depends.
If I’m driving, it’s 100% of the time.
If I’m on the computer, it’s 95% of the time.
If I’m playing an instrument or just listening to the stereo, it’s 100% again..
If I’m doing none of the above, it varies with the weather.
Last winter when my power went out for 3 weeks, I put my solar radio in the front window, and it’s still there. When the sun shines on it, I get music. It’s great, it kind of starts quietly, and I look around, what’s that? Oh, yeah, the sun just came out!
The angels are singing to me. Not quite like you two sing to me, but I like it, so the radio’s still in the window.
I listen to the radio when in the kitchen. I listen to CDs when in the living room. I rip CDs to my mp3 player and listen to that while walking to and from work/town etc. I regularly change what’s on it. I’ll often listen to an entire artist’s output in chronological order.
I’m going back in time and listening to the music of the 60’s. Lately it’s been The Temptations, My Girl, Can’t get next to You, Get Ready,Ball of Confusion, Papa was a Rolling Stone. Great Motown Music
Hi Rick, I too like a lot of the Motown music. Smokey Robinson wrote or co-wrote many of the good songs & he has a pretty good voice lol. He wrote both My Girl – Temps & My Guy – Mary Wells. Have you ever seen “The Temptations” film, based on their history?
Cheers, Bobby S. 🎵🎵🎵
Hi Bob, I haven’t seen the movie it’s on my list, I didd read about the different. members. Sad how many didn’t survive very long. Their music you can dance to. That was a different time for music. Love the Twins doing such a outstanding job doing the great old music. Have a great year. Chow Rick
I have Alexa at home plus hundreds of CD’s I listen to the radio occasionally at home but more often its an artist of my choice depending on my mood one day it will be Fledtwood Mac another could be Led Zepplin then again it may be T.rex or even The Beatles. In my car I gave a CD player and several discs including Orange & live at the Cavern Club plus some other new artistes I gave found online, When Rivers Meet, Arielle, Betty Jane, As December Falls. It all depends on my journey as to what I listen to. I have listened to each of the albums so often I know all the words to all the songs.
I listen to music a lot while driving these days. Now that Bluetooth from my mobile has replaced a CD player, I have so much more music at my fingertips.
I use YouTube on my laptop to look for bands who are into my favourite music from 70s, 60s and earlier. Since discovering the MonaLisa Twins a couple of years ago, I have also come across people like Josh Turner, Reina Del Cid, Martyn Harley, Alison Young. Mona & Lisa remain favourite though.
I am shocked and overjoyed to hear how many of you still listen to CDs and even have players in the car. A lot of artists these days won’t even release on CD, just streaming, and to them I say, oh well, I guess I won’t be listening to you. But in the car I almost always play from my phone, whether it’s the music stored on the phone or Spotify. When I was in high school I would listen to music the way most people watch TV. I would turn out the lights, pull up my beanbag chair in front of the stereo, drop a Yes album or something on the turntable, and just immerse myself. These days, who has time for that? But any time I’m not doing something else that requires my aural attention, I’m listening to music. Before the Internet became a music platform, there were only so many artists to listen to (yes there were LOTS but still limited). Now there are so many millions of artists publishing so much stuff that if I had 100 clones of me that listened to music 24/7 we couldn’t keep up with all the good stuff out there.
Hi Roger…nowadays a lot of the newer models of cars don’t even have a CD player anymore…they want to sell you that Sirius Radio package….of course you can still get a CD player installed…..but I’m afraid like the records / record player… 8-tracks..cassettes…CDs are on their way out…..oh well time changes
Heh, yeah they haven’t been available in cars for about 10 years now. I have an aftermarket in mine. When Spotify gets taken out by ransomware gangs and a large solar flare or EMP weapon dismantles the Internet or wipes out vast amounts of stored digital music, those of us with our music on physical media will be laughing all the way to the stereo. LOL.
Of course, the stereo might be fried too in that scenario, but yeah. lol
That reminds me, I need to put my stereo back in the Faraday cage.
Interesting — streaming only musicians. Definitely a challenge to make a living in music these days.
I wake up to music on my digital clock radio…. listen to tunes on headphones on my phone/tablet and my CD/Cassette Rape/Radio Boombox …. and I sing outloud to myself … when I’m in church , someone’s house, at a concert, singing at an open mic jam and karaoke …. Always been a part of me… Music… listening to tapes/records as a kid/teen/adult … special occasions with family & friends… dabbling around on piano/organ/drums/guitars when I was younger on my 2nd oldest brother’s guitars, his buddy’s drums set when it was at our house, an aint who has both piano/organ … a late aunt/uncle whom I used to visit near Toronto in tge summer had a high top piano, other instruments as mu uncle loved to sing & play various instruments and we’d sing together at piano …. Yes…Music is in me …. I must listen daily ….💜🎼🎵🎶🔊🤘🏻
Strangely enough i listen to music less, but also different as i used to do. When I was in my younger years i used to listen to danceable music,( and danced
a lot too) Nowadays i listen for the listening ( lyrics , harmony and melody)
My wife allways puts on the radio, but i never listen to it anymore, constantly the same songs and more talking then music. As soon as my wife leaves i shut down the radio. Most of the time i listen while i go to bed, allways youtube , often MLT, but also other, less known artist. I like them much more, their music sounds better and more inspired. Often i wake up mornings with my earbuds still in.
Over the last few years social media in the states has become less than enjoyable. I have always listened to music in my car in between periods of listening to the news. I’ve stopped listening to the news and am now enjoying a lot of music. Since I retired last summer (2023) I have increased the amount of music I listen too even more than previously. A couple of weeks ago I was running errands around town while listening to some 60’s/70’s folk & protest songs (e.g. Big Yellow Taxi). When I parked in the Walmart parking lot ideas began to flow and I began writing them down on a small note pad. I wrote those ideas in the old free form 1960’s poetry style. The writing is not very good and I’d never show it to anyone except my wife but it was fun spending 30 minutes pretending I was 16 again. BTW when my wife read the first one I wrote she laughed and laughed. it was nice to make her laugh. Gotta’ go. Dusty Springfield is singing, ‘You don’t have to say you love me.’
Have a good weekend.
When I don’t play guitar, I am listening to Music from the showroom where I work and then night comes and from news to music but when I was a kid there was only am on the radio or put an album on, some TV.
Stay Groovy!!!!!!!
In my teens (1970s), I would listen to mostly easy listening pop/rock and progressive rock (Moody Blues, ELP, Pink Floyd, etc.) and the Beatles. I also listened to the Monkees.
In my twenties (1980s), I would continue to listen to my teen music but added new age or fusion music and some classical music.
From the 1990s and up, I would continue to listen to my old favorites with very little added. And of course, I listened to traditional and modern Christmas music though out my whole life.
And the then there are the MonoLisa Twins songs, both covers and original songs to hear in their 1960s style of music. Such beautiful music to hear.
Although I put A few hours a day, it’s more. In the car it’s always. In the house, it’s quite often. And when not listening, often it is playing the guitar (not great, but enough to enjoy it).
I have a radio on a few hours a day. We have two radio stations that play 60 ‘ & 70 ‘s music all the time.
I’ll switch over too playing CD ‘s
Right now that is your Album. WHY.
I listen to you tube in the evening.
That’s how I found you girls.
I clicked on ,Bus Stop .
I thought who are there very interesting and attractive girls. One of the smartest moves I ever made.
I don’t usually like covers.
But as everyone in the MLT Club knows
Mona & Lisa make the songs
there’s !!
I can’t imagine a day with no Beatles’ music. And there are very few things that I enjoy more than seeing and hearing Mona and Lisa in their videos. I watch God Only Knows almost daily…
I almost always have music playing when I am driving, and 99% of the time I am listening to the MonaLisa Twins. I usually have at least 4 CD’s in the car for a variety. At night I usually listen to music before I go to bed.
Hey Jim, I’m bummed out that the newer cars don’t have CD players anymore. They said that most people don’t use them anymore. They plug in their phones. Hey, they didn’t ask me.
Bobby S. 😎🎵🧛♂️
I totally agree Bobby! I have a 2009 Impala, still runs great & has no rust, but it does have a CD player! We just got my wife a new 2023 SUV last year. It has nothing but ports to plug in devices. When it comes time to get me a new car, I will be bummed also! (They didn’t ask me either) LOL Best wishes to you!
Hi Jim…I’ve got a 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan with CD…LOVE IT always have an MLT CD playing….yeah the newer models dont have CD …if I have to buy I new car I’ll buy a 12-disc CD player and have it installed….years ago I had a 12-disc player in my truck and it was great…the truck had radio / cassette…I wanted CD
A 12 disc player… sounds like a great idea to me!
Hey Bobby you’re stealing my line😂😂😂I’m always using that when talking / discussing something I don’t agree with or they could have done this way…but hey they didn’t ask me !!
You guys are making me reminisce about my first car with a built-in tape deck. It was so cool to be able to listen to what I wanted, rather than whatever was on the radio. But a lot of car trips ended up with me performing delicate surgery to extricate a section of the tape that had been gobbled up. I ended up plugging an adapter into the cigarette lighter and using a portable tape player sitting in the passenger seat.
I remember when my older brother first put a cassette player in his car. I felt the same way, being able o pick what you could play. It was new at the time. I think that was about 1971.
Wow… for me it was 1989. I didn’t realize I had been so deprived all those years!
I’d say I listen to music at least 3-4 hours a day. If I’m in my car it’s the cd player, it was the Cavern Club cd for over a year but now I have one I burned with both Duo Sessions on it. If I’m working in the house or outside I usually have a YouTube playlist or the MLT Jukebox playing for background music. Love the Jukebox.
I listen as much as I can, can’t go a day without Mona and Lisa to help me get thru the day. When I was little my mom always had the radio on or records playing and I do that now, when I go for a walk in the morning or when I am home working around the house or traveling in the car etc…..
Hey Bill…. Yeah I remember the days when Mom would have the local radio WOLF 1390-AM Syracuse NY playing as she was doing house work…this came after her attitude of “you call this music” changed😂😂and that happened with Herman Hermits “I’m Into Something Good”….Dad died in 1963 and Mom got into one of those “penpal” clubs and ended up meeting a guy from San Angelo Tx…that coincided with the song and they were together till he passed in 2003….Mom finally reunited with Dad at age 91 in August 2021.
Rick,
I was raised by my grandparents, so I had Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Glenn Miller Band, Mills Brothers and then when I was with my mom, she played music from the 1950’s thru 1960’s and 70’s. So, my mom passed in 1980 at the young age of 38 and my grandparents passed in 2000 and 2001 but they left me with sweet memories of great music from both styles and times. Thus, is why each day is filled with music and when I found Mona and Lisa, they had such an impact on me at a time of my life when I was down and out for the count with drama in the family and just getting Maddie and have not looked back. I am like Jung Mona and Lisa is in my DNA and each day I have to hear something from them either from UTube on my CD’S etc….it is comforting to me that they present their talent to us and let us in their life and can’t forget Pa Rudi and Michaela they are a huge part of this behind the scenes.
Absolutely…there isn’t a day goes by without me playing several of their videos and that’s before going to work each morning…I put my phone on self in shower and watch 3 or 4 videos while showering until the alarm sounds that tells me I gotta get out of shower and get on with it….i have a 2-minute across the street to the warehouse…climb into the truck and make those deliveries..with MLT JUKEBOX going .
Mostly on YouTube these days. I don’t listen to radio any more, not even in the car, and I don’t have an iPod thingy, so I either follow certain acts on YouTube or my wife and I practice on our own (piano, guitar, ukulele).
Funny, when I was younger I used to like taking the top down on my car and driving around blasting rock and roll, especially Beach Boys in the Summer. Now I like to drive in a quiet car.
Hi David. You don’t have an iPod thingy? Me neither. In the early 2000’s I was on a business trip south of Tucson on Ft. Huachuca. During the weekend I was driving on I-10 near Benson, AZ listening to a Tucson radio station that played 1960’s Rock music. I had the music blasting, all the windows down and racing that rental car into to Tucson. It was a blast.
All day every day…even during my Art Teaching days, the music was always on. I am proud to have created hundreds of Beatles fans over my 25 year teaching career.
When I discovered Mona Lisa Twins, I played them for my class and told them that I wanted to adopt them(no disrespect Papa Rudy!)
Right now i*m watching mostly concert videos and listening to The Warning and if not that group it’s The Mona Lisa Twins. The Warning is on a European tour in April.
I am so jealous. If I had the money I would go to Europe just to see them.
Yeah they are the future of Rock’n Roll. And rock is one of my favorite genres and the other is what Mona and Lisa is making, that’s why I’m member of the fanclub/homepage. The Warning is also playing in the states this year, but nothing planned yet. You can follow their tours here: https://thewarningtourdb.com/
I hadn’t heard mention of any concrete plans to tour the states, so that’s good news!
Must admit it’s not verified but they use to have a North American leg in fall and winter season. Only concerts until end of August has been mentioned so I’m really sorry if they don’t play in the states.
I am too, but if not this year, they certainly will again. Many times to come, hopefully!
Hello Leif,
you have already introduced The Warning. Which CD’s can you recommend? I looked on their homepage. Error and Mayday are currently sold out.
Well that’s the problem I ran into too. I’ve downloaded some of their concerts if you want a try – ex Shiprock and a concert in Berlin. Send a PM on facebook Leif Hørgren Mortensen, and I can give you a link.
Thanks a lot Leif. In the meantime I just ordered the two CDs “XXI Century Blood” and “Queen Of The Murder Scene”. These must be the first two CD’s they’ve released. If the two newer CDs are released again, I will receive a message. Have you ever looked into the band Lovebites? These are five talented young Japanese women. Their music leans towards rock and metal. If you like The Warning, you might also like these.
Actually, the first one was the Escape the Mind EP, but good luck finding that one now! Error is their latest, so it will be back in stock. Everything on Mayday is on Error, but if you can find a copy of Mayday before they’re extinct and want it for the collecting…
There is SO much on YouTube and several live concerts. I think my favorite is the Teatro Metropolitan: https://youtu.be/7hbBa1-1p7M?si=ech3fY84jiztaCD_
but it may require a YouTube premium subscription.
Thanks Roger, the link works even without premium access. You’re right, Maday’s tracks are all on Error. I hadn’t noticed that.
I always have music on in the car. I use a usb drive, load it up, play it through then wipe it and add new stuff. Folklore is on at the moment. Replacing Ms Swift likely to be Last – The Unthanks, Wintersmith – Steeleye Span, Slipstream – Bonnie Raitt, Fail – Reeb de Nexus and The Best Band You Never Heard Of – Zappa. The Duo albums are on the phone for out of car listening, along with Abbie Gardner, The Big Wolf Band, Little Feat (Electric Lycanthrope bootleg, which I have a vinyl copy of), Ainsley Lister, Armadillo Blues, Larkin Poe and The Ed Palermo Big Band. The house is full of CDs, vinyl and digital recordings, so unless the Goons, Round The Horne or other comedy gems from my youth are on 4 Extra, I’m spoilt for choice.
Greetings,
I think you all probably know by now – I LOVE MUSIC. I love to listen to music, I love to play music, and love to sing (until my throat is sore and beyond lol).
I have a radio in every room (including the bathroom) and in the car, of course.
Music had always been my salvation. It helps me get through the bad times and makes the good times even better.
Hope you all have a fabulous weekend. Bobby S. xo
My average would be about 3 hours a day of close listening. 🎶CDs in my car regularly, and a vinyl record daily, more sometimes. Glad you mentioned background– yes, I listen to an all 1950s app at low volume (unless it’s Frankie Laine, hahaha) on a tablet I take to work, and cassette tapes when resting. I’ll seek old rock album tracks, 45s, & use Pandora & other apps, but not regularly.
A favorite CD of mine is “Moonflower Lane” by Ty Tabor. Music is the best, as Frank Zappa said. If I didn’t have a good car stereo, I’d get one, ya know? Just sayin’. A side observation: A large cassette tape collection recorded off our local ad-free college station in the 1990s, was left behind in a house my daughter had moved into, so she gave them to me. So, I’ve noticed that the stuff the station played back then was better in general to what I hear on the same station now. But I think it’s like reading. It’s less important what you read or listen to than it is to keep reading and listening.
Although I always have tunes playing in my head when my mind isn’t too busy, I actually don’t physically listen to music very often. Just the recollections of songs I know well usually suffices.
On a long solo car ride I’ll sing to myself until my voice wears out (usually after about an hour), and then I’ll put on some CD’s. And when I have a lot of tedious grading to do I’ll put the MLT jukebox on in the background to keep my spirits up.
I find the MLT Jukebox better than any radio station, a constantly changing stream of beautiful music.
In the old days when I was at school and later working at home I always had music on. I do not say that during that time I was really listing to the music, it could happen that suddenly I noticed it is quiet, and the music already had stopped for 15-30 minutes (end of LP or cassette). In these days, no longer working, I stream a lot of music, during the day I listen to a mixed play list, sometimes after a “what’s on the table” I have to add some “new” music. When I sit down to really listen to music, I listen most of the time to a specfic album.
Easily a few hours a day. While at the computer mostly, also while trying to learn a new song on guitar (my Tele).
Hey cool clock, love the design with the piano keys and time.
How often do I listen to music? I would say about 3 hours a day on average these days, more on weekends.
Interestingly when I am relaxing or out on the road, I gravitate to MLT and Beethoven. During the weekdays, first thing in the morning and through the day, lately I have Bach on. The mathematical and abstract nature of his music is kind of meditative and evokes the analytical side of my brain I think which aligns with my work where I am doing numbers, problem solving, and designing solutions all day. A lot of analytical processes.
In the evening and weekends when I can relax more, and more of my creative and emotional side comes out, MLT and Beethoven. I feel more emotions and feelings when I listen to MLT and Beethoven, that aligns with the leisure and relaxing side of my life these days. Sometimes on Fridays or later in the afternoon I feel more relaxed and ready to kick off, I enjoy rocking out to MLT when I feel like I am ready to Jump Ship or have Destination Sunshine on my mind. 😎🎶 On the weekends, I got Friday on My Mind, and Lazy Sunday Afternoon.
Hi Jung!
It’s interesting how you balance Mona & Lisa listening with Bach & Beethoven, but I don’t find that strange at all. Collectively, all that varied Music has a great structure & logic to it! I wish I could comment on a lot more members’ posts, but I need to get some sleep. And plenty of it, so I’ll be rested up & ready for the next work week!
Enjoy your weekend! And hey, we get Monday off here for Presidents’ Day! Lucky for our Presidents! — Bud
Hi again!
I found several videos of “Cats Playing the Piano” that I wanted to send to you, but they were all Shorts, & I don’t know how to find the URLs on those. But you could just search for the words I have in parenthesis, & they will come up.
The first one sounds like what Baby Beethoven must have sounded like! Another cat had some “unseen assistance” in playing part of “Fur Elise!”
Being a fellow animal lover, I thought you might enjoy these! — Bud
Thanks Bud. Sounds like Baby Beethoven? Sounds intriguing, will check it out. 🙂
Here is a sampling of Bach for those who are curious that I find so meditative. The melodic tone just soothes my brain. Bach Fughetta in C Minor BWV 961. It is only 2:25 long, just like a 60s pop song. I had an extremely tough disappointing day today with work. Glad I have the MLT Club and the beautiful music and kind people here to take refuge in.💙
I also can’t listen to music while I’m working on tasks that require focus (generally my day job). But while I’m driving, working in the woodshop, processing photos, working in the yard or other hobby/chore activities, music is always a part of the plan. The sources for this background music vary from Apple music playlists and CDs, to a great local FM station that’s essentially a commercial-free classic rock deepcut playlist.
I’ll go to my vinyl collection most often when I want to grab a drink, sit down, put the headphones on and really listen. It’s been fantastic getting back to them after having concentrated on CDs and streaming for a long time.
Finally, I like to finish the day watching music videos on YouTube. That’s what brought into the MLT Club, so it’s a permanent part of my music experience!
Everyday two sessions of piano practice, obviously listening and evaluating exercises and pieces I’m working on.
Reward before bedtime typically 30-60 minutes of music CD or vinyl source, my choices have no particular pattern.
I don’t listen to music when I have work to do and I definitely don’t listen on my bike rides, 4-5 times per week.
I generally have the radio on in the background during the daytime, most recently Boom Radio (UK) as their music is aimed at Baby-boomers (which I didn’t realise I was until one of their presenters pointed it out to me!). Historically I had been an almost lifelong BBC radio listener but found that they have largely abandoned 60’s and 70’s music in favour of a younger audience so I moved on.
I do tend to interrupt radio listening from time to time with my own music collection, more often in the car.
I tend to mainly play music when working on my computer in my home office as that’s where the main CD player is. Sometimes I will choose a specific CD to play, however (and you’ll think this is madness) I tend to go through my CDs in aphabetical order (by artist). I find this the best way to rediscover old music I bought years ago so nothing gets forgotten. It’s amazing how you can sometimes appreciate an album more that you did not like much when you originally bought it. Before CDs I had a lot of music on vinyl and on cassette, recorded from borrowed albums or from radio. I am slowly transferring these to CDs so they fit into my big list! In my living room I have the TV with a 7.1 surround sound system so I can play CDs (or surround sound blu-rays) there including YouTube videos.
I have BBC radio 2 on whilst at work as a courier which is a combination of music, quizzes and topical discussions. At home I generally watch sport on the TV rather than listen to music, being a lover of sport and having all the mainstream UK sports channels available to me. I do sometimes watch music channels on the TV or listen to CD, s but this tends to be when I am doing household/outdoor chores. I also occasionally listen to music on u tube.
Hello Ladies,
Everyday I listen to music. Almost always its MonaLisa Twins Music. I also listen to a Variety of Artists, ranging from the 50s to 90s. I don’t care for today’s music. Oldies is what I prefer. I just watched a Golden Oldies concert on YouTube. It had In The Still Of The Night, Sixteen Candles, Duke Of Earl. Where Are You Little Star, Only You, Teen Angel, just to name a few songs, and they were all sung by the original Artists or Groups. Great time, and I sung along with all of them. (Glad no one was listening😆 😂 🤣 )
Best
Rick Ross
I love those oldies concerts too, Rick. I even attended a couple of them in the 80’s. It was great to be able to put some names and faces to those songs that I knew so well. Those groups created great musical memories, but as individuals most of the members lived in complete anonymity. Such a contrast with pop singers from the 60’s onward.
Hey Rick, You don’t care for today’s music? Oh, do you mean the “noise”?
I agree, the only current real music that is enjoyable & has value is the MLT’s music.
Thank goodness for the Wagner family. Bobby S.
I am a music teacher and traveling care home performer. I put music on while I get ready in the morning (this is where I catch up on “what’s on the table“ segments — and I’ve had the zombies album on all this past week 🤗 ), and I’m always listening in the car. This past week, I’ve been alternating between the White album, Duo Sessions II and Beatles & More III — I absolutely love your cover of Glass Onion! My first year as an MLT club member has enriched my musical life; thank you, and I look forward to year #2!
I start my day with my morning routine which includes a morning playlist from Apple Music – it runs for about 2 hours. Then I am on the computer looking for videos while I do my finances. After which, I have music in the background while I play my games. I have music of some sort on from about 700a to 1100p every day.
I enjoy Sirius XM for my commute (hour each way), and the channel I choose depends on my mood or the mood I want to be in. Always music in the car for long trips. Sometimes at night I do a little listening as I am winding down for sleep. Totally agree with Mona and Lisa – I can’t have music or other background noise when I have concentrate on something.
MLT s are on the car CD player all day while going from job to job then the Juke box at night when doing invoices its such a treat
Music is always a part of my day. I constantly get song list ideas from my driving time (I pull over and make notes when I hear something I want to work on) and I scour You Tube daily for covers of songs that I want to learn and/or do my own version of. “Without music, the richest child is poor.” has always been my motto.
Hi Daryl, That is a great motto. And how about – With Music, the poorest child is rich.
Bobby S.
Yeah, that certainly works both ways. John Miles said it really well “Music was my first love…and it will be my last.”
Speaking of John Miles, does anybody still have his “Rebel” album besides me?
Hi Daryl, I am not familiar with John Miles. I don’t remember ever hearing him here in the States. I did now look him up, so I see what he has done. Take care, Bobby S. 😎
If you dig around enough, you’ll find that one of the cuts on the Rebel album was produced and engineered by Alan Parsons. “High Fly”.
Hi Daryl
I like your motto, “without music, the richest child is poor” indeed. I have another motto I like along a similar vein as yours. “without music, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable” – George Bernard Shaw. Music enriches our lives so much.
In the car,to and from work it’s MonaLisa Twins,and Beatles Channel on Sirius XM.At work it’s the radio.At home MLT Club Jukebox,and assorted artists on CD’s,radio,and of course,good old Vinyl(starting to rebuild my collection)..
Hope you Lovely Ladies(and Michaela too!) had a wonderful Valentines Day🌹💕😘
As always ,sending Love & Hugs your way.💛💓
Tom
Upon waking and starting my day, as soon as I get Mom out of bed, I play a CD or Bluetooth the MLT jukebox to the kitchen radio while I fix our breakfast. While driving to work it’s the Beatles’ channel on Sirius XM. At work the CD player is on probably 80% of my workday, with a mixture of MLT, Beatles (group or solos), the Who, Travelling Wilburys, Carl Perkins, compilation albums, etc. Driving home, or any other time driving it’s generally more Sirius XM Beatles’ channel. Anytime at home preparing or eating meals or playing cards with Mom(low-vision cards and verbal help due to her poor eyesight) more various CDs. Weekends start with YouTube videos (90% at least MLT) on the TV while fixing and eating our breakfast. About the only time music isn’t playing is while sleeping, watching TV, which often includes music anyway, attending sporting events or auctions, or working outside. I hadn’t really considered how prevalent music is in my life before this poll! Thanks for asking!
Forgot to mention vinyl often replaced CDs during evening meals and card-playing time!
Hi Jefferey, what would we do without music, it is such a big part of our lives, enriches it so much so. This reminds of a wonderful song about music itself: Add Some Music To Your Day.
TGIF! Today’s wake up alarm: Destination Sunrise
What a great way to start the day. If your having a rough time waking up, may I suggest the MLT cover of White Room? The opening can be alarming.
JP
Waking up to your favorite music is a fantastic idea JP! Only problem is I would get so into the music and wind up never getting out of bed!
Hhheeeeyyyy Johnny….a litttle Johnny Carson intro there😂…there is 4 songs that I really think would be great videos of the girls and Papa Rudi in the video also…Lisa would have some great leads in these songs and Mona would have great opportunity on the drums and Papa Rudi on bass
Club 27 ….from the Orange album
White Room…Beatles and More vol 3
Glass Onion…”””””
Time of the Season….”””””