🎶 Cup of Tea 🎶
tophatjohnny
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In my journey to build one amazing digital music library it has opened my mind to styles I never thought I would enjoy.
The phrase "Cup of Tea" or not my cup of tea is one that gets tossed around a lot so what styles are just not your Cup of Tea? Hopefully your list will be much shorter that what is your Cup of Tea.
I'll start it off and believe it or not I do have some music that is not my cup.
1. Evil Death Metal
2. Screamo
3. Filthy lyrics Rap or and styles that use vulgar language.
4. Opera singing
Anything else I can live with and I have faves but this thread isn't intended for faves.
Say you? 🎶
The phrase "Cup of Tea" or not my cup of tea is one that gets tossed around a lot so what styles are just not your Cup of Tea? Hopefully your list will be much shorter that what is your Cup of Tea.
I'll start it off and believe it or not I do have some music that is not my cup.
1. Evil Death Metal
2. Screamo
3. Filthy lyrics Rap or and styles that use vulgar language.
4. Opera singing
Anything else I can live with and I have faves but this thread isn't intended for faves.
Say you? 🎶
"if it's not fun, it's not worth it & remember folks, "It's All About The Music"!!
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I'll bite.
I'll concur with one and two
3. Country
4. Opera
5. Most modern Rap anything that has an over abundance of distorted bass
I do however like some oldskool like Ice T, Dr Dre, Snoop and believe it or not N.W.A. I do not listen to much but I actually bought some.
PS I'm actually quite the loose leaf tea snob. So I've turned my nose up at a few cups of tea -
I'll agree on the modern rap. Compared to old school finds it lacking. N.W.A. and rheir "F the Police" was monster good.
Other than that..... Anything with a harpsichord.Sal Palooza -
1. Old country
2. New age
3. Modern rap (except K. Lamar)
4. Anything Russ likes
I also LOVE Lapsang and its variant, Russian Caravan. -
^^^^ ahh, a smoky tea fan!
Ever try Mark T. Wendell's Hu-Kwa? It's a Taiwanese Lapsang Suchong; not as smoky as typical Chinese Lapsangs. They've marketed it for more than a century.
https://marktwendell.com/order-mark-t-wendell-teas/hu-kwa-tea
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Rap
Country
Opera
Bubblegum pop
I’m sure there’s more,but that’s all I got for now.See my profile for list of gear. -
https://youtu.be/lw6qxDPmOGM
The above link is my Cuppa Tea
The following isn't my cuppa tea
Modern Pop Music
Bro Country
Death Metal (Constipated Growler Vocalists)
Rap that's not Snoop Dog, Dr Dre, N.W.A.,
Home Theater
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2 Channel
Adcom 555II Vincent SA-T1 Marantz SA 15S2 Denon DR-M11 Clearaudio Bluemotion SDA 2.3tl's (Z) edition MIT Terminator II Speaker Cables & IC's Adcom 545II Adcom Gtp-450 Marantz CD5004 Technics M245X SDA 2B's, SDA CRS+
Stuff for the Head
JD LABS C5 Headphone Amplifier, Sennheiser HD 598, Polk Audio Buckle, Polk Audio Hinge, Velodyne vPulse, Bose IE2, Sennheiser CX 200 Street II, Sennheiser MX 365
Shower & Off the beaten path Rigs
Polk Audio Boom Swimmer, Polk Audio Urchin -
Rap
Modern Country
Metal
The only teas that are required for a proper existence are Orange Pekoe and Earl Grey on Sundays. With milk, of course. -
Modern country
Opera
Death metal with cookie monster vocals
Bubble gum pop
Modern rap/hip hop
Techno
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I don't like rap or electronic (that I've heard, I'm certain there is some I would like)
Classical music (by and large) doesn't move me.
Country music in general, particularly modern
any rock harder than AC/DC or Van Halen
metal
Any of the basic copies of copies released in the past 20 years.
Modern Christian worship has great lyrics and is very good, but the music itself is SO. BORING.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Most anything else is free game and something I like. -
I'll listen to anything but rap and opera. My music collection proves it.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
mhardy6647 wrote: »^^^^ ahh, a smoky tea fan!
Ever try Mark T. Wendell's Hu-Kwa? It's a Taiwanese Lapsang Suchong; not as smoky as typical Chinese Lapsangs. They've marketed it for more than a century.
https://marktwendell.com/order-mark-t-wendell-teas/hu-kwa-tea
I have not, need to try it as that sounds nice. Have you ever tried Russian Caravan? same idea, its a mix of LAPS. and other blacks, very cool story behind it too. -
Yup -- I like Harney's Russian Caravan (FWIW).
"One hump or two?" as Norwood Pratt said of Caravan style teas
http://jamesnorwoodpratt.com/
Speaking of good tea stories (there are many) -- you'll like the stories of Hubei-style compressed tea bricks, methinks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_tea
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Earl Grey, milk and 2 sugars.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
"cookie monster vocals" - now that's quality.Polk Audio first generation RTA-12s; 12 inch Polk Stands; DHS Speaker Service upgraded crossovers w/ Sonicap/Mills; the "westmassguy anti-lobing mod" (hyperdamped outer drivers/mirror imaged); tweeter anti-diffraction mod; Cardas binding posts; Neotech UPOCC internal wire; foam-lined inner driver baskets; xschop phase plugs; deleted fuses; Hurricane nuts; Sonic Barrier; Dynamat Xtreme
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"cookie monster vocals" - now that's quality.
... and very apt. "#
PS I am amazed (and pleased) by these admissions of Earl Grey drinkers who use milk. Technically (and my pinkie is out, now, as I delicately sip from my Limoges china cup and gravely intone these words) one is not supposed to do such.
PPS Yeah, I do, too
Harney and Upton Tea both have some very, very good Earl Grey options.
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Rap (It's not music. I'm sorry, no matter how many times you tell yourself it is, it's not. Repeating a lie over and over doesn't make it less of a lie)
MetalHome Theater/2 Channel:
Front: SDA-2ATL forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/143984/my-2as-finally-finished-almost/p1
Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
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I listen to all types of music, but particularly like music that has a strong improvisational component - bluegrass, blues, rock, jazz etc. That said, there's plenty of great music that has no improvisation at all and I own a lot of it.
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The music hate list is pretty short
Country in any form and any time.
Polka.
I’ll through in a strong dislike for whatever that stuff is than soccer moms like to play at the neighbor Zumba class.
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mrbigbluelight wrote: »I'll agree on the modern rap. Compared to old school finds it lacking. N.W.A. and rheir "F the Police" was monster good.
Other than that..... Anything with a harpsichord.
Doesn't one of them who made f the police play a cop on tv now?Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 300, Audioquest Thunderbird Zero Speaker Cable, Tyler Highland H2, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's. -
mrbigbluelight wrote: »I'll agree on the modern rap. Compared to old school finds it lacking. N.W.A. and rheir "F the Police" was monster good.
Other than that..... Anything with a harpsichord.
Doesn't one of them who made f the police play a cop on tv now?
For the love of money...what shall they do. 😂😂
And since the thread contains likes
O'Jays complete collection lives in my digital library as my soul category is the strongest I've ever seen. 😉"if it's not fun, it's not worth it & remember folks, "It's All About The Music"!!
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Bruce Springstein
Any pop made this century
Electronic Dance Music
Boy bands
Any Rap made this century
Bruce Springstein -
afterburnt wrote: »Bruce Springstein
Any pop made this century
Electronic Dance Music
Boy bands
Any Rap made this century
Bruce Springstein"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
or Bruce Springstone...
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afterburnt wrote: »Bruce Springstein
Any pop made this century
Electronic Dance Music
Boy bands
Any Rap made this century
Bruce Springstein
https://youtu.be/Uhzqny6rU28
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Or as Francis Sinatra said before a rendition of Born to Run at Madison Square Garden, "..written by Bruce Springstine.."