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Posted: Oct. 24 2011, 00:58

Charles Ives - The unanswered question
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbArUJBRRJ0

That's all I can think of. What else did he say he likes?

I think it's totally ok for an artist not to like what others do.
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Posted: Oct. 24 2011, 17:50

I remember him saying that he likes Sibelius and Star Trek. :)

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Posted: Oct. 24 2011, 18:11

Ah yes, Sibelius (bores me to death). Star Trek, the music or the pictures (both bore me to death)? The unanswered question is borderline boring too but at least the title kind of warns you while with Star Trek you expect something like Star Wars and all you get is people wearing pajamas...

We might be onto a pattern... Do we know if Fanny is boring?
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Posted: Oct. 25 2011, 07:29

Quote (Olivier @ Oct. 24 2011, 23:11)
Ah yes, Sibelius (bores me to death).

Glad somebody's said it!! Always thought Sibelius was overrated and overhyped.

I like other stuff Mike likes -

Star Trek
Cheese
Horse Riding
Windy weather [westerly]
Thunderstorms
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontier
Billy Holiday - Stormy Weather
Pie and Peas
Sailing
Bahamas....

I expect Fanny's not boring - enjoyed her diaries. Anybody know why they got taken off the board? You didn't upset her did you Olivier?  :/   ;)


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Posted: Oct. 25 2011, 11:46

I meant what he likes musically.
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Posted: Oct. 25 2011, 16:04

He also likes motorcycles, helicopters, Tai-chi, Myst...

Musically : Beatles (Sgt. Pepper), Keane, Gary Jules ("Mad World" cover), The Shadows...
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Posted: Oct. 25 2011, 16:27

implicit unquestionable likes: Enigma, himself (some artists hate their own work (but yet they keep doing some more work))

hmm, that's all I can come up with for now
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Posted: Oct. 26 2011, 05:11

Quote (Olivier @ Oct. 25 2011, 16:27)
implicit unquestionable likes: Enigma, himself (some artists hate their own work (but yet they keep doing some more work))

hmm, that's all I can come up with for now

I think both these likes are in fact questionable. I've read at least a couple of interviews where he's said that TB was great but that he doesn't care much for his other records. So he doesn't seem to be such a big fan of himself.

And just because TSODE sounded like Enigma I'm not sure it's because Mike likes Enigma. A lot of the time he just seems to go in direction that he thinks will "work". I'm not sure he was a big AOR fan in 1987 either, but he still recorded Magic Touch and Islands.


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Posted: Oct. 26 2011, 09:19

Quote (captain cavern @ Oct. 25 2011, 16:04)
Musically : Beatles (Sgt. Pepper), Keane, Gary Jules ("Mad World" cover), The Shadows...

Keane? Interesting! My girlfriend used to listen to Spiralling a few months ago, many times a day, as she usually does, and it was one of not so many cases of me not getting sick of a song. It's headspinningly mindbendingly amazing. Never got around to listen to their other material -- is it worth it?

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Posted: Oct. 26 2011, 09:47

I guess he likes folk (in general). He did lots and lots of short  folk pieces (Portsmouth, Wrekorder Wrondo, Mike's Reel, etc.) and an entirely folk album (Voyager). Also his 1968 guitar improvisations were folk-tinged (of course the Sallyangie were pure folk) and his longer compositions include many folk passages. I guess he's very partial to folk music, particularily Irish folk music.

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Posted: Oct. 26 2011, 10:49

John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, his father (lol). His guitars (atleast that's what he said but then he sold some of them! Why did he actually do that?)

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Posted: Oct. 27 2011, 14:54

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Ah yes, Sibelius (bores me to death).


I would rather describe it as halcyon and nostalgic.


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Posted: Nov. 08 2011, 16:45

off the top of my head...

King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Joaquín Rodrigo, David Bedford, Led Zeppelin, Planxty, The Chieftains, ABBA, The Shadows, Igor Stravinski, Balinese music, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederick Delius, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Reilly, Maggie Reilly ;), Schiller
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Posted: Nov. 08 2011, 19:07

@ Holger: I'm not sure whether he actually likes Schiller. Of course, if you decide to do a collaboration with anyone, you have to like them, otherwise the collaboration just doesn't happen. However, Schiller (Christopher von Deylen) does sound a little bit Oldfieldian, Light-and-Shadish anyway [he even did an album called Tag und Nacht... Day and Night... Light and Shade... that's close, ain't it? :D], so if Mike didn't like him at first, I guess he grew to like him enough to collaborate with him. :)

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Posted: Nov. 09 2011, 07:33

I seem to remember an interview where he said he was given a Schiller album by the record company and that he had liked it, prior to the collaboration. Just how much he liked it is of course impossible to say. :)

And of course, he also likes Luar na Lubre, just remembered that one. And Ibiza trance, obviously.
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Posted: Nov. 09 2011, 12:58

I remember an interview where he said he hated everything.
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Posted: Nov. 11 2011, 08:18

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I remember an interview where he said he hated everything.


Mike is always contradicting himself when it comes to interviews.


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