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This week's train is brought to us by Timmer.

What is one thing (or more) that you listen to that is totally out of character for you, going by what people know about you? What would people be really surprised to know that you get down to, musically?


Jo: Musically, I'm a sucker for getting down with some old school Russian opera.

JazzBass: oh that's easy. chick country singers. i mean decent modern ones like patty loveless and sara evans. ooh and rhonda vincent....dreamy!!

Baby Huey: singer-songwriters, folk, and roots rock. it's only out of character if you just know me as baby huey, which is true for most, but i love the stuff. the wizardry they pull off on stage with just a stool and a guitar never ceases to amaze, inspire, and move me.

Branden: I'm not sure there's anything I listen to that people think of as out of character. The people who know me are well aware that when they come over to my house, they could be treated to anything from modern country (not to be confused with country pop) to Frank Zappa to Shostakovich or Rachmaninoff.

I guess the only thing that would throw some people off is my immense love for all things Billy Joel. But that's only if they didn't know me well.

Seetwist: NPR's "Morning Edition" and "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". Friends and co-workers get weirded out when I listen to public access news and jokes. But screw them, Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell crack me up. I want his voice on my answering machine.

I think if I had to chose something that was waaaay out of character musically, it'd have to be classic country music. I love me some Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones and Merle Haggard. The music I play that gets people to do a double-take when I'm driving around is Klezmer and Hungarian folk music. Beautiful, beautiful music, and some of the upbeat numbers can really get you moving in your seat. I still don't understand a damn thing they're saying, but I sing along anyway, which is probably why I get the looks.

Dave: Johnny Cash. lessee... what would be completely out of character for me?

hmmmm...Flock of Seagulls. Mostly because I was impressed with the guitar effect

Timmer: I guess the two that jump to mind the fastest are Pink and Christina Aguilera.

Turtle: this stuff is hard for me cause I am so musically eclectic and superior to all of you.

I am also modest.

But, I think one artist I listen to messes people up more than the others.

Neil Diamond. I am pushing almost 40 times of seeing him live. Follow him around like a stoned deadhead. Yup, I do.

Neil is the man.

Shilo makes me cry every time I hear it.

Had a dream, and it filled me with wonder
She had other plans
"Got to go, and I know that you'll understand"
I understand

That's is soooo sad. I feel you Neil. The others don't, but I do.

Sing on brother.....

Sing on

Cullen: Something that people who know me would be surprised that I listen to? That I actually *gasp* like the banjo.

Joel: Hmm, I don't know if there's anything I really enjoy that people would be absolutely shocked about--at least, those people who know me well. But perhaps my enjoyments of certain rap and hip hop artists, like Tupac, Eminem, Sage Francis and Gnarls Barkley (does that fit in the hip hop category? I'm not sure it does.) Aside from Sage Francis, I haven't listened to them much lately, but I really enjoy it when I do break them out.

Considering that the current, modern folk scene is a huge component of my musical selections at the moment, some people might be surprised at the rap/hip hop undercurrent I have going on.

Johnny: i'd say:

Lynyrd Skynyrd

what? at least it's not fuckin' Rush.

Pat: I suppose that one thing I listen to that might surprise some folks is classical - my favorite being Dvorzak's "New World Symphony". Some old, classic country (Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers) hits the right spot sometimes, too. People that think I'm this mellow earth-mother type might find Pat Benetar or Joan Jett blaring through my house a mite shocking...

Jo: I'm ALL about Vivaldi's Four Seasons!!! But I think the one thing that sets people off when I liste to it would have to be screaming Death Metal from Norway. Yeeeah. A friend in a death metal band made a mixed CD for me to introduce me to it and I love to indulge in it every once in awhile and scream in a different language. (I live in Vermont, we don't have an abundance of Metal, more Folk than anything else.)

Jim: Probably my Public Enemy and Jefferson Airplane fascinations would floor a few people I know.'

Michele: I've developed a fascination with all things pop music. Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, Akon, Pink....basically anything that gets my ass shaking while I'm driving. Can't be all punk rock and speed metal all the time. Angry and disaffected is now way to go through life, son.

Now get up and dance.

Dave: Love Dvoracek, and most baroque, classical, romantic. Gustav Holst The Planets. The Russians, Mussourgsky, Cui, Tchaikovsky. Felix Mendelsson. Listz, Berlioz, Verdi (the Requiem!). Gah. I could go on, and you don't want to see that.

Baby Huey: When a good orchestra really gets going strong in Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War section of The Planets, it makes me feel funny in my boy parts.

Ian: I guess my surprising love for Pink Floyd plays into the entire problem of people not believing that I don't smoke weed. Anyone who kind of knows me automatically assumes that I'm a giant stoner- something about my laid-back nature and my predilection for hoodies and sandals.

One day I walked out onto my porch wearing pajama pants, a hoody and a pair of leather moccasins. My roommate just stared and shook his head.

But anyway, music - I have four complete Pink Floyd albums, some trance rock, Massive Attack and a Reggae song by The Mystic Roots called "Pass The Marijuana".

I'm not a pothead, people - I'm just naturally relaxed!

Richard: What is the wreck, surprising musical taste? It depends, some people are surprised that I listen to Eazy E, some are surprised that I listen to Kelly Clarkson, but most people are surprised that I listen to Kelly Osbourne. A few people have been surprised by my adoration of Steely Dan and ELO, but they just don't know proper jams is all. Just because it got worn out on AM radio doesn't mean it didn't have merit.

There you have it. Now you know a little more about the inner workings of the minds of the FTTW writers. It ain't pretty.

We bared our souls here. Your turn. We promise not to make fun. I mean, how can we? Look at what we're listening to.

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