photo of Fort Union, near the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers on the border between North Dakota and Montana
    Fort Union, on the North Dakota - Montana border, July 2005

    Music I Like

    I love music. This page is for me to keep links related to music I like.
    Here is a list of my 100 favorite songs (as of 2005).

    Lists of favorites

    Popular and Rock Music
    (I've listened to and enjoyed regularly for over a decade)

    • The Beatles.
    • The Clash.
    • The Replacements.
    • Joy Division / New Order.
    • The Kinks.
    • Big Country.
    • Jonathan Richman.
    • Belle and Sebastian.
    • Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.
    • Echo and the Bunnymen.
    • They Might Be Giants
    • Built to Spill
    • This Mortal Coil
    • Jefferson Airplane
    • The Sugar Cubes / Bjork.
    • Crass (and other Punk Rock such as: Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Buzzcocks, 7 Seconds, etc.)

    More recent bands I like (bands that have formed or become popular since 2002)

    • Vampire Weekend.
    • Thao Nguyen (with the Get Down Stay Down).
    • Airborne Toxic Event.
    • Nouvelle Vague.
    • OK Go.
    • Arcade Fire.
    • Passion Pit.
    • Ida Maria.
    • Los Campesinos!
    • Mosquitos.
    • Horse Feathers
    • Years (Ohad Benchetrit)
    • St. Vincent (Annie Erin Clark)
    • Carbon/Silicon
    • Dirty Projectors
    • Fanfarlo

    Folk and International Music

    • Peter Bellamy. more about him.
    • Martin Carthy
    • Sandy Denny
    • Donovan
    • Pete Seeger
    • Bob Dylan
    • Burl Ives
    • Buffy Saint Marie
    • Jean Redpath
    • Jacques Brel
    • Sainkho Namtchylak
    • Hoomii music (from Mongolia or Tuva)
    • Dadawa Zhu Zheqin
    • Lesley Nelson's Folk Music Site
    • Mudcat Cafe
    • Digital Tradition database mirror site

    Classical Music

    • Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
    • John Dowland. (1563-1626)
    • Johann Sebastian Bach. (1685-1750)
    • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
    • Richard Wagner (1813-1893)
    • Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
    • Edvard Greig. (1843-1907)
    • Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. (1844-1908)
    • Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams.(1872-1958)
    • Hugo Alfven (1872-1960)
    • John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)
    • Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
    • Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
    • Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
    • Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)

    Some More Lists

    • 100 favorite bands and performers (not including concert music)
    • 100 favorite songs in 2005 (all genres)
    • 300+ favorite songs (in selected genres: rock, alternative, punk, pop, country, electronic, etc.)
    • Hadley-Ives Home Page.