first post

I have been noticing of late that my blog has been meandering over every topic under the sun, and though such meandering is the essence of any blog, i did realize that I need to bring in some kind of order into my thoughtstream.
Here's my first attempt. In this blog, I'm just purely going to ramble about anything related to music. Probably, soon I will start in similar spirit, a blog on computer science stuff, and yet another one on motoracing.
I guess this much is enough for a first post.
Or maybe I could talk a bit about my music taste in general.
To sum it up I love any thing melodious. To be more specific, I like the following genres of music (not in order of preference) -
English:
classic rock, soft rock, basically songs with a lot of guitar and/or piano, also other unconventional instruments like saxophone, pan pipe, flute.
Representative bands that I like:
Classic Rock - Doors (btw Ray Manzarek is my favourite musician), Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Beatles, The Who, Dire Straits, Dream Theater, Metallica
Soft Rock - Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, John Denver, CCR, Eagles, Bob Dylan
guitar instrumental - Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Eric Johnson
Tamil:
tamil film melodies, invariably composed by one of these two maestros, Ilayaraja or AR Rahman. Ilayaraja without doubt is the king of melodies, Rahman OTOH is more famous for rhythm than melody, nonetheless he has composed some of the most haunting melodies. Of late I have been reading the Carnatic Raga theory, and learning some ragas, and I realize that most of the most haunting melodies by Ilaiyaraja are based on some raaga or the other. It is fascinating to see how well he has adapted these ragas to popular masses' taste.
Hindi Film oldies - I love Mukesh's pathos-filled voice, Rafi's romantic voice, and Kishore's versatility, and Lata the nightingale and to a lesser extent Asha's sensuous voice. My famous music director is SD Burman, the king of melodies closely followed by Shankar Jaikishen, perhaps because of his heavy use of piano in his songs.
Carnatic - This is one genre I have begun to explore only recently, nonetheless I find it to be the most amazing form of music. I really regret the fact that I never got to learn this amazing form of music formally, my primary teacher has just been the Internet (thanks wikipedia for the amazing articles, and musicindiaonline for the great collection of music!)
This pretty much sums my favourite genres of music.
And now I can conclude this post and move on...