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Post by TM on Jan 24, 2014 14:23:48 GMT -5
This has been one that I've wanted to do for quite some time. The songs can be from any genre, and the only criteria is they must be the best of the best.
I'm going to start with a song that would make any mother cry by the fantastic Luciano Pavarotti. I actually saw this performed live at the Metropolitan Opera last year see when I saw Turandot. Nessun Dorma was the highlight of the show but no one quite does it like Pavarotti.
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Post by Michael Crowe on Jan 24, 2014 17:45:50 GMT -5
This has been one that I've wanted to do for quite some time. The songs can be from any genre, and the only criteria is they must be the best of the best. I'm going to start with a song that would make any mother cry by the fantastic Luciano Pavarotti. I actually saw this performed live at the Metropolitan Opera last year see when I saw Turandot. Nessun Dorma was the highlight of the show but no one quite does it like Pavarotti. True, But I rather fancy Jeff Beck's version off Emotion & Commotion these days. |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Jan 24, 2014 18:30:59 GMT -5
This has been one that I've wanted to do for quite some time. The songs can be from any genre, and the only criteria is they must be the best of the best. I'm going to start with a song that would make any mother cry by the fantastic Luciano Pavarotti. I actually saw this performed live at the Metropolitan Opera last year see when I saw Turandot. Nessun Dorma was the highlight of the show but no one quite does it like Pavarotti. If I rightly understand the catagory, a case could be made for Happy Birthday I suppose, or a long standers like Greensleeves, a melody that has stood the test of time. So, being that Beethoven's fifth and nineth symphonys aren't officially songs, and forced to be objective rather than subjective ( Wondring Aloud ), and being that Waltzing Matilda is just too quaint, and Heartbreak Hotel is only noted here on it's historic merit, I will submit ( for now, until a better one comes to mind ) Smoke Stack Lightning by Howling Wolf. The greatest down to the quick, heart wrenching perfomance of human expression ever captured on record, in the Blues genre anyway, that has never been topped. But still, I'm thinking Greensleeves. Where Were You, by Jeff Beck, best instumental. |
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Post by TM on Jan 24, 2014 19:26:55 GMT -5
Any song is welcome, although I was really thinking about more personal favorites that perhaps we wouldn't know or wouldn't expect. But the idea remains to have a thread of truly fantastic music of all varieties, except.
Here's Smokestack Lightnin' which I've never heard before and glad to have now.
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Post by tulltapes on Jan 24, 2014 19:38:40 GMT -5
This must be in early on the list (could actually put the entire album up)
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
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Post by Michael Crowe on Jan 25, 2014 1:39:59 GMT -5
Any song is welcome, although I was really thinking about more personal favorites that perhaps we wouldn't know or wouldn't expect. But the idea remains to have a thread of truly fantastic music of all varieties, except. quote] In that case, Hiring Fair - Fairport Convention, subjectively speaking. |
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 25, 2014 16:39:07 GMT -5
Two War film themes
The Great Escape
I still watch it whenever they show it on the box
633 Squadron
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Post by Lucas on Jan 26, 2014 6:37:58 GMT -5
Hand of Doom by Black Sabbath.
My favorite Sabbath song.
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Post by Morthoron on Jan 26, 2014 15:08:04 GMT -5
Any song is welcome, although I was really thinking about more personal favorites that perhaps we wouldn't know or wouldn't expect. But the idea remains to have a thread of truly fantastic music of all varieties, except. Here's Smokestack Lightnin' which I've never heard before and glad to have now. Yes, Smokestack Lightnin' is one of my all-time favortie blues songs. Here's 15 more that I consider essential (Youtube is not readily available to me on this device, but these are all available for your perusal): Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters (or Hoochie Coochie Man) Nobody's Fault but Mine - Blind Willie Johnson (the vocals are spine-tingling) Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor (the best version) Nobody's Dirty Business - Mississippi John Hurt (or Richland Woman Blues) Women Be Wise - Sippie Wallace (good old time beltin' blues) Give me Back My Wig - Hound Dog Taylor (played on a $50 Silvertone electric through blown speakers) Pinetop's Boogie - Pinetop Perkins (best version) Dust My Broom - Elmore James (or Shake Your Moneymaker) Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker (or Boogie Chillen) Grinnin' In Your Face - Son House (sung a cappella - haunting) Walking Blues - Robert Johnson (or Traveling Riverside Blues) Baby Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins (another best version) When the Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie (Led Zeppelin has got nothing on Minnie) Room to Move - John Mayall (best harmonica tune of all time) Trouble in Mind - Big Bill Broonzy (sung by many, but not with this much blues) |
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Post by TM on Jan 27, 2014 16:37:58 GMT -5
Two War film themes The Great Escape I still watch it whenever they show it on the box 633 Squadron Didn't know you were so into brass sections! That's about as strange as my Pavarotti.  |
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Post by Michael Crowe on Jan 27, 2014 18:26:03 GMT -5
Any song is welcome, although I was really thinking about more personal favorites that perhaps we wouldn't know or wouldn't expect. But the idea remains to have a thread of truly fantastic music of all varieties, except. Here's Smokestack Lightnin' which I've never heard before and glad to have now. Yes, Smokestack Lightnin' is one of my all-time favortie blues songs. Here's 15 more that I consider essential (Youtube is not readily available to me on this device, but these are all available for your perusal): Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters (or Hoochie Coochie Man) Nobody's Fault but Mine - Blind Willie Johnson (the vocals are spine-tingling) Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor (the best version) Nobody's Dirty Business - Mississippi John Hurt (or Richland Woman Blues) Women Be Wise - Sippie Wallace (good old time beltin' blues) Give me Back My Wig - Hound Dog Taylor (played on a $50 Silvertone electric through blown speakers) Pinetop's Boogie - Pinetop Perkins (best version) Dust My Broom - Elmore James (or Shake Your Moneymaker) Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker (or Boogie Chillen) Grinnin' In Your Face - Son House (sung a cappella - haunting) Walking Blues - Robert Johnson (or Traveling Riverside Blues) Baby Please Don't Go - Lightnin' Hopkins (another best version) When the Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie (Led Zeppelin has got nothing on Minnie) Room to Move - John Mayall (best harmonica tune of all time) Trouble in Mind - Big Bill Broonzy (sung by many, but not with this much blues) Funny story about Wolf in London, that I read about the history of the English Blues scene. This journalist wrote of one of those sessions in the sixties where Wolf was recording with some of the top musicians in town at the time. He said that in those days it was hip to be small. If you were an average musician but were small then you could get the gig. So here was this session with all these young "small" English musicians and in walks the six foot six 290 pound Wolf. He said a snort of laughter went through their ranks. They started off with a jam to warm up, a shuffle, with Wolf on harmonica. The journalist went on to say that when Wolf began to sing, his eyes glared wide, his face contorted, and this bear like growl filled the room, distorting the small rehersal PA system they had. "It scared the sh** out me," he said. At first there were some dozen or so musicians in the room. After that jam there were eight. In a ten minute span from the time Wolf first began to sing, "I had felt the heat and sweat of pullng a life from the Mississippi delta, the pain of segregation, the despair of povery, and the joyful temporary escape in the late hour Saturday night juke joint on the outskirts of some small delta town. I got more life education in that one jam session than I had gotten up until my then twenty-three years, and so did a few of those musicians. As one guitarist, who shall remain nameless, said - 'We thought we were playing Blues, but we have been pretending ( to paraphrase from memory )." I still have that article somewhere which was kind of interesting. Gave some insight into the English Blues scene back in the day. |
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 27, 2014 18:52:57 GMT -5
Didn't know you were so into brass sections! That's about as strange as my Pavarotti. Paul, The Pavarotti piece is one of my favourites too. My Dad was a big opera buff and we were raised on some serious music. His brother was a stage manager at Covent Garden and travelled the world with the company, for a while my dad worked there but found it was not the place for him. He loved Tauber and Gigli but also loved Pavarotti. Luckily my brother took him to see Pavarotti before he died [my dad that is]. Nessun Dorma was played at his funeral, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. As for the brass section, well there's a bit of pomp and circumstance that rolls out of that that reminds me of sunday afternoon war films on TV when I was a lad, In fact I could easily add Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance No 1 in here as my classical piece or would it be Borodin's night on a bare mountain, or ...... |
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Post by Morthoron on Jan 27, 2014 22:31:37 GMT -5
Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin playing DiMeola's "Mediterranean Sundance":
Guitar-playing so unbelievable, I am sickened green with envy.
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Post by TM on Jan 27, 2014 22:36:57 GMT -5
Didn't know you were so into brass sections! That's about as strange as my Pavarotti. Paul, The Pavarotti piece is one of my favourites too. My Dad was a big opera buff and we were raised on some serious music. His brother was a stage manager at Covent Garden and travelled the world with the company, for a while my dad worked there but found it was not the place for him. He loved Tauber and Gigli but also loved Pavarotti. Luckily my brother took him to see Pavarotti before he died [my dad that is]. Nessun Dorma was played at his funeral, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. As for the brass section, well there's a bit of pomp and circumstance that rolls out of that that reminds me of sunday afternoon war films on TV when I was a lad, In fact I could easily add Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance No 1 in here as my classical piece or would it be Borodin's night on a bare mountain, or ...... Powerful story Pat, as I was just poking fun without regard for consequence as usual. But I'm happy to have started this thread as it allows us all to share the music that has touched our lives. |
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Post by TM on Jan 28, 2014 13:54:26 GMT -5
Here's probably my favorite track by Acoustic Alchemy.
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Post by Morthoron on Jan 28, 2014 13:59:45 GMT -5
Open for arguments:
3 Greatest Prog Songs:
Thick as a Brick (side 1) - Jethro Tull
And You and I - Yes
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
3 Greatest Prog Blues Songs:
Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 28, 2014 19:00:58 GMT -5
Very much the pop end of Brit-Pop, The Lighning Seeds from Liverpool led by Ian Broudie had quite a bit of commercial success in the UK and produced a few really good albums.
Marvellous from the 1994 Jollification album.
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Post by Michael Crowe on Jan 29, 2014 1:46:49 GMT -5
Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin playing DiMeola's "Mediterranean Sundance": Guitar-playing so unbelievable, I am sickened green with envy. Yeah, McLaughlin I would put in the top ten all time, and De Lucia, perhaps top three. Very inspiring, but I try not to be too envious. I'm just thankful for the level of gift I have. There's more to guitar than shred. I would be just as content to be able to phrase like Jeff Beck, have a tone like Eric Johnson, or go outside the box like Allan Holdsworth. Thanks for sharing that one. |
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Post by quizzkid on Jan 29, 2014 15:31:08 GMT -5
I love both Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck's versions of Superstition, I couldn;t decide which to post, so here's both of them doing their stuff from a few years ago ay MSG
TM, another brass section....
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Post by oldrocker on Jan 30, 2014 0:28:01 GMT -5
The Ride - David Allan Coe
The Body of an American - The Pogues
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley
The Magic Bus (live at leeds version) - The Who
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
If We Make it Through December - Merle Haggard
Train in Vain - The Clash
The Streets of Bakersfield - Buck Owens
Amarillo By Morning - George Strait
America the Beautiful - Ray Charles
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
Ancient Highway - Van Morrison
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Post by oldrocker on Jan 30, 2014 7:42:05 GMT -5
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Post by TM on Mar 4, 2014 13:31:19 GMT -5
One of my favs by Led Zep:
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Post by TM on Apr 30, 2014 19:31:53 GMT -5
Any Pat Methany fans out there?
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Post by Biggles on Apr 30, 2014 20:24:35 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I'm not familiar with Pat's entire body of work but, the music he was putting out throughout the '80s was miles ahead of everyone else in the biz. I keep meaning to pick up 'Still Life (Talking)' again. The last time I owned it, was on cassette, hah!
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Post by TM on May 1, 2014 15:35:05 GMT -5
Agreed. He put out some great music. I saw him at Radio City and the band replicated the sound to a "T", and Pat never spoke once. I thought he was mute for a while there.
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enjoy.
