What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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In summary, some of the best songs are "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty, "Guns N Roses, Sweet Child O' Mine." by Axl Rose, "Bruce Springsteen - "tunnel of love"" by Led Zeppelin, "Honor thy Father" by Dream Theater, and "Octavarium" by Dream Theater.
  • #456
Loreena McKennitt - Penelope's Song


Now that the time has come
Soon gone is the day
There upon some distant shore
You'll hear me say

Long as the day in the summer time
Deep as the wine dark sea
I'll keep your heart with mine.
Till you come to me.

There like a bird I'd fly
High through the air
Reaching for the sun's full rays
Only to find you there

And in the night when our dreams are still
Or when the wind calls free
I'll keep your heart with mine
Till you come to me

Now that the time has come
Soon gone is the day
There upon some distant shore
You'll hear me say

Long as the day in the summer time
Deep as the wine dark sea
I'll keep your heart with mine.
Till you come to me


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Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer

(many sunsets, mountain and shoreline scenes)
(alt)

When the dark wood fell before me
And all the paths were overgrown
When the priests of pride say there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone

I did not believe because I could not see
Though you came to me in the night
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the stars

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and fire

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Though we share this humble path, alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars

Breathe life into this feeble heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears
We'll rise above these earthly cares

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me
Please remember me
 
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One of the most beautiful pieces of Rock music ever written and performed.
Spirit - Taurus - 1968 - (slideshow)



SPIRIT / FRESH-GARBAGE / TAURUS


Spirit - I Got A Line On You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7qUw3cuY

Spirit - Nature's Way


Spirit - Mr. Skin



Documentary - Innovative rock at the time, contemporaries of Hendrix, Yardbirds and QSM,
predecessors of Led Zepplin

Spirit - The Video History - Part 1 of 6


Spirit - The Video History - Part 2 of 6 (includes a decent All Along the Watchtower)


Spirit - The Video History - Part 3 of 6


Spirit - The Video History - Part 4 of 6


Spirit - The Video History - Part 5 of 6


Spirit - The Video History - Part 6 of 6



I saw Spirit twice in the 1970's.


All Along The Watch Tower - Night of the Guitars


Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower (Live)


Jimi Hendrix All Along The Watchtower (Studio version) - turn it down at the end.
 
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  • #459
An Irish national treasure, Mary Black. Why did my ancestors leave? Oh, right, they were starving.

 
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  • #461
This isn't one of the best songs ever, but it is a demonstration of how one of the best blues bands in England (Fleetwood Mac) weathered defections, breakdowns, and religious conversions by its most talented front-men (Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, and Danny Kirwan) and settle for being the back-up band for Buckingham and Nicks. I bought this album in a cut-out bin for maybe $1 at about the time that they joined Fleetwood Mac.

 
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  • #463
I'm currently in love with the new "They Might Be Giants" song, "I'm Impressed".
http://www.spin.com/video/2007/09/070914_theymightbegiants/
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I'm currently in love with the new "They Might Be Giants" song, "I'm Impressed".
http://www.spin.com/video/2007/09/070914_theymightbegiants/
Wow, TMBG are still around? I love them.

Great video.

Astronuc said:
]Red Rum has great taste in music. Thanks for sharing this.
He has a very varied taste in music.
 
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  • #466
Evo said:
Wow, TMBG are still around? I love them.

Great video.

Yeah, they are a lot of fun! I love their quirkiness. I heard them interviewed on the radio the other day and it sounds like they have been into all kinds of things. They went off and did children's albums for a while, they did music for commercials, and that Malcolm in the Middle theme was a pretty decent hit for them. Glad they are still into making music for grownups.

He has a very varied taste in music.
Well, sure. I can't imagine you making him any other way!
 
  • #467
Math Is Hard said:
Well, sure. I can't imagine you making him any other way!
He *is* real. :frown: He just travels a LOT. Like weekly. He's planning a trip to Kilimanjaro now. But he's the kind to hop on a plane to Paris just to watch a rugby game. Or was it soccer? I never know what city/country/continent he is in on any given day.
 
  • #468
Think of it, Evo... Astronuc and I can vouch for one another. We're real, and can share phone calls, etc. Lots of other people we have to take on faith in this on-line social mash-up. You could be a Blade-Runner-type replicant for all we know, with implanted memories and photographs to match. What's your incept date?
 
  • #469
Evo said:
He *is* real. :frown: He just travels a LOT. Like weekly. He's planning a trip to Kilimanjaro now. But he's the kind to hop on a plane to Paris just to watch a rugby game. Or was it soccer? I never know what city/country/continent he is in on any given day.

Maybe he has gone to Istanbul (Not Constantinople).
 
  • #470
turbo-1 said:
Think of it, Evo... Astronuc and I can vouch for one another. We're real, and can share phone calls, etc. Lots of other people we have to take on faith in this on-line social mash-up. You could be a Blade-Runner-type replicant for all we know, with implanted memories and photographs to match. What's your incept date?

:smile: :smile:

Btw, is there some Red Rum-recipe in the food thread, too? :-p
 
  • #471
Math Is Hard said:
Maybe he has gone to Istanbul (Not Constantinople).
That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
 
  • #472
radou said:
:smile: :smile:

Btw, is there some Red Rum-recipe in the food thread, too? :-p
Of course, he's a fabulous cook. And he is real, I get postcards from him from places like Russia and Brazil... really...

If I was going to make up a guy, I wouldn't make up one with a girlfriend.
 
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  • #473
Another musical treasure from Red Rum. I couldn't resist dancing around the room with the Fruit Bat when I heard this just now. I absolutely LOVE this kind of music!

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=D-MrUX03mWM
 
  • #474
Evo said:
Another musical treasure from Red Rum. I couldn't resist dancing around the room with the Fruit Bat when I heard this just now. I absolutely LOVE this kind of music!
Now that would be sight to see. One seems to be in a better mood these days. Arm must be better?

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=D-MrUX03mWM
Great tune!
 
  • #475
Astronuc said:
Now that would be sight to see. One seems to be in a better mood these days. Arm must be better?
Everything is getting better. Three weeks and only took 3 pain pills, and those were for my back and neck.

The Fruit Bat really got into the dance, twirling in circles, leaping into the air and biting my knees. I played the song again and he jumped up thinking we were going to dance again. :smile:
 
  • #476
After I looked at that last link to nl.youtube, whenever I went to www.youtube, I got redirected to the nl site.


Anyway, some nostalgia.

Youngbloods - Let's Get Together
- Album cover


Rascals - its a beautiful morning


Rascals - How Can I Be Sure



Three Dog Night ~ Easy to be Hard


And some more modern work


Roberto Cacciapaglia - Lux Libera Nos


Roberto Cacciapaglia - How long
 
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  • #477
Astronuc said:
After I looked at that last link to nl.youtube, whenever I went to www.youtube, I got redirected to the nl site.
Odd, I don't have that problem. Red Rum lives in the Netherlands, which is why his youtube is nl.
 
  • #479
Sakamoto Kyu's "Ue o muite", the fine lyrics of which became perverted into some silly verse about a dish of fish by vulgar Germans is given below the link to the song in a fairly accurate translation:


I look up when I walk
So the tears won't fall
Remembering those happy spring days
But tonight I'm all alone
I look up when I walk
Counting the stars with tearful eyes
Remembering those happy summer days
But tonight I'm all alone
Happiness lies beyond the clouds
Happiness lies above the sky

I look up when I walk
So the tears won't fall
Though my heart is filled with sorrow
For tonight I'm all alone

Remembering those happy autumn days
But tonight I'm all alone
Sadness hides in the shadow of the stars
Sadness lurks in the shadow of the moon

I look up when I walk
So the tears won't fall
Though my heart is filled with sorrow
For tonight I'm all alone
 
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  • #481
Jimmy Page's 20 Greatest Led Zeppelin Studio Solos


You'll just have to go out and buy the albums.
 
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  • #482
And now for something completely different. Jethro Tull had a unique sound. I saw them several times during the mid and late 1970's.


Jethro Tull - A New Day Yesterday - Fillmore East 1969


Jethro Tull - Life's A Long Song, 1971


Jethro Tull - With You There To Help Me


Jethro Tull - Song For Jeffrey


Jethro Tull: To Cry You a Song/A New Day Yesterday (07/31/1976?)


Jethro Tull - Teacher


Jethro Tull - Boureé


Jethro Tull - Requiem


Jethro Tull - The Rover



Jethro Tull: Living in the Past (3/10/1985)



Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Live)


Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath (02/10/1977)


Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick (07/31/1976)


Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick - Part 1 (02/10/1977)



Jethro Tull The Whistler


Jethro Tull - Cold Wind to Valhalla


Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery (with interview auf Deutsch)

with Ian Anderson's perspective on rock & roll

Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery (07/31/1976) live - full version


Jethro Tull - One White Duck



Jethro Tull: Songs from the Wood (02/10/1977)


Jethro Tull: Velvet Green (02/10/1977)


Jethro Tull: Hunting Girl (02/10/1977)


Jethro Tull: Jack in the Green (02/10/1977)



Jethro Tull: Broadsword (March 1982)



Jethro Tull: Instumental (Guitar & Drum solo) (07/31/1976)


Jethro Tull: Beethoven's Ninth (07/31/1976)


Jethro Tull: Bach's Double Violin Concerto


Jethro Tull: Elegy (3/10/1985)
 
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Astronuc said:
And now for something completely different. Jethro Tull had a unique sound. I saw them several times during the mid and late 1970's.
I've been listening to Tull all day yesterday - 'twas sparked by Radou's comment in the other thread and I realized how long it's been since I've listened to any Tull.
 
  • #485
Diana Damrau as Queen of the Night in "Der Holle Rache"
Great scenic performance as well:


As a comparison, here's Florence Foster Jenkins doing her performance:

:smile:
 
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Chi Meson said:
I saw a link to the tune "Ojo" (which I like better than VMG), and OUCH, it's some teenager from God-knows-where!

One should NOT be allowed to attempt this in public.

I am only 12 so I haven't got any idea what most of the songs are that you are all mentioning but I wanted to say that the little baby in the picture is soooo sweet. I have this thing about babies. They are so cute.
About the music topic though,if you are talking about songs of today I think that Kate Nash has a sweet voice. I love her song 'Foundations'.
 
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arildno said:
Diana Damrau as Queen of the Night in "Der Holle Rache"
Great scenic performance as well:


As a comparison, here's Florence Foster Jenkins doing her performance:

:smile:


Both wonderful in their own way!

Some antipodeans-
Only seen one episode, but I like this ‘Flight of the Conchords’ show so far.



An old favourite, The Saints.
 
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  • #488
When I was 10 I got an AM radio for Christmas and I would fall asleep listening to it every night. Soon after sunset, the big transmitters in Albany and Buffalo would crank up. Albany featured lots of rock and roll, but Buffalo was heavy into Mo-Town, and I loved that sound. Here's one of my favorites. Jackie Wilson's signature song "Lonely Teardrops" was in heavy rotation through the early '60's and beyond. (No video with this one)

 
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  • #489
Always a pleasure to see Enya:





and Sarah




Most beautiful clip ever:



Best song:

 
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  • #490
Technically, they might have been singing one of the best songs ever, but this still was one of the low points in musical history - David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull. I have no idea what the wardrobe folks were thinking.



She actually sings a lot better songs -

Ballad of Lucy Jordan -

Broken English -

Sister Morphine -

Working Class Hero -
 
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