What is the Best Saxophone Song?

[turbo]

Traveling Soldier, by the Dixie Chicks. Natalie Maines has a fantastic voice! These low-res clips don't do the Chicks justice. If you like this song, buy "Home" - a wonderful CD.

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"I'm not Ready to Make Nice"
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[turbo]

Especially for Evo:

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Mary Black is one of the world's most gifted vocalists and a long-time favorite of mine. Here is her home page, with clips of her performances. First, get "No Frontiers", then "Babes in the Woods". I first heard her singing "I Say a Little Prayer for You" on a Boston radion station while traveling to a consulting job. The DJ did not identify the performer, but I knew I had to find out who she was. When I got back to Maine, I went to a specialty music shop (lots of old vinyl and obscure artists in the inventory) and described the music (including instrument line-up and arrangement, etc) to Bob, and he said "Sounds like Mary Black. I'll see if she's got a new CD out." Next week, I stopped in a picked up my copy of No Frontiers. If it had been on vinyl, I'd be on my 3rd or 4th copy by now (I'm on my 4th copy of "Pure Prairie League", which for some reason RCA has never seen fit to re-release on CD.)
http://www.mary-black.net/disco/albums/albums.htm

If you've never listened to the Pure Prairie League, follow this link, click on "Music" in the menu bar and start the old car radio labeled "previous releases". The first two songs were on the eponymous first album, though for some reason they chose to pass on "Take it Before you Go", which has the hottest alternating electric-guitar, steel-guitar solo ever.
[url]http://www.pureprairieleague.com/[/url]

If I were forced into a desert-island scenario (even with my huge collection of blues and rock), Pure Prairie League would be the album that I would take with me.

For those with Little Feat withdrawal symptoms, click on the upper radio and play "Nothing Like the Lonely" - it ain't Lowell George, but it's pretty good.

 

[BobG]

Leonard Cohen has lots of great songs. I like this one in particular:

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Aah, but I have to include one other song, just because.

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[Evo]

Especially for Evo:

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[Gelsamel Epsilon]

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Glass Prison
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Dream Theater - Train of Thought - This Dying Soul
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Dream Theater - Octavarium - The Root of all Evil
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These three songs are each written by their drummer Mike Portnoy - they're about the steps of the famous alcoholics annoymous program. One song per album so far he only has one more song to write to finnish this 'meta-song'. They also do other cool stuff like linking other songs together through their albums to make 'meta-albums'

Dance of Eternity
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Probably one of their most complicated songs going threw many extreme tempo changes and even "genre changes" (though it's still -progressive- metal).

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater#Notes[/url]Just for an idea how much goes into their albums actually meaning something;
Analysis of the Octavarium album;
http://dt.spatang.com/octavarium.php
Scenes from a Memory 'Hidden' Story;
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_from_a_Memory#Story[/url] <--- This Story gives me a chill every time I read it.

 

[BSMSMSTMSPHD]

I love that Octavarium song! I've been listening to that album all week.

Here's my post: [MEDIA=youtube]eTKL8MNH95Q[/MEDIA][/URL]

I don't really think it's a good song, but I just can't stop watching the video. It's like disco-metal or something.

APACHE!

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

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This is a sort of duet between Dream Theater's Drummer (Mike Portnoy) and Keyboardist (Jordan Rudess) I find it really cool, especially how heavy and deep the bass sounds when he hits it.

If you can't tell my favourite band is Dream Theater =p

As for other music I like, you guys probably won't like this stuff.

Arch Enemy - We Will Rise
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In Flames - F(r)iend
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Chimaira - Pure Hatred
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[JamesU]

Dream theater's Pull me Under is great too:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pe3Q1q5MxHw

 

[BobG]

I love that Octavarium song! I've been listening to that album all week.

Here's my post: [MEDIA=youtube]eTKL8MNH95Q[/MEDIA][/URL]

I don't really think it's a good song, but I just can't stop watching the video. It's like disco-metal or something.

APACHE![/QUOTE]
That's just plain sick! That video is so wrong on so many levels I wouldn't even know where to begin! :smile:

It's so bad, I'll have to go watch the Head On commercial over and over until I've driven this video out of my head!

Edit: Ah, geez, that'll never work. The only thing that might help is to E-mail that disturbing video to everyone I know.

 

[TuviaDaCat]

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Honor thy Father by Dream Theater - I swear Portnoy is the best drummer ever.
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heh i didnt think illl see any metal fans in here, and yea honor thy father roooocks

 

[BobG]

Here's another singer I like - Lucinda Williams. She has a voice that makes you wish you could walk along a dusty country road with her, drinking whiskey straight from the bottle until you get so drunk you get into a fight with each other and start hitting each other with the whiskey bottles and wind up in a passionate embrace sprawled right in the middle of the dusty road. (Uh, , hmm, I worry myself sometimes - I think I'll just blame it on having just watched that Apache video) My favorite of hers is "Still I Long for Your Kiss", but you'll have to settle for this one:

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[Gelsamel Epsilon]

heh i didnt think illl see any metal fans in here, and yea honor thy father roooocks

Ha yeh, to-be (hopefully) scientist and metal-head all the way \m/ :).

 

[TuviaDaCat]

my favorite band is "pain of salvation", its considered "progressive metal", id give the song "the perfect element" as a good example of their talent, but it doesn't seem to exist in "youtube".
so here is "in the flesh" : [MEDIA=youtube]ragU6RvZNy4[/MEDIA][/URL]
the end of the song pretty much rocks.

ah... their vocalist is just awesome.

 

[turbo]

Thanks Turbo!

No problem! She and Emmylou Harris did a special together - two of my top-10 favoirite vocalists. I have not seen Mary Black live, but I had front-row tickets to see Emmylou live at the Casino at Hampton Beach, and because I refused to use a flash and opted to use large, fast lenses, she favored me with her smile all night. I have pictures of her that that I treasure. I wish Graham Parsons could have lived to see what she accomplished - "We've all Got Wheels..." RIP

BTW, Sleepy LaBeef opened for Emmylou, and his show was as energetic and as compelling as any rockabilly/country performer that I have ever seen. If you can see him live, do so.

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

my favorite band is "pain of salvation", its considered "progressive metal", id give the song "the perfect element" as a good example of their talent, but it doesn't seem to exist in "youtube".
so here is "in the flesh" : [MEDIA=youtube]ragU6RvZNy4[/MEDIA][/URL]
the end of the song pretty much rocks.

ah... their vocalist is just awesome.[/QUOTE]

Sounds pretty awesome.


I'm going offtopic here but in the quiz section I got a question wrong (omg). It was "If something has a constant net force acting on it what does it do?" does it "move with constant Acceleration" "move with constant velocity" "something else really stupid" or "None of the Above" I said none of the above beause constant net force could = 0 so it wouldn't nessisarily move at all (let alone with aceeleration). In fact if It was already moving it could move with constant velocity if net force was 0.

(Also why is there a massive difference between novice and intermediate? novice is so easy I can do in my head but intermediate stuff I havn't even learned yet).

 

[turbo]

Thanks Turbo!

Just buy Mary Black's "No Frontiers" CD and play it a few times. If you don't love it, send it to me and I will pay you for it. This woman reaches into your soul with 'most every song.

 

[BSMSMSTMSPHD]

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Honor thy Father by Dream Theater - I swear Portnoy is the best drummer ever.

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Sorry. I admire your passion, but in the realm of progressive hard rock, Neil Peart will always be the best drummer.

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

Sorry. I admire your passion, but in the realm of progressive hard rock, Neil Peart will always be the best drummer.

Neil Peart is good and he has won many awards but none dealing with Progressive drumming.

"Mike Portnoy has won the following Modern Drummer magazine Reader's Poll awards;

* Best Up & Coming Talent (1994)
* Best Progressive Rock Drummer (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
* Best Recorded Performance (1995 for Awake, 1996 for A Change of Seasons, 1998 for Falling Into Infinity, 2000 for Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory, 2002 for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence)
* Best Clinician (2000, 2002)
* Best Educational Video/DVD (2000, 2002)
* Hall of Fame Inductee (2004)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater#Awards_and_certificates

 

[turbo]

Sorry. I admire your passion, but in the realm of progressive hard rock, Neil Peart will always be the best drummer.

How about the best drummer ever? The most powerful and definitive member of Led Zep was Bonham. I am a guitarist and lead vocalist who played rock and blues for many years, and Bonham was the key to that band!

 

[BSMSMSTMSPHD]

Okay, you've got me on the progressive thing. But awards, especially reader's choice awards are basically popularity contests. Popularity does not necessarily ensure goodness (just listen to any pop station for 3 minutes).

But then, everyone's experience is subjective, so who's to say either of us is wrong.

By the way - I'm a total metalhead too. Going to see Godsmack/Rob Zombie next week and Gigantour at the end of the month.

And I'm a 30 year-old married father-of-two PhD candidate in mathematics. I'm listening to Iron Maiden right now as I work on my Abstract Algebra HW.

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

Awesome - I'm 18 and I love physics - hopefully going into a decent uni course next year (if I get the required ENTER - I don't do any homework at all but I still top the class - which just promts me to not do any homework even more :( ). I love metal and somewhat like classical and I wish more metal bands toured in Australia (especially Dream Theater).

 

[BSMSMSTMSPHD]

Ever heard of Opeth? They are my new favorite band.

And I think Gigantour is coming to Australia later this year - yep Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney at the end of October.

18 huh? I teach kids your age... Man, I'm getting old!

 

[TuviaDaCat]

Sounds pretty awesome. I'm going offtopic here but in the quiz section I got a question wrong (omg). It was "If something has a constant net force acting on it what does it do?" does it "move with constant Acceleration" "move with constant velocity" "something else really stupid" or "None of the Above" I said none of the above beause constant net force could = 0 so it wouldn't nessisarily move at all (let alone with aceeleration). In fact if It was already moving it could move with constant velocity if net force was 0.

(Also why is there a massive difference between novice and intermediate? novice is so easy I can do in my head but intermediate stuff I havn't even learned yet).

but the acceleration may be different than 0, therfor your answer- wrong.
the right answer is - a constant accelration, and it may accelerate in 0.

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

Ever heard of Opeth? They are my new favorite band.

And I think Gigantour is coming to Australia later this year - yep Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney at the end of October.

18 huh? I teach kids your age... Man, I'm getting old!

Yeh I heard a bit of Opeth, and I've definitely heard of them. But I don't have any of their Albums - actually I don't have many albums of many bands because really I'm content with what I have at the moment.

APC
Arch Enemy
Chimaira
Dark Tranquility
Deicide
Devil Driver
Dimmu Borgir
Dream Theater
Emperor
Ensiferum
In Flames
Judas Priest
Meshuggah
Metallica
Nightwish
Nile
Norther
Rammstein
Rick Wakeman (Odd one out =p)
Strapping young lad
Susperia
Testament
Yngwie Malmsteen

Thats about all I have - and some of those bands while I listen to them frequently I only have singles of (lol, only some of them though, most I have whole albums).

Edit:

but the acceleration may be different than 0, therfor your answer- wrong.
the right answer is - a constant accelration, and it may accelerate in 0.

The question was "How does an object acted on by a constant net force move?" but my gripe was that a object with a constant net force wouldn't always be moving (this is Novice questions here so don't bring relativaty into this - the other questions were so easy that you could do them in your head so the question can't use relativity as an excuse). I was going to put down "Moves with Constant acceleration" despite the fact it could be 0 - but then I realized that would be wrong since it wouldn't "move" - and if it already WAS moving then "Moves with constant Velocity" is correct for F = 0. So there would be no definate answer.

 

[TuviaDaCat]

Ever heard of Opeth? They are my new favorite band.

And I think Gigantour is coming to Australia later this year - yep Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney at the end of October.

18 huh? I teach kids your age... Man, I'm getting old!

gramps, opeth is great, i loved "harvest", and the whole album damnation, but i just can't listen to their heacy stuff...
btw it odd to hear about someone old who knows new bands... ussually old people don't try new things in music...

 

[BSMSMSTMSPHD]

Nice list - a lot of good bands there (and many that I've seen live).

Get some Opeth. Please. Try Blackwater Park or their new one Ghost Reveries for starters. Their two best albums are Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse, imo.

Also, you might want to check out this set of forums: www.ultimatemetal.com

A couple of your bands have forums there.

 

[TuviaDaCat]

Yeh I heard a bit of Opeth, and I've definitely heard of them. But I don't have any of their Albums - actually I don't have many albums of many bands because really I'm content with what I have at the moment.

APC
Arch Enemy
Chimaira
Dark Tranquility
Deicide
Devil Driver
Dimmu Borgir
Dream Theater
Emperor
Ensiferum
In Flames
Judas Priest
Meshuggah
Metallica
Nightwish
Nile
Norther
Rammstein
Rick Wakeman (Odd one out =p)
Strapping young lad
Susperia
Testament
Yngwie Malmsteen

Thats about all I have - and some of those bands while I listen to them frequently I only have singles of (lol, only some of them though, most I have whole albums).

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The question was "How does an object acted on by a constant net force move?" but my gripe was that a object with a constant net force wouldn't always be moving (this is Novice questions here so don't bring relativaty into this - the other questions were so easy that you could do them in your head so the question can't use relativity as an excuse). I was going to put down "Moves with Constant acceleration" despite the fact it could be 0 - but then I realized that would be wrong since it wouldn't "move" - and if it already WAS moving then "Moves with constant Velocity" is correct for F = 0. So there would be no definate answer.

well, moving is after all a word with no solid defenition, like all words which does not concern math or sciense... so i won't discuss the difference between not moving, and having starting velocity of zero and accelerating in 0.

 

[BSMSMSTMSPHD]

gramps, opeth is great, i loved "harvest", and the whole album damnation, but i just can't listen to their heacy stuff...
btw it odd to hear about someone old who knows new bands... ussually old people don't try new things in music...

Okay, FIRST of all... I'm not THAT old. It's what I grew up on. I was listening to Metallica, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Sepultura, etc. back in the late 80's when I was a teenager. I still am (though Metallica has gone south in a big way).

When I picked up Blackwater Park (the one with Harvest) I too thought that I would hate the death metal vocals. For a month or so, I wouldn't listen to it. Then, slowly, I started to like it. Then, I loved it.

Now, I listen to them pretty much every day. I've seen them three times live in the past 3 years and they're in Gigantour this year.

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

Nice list - a lot of good bands there (and many that I've seen live).

Get some Opeth. Please. Try Blackwater Park or their new one Ghost Reveries for starters. Their two best albums are Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse, imo.

Also, you might want to check out this set of forums: www.ultimatemetal.com

A couple of your bands have forums there.

Will do. I also need to get some Illdisposed (which I recommend to you, especially the 1-800 Vindication CD).

Also if you didn't know already; www.metal-archives.com is good for information on metal bands etc.

 

[TuviaDaCat]

favorite:

metallica
megadeth
pain of salvation
evergrey
ayreon(try "the human equation")
arcturus
angra
agalloch
apocalyptica
dead soul tribe
led zeppelin
pink floyd
jethro tull
dream theater
haggard
iron maiden
the old dead tree
orphand land(it funny, its the only israeli cand i actully care about, yet they sing in english, like all metalists..)
porcupine tree
shadow gallery
sonata arctica
symphony x
tool
winds

 

[turbo]

I've always been a fan of James Taylor, and here he is, featuring Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks on his signature tune:

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and:
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[Gelsamel Epsilon]

Dimmu Borgir sings in Norwegian sometimes, it's freakin' awesome =p.
[MEDIA=youtube]bonWoVAS9kQ[/MEDIA][/URL] <---- Damnit how cool is that sweet ass statue thing in the background.
\m/ Vredesbyrd \m/

Reis deg opp
La oss bestride
Den tanke fra vår lend

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Back to the topic (lets not overun this topic with general Metal discussion considering that not everyone listens to it)Dream Theater - These Walls
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[TuviaDaCat]

here's a sad one http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZwD0qLeldg

 

[Gelsamel Epsilon]

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Dimmu Borgit - Progenies of the Great Apocalypse (They have a few bits of the song cut out here but it's still cool.)

How awesome is the clean vocalist's singing!?

Edit: Omg and the keyboarding.

 

[BSMSMSTMSPHD]

Ever seen this Peart drum solo?

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Just watched your DB video - pretty sweet.