What is the Best Saxophone Song?

[BobG]

Marlene Dietrich singing one of the all time great folk songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPrktPTr9Mo


A Ukrainian folk song providing the inspiration for an American folk song, sung by a German actress in French. Almost as circular as the song, itself.

 

[BobG]

Little Liza Jane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOE5FHuyiN8

 

[rewebster]

I think I like it


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wooooo-ee!

 

[Dembadon]

Troubles will come...

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and they will pass...

That is my favorite Skynyrd song.

 

[rewebster]

you won't...

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if you don't set your clocks ahead tonight!

 

[rewebster]

I'd rather be a forest than a street

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while looking over manuscripts

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[rewebster]

She was playing a part...

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that I could understand.

 

[rewebster]

Now it's come...

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to what you want



But somethin' in me said...

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[rewebster]

Desire...

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is hunger






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[OmCheeto]

Anything by James Taylor of course:

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I do love this forum. I do love this forum. I do, I do, I do... :!)

ps. Happy Birthday Greg.

 

[rewebster]

Going where the weather suits my clothes

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If we take the time

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Fire me up with your resistance

 

[rewebster]

We leave tonight or live and die this way

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I got no plans I ain't going nowhere



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[TheStatutoryApe]

Its Patty's Day so here's a Patty's Day entry.

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[Ivan Seeking]

Another one for the Irish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplZ_taHXLM

 

[rewebster]

I need a small vacation

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[rewebster]

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one who will...

 

[rewebster]

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a little
bit restless...


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...anyhow...

 

[lisab]

rewebster, if the whole science thing doesn't work out for you, you should become a DJ. Your choices are great!

 

[Kajahtava]

]Reading this topic, I kind of have to say that I euh, well errrh...

...think that about any person that posted here has a far too limited knowledge of music to decide on the 'best songs ever'...

I mean, almost all songs here are:

A: from the modern era, especially the latter half of the twentieth century
B: western common practice
C: rarely serious or art music
D: only using instruments from the list: guitar, keys, vocals, bass guitar, drums

Now a little diversity never hurts does it:







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[OmCheeto]

Now a little diversity never hurts does it:

It does if it sucks.

I predict that in the next 5 million years, none of your selections will make it onto the billboard top 100,000. Unless of course cats take over the world.

 

[Kajahtava]

It does if it sucks.

I predict that in the next 5 million years, none of your selections will make it onto the billboard top 100,000. Unless of course cats take over the world.

Do you really take yourself that seriously if you confuse popularity with quality that much?

Though, these songs are more lasting than most things posted here, there's a reason it's only from the last 40-odd years what's posted here. Though quality music has a less appeal in a burst, it's appeal stays more over time. No one will be listening to most of today's billboard hits in as little as three years. However Mathäus Passion, though never really popular, has endured for over 300 years with the right audience.

Also, Die Große Fuge that I included, Beethoven had this to say about the audience's inability to see it:

"And why didn't they encore the Fugue? That alone should have been repeated! Cattle! Asses!"

In fact, even critics of those days were dumbstruck by it and at best confused, and at worst blamed it on insanity.

It took more than a century however, it took the invention of the phonograph for people to re-listen and re-listen to it until finally some critics began to see the logic and pattern between what on the surface appears as random chaos and nowadays most critics agree that it is the most ambitious, sophisticated and intricate piece he ever composed. After more than a century though.

Good music takes time to appreciate, to re-listen to it multiple times before one can see it, like complex and brilliant physics, you have to re-read to understand it. Popular music however is designed to be able to be light and to be understood as soon as possible by the people because it's still released on commercial corporations who of course have their first responsibilities to their shareholders. I can't say I blame the, it's a free market, I however can neither say that any of that music meets the label 'one of the best songs of all times', I believe you confuse 'best' with 'most accessible', an altogether different category.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Now a little diversity never hurts does it:

Not sure if I posted this yet but here it is again if I did...

 

[rewebster]

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...so gently in my ear...



the way...

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...that I used to be



three by Bob

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...you...

 

[rootX]

...think that about any person that posted here has a far too limited knowledge of music to decide on the 'best songs ever'...

 

[Andre]

Some more best songs ever, Adagio by Albinoni vocalized by

Il Divo


Sarah Brightman

 

[Borek]

Could be I have posted it earlier, I don't remember. But it is still one of the best.

 

[Kajahtava]

Not sure if I posted this yet but here it is again if I did...

Not exactly groundbreaking, but an interesting listen and at least not western verse-chorus-verse music.

No really mate, the entire thread is solely filled with 60-90's western billboard hits in standard time, almost all's penta/hepta tonic an is invariably {vocals,guitar,bass guitar,keys,drums}. I find it unlikely that 99% of the 'best songs ever' are from the last 40 years, all from the west, all in the same signature and scale, all tonal, and all feature the same instruments.

People here really are too ignorant about the diversity of music out there to decide this.

 

[rootX]

Not exactly groundbreaking, but an interesting listen and at least not western verse-chorus-verse music.

No really mate, the entire thread is solely filled with 60-90's western billboard hits in standard time, almost all's penta/hepta tonic an is invariably {vocals,guitar,bass guitar,keys,drums}. I find it unlikely that 99% of the 'best songs ever' are from the last 40 years, all from the west, all in the same signature and scale, all tonal, and all feature the same instruments.

People here really are too ignorant about the diversity of music out there to decide this.

1. Pulling something diverse (non-western) wouldn't make it the best
2. Who is to decide what is the best song ever? .. I would trust my ears more than a highly qualified musician to find good music and what's best for me. Music is to enjoy and its quality is subjective to the listener.

 

[Kajahtava]

1. Pulling something diverse (non-western) wouldn't make it the best

I never claimed that it was. I just said that people here are praetentious if they claim to know a song qualifying for 'one of the best' since they're far too ignorant about music to make that claim.

Maybe the best contemporary western pop music, that of course puts less prestige to the title. It are only about 800 songs to select from then.

2. Who is to decide what is the best song ever? .. I would trust my ears more than a highly qualified musician to find good music and what's best for me. Music is to enjoy and its quality is subjective to the listener.

Maybe, but I'm just saying you people know too little for that. Maybe changing to 'the best song I know' is a less praetentious title.

 

[rootX]

I never claimed that it was. I just said that people here are praetentious if they claim to know a song qualifying for 'one of the best' since they're far too ignorant about music to make that claim.

Maybe the best contemporary western pop music, that of course puts less prestige to the title. It are only about 800 songs to select from then.

Maybe, but I'm just saying you people know too little for that. Maybe changing to 'the best song I know' is a less praetentious title.

Yes, had this been a Music forum, which this is not. If you enjoy a song put it here and that's all this thread is about IMO, not about the songs that only musicians find tasteful.

 

[rewebster]

Maybe, but I'm just saying you people know too little for that. Maybe changing to 'the best song I know' is a less praetentious title.

well, if you want to be the thread title monitor, there's: 'Threads: 325,907' that you could start double checking whether they're pretentious or not; then make a list.

 

[rewebster]

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why

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[ViewsofMars]

VT-SFgkVlno[/youtube] :smile: That's the best song for me that reflects the mood I'm in today!

 

[ViewsofMars]

I need some help please. I can't find a good music video of Steve Winwood's song Higher Love. It is the best song ever for me. It saved my life when i thought I was going to die and almost did. Also, it uplifts me. I LOVE IT!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Maybe, but I'm just saying you people know too little for that. Maybe changing to 'the best song I know' is a less praetentious title.

Here in GD the rules are a bit more lax. Titles of threads and the claims there in do not necessarily need to reflect any well thought out and substantiated claim.

Essentially the thread is asking for people to tell us what songs they think are best of what they have listened to and the idea perhaps is to expose us all to great music we may not have heard before. If we were being pretentious then we might see some more criticism of the threads content, but we are just sharing. So you are more than welcome to share with us those songs which you think are the greatest of those which you have listened to of what ever provenance and style.