What is the Best Saxophone Song?

[ThomasT]

 

[ThomasT]

 

[dx]

 

[fillipeano]

New Dream Theater album coming out if there are any fans out here in the science world..
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[OmCheeto]

Was the following for real?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0

I'm having trouble lately distinguishing between my memories, hallucinations, and CGI.

 

[rootX]

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[BWV]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAD_sKFXl8w

 

[ThomasT]

 

[ThomasT]

 

[ThomasT]

 

[Willowz]

 

[Proton Soup]

Was the following for real?



I'm having trouble lately distinguishing between my memories, hallucinations, and CGI.

looks real. i was trying to figure out how they isolated individuals on camera until i noticed they were numbered.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

I've been going through Amy Winehouse's discography since she died. It was immediately clear to me that she has made a mark in the history of modern music in her short troubled life. Some people have called her a genius. There's a tendency to overdo praise when someone like this passes, just as there was a tendency to vilify her in life because of her behavior. IMO, her best work is not her best known work. My selection for her best song is: "I Wake Up Alone". Maybe you can't separate her demons from her art. Maybe her demons drove the arc of her short life through soaring heights to a deadly crash. I consider myself an educated man, but I just don't know about these things. I do know this is one melodically and lyrically superb song, superbly performed.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/879604/

 

[BWV]

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

 

[ThomasT]

I've been going through Amy Winehouse's discography since she died. It was immediately clear to me that she has made a mark in the history of modern music in her short troubled life. Some people have called her a genius. There's a tendency to overdo praise when someone like this passes, just as there was a tendency to vilify her in life because of her behavior. IMO, her best work is not her best known work. My selection for her best song is: "I Wake Up Alone". Maybe you can't separate her demons from her art. Maybe her demons drove the arc of her short life through soaring heights to a deadly crash. I consider myself an educated man, but I just don't know about these things. I do know this is one melodically and lyrically superb song, superbly performed.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/879604/

Really cool song and well done. Somewhat unique voice and great phrasing. Given a reasonably interesting voice it's the phrasing that makes the difference. She was quite talented in that regard. Too bad that she had the sort of attitude, or maybe she was a depressed sort, that allowed her to abuse alcohol and whatever else. Anyway, I take any music at face value. This is good music imo. That is, I enjoyed listening to it.

 

[ThomasT]

 

[ThomasT]

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Really cool song and well done. Somewhat unique voice and great phrasing. Given a reasonably interesting voice it's the phrasing that makes the difference. She was quite talented in that regard. Too bad that she had the sort of attitude, or maybe she was a depressed sort, that allowed her to abuse alcohol and whatever else. Anyway, I take any music at face value. This is good music imo. That is, I enjoyed listening to it.

Yes. That's what it's all about. In a generation Amy will be remembered for her music and the other musicians that she influenced, not her behavior. What I like about Amy is that she realized that a world existed before she was born, and people have been making great music for a long time, like Joni Mitchell. She mined the past to bring her own special sound into the present. It took some courage to do that. I mean Frank Sinatra? That's too retro even for me!

As for her messed up life; like I said, I just don't know. When she was 17, she apparently recorded a song called "Long Day". I wasn't released until 2009 (as a single). She refused to allow it into her first album "Frank". Her lyrics reveal a girl who seems to be driven by a creative energy that won't let her rest. So her "issues" weren't new. "Long Day" is a great song that got lost.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/1518501/

By the way, this Brazilian site seems to have all her available songs along with the lyrics, an important feature if you're trying to understand what she's saying. Just scroll down the page to the play list.

 

[Borek]

I have seen her pictures in the past, and the name wasn't completely alien, but I have never heard her signing up to today. Fascinating voice.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

I have seen her pictures in the past, and the name wasn't completely alien, but I have never heard her signing up to today. Fascinating voice.

Yes, that voice! That's what people notice first. The British media personality Russell Brand knew Amy when she was teenage "twit" as he describes her. The local older guys called her "Winehouse", not "Amy". They liked to kid around with her. She told them she was a "jazz singer" and had dropped out of school. "Jazz singer"? (Like what's your day job?) She, of course, lived at home with her family (when she was home anyway). Later on, Brand, who by then had known her casually for a number of years, describes his reaction when he first heard her sing. It's a bit over the top, but probably not too far from the reaction many people have when they first actually hear her sing (including me).

"I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal. Entering the space I saw Amy on stage with Weller and his band; and then the awe. The awe that envelops when witnessing a genius. From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness. A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I’d only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn’t just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed up nit who was never going to make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a ****ing genius."

http://www.russellbrand.tv/2011/07/for-amy/

 

[Willowz]

No lyrics but a great 'song'..



Before I go to sleep I'll pretend to have a beer while listening to this one.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I recently "discovered" a band called The BellRays. They have a garage rock/punk sound with soul style lyrics. Here is a music video. If you choose to listen and don't care that much for the music at least wait for the vocals, they're what really make the band. And the video is fun too.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

I recently "discovered" a band called The BellRays. They have a garage rock/punk sound with soul style lyrics. Here is a music video. If you choose to listen and don't care that much for the music at least wait for the vocals, they're what really make the band. And the video is fun too.

That's Lisa Kekaula, the lead singer for this rock-soul band from Southern California. They've been around for a while. I like them too, but it is Lisa's singing that makes them stand out. Otherwise it's fairly standard heavy metal type rock. Frankly, I think the only reason they're not better known is that Lisa is not exactly a petite blue-eyed blonde type.

 

[ElectroPhysics]

CC Catch: Don't be a hero tonight

 

[Willowz]

Makes me all warm. Yay!

 

[SW VandeCarr]

By the time of this live performance in London, Amy Winehouse was well into her downward self-destructive spiral. Live performances before large crowds were always difficult for her and she felt the need to "fortify" herself. If you look closely, she's a bit unsteady and there's that faraway look in her eyes. This time at least, she got her "dosage" right, enough to control her nerves, but not enough to ruin her performance. The song "Valerie" was one of her last commercially significant releases. It was originally recorded by the Zutons and is one the few recent songs in Amy's discography that she didn't write herself.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/1007718/

 

[Willowz]

I guess I'll post another.

 

[OmCheeto]

Facebook will not let me post the following video:

Odd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRK8Oq667Ss

This song describes much about me.

 

[BWV]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlY4blLIIAY

 

[lisab]

How about a country tune, with Jakob Dylan (you may have heard of his dad, Bob).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkH8dDhefC8

 

[micromass]

I like this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X88Kz7uRalc

 

[rootX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaJqynA8Y0

Stevie Nicks new album, In your dreams!

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Stevie Nicks new album, In your dreams!

I'm glad to see (hear?) that Stevie is recording again. She's one of my favorites from way back when. It's interesting that Mick Fleetwood was interested in hiring her then boyfriend (1975) Lindsey Buckingham, but not her. Lindsey insisted that they were a pair. Mick hired her and soon after they recorded Stevie's composition "Rhiannon". Most everyone in PF over a certain age has probably heard it, but perhaps not some of the younger members and visitors.



EDIT: My only complaint about this performance is that they didn't give Christine more solo time on the keyboard. She was starting to lay down some cool licks.

 

[rootX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7DAHi_Cks8

 

[SpringCreek]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCtaEGWA93U