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.
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OmCheeto said:
One of the lines from the song; "This is how an angel cries", reminded me of; "This is how it sounds when doves cry".

I think it's a well done version of societal psycho-bombardment and self-imposed human angst.

"Blame it on my ADD" - Doctor's diagnosis of what is wrong with him.
"Sail, Sail, Sail" - Tourettes
"Maybe I should kill myself" - Passive aggressive?
etc. etc. etc.

I'm not a doctor, but he seems to just need a big hug. :smile:

But the visual message people are making of this song, says it has a message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QS3uyThYCE

Along with the "Aliens" stuff. ALIenS. (anagram!)

OmCheeto said:
I tend to make too much of lyrics sometimes. This song, supposedly about insomnia, I was able to translate into the Arab Spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNtIkRm1HE

Go without = being poor
till the need seeps in = starving
mumble mumble pedals, stem
eviscerate your fragile frame = self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi
a thousand different versions of yourself = scores of copy cat self-immolations across the middle east
and if the old guard still offends = tired of the status quo
they've got nothing left upon which you depend = hopeless for the future
So enlist every ounce, of your bright blood, and off with their heads = Revolution (in the style of the French)
Jump from the hook = take a step back
you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise = decide what you want for yourself

See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life, and they got no right.
As sure as you have eyes,
They got no right.

Just put yourself in my new shoes.
And see that I do all I do.
Because the old guard still offends.
(Their pudgy hearts and slimy hands)
They got nothing left on which we depend.
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood.
And off with their heads.

Jump from the hook.
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise,
That you despise.

Though Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, and the album, "Wincing the Night Away", which contained the above song, was released on January 23, 2007. So my interpretation, is probably fueled by madness/insanity.

I like your imagination:) ! And agree with the ideas about the "sail" song, in that the repeated lone word seems liberating. Thanks, Om.
 
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Willowz said:
Can't find the yt classics thread, but this song is a classic and a great song too!

Have you seen the Finish version?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdb8Hy1uF4

Hot pants :smile:
 
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OmCheeto said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
1985

In his 2010 interview with World Entertainment News Network Sting admitted that the song was inspired by watching the Soviet TV via satellite:

Sting is one of the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk&hd=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
1987
 
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Very cool TT!
What’s that "thing" I have never seen anything like it... :bugeye: very cool, me want...


P.S. I will respond to the QM 1+1=3 stuff, promise, it’s these Italian neutrinos that has gotten in the way... and they’re so fast I have a hard time to outrun them... ;)
 
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Who removed Duran Duran? That’s a great song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv89s

As for ordinary people in an ordinary world, my favorite quote might be useful:
"Galaxies are like people: the better you get to know them, the more peculiar they often seem." -- Sidney van den Bergh​
 
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Rammstein - Du hast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0HQ0QkGLQ
 
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DevilsAvocado said:
Very cool TT!
What’s that "thing" I have never seen anything like it... :bugeye: very cool, me want...
Hi DA. It's called the Chapman stick.

I like the music you're posting too.

DevilsAvocado said:
P.S. I will respond to the QM 1+1=3 stuff, promise, it’s these Italian neutrinos that has gotten in the way... and they’re so fast I have a hard time to outrun them... ;)
Oh yeah ... ok ... I had forgotten about that. What thread was that in?
 
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DevilsAvocado said:
Who removed Duran Duran? That’s a great song.
Some jerk...
As for ordinary people in an ordinary world, my favorite quote might be useful:
"Galaxies are like people: the better you get to know them, the more peculiar they often seem." -- Sidney van den Bergh​

A grand quote. I know many peculiar people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tydSHv9ak8E

But they can not hide.

:smile:
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAWurnyKZUM
 
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OmCheeto said:
But they can not hide.

:smile:

That's very true.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRIOKvR2WM

:smile:
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQIrxhNkiAs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drsMyeXzLSo
 
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DevilsAvocado said:
Holy pepperoni... (either I’ve gone senile, or I’ve really missed it completely), what a wonderful "bass-guitar-keyboard" instrument... I think I’m in love... :!)

Thanks!

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3517250#post3517250"
Yeah, it's a cool instrument. Unfortunately, when I found out about it I already had three years invested in learning the keyboard so I decided to stick with that. But I might still decide to get one.

And thanks for the Martha and the Vandellas tune. I used to hear it on the radio going to work as a teenager.

I'll now explore the 1+1=3 link that you provided.

EDIT: Yes, now I remember. And it remains for you to explain the 1+1=3 thing -- although I have an idea what you're saying. :smile:
 
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I think a lot of veterans of inconclusive and wrong-headed wars could relate to this song. They deserve respect and support even if the political culture, that sent them to war, doesn't.

 
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I don't know how to interpret this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWBG1j_flrg
 
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We just watched Glorious! in TV Theater.
 
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ThomasT said:
I don't get it either. I've never been very good with poetry.

Then you must not be an absurdist nihilistic existentialist (ANE). Any good ANE can instantly appreciate the deep meaning of this song. Just drive a little bit into the desert outside of Las Vegas on a Friday night and this is what you might well see. However, most ANE songwriters don't know they're ANEs. They're just copying each other. I don't know who started it all, but I suspect Kurt Cobain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
 
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Borek said:


We just watched Glorious! in TV Theater.


This song has upset my dog!
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
OmCheeto, do I have to keep spelling things out for you? The lyrics couldn't be more clear.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-high-road-lyrics-broken-bells.html

O.M.G.

That is so profound...
It is totally an analysis of...
oops. interrupted again. Sorry!

I'll be back when I collect my thoughts.

Though the other day when I watched it, without understanding a single word, it reminded me of much of my life.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7D-W-QW-8

when Jesus walked
he watched my sins walk away
oh what a happy day
he taught me how to laugh, and pray
rejoice
every day
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Then you must not be an absurdist nihilistic existentialist (ANE).
I did check out the Wiki link you provided. I guess I've never been much of a moral philosopher. I've come to believe that we're rather insignificant wrt the 'big picture'. Nevertheless, I also believe that behaving as if what I do does matter, and conforming to the cultural and moral norms of the society I happen to be a part of, leads to a more satisfying, less stressful (and longer) life than if I were to passionately embrace the absurdist/existentialist view. Which is not to say that it isn't correct, but that, if taken too seriously, can be self defeating.

Of course, you might want to correct me if you think I'm significantly off the mark on this. And that might be getting even more off the topic (thread title) of "Best songs ever", but that's one of the the great things about forums like PF. That is, the Mentors, Advisors, and contributors here recognize that whatever we might say, it's all related in some way, even though they apparently have no problem with deleting off-topic posts or locking threads that have veered off-topic.

I do appreciate that songs, insofar as they contain verses meant to impart some insight on living, and being, as they are, associated with the universal language of music, can be a profound influence on how one might think and act. Anyway, forgive me for rambling -- bottom line is that I'm an instrumentalist, wrt music as well as physics. And, yes, I appreciate the disparity in meaning.

SW VandeCarr said:
Any good ANE can instantly appreciate the deep meaning of this song.
I don't think it's very deep. Either the philosophy or the songs that, wittingly or not, espouse it.

SW VandeCarr said:
However, most ANE songwriters don't know they're ANEs.
This is an interesting assertion. Does it suggest that if they did know then they wouldn't have screwed up their lives, wrt the cases where they did that? Or would they have made the same choices based on a passionate rebellion against a status quo that they hadn't even an outside chance of changing?

SW VandeCarr said:
They're just copying each other.
I suspect that there's some truth in this. Though, as an artist myself, and realizing that anything I might create can't be totally independent of what I've learned of what's gone before, I at least want to believe that any copying isn't conscious or willful.

SW VandeCarr said:
I don't know who started it all, but I suspect Kurt Cobain.
This is a very interesting question for popular music historians. I myself have no opinion on it, since I don't particularly like Nirvana's music and, as I've mentioned, don't like poetry.

Anyway, you've made me think about this in a way that I hadn't before, and so I thank you for that.
 
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Borek said:


We just watched Glorious! in TV Theater.


AAHHHA HAAAHAAA HAAAAAAAAAaaaioooujjumm!

That IS the Best Song EVER! :smile::smile::smile: OMG I think I had a 'panty accident'...
 
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OmCheeto said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7D-W-QW-8

Well, It ain't over till the fat lady sings... this is so damned freaking good...

Goose bumps, duck skin, chill bumps, chicken skin, funky spots, goose pimples, chicken bumps...

#1

:!):!):!):!):!):!):!):!):!)
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Then you must not be an absurdist nihilistic existentialist (ANE).

Phew, I söught it waes sömething wroueng whit my engliösch interpruttaion...

In Europe we have the Absurdist Communist Nihilistic Existentialist (ACNE), also in drunken state known as ACNE Vulgaris.
 
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Borek said:
We just watched Glorious! in TV Theater.
Florence Foster Jenkins said:
People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.
If you can call that singing.
 
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Jimmy Snyder said:
If you can call that singing.
Good point. Was her thing comedy, or what? It's sort of funny, but becomes simply annoying after about 30 seconds or so.
 
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Loosen up guys :biggrin:
 
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DevilsAvocado said:
Loosen up guys :biggrin:
Thanks DA, I was getting a bit out of control there. It's just that Jenkins was my high school football coach's name.
 
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:smile:
 
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ThomasT said:
Yeah, it's a cool instrument. Unfortunately, when I found out about it I already had three years invested in learning the keyboard so I decided to stick with that. But I might still decide to get one.

Yup, it’s definitely cool. Maybe some day...

ThomasT said:
And thanks for the Martha and the Vandellas tune. I used to hear it on the radio going to work as a teenager.

This is probably going to sound real corny to you guys, but for me, living on the wrong side of the Atlantic, and missing this historical period in music – it’s just amazing that you was listening to this music when it was brand new...

Trust me, a lot of people in Europe regard the Tamla/Motown and R&B from the 60's as the musical 'Shangri-La'. You guys were like 200 years before us in progress, at that time, before MTV and internet, and I don’t know of anyone over here that gets even close to Aretha Franklin today.

This music still works today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg
1968

You want to hear the retarded sleeping pill that topped the charts in Sweden 1969?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5wkZSSfy74 <-- Note the corpse hanging on the wall
1969

:zzz::zzz:

ThomasT said:
although I have an idea what you're saying. :smile:

Cool, then I will put the 1+1=3 on the very loooooong to-do list... :smile:
 
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