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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OK, how about covers of these faves that are arguably better than the originals.

These Boots Are Made for Walking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY_icw4DiPA

Kashmir. Two Versions!

Kevin Gilbert would have made it big for sure, but died young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdviI2Ic6PM

Ofra Haza was Yemen-Israeli and also died young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5Cgb6Yy4Y
 
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Autumn Leaves... by Nana
 
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Paul Brady singing "Arthur McBride"...brilliant

Leonard Bernstien conducting Mozart's "Ave Verum Corpus"...sublime
http://youtu.be/6KUDs8KJc_c
Patrick Cassidy "Vide Cor Meum" from "Hannibal & Kingdom of Heaven"...beautiful!
http://youtu.be/BAB_gmcpMyY
 
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jim hardy said:
Autumn Leaves... by Nana

Nice Jim, one that could "grow on you".
 
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I think I already posted this but it came up tonight in a family discussion about music. I think this guy has the most unusual sound. Cool video too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSz_PAfgNc
 
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I know it's not Halloween yet, but I wanted to scare the hell out of you anyway...:eek:

 
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Sarcasm at its finest - this is the one song I'd pick if I had to listen to only one song for the rest of time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnRdsSC3YwM
 
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Another from Beirut that I really like. Zach Condon is an interesting artist. His range of effort is quite impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpN2XAg2bQs
 
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1977ub said:
Here's a Dylan cover and can get definitely say I prefer to the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7sdsOV5SQ0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotta_Serve_Somebody

First of all, you should have posted this cover song in my thread. Second, this song is so bad that I think you are now going to be serving the guy downstairs:devil: because of it. Hope you're prepared.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I think I already posted this but it came up tonight in a family discussion about music. I think this guy has the most unusual sound. Cool video too!

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

I love Beirut, he has a wonderful sound. Heavy on the brass! This live version of Gulag Orkestar just blows me away.

 
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Adyssa said:
I love Beirut, he has a wonderful sound. Heavy on the brass! This live version of Gulag Orkestar just blows me away.



Yay! Finally, someone else who likes Beirut! :biggrin:

I also like Nantes, and Postcards from Italy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xZow5iPmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61BVv6pLtw
 
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DiracPool said:
First of all, you should have posted this cover song in my thread. Second, this song is so bad that I think you are now going to be serving the guy downstairs:devil: because of it. Hope you're prepared.

Perhaps I can make things right with the guy upstairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtEC_O-ljm8
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Yay! Finally, someone else who likes Beirut! :biggrin:

I felt sure I'd said so before, too!
 
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:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5G1FmU-ldg
 
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DiracPool said:
Well, yes, I've been holding out on this one, but now I'm old and tired, and want to leave my (legacy) vote for the absolute best album of all time. And, yes, I know its probably been posted here before, and its very cliche, but just because something is popular doesn't mean it's not the "best song ever".



Be sure to put the 1080p option on, not for the nonexistent video but the music quality bumps up a bit.

Incidently, I own every pink floyd album (of course), but the one I have listened to most over the last 20 years is Atom Heart Mother (AHM). For some reason I can just listen to that over and over and not get bored with it. In fact, I used to put myself to sleep with it for many years when I was younger, Funky dung, breasts milky, fat old sun...Who came up with this stuff, but it worked.

In any case, Dark side of the moon is the best album ever made. I only listen to it occasionally, like taking out the fine China on special occasions. AHM, on the other hand, is like the cheap dining utensils you use every day...Am I getting my analogies through here?


What else are you holding out on? Awesome find! This is now on the spring break playlist. Have you seen Pulse yet? Because good is fun and fun is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRF9Jxvz_M

Learning about del operators has never been this much fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k8es2BNloE

DiracPool: I get the analogy, though not with the example band you used. I'll have to listen to Atom Heart Mother and see if I get it. Personally, when I find an album I like (anything Mars Volta), I listen to it until it looses its momentum. Then I put it on the shelf to collect dust and be forgotten. A month or two later, after it has aged nicely, I play it again. I usually find new instruments within the songs and new aspects/layers I hadn't noticed before. It is just as good, if not better, than the first time I heard it. Mars Volta really grows on me for some reason.
 
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Fatboy Slim- Push the Tempo
a good laugh and fun song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9DBHCo64Q
 
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Awesome find! This is now on the spring break playlist.


Cool Chiral, be sure to bring plenty of "herb" to the spring break bash in order to really appreciate the Floyd, and also plenty mardi gras beads for the girls (wink wink). And make sure you buy a waterproof camera if you're spring breaking at lake Havasu this year like I am. If you are, see you there cowboy [or cowgirl ;)], if not, send me the pics!
 
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ChiralWaltz said:
Fatboy Slim- Push the Tempo
a good laugh and fun song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so9DBHCo64Q
Agreed!
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RkzsUIoEz0
 
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There have been times when I spent years writing a revolutionary paper, and then it finally gets published in a "B" journal after 2 or 3 rejections from the "A" list journals I typically send my papers to first. Even so, I still think that its just a matter of time until Max Planck sends his assistant over to offer me a job at the perimeter institute. When this doesn't happen after a few months and all I get is damned is by a few "faint praises," I'll typically put this song on LOUD:

 
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Considering that 40 years later people are still trying to figure out who this song is about, this has to be on here.

At one point, Carly Simon was giving out one letter at a time from the name. She only gave out A, E, and R, so the letter's were never much help, but it was fun - "Carly, I'd like to buy a vowel". She even took part in an auction for charity where she'd reveal the name to the winner, with the caveat that the person could never reveal the name to anyone else. She did let him give out a clue, though (in fact the winner, Dick Ebersol of NBC, gave out the letter 'R').


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAs7YW1-n9U
 
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BobG said:
Considering that 40 years later people are still trying to figure out who this song is about, this has to be on here.

At one point, Carly Simon was giving out one letter at a time from the name. She only gave out A, E, and R, so the letter's were never much help, but it was fun - "Carly, I'd like to buy a vowel". She even took part in an auction for charity where she'd reveal the name to the winner, with the caveat that the person could never reveal the name to anyone else. She did let him give out a clue, though (in fact the winner, Dick Ebersol of NBC, gave out the letter 'R').


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAs7YW1-n9U


I thought it was James Taylor? Did we ever find out?
 
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DiracPool said:
I thought it was James Taylor? Did we ever find out?

In a 1989 interview, Simon acknowledged that the song is a little bit about Warren Beatty but said the subject of the song is a composite of three men from her L.A. days. In a 2007 interview, Beatty said, "Let's be honest. That song was about me." Simon has said that Beatty had called and thanked her for the song.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're_So_Vain
 
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Proof that 1+1=0; Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber duet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJGSPxrexK4

EDIT: Although it might be hard for some, be sure to watch this to the end. (Or just go the end.)
 
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DiracPool said:


How to embed youtube vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDCu1UjezDc

copy after the equals sign in the URL
insert rDCu1UjezDc inbetween the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[//YOUTUBE] tags (delete one of the slashes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDCu1UjezDc
(you can also quote posts to find out how to perform unknown operations, such as embedding, in the typing window)
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Proof that 1+1=0; Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber duet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJGSPxrexK4

EDIT: Although it might be hard for some, be sure to watch this to the end. (Or just go the end.)

I enjoyed getting to the bottom of that. :-p
 
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Curious3141 said:
I enjoyed getting to the bottom of that. :-p

Even a less than memorable performance can salvage something with a flashy end.
 
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DiracPool said:
Cool Chiral, be sure to bring plenty of "herb" to the spring break bash in order to really appreciate the Floyd, and also plenty mardi gras beads for the girls (wink wink). And make sure you buy a waterproof camera if you're spring breaking at lake Havasu this year like I am. If you are, see you there cowboy [or cowgirl ;)], if not, send me the pics!

This spring break I am staying home to spend time, uninterrupted by school, with my almost 3 year old son. During this time, we will work on learning good versus bad and strengthen the positive bond we have. Plus everything else we already do. My goals are to reflect upon what it means to be a father and how I can improve that, develop the image I project as a father to clearly communicate with my son, and refresh integrals so I can move more quickly through them when the third dimension is added.

I wish I had known to put more thought into who I am at an earlier age.

The Flaming Lips are playing a free show this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzlMeTxVdH8
 
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ChiralWaltz said:
This spring break I am staying home to spend time, uninterrupted by school, with my almost 3 year old son. During this time, we will work on learning good versus bad and strengthen the positive bond we have. Plus everything else we already do. My goals are to reflect upon what it means to be a father and how I can improve that, develop the image I project as a father to clearly communicate with my son, and refresh integrals so I can move more quickly through them when the third dimension is added.
Sounds like a good use of spring break week. I wish my dad would have had that attitude when I was a kid.

Another thing I wish is that I was at the concert for Bangladesh. In fact, yes Chiral, I think I was exactly three years old when they put this on. Why didn't my dad take me to this and put up on his shoulders?

 
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I know J is one of the letters.
 
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BobG said:
Considering that 40 years later people are still trying to figure out who this song is about, this has to be on here.

At one point, Carly Simon was giving out one letter at a time from the name. She only gave out A, E, and R, so the letter's were never much help, but it was fun - "Carly, I'd like to buy a vowel". She even took part in an auction for charity where she'd reveal the name to the winner, with the caveat that the person could never reveal the name to anyone else. She did let him give out a clue, though (in fact the winner, Dick Ebersol of NBC, gave out the letter 'R').


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAs7YW1-n9U


I believe this song is about her ex-partner Warren Beatty. Good choice by the way.
 
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ChiralWaltz said:
How to embed youtube vids:

Thanks for the tutorial Chiral. Let's me try this out here...Ok...here goes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsW8rXPcnM0

Woah hoah, she works Nellie!

Unfortunately, the problem I'm having with these embedded videos is twofold, 1) you can't make them fullscreen if there's a good video to go along with it, and 2) I always find myself listening to the song for a bit and then thinking it will stay on as I go to do more surfing on "physics forums," only to have the music halt abruptly when I leave the page. I guess there's nothing that can be done about that, though.
 

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