What is the Best Saxophone Song?

[SW VandeCarr]

Candy Dulfer, Dave Stewart: Lily Was Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfSQ3lQmJw

 

[OmCheeto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NI4n8A2L8

 

[OmCheeto]

Why trolls are not allowed at PF...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg-Qdrr3XSk​

 

[WannabeNewton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMo9vNVkPOs

 

[dkotschessaa]

Back in the early 70's as a kid, this song was everywhere. Used as theme song on just about every radio station. So I never bothered to find out what it was, as I was more into classical music. But this was just excellent.

Later I realized that I missed it and when google emerged I tried to find it back googling all kind of things with 'gitar solo'. Nothing.

Today a friend just made me stumbe upon it. I realize that it has been posted years earlier in this thread but not the original one as I remember it.

Classical gas by Mason Williams 1968

Why has it disappeared? Why isn't it world famous?

It's an attempt to make something "classical" kind of "cool" so it's a small niche of people that like it. As a classical guitarist, it kind of drives me bonkers, actually. You spend hours and hours practicing Bach, Brouwer, Villa Lobos, Roland Dyens, etc. and people say "So can you play classical gas?" arghhh!

Ok, since this rant should include a video, here's a jaw dropping performance of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "A Felicidade" arranged by my favorite living composer/arranger for classical guitar, Roland Dyens, performed by Soichi Muraji. It'll make you forget all about classical gas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC_x28ti2hk

 

[dkotschessaa]

Viktoriya Yermolyera (aka "Vika") plays Metallica: "Master of Puppets"

She's in the Wiki.

Though I went through my metal phase (in as a teen, then back out and I don't listen anymore) I've always maintained a lot of respect for Metallica's compositions during that period. This is really cool.

 

[strangerep]

To DiracPool's excellent advice, I can add only one more tip: grow a mullet.

 

[strangerep]

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. [Pink Floyd - DSotM]

Yeah, I love that too -- except for "Money". Lots of people seem to like it, but I always just fast-forward through it.

Incidently, I own every pink floyd album (of course),

I tried to listen to other PF albums after DSotM, but didn't like them. Strange.

Decades later, I happened to buy an audio tape of their "Pulse" concert. (Have you got it?)
They did the whole DSotM really well (better than the original, imho), and also "Wish You Were Here", "Comfortably Numb", and one other ("Run?") also much better than the originals. (The latter now sound quite cheap to me when I hear them. I eventually bought the "Pulse" DVD.

[Edit: Oh, I just noticed a link to the Pulse concert already appears in post #2781.]

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.

Hmm, maybe I stopped listening to their newer stuff too soon.
Could you post a link to whichever track you reckon is the most mind-possessing, pls?

[...] and that is a relief to my psuedo-psychotic
want to "fix" everything.

Hmm, so we do have something in common. Cheers.

 

[WannabeNewton]

Can't see if this one has been linked already but heck it's such a brilliant song that it should be linked multiple times anyways :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTmPN50u80

 

[strangerep]

Can't see if this one has been linked already but heck it's such a brilliant song that it should be linked multiple times anyways :D

[Pink Floyd, "Time".]

Yeah, someone previously linked the whole DSotM album. It's also on the Pulse concert link.

"Time" is indeed my favorite track off that album. When I'm playing it in the car I usually turn the volume right up. Same with "Comfortably Numb" (the Pulse version only, though).

 

[WannabeNewton]

Well, here's something to put you in a more serene mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJugTtU0oEU

If you like it then click on the links in the right for the following parts. It is from a video game called "The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion" which I used to play extensively in junior high school and high school (by extensively I literally mean like 24/7 a day lol). This music overwhelms me with nostalgia, fortunately reminding me of simpler times.

 

[strangerep]

It is from a video game called "The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion" which I used to play extensively [...]

I see I am sadly out of touch. I quit playing D&D so long ago -- large screen graphics and motion on affordable machines were still unheard of. So the quality of the D&D experience depended critically on the DM's skill in weaving images and evoking feelings by little more than storytelling and a talent for projecting a characterization of the imaginary inhabitants of the world. Very few DMs possessed this skill at an advanced level.

So I never got into video games. Maybe something to look forward to in my old age at some future time.

 

[Adyssa]

This is the most hip-wiggling funkadelic groove I know. Bill Withers!

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Though I went through my metal phase (in as a teen, then back out and I don't listen anymore) I've always maintained a lot of respect for Metallica's compositions during that period. This is really cool.

Yeah. The first one of hers that I posted is still my favorite: Master of Puppets (p166, post 2820). Some might be put off by the way she attacks that poor keyboard. She says she broke a string on that grand piano but just played around it! IMHO heavy metal should be played with a heavy hand. She breaks the tension with that beautiful bridge before returning to fire and brimstone..

 

[Borek]

E8H-67ILaqc[/youtube] Oh my. Who needs more than one string?

 

[George Jones]

Big Yellow Taxi, another Joni Mitchell song.

 

[strangerep]

I'd forgotten about this one, but accidentally came across it again while following youtube links...

Ralph McTell, "Streets of London".

The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn't care.

 

[turbo]

I may already have posted this, but oh,well. The Neville brothers with John Hiatt performing Yellow Moon. Scary-good.

 

[strangerep]

Oh, and let's not forget this one. It probably qualifies to be in the "Saddest Songs" thread as well.

The Rolling Stones, "Angie".
RcZn2-bGXqQ[/youtube] (It might ha... spells to join the ranks of the undead. o:)

 

[Bacle2]

I've been through a few of the posts, but I have not seen anything by Queen, maybe I missed it.

Anyone else like "Somebody to Love"

?

If you look for the link , careful not to end up in the Justin Beaver song.

 

[lisab]

I've been through a few of the posts, but I have not seen anything by Queen, maybe I missed it.

Anyone else like "Somebody to Love"




?

If you look for the link , careful not to end up in the Justin Beaver song.

Like it? No.

Love it? Oh yeah! I sing like a fool whenever it comes on the radio .

 

[Dewgale]

I've been through a few of the posts, but I have not seen anything by Queen, maybe I missed it.

Anyone else like "Somebody to Love"

?

If you look for the link , careful not to end up in the Justin Beaver song.

Ahhh, I love Queen <3

I'm also increasingly finding myself listening to David Broza :shy:



He writes songs in English, Hebrew, and Spanish :)

 

[DiracPool]

Everything is OK in the universe again, the Monkees are back on tour!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-monkees-reveal-u-s-summer-tour-dates-20130429?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

I'll be on the last train, see you guys in Pleasant Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r57a8vNvkQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEYXqRS3Ynk

 

[Bacle2]

Forgot to include:

Roadhouse Blues:

 

[WannabeNewton]

Hoorah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwMc3RsF-1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdO86G5q-WY

 

[Thomas1989]

I first heard this in my local museum as a kid. It used to play as you crossed through a dark corridor into an even darker adjoining room, all about the 18th century --- known for being really creepy. This song really inspired and captured my imagination back then, I've been addicted to Mozart ever since.

Mozart - Lacrimosa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs

This one reminds me of my first visit to Jodrell Bank and stargazing with my Dad back in the 90's. That also sparked an interest and fascination with space I have to this day!

Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQqR1tmzClQ

 

[SW VandeCarr]

I'm reposting this because the video title keeps disappearing and I didn't type a separate identification. I think this happens because of downloads to personal devices. If so, it happens regularly. It's an amateur recording of Amy Winehouse performing before a rowdy but friendly crowd in Paris. The picture is a bit unsteady but the audio is decent.

Song: Some Unholy War (Winehouse) Location: Zenith (club), Paris, France, 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L2NfaoPrg4&feature

 

[lmaricar47]

Don't You Forget About Me

 

[dx]

This is a percussive guitar instrumental song by a classmate from high school:

"The late for work dance routine"

http://www.myspace.com/joshua-thomas/music/songs/the-late-for-work-dance-routine-60886689

 

[DrHeretic]

Lateralus by TOOL. Fibonacci sequence anyone?

 

[WannabeNewton]

This song is simply euphoria beyond euphoria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2015S3A-lg

 

[DiracPool]

Gettin the Led out!

Sorry gang, just had to get the LED out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xvTmpc4eX4

 

[dx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ

 

[OmCheeto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphB-z6AuL0

Sheryl's song, has reminded me of me, and the people around me, since it came out.

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the best songs, are personal... :)

 

[WannabeNewton]

Excuse me while I take a cold shower...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQgYn23Xvck