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Post by Adey on Feb 16, 2005 11:40:49 GMT
Good grief Cathy, ask a hard question! I'll need about 10 years to think about this one..
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 16, 2005 12:56:21 GMT
That's easy. Whatever was playing when you fell in love for the very first time.
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Post by Neo Stella on Feb 16, 2005 13:01:24 GMT
No problem for me, "Sympathy for The Devil" by The Rolling Stones. (Live version of course)
Hey Cathy, weird co-incidence, about ten minutes ago I was in the bookshop looking at Midge Ure's autobiography. Oh Vienna! He said when he first met Kate back in '78 everyone fancied her but no one approached her.
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 16, 2005 13:05:13 GMT
In that case, it would be Flashdance What A Feeling... O.K....I was wrong. ;D J/K
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Post by matanchik on Feb 16, 2005 16:57:10 GMT
i know it's cliche but i think that bohemian rhapsody is the best song ever. close second is wuthering heights
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Post by Adey on Feb 17, 2005 13:32:51 GMT
After due consideration, I can't come up with one song title. What is the criteria for best? Most personal to you perhaps, best musicality, best lyrics, best vocal etc? That's my problem.
I'll give you 5 (best I can do) based on my own criteria:
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zep Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez Don't Hang Up - 10cc Stargazer - Rainbow Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Obviously I haven't included any Kate material, and as ever, the list may be completely different tomorrow!
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RA
Reaching Out
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Post by RA on Feb 17, 2005 20:24:59 GMT
My favourites change so much depending on the experience I'm having with my life at any given time. An old song can spark so many memories of old loves, lost friends, sad times, glad times etc.
I have several songs that speak for my soul if you will.
Todd Rundgren - A long time and a long way to go ("all those tears you would not find me, all behind me")
Led Zeppelin - Tangerine ("measuring a Summer's day")
Neil Young - Old Man ("I need someone to love me the whole day through")
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper ("come on baby, well be able to fly - baby I'm your man - la la la la la")
Mike Keneally - I wasnt ready for you ("Heaven knows what we could have been")
Bonnie Raitt - Angel of Montgomery ("paint me a poster of an old rodeo - just give me one thing, I can hold on to")
So much over the years - but those spring to mind right now.
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 19, 2005 0:41:34 GMT
Here are my top 5 all-time and then my top 5 contemporary selections: 1. Beethoven's 5th Symphony (simply the best song ever written) 2. Mozart's Requiem (more than just a song - the first 'themed album) 3. Ravel's Bolero (intricate and moody) 4. Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries (powerful) 5. Chopin's Mazurka No 4 in A minor Op. 7 (listen to this just before you listen to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody ) Contemporary 1. Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (masterpiece) 2. Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights (new vocal) - revolutionary 3. Yardbird's' Train Kept Rollin' (groundbreaking) 4. Kinks' You Really Got Me (classic R & R) 5. Zep's Stairway to Heaven (over-played yet immortal)
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Post by Adey on Feb 19, 2005 4:13:50 GMT
Beethoven V, ultimate orchestral music..
Bolero, hypnotic - weaves to a marvellous crescendo (if only I can stop thinking about Torville & Dean..) Hate to be the guy playing the snare drum!
Bohemian Rhapsody, should have been on my little list - on another day it would have been. Contrived, artificial, pretentious - bloody marvellous..
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 19, 2005 4:24:30 GMT
Beethoven V, ultimate orchestral music.. Here's a clip from the late Jens Nygaard passionately instructing this composition: click hereAgree
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Post by mishka on Feb 19, 2005 4:36:49 GMT
Babooshka is probably my fave song of all time...but my fave songs by my two fave groups are: Spanish Eyes - U2 Clean - Depeche Mode
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Post by matanchik on Feb 19, 2005 8:27:06 GMT
Beethoven V, ultimate orchestral music agree with all my heart. i learned about it in my history of music classes and learned to even more appreciate it. and with the same category: berlioz - fantastic symphony
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Post by Al Truest on Feb 19, 2005 18:37:49 GMT
Orchestral music provides texture and nuance that is missing in most popular music. Kate's use of stings and horns in her music, combined with newer technologies, make her progressive style timeless and remarkable.
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Post by Adey on Feb 20, 2005 3:56:36 GMT
Agreed.
Although there's nothing unusual about the use of orchestration in popular music, there's something about these lush symphonic tone colours that really compliment La Bush. Obviously Michael Kaman knew this and was able to dial in an orchestral sound that was so definitively right for Kate. Quite apart from any personal relationship they had, he will be hard to to replace as a sympathetic arranger. Although he's very old school now I guess, I'd love to hear some Paul Buckmaster (early Elton John, Stevie Nicks a la Beauty and the Beast) arrangements on some new Kate songs.
I also enjoyed the Martin Ford Orchestra on the Never For Ever performances. Blow Away especially is a particularly lovely arrangement.
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Post by matanchik on Mar 3, 2005 15:33:44 GMT
I've just heard "X factor" by lauryn hill (in fact i'm hearing it now). and i got to a conclusion that this is the most heartbreaking, tragic song i've ever heard. i've allways loved this song but this time it hit me. the lyrics are simple and honest yet genuine and the music is R&B in all his glory that revive the stevie wonder arrangement from the 70's. i find it similar to kate's "and so is love" in the subject of painful breakup and even a little in the music (both songs has guitar solo in the middle). i should included it at my top 20 list but it's too late
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