Best Songs Ever

phoenix:\\

I've always had a thing for the Smashing Pumpkins.

Cherub Rock:

ThomasT

Why are they especially desirable? I don't know because I was never an electric guitar player of any notable skill. Played acoustic guitar for years. Dabbled with bass and many other instruments, then eventually got into keyboards ... which I really like because of the compositional capabilities.

Anyway, I'm guessing it's because of the tones/resonances that one can produce with the Les Pauls. Waiting for your elaboration.

ThomasT

@ SW VandeCarr,
Thanks, always enjoy anything by Marcus Miller. It's usually an auditory treat when a bunch of really gifted musicians get together to do ... any sort of tune they feel like doing.

@phoenix:\\,
Thanks, I love driving, heavy rock done well. Which, imho, your latest offering from Smashing Pumpkins is.

@Byrons,
Thanks, although the Backstreet Boys might not be my first listening preference, they're certainly all wonderful singers. And I like the song.

Hadn't listened to any of these offerings before. So thanks for expanding my musical horizon.

Adyssa

Cherub Rock is from the Siamese Dream album, the best thing Smashing Pumpkins ever did. That, and Soundgarden's Superunkown album, and Nirvana, were all I needed to get through the 90s, and rock has been going down hill ever since if you ask me. :P



Here's my pick for today.

ThomasT

@Adyssa,
Thanks for the Muddy Waters tune. Unique and pioneering. One wishes that one might do something like this. But it's already been done, by guys like Muddy Waters.

Maybe there are examples in the subsequent musical history. I think there are. But this stuff is just so cool.

Adyssa

Soul music, I love it so much. :)

turbo

Marc Cohn performing "Paper Walls" live. It was always a crowd-pleaser at the taverns where I played. I tried unsuccessfully to fins a link to the album version, because he and his drummer had such clean breaks on every verse.

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

SW VandeCarr

Gad

dlgoff

Very nice Gad Girl.

turbo

Sorry for the delay Thomas - that just slipped by me. The early Les Pauls were tone-monsters. Lots of sustain (due to the heavy bodies and the solid necks). The bodies were solid mahogany with carved maple caps. And the PAF pickups were wonderful. Peter Green (founder of Fleetwood Mac) had one with one of the pickup magnets reversed, giving a distinctive "scooped midrange" tone when both pickups were in use at the same time. (BB King said that Green's guitar tone gave him the cold sweats.) When Green was rejecting the music business, he sold that guitar for a pittance to Gary Moore, of Thin Lizzy.

lisab

I agree! Very Mo-Town sound - love it!

Pythagorean

ThomasT

Thanks turbo, the technical details of this are a bit over my head. But I think I basically understand.

ThomasT

Some '60s stuff that was popular when I was in college.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF...eature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tiBOuNH9vI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMKkCBOM7_4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suhoBO3PuG8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8LEtKfFhE

ThomasT

@ Pythagorean, listening to the middle tune from your post #2291, which I like better than the first tune (which I also liked), and don't suppose I'll like the third tune from that post better than this one ... but I'll let you know. Really like this middle one. Rhythmically, tonally, quite musically entertaining ... for me at least.

Ok, now I'm listening to the third tune. Very nice. Somewhat complex, some surprises, but its essence, its theme, is quite simply musically pleasing ... to me anyway. Gegrüßet seist du technologie.

Pythagorean

Yeah Cat Rats is one I can always listen to. Not necissarily my favorite, but I never don't feel like hearing it ya know?