What is the Best Saxophone Song?

[Borek]

 

[Borek]

 

[rozer.ben0]

best song which i like is blues one love. this one of my best song forever i had heard the lyrics of this song is such a hart touching. One love for the mothers prider ...One love for the times we cried ...One love got to stay alive... I will survive

 

[ThomasT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaJqynA8Y0

Stevie Nicks new album, In your dreams!

I'm glad to see (hear?) that Stevie is recording again. She's one of my favorites from way back when. It's interesting that Mick Fleetwood was interested in hiring her then boyfriend (1975) Lindsey Buckingham, but not her. Lindsey insisted that they were a pair. Mick hired her and soon after they recorded Stevie's composition "Rhiannon". Most everyone in PF over a certain age has probably heard it, but perhaps not some of the younger members and visitors.



EDIT: My only complaint about this performance is that they didn't give Christine more solo time on the keyboard. She was starting to lay down some cool licks.

I always liked Fleetwood Mac (with Stevie Nicks). Here's another tune of hers that I like that got high in the charts (don't know if it's with Fleetwood Mac):

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[ThomasT]

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[ThomasT]

 

[SW VandeCarr]

I always liked Fleetwood Mac (with Stevie Nicks). Here's another tune of hers that I like that got high in the charts (don't know if it's with Fleetwood Mac):

Stevie had left FMc and started her own group when she recorded "Edge of Seventeen"(1981). It launched her on a successful solo career. She had her troubles with addiction and eating disorders for a time, but she got through them. She's now over 60 (b 1948), and still sounds pretty good.

@ SW, although Christine is a decent keyboardist, she didn't exactly set the keys on fire in that tune. Now, if you want some really nice keyboard stuff , here's, eg., Herbie Hancock playing a version of a Steely Dan tune:

Well I don't really know what she could have done on the keyboard since her role in FMc was generally limited to back up. However, the key to the sound of FMc was the background blending of Christine, her husband John McVie (base guitar) and Mick Fleetwood (drums) behind the soloists. Of course, she's no Herbie Hancock, but that's a different genre which Christine tantalizingly flirted with in her brief solo.

 

[Adyssa]

Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm (electric).

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I am not very familiar with Beatbox but have you heard of Beardyman Borek? He is very entertaining.


If you liked that there is also this video which is rather long but fun.

 

[ThomasT]

Stevie had left FMc and started her own group when she recorded "Edge of Seventeen"(1981). It launched her on a successful solo career. She had her troubles with addiction and eating disorders for a time, but she got through them. She's now over 60 (b 1948), and still sounds pretty good.

Well I don't really know what she could have done on the keyboard since her role in FMc was generally limited to back up. However, the key to the sound of FMc was the background blending of Christine, her husband John McVie (base guitar) and Mick Fleetwood (drums) behind the soloists. Of course, she's no Herbie Hancock, but that's a different genre which Christine tantalizingly flirted with in her brief solo.

SW, I always enjoy your posts, even if once in a while I might not agree with everything you say.

Imho, whatever Christine was flirting with in her brief solo wasn't very tantalizing. That said, I do admire her general ability both as a musician and as a singer. In other words, I pretty much like just about all of her stuff. Maybe I just didn't listen closely enough to her brief solo. I do agree that she wasn't given enough time to really develop anything there.

I am curious about how you know so much about the musicians you write about. Are you a professional in that regard? Like a music critic, or music historian or something. Or just a very accomplished hobbyist?

Anyway, it's always interesting to me to hear what you might have to say about something.

 

[Borek]

I am not very familiar with Beatbox but have you heard of Beardyman Borek? He is very entertaining.

Thanks. Never heard about him. Not that I am in beatbox, it happened Junior showed me dub FX last weekend and I really liked him.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Imho, whatever Christine was flirting with in her brief solo wasn't very tantalizing. That said, I do admire her general ability both as a musician and as a singer.

I'm just sensitive to the little cues and details that occur in performances. I thought that her jazz style "noodling" might be going somewhere. It didn't. Hence my comment.

I am curious about how you know so much about the musicians you write about. Are you a professional in that regard? Like a music critic, or music historian or something. Or just a very accomplished hobbyist?

I just have a lot of interests. Music, both popular and classical is one of them. Stevie Nicks is one my favorites, so when RootX posted her new release, I responded because I used to follow her career, but not recently. I knew almost nothing about Amy Winehouse until she died. I just went online and was struck by her talent. So I've been researching her life and career. She's one of the most interesting personalities I've come across in recent years.

EDIT: If you haven't opened the link already, you might go back to post 1916 (p 120) and watch Amy sing "Valerie" at the BBC Sessions (2007). She doesn't merely sing a song, she lives it. Watch her go from a vacant stare to flirty, to serious, to sad, to angry ("Don't make a fool out me!") in a little over three minutes. From what I've been able to learn, she's not acting. The music and emotion seem to just erupt out of her. When she's good, she's very good, and when she's bad, she can be godawful. This time, it was the former IMO.

 

[turbo]

When it's all you've got, call it love.

 

[BWV]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qbtu0O_8CA

Atilla Csihar throat singing (a technique that enables the singer to sing more than one pitch at once - a fundamental tone and its harmonic partials)

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Thanks. Never heard about him. Not that I am in beatbox, it happened Junior showed me dub FX last weekend and I really liked him.

Ah, I thought it seemed sort of strange for you to be into that style of music though you never know what sort of thing may have caught on in some other part of the world. I still can't believe that David Hasselhoff is a famous musician.

 

[Borek]

Ah, I thought it seemed sort of strange for you to be into that style of music

I am open minded. Something either sounds interesting and catches my attention, or not. I am not assuming it is bad just because it is (insert kind of music you don't like).

Doesn't mean I have no preferences, but I am not a slave to them.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Nirvana, but not "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

http://letras.terra.com/nirvana/28506/

http://letras.terra.com/nirvana/28503/

 

[rootX]

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

I love every word of this song!

What's cheaper than free?
You and me
What's better than alone?
Going home

What does money not buy?
You and I
What's not to feel
When love is real?

What's faster than a fast car?
A beating heart
What's deeper than a deep well?
The love into which I fell

More important than freedom?
Being needed
More exciting than high fashion?
High passion

What's brighter than a smile?
You child you child
What's brighter than a smile?
You child you child

You child you child
What's warmer than a sun drenched land?
Your hand
Your hand
Your hand

 

[turbo]

The music video of Poco's "Call it Love". Better than watching a screen shot of the album cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G1TwlUpMBI&feature=related

 

[ThomasT]

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[ThomasT]

 

[turbo]

Zakk's best work, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh2VWr2UuLw

 

[Chi Meson]

OK

No surprises from here, but the video finally came out, and the band did a remake of the song (different from the album released in July).

I am inclined to like this band due to a few decades of admiration and fandom, plus the last 10 years of them making kids music right when I have my own kids... anyway I expected to like it,

but I was blown away.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

The Queen of Soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHKWBxDzyfU&feature=related

 

[Willowz]

I yam what I yam.

 

[Char. Limit]

You want the best songs ever? I present to you the Battle of Wizna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeQwq-aYV0

And as a bonus, some power metal with an extremely fast guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qN9sHGEPdE

 

[SW VandeCarr]

You want the best songs ever? I present to you the Battle of Wizna.

When I first saw this, my first thought that some inde group had appropriated that name without knowing that it was a real battle. Of course, it was a real battle where some 720 Polish troops held off German tanks, aircraft and about 43.000 invading German troops for three days in September, 1939. None of the Polish defenders were known to have survived. Most people don't know that the conquest of Poland was costly to the Germans and would have been more costly had not Soviet forces invaded from the east as allies of Germany.

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

 

[Char. Limit]

When I first saw this, my first thought that some inde group had appropriated that name without knowing that it was a real battle. Of course, it was a real battle where some 720 Polish troops held off German tanks, aircraft and some 43.000 invading German troops for three days in September, 1939. None of the Polish defenders were known to survive. Most people don't know that the conquest of Poland was costly to the Germans and would have been more costly had not Soviet forces invaded from the east as allies of Germany.

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

Well I hope when you watched it, you were pleasantly surprised!

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Well I hope when you watched it, you were pleasantly surprised!

War is never pleasant to watch, but the Polish people are quite justified in taking great pride in this extraordinary feat of valor and patriotism. Hopefully such circumstances will never again arise in Europe.

 

[SW VandeCarr]

Warning. This song may be hazardous to your (mental) health. Obviously probably millions of people have watched this video without any problems (or at least no new problems). In any case: caution, you are about to enter the twilight zone. If anyone has any idea what it means, please tell me. (I've already read the wiki article and some other sources. It's just a lot of speculation.)

http://letras.terra.com/nirvana/28514/

Well, I guess morbid madness sells.

 

[AJKing]

I love mashups :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfdE-CG0SE

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Warning. This song may be hazardous to your (mental) health. Obviously probably millions of people have watched this video without any problems (or at least no new problems). In any case: caution, you are about to enter the twilight zone. If anyone has any idea what it means, please tell me. (I've already read the wiki article and some other sources. It's just a lot of speculation.)

http://letras.terra.com/nirvana/28514/

Well, I guess morbid madness sells.

A lot of alternative bands had songs and music videos like that. It was a sort of neo-beatnik thing I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg&ob=av3e

 

[SW VandeCarr]

A lot of alternative bands had songs and music videos like that. It was a sort of neo-beatnik thing I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg&ob=av3e

I know, but this song seems more extreme for an alternative rock band that went mainstream (in terms of commercial success). NIrvana's chord structures and progressions are fairly simple and easy to play. Nearly all the songs written by Cobain are based on these structures. Some, like "The Man Who Sold the World" have interesting lyrics, but that song is a cover (of David Bowie). Most of Cobain's lyrics seem like they were cut and pasted at the last minute, random thoughts roughly held together by some theme. In fact, according the wiki article, they were in many cases. It seems that Nirvana's success is largely based on its willingness to be nonsensical and outrageous. Take Jesus (always a good draw), put him in a hospital bed with a skeletal human fetus (or something) in his IV bottle; have him climb onto a cross, crows and all; add a little blond blue eyed girl, a fat lady and embryos growing on a tree and slug your much larger bass guitarist for no apparent reason, and you've got a smash hit.

I admit, it's original and probably took some effort to put together, but I'm willing to hear arguments as to why Nirvana was such a great band (other than being outrageous).

 

[AVReidy]

The best songs ever include Eleanor Rigby, A Day In the Life, Here There and Everywhere, and In My Life.

 

[BWV]

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