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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For some reason, Evo's link to Lola made me dig this up:

Now here's a real gem...my main man, Mark Knopfler:
 
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The Italian singer Spagna singing in English

Easy Lady

There were a lot of Italian bands in the 80s who sang in English, some of which formed the core of the so-called Italo Disco, great stuff
 
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer -

Take A Pebble Beat Club (Live) - Shows the complexity of their music.


Keith Emerson has to the finest rock keyboardist of all time.

Still You Turn Me On


Barbarian


From the Beginning


Lucky Man (Greg Lake - Live)


Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man live


King Crimson - Epitaph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eBcqhMoxRM&NR
 
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  • #251
Not exactly a song, but just beautiful anyway:
 
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One of my favourites, I have seen QOTSA live with Dave Grohl on drums at the Ozzfest in Milton Keynes bowl, I saw Ozzy with Tony Iomi doing paranoid etc as well.:smile:

Awesome was the first time I'd ever heard of them let alone seen them live.
 
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  • #253
arildno said:
Not exactly a song, but just beautiful anyway:


Exactly a song. :wink:

One of these 'forgotten themes'...
 
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  • #254
Astronuc said:
Emerson, Lake & Palmer -
I love Lucky Man.
 
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Simon and Garfunkle are just great.

















My favourite. America.



and Pearl Jam are just incredibly good.





Creedence Clearwater Revival





Howlin' Wolf





Muddy Waters





Rolling stones





Bob Dylan





The Beatles





John lennon



The Who



Metallica







If you think capital punishment is any more than revenge watch this:smile:



Bach.



Strauss



Holst.



Sorry have to watch a tennis match here, can't find it anywhere else.



Ravel





Beethoven



Peer Gint



Prokofyev



Gershwin omfg is this good, theme music to Manhatten:Woody Allen



Tchaikovsky





I could go on all night :smile:
 
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  • #257
Schrodinger's Dog said:
Simon and Garfunkle are just great.



They are, and amof, I just wanted to post El Condor Pasa ! :smile:
 
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  • #259
radou said:
They are, and amof, I just wanted to post El Condor Pasa ! :smile:



Did I include this one, I forget?







Sorry too much good music to remember it all. Enjoy :smile:
 
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  • #260
Schrodinger's Dog said:


Did I include this one, I forget?







Sorry too much good music to remember it all. Enjoy :smile:


Tenacious D.



This is just a tribute, but it is to the greatest song ever:-

EDIT: Beck: now you might not understand it: but you have a Devil's haircut in your mind. Schrodinger's Dog shut up and listen to good music.:smile:









Spin Doctors.



System of a down





watch and learn you metalheads.
 
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  • #261
I like this one with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchells:
 
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  • #264
Going back to 1971-1972 :biggrin:

From the Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge

Yes-Starship Trooper
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mBaRqZU-0PI

Yes-Siberian Kathru
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4B2BVjvfp8

I've Seen All Good People
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bvPyT-YGUIg

And You And I
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4Pspv2Gmq8


Wishbone Ash - Warrior


Wishbone Ash "The King Will Come" (1972)


Wishbone Ash King Will Come - alt (in 2005)



SANTANA - Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen - 1976
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2pbYDNhbca4


From 1971-1975
Blue Öyster Cult: Then Came the Last Days af May


Blue Öyster Cult: Cities on Flames with Rock and Roll


Unfortunately, there aren't too many videos from the early 70's. Most of what I find are performances from the 1990's or 2000's, and the live performances weren't as good as 20-30 years earlier. :frown:
 
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Astronuc said:
From 1971-1975
Blue Öyster Cult: Then Came the Last Days af May


Blue Öyster Cult: Cities on Flames with Rock and Roll


Hey, this band ROCKS ! Only heard of the name, but never knew they were so great!
 
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  • #267
physics girl phd said:
I just discovered this band called Truckstop Honeymoon:
http://www.mikewest.net/truckstop_honeymoon/cds.html

Check out "Johnny and June" and "Delivery boy."

Oh, honeypie, that is right up my alley! Thank you!:cool:

Every heard Big Ugly Wheels by the Beat Farmers?


That's the late, legendary Country Dick Montana up front.
 
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  • #268
radou said:
Hey, this band ROCKS ! Only heard of the name, but never knew they were so great!
I saw them in the first show of the tour promoting their first album. Jimmy Page once said that Donald Roeser (Buck Dharma) was his favorite guitarist, and "Cities on Flame" sure brought that home. The concert was a triple bill - the Byrds, Blue Oyster Cult, and John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu orchestra. The Byrds came out first, which surprised the heck out of me, then B.O.C. came out and tore the place up. My ears were ringing when they left the stage and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hear McLaughlin very well (nice electric jazz, like on his previous albums). No worries! He came out with a Les Paul plugged straight into 100 watts of Fender Twin Reverb, and I swear the volume was maxed. My girlfriend and I tore filters off her cigarettes and stuffed them in our ears. We were sitting in the front row with our legs under the risers, so we pretty much got max volume. Skip Batten (bassist for the Byrds) kept smiling and making eyes at my girlfriend - luckily she didn't reciprocate and go party with the band, since I paid for the tickets. :-p

BTW, a biker friend of mine in Providence is friends with Roeser and the other guys in B.O.C. and he kept teasing about bringing Roeser up to one of the blues jams I was hosting at a local tavern, so he could show me some REAL guitar-playing.
 
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turbo-1 said:
Skip Batten (bassist for the Byrds) kept smiling and making eyes at my girlfriend - luckily she didn't reciprocate and go party with the band, since I paid for the tickets. :-p

:smile: :smile:

Well, that must have been a great concert!

Btw, I just downloaded some of the BOC stuff, it's absolutely great. A total refreshment.

Edit: and I just realized they wrote Astronomy.
 
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who sang the song that has the lyrics:

and the first time ever i kissed your lips i felt the earth...something something?

that is a good song!
 
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sara_87 said:
who sang the song that has the lyrics:

and the first time ever i kissed your lips i felt the earth...something something?

that is a good song!

The first time ever I saw your face. Is the song.

Roberta Flak

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love,
To the dark and the empty skies.

The first time ever I kissed your mouth
And felt your heart beat close to mine
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love
That was there at my command.

And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the Earth
And last till the end of time my love
It would last till the end of time my love

The first time ever I saw your face, your face,
your face, your face
 
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yes! that's right!
thanx i can now sleep lol
 
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sara_87 said:
yes! that's right!
thanx i can now sleep lol

You're welcome, now that's poetry and music, quite touching :smile:
 
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radou said:
Hey, this band ROCKS ! Only heard of the name, but never knew they were so great!

They do a kickass version of Summertime Blues too. :cool:

edited to add:
Whoops nevermind, I thought I read "Blue Cheer". Anyway, look that band up too!
 
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Astronuc said:
Yes-Starship Trooper
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mBaRqZU-0PI

My best friend LOVES that song. All 3 hours of it. I think it's OK, but it's really awkward when he plays it on the bar jukebox. Everyone gets pissed wondering when the heck it's going to end so they can hear the crap that they played.
 
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radou said:
:smile: :smile:

Well, that must have been a great concert!

Btw, I just downloaded some of the BOC stuff, it's absolutely great. A total refreshment.

Edit: and I just realized they wrote Astronomy.
Radou, get a copy of their first album on CD They really kicked A$$. The stuff you see on youtube does not approximate their early live stuff.
 
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turbo-1 said:
Radou, get a copy of their first album on CD They really kicked A$$. The stuff you see on youtube does not approximate their early live stuff.
BÖC's first 3 albums are great! And their Live CD "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" is excellent! Their later stuff, Agents of Fortune and so on, was rather disappointing.

Fortunately, when I saw them, they were just releasing Agents of Fortune and were still playing material from their first three albums.
 
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I love The Magnetic Fields. But I can't find any of my favorite songs by them online. The two that are on youtube that aren't horrible cover bands have really crappy videos by the people that uploaded them. :frown:

This wasn't one of my favorite songs, but the more I listen to it, the more it grows on me. I adore Stephin Merritt's voice. The video isn't bad either.

The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure

 
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Evo said:
The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure



:smile: Both track and video rule !
 
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Humble Pie's "30 Days in the Hole" from the "Smokin'" LP - no video, but a nice slide show of their album cover art.


Before Humble Pie, Steve Marriott fronted The Small Faces. They started out as a mod group doing R&B stuff and morphed into the psychedelic pop group seen here. The other singer is bassist Ronnie Lane.


Here's the mod-rocker phase of The Small Faces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5rurtwT9RI&mode=related&search=
 
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