Favorite songs (cont.)

[Frabjous]

 

[pinball1970]

He wrote it?

I prefer John Denver version 1976 Live at the London Palladium

 

[Frabjous]

He wrote it?

I prefer John Denver version 1976 Live at the London Palladium

Brel wrote it.

On the subject of Denver, I love Country Roads. Here’s a performance with the co-writers.

 

[DennisN]

The guitar parts in this! Left pan, very low right pan just muffed chords with his fingers, right pan kicks in then slide then fiddle. Great!

I've never been into country, but I have no objection whatsoever to the genre.
I think it is a nice sounding genre.

"Jolene" is however something more; it breaks through to me regardless of the genre.
It's an extraordinary good song, in my opinion.

 

[DennisN]

I watched this interview today, and I actually got emotional...

(and it's fun to hear his view on electronic music, and also seeing him showing how to experiment with sounds by hitting the old equipment )

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène 4 | The story behind the song


(@pinball1970 , I've mentioned The Beatles, ABBA and ELO as my early musical core, but I should really put in Jean Michel Jarre there too, I forgot about it in the ABBA thread)

I might even have started to listen to Jarre before the Beatles, actually.
It was my dad who introduced me to the Jarre album Oxygène, likely in the late 1970s,
and I've been a fan of Jarre since then. I must have heard the Oxygene album hundreds of times, but I'm still not tired of it . The music listening path I took I think was: ABBA -> ELO -> Jean Michel Jarre -> The Beatles.

Jean Michel Jarre has a very, very special place for me; I've met a few famous people in my life but I've never ever felt star-struck, but I'm not sure I would hold it together as well if I met Jarre , I am such a big fan of his that it is ridiculous.

When I started playing synthesizer in the early 1980s I learned to record music by first doing a cover of Axel F (Harold Faltermeyer) and after that Jarres Rendez-Vous 4 (Jarre), using Korg synths, Roland drum machines and a Tascam four track multirecorder. I've still got the master on cassette, I have to digitize them some day.

I've attended one concert of his, Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert in 1990, and I remember there was a RIDICULOUS amount of people attending;

About 2.5 million people standing in front of the pyramidal stage all the way down to the Arc de Triomphe witnessed this event, setting a new Guinness Book of Records entry for Jarre.

(a week later I attended the historical concert The Wall – Live in Berlin where Roger Waters of Pink Floyd performed together with a bunch of other musicians; the concert was watched by a live audience of 350,000 and broadcast to more than 500 million people worldwide)

So... that week was one of the best weeks I've ever had .

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Anyway, this thread is about favorite songs, so here are some Jarre favorites of mine:

Magnetic Fields Part 4 (pure magic)


Magnetic Fields Part 4 Cover
(a good cover of the song; it reminds me of how I started, but he's got better gear than I had back then)


Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Pt. 1 (Official Music Video)
(the opening track on the Oxygene album, darn I love this piece so much )


Millions of Stars (Water for Life) (very suggestive, in my opinion)

 

[pinball1970]

Brilliant and unique.

My favourite was always this

 

[DennisN]

My favourite was always this

Yes, another great one!

 

[DennisN]

I listened to an old favorite song today...
...darn, it's so suggestive, well produced and lovely, in my opinion...

Simple Minds - Belfast Child


And a great live performance here, with supporting orchestra and Sinéad O'Connor doing some additional vocals:

Simple Minds with Sinéad O'Connor - Belfast Child (Night Of The Proms)


I saw them live once, in East Berlin 1990, it was a great concert and they performed this song that night.

 

[pinball1970]

I thought about this song a lot this year! Adored it when it came out.

 

[pinball1970]

Jean Michel Jarre has a very, very special place for me

Tangerine Dream and Kraft werk very innovative in this area too.

 

[DennisN]

Tangerine Dream and Kraft werk very innovative in this area too.

Absolutely!

 

[DennisN]

Gosh, I had not heard this live version of "White Rabbit" before...
...how in the world did I not know about this one?

Oh man, her voice is beyond cool in this performance... what a voice!
The singing is so way out of left field, and very psychedelic and unique :

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock 1969

 

[DennisN]

Two good songs from the early 1990s by the alternative pop and rock duo Shakespears Sister (with gothic elements):

Shakespears Sister - Hello (Turn Your Radio On) (a lovely song)


Shakespears Sister - Stay (with a surprising, cool chorus)

 

[pinball1970]

A nice live version here of a beautiful song.

 

[pinball1970]

Great song.

 

[pinball1970]

Stones song but I prefer this version.

 

[pinball1970]

As soon as heard Catatonia I thought of Melanie. Great band and this is my favourite song by them.

 

[pinball1970]

These are the gigs I would have been going to in the 1970s. Linda Ronstadt

 

[pinball1970]

This was weird as hell when it came out, to me at least. 1980. It is still unique I think, the sound is pre goth post punk and new wave. Sort that little lot out.
Oh yes the words? Erm, I will leave that to the interpretation of the listener!

 

[pinball1970]

 

[pinball1970]

I'm trying to be objective, do I like these songs because they are great or is it because they remind me of being 14?
I think hand on heart they are great!

 

[pinball1970]

Jazz! In 1980s pop charts, yes. These were great players and writers.





@DennisN Did you like any of these? Even listening now 40 years later I know it was those scrunchie chords grabbed my ear.

 

[DennisN]

@DennisN Did you like any of these?

Nothing I've heard before, but it sounds nice. The first was quite "loungey" in my ears, and I have soft spot for some lounge music .

 

[pinball1970]

Nothing I've heard before, but it sounds nice. The first was quite "loungey" in my ears, and I have soft spot for some lounge music .

The chords are great.

Dark is the night.

N.C. C7sus C7 Fm7 C7sus/G

Dark is the night


C7sus C7 Eb9 Ab11 G7sus

Dark is the night Where is the star that lit my skies?

C11 C7 Fm G7/D G7

Gone is the night Hiding the hurt that fills my eyes

Down on the Street.

Fm9 Bb9 Db/Eb (back to Fm9)

Night Birds

Intro: Cm9 Cm7 | C7(4/9) Cm7 | Ab7M | Fm7 | G7(b13) G7 | Cm7

Cm7 | Cm7 Cm7/Bb | Ab7M | Ab7M Eb/G | Fm7 | G7(b13) G7 | Cm7Cm7 | Cm7 Cm7/Bb | Ab7M | Ab7M Eb/G | Fm7 | G7(b13) G7 | Cm7| C7(b9)

Fm7 Bb7(4/9)

Flyin through the night

Eb7M(9) Ab7M

Floating on a wind

Dm7(b5)

To the city lights

Abm6 G7

Night birdsCm7

With the love they bring

 

[DennisN]

The chords are great

That's a lot of chords, and some tricky ones (for me), like G7(b13).
I almost never go into those harmonies; on keyboard and guitar I usually stick to major, minor, sus chords and occasionally 7 chords.

My friend sent me a fun Christmas clip recently...
...here's a guy who obviously is a great player (jazz, I guess) and would easily wipe the floor with me...

 

[pinball1970]

Nothing I've heard before, but it sounds nice. The first was quite "loungey" in my ears, and I have soft spot for some lounge music .

There were Maj 7th in there! I need to check that out!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Favorite song? No. But I like to explore new music. Recently I listened to one I shouldn't even like that gave me an earworm for a week. LOL! I give you the curse of the APT.

 

[pinball1970]

That's a lot of chords, and some tricky ones (for me), like G7(b13).
I almost never go into those harmonies; on keyboard and guitar I usually stick to major, minor, sus chords and occasionally 7 chords.

My friend sent me a fun Christmas clip recently...
...here's a guy who obviously is a great player (jazz, I guess) and would easily wipe the floor with me...

You need the 11th and 13th! That's another conversation

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Bruno Mars, who performs above with Rosie in APT, is very good. I like this one by him and Lady Gaga

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Do you remember little Jackie Evancho, who started as an 11-year-old modern opera prodigy? She is all grown up and did a remake of Both Sides Now, originally done by Joni Mitchell.