What Are Your Favorite Songs to Recommend?

[AMD_K8L]

Recommend favorite songs!

Recommend favorite songs!

What songs you like? Just recommend them.

I like Beethoven Sym.9 No.4.

Beethoven's musics are encouraging.

 

[DM]

Frank old Frank Sinatra's songs. Pretty good for relaxing times. Songs are too many for me to list so just listen to all of them.

Then comes rock and well, since I'm a huge fan of U2, I'd recommend their "The best of 1990-200" album. It's my personal favourite out of the others. The same applies for U2, I just couldn't possibly pinpoint exact songs, so just listen to all of the songs in this particular album.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Recommend favorite songs!

What songs you like? Just recommend them.

I like Beethoven Sym.9 No.4.

Beethoven's musics are encouraging.

I have a couple nits to pick here. In classical music things aren't "songs" they're "pieces", pieces of music. Some pieces of music happen to also be songs but the two you mentioned are, specifically, symphonies.

Also: the word music is always singular, so "Beethoven's music is encouraging."

 

[George Jones]

I have a couple nits to pick here. In classical music things aren't "songs" they're "pieces", pieces of music. Some pieces of music happen to also be songs but the two you mentioned are, specifically, symphonies.

The fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony is basically a song - Beethoven wrote the music as a background for Schiller's poem Ode to Joy.

 

[George Jones]

I have hundreds of favourite pieces of music, including:

Viivaldi's Four Seasons (Spring, in particular);

Watching the Wheels by John Lennon;

Switching to Gilide/This Beat Goes On by The Kings;

Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers.

 

[Hootenanny]

Classical: Bach's Goldberg Variations
Blues: Eric Clapton (Wonderful Tonight/Nobody Know's you when you down and out / Tears in Heaven)
I also have to agree with DM, Frank's music is fabulous and U2 are simply awesome.

 

[George Jones]

Classical: Bach's Goldberg Variations

Glenn Gould's recording?

Blues: Eric Clapton (Wonderful Tonight/Nobody Know's you when you down and out / Tears in Heaven)

About 15 years, I headed north from Canada to see a Clapton concert in Detroit. Fantastic!

 

[Hootenanny]

Glenn Gould's recording?

Jeno Jando's, it is the only one I have. Would you recommend Gould's recording?

About 15 years, I headed north from Canada to see a Clapton concert in Detroit. Fantastic!

I went to see him in manchester last month, he was fantastic there as well!

 

[jackpower]

Recommend favorite songs!

What songs you like? Just recommend them.

I like Beethoven Sym.9 No.4.

Beethoven's musics are encouraging.

I also like Sym 9 but Internationale...

That is amusing...

It is very easygoing..

 

[George Jones]

Jeno Jando's, it is the only one I have. Would you recommend Gould's recording?

Yikes - I have little competence for this sort of thing, and I don't even own Gould's recordings. I have, however, heard them on the radio.

Even though I asked about Gould partially out of national patriotism, his recording of the Goldberg variations is internationally famous.

You can listen to samples https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000025TP/?tag=pfamazon01-20.

 

[DeadWolfe]

Beethoven's Piano Sonota #8
Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor
Varese's Intégrales
Chopin's Preludes in D flat Major and C minor

 

[heartless]

Imagine - John Lennon
Ave Maria - Gheorghe Zamfir
Always Suffering - Rolling Stones
You can't always get what you want - Rolling Stones
Ly-O-Lay Ale Loya - Sacred Spirit
Dance with my father - Luther Vandross
All of the piano music from the cd 'Dreaming'

Some of them I like better than others, but basically these are all great.
Why, don't you have any ideas for songs?

 

[Astronuc]

I also have to agree with DM, Frank's music is fabulous and U2 are simply awesome.

I agree with DM and Hoot.

In addition I would add, Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie, who did a really fantastic CD several years ago. Natalie overdubbed her voice on Nat's tracks - really incredible duet on 'Unforgettable'!

Unforgettable: With Love

 

[Bladibla]

Chaconne in D minor by Bach
Ravel piano concerto in G
Beethoven 4th and 5th piano concerto
Mozart symphony no 20
Mozart flute concerto no 2 in D
Bach Cello suites
Le apres midi un faune (can't spell)
'Kreutzer' sonata by beethoven (thanks to Rach3 for mentioning this)
'Spring' sonata by beethoven
Shostakovich Jazz suite (ALL of them)
Beethoven vioin concerto in D
All of Liszt's hungarian rhapsody's
All of string quartets by Beethoven, including the 'Grosse fugue'
Just about all of the well tempered clavier books
Beethoven chromatic fantasy in C
All of Beethoven's symphonies
Mozart clarinet concerto in A
All of Bach's violin partitas

 

[Astronuc]

I would also recommend Haydn, Rachmaninov and Ralph Vaughn Williams.

Rachmaninov's "Vocalise" is very beautiful.

Vaughn Williams's "The Lark Ascending" is a favorite of mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachmaninov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughn_Williams

I enjoy all of Haydn, so I can't really pick out a particular favorite at the moment.

 

[mattmns]

Eric B and Rakim - Anything from their album Paid in Full

 

[zoobyshoe]

The fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony is basically a song - Beethoven wrote the music as a background for Schiller's poem Ode to Joy.

There is a lot of singing in the fourth movement, but it isn't a song. Just like Handel's Messiah isn't a song, or Bach's Mass in B minor. Schubert wrote a lot of proper songs, though.

 

[arildno]

This one is an all time favourite of mine.
Not his watered down "Let's Dance"-version of it, but the original one:
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Compare it with this live performance of the "Let's Dance"-version.
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While this is a great song, it cannot compare with the first version, in my opinion.
The first version, starting out with a dominant, slow vocal explodes into fire with the words "with gasoline".
This explosive start is lacking from the second version.

Furthermore, in the first version, there is an intense tension or battle between the vocal and the drums throughout the rest of the song, whereas in the second version, everything is thoroughly under control, much slicker, and in my view, much less interesting.

 

[Cyrus]

Eric B and Rakim - Anything from their album Paid in Full

NO, WRONG!

 

[arildno]

This is one is fairly unique, I think:
Japan's only mega-hit in a footage for 1963:
[MEDIA=youtube]RtXQ31F1A-k[/MEDIA]&search=sukiyaki[/URL]
And, its title is NOT "sukiyaki", but "Ue wo muite arukou"
I think it is absolutely beautiful; a heart-render from beginning to end.

 

[SpaceTiger]

Some songs I think contributed to my musical "growth":

Soundgarden - Blow Up the Outside World
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Blur - Coffee and TV
Green Day - Holiday
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Led Zeppelin - Kasimir
Beatles - A Day in the Life
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday

 

[ShawnD]

Led Zeppelin - Kasimir

I love that song too.

My favourite band is zeppelin so i'll recommend a few of their songs:
Black Dog
Good Times Bad Times
Hey Hey What Can I Do
Immigrant Song
Misty Mountain Hop
Ramble On
Rock and Roll

I just love the sound of a bass guitar. Some day I'll learn how to play one.

 

[fargoth]

bob marley - don't worry be happy.
monty python - allways look on the bright side of life.
the eagles - hotel california.
gabage - beautiful
air - all i need
air - playground love
evanescence - fallen
evanescence - haunted
camel - a nod and a wink
elvis costello - she
the beatles - with a little help from my friends
the beatles - yesterday
taj mahal - the banana boat song
stone temple pilots - interstate love song
three doors down - kryptonite

i have manyu more... but i didn't want to clutter the thread too much...

 

[mattmns]

NO, WRONG!

coming from someone who has not even listened to the entire album

Man if NaS were here he would bust a cap in yo' ass for knocking Rakim

 

[George Jones]

bob marley - don't worry be happy.

Just for the sake of accuracy, do you mean

Bobby McFerrin - don't worry be happy

or

Bob Marley - three little birds?

 

[turbo]

For a Dancer by Jackson Browne (because a very close friend died of brain cancer recently, and she fit the lyrics perfectly). As a guitarist and vocalist I can list hundreds (if not thousands) of songs that are my "favorites". If you can narrow your interests a bit, I'll be happy to steer you to the stuff that makes me happy.

 

[fargoth]

Just for the sake of accuracy, do you mean

Bobby McFerrin - don't worry be happy

or

Bob Marley - three little birds?

neither, i mean Bob Marley - Don't worry, be happy.
see the lyrics here:
http://www.lyrics007.com/Bob%20Marley%20Lyrics/Don't%20Worry,%20Be%20Happy%20Lyrics.html

a great song to wake up to in the morning

 

[George Jones]

neither, i mean Bob Marley - Don't worry, be happy.
see the lyrics here:
http://www.lyrics007.com/Bob%20Marley%20Lyrics/Don't%20Worry,%20Be%20Happy%20Lyrics.html

The famous recording of this is by Bobby McFerrin, and, as far as I know (I could be wrong), Bob Marley did not record a version of this. Bobby Mcferrin's version came out after Marley died.

 

[Gokul43201]

The famous recording of this is by Bobby McFerrin, and, as far as I know (I could be wrong), Bob Marley did not record a version of this. Bobby Mcferrin's version came out after Marley died.

Second that. Marley had NOTHING to do with that song - the lyrics site linked above has got it wrong.

As for the Led Zeppelin track that SpaceTiger and ShawnD like so much - that one's about a disputed mountainous territory in the Indian Subcontinent, not the fluctuations in the vacuum expectation value of the energy of a quantized field!

 

[fargoth]

I stand corrected

 

[SpaceTiger]

As for the Led Zeppelin track that SpaceTiger and ShawnD like so much - that one's about a disputed mountainous territory in the Indian Subcontinent, not the fluctuations in the vacuum expectation value of the energy of a quantized field!

The latter is actually the "Casimir effect", so the word I mistakenly used was the son of Frederick I and Princess Sofia.

 

[Gokul43201]

The latter is actually the "Casimir effect",

Yeah, but at least it sounds the same.

so the word I mistakenly used was the son of Frederick I and Princess Sofia.

Didn't know you were a history geek. That settles it I guess!

PS: Kashmir is one of my favorite pieces of Led as well.

 

[SpaceTiger]

Didn't know you were a history geek.

Just geek will do.

 

[PRodQuanta]

Audioslave-Show Me How To Live
Audioslave-Out of Exhile
Incubus-Pardon Me
Incubus-Stellar
Tool-Eulogy

Paden Roder

 

[SizarieldoR]

Rhapsody - Wisdom Of The Kings

SpaceTiger,
how can you offer Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People :-) ?

 

[fargoth]

I liked Marilyn Manson's version for Sweet Dreams.

 

[SpaceTiger]

SpaceTiger,
how can you offer Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People :-) ?

Why not? The band is innovative, the song is well-written, and the lyrics deliver a powerful message. You find that more questionable than a Monkees song?

 

[turbo]

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - Like it This Way, Black Magic Woman, Jigsaw Puzzle Blues (written by Danny Kirwan)

AC-DC - Dirty Deeds, Ride On

Vince Gill - Pocket full of Gold

Pure Prairie League - Take it Before You Go, Tears

Almost anything by John Hiatt, Robben Ford, Mary Black and Bonnie Raitt

 

[Gokul43201]

In honor of Syd Barrett (who died last week), I recommend

Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Astronomy Domine and Lucifer Sam.

 

[arildno]

In honor of Syd Barrett (who died last week), I recommend

Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Astronomy Domine and Lucifer Sam.

Here's a live clip with Syd Barrett himself:
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