What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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The discussion revolves around sharing links to various songs and artists, highlighting personal favorites and recommendations. Participants mention iconic tracks like "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, emphasizing their appreciation for guitar riffs and vocals. Dream Theater is frequently praised for its musicianship, particularly the drumming and progressive compositions. Other notable mentions include artists like Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Emmanuel, and Mary Black, showcasing a wide range of musical styles. The thread encourages exploration of new music and sharing of lesser-known talents.
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OmCheeto said:
Was the following for real?



I'm having trouble lately distinguishing between my memories, hallucinations, and CGI.

looks real. i was trying to figure out how they isolated individuals on camera until i noticed they were numbered.
 
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I've been going through Amy Winehouse's discography since she died. It was immediately clear to me that she has made a mark in the history of modern music in her short troubled life. Some people have called her a genius. There's a tendency to overdo praise when someone like this passes, just as there was a tendency to vilify her in life because of her behavior. IMO, her best work is not her best known work. My selection for her best song is: "I Wake Up Alone". Maybe you can't separate her demons from her art. Maybe her demons drove the arc of her short life through soaring heights to a deadly crash. I consider myself an educated man, but I just don't know about these things. I do know this is one melodically and lyrically superb song, superbly performed.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/879604/
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHYKGtnRprc
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
I've been going through Amy Winehouse's discography since she died. It was immediately clear to me that she has made a mark in the history of modern music in her short troubled life. Some people have called her a genius. There's a tendency to overdo praise when someone like this passes, just as there was a tendency to vilify her in life because of her behavior. IMO, her best work is not her best known work. My selection for her best song is: "I Wake Up Alone". Maybe you can't separate her demons from her art. Maybe her demons drove the arc of her short life through soaring heights to a deadly crash. I consider myself an educated man, but I just don't know about these things. I do know this is one melodically and lyrically superb song, superbly performed.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/879604/
Really cool song and well done. Somewhat unique voice and great phrasing. Given a reasonably interesting voice it's the phrasing that makes the difference. She was quite talented in that regard. Too bad that she had the sort of attitude, or maybe she was a depressed sort, that allowed her to abuse alcohol and whatever else. Anyway, I take any music at face value. This is good music imo. That is, I enjoyed listening to it.
 
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ThomasT said:
Really cool song and well done. Somewhat unique voice and great phrasing. Given a reasonably interesting voice it's the phrasing that makes the difference. She was quite talented in that regard. Too bad that she had the sort of attitude, or maybe she was a depressed sort, that allowed her to abuse alcohol and whatever else. Anyway, I take any music at face value. This is good music imo. That is, I enjoyed listening to it.

Yes. That's what it's all about. In a generation Amy will be remembered for her music and the other musicians that she influenced, not her behavior. What I like about Amy is that she realized that a world existed before she was born, and people have been making great music for a long time, like Joni Mitchell. She mined the past to bring her own special sound into the present. It took some courage to do that. I mean Frank Sinatra? That's too retro even for me!

As for her messed up life; like I said, I just don't know. When she was 17, she apparently recorded a song called "Long Day". I wasn't released until 2009 (as a single). She refused to allow it into her first album "Frank". Her lyrics reveal a girl who seems to be driven by a creative energy that won't let her rest. So her "issues" weren't new. "Long Day" is a great song that got lost.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/1518501/

By the way, this Brazilian site seems to have all her available songs along with the lyrics, an important feature if you're trying to understand what she's saying. Just scroll down the page to the play list.
 
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I have seen her pictures in the past, and the name wasn't completely alien, but I have never heard her signing up to today. Fascinating voice.
 
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Borek said:
I have seen her pictures in the past, and the name wasn't completely alien, but I have never heard her signing up to today. Fascinating voice.

Yes, that voice! That's what people notice first. The British media personality Russell Brand knew Amy when she was teenage "twit" as he describes her. The local older guys called her "Winehouse", not "Amy". They liked to kid around with her. She told them she was a "jazz singer" and had dropped out of school. "Jazz singer"? (Like what's your day job?) She, of course, lived at home with her family (when she was home anyway). Later on, Brand, who by then had known her casually for a number of years, describes his reaction when he first heard her sing. It's a bit over the top, but probably not too far from the reaction many people have when they first actually hear her sing (including me).

"I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal. Entering the space I saw Amy on stage with Weller and his band; and then the awe. The awe that envelops when witnessing a genius. From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness. A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I’d only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn’t just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed up nit who was never going to make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a ****ing genius."

http://www.russellbrand.tv/2011/07/for-amy/
 
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No lyrics but a great 'song'..



Before I go to sleep I'll pretend to have a beer while listening to this one.

 
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I recently "discovered" a band called The BellRays. They have a garage rock/punk sound with soul style lyrics. Here is a music video. If you choose to listen and don't care that much for the music at least wait for the vocals, they're what really make the band. And the video is fun too.
 
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TheStatutoryApe said:
I recently "discovered" a band called The BellRays. They have a garage rock/punk sound with soul style lyrics. Here is a music video. If you choose to listen and don't care that much for the music at least wait for the vocals, they're what really make the band. And the video is fun too.

That's Lisa Kekaula, the lead singer for this rock-soul band from Southern California. They've been around for a while. I like them too, but it is Lisa's singing that makes them stand out. Otherwise it's fairly standard heavy metal type rock. Frankly, I think the only reason they're not better known is that Lisa is not exactly a petite blue-eyed blonde type.
 
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CC Catch: Don't be a hero tonight
 
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Makes me all warm. Yay!
 
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By the time of this live performance in London, Amy Winehouse was well into her downward self-destructive spiral. Live performances before large crowds were always difficult for her and she felt the need to "fortify" herself. If you look closely, she's a bit unsteady and there's that faraway look in her eyes. This time at least, she got her "dosage" right, enough to control her nerves, but not enough to ruin her performance. The song "Valerie" was one of her last commercially significant releases. It was originally recorded by the Zutons and is one the few recent songs in Amy's discography that she didn't write herself.

http://letras.terra.com.br/amy-winehouse/1007718/
 
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I guess I'll post another.

 
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Facebook will not let me post the following video:

Odd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRK8Oq667Ss

This song describes much about me. :wink:
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlY4blLIIAY
 
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How about a country tune, with Jakob Dylan (you may have heard of his dad, Bob).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkH8dDhefC8
 
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I like this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X88Kz7uRalc
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaJqynA8Y0

Stevie Nicks new album, In your dreams!
 
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rootX said:
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.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7DAHi_Cks8
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCtaEGWA93U
 
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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
 
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rootX said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaJqynA8Y0

Stevie Nicks new album, In your dreams!

SW VandeCarr said:
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):

Dn8-4tjPxD8[/youtube] @ SW, alth...y them: [MEDIA=youtube]JxEsUiPm17c[/MEDIA]
 
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ThomasT said:
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 :smile:, 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.
 
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Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm (electric).

 
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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.
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
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.
 
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TheStatutoryApe said:
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.
 
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ThomasT said:
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.
 
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When it's all you've got, call it love.

 
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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)
 
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Borek said:
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.
 
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TheStatutoryApe said:
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.
 
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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
 
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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
 
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Zakk's best work, IMO.

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

 
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I yam what I yam.
 
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