What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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Discussion Overview

This thread explores various songs featuring saxophone and guitar, with participants sharing their favorites and links to performances. The discussion includes a mix of personal opinions on the quality of songs, performances, and artists across different genres, including rock, blues, and progressive metal.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants highlight "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty as a top saxophone song.
  • Others mention Leo Kotke's "Vaseline Machine Gun," noting the quality of available recordings.
  • Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love" is also suggested as a notable song.
  • One participant expresses admiration for Dream Theater, particularly their song "Octavarium," citing its progressive nature.
  • Several participants discuss the guitar work of artists like Erik Mongrain and Tommy Emmanuel, with varying opinions on their styles and contributions to music.
  • There are mixed opinions on Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine," with some praising its guitar riff and others criticizing Axl Rose's vocals.
  • Participants share links to various songs, including works by Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, and David Bowie, indicating a wide range of musical tastes.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion features multiple competing views on what constitutes the best saxophone or guitar songs, with no clear consensus emerging among participants.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express difficulty in finding links to specific songs, and there are mentions of varying quality in recordings shared. Additionally, personal preferences and subjective opinions on artists and songs are prevalent throughout the discussion.

Who May Find This Useful

Music enthusiasts, particularly those interested in saxophone and guitar performances, as well as fans of rock, blues, and progressive metal genres.

  • #1,621
I wish my old turntable still worked...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr1hj4op-xE

As I recall, this album was sonically flawless, and quite fun.

:smile:
 
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  • #1,622
what goes around comes around - justin timberlake is also a very good song with excellent lyrics
 
  • #1,623
Taylor36 said:
My all time favorite song is "They Don't Really Care About Us"...By Michael Jackson...
I wish he was not dead and Will sing some more songs... :(

Here's a pretty cool dance remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGVBHpjsDVY
 
  • #1,624
Greg Bernhardt said:
Here's a pretty cool dance remix

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

I've never been a huge MJ fan (sorry Lacy!), but that is one of his songs I found/find quite infectious, in a good way.
 
  • #1,625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_0UE7wjFYA
 
  • #1,626
John Porter - he is Welsh, but since seventies he lives mostly in Poland. Or at least that's what I think he does.

 
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  • #1,627
Good times!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op2U-qGUDkg

And a change of pace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCq9nr8pmY
 
  • #1,628
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfFnlfeo4Q

Rudy thought, that all good things, came to those, that wait...

but...
 
  • #1,629
Oooooh good one Om!

Hey, this may be a long shot, but does anyone know of a song, by a female (Kuwaiti I think) singer , who sings, " Sur-prise! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you (yellah), sana halwa habibbi, sana halwa, sana halwaaaa habbibi..." and then off into a song?
 
  • #1,630
Cheb Khaled again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD5VUqejClk

A bit of anime fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-72iCmHgRI&feature=related

and this, lighthearted as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTwx0eLNOLg&feature=related

And the classic Mother of all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EPRHxBWxdw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vUkc8GE1o&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYpG15Qb1s

Beck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2zf4-qbG4
 
  • #1,631
, love this one.
 
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  • #1,632
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwPRC2xJrE0

I do not know where San Jacinto is.
 
  • #1,633
tired but i ain't sleepin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIwm7d_xs8
 
  • #1,634
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UcQDUR-fU
 
  • #1,635
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwnmkEqYpo
 
  • #1,636
Anyone in a mood for blues?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh5yUwG2Uzw
 
  • #1,637
lisab said:
Anyone in a mood for blues?
Always in a mood for Bonnie!
 
  • #1,638
Norah Jones, always a favorite of mine. An oddly pleasing video, too :approve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd02pGJx0s0
 
  • #1,639
NOT WORK SAFE:

Contains one mild curse, and disturbing image. (from the movie 'Fallen')


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ44q_5uMM4&feature=related

I never do think of that song the same way again; I think of the crowd scene and "jumping" through brush-passes.

edit: Song begins at :47, and that is after the one mild profanity.
 
  • #1,640
nismaratwork said:
Cee Lo Green... "Forget You", only, not that version. Obviously there's no posting it here. :smile:

um...

the first time I heard this at work, I was like; "You can't play that! They say the "f" word!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71XXSin4lc

But they didn't.

Then I read the lyrics* to the subtitled version where they do while playing it really loud in my office, while the censored version was playing out on the floor, and then I screamed out; "@#%@ you too..."

Then the whole office got kind of quiet... :blushing:

I love that song.

*I think I'd only understood one word in the whole song before that moment. It is such a very tragic thing to lose someone you love to such shallowness, and hence the angry message of this song.
 
  • #1,641
Actually 2 x favorites, among a million:

1. My favorite Irish singers, 'The Corrs'- doing a Jimi Hendrix song, 'Little Wings'



and

2. Bach's 'Air' by Vienna Philharmonic Women´s Orchestra, (Conductor Izabella Shareyko

 
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  • #1,642
Sometimes, best songs, just take you back to the best period of your life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MF5OxlJCtQ

Gads, to be 32 again...

:smile:
 
  • #1,643
And whatever happened to Jamiroquai?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGjC0wbUXzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE
 
  • #1,644
there are a couple songs that give me the chills when i listen to them...
Who wants to live forever-Queen
My Immortal-evavescence
 
  • #1,646
I'm not sure if people are into Dubstep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9o1ynSb3Io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE3IslWaB4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpEOErRV-u4
 
  • #1,647
What this forum needs is some Swedish OSDM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OfUVmfNk4E
 
  • #1,648
Finally - someone posted the Grateful Dead's Clementine Jam on Youtube.



It's great with the lights turned down and with a decent volume.

Another version -
Note the bill - Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service!
 
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  • #1,649
Astronuc said:
Finally - someone posted the Grateful Dead's Clementine Jam on Youtube.



It's great with the lights turned down and with a decent volume.


I think that you mixed up your links unless the Grateful Dead are now performing in Porta-Johns. :-p
 
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  • #1,650
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYwPc6UNmo

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUfMhwr0sI
 

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