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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DiracPool said:
For this song I would say it is probably a tumor in your superior temporal lobe, possibly just caudal to the Sylvian fissure. I can't think of any other reason you'd be transfixed with that dysphony...:-p
Oh well, at least I've now got a diagnosis. (BTW, did you see my edit in the previous post?)
 
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  • #2,702
That sounds like video game music from the elder scrolls o.o. I like it though.
 
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WannabeNewton said:
That sounds like video game music from the elder scrolls o.o. I like it though.
Ah good -- seems like I'm not alone in the braindamage club. :-)

Hey, try some of the other Pentangle tracks linked from that youtube page -- "Once I had a sweetheart" is another fine example of Jacqui McShee's rare vocal purity (at least for those who can appreciate it).
 
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I'm actually transfixed on this song right now...



I can't stop playing it. When it ends, I get morosely depressed. I think I'm going to have my team give me an MRI tomorrow to see what's going on. I'll keep you posted.
 
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strangerep said:
Ah good -- seems like I'm not alone in the braindamage club. :-)

Hey, try some of the other Pentangle tracks linked from that youtube page -- "Once I had a sweetheart" is another fine example of Jacqui McShee's rare vocal purity (at least for those who can appreciate it).
Yeah I'm pretty accustomed to this kind of music because I used to play a lot of fantasy rpg games in high school. The sitar was a very nice touch I have to say; overall the music is quite serene, thanks! If you like soft music like this you *might* like the following artist, however the genres are different:

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

One of my most favorite artists all around, Nick Drake's songs always remind me of my brother back home because he introduced me to Drake's music :smile:
 
  • #2,706
WannabeNewton said:
If you like soft music like this you *might* like the following artist, however the genres are different:
Hmmm -- what would you call this genre?

I'd never even heard of him before. But... was that a gravestone with his name of it at the end? Was that real, or just part of the visual montage for the sake of the song?
 
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strangerep said:
Hmmm -- what would you call this genre?

I'd never even heard of him before. But... was that a gravestone with his name of it at the end? Was that real, or just part of the visual montage for the sake of the song?
I would say folk but not the kind of folk you linked to before as they seem to have distinct sounds. I don't know about the gravestone thing but he did die very young at the age of 26 in 1974 if I recall. Here's another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2JjJPDz3EE
 
  • #2,708
WannabeNewton said:
I would say folk but not the kind of folk you linked to before as they seem to have distinct sounds.
Yeah, Pentangle is kind of blend of traditional old-English, a touch of jazz and some rock. They pretty much invented the genre, and fans began to call it "folk-rock". Steel Eye Span is similar, but not as good as Pentangle, imho.

I don't know about the gravestone thing but he did die very young at the age of 26.
Ah, that would explain it. It's probably real, then.
 
  • #2,709
And, just before I tear myself away from the computer and go to bed...

I just did a search on this thread. Surprised to find no mention of "The Real Thing" by Russell Morris from the 1960's. I was too young understand it properly when it first came out -- I just heard the bizarre "lyrics" in the repeating crescendo and wondered "WTF?". I didn't understand then that "come and see the real thing" meant "come and see the real world"...

The video is an updated compilation including more recent clips (including a much older Russell Morris), and more clips from history showing not much has changed in the world...



[Warning: a couple of brief scenes herein are a bit confronting...]
 
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This is kind of blowing my mind to think about.

We're about to go see this:

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

In the same hall where we saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZuNM3HmU4
 
  • #2,711
dkotschessaa said:
This is kind of blowing my mind to think about.

We're about to go see this:

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

In the same hall where we saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZuNM3HmU4

Verdi and Vai, a pretty eclectic combination, but it's not that unusual for an upscale venue to host such diversity. Carnegie Hall in New York City has hosted a number of rock/pop groups such as the Beatles and Rolling Stones. In 1969, 1971 and 1976 Laura Nyro played to sold out crowds at Carnegie. Although not nearly as famous as many popular groups, she had considerable talent as a songwriter, vocalist and pianist. One thing about her albums was that many of her recordings were layered multi tracks, something you can't carry over to live performances. This probably limited her exposure to the general public as a solo performer.

I particularity like this song, recorded with Duane Allman (guitar). The opening verse appears under the video and is sung slowly, after which the tempo picks up. I like the way Laura closes the piece with an unusual piano figure.



home.earthlink.net/~peter_rocheleau/index.html
 
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  • #2,712
This is one of my favorite songs. It's long, but it needs to be because it's epic.

 
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strangerep said:
Recently, I've become intrigued about why certain types of songs can totally "possess" a certain type of person, while other people are indifferent to it, or even dislike it and want to turn it off. What's going on deep in the human psyche that makes this so? Some types of music are a thoroughly addictive drug to some people, but other people hate it.

After watching some recent NOVA shows on brain development, i wonder if it's simply what one listened to as a teenager & into early 20's.

Seems one's brain adapts itself as one grows older, and a lot of behavior is imprinted during adolesence. Last night's NOVA show repeated this idea in their study of violence.

Laugh if you like, but my favorite group in Junior High School was "Arthur Fiedler & Boston Pops". To this day i prefer light classics and symphony-sound treatments of contemporary music.

And a little of the Big Bopper era stuff from my early teen years, before i discovered high fidelity .

Observing other folks, they seem similarly imprinted from their developmental years.

What about your own kids, and your parents?

Is there a brain doctor in the house?

old jim
 
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Pleased to meet you ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8
 
  • #2,715
NUuJxk-ZoKs[/youtube] Try getting this one out of your head after you hear it once or twice.
 
  • #2,716
jim hardy said:
After watching some recent NOVA shows on brain development, i wonder if it's simply what one listened to as a teenager & into early 20's.
Interesting thought, but... I think there must be more to it...

As a very young child I'd wear out the old vinyl records of (instrumental only) carols every Christmas season. Even many weeks after Christmas I'd still be listening to them continuously, until my mother couldn't tolerate any more and told me "no, it's time to put those records away now, until next year".

I wonder why my child mind was so hypnotized by that type of music?

What about [...] your parents?
My (now elderly) mother is besotted with Andre Rieu (and absolutely everything he releases), but I can only tolerate his versions of the more sombre classics, not the fluffy musical-theatre songs my Mum likes.

It also occurred to me that different religions have been exploiting such neurological susceptibilities for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. And as different religions tend to attract/influence different types of people, they also use different music to do so. Compare, say, modern fundamentalist Christian revivalist, vs old-style Christian, vs Gregorian chant monastery types, vs Buddhist meditative chants, Sufi whirling-dervish, and so on. It's kinda scary when you think about it -- how one can be thus deeply influenced, even conscripted, semi-subconsciously.
 
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jbunniii said:
[... "All the MotherF-----s ..." ]
Try getting this one out of your head after you hear it once or twice.
Hmm. Interesting take on the modern protest/rejectionist genre. :rolleyes:

But I was playing the following one last night, and it's been in my head all day today, and still pushes out other songs as soon as I stop playing them. For those who've never heard it, you'll soon understand why.

(BTW, does anyone know of a modern rock singer who can match the young Ian Gillan? I've never heard anyone do this song as well as him -- though of course he paid for it later with severely damaged vocal chords (true story).

The bizarre thing is that I really like this, and the gentle delicate stuff I posted earlier.
Go figure.
 
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strangerep said:
jim hardy said:
After watching some recent NOVA shows on brain development, i wonder if it's simply what one listened to as a teenager & into early 20's.

Interesting thought, but... I think there must be more to it...

I agree. I'm in my mid 50's and still discover new music, by new bands, to which I become, transfixed: (The Shins, Sleeping Lessons). Even genres of music, which I've had no previous interest: Opera, Hip Hop(I think? What genre is Nelly's "Hot In Herre"? ), Bob Dylan, etc, etc.

I think I posted, in the past, that people who play musical instruments, experience music differently than people who sit around, get stoned, and go; "Wow. This is cool."

Though I like some of that music also. :blushing:

A line from that last one popped into my head yesterday morning as I was heading out the door for work. I was doing a mental checklist:
Keys: Check
Wallet: Check
Water: Check
Computer: "You're magnetic ink" :cool:

Flashbacks aren't always bad. :-p
 
  • #2,719
Really nice page of music, including some things I hadn't heard before, like Nick Drake.
 
  • #2,720
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9n1bAahg4
 
  • #2,721
Take an hour out of your day, turn your digital dealies off, relax in nice, comfortable chair, and listen to this start to finish, and I promise it will change your life...

 
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DiracPool said:
... I promise it will change your life...



Yes it has.
 
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  • #2,723
It changed my life too. When I heard it, I was 21 years old, single and still in college. Now I'm 62, married with 2 kids and retired.
 
  • #2,724
It changed my life too.

It's right at the 15:00 mark in the album where the whole universe changes for me...All of a sudden the spacecraft goes into warp drive an I've left the galaxy going to who knows where and loving every minute of it...
 
  • #2,725
How come you clowns haven't put this one up yet?

 
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  • #2,726
Or you can watch this Canadian songbird live...

 
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  • #2,727
Roy Clark :

yes, Charles Aznavour wrote it..



I've seen them both perform it...four decades apart.
 
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  • #2,728
DiracPool said:
How come you clowns haven't put this one up yet?



I don't think anything from that album has not been put up.

Court and Spark, and Joni Mitchell, rule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwiBsNzO2HU

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I was going to post a reference to an old post, but that song appears to have been from her "DOG EAT DOG" album. Equally superb, IMHO.
 
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OmCheeto said:
I don't think anything from that album has not been put up.

Oops, sorry. My mistake, I came late to this game.
 
  • #2,730
strangerep said:
Recently, I've become intrigued about why certain types of songs can totally "possess" a certain type of person...

I'm currently possessed with the spirit of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87On2GxwEKs​
 
  • #2,731
DiracPool said:
Oops, sorry. My mistake, I came late to this game.

You could always start on page 1.
Though many of the links have dropped out.
I'd love to be given the key to this thread, and reconnect all the lost songs.
I think I've posted on many occasions that I knew I would like this place called "Physics Forums" when I saw that the second song listed was by Leo Kottke.

I would learn later that Evo doesn't have good taste in just music, she also has good taste in books.

hmmm... I should post some music...

http://www.myspace.com/61328137/music

Ok. Late for work. Bye.
 
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Somebody less lazy than me should create a youtube playlist of all songs listed here.
 
  • #2,733
I like this instrumental track. I was very surprised a few years back to learn that it is incorrect to refer to such a thing as a "song." FM DJ's always talk about "9 songs in a row" and one or two of them might be instrumentals.

 
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1977ub said:
I like this instrumental track. I was very surprised a few years back to learn that it is incorrect to refer to such a thing as a "song." FM DJ's always talk about "9 songs in a row" and one or two of them might be instrumentals.

Yeah, I learned that in high school. Gotta have a singer. Or at least be covering something that was originally sung. An instrumental is called a "piece" or a "work."
 
  • #2,735
dkotschessaa said:
Somebody less lazy than me should create a youtube playlist of all songs listed here.

As a practicality type of person, I have always said that, retired people should be put to work.

What better job, for an oldster, then to put puzzles back together. :smile:
​

Argh!

Must post another best song ever...

Steely Dan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfQTY_K-_o​
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXnIMKceHkk
 
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How about this one, gang?

 
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  • #2,738
DiracPool said:
How about this one, gang?



Janis was good. Couldn't get to her 28th birthday, like so many other good ones.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvmuDH8cgG0
 
  • #2,740
Yes, Kashmir...I got some advise for you Newton, seeing as you're a young 19 year old guy. If you want to make it with a woman, all you need to do is pop in Zeppelin 4 in the 8-track of your Pontiac, and make sure to begin the dinner date by ordering her a coke with no ice...

Tell me how it went:wink:
 
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I can try but I'd probably just end up telling her she's not as pretty as Robert Plant...xD. P.S. I'm not 19 yet, still 18 and a long ways to go before 19 T_T
 
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To DiracPool's excellent advice, I can add only one more tip: grow a mullet.
 
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WannabeNewton said:
I can try but I'd probably just end up telling her she's not as pretty as Robert Plant...xD. P.S. I'm not 19 yet, still 18 and a long ways to go before 19 T_T

Well, don't take my word for it Newton, just ask Vic Damone...

http://ledzeppelinreferences.com/sites/ftrh.php
 
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I've heard this song about 100 times on a cheezy little AM radio at work. I always thought it was a pretty little song, with Sting singing in the background. I just heard, and watched the video the other day, figured out what the words were, and decided that it is one of the saddest songs I've ever run across.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

...just somebody, that I used to know​


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I hate treating old friends, like strangers...
 
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Often imitated, never equaled:

 
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  • #2,747
It's donation time on PBS TV stations. There are so many good ones. Oh how the times have changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8UZHQHLpAg
 
  • #2,748
if one ever needs an "antidote" go Gotye...

 
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  • #2,749
Deep Down Inside

One of the better live versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV5wjwIez-M
 
  • #2,750
Fiona Apple: "Shadowboxer" (live)

Fiona Apple; Shadowboxer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMH5hzvrOgA
 

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