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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Interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw
 
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DiracPool said:
Unfortunately, the problem I'm having with these embedded videos is twofold, 1) you can't make them fullscreen if there's a good video to go along with it, and 2) I always find myself listening to the song for a bit and then thinking it will stay on as I go to do more surfing on "physics forums," only to have the music halt abruptly when I leave the page. I guess there's nothing that can be done about that, though.

Just hit the Youtube logo and it will take you there.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw

Interesting is right. Geez... It looks like a cross between Pirates of the Carribean and Sweeney Todd. They should have had Johnny Depp make a cameo. Having formed and "de-formed" many bands over the years I can imagine how hard it was to get three guys on the same page for such an eclectic piece. Kinda cool, though, I like it.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Interesting

Steampunk is fun. Goggles and gasmasks are fashionable. Why not. They sing very melodiously too.

If you like steampunk, check out Girl Genius comics. Free online. It would take weeks to read the whole thing.
 
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ImaLooser said:
Steampunk is fun. Goggles and gasmasks are fashionable. Why not. They sing very melodiously too.

If you like steampunk, check out Girl Genius comics. Free online. It would take weeks to read the whole thing.

You have to love it when people imitate robots imitating people.

I had never heard of steampunk before but I guess they have a big deal up in Seattle every year. Even the local businesses and hotels get into the act and do steampunk decorating.

Have you ever seen the movie, Brazil? It is considered to be retrofuturistic and reminds me of the steampunk look... if you add a little Borg décor as well.
 
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Bobby Bland. One of the best...
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I had never heard of steampunk before but I guess they have a big deal up in Seattle every year.

Steampunk is a sort of imaginary reality where transistors and plastics haven't been discovered. So mechanical technology is more developed. Its all sort of 1900 style modernized. Those goggles are like motoring or flying goggles. Things are metal and other natural materials. So that music is 1900's style and fits in.

The costumes that people come up with are incredibly elaborate. It looks like a ton o' fun. Then there are Goths, cosplay, and Harajiku. Cybergoths are Harajiku-influenced steampunk Goths who like techo. Got that?

After HG Wells the first steampunk thing was Fritz Lang's Metropolis, then The Wild, Wild West. They say Brazil had something to do with it too. It caught on about 1990.
 
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ImaLooser said:
Steampunk is a sort of imaginary reality where transistors and plastics haven't been discovered. So mechanical technology is more developed. Its all sort of 1900 style modernized. Those goggles are like motoring or flying goggles. Things are metal and other natural materials. So that music is 1900's style and fits in.

The costumes that people come up with are incredibly elaborate. It looks like a ton o' fun. Then there are Goths, cosplay, and Harajiku. Cybergoths are Harajiku-influenced steampunk Goths who like techo. Got that?

After HG Wells the first steampunk thing was Fritz Lang's Metropolis, then The Wild, Wild West. They say Brazil had something to do with it too. It caught on about 1990.

Very interesting! Thanks. And even more interesting because Metropolis is probably my favorite movie. I especially like the rerelease by Georgio Moroder, from the 1980s. But now we have the new-found footage of the original film, fully intact I believe, which I haven't watched yet but plan to soon.

Brazil is also a favorite. And HG Wells? Hah! I guess so! I've been into steampunk for almost 30 years and never knew it!
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYK6CW8gdw

Very interesting, as is this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdlXv_gdGqs
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Brazil is also a favorite. And HG Wells? Hah! I guess so! I've been into steampunk for almost 30 years and never knew it!


I recently discovered that I was a proto-afrofuturist. Who would have thought it?
 
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ImaLooser said:
I recently discovered that I was a proto-afrofuturist. Who would have thought it?

Does that mean that you're a futurist with a proto afro, or that you're a proto futurist with an afro?
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Does that mean that you're a futurist with a proto afro, or that you're a proto futurist with an afro?

I'll have to check.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sYdUGoIqUM
 
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http://http://youtu.be/lXT1h3Ags94Armstrong and Sinatra very cool music!
I saw the Eagles play live in Belfast a few years ago. I consider them the best live act in the world.
 
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∇f(x0,y0,z0)=\lambda∇g(x0,y0,z0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBwxJBpnwOc
 
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Back in the early 70's as a kid, this song was everywhere. Used as theme song on just about every radio station. So I never bothered to find out what it was, as I was more into classical music. But this was just excellent.

Later I realized that I missed it and when google emerged I tried to find it back googling all kind of things with 'gitar solo'. Nothing.

Today a friend just made me stumbe upon it. I realize that it has been posted years earlier in this thread but not the original one as I remember it.

Classical gas by Mason Williams 1968



Why has it disappeared? Why isn't it world famous?
 
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Andre said:
Why has it disappeared? Why isn't it world famous?

I still hear it on oldies stations. I like a lot of the 60's instrumentals.

I like how this was used in Get Shorty. In it's entirety I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cM7JdlkVXM

Here are a couple I never hear anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v84dWza5TsQ

They also have medley from Jesus Christ Superstar. Found it on Napster way back when. Not on youtube, apparently.
 
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Viktoriya Yermolyera (aka "Vika") plays Metallica: "Master of Puppets"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIJPxxoF7dw

She's in the Wiki.
 
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Viktoriya Yermolyera (YT search: vkgoeswild) plays Muse:"Supermassive Black Hole"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSvmTyhMfVk
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J8rZlu8co4
 
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Lydia - Now the One You Once Loved Is Leaving

 
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We were discussing politics, taxes, and ultimately, rich people, today at work.

It jogged a memory of mine, about what bored rich people do with their money.

But then, my thoughts turned again, to music. :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPyNW3vegc​
 
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Vika (vkgoeswild) plays Radiohead: Creep

Vika (vkgoeswild) plays Radiohead: Creep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alaK5BvwiNc
 
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OmCheeto said:
We were discussing politics, taxes, and ultimately, rich people, today at work.

It jogged a memory of mine, about what bored rich people do with their money.

But then, my thoughts turned again, to music. :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBPyNW3vegc​

That's Punchbowl Falls in northern Oregon. You would likely like Kate Bush singing My Lagan Love.
 
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Cinematic Orchestra - The Awakening Of A Woman



You might want to sort yourself out with a nice drink and a real easy chair before you indulge! :)
 
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^
Very nice.
 
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I hope I haven't promoted this album too much...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYxvEvBkjfM​
 
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Mose Allison: Parchman Farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5hw9T9Ozv4

Seventh Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EngRmYu_vs
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I
 
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Andre said:
Classical gas by Mason Williams 1968

Why has it disappeared? Why isn't it world famous?

In its time, it was quite well known. We had the whole album, "The Mason William Phonograph Record". Do you remember the somewhat disturbing song about the prince being eaten by his panties?
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYxr784lWE
 
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Candy Dulfer, Dave Stewart: Lily Was Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SfSQ3lQmJw
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NI4n8A2L8
 
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Why trolls are not allowed at PF...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg-Qdrr3XSk​
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMo9vNVkPOs
 
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Andre said:
Back in the early 70's as a kid, this song was everywhere. Used as theme song on just about every radio station. So I never bothered to find out what it was, as I was more into classical music. But this was just excellent.

Later I realized that I missed it and when google emerged I tried to find it back googling all kind of things with 'gitar solo'. Nothing.

Today a friend just made me stumbe upon it. I realize that it has been posted years earlier in this thread but not the original one as I remember it.

Classical gas by Mason Williams 1968

Why has it disappeared? Why isn't it world famous?

It's an attempt to make something "classical" kind of "cool" so it's a small niche of people that like it. As a classical guitarist, it kind of drives me bonkers, actually. You spend hours and hours practicing Bach, Brouwer, Villa Lobos, Roland Dyens, etc. and people say "So can you play classical gas?" arghhh!

Ok, since this rant should include a video, here's a jaw dropping performance of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "A Felicidade" arranged by my favorite living composer/arranger for classical guitar, Roland Dyens, performed by Soichi Muraji. It'll make you forget all about classical gas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC_x28ti2hk
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Viktoriya Yermolyera (aka "Vika") plays Metallica: "Master of Puppets"

She's in the Wiki.

Though I went through my metal phase (in as a teen, then back out and I don't listen anymore) I've always maintained a lot of respect for Metallica's compositions during that period. This is really cool.
 
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jbunniii said:
To DiracPool's excellent advice, I can add only one more tip: grow a mullet.
:smile:
 
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DiracPool said:
Well, yes, I've been holding out on this one, but now I'm old and tired, and want to leave my (legacy) vote for the absolute best album of all time. [Pink Floyd - DSotM]
Yeah, I love that too -- except for "Money". Lots of people seem to like it, but I always just fast-forward through it.

Incidently, I own every pink floyd album (of course),
I tried to listen to other PF albums after DSotM, but didn't like them. Strange.

Decades later, I happened to buy an audio tape of their "Pulse" concert. (Have you got it?)
They did the whole DSotM really well (better than the original, imho), and also "Wish You Were Here", "Comfortably Numb", and one other ("Run?") also much better than the originals. (The latter now sound quite cheap to me when I hear them. I eventually bought the "Pulse" DVD.

[Edit: Oh, I just noticed a link to the Pulse concert already appears in post #2781.]

but the one I have listened to most over the last 20 years is Atom Heart Mother (AHM). For some reason I can just listen to that over and over and not get bored with it.
Hmm, maybe I stopped listening to their newer stuff too soon.
Could you post a link to whichever track you reckon is the most mind-possessing, pls? :wink:

DiracPool said:
[...] and that is a relief to my psuedo-psychotic
want to "fix" everything.
Hmm, so we do have something in common. :eek:Cheers.
 
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Can't see if this one has been linked already but heck it's such a brilliant song that it should be linked multiple times anyways :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTmPN50u80
 
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WannabeNewton said:
Can't see if this one has been linked already but heck it's such a brilliant song that it should be linked multiple times anyways :D

[Pink Floyd, "Time".]
Yeah, someone previously linked the whole DSotM album. It's also on the Pulse concert link.

"Time" is indeed my favorite track off that album. When I'm playing it in the car I usually turn the volume right up. Same with "Comfortably Numb" (the Pulse version only, though).
 
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Well, here's something to put you in a more serene mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJugTtU0oEU

If you like it then click on the links in the right for the following parts. It is from a video game called "The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion" which I used to play extensively in junior high school and high school (by extensively I literally mean like 24/7 a day lol). This music overwhelms me with nostalgia, fortunately reminding me of simpler times.
 
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WannabeNewton said:
It is from a video game called "The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion" which I used to play extensively [...]
I see I am sadly out of touch. I quit playing D&D so long ago -- large screen graphics and motion on affordable machines were still unheard of. So the quality of the D&D experience depended critically on the DM's skill in weaving images and evoking feelings by little more than storytelling and a talent for projecting a characterization of the imaginary inhabitants of the world. Very few DMs possessed this skill at an advanced level.

So I never got into video games. Maybe something to look forward to in my old age at some future time. :smile:
 
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This is the most hip-wiggling funkadelic groove I know. Bill Withers!

 
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dkotschessaa said:
Though I went through my metal phase (in as a teen, then back out and I don't listen anymore) I've always maintained a lot of respect for Metallica's compositions during that period. This is really cool.

Yeah. The first one of hers that I posted is still my favorite: Master of Puppets (p166, post 2820). Some might be put off by the way she attacks that poor keyboard. She says she broke a string on that grand piano but just played around it! IMHO heavy metal should be played with a heavy hand. She breaks the tension with that beautiful bridge before returning to fire and brimstone..
 
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E8H-67ILaqc[/youtube] Oh my. Who needs more than one string?
 

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