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.
  • #251
Not exactly a song, but just beautiful anyway:
 
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  • #252


One of my favourites, I have seen QOTSA live with Dave Grohl on drums at the Ozzfest in Milton Keynes bowl, I saw Ozzy with Tony Iomi doing paranoid etc as well.:smile:

Awesome was the first time I'd ever heard of them let alone seen them live.
 
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  • #253
arildno said:
Not exactly a song, but just beautiful anyway:


Exactly a song. :wink:

One of these 'forgotten themes'...
 
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  • #254
Astronuc said:
Emerson, Lake & Palmer -
I love Lucky Man.
 
  • #256
Simon and Garfunkle are just great.

















My favourite. America.



and Pearl Jam are just incredibly good.





Creedence Clearwater Revival





Howlin' Wolf





Muddy Waters





Rolling stones





Bob Dylan





The Beatles





John lennon



The Who



Metallica







If you think capital punishment is any more than revenge watch this:smile:



Bach.



Strauss



Holst.



Sorry have to watch a tennis match here, can't find it anywhere else.



Ravel





Beethoven



Peer Gint



Prokofyev



Gershwin omfg is this good, theme music to Manhatten:Woody Allen



Tchaikovsky





I could go on all night :smile:
 
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  • #257
Schrodinger's Dog said:
Simon and Garfunkle are just great.



They are, and amof, I just wanted to post El Condor Pasa ! :smile:
 
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  • #259
radou said:
They are, and amof, I just wanted to post El Condor Pasa ! :smile:



Did I include this one, I forget?







Sorry too much good music to remember it all. Enjoy :smile:
 
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  • #260
Schrodinger's Dog said:


Did I include this one, I forget?







Sorry too much good music to remember it all. Enjoy :smile:


Tenacious D.



This is just a tribute, but it is to the greatest song ever:-

EDIT: Beck: now you might not understand it: but you have a Devil's haircut in your mind. Schrodinger's Dog shut up and listen to good music.:smile:









Spin Doctors.



System of a down





watch and learn you metalheads.
 
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  • #261
I like this one with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchells:
 
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  • #264
Going back to 1971-1972 :biggrin:

From the Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge

Yes-Starship Trooper
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mBaRqZU-0PI

Yes-Siberian Kathru
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4B2BVjvfp8

I've Seen All Good People
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bvPyT-YGUIg

And You And I
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4Pspv2Gmq8


Wishbone Ash - Warrior


Wishbone Ash "The King Will Come" (1972)


Wishbone Ash King Will Come - alt (in 2005)



SANTANA - Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen - 1976
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2pbYDNhbca4


From 1971-1975
Blue Öyster Cult: Then Came the Last Days af May


Blue Öyster Cult: Cities on Flames with Rock and Roll


Unfortunately, there aren't too many videos from the early 70's. Most of what I find are performances from the 1990's or 2000's, and the live performances weren't as good as 20-30 years earlier. :frown:
 
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  • #265
Astronuc said:
From 1971-1975
Blue Öyster Cult: Then Came the Last Days af May


Blue Öyster Cult: Cities on Flames with Rock and Roll


Hey, this band ROCKS ! Only heard of the name, but never knew they were so great!
 
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  • #267
physics girl phd said:
I just discovered this band called Truckstop Honeymoon:
http://www.mikewest.net/truckstop_honeymoon/cds.html

Check out "Johnny and June" and "Delivery boy."

Oh, honeypie, that is right up my alley! Thank you!:cool:

Every heard Big Ugly Wheels by the Beat Farmers?


That's the late, legendary Country Dick Montana up front.
 
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  • #268
radou said:
Hey, this band ROCKS ! Only heard of the name, but never knew they were so great!
I saw them in the first show of the tour promoting their first album. Jimmy Page once said that Donald Roeser (Buck Dharma) was his favorite guitarist, and "Cities on Flame" sure brought that home. The concert was a triple bill - the Byrds, Blue Oyster Cult, and John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu orchestra. The Byrds came out first, which surprised the heck out of me, then B.O.C. came out and tore the place up. My ears were ringing when they left the stage and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hear McLaughlin very well (nice electric jazz, like on his previous albums). No worries! He came out with a Les Paul plugged straight into 100 watts of Fender Twin Reverb, and I swear the volume was maxed. My girlfriend and I tore filters off her cigarettes and stuffed them in our ears. We were sitting in the front row with our legs under the risers, so we pretty much got max volume. Skip Batten (bassist for the Byrds) kept smiling and making eyes at my girlfriend - luckily she didn't reciprocate and go party with the band, since I paid for the tickets. :-p

BTW, a biker friend of mine in Providence is friends with Roeser and the other guys in B.O.C. and he kept teasing about bringing Roeser up to one of the blues jams I was hosting at a local tavern, so he could show me some REAL guitar-playing.
 
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  • #269
turbo-1 said:
Skip Batten (bassist for the Byrds) kept smiling and making eyes at my girlfriend - luckily she didn't reciprocate and go party with the band, since I paid for the tickets. :-p

:smile: :smile:

Well, that must have been a great concert!

Btw, I just downloaded some of the BOC stuff, it's absolutely great. A total refreshment.

Edit: and I just realized they wrote Astronomy.
 
  • #270
who sang the song that has the lyrics:

and the first time ever i kissed your lips i felt the earth...something something?

that is a good song!
 
  • #271
sara_87 said:
who sang the song that has the lyrics:

and the first time ever i kissed your lips i felt the earth...something something?

that is a good song!

The first time ever I saw your face. Is the song.

Roberta Flak

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies, my love,
To the dark and the empty skies.

The first time ever I kissed your mouth
And felt your heart beat close to mine
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love
That was there at my command.

And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the Earth
And last till the end of time my love
It would last till the end of time my love

The first time ever I saw your face, your face,
your face, your face
 
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  • #272
yes! that's right!
thanx i can now sleep lol
 
  • #273
sara_87 said:
yes! that's right!
thanx i can now sleep lol

You're welcome, now that's poetry and music, quite touching :smile:
 
  • #274
radou said:
Hey, this band ROCKS ! Only heard of the name, but never knew they were so great!

They do a kickass version of Summertime Blues too. :cool:

edited to add:
Whoops nevermind, I thought I read "Blue Cheer". Anyway, look that band up too!
 
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  • #275
Astronuc said:
Yes-Starship Trooper
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mBaRqZU-0PI

My best friend LOVES that song. All 3 hours of it. I think it's OK, but it's really awkward when he plays it on the bar jukebox. Everyone gets pissed wondering when the heck it's going to end so they can hear the crap that they played.
 
  • #276
radou said:
:smile: :smile:

Well, that must have been a great concert!

Btw, I just downloaded some of the BOC stuff, it's absolutely great. A total refreshment.

Edit: and I just realized they wrote Astronomy.
Radou, get a copy of their first album on CD They really kicked A$$. The stuff you see on youtube does not approximate their early live stuff.
 
  • #277
turbo-1 said:
Radou, get a copy of their first album on CD They really kicked A$$. The stuff you see on youtube does not approximate their early live stuff.
BÖC's first 3 albums are great! And their Live CD "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" is excellent! Their later stuff, Agents of Fortune and so on, was rather disappointing.

Fortunately, when I saw them, they were just releasing Agents of Fortune and were still playing material from their first three albums.
 
  • #278
I love The Magnetic Fields. But I can't find any of my favorite songs by them online. The two that are on youtube that aren't horrible cover bands have really crappy videos by the people that uploaded them. :frown:

This wasn't one of my favorite songs, but the more I listen to it, the more it grows on me. I adore Stephin Merritt's voice. The video isn't bad either.

The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure

 
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  • #279
Evo said:
The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure



:smile: Both track and video rule !
 
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  • #280
Humble Pie's "30 Days in the Hole" from the "Smokin'" LP - no video, but a nice slide show of their album cover art.


Before Humble Pie, Steve Marriott fronted The Small Faces. They started out as a mod group doing R&B stuff and morphed into the psychedelic pop group seen here. The other singer is bassist Ronnie Lane.


Here's the mod-rocker phase of The Small Faces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5rurtwT9RI&mode=related&search=
 
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  • #281
Now for some blues...

Sonnyboy Williamson "Your Funeral and My Trial"


Sonnyboy sitting in with Muddy Waters on "Got My Mojo Working". That's Willie Dixon on bass, and I think that Pinetop Perkins is on piano. Stylistically it sounds like him, and one of the voices in the response is a reedy tenor, which fits.


"Blow Wind Blow" by Muddy and the band. Notice they misspelled Pinetop's name as "Pintup". They must have traveled light to England because they are using Orange amps instead of Fenders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmUOqaHVcs&mode=related&search=

Willie Dixon, master songwriter and bass player, boogieing with a piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBusyR1ot7I&mode=related&search=

"Shake it for Me" by Howlin' Wolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xSgs7VLNM&mode=related&search=
 
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  • #283
radou said:
A short digression to one of the greatest guitar solos ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZN4fBC2s00"

That's quite simply one of the finest guitar solos I've ever heard, the first time I heard it I was like woaah:bugeye:
 
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  • #284
Schrodinger's Dog said:
That's quite simply one of the finest guitar solos I've ever heard, the first time I heard it I was like woaah:bugeye:

Pure rock anthology. :cool:
 
  • #285
radou, get the first album by the Blue Oyster Cult. Donald Roeser's guitar solo on Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll will hit the top of your list. The solos available on Youtube do not hold a candle to the one on that album. Luckily, they were pretty fresh out of the studio when they started their inaugural tour and Roeser nailed that solo. The applause was deafening.
 
  • #286
turbo-1 said:
radou, get the first album by the Blue Oyster Cult. Donald Roeser's guitar solo on Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll will hit the top of your list. The solos available on Youtube do not hold a candle to the one on that album. Luckily, they were pretty fresh out of the studio when they started their inaugural tour and Roeser nailed that solo. The applause was deafening.

Thanks for the tip, I'm trying to track down the first album. I'm currently listening to a compilation which seems to contain some older stuff too (including Cities on Flame).
 
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  • #290
Kurdt said:
Its alright but its not very technically demanding :rolleyes:

Not very technically demanding? Interesting viewpoint. Arguments? :confused:

Edit: and even if it weren't technically demanding, it doesn't really matter, since a track needn't be technically demanding in order to kick ass. :smile:
 
  • #291
Well its just the same phrases repeated many times. Apart from cramp in fingers there's not much to it. I like it but I wouldn't say it was the best ever. :smile:
 
  • #292
In the mean time - Spacehog
 
  • #294
Hmmm I have no idea whether I've posted already in this thread or not but lately I have had Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt stuck in my head. I really like that song.
 
  • #295
Kurdt said:
Well its just the same phrases repeated many times. Apart from cramp in fingers there's not much to it. I like it but I wouldn't say it was the best ever. :smile:

Since I posted more than one song in this thread, obviouslly none of them can be 'the best ever'. :wink:

If you play a 'classical' instrument, I'll understand what you said, and if you don't, I'll believe you watched only the first two or three minutes of it, which can be completely understood, since you have to have some nerve to watch 24 minutes of something which doesn't really impress you. :smile:

Edit:

Evo said:
Another one by Magnetic Fields. Darn I want my good songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTHoM9uD6nc&NR

Whoa, their videos rule!

scorpa said:
Hmmm I have no idea whether I've posted already in this thread or not but lately I have had Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt stuck in my head. I really like that song.

It's a great song, amof, I didn't even know it's a cover and I didn't even know its name! Just know it's playing in the background often while my dad's working. Here's the video, btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go"
 
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  • #296
radou said:
Not very technically demanding? Interesting viewpoint. Arguments? :confused:

Edit: and even if it weren't technically demanding, it doesn't really matter, since a track needn't be technically demanding in order to kick ass. :smile:
Kurdt is right, IMO. I am a guitarist and I've played professionally, and hosted open-mike jams at local taverns for fun later in life, and the licks in that lead are falling-off-a-log easy to cop. Very few guitarists would be much impressed by that lead, no matter how much of a crowd-pleaser it is.

Heck! Neil Young had a hit with this simple-minded ditty and it was a popular song at his live concerts. BTW, the version on his album featured a "lead" that was a repetition of a single note played in time to the rhythm section. At least he threw in a few different notes in this live version.


As for Skynard guitar riffs, "I know a Little" is probably their best from the viewpoint of a guitarist. They mix it up pretty good.
 
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  • #297
turbo-1 said:
Kurdt is right, IMO. I am a guitarist and I've played professionally, and hosted open-mike jams at local taverns for fun later in life, and the licks in that lead are falling-off-a-log easy to cop. Very few guitarists would be much impressed by that lead, no matter how much of a crowd-pleaser it is.

Interesting, since I know some pretty good guitar players who admire John Petrucci. I guess it's a matter of personal taste, then. But no one can convince me that there is not at least one (!) lick during these 24 minutes which requires a decent level of guitar playing technique.

But on the other hand, I admit, since I don't play so well, it's a lot easier to impress me.

turbo-1 said:
As for Skynard guitar riffs, "I know a Little" is probably their best from the viewpoint of a guitarist. They mix it up pretty good.


This is great, not unlike all LS stuff. :cool:
 
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  • #298
Off the top of my head:
SUPERTRAMP - hide in your shell
CHRIS DE BURGH - Rosanna
COMMODORES - three times a lady
ABBA - winner takes it all
BEETLES - yesterday
JOHNNY CASH - a boy named sue
ELVIS PRESLEY - are you lonesome tonight
GARY NEWMAN - are friends electric
CELINE DION -when there is only love
JONI MITCHELL - sharon
TOM JONES - green green grass of home
MARIAH CAREY - mariah's theme
PINK FLOYD - money
DON MCLEAN - american pie
ELTON JOHN - song for guy
 
  • #299
radou said:
It's a great song, amof, I didn't even know it's a cover and I didn't even know its name! Just know it's playing in the background often while my dad's working. Here's the video, btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go"

I believe it's a cover of a 9 inch nails song. Thanks for the video.
 
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  • #300
Argh Chris De Burgh! I think this sums him up well.



With regards to the technical ability of that solo, I play guitar and although I've never been compelled to play that particular song I could probably work it out as it sounds and looks like a variation on the minor pentatonic scale with a few bluesey notes stabbed in.
 
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