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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You want the best songs ever? I present to you the Battle of Wizna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeQwq-aYV0

And as a bonus, some power metal with an extremely fast guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qN9sHGEPdE
 
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  • #1,952
Char. Limit said:
You want the best songs ever? I present to you the Battle of Wizna.

When I first saw this, my first thought that some inde group had appropriated that name without knowing that it was a real battle. Of course, it was a real battle where some 720 Polish troops held off German tanks, aircraft and about 43.000 invading German troops for three days in September, 1939. None of the Polish defenders were known to have survived. Most people don't know that the conquest of Poland was costly to the Germans and would have been more costly had not Soviet forces invaded from the east as allies of Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wizna
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
When I first saw this, my first thought that some inde group had appropriated that name without knowing that it was a real battle. Of course, it was a real battle where some 720 Polish troops held off German tanks, aircraft and some 43.000 invading German troops for three days in September, 1939. None of the Polish defenders were known to survive. Most people don't know that the conquest of Poland was costly to the Germans and would have been more costly had not Soviet forces invaded from the east as allies of Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wizna

Well I hope when you watched it, you were pleasantly surprised!
 
  • #1,954
Char. Limit said:
Well I hope when you watched it, you were pleasantly surprised!

War is never pleasant to watch, but the Polish people are quite justified in taking great pride in this extraordinary feat of valor and patriotism. Hopefully such circumstances will never again arise in Europe.
 
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Warning. This song may be hazardous to your (mental) health. Obviously probably millions of people have watched this video without any problems (or at least no new problems). In any case: caution, you are about to enter the twilight zone. If anyone has any idea what it means, please tell me. (I've already read the wiki article and some other sources. It's just a lot of speculation.)

http://letras.terra.com/nirvana/28514/

Well, I guess morbid madness sells.
 
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  • #1,956
I love mashups :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfdE-CG0SE
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Warning. This song may be hazardous to your (mental) health. Obviously probably millions of people have watched this video without any problems (or at least no new problems). In any case: caution, you are about to enter the twilight zone. If anyone has any idea what it means, please tell me. (I've already read the wiki article and some other sources. It's just a lot of speculation.)

http://letras.terra.com/nirvana/28514/

Well, I guess morbid madness sells.

A lot of alternative bands had songs and music videos like that. It was a sort of neo-beatnik thing I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg&ob=av3e
 
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TheStatutoryApe said:
A lot of alternative bands had songs and music videos like that. It was a sort of neo-beatnik thing I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg&ob=av3e

I know, but this song seems more extreme for an alternative rock band that went mainstream (in terms of commercial success). NIrvana's chord structures and progressions are fairly simple and easy to play. Nearly all the songs written by Cobain are based on these structures. Some, like "The Man Who Sold the World" have interesting lyrics, but that song is a cover (of David Bowie). Most of Cobain's lyrics seem like they were cut and pasted at the last minute, random thoughts roughly held together by some theme. In fact, according the wiki article, they were in many cases. It seems that Nirvana's success is largely based on its willingness to be nonsensical and outrageous. Take Jesus (always a good draw), put him in a hospital bed with a skeletal human fetus (or something) in his IV bottle; have him climb onto a cross, crows and all; add a little blond blue eyed girl, a fat lady and embryos growing on a tree and slug your much larger bass guitarist for no apparent reason, and you've got a smash hit.

I admit, it's original and probably took some effort to put together, but I'm willing to hear arguments as to why Nirvana was such a great band (other than being outrageous).
 
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  • #1,959
The best songs ever include Eleanor Rigby, A Day In the Life, Here There and Everywhere, and In My Life.
 
  • #1,960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEimruKvDqY
 
  • #1,962
King Crimson anyone?

 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Warning. This song may be hazardous to your (mental) health. Obviously probably millions of people have watched this video without any problems (or at least no new problems). In any case: caution, you are about to enter the twilight zone. If anyone has any idea what it means, please tell me. (I've already read the wiki article and some other sources. It's just a lot of speculation.)

http://letras.terra.com/nirvana/28514/

Well, I guess morbid madness sells.

He was obsessed by birth, death and bodily functions. Look up some of his artwork.
 
  • #1,964
123 Pages?? Almost 2000 posts?! And still no consensus. So... what're the best songs ever? I've for $3.79 in iTunes credit and I want to make sure I buy the three best songs.
 
  • #1,965
Lyle and Allison!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVZOsWgoLxo
 
  • #1,966
I like a lot of video game music. Then again, I am a rather odd person. But here's some of my favorites:

Liberi Fatali(From Final Fantasy VIII)


Act on Instinct(From some of the Command and Conquer games)


The Landing on Dollet(Also from Final Fantasy VIII)


Holy Butterfly(A remix of some Japanese game series, I think Touhou)


Sparking Slash(Also a remix of the same Japanese game series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCTkh35zbw&feature=related
 
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  • #1,967
MrNerd said:
I like a lot of video game music. Then again, I am a rather odd person.

Total Annihilation had an amazing soundtrack!



 
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  • #1,968
FlexGunship said:
Total Annihilation had an amazing soundtrack!

That is some pretty nice music you linked.
 
  • #1,969
Kurdt said:
He was obsessed by birth, death and bodily functions. Look up some of his artwork.

Re: post 1955 p123

Yeah, he was. These are pretty big issues for everyone, so it's easy to see how this video would attract some attention. But I don't understand the symbolism with the little girl dressed in a KKK outfit. What kind of message does it send for a blond blue eyed child to be dressed that way?

BTW. I was wrong about the skeletal fetus in the IV bottle. You can see it's a "fresh" human fetus with the umbilical cord and placenta when you stop the video. Kurt had such delicate tastes
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Re: post 1955 p123

Yeah, he was. These are pretty big issues for everyone, so it's easy to see how this video would attract some attention. But I don't understand the symbolism with the little girl dressed in a KKK outfit. What kind of message does it send for a blond blue eyed child to be dressed that way?

BTW. I was wrong about the skeletal fetus in the IV bottle. You can see it's a "fresh" human fetus with the umbilical cord and placenta when you stop the video. Kurt had such delicate tastes

i'm not sure what it means. except that it apparently involves some kind of woman troubles. but with a lover or his mother? a heart-shaped box is probably one of those keepsake boxes that she stores her memories in - pictures, tokens, and other mementos. and, knowing him, she's somehow driven him to go on a drug bender.

i'm also not a fan of cobain other than i can enjoy some of their tunes for the sound. i certainly don't think of him as a great poet like others do, and probably the reason the lyrics seem so screwed up is because he himself was pretty screwed up and this spilled over into his relationships and everything else.
 
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Proton Soup said:
i'm also not a fan of cobain other than i can enjoy some of their tunes for the sound. i certainly don't think of him as a great poet like others do, and probably the reason the lyrics seem so screwed up is because he himself was pretty screwed up and this spilled over into his relationships and everything else.

He was miserable most of his short life beginning with his parents' divorce. He spent his teenage years partly with his father and partly with his mother. His mother was in an abusive relationship and his stepmother ignored him after his half-brother was born. Unable to deal with Kurt, his father sent him to live with an evangelical family where he initially was happy but later rebelled. He moved in with his mother but she soon kicked him out. He had a number of difficult relationships with women and later said he was gay. However, this doesn't seem to have been true.

During his later teenage years and early 20's he was in several different bands in Olympia and Seattle and eventually formed the band Nirvana with his friend Krist Novosilec. The band became famous with the release of the album "Nevermind" on Sept 24, 1991. Many celebrated the 20th anniversary of this release recently. He married Courtney Love in 1992 and had a daughter with her named Francis Bean Cobain who recently had a "coming out" as a model and singer.

During most of this time he continued with heavy drug use and apparently suffered from a painful GI disorder (possibly ulcerative colitis). He OD'd on heroin a number of times and Courtney regularly carried an antidote which she became expert at injecting. He also made several deliberate suicide attempts until he succeeded (4/94).

Courtney recently said in an interview that if he (miraculously) returned, she would kill him. She said a bit more. You can read the article.

http://www.wesh.com/r/29421298/detail.html
 
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I am a collector of boats built about a mile away from the bridge young Cobain sang about. I went to meet the builder of my boats a few years ago. It was his 90th birthday. He wasn't dead, but the town Kurt grew up in appeared to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfPMc-3Wks

Oh poop.

Look what's on Curt's tombstone:

ourdutyasyouth.jpg


sorry... but Evo did forewarn of our/my rants.
 
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OmCheeto said:
I am a collector of boats built about a mile away from the bridge young Cobain sang about. I went to meet the builder of my boats a few years ago. It was his 90th birthday. He wasn't dead, but the town Kurt grew up in appeared to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfPMc-3Wks

The myth, that Cobain actually lived under this bridge, is probably not true according to his friend and co member of Nirvana, Krist Novoselic. The song "Something in the Way" describes such an existence. Not all of Kurt's whereabouts during his periods of homelessness are documented, but he often stayed with friends and had lived for a time with a girlfriend who worked at a SeaTac airport restaurant. Kurt probably earned some money from gigs but it's not clear what he did with that money. Anyway, his frustrated girlfriend eventually kicked him out (like his mother did).

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2011/07/kurt_cobains_hometown_to_consi.php
 
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The kids at work are always playing strange music. This was a song that I couldn't comprehend, but it had a catchy tune, so I looked it up.

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

If someone could explain the song to me, I would be most grateful.

...

Never mind. I just watched the video about 10 times.

I understand now.

:frown:
 
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OmCheeto said:
Never mind. I just watched the video about 10 times.

I understand now.

:frown:

Good. To help others, here are the lyrics. I think this makes everything clear.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/awolnation/sail.html

BTW, Another example of Cobain's genius is the opening verse of the Nirvana classic, "In Bloom".

"Sell your kids for food
Weather changes moods
Spring is here again
Reproductive glands"

Enough high culture. I'm going to listen to Jupiter for a while. Thanks Willowz.
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
None of the Polish defenders were known to have survived.

There are no verifiable information, only estimates, that about 40 people were taken POW and about 40 retreated.
 

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