What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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This discussion centers on identifying and sharing the best saxophone songs, with participants recommending various tracks and artists. Key mentions include "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty, "Forever Autumn" by Moody Blues, and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses. Dream Theater is highlighted for their complex compositions, particularly "Octavarium," showcasing their progressive metal style. The conversation emphasizes the importance of sharing links to songs for better appreciation and discovery of music.

PREREQUISITES
  • Understanding of saxophone music and its significance in various genres.
  • Familiarity with notable artists such as Gerry Rafferty, Dream Theater, and Guns N' Roses.
  • Knowledge of progressive metal characteristics, especially in Dream Theater's compositions.
  • Ability to navigate music-sharing platforms and access song links.
NEXT STEPS
  • Explore the discography of Gerry Rafferty, focusing on "Baker Street."
  • Research Dream Theater's "Octavarium" and its musical structure.
  • Investigate the influence of saxophone in rock and metal genres.
  • Learn about the contributions of artists like Erik Mongrain and Tommy Emmanuel in guitar music.
USEFUL FOR

Music enthusiasts, saxophonists, and fans of rock and progressive metal genres will benefit from this discussion, particularly those looking to discover new songs and artists in the saxophone and guitar realms.

  • #1,981
gads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKy_gTrdXaU
those were happier days... :blushing: :smile: :blushing: :smile:
 
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  • #1,982
A very sad song. :frown:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDgokYi-1lI
 
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  • #1,983
Evo said:
A very sad song. :frown:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDgokYi-1lI
A favorite!
 
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  • #1,984
Here's one of my favourite. I know this one is disliked by many for the reasons i don't know but i love its music. :)
 
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  • #1,985
Just listened to Pressed Rat and Warthog again. Cream wrote some pretty quirky stuff, at times. This one is a favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX06inW2hK4
 
  • #1,986
Dan Fogelberg wrote and performed some of my all-time "chill" songs. Here are a couple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdDwm3QIwfg

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

"The Reach" is especially accessible to Mainers.
 
  • #1,987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
1985

In his 2010 interview with World Entertainment News Network Sting admitted that the song was inspired by watching the Soviet TV via satellite:

I had a friend at university who invented a way to steal the satellite signal from Russian TV. We'd have a few beers and climb this tiny staircase to watch Russian television... At that time of night we'd only get children's Russian television, like their 'Sesame Street'. I was impressed with the care and attention they gave to their children's programs. I regret...
 
  • #1,988
OmCheeto said:
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.



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:

I don't think much of the lyrics, although we've been enjoying the song. I think I even linked the song in chat some weeks ago.
 
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fuzzyfelt said:
I don't think much of the lyrics, although we've been enjoying the song. I think I even linked the song in chat some weeks ago.

One of the lines from the song; "This is how an angel cries", reminded me of; "This is how it sounds when doves cry".

I think it's a well done version of societal psycho-bombardment and self-imposed human angst.

"Blame it on my ADD" - Doctor's diagnosis of what is wrong with him.
"Sail, Sail, Sail" - Tourettes
"Maybe I should kill myself" - Passive aggressive?
etc. etc. etc.

I'm not a doctor, but he seems to just need a big hug. :smile:

But the visual message people are making of this song, says it has a message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QS3uyThYCE

Along with the "Aliens" stuff. ALIenS. (anagram!)
 
  • #1,990
Evo said:
A very sad song. :frown:



AHH! Clapton! :!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9jtzCAmf8&hd=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9jtzCAmf8

[Sonny Landreth must be the best slide guitar player in the world. He’s playing behind the slide!? :bugeye:]Also sad... Conor... :frown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscPOozwYA8&hd=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscPOozwYA8

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  • #1,991
turbo said:
Just listened to Pressed Rat and Warthog again. Cream wrote some pretty quirky stuff, at times. This one is a favorite.

Weird... if not knowing, I would have bet $$$ on Monty Python... "atonal apples, amplified heat"... :shy:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQycQ8DABvc
 
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  • #1,992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7hTAp6KrGY
 
  • #1,993
They have been playing this on Classic FM a lot recently. Great song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2K7D-uMH2g
 
  • #1,994
Can't find the yt classics thread, but this song is a classic and a great song too!


Lol
 
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  • #1,995
fuzzyfelt said:
I don't think much of the lyrics, although we've been enjoying the song. I think I even linked the song in chat some weeks ago.

I tend to make too much of lyrics sometimes. This song, supposedly about insomnia, I was able to translate into the Arab Spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNtIkRm1HE

Go without = being poor
till the need seeps in = starving
mumble mumble pedals, stem
eviscerate your fragile frame = self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi
a thousand different versions of yourself = scores of copy cat self-immolations across the middle east
and if the old guard still offends = tired of the status quo
they've got nothing left upon which you depend = hopeless for the future
So enlist every ounce, of your bright blood, and off with their heads = Revolution (in the style of the French)
Jump from the hook = take a step back
you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise = decide what you want for yourself

See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life, and they got no right.
As sure as you have eyes,
They got no right.

Just put yourself in my new shoes.
And see that I do all I do.
Because the old guard still offends.
(Their pudgy hearts and slimy hands)
They got nothing left on which we depend.
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood.
And off with their heads.

Jump from the hook.
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise,
That you despise.

Though Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, and the album, "Wincing the Night Away", which contained the above song, was released on January 23, 2007. So my interpretation, is probably fueled by madness/insanity.
 
  • #1,996
OmCheeto said:
One of the lines from the song; "This is how an angel cries", reminded me of; "This is how it sounds when doves cry".

I think it's a well done version of societal psycho-bombardment and self-imposed human angst.

"Blame it on my ADD" - Doctor's diagnosis of what is wrong with him.
"Sail, Sail, Sail" - Tourettes
"Maybe I should kill myself" - Passive aggressive?
etc. etc. etc.

I'm not a doctor, but he seems to just need a big hug. :smile:

But the visual message people are making of this song, says it has a message:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QS3uyThYCE

Along with the "Aliens" stuff. ALIenS. (anagram!)


OmCheeto said:
I tend to make too much of lyrics sometimes. This song, supposedly about insomnia, I was able to translate into the Arab Spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNtIkRm1HE

Go without = being poor
till the need seeps in = starving
mumble mumble pedals, stem
eviscerate your fragile frame = self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi
a thousand different versions of yourself = scores of copy cat self-immolations across the middle east
and if the old guard still offends = tired of the status quo
they've got nothing left upon which you depend = hopeless for the future
So enlist every ounce, of your bright blood, and off with their heads = Revolution (in the style of the French)
Jump from the hook = take a step back
you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise = decide what you want for yourself

See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life, and they got no right.
As sure as you have eyes,
They got no right.

Just put yourself in my new shoes.
And see that I do all I do.
Because the old guard still offends.
(Their pudgy hearts and slimy hands)
They got nothing left on which we depend.
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood.
And off with their heads.

Jump from the hook.
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise,
That you despise.

Though Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, and the album, "Wincing the Night Away", which contained the above song, was released on January 23, 2007. So my interpretation, is probably fueled by madness/insanity.


I like your imagination:) ! And agree with the ideas about the "sail" song, in that the repeated lone word seems liberating. Thanks, Om.
 
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  • #1,997
Willowz said:
Can't find the yt classics thread, but this song is a classic and a great song too!

Have you seen the Finish version?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdb8Hy1uF4

Hot pants :smile:
 
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  • #1,998
OmCheeto said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs
1985

In his 2010 interview with World Entertainment News Network Sting admitted that the song was inspired by watching the Soviet TV via satellite:


Sting is one of the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk&hd=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk
1987
 
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  • #2,000
Very cool TT!
What’s that "thing" I have never seen anything like it... :bugeye: very cool, me want...


P.S. I will respond to the QM 1+1=3 stuff, promise, it’s these Italian neutrinos that has gotten in the way... and they’re so fast I have a hard time to outrun them... ;)
 
  • #2,001
Who removed Duran Duran? That’s a great song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv89s

As for ordinary people in an ordinary world, my favorite quote might be useful:
"Galaxies are like people: the better you get to know them, the more peculiar they often seem." -- Sidney van den Bergh​
 
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  • #2,002
Rammstein - Du hast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0HQ0QkGLQ
 
  • #2,003
DevilsAvocado said:
Very cool TT!
What’s that "thing" I have never seen anything like it... :bugeye: very cool, me want...
Hi DA. It's called the Chapman stick.

I like the music you're posting too.

DevilsAvocado said:
P.S. I will respond to the QM 1+1=3 stuff, promise, it’s these Italian neutrinos that has gotten in the way... and they’re so fast I have a hard time to outrun them... ;)
Oh yeah ... ok ... I had forgotten about that. What thread was that in?
 
  • #2,004
DevilsAvocado said:
Who removed Duran Duran? That’s a great song.
Some jerk...
As for ordinary people in an ordinary world, my favorite quote might be useful:
"Galaxies are like people: the better you get to know them, the more peculiar they often seem." -- Sidney van den Bergh​

A grand quote. I know many peculiar people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tydSHv9ak8E

But they can not hide.

:smile:
 
  • #2,005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAWurnyKZUM
 
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OmCheeto said:
But they can not hide.

:smile:

That's very true.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRIOKvR2WM

:smile:
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQIrxhNkiAs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drsMyeXzLSo
 
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  • #2,009
DevilsAvocado said:
Holy pepperoni... (either I’ve gone senile, or I’ve really missed it completely), what a wonderful "bass-guitar-keyboard" instrument... I think I’m in love... :!)

Thanks!

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3517250#post3517250"
Yeah, it's a cool instrument. Unfortunately, when I found out about it I already had three years invested in learning the keyboard so I decided to stick with that. But I might still decide to get one.

And thanks for the Martha and the Vandellas tune. I used to hear it on the radio going to work as a teenager.

I'll now explore the 1+1=3 link that you provided.

EDIT: Yes, now I remember. And it remains for you to explain the 1+1=3 thing -- although I have an idea what you're saying. :smile:
 
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  • #2,010
I think a lot of veterans of inconclusive and wrong-headed wars could relate to this song. They deserve respect and support even if the political culture, that sent them to war, doesn't.

 
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