What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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This thread explores various songs featuring saxophone and guitar, with participants sharing their favorites and links to performances. The discussion includes a mix of personal opinions on the quality of songs, performances, and artists across different genres, including rock, blues, and progressive metal.

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  • Exploratory
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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants highlight "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty as a top saxophone song.
  • Others mention Leo Kotke's "Vaseline Machine Gun," noting the quality of available recordings.
  • Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love" is also suggested as a notable song.
  • One participant expresses admiration for Dream Theater, particularly their song "Octavarium," citing its progressive nature.
  • Several participants discuss the guitar work of artists like Erik Mongrain and Tommy Emmanuel, with varying opinions on their styles and contributions to music.
  • There are mixed opinions on Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine," with some praising its guitar riff and others criticizing Axl Rose's vocals.
  • Participants share links to various songs, including works by Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, and David Bowie, indicating a wide range of musical tastes.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion features multiple competing views on what constitutes the best saxophone or guitar songs, with no clear consensus emerging among participants.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express difficulty in finding links to specific songs, and there are mentions of varying quality in recordings shared. Additionally, personal preferences and subjective opinions on artists and songs are prevalent throughout the discussion.

Who May Find This Useful

Music enthusiasts, particularly those interested in saxophone and guitar performances, as well as fans of rock, blues, and progressive metal genres.

  • #2,101
OmCheeto said:
Does anyone remember this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XG-tZRdTzQ
I don't recall it. But I like it. What year?
 
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  • #2,102
There are of course lots of great bands and songs. Impossible to say what are the best songs. But, from my experience, and according to my tastes, I like Jethro Tull's stuff a lot. The youngsters of today are truly fortunate, imo, to have the musical legacy available to them that they do. The songs that were 40 years past in my youth were songs of the 20's -- stuff that was totally foreign to what I was listening to in my youth. But the music of today seems to be, in a certain sense anyway, built on, and akin to, what was happening in the 60's and 70's.

So, here's a few tunes from one of my favorite bands, Jethro Tull. Imo, one of the most unique, and best, bands of all time, while at the same time maybe not producing anything that might be called a 'best song ever'.

Jethro Tull - Watching Me Watching You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS9D7RtB47o&feature=related


Jethro Tull - Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow



Jethro Tull - Rover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkThAmclKNo&feature=related


Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
http://www.youtube.com/user/jethrotull4you?blend=2&ob=4#p/u/1/4s-btPE8POE
4s-btPE8POE[/youtube] Jethro Tull ...utube.com/watch?v=4jG6wEXSCUY&feature=related


Jethro Tull - The Whistler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diOuUYcenW0&feature=related


Jethro Tull - Velvet Green
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hbep8Mj12A&feature=related


Jethro Tull - Journeyman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QOB8XUT3XU&feature=related
 
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  • #2,103
Anybody remember Ruth and Charlie? If I can't sell it, I'll sit on it. What a character.
 
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  • #2,104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYvz9QEqUI

To hell with Maggie's farm...
 
  • #2,105
Why is every musician on the video left-handed? I have a problem with that.
 
  • #2,106
turbo said:
Why is every musician on the video left-handed? I have a problem with that.

Alternate universe obviously.

pflefties.jpg


Where keyboards have their names spelled backwards so when you are being chased by one down the freeway you will see the name correctly in your rear-view mirror.
 
  • #2,107
ecnalubmA, as if the sirens and flashing lights don't to the job.
 
  • #2,108
Hey, with a major shout out to Vanadium 50 (:-p):



Enjoy!

:smile:
 
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  • #2,109
Can someone help me with these lyrics? I think that for a Jew, I understand Christianity fairly well. However, this song confuses me.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart,
but the very next day, you gave it away.
This year, to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.

I understand the first line. Last Christmas I fell in love with you. But the next line is weird. I could understand if he gave his heart to someone else, meaning he fell in love with someone else. But it says that he gave her heart away. How can someone do that? And what about the next two lines. Did she get her heart back again, or is this a new heart? The rest of the song implies that she's still in love with this jerk, but then why does she want to give her heart to anyone else then? What's the plan? Is she going to keep giving her heart away every year at Christmas time to special people? Until she finds someone who won't give it away? Or until the jerk wakes up to her promiscuity and falls deeply in love with her? Is this tied in with the recent end of the world? Don't say no.
 
  • #2,110
Maybe it was written by cardiologists who were performing transplants during the holidays?
 
  • #2,111
I thinking about old times, I was reminded a time when I walked around with this song springing from lips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgI5DMVegIk
 
  • #2,112
My favorite song. :smile:

 
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  • #2,113
Give it a listen. Even if you aren't a Christian, you might able to appreciate the strength of this one.
 
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  • #2,115
Jimmy Snyder said:
Can someone help me with these lyrics? I think that for a Jew, I understand Christianity fairly well. However, this song confuses me.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart,
but the very next day, you gave it away.
This year, to save me from tears,
I'll give it to someone special.

I understand the first line. Last Christmas I fell in love with you. But the next line is weird. I could understand if he gave his heart to someone else, meaning he fell in love with someone else. But it says that he gave her heart away. How can someone do that? And what about the next two lines. Did she get her heart back again, or is this a new heart? The rest of the song implies that she's still in love with this jerk, but then why does she want to give her heart to anyone else then? What's the plan? Is she going to keep giving her heart away every year at Christmas time to special people? Until she finds someone who won't give it away? Or until the jerk wakes up to her promiscuity and falls deeply in love with her? Is this tied in with the recent end of the world? Don't say no.

I listened on a radio that according to some study most people don't break on Christmas but after Christmas.
 
  • #2,116
I think the same sentiment can be found here.

But you won't need no harem, honey
When I'm by your side
And you won't need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride
 
  • #2,117


It's about a person who moves to place where it doesn't snow.

There's a very important fact about this song that I noticed you've all neglected to mention: Joni Mitchell is Canadian but she moved to California to be a hippie and pursue her music career, the song is about her spending christmas in a place and a way that is so foreign to her -- no snow no ice skating...

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/13033/

:cry:
 
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  • #2,118
Rajaton- butterfly
 
  • #2,119


I loved the Rebecca Lynn Howard vocals!
 
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  • #2,121
Ivan Seeking said:
I thinking about old times, I was reminded a time when I walked around with this song springing from lips.

Cripes, between having a new computer and going blind, this is getting dangerous. You know what I meant. :redface:

Do we have any Bread fans? I always thought this was a nice tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwdTcoUHfkw
 
  • #2,122
Some other favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4

Haha, an old Bread and Susan Dey fan. I thought she was mighty cute too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr6S4aCJ2X4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH5M5BUaHSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vOq6UPhvDE

Their biggest hit, I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpOjQvADLG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ElQ8vXN8eI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxvEIFBT3o
 
  • #2,123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZ9TK37E78

A day or two early, but what the hell.

An old gift for my newest friend. :wink:
 
  • #2,124
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vudA72hibg
 
  • #2,125
Nanci Griffith singing John Prine's "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMajQgYgqo
 
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  • #2,126
Greg Brown's "Oh Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60-qspVM8eI

The pictures are kind of poignant, as well, if you've ever been through there after Katrina. The markings on the houses were made to show the house had been searched and the results of the search - so they knew which houses needed the body recovery teams, etc.

Maybe not quite as moving, but I like this song a lot, too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyEbax4zuxc
 
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  • #2,127
Worst Christmas songs ever - so bad they're classics.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-dPUXSWoew


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw

There's a subtle little lie in the Tom Waits song. Ninth and Euclid is a street corner in Cleveland; not Minneapolis. In fact, it's a street corner in Cleveland's financial district - it's version of Wall Street, such as it is (it's still Cleveland).

There is no Ninth and Euclid intersection in Minneapolis; however Ninth and Hennepin used to be the red light district and that intersection is in a different Tom Waits poem (in fact, it's the title of a Tom Waits poem of a neighborhood so bad all the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes).

There's just something really sad about putting yourself in a nicer neighborhood, but then inserting a dirty book store because no one would ever believe you could wind up in too nice of a neighborhood.

And I used to be in the same Boy Scout troop as the trombone player in the song. I know this because he's in this video.

Or maybe I'm way too much into this song and the real story is that Hennepin just had too many syllables and Cleveland not enough.
 
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  • #2,129
One of Johnny's best.

 
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