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.
  • #751
arildno said:
Hmm..I'd rather say Soft Cell's version:


The sound is not bad, but the video is kind of... strange (I know that I have no right to make such a statement after posting the Marilyn Manson link :biggrin:)



Anyway, here are Die Toten Hosen, "Pushed Again"



There are a trillion other absolute fantastic songs by the Hosen, unfortunately (for you) most of them in german. And I do not know whether the mentors look kindly on someone who floods this thread with stuff nobody can understand. Maybe one day when I have established myself as a usefull member of the forum I will post them all.
 
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  • #752
I might have posted this here before, but "Ride On" is AC/DC's best song ever. Angus' bluesy lead is killer and Bon Scott... such a loss.
 
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  • #753
Black Widow of LaPorte by John5, Save Me by KMFDM, Lamb of God by Marilyn Manson, 2000 Years of Human Error by Godhead, and Sleepwalking Past Hope by H.I.M.
 
  • #754
"Don't Gimme That", Aloha from Hell



German newcomers. If they make it to the top of your charts, don't forget that is was ME who showed them to you first ! :approve:

Seriously, possibly not one of the best songs ever, just my favourite song for today. The video makes her look like a Avril Lavigne wannebe, but the sound or her voice or whatever, don't really know, somehow makes me think of Kelly Clarkson. If you don't like either of them it's probably no song for you.
 
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  • #755
A song that holds special meaning for me, "You're the first, my last, my everything" by the King of Soul: Barry White.

http://www.yamelo.com/videoclip/c1_16366_barry_white_youre_the_first_the_last_my_everything.html

Yamelo.com is actually a great site to browse all your favorite music: you can search by a timeline and it shows you all the top hits for that date :biggrin: (brings back memories)
 
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  • #756
http://www.yamelo.com/videoclip/c2_10018_aphrodites_child_break.html
 
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  • #757
Thanks for that link, Monique. Sure enough, I stumbled across some stuff I liked at the time and haven't heard for a while, like a few numbers from the Hollies.

It's hard to watch the lip-synching in the video, but the song is a favorite.
http://www.yamelo.com/videoclip/c1_15475_the_hollies_he_aint_heavy_hes_my_brother.html

Another bad video with a really hot song. I used to play this one at frat parties.
http://www.yamelo.com/videoclip/c0_35492_the_hollies_long_cool_woman_in_a_black_dress.html
 
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  • #759
"Out in the Fields" Gary Moore and Phil Lynott



Probably not one of the best videos ever, but the song surely is !
 
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  • #760
Jackson 5:

http://www.yamelo.com/videoclip/c0_41650_jackson_5_i_want_you_back.html

I was brought up with this kind of music, I never realized that it was actually a kid singing this song (never mind that I knew it was Michael Jackson until I saw the videoclip :smile:)
 
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  • #761
One of the toughest songs I ever learned to play on guitar. Even after I discovered an article that gave the odd tuning, I was months working it out. Black Mountainside by LZ.

 
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  • #762
Had a bit to drink tonight and started thinking about this song again. Just one more time...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, nicknamed "Mighty Fitz," "The Fitz," or "The Big Fitz," was an American lake freighter, launched on June 8, 1958. Until the 1970s, she was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. During a Lake Superior gale storm on November 10, 1975, the Fitzgerald sank suddenly, without sending any distress signals, in 530 feet (162 m) of water at [show location on an interactive map] 46°59.9′N, 85°06.6′W, in Canadian waters approximately 17 miles (15 nmi; 27 km) from the entrance to Whitefish Bay. All 29 hands in the crew perished, presumably by drowning. The incident is the most famous disaster in the history of Great Lakes shipping,[1] and is the subject of Gordon Lightfoot's hit song, "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iquCHSkmUek
 
  • #763
turbo-1 said:
One of the toughest songs I ever learned to play on guitar. Even after I discovered an article that gave the odd tuning, I was months working it out. Black Mountainside by LZ.



Yes, this is a really good song. The odd beat is harder to learn than the dadgad tuning, it keeps changing!
 
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  • #764
Cool sound AND eyecandy:



"Shut up and drive", Rihanna
 
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  • #765
Oberst Villa said:
The sound is not bad, but the video is kind of... strange (I know that I have no right to make such a statement after posting the Marilyn Manson link :biggrin:)



Anyway, here are Die Toten Hosen, "Pushed Again"



There are a trillion other absolute fantastic songs by the Hosen, unfortunately (for you) most of them in german. And I do not know whether the mentors look kindly on someone who floods this thread with stuff nobody can understand. Maybe one day when I have established myself as a usefull member of the forum I will post them all.


Gloria Jones' original version from the 1960's aint bad, either:
 
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  • #766
jmnance said:
Black Widow of LaPorte by John5, Save Me by KMFDM, Lamb of God by Marilyn Manson, 2000 Years of Human Error by Godhead, and Sleepwalking Past Hope by H.I.M.

I love KMFDM's Mini Mini Mini jazz mix.

Oberst Villa said:
Cool sound AND eyecandy:



"Shut up and drive", Rihanna


This reminded me of one you might like...
Mr. BT Feat. Mike Doughty - Gone In 60 Seconds: Never Gonna Come Back Down
 
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  • #768
TheStatutoryApe said:
I love KMFDM's Mini Mini Mini jazz mix.



This reminded me of one you might like...
Mr. BT Feat. Mike Doughty - Gone In 60 Seconds: Never Gonna Come Back Down

Hmmm, not really my thing, though this Mike Doughty surely is an interesting guy (I had plenty of time to google for him and do many other things while loading the clip - I have a prehistoric dial-up connection). thanks a lot, anyway.
 
  • #769
arildno said:
Gloria Jones' original version from the 1960's aint bad, either:


Interesting, so this is the orignal one - had never heard it before, only knew the one from Soft Cell. Still, for me still Marilyn Mansons version is the best !
 
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:)
 
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  • #772
turbo-1 said:
One of the toughest songs I ever learned to play on guitar. Even after I discovered an article that gave the odd tuning, I was months working it out. Black Mountainside by LZ.



Sounds like it should have been played on a citar.
 
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  • #774
arildno said:
Hmm..I'd rather say Soft Cell's version:


Hmm..I'd rather say Gloria Jone's version:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U

Ok I'm kidding, Soft Cell's version is far better (for my tastes).
 
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  • #776
If you want a truly awe inspiring song that you'll never have heard of in the english speaking world:

Ah, te vi entre las luces. (Ah, I saw you amidst the lights).

This is an 11 minute epic is by an Argentinian 70's band called "La Maquina De Hacer Pajaros" ("The Bird-Making Machine.").

Since there is no place where you could possibly sample their AMAZING music, check them out at this guy's blog: http://therevengeofthefools.blogspot.com/2008/01/la-maquina-de-hacer-pajaros-la-maquina.html" You can get the album where the song is.
And there is a song from each of their albums streaming at prog archives: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=815.

Their first album (and the last album, "Instituciones," from Charly Garcia's previous band "Sui Generis") is absolutely amazing (and, IMHO infinitely better than their second album; and had it been recorded by an english band, it would have unquestionably found its righteous place in any list amongst the great classics of 20th century rock). I'm sure when you hear it you'll want to get your hands on a hard copy of both right away (or else you suck and have no taste :smile:).

Then in the 80's he went crazy and his music stopped being good.

But seriously, Ah, te vi entre las luces: check it out it'll blow your brains out. That whole first self titled album will actually.

Lyrics:

Nadie habla en la sala,
nadie de pie.
¿Estás lista para viajar?
¿Estás lista para venir?
Está bien, está bien, está bien...
Estás sentada en el aire.
Nada de luz esperando que marquen tres,
esperando verme otra vez
Está bien, está bien, está bien...
Ah! Te vi entre las luces
con tu cara toda azul...

My attempt at a sensical translation:

Nobody speaks in that room
Nobody stands
Are you ready to travel?
Are you ready to come?
It's OK, it's OK, it's Ok...
It's OK; you are
Sitting on the air, no light
Waiting for them to mark three
Waiting to see me again
It's ok, it's ok, it's ok...
Ah! I saw you amidst the lights!
With your face all blue...
 
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  • #777
rewebster said:
Kottke--went to one of his concerts --sat about 15 ft away

Can't figure out how to link directly to the song, but the audio quality is much better than on youtube.

Just click on the http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=61328137" link, one of my favorite songs by Mr. Kottke.

Or you can click on the "Vaseline Machine Gun" link and it will play all six of his songs in sequence.

And best of all, there's no video. So you can listen and get back to PF where you belong. :smile:
 
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  • #778
OmCheeto said:
Can't figure out how to link directly to the song, but the audio quality is much better than on youtube.

Just click on the http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=61328137" link, one of my favorite songs by Mr. Kottke.

Or you can click on the "Vaseline Machine Gun" link and it will play all six of his songs in sequence.

And best of all, there's no video. So you can listen and get back to PF where you belong. :smile:

that link doesn't work on my system--is it the same as?:




playing Kottke and Peter Lang's ' The Thing at the Nursery Room Window' always set a mood

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0sK4btcR5Cg
 
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  • #779
My favorite new band (as in from the ones formed in the past two or three years): Made Out Of Babies.

Sick song:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4423

Also the first metal/sludge band I hear with a female singer that ... well doesn't suck. Far from it, this girl puts the boys to shame.
 
  • #780
Still if we can make the effort
and If we take the time
Maybe we can leave this much behind

 
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  • #781
between the buried and me: white walls, mordecai, medicine wheel, and the list goes on.

i heard most or not all of the members in the band went to juilliard, so they have some tallent.
 
  • #782
Elvis C

 
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  • #783
My first post on PF and I go straight to the Lounge. Typical.

The Clash -Rock the Casbah


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!


Jesu - Deadeyes


The Field - Paw in my Face


Alice in Chains - Would


Anything from the Earache label...pre 1998.
 
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  • #785
Artist: Misfits
Song: Last Caress

 
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  • #786


Playing hide and seek
With the ghosts of dawn

 
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  • #788
RunSwimSurf said:
Artist: Misfits
Song: Last Caress



Misfits/Samhain were fantastic! (danzig era, of course)
A friend of mine worked at Caroline records until the early 90s...heard some interesting stories!

My favourites:
Hybrid Moments


Astro Zombies


Archangel (Samhain)
 
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  • #789
I think 'Zombie' by the Cranberries (a protest song) belongs here as well: http://www.yamelo.com/clip/the-cranberries/21537_the-cranberries_zombie.html
 
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  • #790
kronon said:
Misfits/Samhain were fantastic! (danzig era, of course)
A friend of mine worked at Caroline records until the early 90s...heard some interesting stories!

My favourites:
Hybrid Moments


Astro Zombies


Archangel (Samhain)


Misfits rock (danzig era, of course). Never listened to any Samhain/Danzig though.

Misfits
Teenagers from Mars
 
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  • #794
the sun don't shine

 
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  • #795
Jal - Ek Din Aayega (A day will come)


Jal - Woh Lamhey (Those moments)
 
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  • #796
Nomad is one of the best...
 
  • #798
Don't Wanna Miss A Thing -Aerosmith

If i had a gf i would sing it to her
 
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  • #799
Melissa Dori Dye

Does anyone know her?
 
  • #800
Cgall24 said:
Don't Wanna Miss A Thing -Aerosmith

If i had a gf i would sing it to her

I also love it! :biggrin:
I wouldn't sing though ...
 

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