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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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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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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Anybody remember Ruth and Charlie? If I can't sell it, I'll sit on it. What a character.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYvz9QEqUI

To hell with Maggie's farm...
 
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Why is every musician on the video left-handed? I have a problem with that.
 
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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.
 
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ecnalubmA, as if the sirens and flashing lights don't to the job.
 
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Hey, with a major shout out to Vanadium 50 (:-p):



Enjoy!

:smile:
 
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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.
 
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Maybe it was written by cardiologists who were performing transplants during the holidays?
 
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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
 
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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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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
 
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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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Rajaton- butterfly
 
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I loved the Rebecca Lynn Howard vocals!
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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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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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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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One of Johnny's best.

 
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turbo said:
One of Johnny's best.

I'll see your Johnny (and yeah I like his stuff, thanks) and raise you an Edgar:
4U_c5P-1pyc[/youtube] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U_c5P-1pyc&feature=related
 
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HEART

 
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  • #2,134
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrLkTZrPZA4&ob
 
  • #2,135
ThomasT said:
Ah yes, yodeling.

Well thank you, Thomas... :rolleyes:

ThomasT said:
And how much longer it will be allowed to continue.


Parts of this wonderful, traditional, treasure for the ear, could be lost now Thomas... shame.



I'm confident it will live long and prosper... :approve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDEk2AMJAI&feature=related




OCR
 
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HEART (LIVE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVcl0Iw3fs8&feature=related

Heart first gained fame in Canada in the early 1970s although the band members were American expats. Singer Ann Wilson was the girlfriend of one of the band members and was later joined by her younger sister, Nancy, in Canada. The Wilson sisters soon became the featured performers of the band. After President Carter granted amnesty to draft evaders, the group moved back to the US. Their music reminds me a bit of Fleetwood Mac, but is more raw and adventurous. Nancy opens this version of Crazy on You with an extended acoustic solo (the reason I posted this). Heart is one of my favorite groups from this period. They are still performing today and their iconic songs are mainstays on classic rock stations.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkr29EGc-Y
 
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Regarding Dr. D, I noticed this when looking up a Weird Al video

Yankovic received his first exposure via southern California and syndicated comedy radio personality Dr. Demento's radio show, saying "If there hadn't been a Dr. Demento, I'd probably have a real job now."[16] In 1976, Dr. Demento spoke at Yankovic's school where the then 16 year old Yankovic gave him a homemade tape of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in Yankovic's bedroom into a "cheesy little tape recorder". The tape's first song was "Belvedere Cruisin'", about his family's Plymouth Belvedere, was played on Demento's comedy radio show, launching Yankovic's career. Demento said "'Belvedere Cruising' might not have been the very best song I ever heard, but it had some clever lines [...] I put the tape on the air immediately.".[10][17] Yankovic also played at local coffeehouses, saying:


It was sort of like amateur music night, and a lot of people were like wannabe Dan Fogelbergs. They'd get up on stage with their acoustic guitar and do these lovely ballads. And I would get up with my accordion and play the theme from 2001. And people were kind of shocked that I would be disrupting their mellow Thursday night folk fest.[18]

During Yankovic's sophomore year as an architecture student at Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, he became a disc jockey at the university's radio station, KCPR. Yankovic said he had been nicknamed Weird Al by fellow students and "took it on professionally" as his persona for the station.[10] In 1978, he released his first recording (as Alfred Yankovic), "Take Me Down", on the LP, Slo Grown, as a benefit for the Economic Opportunity Commission of San Luis Obispo County. The song mocked famous nearby landmarks such as the fountain toilets at the Madonna Inn.

In mid-1979, shortly before his senior year, "My Sharona" by The Knack was on the charts and Yankovic took his accordion into the restroom across the hall from the radio station (to take advantage of the echo chamber acoustics) and recorded a parody titled "My Bologna". He sent it to Dr. Demento, who played it to good response from listeners. Yankovic met The Knack after a show at his college and introduced himself as the author of "My Bologna". The Knack's lead singer, Doug Fieger, said he liked the song and suggested that Capitol Records vice president Rupert Perry release it as a single.[10] "My Bologna" was released as a single with "School Cafeteria" as its B-side, and the label gave Yankovic a six-month recording contract. Yankovic, who was "only getting average grades" in his architecture degree, began to realize that he might make a career of comedic music.[10]

On September 14, 1980, Yankovic was a guest on the Dr. Demento Show, where he was to record a new parody live. The song was called "Another One Rides the Bus", a parody of Queen's hit, "Another One Bites the Dust". While practicing the song outside the sound booth, he met Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, who told him he was a drummer and agreed to bang on Yankovic's accordion case to help Yankovic keep a steady beat during the song. They rehearsed the song just a few times before the show began.[10] "Another One Rides the Bus" became so popular that Yankovic's first television appearance was a performance of the song on The Tomorrow Show (April 21, 1981) with Tom Snyder. On the show, Yankovic played his accordion, and again, Schwartz banged on the accordion case and provided comical sound effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Weird_Al"_Yankovic

Funny, I was a Tom Snyder fan as well. At the time I was working a late schedule and usually watched his show, but I don't remember seeing Weird Al.
 
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I know Weird Al from their White & Nerdy song:


But I also remember listening Eat It.
 
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Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells was in a class by itself.

Tubular Bells, Side 1, Part 1 = Pt. 1 of 3

Tubular Bells, Side 1, Part 2 = Pt 2 of 3

Tubular Bells, Side 1, Part 3 =
 
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Astronuc said:
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells was in a class by itself.

Tubular Bells, Side 1 =

Tubular Bells, Side 2 =


One of my favorites!

I just read through the wiki entry on Oldfield and discovered some amazing facts.
Mike was only 20 when the album was recorded.
He played more than 20 instruments on the album.
It was the first album released by 23 year old Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Records.
With sales in the tens of millions, it makes me wonder where Branson would be without it.
And what's this? Branson's mother refinanced their home a few years earlier to keep the record company solvent?

So if it weren't for Eve Branson, there would have been no Tubular Bells?
Someone should give that lady a medal.

What a coincidence that I emailed myself a message from work to myself 2 days ago:

WARNING! THE FOLLOWING HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH "Best Songs Ever".
Om to Om said:
watch these this weekend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH35Iz9veM0&feature=related
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhgb2ZntDw

She has an outstanding voice and the lyrics are solid!

What's the use of two good legs if you only run away
What's the use of the finest voice if you've nothing good to say
What good is strength and muscle if you only push and shove
And what's the use of two good ears if you can't hear those you love
 
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"White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" by the Jefferson Airplane pioneered the psychedelic rock revolution which has influenced rock right up the present day. I don't particularly like "White Rabbit" but the sound quality for both songs is better than on other YT postings that I sampled. You might advance to cursor to the second song (3:30)to avoid White Rabbit and some flat 60's humor to get to "Somebody to Love" unless you understandably you want to see more of Grace Slick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cfTMdjkYM&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PLDA91B5A31F74DD39
 
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Pipz, you must hear Regine Velasquez' version of I Dont Wanna Miss a Thing. hehehehe... Awesome... Outstanding... She's from the Philippines... check it out guys... Supreme Belter...
 
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Nobody likes you when you're 23
And you still act like you're in Freshman year
What the hell is wrong with me?
My friends say I should act my age
What's my age again?
What's my age again?

:smile:
 
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rootX said:
Nobody likes you when you're 23
And you still act like you're in Freshman year
What the hell is wrong with me?
My friends say I should act my age
What's my age again?
What's my age again?

:smile:

Maybe not the best song ever, but still, it answers your question:

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

Heard this for the first time yesterday after they played Birdhouse In Your Soul on the radio. God bless youtube, TMBG, and of course, PF.
 
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Best voice I've heard in a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemWRToNYJY
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9wue5sCpuM [
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HNtsdtnBfk
 

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