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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There's just something about this tune, the melancholy, the whimsical whistling, the simple lyrics... it's such a good natured song all in all. :)
 
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Feeling the mid-life crisis right about now (good news is that I should make it to 94 years old!). Going through my 80s music, and re-rediscovering these gems, and finally I get to see the videos. Meet the Verlaines from New Zealand

 
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I know that I linked this before, but the song just came up on the carousel, and I had to listen to it a couple of times. It's that good.

 
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Is somebody a fan of 8-bit music here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67PAJwrHyGc
 
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Gotye - Somebody that I Used to Know


Flogging Molly - If I Ever Leave This World Alive
 
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And now for something *completely* different!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OngIbIs1rVE
 
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Lol! I remember that I've always tried to figure out what was he saying :p
 
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Great foot stompin' tune at 09:20 The Ramnee Ceilidh (Release Da Hounds)
Great guitar line at 10:53 to 11:20, then again at 13:33 to 13:42 end of tune.
Artist: Croft No. Five
from the Album: Attention All Personnel

Thistle and Shamrock, Bass Rock
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155435366/thistle-and-shamrock-bass-rock


19:40-25:00 some kind of Celtic electronica

June 14, 2012
Program 1516: Bass Rock (June 14, 2012) Week 24 Playlist.

Contributions by acoustic and electric bass to Celtic music are subtle, imaginative and, with players like Alain Genty, firmly in the foreground.

Le Petit Encrier…by Tony McManus & Alain Genty from Singing Sands (Greentrax)
Broom of Cowdenknowes…by Savourna Stevenson, June Tabor, Danny Thompson from Singing the Storm (Cooking Vinyl)
The Ramnee Ceilidh/Release Da Hounds…by Croft No. Five from Attention All Personnel (Foot Stompin')
Worcester City…by Eliza Carthy from Anglicana (Topic)
Trois Messagers…by Alain Genty from Une Petite Lanterne (Keltia Musique)
At Dawn of Day/Grey-haired Woman from Raasay…by Capercaillie from Choice Langauge (Vertical)
ID Excerpt: A Forest Plin…by Alain Genty from La Couleur du Milieu (Coop Breiz)
Dans Tro Lors…by Annie Ebrel & Riccardo Del Fra from Voulez Loar – Velluto di Luna (Gwerz)
She’s in the Attic…by Shooglenifty from Radical Mestizo (Compass)
May Colvin…by Sìleas from Play on Light (Greentrax)
Smile/Mrs Elizabeth Thoumire…by Simon Thoumire Three from Waltzes for Playboys (Acoustic Radio)
That's the Way It Is…by Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle from Passe Avant (Park Records)
Peter Man...by The Kathryn Tickell Band from Air Dancing (Park)
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpyoUhoBIKU
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmQit-lnnN0
 
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Once again, I probably linked this before, but it just came up on my CD carousel. K D Lang is a killer!

 
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Primavera by Ludovico Einaudi. It goes so well with Feynman's voice :p.
 
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I'm certain that I have posted this before, but it just came up on my CD carousel, and it's one of Boz's best numbers. Here's a live version. Saw Boz at the Patriots' stadium along with Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles. He was the opener for the other "star" acts, and he stole the show.



BTW, the backup band for the studio version of the Lido Shuffle went onto form Toto.
 
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Alanis Morissette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-1xvWibt0
 
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Amy Winehouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362JArvhAqg&feature=player_embedded
 
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Civil Wars


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9s4y9eK-Hg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-RtrpwIME0
 
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I had to post this. Not Clapton's best, but a good one. Back then, an electrician used to hang out and talk to me at the control room of the paper machine. When he would get paged, it would sometimes be to the PLC room (which was called the White Room) and as he got up, he would start singing that song. One of my wife's friends has never been married, and I never knew until recently that her step-father was my electrician-friend. He had a stroke recently, and I had my wife remind him of the White Room.
 
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I wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves...

BTW, he had had a stroke mentioned earlier, and music is a way to get some of that back. It sucks to get old, but the logical option is not all that entertaining.
 
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I had never seen this performance of two of my favorites by Jackie. Hopefully Evo won't ban me! :biggrin: I can't help myself Evo!

Almost a year since I watched her first video and she still blows me away. I have the photo of Jackie and me, along with other concert collectables, framed and hanging in my office. My one customer calls it my Jackie shrine. :smile: Fact is it was one of the most enjoyable evenings I've ever had. Nevermind that the collection is already worth more than that very spendy ticket cost me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNjk8u7yjY
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I had never seen this performance of two of my favorites by Jackie. Hopefully Evo won't ban me! :biggrin: I can't help myself Evo!

Almost a year since I watched her first video and she still blows me away. I have the photo of Jackie and me, along with other concert collectables, framed and hanging in my office. My one customer calls it my Jackie shrine. :smile: Fact is it was one of the most enjoyable evenings I've ever had. Nevermind that the collection is already worth more than that very spendy ticket cost

I suspect you're exaggerating but why would you be banned for this?
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
I suspect you're exaggerating but why would you be banned for this?

:biggrin: I'm not sure... the first fifty links didn't seem to bother her. She said if I post any more vidoes of Jackie she's going to ban me!
 
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An old one that I heard at the end of the movie "The Savages". (An almost grotesquely good movie by the way - by the end of the movie I'm still wondering, "Do I hate these people or like these people?", but, come to think of it, I sometimes wonder that about my own family - but I wish they didn't bring up Parkinson's disease so often - my dad has Parkinson's.)

Anyway, the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5je_eK0V1w
 
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I like a LOT of different music, so I wouldn't be able to pick out any best songs ever, my list would contain 100+ songs :smile:. But here's a particularly good performance IMO (turn up volume if necessary);

Zero 7 - Home (acoustic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjXCMiLASR0

Original song:
 
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How 'bout a bit of Stevie Wonder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhw_zbvxvb4
 
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lisab said:
How 'bout a bit of Stevie Wonder?
Yes, that's a great song, cool sound, very groovy. Hadn't heard it in a while.
 
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Posting in the "Favourite Music/Bands" thread reminded me of how much I love these two songs by Opeth. They're the first two songs off their album "Watershed", in order. They're far from being their very best songs (they have so many great songs!), but these two songs really showcase the Jekyll & Hyde nature of this great band, which can move effortlessly from heart-rending tenderness to absolute brutality.

So here it is: Coil, followed by Heir Apparent (the second track starts around 3:10).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CefO0NC10
 
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Just scored a free ticket to a Roger Hodgson concert playing tomorrow.

Feelin' really smart right now... :wink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCBoz1y_uU
 
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OmCheeto said:
Just scored a free ticket to a Roger Hodgson concert playing tomorrow.

Feelin' really smart right now... :wink:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCBoz1y_uU

OMG Out of all the "rock" concerts I've attended, Supertramp was by far my favorite. You are one luck dog. :cool:
 
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dlgoff said:
OMG Out of all the "rock" concerts I've attended, Supertramp was by far my favorite. You are one luck dog. :cool:

I've never been to a Supertramp concert. Hopefully I'll not fall over dead/sleeping during the set. :redface:

ps. The guy that gave me my free ticket, handed me the zoo list.

I missed Leo Kottke...

I almost stabbed myself.
 
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jindalsahil34 said:
Best Song Ever is Addicted..

Do you mean this one? (Kelly Clarkson)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rx20pWkyac

So far I've found five other artists or groups with a song called "Addicted": Saving Abel, B5, Simple Plan, Enrique Iglesais, Amy Winehouse.

EDIT: I going to guess it's the Saving Abel song. Your post sounds like the kind of thing a hardcore SA fan might say. Of the six songs, five are mostly about relationships, Only one is an unrepentant, in your face song about substance abuse. Guess which one that is.
 
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I really like Lovett's music and this is one of my favorites (live version).
 
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OmCheeto said:
I've never been to a Supertramp concert. Hopefully I'll not fall over dead/sleeping during the set. :redface:
Hello! You there? Still alive? So how was it?
 
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dlgoff said:
Hello! You there? Still alive? So how was it?

I didn't think you could dance to his music. But I did, for two hours. It was more like conductor dancing though. I've only ever owned one of his albums, but was cuing each band member flawlessly through every song. :-p

It had been 40 years since I've been to the zoo, so I was 10 minutes late, as I had difficulty figuring out where to park. But I was told I only missed one song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfApBz4_XQk

But given the talent of Roger and his band, all you really have to do is pop in the CD, and you were there.

Roger.Hodgson.and.band.2012.08.10.jpg

Kevin Adamson; Roger Hodgson; Aaron Macdonald; David J. Carpenter; Bryan Head (ref)​


The only peculiar thing, was that the drummer performed behind a glass polygonal booth during the entire show. Roger explained that this was for the audience's protection. :biggrin:

ps. Rudy was wrong. Sometimes good things come to those that wait.
 
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OmCheeto said:
Rudy was wrong. Sometimes good things come to those that wait.
Sounds http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4466537824796013909 to me. :wink:

Glad you had a good time.
 
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I know a lot of you guys aren't really fans of video game music. Nevertheless, you should give this a try - a surprisingly sad song on piano.

 
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This song was on a CD that I often brought to work. My assistant loved it, and she and her new hubby used it as "their" song and danced to it at their wedding reception as their "first dance". For members without such a cultural tradition, the "first dance" is reserved for the bride and groom, and the music is chosen with care (usually by the bride).

 
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I'm not a fan of chick-flicks, but this song-and-dance was a killer. It still makes me get soft, if not teary. BTW, the stars were not close at all. They were pros and worked through it.

 
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It seems pop-rock-nashville-whatever artist Taylor Swift is enjoying vast commercial success lately. How good is she really? She claims to come from the Nashville C&W tradition. How does she compare to real C&W artists? I don't claim to know a lot about C&W, but I do like crossover artists like The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. They do seem to reflect a lot of the Nashville tradition. Do followers of C&W here have an opinion about about Taylor Swift? Her popularity must be based on something more than just being cute.
 
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SW VandeCarr said:
Her popularity must be based on something more than just being cute.
I wouldn't count on that. She is very pretty, but she doesn't sound all that pretty, IMO.
 
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turbo said:
I She is very pretty, but she doesn't sound all that pretty, IMO.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean there's something distinctive about her singing that I'm not picking up on? Maybe you could suggest something I should listen to.
 
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Please! Somebody restore my faith in humanity! Can it be true that just being hyper-cute and being able to carry a simple tune (?) is enough to propel you to super-stardom and Grammy awards? I MUST be missing some subtle quality here! The entertainment industry is full of physically attractive people. What is it about this girl? Hit songs don't necessarily have to be great artistic creations, but they are usually distinctive in some way. They can even be distinctively bad. But distinctively bland is an oxymoron.

Let the world see/hear what I'm talking about. BTW; posting this link is not intended in any way to reflect the opinion that this is one of the best songs ever.

http://www.adistinctiveworld.net/taylor-swift-releases-her-anti-bullying-music-video-mean/

Maybe her popularity is based mostly on vast legions of prepubescent girls, ...but wait, she's also won Grammy awards. OMG!

EDIT: Justin Bieber has never won a Grammy (to the Academy's credit), but Swift has won 6.
 
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Here's some great classic C&W (Tex-Mex style). Brooks and Dunn "My Maria".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZSiBj4vCiY

If you can sing this one Taylor, maybe I will like you better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii7ZBD3aIL0

No. That's not what I meant.
 
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It just occurred to me that this song might not be appropriate for a heterosexual woman to sing (although she could be a dear friend). But that's no excuse. All you have to do is change Maria to Mario (with the stress on the "i"). I'm waiting.

EDIT: Or maybe you could dedicate the song to the child in the previous post.
 
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Life's been wild lately.

The intro to this song popped into my head a minute ago, and I couldn't figure out who or what the song was about.

Then I remembered. :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zoi9_NkY0​
 
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One of Henley's best.

 
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I just noticed lisab's post count of 2222 and thought of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8
 

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