The best song you have ever heard
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Re: The best song you have ever heard
He stopped loving her today, George Jones
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Sunday Morning Coming Down
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It was also on the 99p Genesis Live album - brilliant version.Buxtonclaret wrote:Off NURSERY CRIMES.
Great album.
Still got my copy! The cover had them playing croquet with heads.
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It was on that as well. 99p that album was.Steve1956 wrote:This one Buxton,the live one I mean,I was sure this was called Musical box
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That solo is so beautiful it still makes the hairs on my neck stand up.dougcollins wrote:Steve Hackett is doing the whole album, including (of course) his iconic solo from Firth of Fifth.
Just a pity Gabriel won't be singing.
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I can’t really pick a best because music has been my life but my personal favourite song I think is Sound of Silence (maybe) but my favourite piece of music is (again maybe) is Awaken by Yes. Truly beautiful and almost transcends music into the realms of something spiritual.
Just two of many. I used to have a collection of over 500 albums of various kinds of music plus all the music I loved that I didn’t buy. How can you choose? I can’t even choose a favourite band or artist let alone song. Love these threads though - thanks for kicking it off Steve.
Just two of many. I used to have a collection of over 500 albums of various kinds of music plus all the music I loved that I didn’t buy. How can you choose? I can’t even choose a favourite band or artist let alone song. Love these threads though - thanks for kicking it off Steve.
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Crime of The Century. Supertramp
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Don’t be lazytim_noone wrote:Crime of The Century. Supertramp
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'Close to the Edge': Yes.
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A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum.
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Very difficult to say what a favourite song is, changes with time and moods, but I’ve always enjoyed listening to “ The Friends of Mr Cairo “ by Jon and Vangelis. The story of the silver screen.
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Soapbox Hero, Supertramp, always enjoyed as well as Hotel California and Severn Bridges road, The Eagles.
Jesamine by the Casuals, heard it for the first time in my favourite pub, The Mermaid, in Ramsey Isle of Man.
Jesamine by the Casuals, heard it for the first time in my favourite pub, The Mermaid, in Ramsey Isle of Man.
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Song - I’d go for Tangled up in Blue - Bob Dylan
Instrumental - Hoppipolla- Sigur Ros
But impossible to choose
Instrumental - Hoppipolla- Sigur Ros
But impossible to choose
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Great album, the title track is fantastic but also Beside is beautiful, Mayflower is haunting and of course it contained the original version of State of Independence, which became such a massive hit for Donna Summer.Heathclaret wrote:Very difficult to say what a favourite song is, changes with time and moods, but I’ve always enjoyed listening to “ The Friends of Mr Cairo “ by Jon and Vangelis. The story of the silver screen.
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Great piece. Saw them live supporting that album. The coda after the vocals have finished is actually really weird timing.tim_noone wrote:Crime of The Century. Supertramp
Aside: once got p!ssed at a party in London with their drummer but didn't recognise him. Someone told me the day after - Bob Siebenberg (or Bob C Benberg as he was credited on the album). American guy even though they were English. Nice chap as I recall. We didn't speak about music once.
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Despite being a big Motown, Soul and 60's fan. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls does it for me, just gets me everytime I hear it.
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In common with most people, the answer's going to vary from day to day, morning to afternoon, depending on mood ...
1) Roll me away - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
2) The Pretender - Jackson Browne
3) Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
4) How she could sing the Wildwood flower - Emmylou Harris
5) Tes Tendres Annees - Silvie Vartan
6) Love Hurts - Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
7) I'll fly away - Allison Krauss
8) Takin' it easy - Eagles
9) She's got you - Patsy Cline
10) Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Tomorrow's list would be entirely different, I suspect ...
1) Roll me away - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
2) The Pretender - Jackson Browne
3) Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
4) How she could sing the Wildwood flower - Emmylou Harris
5) Tes Tendres Annees - Silvie Vartan
6) Love Hurts - Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
7) I'll fly away - Allison Krauss
8) Takin' it easy - Eagles
9) She's got you - Patsy Cline
10) Perfect Day - Lou Reed
Tomorrow's list would be entirely different, I suspect ...
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Suspect Device is absolutely top class ....also Gotta Get Away.bobinho wrote:Suspect Device - SLF
Any number of SLF could be the one...
Born to Run - Springsteen
Any number of Bruce Springsteen could also be the one...
Straight to Hell - The Clash
Any num... i'm sure you get me...
Absolutely impossible to answer. Be a different choice tomorrow...
But if I was cast away alone on a desert island my one pick to listen to for ever would be Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones.
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Can still remember seeing this performance on television.
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I posted this as one of my worse. Are you John Peel lolTheOriginalLongsider wrote:Teenage Kicks. The Undertones
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I thought State of Independence by Donna Summer was the original,it's a brilliant cover in that case,must check out the original,it's a lovely song.houseboy wrote:Great album, the title track is fantastic but also Beside is beautiful, Mayflower is haunting and of course it contained the original version of State of Independence, which became such a massive hit for Donna Summer.
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You must be of my generation,Heathclaret. Jesamine, by The Casuals was a massive hit in 1968. They followed it up with 'Toy' which flopped and nothing was heard of them again. Just wondering how many times this must have happened throughout the decades.Heathclaret wrote:Soapbox Hero, Supertramp, always enjoyed as well as Hotel California and Severn Bridges road, The Eagles.
Jesamine by the Casuals, heard it for the first time in my favourite pub, The Mermaid, in Ramsey Isle of Man.
I chose White Rabbit yesterday, probably still would today but so many songs in so many years will always be contenders to it.
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The Verve Bittersweet symphony
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The album by Jon and Vangelis was out long before the Donna Summer hit bud and the writing credits on the album say Anderson/Vangelis. You're right though it is a brilliant cover and in some ways better than the original, the 'choir' on it contained some of the biggest names around at the time including, I believe, Stevie Wonder.Steve1956 wrote:I thought State of Independence by Donna Summer was the original,it's a brilliant cover in that case,must check out the original,it's a lovely song.
Sometimes covers become so big that they overshadow the original. How many times has someone performed 'Tina Turner's Proud Mary'? The original was of course by Creedence Clearwater Revival, they even had a hit with it themselves years before as a single not just an album song. Don't suppose John Fogerty will be moaning though, the amount of airplay it still gets will be helping to swell his already fairly handsome income.
By the way if you want to hear the original check it out on The Friends of Mr Cairo album, but be sure to listen to the whole album because it's not even the best thing on it. 'Beside' is just beautiful and 'Mayflower' is simply wonderful, a tail of pilgrims going off into space in search of a new world, I love the fade out that gives it the feel of something disappearing into the vastness of space with a static filled voice simply repeating 'Mayflower recounting here, 10-4, 10-4, 1-4 out'. It's one of the longest fade outs you will here.
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Looks like teh majority on here are into different stuff than me so I wouldn't expect many to know it, but Countdown To Extinction (Megadeth) is...mega
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Ferry Corsten's remix of Adagio for Strings. That's certainly up there with one of the best I've heard.
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So long, Marianne - Cohen
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks
Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles
Like A Rolling Stone - Dylan
Star Treatment - Arctic Monkeys
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks
Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles
Like A Rolling Stone - Dylan
Star Treatment - Arctic Monkeys
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All good shouts.Dyched wrote:So long, Marianne - Cohen
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks
Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles
Like A Rolling Stone - Dylan
Star Treatment - Arctic Monkeys
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Thrash or death metal isn't quite my thing (although some is) but I'd rather be locked in a room listening to your music than soul.Belial wrote:Looks like teh majority on here are into different stuff than me so I wouldn't expect many to know it, but Countdown To Extinction (Megadeth) is...mega
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Megadeth have done better stuff than that though.Belial wrote:Looks like teh majority on here are into different stuff than me so I wouldn't expect many to know it, but Countdown To Extinction (Megadeth) is...mega
The 'Youthanasia' album is brilliant!
'Ace of Spades' by Motorhead and 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath are good shouts for the award of the thread topic... in my unbiased opinion, of course!
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Tin soldiers. SLF
Gravity. Embrace
Point blank. Springsteen.
Gravity. Embrace
Point blank. Springsteen.
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Of the more recent stuff,I would include an Artic Monkey's song, 505 is a brilliant tune,and another would be the Smith's "There is a light that never goes out" brilliant.houseboy wrote:All good shouts.
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I've Got You, by The Dooleys.
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Small Faces - Tin Soldier
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The hunter gets captured by game written by Smokey Robinson performed by The Marvelettes.
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Can't understand why I like this song - could be the video mind !!
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I moved to the Isle of Man in 1980, and started going to the Mermaid about a year after that. First heard Jesamine when one of the regulars put it on the juke box and thought it was a great tune.Silkyskills1 wrote:You must be of my generation,Heathclaret. Jesamine, by The Casuals was a massive hit in 1968. They followed it up with 'Toy' which flopped and nothing was heard of them again. Just wondering how many times this must have happened throughout the decades.
I chose White Rabbit yesterday, probably still would today but so many songs in so many years will always be contenders to it.
Knocking on heavens door Guns N Roses. We had a band at school called Cobweb, lead guitarist and vocals was a lad called Graham Chadwick, first time I heard the song was at a concert they gave.
Racing in the streets. Springsteen. Great track
The list goes on and on.
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I think that full album is ace, along with Rust in Peace. Youthanasia also a great album. Good shout with Sabbath/Motorheadfidelcastro wrote:Megadeth have done better stuff than that though.
The 'Youthanasia' album is brilliant!
'Ace of Spades' by Motorhead and 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath are good shouts for the award of the thread topic... in my unbiased opinion, of course!
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Listened to The album The friends of Mr Cairo last night Ian,Mayflower is a lovely song,state of independence is terriblehouseboy wrote:The album by Jon and Vangelis was out long before the Donna Summer hit bud and the writing credits on the album say Anderson/Vangelis. You're right though it is a brilliant cover and in some ways better than the original, the 'choir' on it contained some of the biggest names around at the time including, I believe, Stevie Wonder.
Sometimes covers become so big that they overshadow the original. How many times has someone performed 'Tina Turner's Proud Mary'? The original was of course by Creedence Clearwater Revival, they even had a hit with it themselves years before as a single not just an album song. Don't suppose John Fogerty will be moaning though, the amount of airplay it still gets will be helping to swell his already fairly handsome income.
By the way if you want to hear the original check it out on The Friends of Mr Cairo album, but be sure to listen to the whole album because it's not even the best thing on it. 'Beside' is just beautiful and 'Mayflower' is simply wonderful, a tail of pilgrims going off into space in search of a new world, I love the fade out that gives it the feel of something disappearing into the vastness of space with a static filled voice simply repeating 'Mayflower recounting here, 10-4, 10-4, 1-4 out'. It's one of the longest fade outs you will here.
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I just watched the video with the sound turned down and Rag n Boneman & Calvin Harris's Giant playing,check it out FD its brilliant.Funkydrummer wrote:Can't understand why I like this song - could be the video mind !!
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Although I have voted already for my fave song (earlier in this thread) one song that really lifts my spirits as it's usually playing just as I enter the Turf is 'Times like these', It really sums up the excitement and anticipation that the next couple of hours holds and the history and footsteps that have been taken by my parents/grandparents in walking into this great football ground.
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Arctric Monkeys is always a good shout but Steve oh Steve - The Smiths? Actually one of my most hated bands. Never quite sure how they got such status but like I've always said music is totally subjective. I always found them dire in the extreme and Morrisey needs to see a doctor. Never understood the 'lupins thing' either, unless he was a big fan of Denis Moor (etc etc).Steve1956 wrote:Of the more recent stuff,I would include an Artic Monkey's song, 505 is a brilliant tune,and another would be the Smith's "There is a light that never goes out" brilliant.
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I did say it wasn't the best thing on the album bud. The title track is good too.Steve1956 wrote:Listened to The album The friends of Mr Cairo last night Ian,Mayflower is a lovely song,state of independence is terrible
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I've never been to me .Charlene
A poignant tune about knowing yourself.
A poignant tune about knowing yourself.
Re: The best song you have ever heard
I couldn't pick a 'best' but here's a few I'll never get bored of:
Hey Jude - Beatles
Help - Beatles
Money for Nothing - Dire Straights
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
Whatever - Oasis
Cast no Shadow - Oasis
Hey Jude - Beatles
Help - Beatles
Money for Nothing - Dire Straights
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
Whatever - Oasis
Cast no Shadow - Oasis
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I'm sure 'I've never been to me' by Charlene was put out on Tamla Motown and that she was the first.'white artist' to get to Number One on that label.Woodleyclaret wrote:I've never been to me .Charlene
A poignant tune about knowing yourself.
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No one else laugh out loud at this `typo'?bfcjg wrote:I've made a top ten...
Stan with Elton John singing the bits Dildo sang
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I've been to Nice, and the isle of Greece while I sipped champagne on a yacht - I always thought it was a comedy number.Woodleyclaret wrote:I've never been to me .Charlene
A poignant tune about knowing yourself.