Favorite Song?
 

All time, or right now, doesn't matter.

People are going to hate me. My current favorite is a remake, of a classic no less. A person gets tarred and feathered for less... Oh well... Live once, right?

Sound Of Silence (originally by Simon & Garfunkel (which I love btw), covered by Disturbed. Very haunting...

https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4

Hello darkness my old friend....

Yours?

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All time

The Passenger - Iggy Pop

Right now

My Eyes - The Lumineers

With the name like Head Like A Hole, that's what you come up with? :)

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Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings"

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WIs0Rbm9Q"]Leonard Bernstein "Adagio for Strings" Barber - YouTube[/ame]

Have to add YouTube links or something so it's easier for this lazy guy to listen to these songs!

:)

Plus, this way I get to pick a decent interpretation/performance. Updated. Now go spend 10 minutes of quality listening, doing nothing else. Well, breathing is recommended.

Ahhh...Thank you...Not my style, but great!

2nd time was better actually...What's another one I should listen to @cjd?

As long as you listen to some of my acoustic versions of Blue October, and the Disturbed interpretation of S&G! :)

I haven't gone looking for Blue October yet...

The Disturbed piece is quite listenable, which is not something I can say about everything people suggest I listen to. Music is a huge part of who I am, and I spend a lot of time listening, if not creating my own. That said, I prefer the original.

This starts off OK, but too much noise from post-process (the autotune is rough in places) and it's trying too hard. It's interesting and all but just too detached. Only thing even remotely pulling me in is my memory of the original. Very little texture to the actual music, just forced texture in the sounds (much of that via distortion), and it only brings up murky browns with occasional green or black mixed in - and more geometric shapes piled together than anything.

Thanks for sharing.

https://youtu.be/XjiOtouyBOg


humfrz

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5rGm3kdTuk"]AC/DC - Back In Black - YouTube[/ame]

Had not heard Disturbed's cover, I actually like it better than the S&G original now that I've heard it.

I would be hard pressed to pick a Favorite Song of all time, as it depends on my mood.

If I had to pick one it would be "My Sweet Lady" by John Denver, primarily because it was the "first dance" at MomHawk's and my wedding. We still dance to it on occasion when no one is looking.

Beyond that, it would be almost anything ever done by Meat Loaf or Harry Chapin because I like music that tells a story. These are my two favorites from them:

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s"]Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad - YouTube[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spGFdXGMw58?t=79[/ame]

Before @cjd replies, here are a few suggestions.


Each of these works is great in its entirety, but I am giving you times of fragments whose mood is sort of similar (IMO) to Barber's Adagio.

22:50 - 39:10
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InxT4S6wQf4"]Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' - BBC Proms 2012 (Daniel Barenboim) - YouTube[/ame]






45:20 - 53:50 (crank up the volume)
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvXhyldUko"]Mahler - Symphony No.5 - Abbado - Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2004 - YouTube[/ame]






21:19 - 27:28
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6hWEeTneA"]Brahms - Symphony n°3 - Philharmonia / Klemperer - YouTube[/ame]

All-time?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dwng8EpUH0"]Underoath - Writing On The Walls (HD) - YouTube[/ame]


Now?

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UR8cjlshA"]Beartooth - Rock Is Dead (Audio) - YouTube[/ame]

Beethoven did erotica? Interesting.... ;)

Thank you @mdm

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I especially like Brahms, but Mahler and Beethoven are close - I'm a Romantic, what can I say. My second suggestion was Scheherazade though :)

Yeah, Mahler too - and more dramatically captures the essence of orgasm IMO. One moment while I find exactly where that is, I never remember exactly... However, that's Eroica - missing a "t"... ;)

Ok, it's Mahler 8, which itself is... well, you'll probably never have it that good. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSYEOLwVfU8"]Mahler: Symphony No. 8 / Bernstein · Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - YouTube[/ame] - listen all the way through if you're willing and patient. The last ~10 minutes is a treat, as is... it starts around the ~22 minute mark, but about 25:20 is... well, you know. Follow the soprano, who unfortunately is lost a little in this otherwise superb recording. I have to say though, this one is worth owning and listening to on a stereo setup capable of producing proper dynamic range... unless, of course, you get to a live performance which is overwhelming, but worth every moment.

OK... not a big fan of Romanticism here, with exception of Brahms, who wasn't so much Romantic after all... And for me acceptable Russian music begins with Prokofiev and Stravinsky :D

Some say that Ravel has captured the essence of sexual intercourse in "Bolero", but that would be very sad sex... more like some sort of bland and forced masturbation ;)

Hah. I dunno about Bolero, recheck my post for that bit of Mahler's 8th. :)

I really enjoy the Russian composers as well, but if I'm performing it always gets a Romantic twist. Not really sure why, that's just how it goes. I'll always have a soft spot for Kalinnikov's 1st symphony, but that has as much to do with the fact it's the last symphony I performed, and I did so in Kumamoto, Japan in 1992... after 2 weeks on tour (Taipei, then to Japan where we hit Tokyo and Oguni before finishing in Kumamoto).

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsbobsA7w8&feature=share"]A DAY TO REMEMBER - I'm Made Of Wax Larry What Are You Made Of? (Music Video) - YouTube[/ame]




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So, if you're from the "current," and don't want to remove a rear "seat" to install a record player, can you just get these on mp3's on amazon or something? And yes, I admit, I suppose I should have just looked instead of asking that last part. I'm just heading out the door... And lazy

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It really is all in the performance/recording. I love Adagio For Strings.

Speaking of amazing performance/recording. This is my all-time favorite recording of AC-DC. It's a bootleg capture from the sound board.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbo8ZSWam9M"]AC/DC - Intro/Live Wire - Live [Nashville 1978] - YouTube[/ame]

It's great, and I have to admit that I think never heard Mahler's 8th for some reason... Definitely will catch up. Not sure about the soprano but Lenny looked absolutely ecstatic approaching that climax :D

I heard that one, the classical radio here plays it quite often. They like playing less-known Classical and Romantic composers, like Hummel, Wilms, Gade etc.

Максим - Не отдам

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99q9UKTA2AE"]Мак�им - �е отдам (Maksim - ne otdam) - YouTube[/ame]

Scionce is dead. We are in the dark ages again.

Not sure I could pick just one... So here's a few.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZS_15qBPs"]Alice In Chains - Nutshell (Unplugged) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fFVOoqepc"]Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb [HD] - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2N8KOoFFEk"]Between The Buried And Me - Ants of the Sky (HQ) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZt4Ov6itCM"]Basia - Cruising For Bruising (Official Music Video) - YouTube[/ame]

So who except me can pronounce Basia's last name correctly ;)?

I can get pretty close but I would get called out by a native Pole. It's funny how all Europeans are intimidated by Hungarian but I can't even hear some of the more challenging Polish and Czech consonants.

I can barely pronounce Basia's first name correctly being Chinese.

Hard to pick just one but this one's up there:

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmc6KV0_UVM"]Ana Vidovic plays 'La Catedral' by AugustÃ*n Barrios Mangoré - YouTube[/ame]