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18-06-2008, 08:03 PM
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Thought I'd add this thread!  Just wandering what songs move and affect us. One that really does move me is Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. It's one of those songs that you have to listen to in complete silence and you can lose yourself in the sounds. I love the music by Mike Oldfield too, especially Sentinal and The Bell. They move me almost to tears sometimes, they're that amazing!!
Music means so, so much to me, not many people realise how much it does, which is one of the reasons I started this thread. Playing the piano is very thereputic too, and you can connect music to nature in so many ways.
What about you? Sarah 
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18-06-2008, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by SparklySarah  Music means so, so much to me, not many people realise how much it does, which is one of the reasons I started this thread. Playing the piano is very thereputic too, and you can connect music to nature in so many ways.
What about you? Sarah | You and me both! Playing the piano is more than just tapping away at the keys, it almost sends me into a kind of trance   I only snap out when I hit a bum note (which is too often!)
Of songs that I listen to 'God only Knows' by the Beach Boys does it for me. It was playing on the radio the night my sister was quite ill as a kid. Still makes me well up every time I hear it.
A lot of songs reminds me of different people and occasions - I don't think life would be the same without music!
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18-06-2008, 08:14 PM
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I don't know about moving, but one song that never fails to send a shiver down the old spine when I hear it is "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd.
For many reasons I guess, some linked to my days at college, but mainly because it is the most kick-ass song you will ever hear when played live.
If you have never heard it then you dont know what you are missing!
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18-06-2008, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Fourwings I don't know about moving, but one song that never fails to send a shiver down the old spine when I hear it is "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd.
For many reasons I guess, some linked to my days at college, but mainly because it is the most kick-ass song you will ever hear when played live.
If you have never heard it then you dont know what you are missing! | My son is playing this in the Towcester festival at the weekend..
He is lead singer and lead guitar...
Great song, great band.. |
18-06-2008, 09:02 PM
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Barber's Adagio for Strings does it for me too, along with pachebel's canon and louis armstrong's wonderful world. Not forgetting gorkys zygotic mynci's ' kevin ayres'
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18-06-2008, 09:04 PM
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If I listen to Seasons in the Sun I'm transported. |
18-06-2008, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Fourwings I don't know about moving, but one song that never fails to send a shiver down the old spine when I hear it is "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd.
For many reasons I guess, some linked to my days at college, but mainly because it is the most kick-ass song you will ever hear when played live.
If you have never heard it then you dont know what you are missing! | I do know it and find it very emotive, it seems so intelligently done, but it also seems to reflect the emotions I least want to have, the escapism I find in drink for example. I am quite fan of being comfortably numb, until it goes on too long, happens too often and becomes less of a celebration than an end.
The whole thing about music is that it does provoke emotions.
Feeling bubbly, bit of Manu Chao
Like the Smiths, they were so Smithy
Beethoven, there is always someting in there.
Mozart seems like a nattering fool.
Love old blues (Lightning Hopkins, Bunny Lewis)
Chris used to sing many years ago, she could make you cry and quieten a BIG hall of drunken Folkies, singing unaccompanied.
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18-06-2008, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by galanthus pachebel's canon | Oh, Pachabel's Canon makes me cry so easily. So beautiful. I heard someone playing it on the guitar when I was walking through town with my bf and almost burst into tears. It's my Welsh side coming through, I can be very emotional with music 
Just been playing the opening to Mike Oldfield's Sentinel. Feel very emotional now 
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18-06-2008, 09:30 PM
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You can't beat a bit of Bob Marley,but i love all kinds of music
Faithless,The Hives,Dizzee Rascal,Damian Marley,Sean Paul,Kanye West,John Legend,The Black Eyedpeas,Gorillaz,Red Hot Chili Peppers,Kaiser Chiefs,Hard Fi,Coldplay,The Magic Numbers,Lemar,The Automatic,Editors,The Zutons,Matisyahu,Sergio Mendes,The Verve,Fugees,Ms Dynamite,Lily Allen,Joss Stone,Estelle,Jamelia,Gwen Stefani,Nelly Furtado,KT Tunstall,Alicia Keys,Faith Evans,Corinne Bailey Rae,Amy Winehouse,India Arie,Ziggy Marley,Sam Cooke,Ben E King,Stephen Marley,Ray Charles,Marvin Gaye,Curtis Mayfield,Earth Wind & Fire,Natty,Rodrigo & Gabriela & many more
& of course a good old sing song at the Lane on a saturday
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18-06-2008, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Fourwings I don't know about moving, but one song that never fails to send a shiver down the old spine when I hear it is "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd.
For many reasons I guess, some linked to my days at college, but mainly because it is the most kick-ass song you will ever hear when played live.
If you have never heard it then you dont know what you are missing! |
Totally agree - Pink Floyd's music is brilliant, pity they don't get along now.
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18-06-2008, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by ron1863 Totally agree - Pink Floyd's music is brilliant, pity they don't get along now. | Its only Roger Waters that don't get along with the rest of the band. All the others play with Dave Gilmour. We have the DVD of David Gilmour's tour called remember that night.
He does "Comfortably Numb" as the last song that lasts for ages. |
19-06-2008, 06:11 AM
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Pachabels Canon in D, Must agree with Sparklysarah its very moving. Also for lyrics Pink Floyds TIME great.__-JIM |
19-06-2008, 09:42 AM
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Nimrod, from Enigma Variations-Edward Elgar, and Ode To Joy (4th movement) from Beethoven's 9th Symphony are two of my favourite pieces of music. At the other end of the spectrum-Machine Gun, Jimi Hendrix (Band of Gypsies).
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19-06-2008, 10:33 AM
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For me Gnossiene No. 1 (sorry cant spell it ), by Erik Satie. Quite melancholy but beautiful. Theres a few songs i cant listen to at all and have to turnoff if it comes on the radio, songs associated with bad times in my life.
Music is quite important to me, use it to escape every so often .
Generally like Editors, R.E.M, Blur, Kaiser chiefs, sarah mclachlan, foo fighters, radiohead.
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19-06-2008, 05:10 PM
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Eirik Lie's music is very special - he's a Norwegian composer. Very atmospheric. |
19-06-2008, 05:16 PM
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1 piece off hand that gets me everytime is Bigwheel by Massive Attack! |
19-06-2008, 05:42 PM
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must agree with ss ..mike oldfield, any one of his ,but ommadawn and hergist ridge are my favorites. neil young...brian adams...rod stewart...bob dylan....all these are always on my mp3 or my musik sysem!!!. the last live band i saw was the vatersay bhoys in fort william....what a night!! 
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19-06-2008, 05:54 PM
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u cant beat a bit of radiohead, or dave gilmour.. or the good old corries |
19-06-2008, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh Its only Roger Waters that don't get along with the rest of the band. All the others play with Dave Gilmour. We have the DVD of David Gilmour's tour called remember that night.
He does "Comfortably Numb" as the last song that lasts for ages. | yeh ur rite kail's water's doese'nt get on with gilmour anymore, the two of them r brilliant in there own rite.. |
19-06-2008, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by outdoors yeh ur rite kail's water's doese'nt get on with gilmour anymore, the two of them r brilliant in there own rite.. | Wrong!! !Waters is oeoeoeoe |
19-06-2008, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh Its only Roger Waters that don't get along with the rest of the band. All the others play with Dave Gilmour. We have the DVD of David Gilmour's tour called remember that night.
He does "Comfortably Numb" as the last song that lasts for ages. |
I watched a recent documetary on Floyd, Roger Waters seemed to have been on an ego trip a few years ago and thought that the band would fold without him so he left to pursue a solo career and the rest of the band carried on. At the end of the programme each member of the band was asked if they would reform they all seemed fairly positive apart from Dave Gilmour who said "no chance", pity.
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19-06-2008, 09:27 PM
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Am I the only one here who only loves pink floyd when they had syd barrett ?
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19-06-2008, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by galanthus Am I the only one here who only loves pink floyd when they had syd barrett ? | Yes. No. We are getting old. I can't remember. But you are right Syd was a complete original, good touch of strangeness and humour.
Opera, anyone (or pig strangling, which it so closely resembles)? I love a clear voice, the strange contortions of Opera seem quite perverse. |
20-06-2008, 04:27 AM
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Sam Cooke's " a change is gonna come"- such a spine tingling song, made more so when you know how prophetic this song turned out to be with Sam's tragic death! Also some of the Marvin Gaye stuff on What's going on.
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20-06-2008, 06:21 AM
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Vivaldis "Four Seasons" , I love it | |
