Mozart, Eine kleine nachtmusik.
Bach, Air on the G string.
Tull, Locomotive Breath.
by Tim F| 62 Comments
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Mozart, Eine kleine nachtmusik.
Bach, Air on the G string.
Tull, Locomotive Breath.
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Comrade Stuck
Bravo Tim. Excellent selections. Air on the G string is great, though it reminds me of Seven, a great movie, but highly creepy. And Locomotive Breath from the Aqualung lp is one of the bestest albums evah. And Martin Barre is probably the most underrated Guitarists in the history of Rock & Roll.
Quiddity
Nice selection. But my favorite is Wagner’s "Liebestod".
lucslawyer
1) String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132 – Beethoven
2) Missa Solemnis – Beethoven
3) Paint It, Black – The Rolling Stones
Comrade Stuck
I’m a Led Zepphile. Now that the XM LED channel is back on, I can’t seem to turn it to maybe listen to something else. As I type, Baby I’m Gonna Leave You is playing. I’ve heard it a 100 times and it still gives me goosebumps
Jon Karak
Tim: Locomotive Breath?
Queen kicks the tight pants off all of them
Phish jams are everlasting
Daft Punk throws a concert that will blow your rosey tinted mind
Objective Scrutator
Ted Nugent, Remedy.
Toby Keith, She never cried in front of me.
Whatever that song was that Trace Adkins sung in An American Carol.
Anything by Wagner or Stravinsky.
Mozart and Beethoven are immoral. Just look at their positions on the political compass!
Brick Oven Bill
My college roommate got upgraded for some reason and ended up sitting by Phil Collins on an airplane. He tried to strike up a conversation and Collins was an uptight twit. So I conclude that all this ‘how can you just walk away, walk away and see me cry’ crap was engineered to increase revenues by selling albums to females. I hate false pretenses. Therefore:
Ted Nugent: Wang, Dang, Sweet Puntang
Coldplay’s last release is the best music put out since Warren Zevon’s The Wind. I find it hard to believe that Lost is being played in shopping malls. It is surreal to me.
Quaker in a Basement
Locomotive Breath! F**k yeah!
WarrenS
Mohinuddin Dagar: an excerpt from a full-length performance in the centuries-old dhrupad style, of Raga Puriya.
Mark
Arrau playing the last movement of Beethoven’s last Sonata. Those trills at the end man–over a hundred years ago Anton Rubinstein claimed the human race didn’t deserve this finale.
Quaker in a Basement
Those clips are all good. But they’re all taken from the height of the composers’ careers–when they were producing surefire successes and not taking any chances.
How about the music they wrote from the heart and not for their audience? These pieces might come before the composer achieved popular acclaim. Or they might come after the composer had nothing left to prove.
Here’s a Mozart that slays me every time: Ave Verum Corpus:
Thursday
Warren Zevon Hit Somebody
Because it’s damn funny.
Great Big Sea Ordinary Day
Because it’s a party with 10,000 of your best friends.
Nickelback Animal
Because it feels exactly right during your Tomcat Phase: yer loud, yer stink, and yer horny!
I’ll change my mind in ten minutes, but those will do for now.
Batocchio
Good performance of the Bach piece.
Quaker in a Basement
And at the same time Wolfgang was praying to Jesus, he had this running through his head.
(Wait thru the recitation at the start of the clip. Worth it.)
Lizzy L
Handel’s Messiah — the whole thing.
Robert Johnson, "Hellhound on my Trail"
Jimmy Hendrix’s version of "All Along The Watchtower"
Calouste
King Crimson – 3 i 2 (from ProjeKcts 1 – Live at the Jazz Cafe)
Pink Floyd – Dogs
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
Brandon
I agree with earlier suggestions, but in terms of sheer emotional power, you need to go with something from Puccini or Verdi.
One from Puccini’s Tosca, E Lucevan le Stelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBaYL8ZnrM
Jeremy H
Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, as played by the incomparable Emil Gilels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I97cyTRjbRU
The link above is the third movement of the sonata, and it contains some of the most achingly beautiful moments ever composed. In particular from 3:00 onwards.
bhagamu
Arioso – Bach.
One of my favorites, because I play the cello and played this as a solo a while ago, though not as pristine-ly as this guy. I do hope you get a chance to see this, because I’m posting pretty late.
Comrade Baron Elmo
The following are, to this Boy Reporter, life-changing pieces of music that have never and will never lose their power to dazzle, delight and astonish.
Blind Willie Johnson – Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Bob & Earl – The Harlem Shuffle
The Small Faces – My Mind’s Eye
Dionne Warwick – Walk On By
Brian Eno – St. Elmo’s Fire
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
Charlie Rich – Feel Like Goin’ Home
Robert Johnson – Preachin’ Blues
The Stooges – TV Eye
Otis Redding – Try a Little Tenderness
Captain Beefheart – Dirty Blue Gene
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi – Jesus Gave Me Water
Cozy Cole – Topsy, Part 2
The Who – Armenia City in the Sky
Better stop there, before I get, er, carried away.
Nellcote
Bob Dylan~Idiot Wind
Tom Waits~Walking Spanish
Rolling Stones~Gimme Shelter
gocart mozart
Positively 4th Street ; The greatest I hate you song ever
It Ain’t Me Babe: The greatest I don’t love you song ever
All Along The Watchtower: Greatest Rock Song Ever
(Jimmi’s version with best guitar lead ever)
Ollie
I just saw Trans-Siberian Orchestra in San Jose rock the sh*t out of Tchaikovsky, Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, etc. They even threw in some Zeppelin and Jimmi. It’s amazing how classical and metal can mesh so well. The lasers and flames didn’t hurt, neither. ;->
Ollie
Oh, and they do a couple of variations of Pachelbel’s Canon, which is in and of itself one of the prettiest pieces of music ever written, IMHO.
kommrade reproductive vigor
How can you pick just three?
Air on the G String. Hur.
Tim F.
I’m not. Many threads ago I proposed that Bach’s Cello Suite #1, prelude is the greatest music on earth. Now I am running through counterproposals from the commentariat, along with other entries from me such as Paint it Black.
tim serbo
oh, please. my bloody valentine, loveless. shut up.
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Tim F.: Yeah and I still don’t know how you settled on just one. Oh well, stick Pink Floyd’s Breathe on there. Hell, all of Dark Side of the Moon.
See? It’s impossible.
MR. Bill
The "Aria" from Bachianias Brasilieros #5 by Villa-Lobos. (if you can find the composer conducting with de LosAngles singing, so much the better…)
The Marianne Faithfull version of Kurt Weill’s "Seven Deadly Sins"…
Glenn Gould’s "Goldberg Variations".
Prokofiev’s "Lieutenant Kieje" (spelling?)
My rock/blues division here is likely to be ideosyncratic:
Tom Petty "Here comes my Girl"
Beatles "Revolver" album
and incomplete.
boonagain
Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
John Cale: Hallelujah
Velvet Underground: Rock and Roll
Brian Wilson:Smile
Dennis - SGMM
Moon Martin: "Cadillac Walk"
Dean Martin: "Sway"
Butthole Surfers: "Pepper"
Hamilton Camp: "Here’s to You"
Peggy Lee: "Fever"
Oregon: "Aurora"
Tabla Beat Science: "Satellite (Show Me The Worth Of The World)"
Some Guy
Many fantastic nominations. I don’t have a single one, but two of my faves are Erik Satie’s Gymnopodie. Here is the link. It is just no. 1, but it give you the flavor. Most serene music I have ever heard.
Another is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Here is Autumn. This piece can still bring me to tears.
rob!
i’m surprised; i really thought there would’ve been a post here by Antajuart or whatever being knee-jerk contrary by now.
(maybe the GOP doesn’t authorize expenditures for comments on music-only threads?)
rob!
Bob Dylan: "Tangled Up In Blue"
REM: "Nightswimming"
Bruce Springsteen: "Valentine’s Day"
Jenny Lewis: "The Big Guns"
Miles Davis: "Freddie Freeloader"
Dennis - SGMM
@rob!:
He’s out getting his muktuk.
Punchy
This is good comedy. The money shot:
Multiple guffaws, bitches.
Porco Rosso
Hmmm.
Nina Simone’s Sinnerman?
cleek
as comedian Brian Posehn once said: "I do think certain kinds of music can make you violent. Like, when I listen to Nickelback, it makes me want to kill Nickelback.”
comrade thalarctos
The Clash-"London Calling"
Miles Davis-"So What"
Olivier Messiaen–Quatuor pour la fin du temps
BethanyAnne
I ended up loving "Dub Side of the Moon" – Dark Side redone by reggae artists. It’s flat out amazing. But Delerium is still my favorite. I typed their name into Pandora, and got a station that I can (and do) listen to constantly. Delerium’s mix of Silence is probably their best known work, but I’m partial to Incantation, or Flowers Become Screens. The YouTube of Flowers really doesn’t do it justice, tho.
Quaker in a Basement
Bach? Cello concerto!
dobrojutro
Issac Albeniz – Asturias
Big Star – September Gurls
Metallica – Battery
Quaker in a Basement
I need me some J. L. Hooker, stat!
bartkid
>The lasers and flames didn’t hurt, neither.
If not, you’re not doing it right.
No one’s convinced me.
My vote is still for Drive Like Jehu’s "Caress".
Ash Can
Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin
Bach’s Third Brandenburg Concerto
Eduard Tubin’s fourth symphony ("Ilirica")
Henryk Gorecki’s third symphony ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" — if it doesn’t at least make your jaw drop you’d better check your pulse)
And I do seem to recall one Van Cliburn playing the sweet holy hell out of Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto.
Ollie
Okay, it was late last night. Now I get it… How about these?
Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
(I know, boonagain picked it first, but I think the definitive version is the Jeff Buckley one, although I’ll settle for the Rufus Wainwright one, especially the one he does with his sister Martha)
Radiohead – Sulk
Neil Young – After the Goldrush
Genesis – Supper’s Ready
Ollie
Oh, and bartkid, I do feel pretty fried today. ;->
boonagain
After reading this, I’m adding
REM: Automatic for the People
the Clash: London Calling
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush
Van Morrison: Moondance
(kd lang does a not too shabby version of Hallelujah as well)
dobrojutro
Nice.
boonagain
oh
and
World Party: Goodbye Jumbo
John Cale : Paris 1919
also
Ollie
This is fun!!
Blind Faith – Can’t Find My Way Home
Beta Band – Dry The Rain
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World (although Kurt Cobain’s acoustic version is pretty darn good)
Cole Porter – Night and Day (the version from the movie DeLovely is DeLightful).
Quaker in a Basement
Rosetta Tharpe – Up Above My Head
Brabantio
John, in case you didn’t know, there’s an orchestral version of Tull’s music in an album called "a Classic Case". The first song is "Locomotive Breath", which is fantastic. The entire album is, really. I happen to love "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die" myself, any version.
Along the same lines, "Orchestral Maneuvers" is a must for Pink Floyd fans. The last three songs are particularly brilliant, and "When the Tigers Broke Free" is one of the most emotionally powerful songs I’ve ever heard.
Totally unrelated to all of that, "Evaporated" by Ben Folds is another favorite, especially because of the hidden track that comes along with it.
Jeff
Am I the only one who thinks that anything on a G string rules? (Yes, I’m 12!)
Ben Mays
Hands down, "Rhapsody in Blue"
JD Ryan
What, no "Close to the Edge" by Yes? C’mon…
ed_finnerty
following on the example of two classical one freelnce
1. bradenburg suite 2 or 3
2. new world symphony
3. solo monk (whole album)
Dennis - SGMM
I would add to my original selections the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s "You Know You Know"
bobwire
french impressionism, go there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqcXpHSHUXk&feature=related
Svensker
@MR. Bill:
Don’t think the de Los Angeles is available on YouTube, but I’m a huge fan of Bidu Sayao’s version — so effortless, yet achingly warm. Hers is on UT here.
Bill Pilgrom
Laughing at "Tull".
As if anyone under 50 has the slightest idea who this ancient gimmicy rock band even was.
Yeah, man. "Tull".
dobrojutro
No less an authority than teh grammys tell me they were the world’s best metal band in 1989.