What a creation. It brings a smile, a gurn. A dance, a woman. Seduction, sex. Love. Which song gets the hairs on your neck stand on end?
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. ~ Professor Keating (Robin Williams) in "Dead Poet's Society"
Lately? 'Its a Good Life if You Don't Weaken' The Hip, In Violet Light. '...full of countervailling woes, diverse as ever scenes, proceeding on a need to know with a face so full of meaning, as to almost make it glow, for a good life you just might have to weaken, and find somewhere to go, go somewhere we're needed, find somewhere to grow, grow somewhere we're needed...'
"Ride On" - AC/DC ... one of the most chill, relaxing songs ever. The fact it's by a band whose normally anything but relaxing makes it that much cooler. "Paint it Black" - The Stones ... even though the lyrics are nihilistic rage, this song just makes me feel happy. "What a Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong, or the Joey Ramone cover ... what "Hey Ya!" wants to be when it grows up.
Blind Guardian - Harvest of sorrow My favorite ballad. So full of emotions, just great. In Flames - Everlost (part 2) One of the few slow songs, and the only one sung by a female. Schandmaul - Ein Stück Regenbogen A nice lovesong.
Nocturne in E Flat Major by Chopin is absolutely beautiful Beethovens Moonlight Sonata is nice too Indeed, life is just not complete without the beautiful melodies and harmonies. Did you know that listening and appreciating music are done in two different regions in the human brain?
and even better sitting outside somewhere in the sunshine having a relax with a beautiful woman watching the clouds. who needs drugs alcohol and tobacco just high on life. ravels bolero, rachmaninov opus nine on a theme from pagenine.
ravels bolero is one of my favorites. it demands to be played LOUD. i absolutely adore nella fantasia and can't help singing along (music [opera] was the career my parents didn't approve of- ^ mezzo soprano) elaborate lives from aida. lady in red by chris de burgh i love vide cor meum so much that my ex tried to learn it on violin to play for me. it's a shame it was never made into a full opera. lately i've been all about talk shows on mute (incubus) and the reason (hoobastank) but they're not part of the permanent collection.
dear god, every messageboard I go to has to include a music thread, from sports to videogames and philosophy boards...I'm not saying it's bad, by all means go for it but I feel it's a strange coincidence what's the method behind the madness here? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Molinos de Viento.- Mägo de Oz (it's great, from a spanish band, a must hear!) You Know My Name.- The Beatles (this song pulls smiles out of me) My Lost Lenore.- Tristania A little of everything is good. Also, Ravel's Bolero is a true masterpiece, and for the classics I prefer a little Bach.
Ennio Morricone's score for The Mission, particularly "On Earth As It Is In Heaven" and "Gabriel's Oboe," both variations on the same theme; his arrangement of "Ave Maria Guarani" is my preferred ave; I would love to hear a whole praying of the rosary in that form. A little-known track from the very odd Savatage, "Believe." The Beach Boys, "Wouldn't It Be Nice," although my emotional connection to it comes from the passing of Andy Lippincott, some fourteen years ago, in Doonesbury. It would be several years--until Bobby Hill fell in love with a cosmetic-school plastic head--before I could listen to the song without my mood collapsing. The ecstatic, last plea of "Wouldn't it be nice?" was his exeunt, leaving us all to say, "Goodnight, baby." One of my favorite poseur-machismo songs of all time, one that brings a natural rush, is Monster Magnet's "All Friends and Kingdom Come." It's one of the most sinister songs ever. And, of course, "Foolin' Yourself (The Angry Young Man)," by Styx might well be my favorite song ever. (Thirty-nine seconds of "The Palm of Your Hand"?! Thirty-nine seconds? You had Brian Wilson in the studio arranging backup vocals to your best song ever and you only give us thirty-nine seconds?!) And there's a block in the second act of Cats--actually, it's almost the entire second act; "Moments of Happiness," "Gus," and "Growltiger," for sure--perhaps the height of musical storytelling, and also the devastating block of "Macavity," "Mistoffelees," the showstopper ("Memory"), "Heaviside," and "The Ad-dressing." Lastly, from the album that is perhaps the key to understanding the present phase of my psychospiritual state (Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone), Floater's "Possum's Funeral," and "Endless Ii." Those songs are ... um ... yeah. If only I could show you what those songs do in my head--I could free the world.
Incubus - Just a phase.....possibly the sweetest and saddest guitar composition I have heard. Rage against the machine - Born as ghosts.....the chorus riff never ceases to creep me out.
-- the last movement from Mahler's 8th Symphony -- Maria Callas singing "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" from Sain-Saens' "Samson e Dalila" and "Costa diva" from Bellini's "Norma"
<i>Les Preludes</i> - Liszt (got to play timpani on this once...) <i>9th Symphony</i> - Beethoven "Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)" - Spiritualized "The Tourist" - Radiohead "Under African Skies" - Paul Simon <i>Kind of Blue</i> - Miles Davis
I'd have to say "Wish you Were Here" by Pink Floyd. It has a beautiful guitar part, and some great lyrics too. "So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here."
