Favourite music piece

[TheViking]

Hi...

Simple question: what's your favourite song or piece of music? :wink: :biggthump
Mine has to be: "Journey to the Line" by Hans Zimmer.... :wink:

[Seagull]

Pictures;Richters 58 concert,Sofia. Seagull

[hobbitboy]

Thats tough.....at the moment possibly "Far from Home" by the Levellers, but generally Carmina Burana by Wagner. Its beautiful!

[Kath]

Holst, The Planet Suite (especially Mars!)
:biggthump

[RovingArcher]

I actually have two favorites. One sung by a Lakota man named Buddy Red Bow called "Winds of change" and the other is sung by a member of the Six Nations named Robbie Robertson and is called "Unbound". Choosing one between them would be impossible for me as they both hold great meaning to me.

[Keith_Beef]

Thats tough.....at the moment possibly "Far from Home" by the Levellers, but generally Carmina Burana by Wagner. Its beautiful!

I think you possibly mean O Fortuna, from the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

A most wonderful piece of music, best played loud.



O Fortuna O Fortune,
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.

Sors immanis Fate - monstrous
et inanis, and empty,
rota tu volubilis, you whirling wheel,
status malus, you are malevolent,
vana salus well-being is vain
semper dissolubilis, and always fades to nothing,
obumbrata shadowed
et velata and veiled
michi quoque niteris; you plague me too;
nunc per ludum now through the game
dorsum nudum I bring my bare back
fero tui sceleris. to your villainy.

Sors salutis Fate is against me
et virtutis in health
michi nunc contraria, and virtue,
est affectus driven on
et defectus and weighted down,
semper in angaria. always enslaved.
Hac in hora So at this hour
sine mora without delay
corde pulsum tangite; pluck the vibrating strings;
quod per sortem since Fate
sternit fortem, strikes down the string man,
mecum omnes plangite! everyone weep with me!



Keith.

[Keith_Beef]

For the last couple of weeks, Ive been listening to two Placebo albums I bought from the bargain bin of a supermarket.

Pure Morning really is escellent!

A friend in need is a friend indeed.... and so on.


Keith.

[bushwacker bob]

Pure Morning really is escellent!

A friend in need is a friend indeed....


Keith.

a friend with weed is better :rolmao:

[falling rain]

Boston - Peace of Mind
Good lyrics as it's how I feel.... Especially ' People living in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind, A really good rock song with a catchy tune

Now if you're feelin' kinda low 'bout the dues you've been paying
Future's coming much too slow
And you wanna run but somehow you just keep on stayin'
Can't decide on which way to go
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind.
Now you're climbin' to the top of the company ladder
Hope it doesn't take too long
Can'tcha you see there'll come a day when it won't matter
Come a day when you'll be gone
I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People li vin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind.
Take a look ahead, take a look ahead, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Now everybody's got advice they just keep on givin'
Doesn't mean too much to me
Lot's of people out to make-believe they're livin'
Can't decide who they should be.
I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People li vin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind.
Take a look ahead, take a look ahead. Look ahead.

[Womble]

All times faves:

Marillion - Assassing

Yes - Mind Drive, Starship Trooper and Lightning Strikes

Genesis - the whole of Foxtrot

Arena - Moviedrome, Hanging Tree and Mea Culpa

(I'm just a bit of a prog-head....)

and...

S-Club7 - Reach.

[MartiniDave]

I've just been asked to turn down my "Best of Guns n Roses"! Don't they know its Friday!

Usually its Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Meatloaf, Dire Straits etc, but lately its been GnR, Aerosmith and even The Darkness.
Second childhood, what second childhood?

Oh - and I just love the original Thunderbirds theme!

Dave - sad or what!

[Adi007]

My favorite piece of music has got to be "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss ... this is more commonly known as the theme to 2001, A Space Odyssey.

[AntarcticFire]

U2 - With or Without You.... brilliant song!

I'd also recommend any "Vertical Horizon" albums, if you can ever find them...

[Stuart]

my music collection is a little eclectic

My favourate classical peice is moonlight sonata

I also like bobby Mc ferrins circle song six and Rob D's Clubbed to death

I like slow rock too

Metalica - Nothing else matters, Nirvanas cover of The Man Who Sold The World, Led Zepplin- Stairway To Heaven

[Womble]

Oops, I forgot some fundamental bits.

Mike Oldfield - Side one of Ommadawn, all of Amarok, and The Source of Secrets/Far Above the Clouds (from Tubular Bells 3)

Supertramp - The Logical Song

Anything by Jose Angel Hevia

Capercaillie - The Winney Hills Jig, Corschea a Ruin (sp), Waiting for the Wheel to turn ('91 re-mix)

[Womble]

and (sorry - I keep forgetting stuff!)

Steeleye Span - One Misty Moisty Morning, All Around My Hat, Gaudete, Alison Gross and The Mooncoin Jig.

[Womble]

All right: of all of those my fave single Piece - Mea Culpa from Arena.

So here I am
Sitting on a pile of stones
Waiting for the rain to fall
To wash away the dust from my hands
So here I am
Sitting on a pile of broken bones
Waiting for the sun to shine
Just to find my way to another day

I hear you call to me
But there's nothing I can do
I hear you call to me
But I can't help you

So here I am
Nothing more to give the world
Hoping for another chance
As I try to make a stand against the tide

And now I walk in fire
I see the flames are grower stronger, dancing higher
And voices from the blue
Their screams will not be silenced, as I stand accused
I look for mercy in their eyes
But only find despising gazes

So here I am
Wasted and torn apart
Waiting for the end to come
Release me from the guilt I've had to bear
So here I am
Sitting on a pile of broken hearts
Waiting for the end to come
And take away the burden of my fear

I hear you call to me
But there's nothing I can do
I hear you call to me
But I can't help you - But I can't help you.

So here I am, sitting on a pile of stones...

[EdS]

a bit like Desert Islanddiscs this one:

Iggy & the Stooges - I want to be your Dog
Hawkwind - Master ofthe Universe (live Space Ritual version)
AC/DC - it along way to the top...
Janis Joplin - to many to name 1

plus many others - really it depend on my mood to the type of noise I'd listen to if at all.

On of the best sound is rain on the window/tent - just as well as it hasn't stop all week, we've even been flooded. And we going camping in Northumberalnd tonight!

[Keith_Beef]

a friend with weed is better :rolmao:

A friend with breasts and all the rest

[gurushaun]

Rhapsody In Blue.

Cheers

Shaun

[TheViking]

To Keith beef: I also like O fortuna! :wink: :biggthump It's en The Messenger (Jeanne d' Arc) and Excalibur too. :wink:

[hobbitboy]

Ye thats the one keith

I agree Vertical Horizon are great, shame they never got further......
Also older Dashboard Confessional stuff is great before the full band punk/emo stuff he did.

[JakeR]

My favourite?! Well, thats a tough one. Of Jazz..Its gotta be "Birdland" off the haunting Weather report album "heavy weather".
Rock..."Angel" by Jimi Hendrix.
Funk..."come on come over" by Jaco Pastorius
Pop..."in my life" by the beatles

but there are too many to choose from i caould go on for hours.

Cheers,

Jake

[MagiKelly]

Currently this one

http://www.erikasfriends.com/for_net/lj/song_for_you.htm (http://www.erikasfriends.com/for_net/lj/song_for_you.htm)

but things change

[AntarcticFire]

Ye thats the one keith

I agree Vertical Horizon are great, shame they never got further......
Also older Dashboard Confessional stuff is great before the full band punk/emo stuff he did.

They've very recently released a new album - "Go", which I've managed
to get a copy of and it's brilliant!

[Jazzman]

Jazz- MacArthur Park
Classical- Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude (well actually it's Romantic, but hey)
Rock- Dream Theater: Scenes from a Memory
Funk- Extreme: Get the Funk Out
Ska- Madness: Driving in my Car

There are many more I would rate, but I'd be here all day.

[Roving Rich]

:rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao: Magi kelly thats great -Iknow loads of ebay addicts to play it to.
For me all time best album in the world ever and defineltly on my desert island -
The Orb - Adventures beyond the Ultraworld

i've been listening to it for years and keep finding new levels too it.
The only album i have ever come across with the complexities of classical music, but the variety of modern instuments and sampling. Classic

Rich

[Squidders]

My top 10 in no particular order...

Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
The Cranberries - Zombie
Joan Osbourne - Crazy baby (Live)
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Amon Tobin - Slowly
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Dire straits - Sultans of swing (Live)
Bob Marley - 3 little birds
Berri - Sunshine (On a rainy day)
Tchaikovsky - 1812 overture (With cannons)

[leon-1]

Hi...

Simple question: what's your favourite song or piece of music? :wink: :biggthump
Mine has to be: "Journey to the Line" by Hans Zimmer.... :wink:

Such an innocent question, but simple far from it. I tend to find that my mood both determines what I listen to and changes as I listen.

Carl Orff, Shool work, Malaguena.
Samuel Barber, Adagio for strings (quite like the choral version as well, think it's called agnus dei).
J S Bach, Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor and the little fugue (Fugue in G Minor).
Beethoven, Ode to Joy (all of it).
Pink Floyd, Shine on You Crazy Diamond.
Marillion, The Great Cucumber Massacre (Garden Party).
Candy Dulfer, Lilly was Here.
Joss Stone, Fell in Love With A Boy.
Nina Simone, Feeling Fine.
Eric Clapton, Theme from Edge Of Darkness.
Dire Straits, Going Home (theme from Local Hero).
Steeleye Span, Fighting for Strangers.
Clannad, Theme From Harry's Game.
Men At Work, Overkill.
Radiohead, Street Spirit.
Fleetwood Mac, Albatross.
Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound Of Silence.
The Bangles, Be With You.
E.L.O, The Diary Of Horace Wimp.
Procol Harem, Whiter Shade Of Pale.

Unfortunately the list does not stop there, we haven't got into opera, punk rock, blues, Jazz (Jacques Loussier, Bach to the Future is well worth looking at) and the list goes on and on. :wave:

Nearly forgot these :doh:

Rodrigo, Concerto De Aranjuez.
Pachelbel, Canon.
Telemann, Canon.
Tracy Chapman, Talkin' bout a revolution.
Nirvana, Lithium.
Queen, Innuendo.
Del Shannon, Runaway
Everly Brothers, Runaround Sue and He Ain't Heavy.
Prince, Darling Nikky (from Purple Rain).
Genesis, Mama.
Phil Lynnot and Gary Moore, Parissienne Walkways.
Mike Oldfield, Part 1 of Tubular Bells (the original).
Def Leppard, Love Bites and Rock Of Ages.
Gabrielle, Out Of Reach.

[ChrisKavanaugh]

So many, so many in all genres. But, I worked for a bit in a garage run by a London Cockney and my former best friend from Birmingham England ( he turned into a first rate crook.) The other mechanics were a burned out hippie pothead who looked like Wilford Brimley and a Mexican who both had radios simultaneously blaring accordian Tijuana Disco music and 60s Rock nonstop. I got fed up with this audio assault and one day disabled both instruments and set up a CD player. Doyly Carte's classic recording of H.M.S. Pinafore was followed by The Mikado, Yoemen of the Guard and The Pirates of Penzance. The two mechanics catterwailed like alley cats. David, the Cockney was delighted, thinking anybody who set up a tea mess with digestives and played Gilbert and Sullivan in California was o.k. In the Coast Guard I got fed up seeing the APOCALYPSE NOW scene with helicopters blaring Wagner's Ride of the Walkeries. So I set up a tape player and wired it into the loudhailer. Theres a lost tradition of initiating new crew with a ride in the 'Gloryhole' (a now lost cockpit in the extreme bow of older boats) through the heavy surf, much like the storm scene in Das Boot. The tapeplayer was removed after one initiate had nightmares about The Flying Dutchman and this maniac skippering some antique lifeboat with a sail. :shock:

[TheViking]

Just found this thread again... :o):

ToTo and 'Hold the Line'. :wink: And a hole bunch of other ones! :biggthump

[Great Pebble]

Oh lordy...

Weddings, Parties, Anything :- For A Short Time
Jesus & Mary Chain :- Cherry Came Too
Therapy?:- Meat Abstract
Glenn Miller Orchestra:- American Patrol
Queen:- Hammer To Fall
Stingrays:- Behind The Beyond
Belle & Sebastian:- I'm Waking Up To Us
Squeeze:- Labelled With Love
Mega City 4:- Stop
The Parliaments:- Don't Be Sore At Me
Small Faces:- All Or Nothing
Morrisey:- Every Day Is Like Sunday......

And many, many, many more.

[mr dazzler]

On the corner, kind of blue, panthalassa - Miles Davis 8-)
exodus (ep single version) Bob Marley 8-)
ascension, Live at village vanguard, any blues-John Coltrane 8-)
any funky blues, delta blues, slide acoustic blues 8-)
anything drummed by elvin jones 8-)

[Kim]

The sound of rain

[Paganwolf]

on your basha in the woods :wink:

[Great Pebble]

Know what?

I hate the sound of rain on anything. Well perhaps that's too strong a word, but I know it evokes major passion in lots of outdoor people.

It always just makes me want to pee.

[JakeR]

I love the sound of rain on my window, i am in a loft, so have two big veluxes. Send you right to sleep.

[maddave]

Holst, The Planet Suite (especially Mars!)
:biggthump

Wow Me too :shock: How crazy is that ?? :yikes:

Although a modern song that always raises the hairs on my neck is Manowar 'Swords in the wind' Lyrics Below

I surrender my soul
Odin hear my call
One day I'll sit beside your throne
In Valhalla's great hall
Like so many before me
I'll die with honor and pride

The right of the warrior
Forever to fight by your side
Send a sign, raise the sail
Wave a last goodbye
Destiny is calling
Immortality be mine

Call the witch to cast the runes
Weave a magic spell
We who die in battle are born
Not for heaven, not for hell

[Bridge:]
We are sons of Odin
The fire we burn inside
Is the legacy of warrior kings
Who reign above in the sky

[Chorus:]
I will lead the charge
My sword into the wind
Sons of Odin fight
To die and live again
Viking ships cross the sea
In cold wind and rain
Sail into the black of night
Magic stars our guiding light

Today the blood of battle
Upon my weapons will never dry
Many I'll send into the ground
Laughing as they die

[Repeat bridge, chorus]

Place my body on a ship
And burn it on the sea
Let my spirit rise
Valkiries carry me
Take me to Valhalla
Where my brothers wait for me
Fires burn into the sky
My spirit will never die

[Repeat chorus to fade]

[TheViking]

Gigolo Aunts - Where I find my heaven. :wink:

[Ginja]

Ooh, here we go. The real 'acid test', eh?! Are we all prog rockers, Brian May fans, bonkers about Busted ... I bl**dy hope not!

Here's a couple of faves, off the top of my head:

Gomez - Free To Run
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber
Radiohead - Creep
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
The Specials - Monkey Man
Skatalites - Guns of Navarone
Spanky Wilson - Sunshine of Your Love
Soggy Bottom Boys - (Man of) Constant Sorrow

And many, many more :super:

G

[boaty]

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

Barber said nothing in this piece that Mahler hadn't said better in the Adagietto of his 5th symphony - but don't take my word for it, have a listen and see what you think!

[Ginja]

Nice one Boaty, I haven't heard Mahler's piece - will track it down tonight (the wonders of MP3 ...!) and give it a listen.

Must say that Barber's brings a tear to my eye every time! But maybe I'm just being a big, soft git!! :wink:

Cheers,

G

[TheViking]

Gangway - Mountain Song :o): :o):

[Neil1]

SIMPLE QUESTION! :yikes:
Here goes:
John Denver - Eagle & the Hawk
Genesis - Home by the Sea
Eric Clapton _ Edge of Darkness
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Mumas & Papas - Safe in My Garden
Steeleye Span - Tam Lyn
Dirty Vegas - Idon't Know
Kate Rusby - Under the Stars
The Stranglers - the Raven
The Stranglers - Genetix
Gary Numan - Cars
Hendrix - All along the watchtower :biggthump
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
Stereophonics - Just Lookin
Kate Bush - Running up that Hill
Kate Bush - Cloudbustin
Cranberries - Linger
Joe Jackson - Nineteen Forever
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Stranglers - Down in the Sewer
John Denver - Poems, Prayers & Promises
Steeleye Span - The Weaver & the Factory Maid
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Adam & the Ants - Dog eat Dog
Mark Knopfler - Local Hero
Stranglers - Waltzinblack
The Smiths - Hand in Glove
Squeeze - Up the Junction
Tears for Fears - Tears roll Down
The Jam - Going Underground
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3am
ABBA - SOS :lol:
Everything but the Girl - Missing
Massive Attack - Protection
Garbage - Supervixen
Sade -Is it a Crime
Beautiful South - Mini Correct

Thats all can remember off the top of my head, I'll go dig thru the vinyl and post some again later
Neil

[Andy]

ok here goes in no order just as I think of them
*sound of silence
*homeward bound
*boxer
*what a wonderful world
*pultonium alley
*wild gease
*wondn't it be wondrous thing
*red river valley
*building brides
*I want my money back

oh to hell with it, I love music of all sorts for diffeernet reasons, I can't pick. I miss playing the old guitar

[Ahjno]

That's a tough one ... hmmm I've got lots of favourite songs ... from several dutch artists to Queen, Duran Duran (especially "Wild boys" :yikes: & "Live and let die", Blink (?)82, Maroon 5, ABBA, Vivaldi & Mozart, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

But I think my absolute most favourite music piece is "J'aime la vie" by Sandra Kim ... Gives me back some romantic memories of my girlfriend :wink: :naughty: :nono:

[boaty]

I'll go dig thru the vinyl


Mmmmmmmmmm vinyl!!!!

[tomtom]

Kate Rusby - Under the Stars



Have Never met annother real life Kate Rusby fas before (out side of concert),
though it is likly i have been looking in the wrong places!
anyone else around her a fan?
i think shes great!

[Carcajou Garou]

Carlos Nakai, anything
Robert Tree Cody,especially White Buffalo
Joanne Senandoah, anything
Russel Watson is just Great!!!
and best of all Selena!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :super:
just a thought

[TheViking]

Boondock Saints Theme... :wave:

[Rhapsody]

Trying to pick a favourite?! Impossible!

At the moment I'm on a Power-Metal trip (:super:) and it would have to be Rhapsody - Unholy Warcry, but I have no all-time favourite.

[beachlover]

Mine would be Max Bruch's violin conderto No. 1 in g
Sounds sad but it was the first ever piece of classical music I ever bought.
A second choice would be handle's Messiah

[RobertsonPau]

Like lots of other post; too many to list them all!

But keep going back to Mike Oldfield, when SWMBO isn't around, Fanfare for the Common Man by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Queen mainly the rockier ones but any really, assorted classical Bachs Toccata and Fugue in D minor, blues - Howlin' Wolf, Luck Lopez Evans et al., Heavy Metal - AC/DC, Iron Maiden etc., and many, many more

[zen]

Again too many to list but what came to mind first was Leonard Cohen's Teachers.....Awesome flamenco guitar and lyrics like these......it's a great one for the campfire.....

I met a woman long ago
her hair the black that black can go,
Are you a teacher of the heart?
Soft she answered no.

I met a girl across the sea,
her hair the gold that gold can be,
Are you a teacher of the heart?
Yes, but not for thee.

I met a man who lost his mind
in some lost place I had to find,
follow me the wise man said,
but he walked behind.

I walked into a hospital
where none was sick and none was well,
when at night the nurses left
I could not walk at all.

Morning came and then came noon,
dinner time a scalpel blade
lay beside my silver spoon.
Some girls wander by mistake
into the mess that scalpels make.
Are you the teachers of my heart?
We teach old hearts to break.

One morning I woke up alone,
the hospital and the nurses gone.
Have I carved enough my Lord?
Child, you are a bone.

I ate and ate and ate,
no I did not miss a plate, well
How much do these suppers cost?
We'll take it out in hate.

I spent my hatred everyplace,
on every work on every face,
someone gave me wishes
and I wished for an embrace.

Several girls embraced me, then
I was embraced by men,
Is my passion perfect?
No, do it once again.

I was handsome I was strong,
I knew the words of every song.
Did my singing please you?
No, the words you sang were wrong.

Who is it whom I address,
who takes down what I confess?
Are you the teachers of my heart?
We teach old hearts to rest.

Oh teachers are my lessons done?
I cannot do another one.
They laughed and laughed and said, Well child,
are your lessons done?
are your lessons done?
are your lessons done?

[alick]

TOO HARD !

Marillion - Warm Wet Circles / Fugazi
Floyd - especially the one with the faboulous vocal solo from Dark Side of the moon / comfortably numb
Stevie Nicks - Sarah / Beauty & the Beast / ...
Kate Bush - Cloudbustin (definately)
Peter Gabriel - I grieve / and with Deep Forest theme from While the Earth Sleeps / San Joacinto ...
The classical piece Oliver Stone used in Platoon - can't listen to that without my eyes watering !
Madonna - vogue
Hans Zimmer - Vade cor Meum (pron) from Hannibal and the themes from Gladiator written with Lisa Gerrard
Yo Yo Ma playing the cello solo from the end of Crouching Tiger
Debbie Harry - Maria
Grace Jones - Libertango - great french feel - from the film and recently from the Hotel Costes collections
Sting / Yussou N'dour - Desert Rose.
Coldplay - Parachutes - my youngest daughter has great taste
Keane - Somewhere only we know (beat my elder daughter to that one !)
Simple Minds - Real Life ( turn it up, it's brittle !)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Echo beach
The Stranglers - No more Heros
Genesis - Trick of the tail
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds
Rick Wakeman Chris Squires et al - Seahorses
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
Darude - Sandstorm
Julia Fordham - Porcelain
Acoustic Alchemy - almost anything !
Stevie Winwood - Valerie
Sheryl Crowe - A change will do you good / Resuscitation / My favorite mistake / there goes the neighbourhood
Suzanne Vega - Marlene on the Wall / A Soldier came knocking
Queen - too many to list
Prince - Rasberry Beret / Little Red Corvette
Neneh Cherry - 7 seconds / manchild
Sting - Shape of my heart
George Michael - Older / Cowboys & Angels / ...
All Saints - Black Coffee
Steve Earl - Copperhead Road
Don Henley - Boy of summer / new york minute / end of the innocence
Bruce Hornsby & The Range - all of them
Duran Duran - Mad World - version for the Donnie Darko theme sung by Gary Jules
Robbie Williams - a brilliant entertainer !

Gimme two seconds and I'll think of another dozen ! :biggthump

[leon-1]

TOO HARD !
The classical piece Oliver Stone used in Platoon - can't listen to that without my eyes watering !:biggthump

I believe the peice that you are thinking of is the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, if I recall correctly there is a choral version called "Agnus Dei".

If you like that you may also like a peice by Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble called "Parce Mihi Domine" off the album Officium which is a bit like the Monk chanting with great tenor sax thrown in to boot :-)

[Gary]

I have many favourite tune ranging from iron maiden to anastasia and ELO but one peice of music which always makes me think bushcraft is the buffalo hunt from Dances with wolves - this hauntingly wistful track with its sad under tone never fails to remind me of where I'd rather be! It transports me back to the Alberta grass land, to green leafy cambridgeshire lanes or to the dapple shade of the forest.

Only problem is it never fails to leave me feeling a little more discontented with modern life every time I hear it.

[RovingArcher]

Gary, I like that piece as well. Kevin Costner hosted a tele program of dance and song featuring the music of Peter Buffett, who did the soundtrack for Dances. The music and dancing was a combination of Modern and traditional and took a young man from the crazed insanity of city life to finding peace and direction in his heritage and Native Spirit. If you are interested, the name of the CD soundtrack to the program is "Spirit".

[arctic hobo]

I'm a big fan of Nick Drake, other than that my music is very arty and unconventional :-) even my old man's friend the music guru had never heard anything of them :lol:
But I love Nick Drake, his music is very earthy and I suppose quite bushcrafty in a kind of old english way. My favourite song is Northern Sky:

I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

I've been a long time that I'm waiting
Been a long that I'm blown
I've been a long time that I've wandered
Through the people I have known
Oh, if you would and you could
Straighten my new mind's eye.

Would you love me for my money
Would you love me for my head
Would you love me through the winter
Would you love me 'til I'm dead
Oh, if you would and you could
Come blow your horn on high.

I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky.

Recommend it to anyone

[Gary]

Gary, I like that piece as well. Kevin Costner hosted a tele program of dance and song featuring the music of Peter Buffett, who did the soundtrack for Dances. The music and dancing was a combination of Modern and traditional and took a young man from the crazed insanity of city life to finding peace and direction in his heritage and Native Spirit. If you are interested, the name of the CD soundtrack to the program is "Spirit".


Cheers RA I will see if I can get my paws on it!

[al]

john barry did dances with wolves Dances With Wolves: (John Barry) In the late 1980's, John Barry was already beginning to suffer from a lengthy string of illnesses that would largely sideline him as the 1990's progressed. After winning the Academy Award for Out of Africa, he would suffer a ruptured esophagus and would later dedicate his score for Dances With Wolves to the doctors that saved his life. Already, Barry's shameless self-repetition in style was beginning to take a toll on his career. we have that at home too and nick drake and loads of others , being a family of guitar players we have all sorts of good music and instruments laying about the house [http://www.johnbarry.org.uk/filmography.shtml also last of the mohicans is a winner,that got me through a tour of NI , learnt some guitar parts for it too,very stirring

[RovingArcher]

john barry did dances with wolves Dances With Wolves: (John Barry) In the late 1980's, John Barry was already beginning to suffer from a lengthy string of illnesses that would largely sideline him as the 1990's progressed. After winning the Academy Award for Out of Africa, he would suffer a ruptured esophagus and would later dedicate his score for Dances With Wolves to the doctors that saved his life. Already, Barry's shameless self-repetition in style was beginning to take a toll on his career. we have that at home too and nick drake and loads of others , being a family of guitar players we have all sorts of good music and instruments laying about the house [http://www.johnbarry.org.uk/filmography.shtml also last of the mohicans is a winner,that got me through a tour of NI , learnt some guitar parts for it too,very stirring

If so, then I apologize for my error. I know that Buffett did "The Fire Dance" and thought he had done the entire score.

[greg2935]

I'm a big bob dylan fan, but like almost anything (The Cult, most classics, especially Wagner and Beethoven, Sisters of Mercy, Cure, Iron Maiden, Abba, the Who, etc.) yes I am a little miixed up.

[alick]

I believe the peice that you are thinking of is the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, if I recall correctly there is a choral version called "Agnus Dei".

If you like that you may also like a peice by Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble called "Parce Mihi Domine" off the album Officium which is a bit like the Monk chanting with great tenor sax thrown in to boot :-)
That's the one - Thanks !
And for the tip. I'll look out for that. :biggthump