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

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: