#1 05-28-2012 20:17:02
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Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Hotel California
Good Vibrations
Go, eat your bread in gladness, and drink your wine in joy; for your action was long ago approved by God.
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#2 05-29-2012 01:19:42
Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Toccata & Fugue in D minor by J.S.Bach (you'll know it when you hear it)
Lotus land by Cyril Scott (you ought to know it)
and just for fun,
The Usher Waltz by Kushkin (Poe's dance music) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ulenPf_II
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#3 05-29-2012 01:46:51
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Stop it, Max! For chrissakes, good as they are, those aren't songs! They're compositions.
The two best "songs" of all time are, and these are indisputable as far as I'm concerned in the moment, are:
The Brothers Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxUtFDK … fle=713681
AND
Boz Scaggs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m06n-WB8O8w
Why? Because I'm in that sorta mood. Forget about objective subjectivity, isn't "mood" the utmost criteria? I'm feeling sexy about myself right about now. 
Ten minutes from now I might feel angry. Or sad. Or flat out confused... Which would naturally engender a wholly different top-two list.
And so it goes...
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#4 05-29-2012 02:23:47
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fKHtlLI … re=related
Ah, one more!. Oscar Aleman was playing Hendrix licks in the '30s. Guitarist for Josephine Baker. Oscar was the baddest dude around... well after Dajango. Music is a big world. Last time I checked, all songs are compositions.
Oscar was also King of the South American Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCYdCc8f … re=related
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#5 05-29-2012 09:23:15
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Never fails to move my heart no matter how many times I have heard it: Bach, Air on the G string
Go, eat your bread in gladness, and drink your wine in joy; for your action was long ago approved by God.
--- Ecclesiastes 9.7
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#6 05-29-2012 14:11:34
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I think Lugwig's Moonlight Sonata was a number one hit... really. It made his career zoom and his fan magazines told the tale. Women swooned.
Jeff Beck's album, "Wired" was number one on the jazz charts. I swooned.
Then there is Willie Nelson's , "Crazy", sung by Patsy Cline. Number one on country charts.
But I think the number one hit of all time (for Americans mostly) is God Bless America. Hearing that on 9-11 brought me to streaming tears, and I still tear up thinking about that day, that music. It's the penultimate folk song, with 'Taps' being the last and best folk song when that day arrives.
The power of music is awesome.
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#7 05-29-2012 17:31:02
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
mishmont wrote:
Hotel California
Good Vibrations
Ha! Both great blasts from the past
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#8 05-29-2012 17:49:40
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK5u5W8 … re=related
Drifters, Magic Moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul041CSN … re=related
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#9 05-31-2012 19:37:37
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Favorite songs:
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (no, it's more than an airline commercial)
Reach Out, I'll Be There - Four Tops
Don't tell anyone else because to everyone who knows me I'm a Led Zepplin/Pink Floyd typa guy.
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#10 06-01-2012 01:17:43
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Rogers and Hart--Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Gershwin--Swanee
Lieber and Stoller--all of it
unhemmed as it is uneven
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#11 06-01-2012 02:37:20
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Billy Joe Shaver -- Ragged Old Truck
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#12 06-25-2012 01:52:16
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
I was wondering. Thanks for that Mish...
If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make your dream come true..
from the Bali Hi sequence from South Pacific.
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#13 06-25-2012 06:26:22
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
kiwi wrote:
I was wondering. Thanks for that Mish...
Go, eat your bread in gladness, and drink your wine in joy; for your action was long ago approved by God.
--- Ecclesiastes 9.7
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#14 06-25-2012 06:43:15
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Good Vibrations? Isn't that a song about a marital aid?
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#15 06-25-2012 09:41:28
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Q.X.T.Rhazmeulen wrote:
Good Vibrations? Isn't that a song about a marital aid?
Oh lordy, never thought of that, no wonder I like it so much
Go, eat your bread in gladness, and drink your wine in joy; for your action was long ago approved by God.
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#16 06-25-2012 11:01:13
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Just don't ask Q.X.T about Micheal Jackson's Beat It.
...or for that matter Devo's Whip It, Wilson Pickett's Hold On, I'm Coming, Bee Geese's How Deep Is Your Love or AC/DC's Got You by the Balls.
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“What’s down there?” she asked.(Chapter 9)
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#17 06-25-2012 14:13:49
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A.T.Schlesinger wrote:
Just don't ask Q.X.T about Micheal Jackson's Beat It.
Alas, 'tis the anthem of my existence . . .
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
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#18 07-12-2012 20:56:34
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
maxkeanu wrote:
Toccata & Fugue in D minor by J.S.Bach (you'll know it when you hear it)
Max,
I thought I wrote you about this before, but I can't seem to find it when I did an author search on the forums (or is the plural "fora"?). But when you talk about the above J.S. Bach work I am always reminded of this great work of American Literature:
A lady from North Carolina
Stretched fiddlestrings across her vagina
So with proper-sized cocks
What was sex became Bach's
Toccata & Fugue in D minor
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#19 07-13-2012 02:06:01
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I'm off to youtube to view all of the above, and leave max alone, even though he's wrong. If K-tel did classical I bet Vivaldi's 4 seasons would top the shop.
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#20 07-13-2012 04:03:05
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I love Vivaldi's Tempesta di Mare when played by Il Giardino Armonico. They ROCK!
Yet, no song, really....
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#21 07-14-2012 03:55:00
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Aah thanks aekronberg, Iv'e not heard that in years. Seriously I got goose bumps.
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#22 07-14-2012 08:28:35
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OMG, you guys have got me wandering back down the lanes of my lost youth! Been here in Tehrangeles for so long I'd just about forgotten how great Hotel California is. LOVE Rhapsody in Blue, though for me it's a right race with Porgy & Bess as a complete work.
My personal all time fave is a Persian love song that starts with the words 'you have two black eyes...'
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#23 07-18-2012 19:03:26
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I always stop what I'm doing to listen to Hotel California, and any song on Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent, and the E-street Shuffle.
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#24 07-18-2012 20:51:57
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Re: Just in case you were wondering, two of the top ten songs ever
Neil Young, Four Strong Winds, listening to now
Go, eat your bread in gladness, and drink your wine in joy; for your action was long ago approved by God.
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#25 07-19-2012 08:38:15
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True confession time...I did not know there was an actual "Hotel California". Just saw a show that included it. Gorgeous, weird place. I'd always thought it was a 'bad trip' Don Henley took! Color me embarrassed!
Numbers don't lie. But they do back each other up!
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