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Location: big island | i suppose classical music does not fit in with brad's idea for this thread. besides that, when i hear ravel's "bolero", i think of dudley moore. (yeah, right!) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | One that really works for me @ 14minutes long is;
'TelegraphRoad'
by DireStraits from 'LoveOverGold'.
Masterful piece of both writing an playing. |
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| ..did someone mention "McArthur's Park"?.. |
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Location: PDX | Any rap "song" i've ever heard. Anything past a couple of seconds and i want to smash the radio/stereo/car with the widows rolled down and the driver slumped down in the seat.
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Location: ranson,wva | freebird is a long one with many reaped verses too...but its one of may favorite songs....jason |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by gh1:
Any rap "song" i've ever heard. Anything past a couple of seconds and i want to smash the radio/stereo/car with the widows rolled down and the driver slumped down in the seat.
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Location: south east Michigan | Zep's "Thank You" is a good example.
It's not that repeated word thing but unless your mood is chemically altered, it lingers just a tad to long.
As far as "Bolero", ya gotta train youself to think "Bo"... not "Dudley". |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | There's the trick!
Just like Cheech & Chong movies, some songs are um, situational in as much as you can only appreciate them in certain situations.... and if those situations no longer occur in your life, the song (or Cheech & Chong movie) no longer works for you either.
I'm sure that if you wore your pants around your knees, shoes with loose laces, and a ball cap on backwards that rap songs would sound okay too. I don't feel like running the test 'cause I think I might look tooooo good, one of you try it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Any rap "song" i've ever heard."
Especially since you been getting the Bass prelude from four blocks away! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Don't know if this was mentioned yet ... I just had this one on in the car ... Layla - the piano part at the end. |
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Location: NJ | My favorite part of the song.
Written by Dominos drummer, Jim Gordon (before he sadly went over the "deep end", killed his mom & got put away . . . ). |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Yea, sad about Jim Gordon. Carl Radle and Duane Allman also met tragic endings. Weird about that group. Great Album though.
Back to the Topic. Any drum solo recorded between 1965 and 1985. In my opinion, that's what ruined it all. When bar bands started that drum solo crap, thay lost the audience. Probably responsible for disco. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Best way I know to get a fresh round of drinks for the band mid-set. As a bonus, it tires the drummer out a bit so he speeds up during songs....less. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | In the world of popular and rock music, unfortunately, lengthy music due to repetition of the same word or group of words (or its equivalent) over and over, can get annoying.
In the world of contemporary classical music, however, it is a good thing. I happen to love minimal music with the likes of composers: Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and to some degree, the music of John Adams. If you get into this genre, perhaps, you just might appreciate the same words chanted repetitiously; the same two, three, four notes replayed over and over for extended periods of time; layered on top of each other by the various instruments and voices. |
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Location: big island | gil,
i enjoy richard burmer's contemporary classical music for the layering effect that you mention. john tesh does nice stuff too with contemporary worship music. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | another long one from the past... rare earth... Get Ready... |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | all neil young, from four way street, the electric side... |
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| The entire works of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The entire works of The Moody Blues.
The entire works of The Electric Light Orchestra.
Everything Paul McCartney wrote after Fool On The Hill.
Sugar Sugar by The Archies.
The Osmond Family.
Jimmy Swaggart.
(Anybody I haven't offended yet?) |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Der Ring des Nibelungen |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Der Ring des Nibelungen"
Or to my generation; "Kill da wabbitt"! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by schroeder:
The entire works of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The entire works of The Moody Blues.
The entire works of The Electric Light Orchestra.
Everything Paul McCartney wrote after Fool On The Hill.
Sugar Sugar by The Archies.
The Osmond Family.
Jimmy Swaggart.
(Anybody I haven't offended yet?) You forgot John Tesh. :D |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...nevermind... |
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Do some songs go on just to long???
