Favourite music piece

[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!!

Cheers,

G

 

[TheViking]

Gangway - Mountain Song ): ):

 

[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
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

 

[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
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!