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FOR THE LAST 3, Weeks or so , iv'e been listening to about 8 hours of music a day . I listen to everything from opera to head banging heavy metal stuff . So here's a question for my fellow forumites here , in the voice of roy 'posh plums' plumley , what would be your ONE choice of music to take with you to a desert island . I'll go first my selection would be the diva Maria Callas singing Casta Diva . It will probably be a different choice for myself tomorrow because i'm a bit like a monkey , i jump from tree to tree . I promise that i will listen to everyone's choice .Maybe i could give out some awards , to be decided by myself , for the best selections , etc . . .ps , kennymann , please don't select russ abotts 'atmosphere .
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My favorite today
“Bella figlia del amore” from Rigoletto, with Pavarotti, Sutherland, and a woman with a tremendous cleavage
https://youtu.be/l6S_kx0gDzc
“Bella figlia del amore” from Rigoletto, with Pavarotti, Sutherland, and a woman with a tremendous cleavage
https://youtu.be/l6S_kx0gDzc
MY FATHER , Peter's choice is I Saw The Light by Hank Williams .
MY BROTHER , Paul's Choice is Everybody Wants To Rule The World .
Supper's Ready - Genesis
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4HfFwVy-h0
It now has an unofficial illustrated video which appeared on youtube two years ago.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4HfFwVy-h0
It now has an unofficial illustrated video which appeared on youtube two years ago.
one song ....
one that i have never tired of hearing is 59th street bridge song
simon and garfunkle
would hate to lose all my music though
one that i have never tired of hearing is 59th street bridge song
simon and garfunkle
would hate to lose all my music though
SOME GREAT Choice's here , but i agree with Jack Hacksaw , how can mecca's selection ever be topped .
JUST HAD A DRINK , In a pub in Liverpool with a mate and his choice is Strawberry fields forever by the beatles .
Just one? It's an impossible choice, even choosing a composer let alone a single work.
I'll leave you with this brilliant fellow playing Stephen Foster's emotional melody. Brings tears to me eyes it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFTdn0li3Q
I'll leave you with this brilliant fellow playing Stephen Foster's emotional melody. Brings tears to me eyes it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFTdn0li3Q
This one rattles me a bit what a genius Knopfler is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pR1cVgk7Is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pR1cVgk7Is
Did you know that you can sing a song and the sound waves can travel forever,in other words a song you sang in 1988 in a pub in London can travel to any part of the universe,and it can travel to the past or the future,so who knows you may have a hit in 100 years time with a song you sang long long ago.so the next time you hear a song and it reminds you of another song you can not think of,be careful what you say about it,because you may have written it,sang it,recorded it,50 years ago or in 50 years time it might be your song passing through the sound barrier.
Tonight it's a dead heat between Serenade from The Student Prince and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyiSXrCCkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVmjv22Nqc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyiSXrCCkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVmjv22Nqc
You're right Culvin, YouTube is great, discovering new things on it all the time. The only downside is that it's too addictive - far too many late nights spent on it!!
Impossible to pick out one favourite, but these days I find myself listening to stuff by this Wim Mertens chap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z_tZJ_xTYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWrQXqblE9o
Impossible to pick out one favourite, but these days I find myself listening to stuff by this Wim Mertens chap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z_tZJ_xTYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWrQXqblE9o
I've been on it listening to music for at least 7 or 8 hours a day ,
for the last 3 weeks or more . I don't watch films or anything like that
although I sometimes do .I like listening to music because you can
of course do other things at the same time .
for the last 3 weeks or more . I don't watch films or anything like that
although I sometimes do .I like listening to music because you can
of course do other things at the same time .
Rolling Stones - Let It Loose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k_KfvxBW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2k_KfvxBW8
The longer it goes the better it gets.
The_KAMI , I love many songs like that . Some recently listened examples for myself would be Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Free Bird and Deep Purples 'Child in Time , also Day in the life by Beatles and Led Zeps 'Stairway to Heaven . . I'll listen to The Stones Let it Loose , in a moment and i will then make a comment about it .
KAMIKAZEE , I like the song you choosed because the title and words strike a very strong chord in myself .I recently met someone and i've been playing it quite cool but inside myself , i'm bubbling volcano like with so much feeling for her and now i think it's very much time to let that feeling loose and i'll follow wherever that feeling takes me . Thanks KAMI .
This pic is of the singer,actress , Dalida.I place it here because the lady i've met looks very similiar .
I feel so lucky to have met her and i will finally meet her alone in a few days time and i then wish with all my soul that i will be with her forever . SORRY FOR ALL THIS SOPPY , STUFF .
If someone says here that my fave piece of music is a song caled Lucky Man by Emerson Lake and Palmer , then i will look very kindly on that choice . I've just heard it for the first time in my life and its Brill .
As soon as I get up in the morning til I retire for the night I have "Heart 80's" on all day in the kitchen. I love listening to songs that I have not heard for ages, for my sins Depeche Mode is my favourite band of all time
A very honourable mention goes to My Favourite Things by Big John C .
Music used to be the greatest thing in life but not anymore,when I take the dog for a walk the I Pod goes straight on and I listen to anything but music.....I think it's an age think.
Be difficult to go to a desert island and not take the maestro along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yao9ucvhhmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yao9ucvhhmY
hfink. I want to marry you and have your gorgeous children .What a Beautiful
piece of music .I've never heard that before .Thank you for the introduction .
I'll be hearing that many times in the next days .
piece of music .I've never heard that before .Thank you for the introduction .
I'll be hearing that many times in the next days .
Glad you liked it Culvin. You can spend a LOT of time discovering E.M. music on YouTube, such is the vastness of his output, but it would time well spent! I've seen him conduct his music in concert twice, and both occasions were incredible experiences. A Fistful of Dynamite (from which the above piece came) is probably may favourite Western score; and although Morricone is known mainly for his Western/Leone music, it is but a fraction of his soundtrack c.v. So there is a heck of a lot out there to discover, and I'm still discovering!
Hfink Have you heard the music from the Morricone album 'Veruschka' if not , then please listen to that on utube .
Thanks again .
Thanks again .
Another of my honourable mentions goes to the lovely Doris Day singing Que Sera Sera .
My Mother Jean would often play that when she was happy .She was not happy very often
unfortunately .Rest In Peace , Mum .
My Mother Jean would often play that when she was happy .She was not happy very often
unfortunately .Rest In Peace , Mum .
Hi Culvin, I've actually got that soundtrack in my cd collection (I've been collecting soundtracks on & off for about 20 years, most of them by Italian composers, and reckon I must have circa 100 by Morricone). I do very much like the pieces with the vocalisations, most of them being performed by the great Edda Dell'Orso. Here is a rare snippet of her on film; Leone & Morricone can be seen in the small gathering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3i9dutpOP8
Also agree on Doris Day, great voice. My father is a huge fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3i9dutpOP8
Also agree on Doris Day, great voice. My father is a huge fan.
hfink. Listening to Dell'orso singing "Un Altro Mare" makes me feel like
A Child Again .It's Beautiful .
A Child Again .It's Beautiful .
My Friend , Wendys choice is sia Titanium .I've just given it a listen and its good .
Culvin I am wondering how it is that you have in your possession a photo of my mother circa 1963? Are you one of those hacker fiends?
KAMI ,Dalida is one of the Greatest Casta Diva's to have ever lived .I absolutely worship and adore her . Her personal life was incredibly sad , you would not believe .I'm hoping to go to France very soon and while there , i will visit her grave and place flowers.I will then pray .KAMI , you can't be her son , mate because this beauty was infertile .Kami , you little fibber , you .
foinavon - I have listened to this fanastic pianist - but that arrangement - wow amazing stuff
the Rachmaninov is stupendous too, this geezer is seriously good ( I have heard him before) I have the vladimir ashkenazy - LSO - Previn (mr preview) version must be 40 years old on vinyl
At certain times when i've listened to G Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue , the hairs on the back of my neck have stood up . It's an incredible piece of music and i can't not think of the city of New York when i hear it .
was he the first cross over - no not cross dresser - back in the 60s I can remember the furious debates about whether he was a clasical composer, musical man, jazz etc etc etc
oh the snobs gathered to have a go - - he was just so good - as was Ravel
maybe I am too long in the tooth but some will know about this
oh the snobs gathered to have a go - - he was just so good - as was Ravel
maybe I am too long in the tooth but some will know about this
I'm surprised to find out that Rhapsody in Blue was composed in 1924 . I would have guessed it was 10 years or so younger than that . It is a work of genius .
Ive only recently become aquainted with the music of Deep Purple , courtesy of our friend , trilby22 , but the songs i've heard so far Child In Time and Hey Joe , those two songs tell me that they are one of the best bands ever .
check out when purple re formed - 'perfect strangers' album
Lord is a god on his own
many 'rock' bands have mixed with the classical - some were even from a classical background
but rachm, ravel and gerswhin were more modern and not necessarily liked amongst the establishment
as were Tchaikovsky, then Prokofiev -in an earlier era - all alternative ideas are considered verboten, and not to be considered as 'classical'music
and as for my favourite shostakovich absolutely shocking - and produced during the period of the stalinist soviet union - a minor miracle he survived!!!
Lord is a god on his own
many 'rock' bands have mixed with the classical - some were even from a classical background
but rachm, ravel and gerswhin were more modern and not necessarily liked amongst the establishment
as were Tchaikovsky, then Prokofiev -in an earlier era - all alternative ideas are considered verboten, and not to be considered as 'classical'music
and as for my favourite shostakovich absolutely shocking - and produced during the period of the stalinist soviet union - a minor miracle he survived!!!
Hon mention to You'll Never Walk Alone . Not the musssy g marsden version , the version from the musical Carousel .
Honourable Mention to almost all the songs from the Mike Scott album " Bring Them All In ".
Sail On - Commodores
The perfect Desert Island Disc..
https://youtu.be/zg-ivWxy5KE
The perfect Desert Island Disc..
https://youtu.be/zg-ivWxy5KE
Honourable mention to the Shelley Fabares song " Johnny Angel " .
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Culivin, that lady so reminds me of a young Nigella Lawson.
Culivin, that lady so reminds me of a young Nigella Lawson.
Yeh , i see were you're coming from there , slippy . Maria Callas does indeed resemble the lovely Nigella .
I love Lou Reed , The beautiful song "Dreamin " from the Magic and Loss album , is one of my favourites .
Two Tribes by Frankie goes to hollywood is my sister Jay's selection , for the one piece of music , in the whole world , they would take to a desert island. Some strange old choices , i must say .
'The Carpet Crawlers ' , by Genesis . That's my brothers , choice .
If My Mother , was still alive , i think she would have chosen 'Wind Beneath My Wings' , by Bette Midler . Either that or 'Begin The Beguine' , by Julio Iglesias . .
One of my many favs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwZLe-hNMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwZLe-hNMU
One of my many favs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwZLe-hNMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwZLe-hNMU
Hayley Westenra sings `Pokarekare Ana`, a Maori love song. Beautiful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXua6gD4Hc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXua6gD4Hc
In the kitchen preparing some lunch earlier today and this beauty of a song came on and the volume went up a tad.
The Associates - Party Fears Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2AYxrPqkk
The Associates - Party Fears Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2AYxrPqkk
timbuctooth , Thank you for introducing me to that beautiful music . As i listened to it , i smoked a cigar , and i drank a glass of red wine , and i just thought , with all my difficulties , can't life , in moments , just be very , very WONDERFUL !
Delighted you enjoyed it. And, yes, life is wonderful!
David Keenan "Evidence Of Living"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0OhdvoCu9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0OhdvoCu9k
This is a nice piece.
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana, Pietro Mascagni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQ2D6AIys8
I want this played at my funeral, just the stuff to get them crying.
It'll take a hard b'tard to sit through that without shedding a tear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQ2D6AIys8
I want this played at my funeral, just the stuff to get them crying.
It'll take a hard b'tard to sit through that without shedding a tear.
Leonard Cohen-Dance Me To The End Of love.
Some fantastic videos for it on you tube, the official one is Awesome, as is the live version.Also check out this video to it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkoQ7517CM
From the movie-Take the Lead.
Trouble with great songs is that you can't get them out of your head.
Some fantastic videos for it on you tube, the official one is Awesome, as is the live version.Also check out this video to it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqkoQ7517CM
From the movie-Take the Lead.
Trouble with great songs is that you can't get them out of your head.
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