A group list. The most beautiful Music ever written

Lark Ascending-Ralph Vaughan Williams
Adagio for Strings-Samuel Barber
Mysterious Mountain-Alan Hovhaness

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Minnesota said:
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I was just wondering how old you are? There really seems to be a cultural divide between you and I. I could call your links many things but beautiful would not be amoung them. They appear to be some sort of performance Art designed to entertain and have sounds that share some elements with music, but don't manage to quite rise to that level.

On the upside they are short and since they are evenly garish start to finish, can be enjoyed best while distracted by other things. :thumbup:
 
severtecher said:
Favorite Classical . "Tocatta and Fugue in D minor" by another great Joe , especially on a pipe organ.
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:thumbup: No doubt about it, this is an awesome piece of music!

My nominees:

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Forgot this one. I thought Top Gun was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. Now I know better :p

The theme though is timeless. Guitars really can sing!

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any of townes van zandt's superb ballads, sung by him, before he began his period of dying.......................b
 
First time I heard this one was in the opening credits to Jeff Daniels movie Escanaba in da Moonlight. I watch the movie every once in a while and the pictures of the old deer camps combined with this song make me feel like I was born a century too late.

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Rememo by Kings of Leon, or about anything by Flogging Molly, but especially "The Likes of you Again", "Devil's Dance Floor", and "Far Away Boys"
 
untamed said:
Who isn't moved by Amazing Grace on bagpipes? -
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I'm not. Amazing Grace is fine and bagpipes are my favorite instruments but I don't think the two should ever me mixed.:D

Now I knew a pilot and at his wedding in Canada they had an army piper play the Top Gun song, I thought it was pretty good.

"The Gael" from Last of the Mohicans is what I listen to in my head when I need to calm down or concentrate on something.
 
Stevie Ray Vaughn doing Jimi's "Little Wing"
The beginning of "Love Song" by Tesla
Dire Straits "Brothres in Arms" and "Romeo and Juliet"
"Taps" on bugle will always bring a tear
"Amazing Grace" on bagpipes, same reaction
"Star Spangled Banner". Still brings me to attention, 20 years later...

Thanks for letting me play along.
 
Justabuyer said:
I was just wondering how old you are? There really seems to be a cultural divide between you and I. I could call your links many things but beautiful would not be amoung them. They appear to be some sort of performance Art designed to entertain and have sounds that share some elements with music, but don't manage to quite rise to that level.

On the upside they are short and since they are evenly garish start to finish, can be enjoyed best while distracted by other things. :thumbup:
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One generation's "music" is the prior one's "noise." According to Hector Berlioz, 90% of the people at the first Paris performance of Beethoven's C-Sharp Minor Quartet (opus 131) left before it was half through.
 
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The shins: "Girl Sailor"
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The gutter may profess its love,
Then follow it with hesitation,
But there are just so many of
You out there for rent

A stronger girl would shake this off in flight,
And never give it more than a frowning hour,
But you have let your heart decide,
Loss has conquered you,

You've won one too many fights,
Wearing many hats every time,
But you wont win here tonight,

You've made it through the direst of straits alright,
Can you help it if plain love now seems less interesting?
You haven't changed an ounce in my eyes,
And I cannot lecture you,

And does anything I say seem relevant at all?
You've been at the helm since you were just five,
While I cannot claim to be more than a passenger,

But, you've won one too many fights,
Wearing all of your clothes at the same time,
Let the good times end tonight,
Oh girl, sail her, don't sink her,
This time,

Just a moment or two from now,
Not a mind will retain even a trace,
Of the thoughts that I struggled to tell
And how our stack of cards just fell,

So settle this once and for all,
The light no longer shows the cracks around my door,
And I have no lantern to light your way home tonight,

You are not some saint who's above,
Giving someone a stroll through the flowers,
You've got so much more to dream of,
Oh girl, sail her, don't sink her,
This time,
This time,
This time.

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We Will Become Silhouettes - the shins
blackbird - Beatles
mother nature's son - Beatles
Song Against Sex: Neutral Milk Hotel
I saw an x-ray of a girl passing gas - butthole surfers
 
Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto

Sweet Jane by Lou Reed especially the live version, not positive which album it is on.
 
scotchleaf said:
One generation's "music" is the prior one's "noise." According to Hector Berlioz, 90% of the people at the first Paris performance of Beethoven's C-Sharp Minor Quartet (opus 131) left before it was half through.
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Your right I should have been more specific. Well as the OP I am quite sure I did not ask for what music from your generation you liked. I asked for what is the most beautiful music ever written. Most serious responders did not reply with crap that can be heard and designed to appeal to todays FM radio users.

Most picked music written by men that had life times of training and were masters of thier craft. Born hundreds of years ago. Music that has lasted for generations and will still be taught heard and loved generations from now.

Honest question.... Do you honestly believe Snoop Dog will be a part of music curriculum for future trained musicians 100 years from now. I think much of the "BiggieSmall" genre of music will be remembered like we do Disco today. Humorous and humiliating.

Think past your block....past the next hit of crack or jiggly fat ass and look for something that speaks to all cultures, that vibrates the strings of humanity that we all have at our core. Real music

I know I could sit at a aboriginal camp fire and listen to the sounds of the tribal percussionists and the sounds of the primative wind instruments and get lost in that. Its real and comes from a place deep inside us all.

Its not about race, generation, or age. Its about quality and depth, talent and passion. You have to be very selective today to find real music on the bread and circus radio.... or you could can be satisfied with "music" designed to sell and make money for some promotion company.

But please lets try to dig a little deeper for this thread.
 
Kyuss: Catamaran
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James Taylor: Fire and Rain (this song breaks my heart every time)
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Link Wray: Rumble
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