What is your SINGLE favourite piece of music of all time?

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#2955326 16-Aug-2022 13:12

1812 Overture

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#2955355 16-Aug-2022 15:46

MikeB4:

1812 Overture

When I was in middle school (Hadlow Prep Masterton), we had a music/drama teacher who was brilliant. He taught us the sections and instruments of an orchestra and how a piece of music can tell a story using the 1812 Overture. It was my solid grounding not only in classical but music in general. His passion for music and teaching it was so infectious.

I just wish all my teachers were like him, I think I would have done so much better at my 13 years of education.

Though I would say my favourite favourite piece of classical is:

Toccata & Fugue in Dm BWV 565 by J.S.Bach

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#2955359 16-Aug-2022 15:54

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man. Though the original 1977 stadium version was good, sound creation systems have improved, so this is the 2017 remastered version. This was originally written by Aaron Copland, I prefer EL&P version.

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#2955408 16-Aug-2022 20:06

MikeB4:
1812 Overture

Having performed this, with the accompaniment of live artillery, it's also quite high up on my list.

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#2956894 20-Aug-2022 11:25

Linda Ronstadt - heatwave

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#2957037 20-Aug-2022 17:48

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Linda Ronstadt - heatwave

SINGLE favourite - Not EVERY song you have ever liked!😉

Mine would be :

The Smiths - How soon is now?

That howling guitar sound from Johnny Marr and some of the best lyrics that Morrissey ever wrote.

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#2957051 20-Aug-2022 18:38

SINGLE favourite - Not EVERY song you have ever liked!😉

Yup, agreed. This would be a spectacularly long thread otherwise. However, music is such a wide & varied thing, & being subjective rather than objective, asking readers to decide on just 1 choice is difficult - over your life there has been many songs that were your favourite of the time. Even if split into genres, it's still a matter of opinion in the given moment.

Me, I split my choice & offered up 2, one classical track that the composer never heard & the single voted song of the century 22 years ago.

It's interesting to see that the most popular nomination is a rock classic with & a genuine position in rock history. Comfortably Numb (1979, off their 7th album The Wall) was the final collaboration between Dave Gilmour (music) & Roger Waters (lyrics), signalling the end of their songwriting partnership & foreshadowing the 1986 demise of Pink Floyd. Fittingly, it's the very last track that the band ever played in concert - both times, at their final regular show & their one-off reunion gig.

Although Rolling Stone has only ever ranked Comfortably Numb as high as 179 on their best songs of all time list, Dave Gilmour's second of his two searing, soaring guitar solos result in Comfortably Numb being regularly voted the greatest guitar solo ever, ahead of performances by guitar heroes Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Prince et al.

The song was supposedly named for the euphoria induced by the pain-killing injections Waters received prior to a US concert (due to previously undiagnosed hepatitis) that enabled the show to proceed. Comfortably Numb wasn't even the biggest hit of the album release - Another Brick In The Wall had massive popular appeal.

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#2957168 20-Aug-2022 23:43

robjg63:

artbloke:

Linda Ronstadt - heatwave

SINGLE favourite - Not EVERY song you have ever liked!😉

Mine would be :

The Smiths - How soon is now?

That howling guitar sound from Johnny Marr and some of the best lyrics that Morrissey ever wrote.

You shut your mouthHow can you sayI go about things the wrong way?I am human and I need to be lovedJust like everybody else does

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Maybe I should use a different username for each song I post 😄 seriously though, by restricting everyone to only one song this thread would be hardly used - I did try & create another Song/Music thread that would allow members to post as many songs as they want, but the people that run the site wouldn't let me because of this existing thread, so the only option is for each member is to post more than one song here.

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#2957247 21-Aug-2022 12:23

As the OP of this thread, I shall generously allow it. *Waves hands*

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#2957248 21-Aug-2022 12:25

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The Smiths - How soon is now?

I don't think we have a "Which cover is better than the original?" thread, but if so after 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash, I'm going to put the Love Spit Love version of How Soon is Now?

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#2957279 21-Aug-2022 14:55

SaltyNZ:
robjg63:

The Smiths - How soon is now?

I don't think we have a "Which cover is better than the original?" thread, but if so after 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash, I'm going to put the Love Spit Love version of How Soon is Now?

JC's Hurt is the original, isn't it? Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote the song specifically for Johnny Cash so his is the original. JC also had the dark The Wanderer written for him by U2. That track is only on U2's Zooropa album & doesn't feature on any of Cash's albums. I haven't heard a cover of that track & don't think I want to. Similarly Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl is the original, when Edge & Bono wrote it, they wrote it for Roy & U2's version of Mystery Girl is the cover.

Although Sinead O'Connor had massive success with Nothing Compares To You, Prince Rogers Nelson wrote that song & performed it first, so his is the original & hers the far more commercially successful cover. As the author of the song, Prince earned far more from her rendition than she did.

As an aside, JC's cover of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus takes a satirical piss-take of the commercial God industry & turns it into a deeply religious personal statement. His version is my preference.

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#2957353 21-Aug-2022 17:18

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JC's Hurt is the original, isn't it? Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote the song specifically for Johnny Cash so his is the original.

No, it was only ever originally written by Reznor for himself. It first appears on The Downward Spiral (1994). But since you mention U2, Bono did say of it that "Trent Reznor was born to write that song [Hurt], but Johnny Cash was born to sing it." Which he did in 2002.

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