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

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#2960839 29-Aug-2022 17:32

Stevie Nicks - talk to me

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#2961068 30-Aug-2022 10:27

This is going to be simultaneously controversial (depending on your perspective) and completely uninteresting, but I love this cover of the Beach Boy's "Don't Worry Baby" by Zed.

Controversial? Well, it's a fair to middling NZ band that had a string of pop hits a while ago now, but never reached the kind of mythical recognition that other NZ bands did (Split Enz, for example). And the original song is a good but pretty lightweight song by a well-loved pop/rock band that had great success but weren't exactly pioneers of their art. For the same reasons it's controversial, it's also incredibly dull (a decent song by a good band covered by another good band).

But I enjoy it, and love the increased tempo and slightly rockier sound they added. I'd pick the cover over the original every day, however good the original is.

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#2961096 30-Aug-2022 11:56

Brilliant version of that song by Kiwi band Zed 👍

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#2961098 30-Aug-2022 12:06

Lizard1977:
This is going to be simultaneously controversial (depending on your perspective) and completely uninteresting, but I love this cover of the Beach Boy's "Don't Worry Baby" by Zed.

Controversial? Well, it's a fair to middling NZ band that had a string of pop hits a while ago now, but never reached the kind of mythical recognition that other NZ bands did (Split Enz, for example). And the original song is a good but pretty lightweight song by a well-loved pop/rock band that had great success but weren't exactly pioneers of their art. For the same reasons it's controversial, it's also incredibly dull (a decent song by a good band covered by another good band).

But I enjoy it, and love the increased tempo and slightly rockier sound they added. I'd pick the cover over the original every day, however good the original is.

Funny you say that about the Beach Boys. I read somewhere that the Beatles always considered them their biggest (artistic at least) rivals and that Sgt Peppers was the Beatles response to Pet Sounds.

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#2964119 7-Sep-2022 10:45

America - you can do magic

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#2969320 16-Sep-2022 20:32

Meat Loaf - bad attitude

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#2976480 2-Oct-2022 23:41

A NZ classic !

Max Merritt - slipping away

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#2976483 3-Oct-2022 00:02

Lizard1977:
This is going to be simultaneously controversial (depending on your perspective) and completely uninteresting, but I love this cover of the Beach Boy's "Don't Worry Baby" by Zed.

Controversial? Well, it's a fair to middling NZ band that had a string of pop hits a while ago now, but never reached the kind of mythical recognition that other NZ bands did (Split Enz, for example). And the original song is a good but pretty lightweight song by a well-loved pop/rock band that had great success but weren't exactly pioneers of their art. For the same reasons it's controversial, it's also incredibly dull (a decent song by a good band covered by another good band).

But I enjoy it, and love the increased tempo and slightly rockier sound they added. I'd pick the cover over the original every day, however good the original is.

I gave Andrew Lynch - guitar for Zed - his very first paying gig. Fourteen years old, I think he was. He & the 3 immensely-talented Ottignon brothers (Matt, 16 on sax; Eden, 14, double bass; & 12 year old keyboard prodigy Aaron) would come into my bar on Friday nights & kick up a freeform jazz storm. I think they got $150 or $200 per gig - not each, that was the band's fee. Because they were underage, the Ottignon's dad had to be present at all times - "unless accompanied by a parent or guardian".

All 4 went on to become respected professional musicians - Aaron in particular. Working out of Berlin now, check out his YouTube channel for innovative, cutting edge jazz in collaboration with some international giants of the scene.

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#2976487 3-Oct-2022 07:28

SheriffNZ:
Lizard1977:

This is going to be simultaneously controversial (depending on your perspective) and completely uninteresting, but I love this cover of the Beach Boy's "Don't Worry Baby" by Zed.

Controversial? Well, it's a fair to middling NZ band that had a string of pop hits a while ago now, but never reached the kind of mythical recognition that other NZ bands did (Split Enz, for example). And the original song is a good but pretty lightweight song by a well-loved pop/rock band that had great success but weren't exactly pioneers of their art. For the same reasons it's controversial, it's also incredibly dull (a decent song by a good band covered by another good band).

But I enjoy it, and love the increased tempo and slightly rockier sound they added. I'd pick the cover over the original every day, however good the original is.

Funny you say that about the Beach Boys. I read somewhere that the Beatles always considered them their biggest (artistic at least) rivals and that Sgt Peppers was the Beatles response to Pet Sounds.

I heard that also on a YT video.

And on the matter of Beatles and Beach Boys (at the risk of going slightly OT) here an interesting video of George Martin remixing God Only Knows with Brian Wilson

https://youtu.be/GRb_3SwurKo

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#2976495 3-Oct-2022 08:27

My favourite music genre is Progressive House (original underground 90's 2000's Progressive not the overcommercialized garbage now called EDM)

Favourite DJ - John Digweeed (I doubt anyone here has heard of him).

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#2980293 10-Oct-2022 16:43

The Guess Who - these eyes

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#2986000 22-Oct-2022 08:17

R.E.M. - losing my religion

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#2991692 4-Nov-2022 02:01

David Bowie - young americans

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#2997800 18-Nov-2022 09:26

Probably not the best place to mention, probably not worth a thread, but -

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/17/the-70-greatest-no-2-singles-ranked

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#2997802 18-Nov-2022 09:27

Still love Mr Burke's drums on Blondie - Dreaming.

And that Beatles double A that never got to No 1.

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