I know it's difficult for if you are like me there must be at least 25 I am undecided on, depends on mood or most probably a lot more. But I'm isolating in to pop only as I'm also a big fan of classics, if not more so and apart from Mike and maybe Mozart, I don't think there are others.
But only Pop/Rock. Ballads.
Mine are 1) The Boxer... Simon and Garfunckel and 2) Handle with care...Travelling Wilburys
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I have a dream - ABBA
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
A lot of good music came in the 1060's and 70's - eg from ABBA and Neill Diamond. O am also a fan of Elvis Presley.
However, my real favourites are Nessam Dorma - by Luciano Pavarotti and The Radetsky March - sung by the Vienna Boys Choir. You can find both on the internet.
I have the right to indicate music that I found of value and that is what I did. Some songs and lyrics remain short term favourites - but a year later are already forgotten. Through the centuries - and that include the 20th century - there are some songs that would even be popular a hundred years from now. Those are popular on a longer term basis - whether people like it or not.
In the main I like music with tones. The Beatles used excerpts of compositions of Tchaikovsky and use their own lyrics in the process try Bianca for one of those
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Really tough choice to make, what might be your favourites today may change by the end of the week. Anyways here two of my many.
Cold and ugly by Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jntEz1POl_c
A forest by the Cure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xik-y0xlpZ0
Some very fab choices there....if I'm allowed two classics with apologies( I know I'm being unfair)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31oAcmBz044
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igDngqzBIH4
Pop choices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8 - Take My Breath Away - Berlin
With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker
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Eddie Vedder - Long Nights
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6H8optu9rTU
Queens Of The Stone Age - Make it wit chu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0wTxqHbJOzg
Screw it Denny, Rag and Bone Man still wins :):):)
With Kurt Cobains blue Jag Stang Fender
You can't win with this one, there are so many, many great choices.
How lucky are those who can sing and paint......the gift of immortality
Whether it's old or not Chips, is not an issue, if it's good it remains good and yes the seventies and eighties were the best years for popular music, most music lovers will agree to that, not the garbage they now roll out.
Cloudy that Simon and Garfunckel "Hello Darkness etc" is Sounds of Silence, yes it's one of my favourites too.
Mike and Mozart, yes cannot fault any of those and yes I enjoy all of those too.
It's actually very difficult if not impossible to put them all down...it depends on the setting and mood at the time.
I enjoy folk and traditional a lot too. Love military marches too and the pipes. Cannot help it, Scots and Irish blood in genes.
Pavarotti, Bocelli, Mario Lanza as tenors and Dmitri Hvorostovsky baritone no question some the best music ever sung. Also are crazy about Andre Rieu's concerts, Bolero being a favorite.
But classics is too vast and needs a catergory of it's own. It is indeed superior music.
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Sorry Seb, I disagree.
In the seventies and eighties, only record labels produced artists.
Right now, there is way more music being produced, so there is a lot more bad music but also a lot more good music.
Also, unless you've taken part in the club scene since house music and it's many sub-genres have come about, then you've missed a large part of musical evolution.
One such example is Dub-step. It would blow your mind, without a single lyric. The use of combined and varying frequency, given a powerful enough speaker, allows you to literally be touched by the music. Much of it is created with that in mind.
Horses for courses
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Check out disturbed's version of sounds of silence, it is outstanding and man what a powerful voice
Music etc must surely be a board all-time favorite.
"Mrs Robinson we've been having sex for two weeks"
"The Graduate" an all-time great, I still to this day never tire of watching it......suitably supported by great lyrics.
The 60's and 70's produced icons..Elvis, The Beatles and Beatlemania.....things were rolling along nicely until Hazyfantazy and Justin Bieber rocked up
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I prefer it to the original, all depends on what style of music you prefer.
David Bowie would be the peak of the 70's
By the way who is angry A nderson?
Not from the 70s but definitely the same sound
@Crusaderfan. There are so many Bowie songs that it is difficult to chose. When it comes to favourite clips of Bowie performances then this one, to me, has to be one of the best ever.
Heroes is his best song, I prefer the original video clips with the studio version. One thing that bugged me with Bowie (but the man is a legend so he is allowed to) is his live preformances he changes the song in small ways.
But Suffragete City, Space Oddity, Starman, Ashes to Ashes, Diamond Dogs, Spiders from Mars , Changes etc etc etc is just music I could listen to all day every day.
Sting, Chippo? Really? I know it is a matter of personal choice but I personally would not put him in the same league as Knopfler, Collins and Clapton.
I would also not even class Clapton as purely a rock or a pop star either. In fact, I would say that Clapton is actually primarily a blues artist in the mould of a BB King. Check this out:
Cera
Did you watch the video?
Flash.
Yes I have many times. That still does not convince me that Sting is, once again IMO, one of the best rockers/pop stars ever. That is what Chippo said and which I’m questioning. I also haven’t said that he is wrong. I just do not agree with him.
FFS, I may even be wrong for all I know.
haha was just asking.
Chillax.
LOL. I am “chillaxed”. I was more or less taking the piss at myself. Check the emoji.
Soul music from the sixties...Otis Redding and Percy Sledge.
https://youtu.be/7lp7FtJXp7k
Nights in White Satin.....the Moody Blues
Nice one Moz! My wedding (first dance) song.
Its impossible to choose, so I'll skip out on trying. But here is one for all of you. Which two bands or artists would you most want to see live? Living or dead.
Me Freddy Mercury, Pavarotti.