"Wichita Lineman" is a great one.
"California Dreamin'"
"Monday, Monday"
"You've Got a Friend"
"Blue Bayou"
"These Days"
....come to mind
Mark Knopfler & James Taylor
You know that feeling you get when certain songs play. Songs like Wichita Lineman, White Bird, Nights in White Satin, etc.
There’s another one that’s about the Mason Dixon line of all things. It ‘gets’ me every time.
Mark Knopfler & James Taylor Sailing to Philadelphia
Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLdKYRBOEE
What songs ‘Get’ you every time?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvoPcHzoArw...among too many more....
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I get frisson from many songs, Mark Knopfler being good at it. Besides everyone’s choice of "Brothers in Arms", also "The Man’s Too Strong", "Romeo and Juliet", etc. I recommend looking outside the mainstream for songs that touch the heart (Explosions in the Sky, Gomez, Spent Poets, Crack the Sky, etc.) |
Knopfer is brilliant, having written this after reading Pynchon, which for a Brit (or anybody) is, more than impressive. Taylor, on the other hand . . . let's just say that of all the great artists who gave poor Jimmy a break, Knopfler came closer than Carole King, Joni Mitchell, or Elvis Costello ever did to getting his money's worth. Taylor sings an almost plausible Mason in his first verse, despite pronouncing "society" more in the Philly way than the Bristol way, then falls apart. The only thing Taylor ever touched that I would touch myself. If not for the great Knopfler. |
Love many of the above mentioned and have seen Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler solo several times as I have Eagles when they’ve toured here and Fleetwood Mac. I have the box set of Sade’s albums but as yet have not see her live. A few less commonly quoted these days Roberta Flack, Killing me softly. Don McLean, Vincent. Gerry Raffety, Baker Street. American Tune actually more when Art Garfunkel singing it solo. One outside of those more commonly quoted that I also enjoy is All about Eve with the track Martha’s Harbour. Especially if you are fortunate to find a good vinyl pressing. |
Love both JT and MK. My 2 cents.... Gordon Lightfoot - Did she mention my name; Canadian Railroad Trilogy; In the early morning rain; Beautiful; Richard Harris - MacArthur Park - my wife hates this, but I LOVE the arrangement Beethoven - 6th Symphony Holst - The Planets JS Bach - Brandeberg Concerto 3 Handel - Water Music America - Ventura Highway Herb Alpert - Route 101 - got a speeding ticket listening to this Sonny Clark/Grant Green - On Green Dolphin Street - actually pretty much any version of this; Bill evans does a nice one; also Miles Doors - LA Woman; Riders on the Storm Led Zepp - Stairway to Heaven; Black Dog; Whole Lotta Love Bill Evans - Early - he didn't write much, but what he did write was very good IMHO Sinatra - Nice and Easy; September Song; Fly me to the moon; Wave Jobim - Look to the Sky; Girl from Ipanema Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner live at Woodstock; Purple Haze; Voodoo Child (slight Return) - SRV does a great version of Voodoo Child also Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee Pat Metheny - Phase Dance Joni Mitchell - Help Me; Court and Spark; Coyote; In France they kiss on Main Street Michael Jackson - Thriller; PYT Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman Willie Nelson - Stardust Poco - Legend - actually the entire album Linda Ronstadt - What's New Steely Dan - Aja, Gaucho - pretty much anything on either album Stones - Satisfaction; Can't you hear me knockin' Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Van Morrison - Moondance; Autumn Song Airplane - Volunteers SRV - Couldn't stand the weather Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues Amy Winehouse - Back to Black; Rehab
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+1 for American Tune. I particularly like the Willie Nelson/Paul Simon duet on Willie's "Across the Borderline", a great album which also includes a duet with Dylan on Heartland. But if you want something that "gets you" every time, there's nothing like the Playing for Change video series that can be found on YouTube. If you haven't seen them, each video blends clips of local musicians from around the world, many of them who are street musicians, playing a song often featuring a well known artist. Here are some of my favorites (but they're all terrific): Gimme Shelter (Taj Mahal) Teach Your Children (Tula Ben Ari - female singer from Israel with a great voice and vocal style) Ripple (Bill Kreutzmann, David Crosby, Jimmy Buffet, David Hidalgo) The Weight (Ringo Starr & Robbie Robertson) Listen to the Music (Tom Johnston) - Outstanding!! Guantanamera Stand by Me Higher Ground Get Up, Stand Up (Keith Richards & Keb Mo)
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Jacques Brel and Rod McKuen wrote "Seasons in the Sun" and Terry Jacks performed a shortened version of that song. The original is a bit creepy because the dead narrator, in the last verse, tells his wife he knows she had been cheating on him and that he intends to haunt her in death. I like another cover of the song by a British group called Black Box Recorder. |
I'll play! In no particular order... Santana - Oy Como Va Vivaldi - Spring (Four Seasons) Strauss - Blue Danube Waltz Steely Dan - Time Out of Mind Doors - L.A. Woman James Taylor - Mexico Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches Dave Brubeck - Take Five David Sancious and Tone - Move On Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to the Streets Breaking Benjamin - Blow Me Away
Happy listening.
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@curiousjim ....*S* I enjoy it, imh it’s the best studio version although it could be improved upon...love her voice in it. ;) @slaw ...👍😎 ....That album got me through some times....good, bad, ugly, ...and those moments of sheer beauty....usually left me with This to try to put the pieces together into me |
and a taste from a spectacular LP.... |
What about "Hairway to Steven" by Butthole Surfers? A note about Procul Harum: I saw a strange concert in the early 70s with Humble Pie opening for Harum. Humble Pie were awful (dumb songs they couldn’t get off the ground) but man...Gary Brooker was, for me anyway, certainly one of the greatest live singers I’ve ever heard. Before or since. Miss that guy. Also, listing your favorite songs always is sort of strange as somebody, like me, thinks that a few listed here are simply unlistenable...but hey...there’s enough music around to keep me happy forever, and I'm stuck in a decades long Beatnik period listening to mostly jazz...new stuff amazes me every day. |
Pretty much anything by Fleetwood Mac from the Rumours Album forward, but even the old Bare Trees album was good. Knopfler rocks...maybe my favorite artist ever. Almost anything he has done resonates with me. Emmy Lou Harris, has done a bucket load of great songs, some of the best with Mark Knopfler. There were a number of keepers on the old Trio album, with Linda Ronstadt, Emmy Lou and Dolly Parton. A fine collection on one piece of vinyl. Linda Ronstadt has done a bucket load of songs I like very much. Her album Winter Light was a great test album with some marvelous really deep bass and close miked vocals with so much shimmer and air, its just amazing. Its wwell recorded, clean and clear and an outstanding test for low bass and upper treble. I could go on and on but the mods might ding me for being verbose :) |
toddsyr, I like it when I discover that a song as additional verses that performers choose not to perform. Some songs, like "Anything Goes" has a lot of verses that are no longer sung because they involve scandals that were well known at the time the song was written but have now been lost in time so no longer of interest to current listeners. There is an additional part to "White Christmas" that even has a different melody than the rest of the song that explains why the singer is "dreaming of a white Christmas" that is hardly ever performed because it seems a little out of place in the mood of the song. That additional part goes: The Sun is shining, the grass is green, The orange and palm trees sway, There has never been such a day, in Beverly Hill, L.A. But its December the 24th, And I'm longing to be back North. . . I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. . .
The extra verses to "seasons in the Sun" turn it into a ghostly stalker song: Goodbye, Francoise, my faithful wife
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The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings The Tragically Hip - 38 years old Yup, I'm a hip fan. Just finished the 4 part series of the bands beginnings to the final concert before the death of the lead singer Gord Downie from brain cancer. They are a rock band but also put out some of the most beautiful songs with meaning. No band has ever cought the hearts and imagination of Canadians more the the Hip and their charismatic poet singer. As we say " in GORD we trust " ... RIP |
