What five pieces of music do you love the most? And why?

1. Mass in B minor - Bach (as close to perfection as a piece of music can get).
2. America the Beautiful - Ray Charles (the best patriotic song ever sang)
3. Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie (a darn good story and a family Thanksgiving tradition)
4. El Rey - Vicente Fernandez (the song I want played at my funeral)
5. Foreplay/Long time - Boston (driving rock with sentimental value)

Cool......thankee.

Have you listened to the submissions to Robert's "An a2k experiment: What is our favorite song?" thread?

I'm sorry, I'm put off by the five stuff and the demands for the whys. You're kidding, right?

A bit.

But that is songs.....I am hoping that people will post different stuff.

are we doing your homework???

So, be put off.

Don't post already.

I don't really give much of a damn about the five...as I said above already, dammit...but I hoped it would get people to concentrate a bit.

The why? Hell yes. If people post a heap of stuff I don't know, which I kind of hope they do, but what will be will be, it helps me, given wildly differing tastes, to have SOME idea of whether I might enjoy it too.

Also, I want to know why, as it happens. I find it interesting.

I have no idea why you choose to be put off, but if you are, as I said, don't bother with the thread.

I was just teasing, miss bunny.

I am trying to narrow to five, as I don't much do favorites, and some of it is rather dark and heavy...

Eh! ok.

OK...can't do 5. (that's like what are my five favorite foods)

five weekly favorites, mebbe...

how bout onesy twosey as I think about it.

lately I have leaned towards things like this Beethoven piece for bedtime after bartime.

winding down tune kinda thing. (no lyrics to think about)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_DO993TWa8&feature=related

their chopin is pretty good, too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF9fUdoYNNU&feature=related

The spinach overture???????

oops.

(i'll report that clicker error to microsoft, you needent bother)

here is what i thought i played.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwED9wBa0TA&feature=related

Glad I checked.


Didn't want to be overly sniffy!

always clean your clicker...

The Beethoven's hilarious!!!!

Trying to imagine what the piano score looks like!!!

If you notrice, Roberts thread had quickly become a random compilation of all different kinds of things that were already gone over (except without the youtube product) several times.

I, like Rock head) cant come up with a 5 favorites. My taste in music is more like , I can give you the five peices I listened to TODAY, but that is subject to extreme change motivation on another given day.

Today I listened to (Not sure of all the titles since Im in another room)

Ray Charles "Fathead Album"
Quincy Jones "covers "
The Chieftans "Boil the breakfast slowly"
Gorecki "Symphony 3"
E street band (In honor of SPringsteen in town this weekend)
PAul SImons musical "The Umbrella man murders


Tomorrow may be all blugrass or all Bach, I never have a plan or a favorite. Too much good music. I could probably do a leat favorite music in several catagories.
eg I love good classic country music. I HATE all this sound alike crap being pooped out by these "Big HAt" country singers.
I love the words of Brad Paisley songs but his music SOUNDS ALL THE SAME, ever notice how all his notes and timings are of only 3 unique forms?

Gimme Willey or Johny Cash or Allison Kraus, and Ill listen. Give me Bach, but not Satie. I find Wagnerian operas UNLISTENABLE.

PAssions are best expressed when we DONT enjoy something.

Its like painting, I can muse all day in a good collection of art ( as eclectic as you can make it) BUT , I can be brought to nausea by Pre RAphealites, many of the Acadmie painters of 19th century France , and works of the FAuve.

Sorry but I hadda explain my train of thought why I dont have a "favorite 5" unless you limit it for "This week" or "Today".That way, next week, I could let you know what got my fancy at that later time. SOrt of like your "WHAT BOOK HAVE YOU JUST READ?"

PS , dont panic osso, try to think of what you really liked this week. We are far too easily distracted to be stuck with a favorite few pieces of music.

I just thought of one. WHenever we would leave on an extended sea trip (on our boat, not a cruise), We would stick in Chet ATkins "Sails". Its a CD that best opens up the experience of leaving dock and getting underway.

NEVER PLAY CArmina Burana when a storm is a brewing

I seem not to be different from others, but get a special shut up and go away slam. Nice. Not sure why my post was all that much of a trigger, dlowan. Could you clarify?