A Message from the Country: return with us now, to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember "The Move."  Going way back.  Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev "The Basher" Bevan.  I can't name a one of their songs anymore, but I did enjoy their music.

Great topic but an impossible question for me to answer. At 72 and counting, each memory is precious and since music evokes and recalls feelings, emotions and specific periods in one's life there is simply no way (for this old bloke) to name just two. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wonderful variety posted this far though and will surely send me scurrying back to re-explore some of them!

5 minutes ago, speedyTC said:

Great topic but an impossible question for me to answer. At 72 and counting, each memory is precious and since music evokes and recalls feelings, emotions and specific periods in one's life there is simply no way (for this old bloke) to name just two. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wonderful variety posted this far though and will surely send me scurrying back to re-explore some of them!

At 70, I agree.  I personally, have reserved the right to change my two favorite albums every 24 hrs.  Great thread!

Moving from popular to "classical", my favorite opera is Das Rheingold (Richard Wagner). 

The close of the opera George, Szell conducting. (Donner the Herr rings down his hammer to summon the wind and clear away the fog revealing the greatest sight their world has yet seen: Valhalla.

 

The beginning of the opera, Georg Solti conducting. The Rhein maidens will treasure their river gold, but an invader approaches with bad intentions. Video by Fritz Lang, a great filmmaker of the silent era. Later in the Ring cycle, young Siegfrieid with new made sword ventures out from isolation into the wider world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening (Georg Solti), the 

9 hours ago, Fielder said:

 

Isn't anybody going to mention his 1968 debut album The Transformed Man. Featuring this lead track?

 

I’ll see your ShatMan and raise you a Lurch:

 

 

" Mizzy Bickle, Pres. ".... LOL!!!

Some other favorites:

 

 

 

14 hours ago, SayAgain said:

more recent (great to code to and wake up)

 

I could see how Armin would activate your neurological coding pathways. 😄

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Im just wondering how many contributers are watching and listening to the videos of others, or just biased toward their own subjective musical choices? I think we should watch and listen, for we may find something new that we love, to shove into that part of the brain that benefits from music, our musical data banks.  

And I find myself wondering what it is about certain melodies and rhyming couplets that profoundly stimulates the brain the way it does? And not just our species, many animals seem to respond, too.

Any ideas, Avsim experts?

 

 

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Something might indicate I'm a Sting fan. 😏

From The Dream of The Blue Turtles.

"Sting's song "Children's Crusade" is about the tragic waste of a generation, contrasting the 13th-century medieval Children's Crusade with the deaths of young English soldiers in World War I and the modern-day tragedy of heroin addiction. The song links these events as examples of a hopeful but naive "children's crusade" that is ultimately crushed by the cruel realities of the adult world. "

 

 

Here's one for Dave. 😁

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, my next two.  Different genre than the previous Jazz fusion and Prog Rock.

I played these two so much I had to replace them with new ones.

 

 

Supertramp! How could I forget.

 

 

 

7 hours ago, martin-w said:

Here's one for Dave. 😁

You trying to get this thread locked?

There is a science to rhythm and harmony and why chords exist.

It is interesting what some people like to listen to, most all of those listed so far I’ve heard at some point in my life.  Some I like some I don’t.  

I used to stereotype heavy metal listeners as people full of hate, but after actually acquiring friends that are head bangers, my stereotyping was just that.  Sure some friends are full of hate but others not at all, however both find a common ground in heavy metal. I started to like some  Slipknot … probably the rapidity of the beat.  The exposure was good … some rap, some country.