It's a beautiful warm summer day here and while reading this morning I put on Sandy Denny's Like An Old Fashioned Waltz. When the title track came on I couldn't help but put the book down and listen to the lyrics and music. When she sings "violins play from behind garden walls" and the strings come in it sends chills down my spine. What a beautifully written, sung and played song. Give me some of your most beautiful songs ever written.
Rick
This is a favorite of mine.Hope you dig it as much as i do.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
If I'm not careful this one can tear my heart out and leave me crying.
Great call on the Laura Nyro song, man, she was amazing.
A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell
All women, until now. This is my personal totem.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Wow! I saw this on my way to posting "He's A Runner" by the original Italian goddess.Originally Posted by walt
Seeing her live is every bit as important to me historically as seeing Hendrix, Morrison or Joplin.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
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"The Same Situation" would get my vote.
Have trouble posting videos on my phone, but:
Kate Bush --And Dream of Sheep
If That's The Way You Feel by Nazz & Easter by Marillion
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
1979 by Pain of Salvation
A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
I love the way this fits together from parts that seem totally at odds with each other. It's not a tune you'd ever pick out on a piano, yet I find myself humming it all the time.
I was going to say Roberta Flack's "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".
Great call on the Judee Sill, Kerry! I love this version from The Old Grey Whistle Test... just piano and vocal.
This one is a universe unto itself.
I absolutely love this album and think it's one of the most under-listened to and under-appreciated albums in rock music history.
Anyone who listens to this thinking of "Good Lovin" is in for quite a surprise. Buzzy Feiten, David "Fathead" Newman, Ron Carter, Pepper Adams, Joe Farrell & Alice Coltrane are among the people who play on it.
In my top 50 albums of all time.
If we're talking strictly about popular/rock music I'll also give a shout out to both "You've Lost That Lovin Feelin" and "Soul & Inspiration" by the Righteous Bros.
Also Rachmaninoff's 18th Variation on a Theme by Paganini that was usurped and turned into "A Story of Three Loves" for the movie soundtrack of the same name still gives me chills whenever I hear it.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Restricting to rock, and to the songs that I still hear with my breath held
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Joni Mitchell's original rendition is wonderful, but, for me, Tom Rush's cover is sublime.YMMV.
For instrumental tunes outside of "rock".This still blows me away.Every time.
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"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Big fan of Judee Sill and Laura Nyro, as they were already mentioned.
Bob Dylan : One too many morning
Lou Reed : Perfect day
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Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
For me it's Pearls Before Swine's "Riegal."
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Blue Nile--Family Life.
The older I get, the better I was.
I just saw these guys a few nights ago, i'm still on a huge high and i think this one qualifies
"Was A Friend" by Hughscore (as a bonus here's the whole album)
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