Music is such a big part of our lives. What would life be like without it?

Here’s my absolute favourite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

What’s yours?

How does music help you unwind, relax, de-stress, or perhaps wind up and party??

What does it do for you?

yes Ludwig.The world is a beautiful place.We just have to take back our freedoms.

reluctant to add more to my on line prophile
[but....;'where is the love?']

Music. Now there's a lifetime of a topic, Ludwig.

>>What does it do for you?<<

I "use" music for many different reasons.

To me it is one of the most miraculous aspects of being a person (as opposed, say, to being a wombat) that can be imagined. It has a more profound and visceral impact on me than any other art form that human beings have invented. More than painting, more than sculpture, more than theatre, more than movies, more even than the written word. And I have often wondered how it manages to do this. It seems to travel directly to a part of the brain that is uniquely able to process it, and turn it into happy, sad, painful, reflective - sometimes all at once.

It is also intensely personal, so I am not about to share my tastes here. Except to say that I find it extremely easy to turn off country-and-western songs. Especially (shudder) Australian ones.

Dear Ludwig,

A nice topic in the midst of a rather depressing menu.

For relaxing Leonard Cohen would have to be one of my favorites but as for a particular song I would nominate one written by him but sung by the now departed Jeff Buckley. This is a live performance with grainy video and slightly scratchy sound, but sublime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFMhBM3Smo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

As to a song that gets me going I would have to nominate a current favourite Dog Days by Florence and the Machine. When my daughter and I do the dishes my wife goes for a walk and we turn it right up and sing along at the top of our voices. Florence is normally such and English Rose but in this clip there is a lot of Janice Joplin being channeled. A song about domestic violence introduced by a harp. Powerful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RswILD-MDYg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

*To me it is one of the most miraculous aspects of being a person (as opposed, say, to being a wombat)*

Err what about music loving wombats?

Too right Yabby. I hear they are great fans of 'Dirt Music'.

Pericles,

Spot on!

Music goes straight to a subliminal depth inside us that recognises the grammar of harmony. We get the same impressions from the physical patterns around us, although we're usually not aware of it. Music though, seems to go straight to our emotive centre.

<< Music though, seems to go straight to our emotive centre. >>

Certainly does Poirot, but not always in a good way.

Having other peoples’ music imposed upon you isn’t good, like right now as I sit in a café on the mid north coast of New South Wales! The music’s totally crappy and unbefitting of the atmosphere of the place. Even at a low volume it is damn annoying!

I like to think music and song provide a means of expressing one's desires and expectations. I like variety but this will be my favorite for the next week or so;

Bye, Bye Missy Anna the Blight
Drove your Kevvie to the Levy just to wave him goodnight
With good old voters drinkin’ Champers and dry
Singin’ this could be the day for goodbye
This could be the day for goodbye.

Hello there Ludwig...

Regrettably, I don't possess either the vocabulary or the ability to convey in words the intense pleasure that beautiful music has on me personally.

As a retired copper, I've witnessed the equable effect that soft music can have on some violent offenders.

It's often said '...good music soothes the savage beast...' or something along those lines. Perhaps I've even pinched those lines from another source, I dunno ? But it certainly has a decidedly calming effect on most people.

Yabby, mate, they're all tone deaf.

>>Err what about music loving wombats?<<

I thought everybody knew that.

You must be thinking of the Wombles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2mJPSccvo

Simple mistake.

Dear Ludwig,

I think Victor Hugo summed things up rather well
when he said:

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into
words and that which cannot remain silent."

My choice in music takes many forms - from
symphonies, operas, and ballets, to folk music,
jazz and rock. It depends on my mood - what I'm
doing, and where I am. But when all's said
and done - it does have the power to move me -
as the words taken from "The Phantom of the Opera,"
express so beautifully:

"Softly, deftly, music shall caress you
Hear it, feel it secretly possess you
Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind
In this darkness that you know you cannot fight
The darkness of the music of the night...

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar
And you'll live as you've never lived before..."

Those wombles just made my day Pericles.

Can music out-rate smells?

I smelt music once.

I raise you one Sigmund the sea monster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i5CFNEV7Zo&feature=related

I doubt it Pericles. But then I was thinking how fortunate that
you are for other reasons. In some bird species, the females only
have sex with the males which can sing really well. So if human
females became that fussy musically, many a bloke would miss out :)

My three dogs actually do a lovely little howling chorus together,
quite musical really. I must try and record it one day.

Words are insufficient to convey the range and depth of emotional engagement the 'right' music in the 'right' circumstances invokes but describing it as a clear sense of the numinous comes close... my chagrin in having a complete absence of any skill in making music is, though, compensated by the fact I'm not deaf.

In that childhood thought game of 'which sense would you retain at the expense of losing the rest?'­ - the answer has to be hearing. Not for the sake of speech but for the sake of music.

But I can still think that sound-to-color synesthetes are being greedy!

Can music out-rate smells?

It sure can especially when it:

"Smells Like Teen Spirit."

It can even top the charts and be a critical
and commercial success!

Dear Pericles,

Mistaken? I think not.

I have it on good authority from a mate in the underground that a certain Australian Jazz figure is huge in the wombat scene, in fact "Burrows at the Winery" held over twenty five years ago (and now available through the JBHiFi) was their Woodstock.
http://mobile.jbhifi.com.au/cd-dvd-music/catalogue/-don-burrows-at-the-winery-barcode-9399083637328/

Apparently many of the humans who attended heard strains of ’Oi sung wu to da moon’ emanating from deep below (sorry mate, funny handle to bring to a thread on music).

For the wombat kids a favourite is 'My Ma’s Soup’ll make you fart’

Thanks csteele for telling us your favourites.

I don’t mind old Leonard Cohen. But I particularly like K D Lang’s version of his Hallelujah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XyKZcvLqmk&feature=related

As for your other favourite. Yeah… I’ll um… have to work on it. But then that is the intensely personal nature of music, as Pericles asserts.

Hi Ludwig, music becomes fundamental, (a staple of the diet) to those who make music as much as it does for those whom listen and enjoy music.

Music phrases offer the colour of emotions without lyric, good music is capable of transporting the listener emotionally, even too other times and places.

The Peer Gynt Suite (Peter and the Wolf) of classical music fame is the most obvious example I can think of this at the moment. The point I make is that music notation timing phrasing etc transcends mere language and takes a universal form.

Music is capable of communicating something personal too all of us individually and too all of us simultaneously. A universal language that we all understand.

I guess you can tell by now that music means a lot to me Ludwig, thanks for your post.

Here’s another favourite, especially for me ol’ mate Hasbeen:

http://youtu.be/Dmq7gA1S9KI

For me it is not whether music is good or bad, but the context.

Peer Gynt for me is school days, high school musicals, & great memories, as much as music.

I can not hear Hawaiian guitar music without being transported to tropical islands in a turquoise ocean, & thoughts of the people I shared them with.

Harry Belafonte takes me back to beach bar-b-ques, at Easter & Christmas in Broken Bay with great friends.

Other music takes me back to love affairs, long ago, can raise the hairs on the back of my neck & bring on melancholy, that I will never see those times or people, again. It can bring on thoughts of what might have been, best left alone.

Often it makes me wish my neighbours could not afford such a powerful stereo system.

Yes, what is it about music that so many of us have got on-line at the mere title of this thread: "Music" ?

Pericles has got it right (and not just about wombats) that music - for many of us - can mean more than art, or drama, or even a good book. Even just today, I've got off on Mozart's 39th, a bit of Dvorak, and a Brahms piano recital just finished on the wireless and a bit of Wagner has just started. I'm not all that partial to Wagner, of course, the music of fascism, but you have to take the rough with the smooth.

I'm in a couple of Sing Australia choirs (check them out on http://www.singaustralia.com.au/ for one near you) and last night we belted out "Love Me With All Your Heart" and "Men of Harlech" and "We're Walking In The Air" and a couple of dozen other songs of all sorts. Exhausting but just fantastic: music, either listening to it or doing it, really does kick up the dopamine level.

Isn't it amazing that most of us can recognise thousands of tunes, even remember the words of songs we haven't heard for decades ? Where would we be without our music ? Yeah, some music is almost as good as sex.

Well, someone had to say it :)

Fighting words Ludwig.

Drop in some time, & I'll take you on at a lap of Bathurst, the Coral Sea, or the bedroom, any time. I'll provide the cars, you provide the Ladies.

Pfpfpfpfpfpfffff to sex. Music is much better!!

Could be you're right, Ludwig. I'm just listening to Mahler's 9th on ABC-FM which is probably the most beautiful and the saddest music ever written - we can argue about that. I first heard it at about the same time as I met my wife, back in the mid-sixties, and now that she is gone, it makes an incredibly deep impression on me, almost traumatic.

I play this little game - imagine you are in solitary confinement, and maybe for ten years (or having to endure a scenic tour of Melbourne): think of all the composers whose names start with A, B, etc. Then think, one by one, of all of the pieces of music by, say, Albinoni, Alcan, etc. Take your time. Ten years - or two hours in Melbourne - would go by in no time.

Back to Mahler :)

*I've got off on Mozart's 39th, a bit of Dvorak, and a Brahms piano recital*

Pffffft to Mozart, Brahms etc.I'll leave them for the old fuddy duddies :)

Music needs rythm and harmonies. Eva Cassidy and KD Lang are great,
but it depends on the moment and the company.

Just yesterday I was out in the paddocks with the buggy, sun shining,
birds tweeting, not hot, not cold, just perfect.

Fleetwood Mac were playing on the Ipod, then along came Michael
Buble and his Christmas album. Sheesh, it felt like Christmas!

Music has played a huge part in my life, and Fleetwood Mac was right up there in the 70's when I first left home and was able to play my music at the ear-splitting volume I loved....

My upbringing included a 'trendy' dad who had a quadraphonic stereo in his car, and used to play The Doors and Pink Floyd at top volume.
My Mum is a very conservative lady who loved classical music and taught us to sing and play the piano.
I loved the sad, romantic Chopin she used to play.

I named my daughter Rhiannon, after the Fleetwood Mac song.
I didn't know until later that the word 'Rhiannon' was Welsh for White Witch!

<< Pffffft to Mozart, Brahms etc.I'll leave them for the old fuddy duddies :) Music needs rythm and harmonies >>

I’m with you there, Yabs.

Now THIS has got rhythm. One of my age-old faves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqMKf7r7Xg

Dear Ludwig,

It is interesting comparing reading with music and smells.

Music and to a lesser extent smells serve as bookmark or diary entries. Their power lies in their attachment to the experiential aspects of our lives. 

I like Midnight Oil’s music but the song ’Beds are Burning’ immediately evokes an early 80's road trip with a bunch of mates through the South Australian desert. All the cares in the world left behind, windows down, subwoofer (rare in those days) hammering hard, and voices (very croaky from the previous night’s partying) out of tune but loud.

Time and place are instrumental :) in defining the power of a particular piece of music to individuals, just look at some of the earlier posts. 

In years to come when my kids have moved on ’Dog Days’ will always bring back memories of dishes with my daughter.

It talks to a primitive part of us, our ancestors used it to drive away things that might have eaten them or evil spirits that plagued them. If you ever needed an answer as to why teenagers love volume it is right there. If you can't yet legally use other substances to keep the world at bay loud music does a pretty fair job.

But is it as transformative as reading? I would venture no it isn't. I don't think it has the power to completely rejig lives, perspectives, outlooks etc the way literature can.

Ideas gathered through reading can be mulled over, incorporated, built upon, discussed and serve as portals through which to pass and find other streams of thought. One doesn't need to work in front of them to continue the process. To me music doesn't have that power though I could be convinced otherwise.

These two songs from the late great Johnny Cash, the last he recorded I think, kind of go to the notion of time and place in a different way. Bit of a warning on the second, very evocative but don't start your day with it. Not too heavy on the C&W so relatively Pericles friendly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho&feature=youtube_gdata_player 

oh lord...i once loved music
made lists of sungs

but the list
was a trap!

so thieves could steal...my researches

http://www.playlist.com/user/6206203/playlists

i spent weeks finding songs on it
then a usa trade treaty stole it all away

Yup Ludwig, thats a great driving song, makes me want to drive faster..

I love good blues. About 15 years ago I spent a week in New Orleans.
In every bar they'd have a band playing, just amazing talent there!

I also like some of the old classics, like Led Zep's Stairway to
Heaven. Or some of the old Crosby, Still, Nash and Young stuff.

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"

So true :)

Ah Yabby, I think we have quite similar tastes.

I don’t mind the old Led Zzzz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEK-4ZkEPQY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WzG64syKHA&feature=related

or Neil Young:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi2XCsPKlY8&feature=fvsr

or a bit of real deep south blues:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYrVwGxlcFA

Here's one for all you Scots out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGDFZfgNYlo

That should get the blood moving.

All great stuff, Ludwig!

In the last few years my music passion is fooling around with sounds,
so I bought a Korg Oasys. Only about 3000 were ever made, now they
have an el cheapo version called the Kronos.

Quite amazing what sound sampling can do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0U9oymlEpc

Warning, the Korg Oasys is highly addictive, once you figure out
what they can actually do and the sorts of sounds that they can create.

If you like Pink Floyd Ludwig, this is a guy with an Oasys doing
his Pink Floyd. Just amazing, the sound quality and right up my
alley.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWJz2s28Q5s&feature=related

But alot of the people who have them, use them for film music,
writing jingles for Tv or as part of the band, like Genesis.

That’s phenomenal Yabby. I want one!!

I watched all three Jordan Rudess segments and the Pink Floyd one. Yeah I reckon I could easily become addicted to that.

So how into it are you? Do you sing as well? Have you recorded anything? Put up any youtubes?

How much is an instrument like this? Or the cheaper Kronos?

I feel like an outsider here among this clique of old friends, but I like your taste in music Ludwig and have to confess a love of Hollywood musicals myself, or anything by Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra, or even Fred Astaire. That's my idea of escapism and I love the old cornball classics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

Even us die-hard Marxists need some romance.

Oh I am very addicted, Ludwig. Nope I can't sing, I'd crack the
windows :) The Oasys has its own cd player recorder, as well as
the hard disk where you can store recorded stuff. It comes with
a huge amount of sounds, anything you can imagine. Plus you can
sample. Like all your birds tweeting, then play them on the keyboard
and mix them in with a guitar sound or any other sound.

The original 76 key Oasys cost around 9k at the time. Korg decided
to build something to a quality standard, using only the best materials etc.
But most musicians are broke, they all want one but
few could afford one, so Korg lost money on them and they did not
sell many. They are still around second hand but rare as hens
teeth. The Kronos costs half that. Same software, combis, programmes
etc, but its built to a price. AFAIK they are selling heaps.

But if you love being creative with music and want to use every
sound on earth, they are the way to go. See it this way. If you
were paying for an illegitimate child, it would cost you more
in 12 months

I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain, what a glorious feeling I’m happy again…

Oh sorry. Can’t get that out of my head now.

Thanks Squeers. What an old classic that is.

Yep I’m right into all that old stuff. Love Fred, Frankie and Deano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQR0bXO_yI8&feature=related

I’m going to have to really explore that Yabby, when I get home. I’ve been drifting around like a hobo for three months now all over southeastern Australia. Back to the sedentary life soon.

Here’s another pretty impressive instrument: http://youtu.be/hQ8j6E3Ul5s

I think this is a great song with a bonus great vocal performance, if I may make a contribution to favourite songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo&ob=av2e

cheers T2

One more that is a classic of it's time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toHlMD50eYY&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXfDS6NiiiDk5tOdxqzs9l1g

cheers again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=_U36vZJFIuY

Ludwig, this is a utube clip of Steven Kay playing, who developed
the Karma section of the Oasys. It shows the potential of that
section, which involves those buttons on the left. He is a very
smart man.

The thing is, from violins to flutes to any other sounds, you can
do this stuff yourself and be creative with sound, without having
5 people there to all agree to play or argue with one another.

So its really all about being creative with sound and where technology
has taken us.

The very early music work stations were actually an Australian
development in the 70s, called the Fairlight Musical Computer.
They were close to 50 grand in those days and Stevie Wonder amongst
others bought one. They were the first to get serious about sound
sampling etc and bring it all together, but were miles behind what
is available today and today its all a fraction of the cost

Talking about classics.

I looked up a few lyrics of some golden oldies -
that just may stir some memories:

Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When you put your arms around me
I give you fever that's so hard to bare...

And -

Aruba, Jamaica, OOO I wanna take ya
Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go
Down to Kokomo ...

That one's for Hasbeen.

Lexi, you're too young to remember this, but thanks to YouTube you can share the experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5vaIsaxB8

When I was somewhat younger and even more stupid, I used to enjoy adopting a French accent and singing along to Ken Dodd's 1964 hit 'Happiness'

Which ends…

"A wise old man told me one time
Happiness is a frame of mind
When you go to measuring a man's success
Don't count money count happiness

Happiness, happiness.
The greatest gift that I possess.
I thank the Lord but I've been blessed.
With more than my share of happiness (rpt)

I've got more than my share of of happiness."

Dear thinker2,

Not meaning to go highbrow but your offering of a long-haired brunette in Bonnie had me immediately thinking of one of the sexiest Carmens I have ever seen.

Elina Garanca is not a natural brunette but she manages it superbly.

Oh boy oh boy! Whew!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-ZfCWM3qo

If you can get a your hands on a copy of the whole performance at the Met it is a ripper.

Here she is singing the Gypsy Song outside the production, the sound is a little better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgexPGh6omM&feature=related

What a beauty, what a voice.

Bonny Raitt. Good one Thinker 2.
.

Lexi, that takes me back to the purest female voice ever; Eva Cassidy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-eyS1uluuY

The Beach Boys are pretty damn good too. I reckon you’re onto their best song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5_AD9wXuY
.

The most interesting thing I found about that youtube Yabby was that you can basically create complex music on the Korg without even needing to touch the keyboard! The guy was hardly playing the thing at all and when he was, it was only a small complementary part of the output.

If I get one, I’ll be wanting to keep it pretty simple (in line with my simple brain and complete lack of musical experience), and work on composing stuff to complement my superb singing voice!! ( :> )

Dear Ludwig,

Eva Cassidy - amazing talent.
"Fields of Gold" is a favourite.

Sting - sings it beautifully as well.

Ludwig, Kay knows exactly how to programme his Karma section, given
that he invented it. So I guess he was trying to show its potential.

When I started 5 years ago, I could not play the keyboard. Out
of pure curiosity I went to a music store to listen to the Oasys in
action. I was so blown away with the sound, that I went to the
bank to draw up a bank cheque and went home with the Oasys, a stand
and a pair of monitor speakers to suit. Pure passion!

5 years later, I continue to play nearly every day and the passion
only grows, as I learn more and get better at it. Alot of it is
just playing split combis, where half the keyboard is say a sax,
the other half a combination of instruments and the harmony.

I'll probably be learning more until I fall off the old perch one
day, but its such an amazing sound every time I play and that
passion and buzz is what its all about, really.

But be warned, the operating manual is 200 pages and the parameter
guide is 1000 pages, so it will keep you busy for years.

Lexi,

'Fields of Gold' sung by Sting - heard it today in a shop ! Magic !

Nobody's mentioned Renee Fleming, with her exquisite, sexy voice. I hope my kids will play her CD while I'm dying, that's the way to go.

So much wonderful music and so many great performers ! Artie Shaw, Paul Robeson, Peter Dawson, Kathleen Ferrier, Marian Anderson, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Richard Tauber, so many people who have contributed so much to human happiness. They define us but also enrich us and our appreciation for the beauty of the world.

I wonder why that creativity stopped in about 1985 ?

Sting sings beautifully??!!?? ( ;>#

Hold on…. I’ll just go outside and throw up!

Oh alright…. I guess he doesn’t do too badly in Fields of Gold!

Paul Robeson. Now THERE’s a voice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXScZ4TiSFM&feature=related

Dear Ludwig,

So many beautiful voices, so many emotive lyrics.
Nobody sings "Old Man River," like Paul Robeson.
Even Mario Lanza's, "Granada," brings a lump to
my throat. Then there's Ivan Rebroff's version of
"Moscow Nights," that makes my toes curl under.
I attended his concert at the Melbourne
Concert Hall a few years ago. Sadly, he wasn't
the "great" voice I remembered. But his personality
still drew the crowds in. I wonder whether -
The Animals could still perform their version of -
"The House of the Rising Sun," and whether it
would still have the same effect on me.

Ah, music ... "Put another nickel in the old nickelodian..."

Dear Loudmouth,

Big hug!

There are two songs that I keep playing over and over and that bring tears to my eyes every time. And yet they are so enorously different.

The first one is exquisite. I put up the link in my opening post. Here it is again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

The second one never really gained much attention, which is surprising, as the artist is huge – Paul Simon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7PVhuighFo&feature=fvwrel

Such powerful mental images in such a gentle song.

Dear Ludwig,

I love "Over The Rainbow." I also love Simon and
Garfunkel, especially - "The Sound of Silence."

I remember going to see the musical "Smokey Joe's Cafe,"
a few years back - and found it very entertaining. So
many hit tunes - from "Poison Ivy," to "Don Juan."
Great stuff.

Here's the lyrics to "Don Juan,":

http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/s/smokeyjoescafelyrics/donjuanlyrics.html

Whooosh!

Unless I am much mistaken, WmTrevor, that's the sound of this little gem of yours going over everyone's head.

>>When I was somewhat younger and even more stupid, I used to enjoy adopting a French accent and singing along to Ken Dodd's 1964 hit 'Happiness' Which ends… "I've got more than my share of of happiness."<<

Newsflash. I still do.

Nigel Kennedy plays Hendrix:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7r7ib_nigel-kennedy-play-jimi-hendrix_music

Ummmmmm…yeahh…interesting.

It is certainly better than that godawful original Hendrix….er…noise.

But still pretty horrible !! !!

Now here's a topic I could engage with for days on end! I'll spare you all, though.

I had my first foray into online discussions at the U2.com forums, and spent several years there discussing music that I loved - in particular, U2, obviously - before they decided to charge for the privilege. I think that decision mirrored a similar decline in the band ...

Still, from them, my somewhat obscure favourite can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfBR5G8FZ8

Lyrics by Salman Rushdie, by the way. And one more for good measure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuFMoWV1cns

For the latter, the studio version is better in quality, but less ... well ... heartfelt. Both songs I find haunting but, more than that, they offer a depth above the bulk of the stuff I hear on the radio every day.

If you've read this far (and not been distracted [or irritated] by the links), my all-time favourite song is well worth the wait:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQs6MvsPCXA

It's like a love song, but a fraternal love song - not desperate or needy or downright silly. Rather, it offers goodwill to all. I love it!

Hello Otokonoko, fellow Townsvillean. Thanks for those links.

I’ve never been into U2, but that ‘Mothers of the disappeared’ clip is powerful stuff. Wow!

This is still my absolute favourite. I play it every day. Just exquisite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8

And this is my long-time second fav:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujr8dQJgQUU

I'm a huge Rod Stewart fan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfGkq1uRXew

Change of pace, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4VDf-ugPI

Try it. You might just like it.

Thanks Pericles

Well I tried. Played quite a few Philip Glass tracks.

Just doesn’t really cut it for me.

Then I got onto Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog and played them together, alternating between them and overlaying them.

Now, THAT hit the zone beautifully!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEK-4ZkEPQY&feature=related

I am a huge Bee Gees fan and have been since the 70s.

One fav with Barry Gibb doing lead vocals:

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

One from Robin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxuvNGSrmc

And one from Maurice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCBrw_qFcAo

Vale Robin and Maurice Gibb.. and Andy too..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47pXFUjgFI&feature=fvwrel

May Barry continue the tradition for a long time yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcbUc794B3w&feature=related

And one more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5taXY3hrOY&feature=related