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    Default Re: Best 3 songs of your life

    Sorry Mash, I couldn't stick to the plan - as the three best songs of my life all come from the same small period in time, when I was 12 - 14 yrs old.

    But I will give honorable mentions to the first song that moved me and really got my attention, or maybe that was just the day my first hormone kicked in and the first female I saw shortly after was Sandie Shaw dancing barefoot as she sang "Puppet on a String". I was captivated either way.

    As an adult, probably the Pink Floyd song Mother, and in particular this version featuring Sinead O' Connor - though it was so difficult to choose just one!



    Now, the best three. From then until now. I was 12 years old and regularly thinking about suicide as the world was such a horrible place.
    (I'm really glad I didn't, with hindsight I would not miss out on all this suffering - I think you will all understand that comment).







    "How you suffered for your sanity..."

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    Depeche Mode - Walking in My Shoes / Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting / Elton John - The One
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    Default Re: Best 3 songs of your life

    I posted my best three songs already. But then I remembered a whole different chapter in my life, and the music... Here are three songs from 199somthing to the middle of the next decade

    Club dance music is more like classical music than pop. It has longer buildups, with compatible songs from the same sub-genres mixed together for a concert. House DJs in dance clubs sometimes have to lower the energy in the room to get people out for a variety of reasons... lessen the crowd, or other times raise the energy to hook people to staying, building up the number of people in your room. They can get instruction from the event staff one way or the other. So it's a concert that adapts in a way classical concerts don't because they are a one way street. I obviously like some classical music being half of music, but I don't really like stiff music. I like my violin players to hold it wrong or jump around or both.

    This one is an absolute classic dance tune. We used to call such songs a "chooooon", or "choon" for short, with a pointing hand gesture followed by a righteous bouncing vogue.

    This is Binary Finary and it was remixed year after year after year when it came out it had such an impact. The original was from 1998, but here's an obscure remix based on the 1999 version. I also like 1998 Paul van Dyk Remix. Gotta love that old trance scene.




    Here's some house music. Too easy to get down to this one. Screen II, HEY MR DJ.




    If I had a third one I forgot because those other two are too awesome.

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    Quote Posted by Ewan (here)









    "How you suffered for your sanity..."

    Thank you I’ve been hoping someone would bring these two songs up for the last few days, especially Vincent, Thank You.

    Vincent hit me deeply when it came out even more than Sounds of Silence. I felt such sorrow, deep sadness..deep loss..I still remember that clearly..and Don Maclean nailed that song.

    “This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you”
    "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."
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    Another beautiful song by Don McLean, "Empty Chairs", which always struck a deep chord within me...
    Each breath a gift...
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    I keep breaking the rules set forth in this thread limiting us to 3 songs, but it keeps reminding me of unforgettable songs that deeply affected me, and today I thought of another.

    White Bird
    It's a Beautiful Day

    "White bird
    In a golden cage
    On a winter's day
    In the rain
    White bird
    In a golden cage
    Alone
    The leaves blow
    'Cross the long black road
    To the darkened sky
    In its rage
    But the white bird
    Just sits in her cage
    Unknown
    White bird must fly
    She will die
    The white bird
    Dreams of the aspen tree
    With the dying leaves
    Turning gold
    But the white bird
    Just sits in her cage
    Growing old
    White bird must fly
    Or she will die
    White bird must fly
    Or she will die
    The sunsets come, the sunsets go
    The clouds float by, and the earth turns slow
    And a young bird's eyes do always glow
    And she must fly
    She must fly
    She must fly
    White bird
    In a golden cage
    On a winter's day
    In the rain
    White bird
    In a golden cage
    Alone
    White bird must fly
    She will die
    White bird must fly
    Or she will die
    White bird must fly
    She will die
    White bird must fly"

    Songwriters: Linda Laflamme, David La Flamme.


    ...and that one make me think of...

    Lady Eleanor
    Lindisfarne

    "Bashee playing magician sitting lotus on the floor
    Belly dancing beauty with a power driven saw
    Had my share of nightmares, didn't think there could be much more
    Then in walked Rodrick Usher with the Lady Eleanor
    She tied my eyes with ribbon of a silken ghostly thread
    I gazed with troubled vision on an old four poster bed
    Where Eleanor had risen to kiss the neck below my head
    And bid me come along with her to the land of the dancing dead
    But it's all right, Lady Eleanor
    All right, Lady Eleanor
    I'm all right where I am
    She gazed with the loving beauty like a mother to a son
    Like living, dying, seeing, being all rolled into one
    Then all at once I heard some music in my bones
    The same old song I'd heard for years, reminding me of home
    But it's all right, Lady Eleanor
    All right, Lady Eleanor
    I'm all right where I am
    Then creeping on towards me, licking lips with tongues of fire
    A host of golden demons screaming lust and base desire
    And when it seemed for certain that the screams could get no higher
    I heard a voice above the rest screaming, 'You're a liar'
    But it's all right, Lady Eleanor
    All right, Lady Eleanor
    I'm all right here in your arms "
    Songwriters: Alan Hull.



    And finally

    Lady of the Island
    Crosby, Stills & Nash

    "Holding you close, undisturbed before a fire,
    The pressure in my chest when you breathe in my ear;
    We both knew this would happen when you first appeared,
    My lady of the island.
    The browness of your body in the fireglow
    Except the places where the sun refused to go.
    Our bodies were a perfect fit,
    In afterglow we lay,
    My lady of the island.
    Letting myself wander through the world inside your eyes
    You know I'd like to stay here until every tear runs dry.
    Da da da ...
    My lady of the island.
    Wrapped around each other in the peeping sun,
    Beams of sunshine light the stage,
    The red light's on.
    I never want to finish what I've just begun with you,
    My lady of the island.
    Da da da ..."

    Each breath a gift...
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