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el Inglés
07-02-04, 11:05 AM
In Britain some years ago Radio 1 used to do a poll and Child in Time , Freebird and Stairway to Heaven were always voted into the top three of a list of ten , what do you think are the songs that most influenced you and why ?
"Variations on a theme by Mozart" by Sor
or
"Can't find my way home" by Blind Faith
Lucky Man by Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
It made me realize that having all the money in the world doesn't help you when you die. The person with the most when they die does NOT win!
The Rob
08-01-04, 12:59 AM
'Living in the Past', Jethro Tull. I remember being entranced by that song in '72, when it was played incessantly on the radio. It spurred me to buy the album, and soon I was on the look-out for everything the band had produced. That combination of jazz, rock, and rustic sensibilities was manna for me, as were the Celtic and Middle-Eastern elements of Led Zeppelin, another band that I discovered in that same period.
Alas, everything produced after the album Stormwatch (1979) was merely pleasant at best; whereas the Jethro Tull of the past had textures that brought to mind wood fires and simple pleasures, the newer material smacks of chrome and glass, sort of like comparing a didgeridoo to a wind-chime. Ah well. With recorded music one can go home again.
cyclezealot
08-01-04, 01:35 AM
"Carry That Weight," by the Beatles.
Other significant songs in my book..As of my mood this very moment. "America" by Simon and Garfunkel; "California Dreaming", and "All Along the Watchtower"
nolageek
08-01-04, 07:17 PM
The 2 most life changing songs for me are "A Murder of One" by Counting Crows and "Ants Marching" by Dave Matthews Band. Important decisions were made to each of them. I'm not particularly a fan of either band, but those songs "spoke to me" when I needed them to. :) Cheesy I know.
Moonshot
08-01-04, 08:33 PM
Giant Steps- John Coltrane
London's Burning- The Clash
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry- Hank Williams, Sr
s2sxiii
08-02-04, 10:17 AM
'Living in the Past', Jethro Tull. I remember being entranced by that song in '72, when it was played incessantly on the radio. It spurred me to buy the album, and soon I was on the look-out for everything the band had produced. That combination of jazz, rock, and rustic sensibilities was manna for me, as were the Celtic and Middle-Eastern elements of Led Zeppelin, another band that I discovered in that same period.
Alas, everything produced after the album Stormwatch (1979) was merely pleasant at best; whereas the Jethro Tull of the past had textures that brought to mind wood fires and simple pleasures, the newer material smacks of chrome and glass, sort of like comparing a didgeridoo to a wind-chime. Ah well. With recorded music one can go home again.
"You know what really makes me mad?? People who think that jethro tull was just a guy in a band" -- armageddon
For me, it would have to be "evaporated" by ben folds or pearl jam's "black". "In My Life" by the beatles is def up there as well.