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Always feel a soft spot when I hear this one. First heard it when I was dating my first Brazilian chick and took here to a jazz concert. The song was perfect with the atmosphere.

About a year later, was rehearsing this same song with my college jazz band and looked out the window and it was softly snowing outside. Snow flurries drifting through the wind. A perfect peaceful moment highlighted by the perfect song.

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The song "What's My Age Again?" by Blink 182. Sounds dumb as fuck, I know, but the first time I saw that music video with the band members running around was the day I figured out how to masterbate properly in the shower. So when I hear that sound I think of my introduction to manhood. The sound is bad though.

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Also, Jeff Buckley was a genius in my opinion, though I've only really ever loved one girl for a year, so I can't relate to all of Buckley's ruin.

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(04-19-2016 08:03 PM)johnbozzz Wrote:  The song "What's My Age Again?" by Blink 182. Sounds dumb as fuck, I know, but the first time I saw that music video with the band members running around was the day I figured out how to masterbate properly in the shower. It was the day I fell in love with my dick. So when I hear that sound I think of my introduction to manhood. The sound is bad though.

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Both songs speak my my drifter lifestyle and personality.. I'm forever searching for something that I'm never going to find. It's wonderful in some ways and depressing in others.




This one hits me harder these days.. specially the first part about a old flame and the times they shared. I left my best friend/girlfriend of ten years to embark on this lonely journey. Don't get me wrong, my life is pretty brilliant. I have met some awesome people and had some unforgettable experiences. But as the late Christopher McCandless said "Happiness is only real when shared"

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There are several Joe Hisaishi songs with the same emotional power as this. The opening of Nausicaa is my fav but the original is hard to find on youtube(worth torrenting the soundtrack).

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This song has a melancholic tone, but it's got a hopeful message tied into it. It helps get me through bad days.

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^ D-Sides is so underrated. People don't realize that the best new Blur song from their 2015 is actually a complete ripoff of "Hong Kong" from that very album.. over 5 years ago. Note for note.

Anyway, this electronica one hits me in the feels - you are no longer in this dimension when..





Also anything from the 1st M83 album.
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This shall always be my favorite song.

"Walk the dark path / Sleep with angels / Call the past for help"

That line in particular is my short life condensed to a sentence.

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AldoKelevra - Blue in Green. You beat me too it!

Blue Sky has also been my favorite for 30 years now. For me, it's the perfect song with perfect guitar solos and I'll never grow tired of it.

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(05-08-2016 11:21 AM)Onto Wrote:  AldoKelevra - Blue in Green. You beat me too it!

Blue Sky has also been my favorite for 30 years now. For me, it's the perfect song with perfect guitar solos and I'll never grow tired of it.

Perfect song for a spring day like today, looking forward to summer. Solos with expressiveness and heart, not speed.

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Last couple days I've been scouring the internet to see if there is any live performances of Blue Sky with Duane in it.

Here's a gem I found. Done around the time they recorded it in the studio and right before Duane and Berry checked into re-hab for heroin addiction because they felt it was affecting their performance musically and in life.

Tragically, Duane died about month later in a motorcycle accident and Berry died the same way about a year after that.

Duane plays the first solo and Berry is on bass. Those guys were real special.

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@Cyclone

D-Sides had a lot of great songs on it. I was expecting a B-Sides to release a few years after Plastic Beach came out, but unfortunately nothing ever happened with it.

I'm going to see M83 in concert at the end of this month, so I've given all their past albums a listen. I'd say Before the Dawn Heals Us is my favorite one so far. Car Chase Terror! spooked me good the first time I heard it; I was not expecting that intro.

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I can think of two possibilities, but I'll just mention the first for now.

I bought this single by New Zealand band 'Split Enz' when I was 11, and it was probably the first song I deeply-loved. I think it articulated my longing for far more than what my current-surroundings could offer.

It's such a bizarrely-structured song - it's as poppy as it gets, but then there's weird, out of place synth-sequencing; an accordion breakdown; and a slow, maudlin ending. The end of the chorus seems completely unsingable to me.

There's an extended musical intro on the vid, so skip ahead to about 1:26 to where the song starts.





When I was a young boy, I wanted to sail around the world
That's the life for me, living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor, circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer, will acknowledge no frontier

I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare, 'round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat

Aotearoa, rugged individual
Glisten like a pearl, at the bottom of the world
The tyranny of distance, didn't stop the cavalier
So why should it stop me? I'll conquer and stay free

Ah c'mon all you lads, let's forget and forgive
There's a world to explore, tales to tell back on shore
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Six months in a leaky boat

Ship-wrecked love can be cruel
Don't be fooled by her kind
There's a wind in my sails
Will protect and prevail
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Nothing to it!
Leaky boat

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Vàli





and Uaral !

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(05-10-2016 05:06 PM)Onto Wrote:  Last couple days I've been scouring the internet to see if there is any live performances of Blue Sky with Duane in it.

Here's a gem I found. Done around the time they recorded it in the studio and right before Duane and Berry checked into re-hab for heroin addiction because they felt it was affecting their performance musically and in life.

Tragically, Duane died about month later in a motorcycle accident and Berry died the same way about a year after that.

Duane plays the first solo and Berry is on bass. Those guys were real special.

That was sweet. Live and rough always beats slick and studio in my book. I am not a Southerner, but what is is with Southern bluesmen and rockers? They have a kind of unstudied authenticity.

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(05-11-2016 10:53 AM)debeguiled Wrote:  

(05-10-2016 05:06 PM)Onto Wrote:  Last couple days I've been scouring the internet to see if there is any live performances of Blue Sky with Duane in it.

Here's a gem I found. Done around the time they recorded it in the studio and right before Duane and Berry checked into re-hab for heroin addiction because they felt it was affecting their performance musically and in life.

Tragically, Duane died about month later in a motorcycle accident and Berry died the same way about a year after that.

Duane plays the first solo and Berry is on bass. Those guys were real special.

That was sweet. Live and rough always beats slick and studio in my book. I am not a Southerner, but what is is with Southern bluesmen and rockers? They have a kind of unstudied authenticity.

Must be something in the grits! That live solo of Duane's might be the best I've ever heard. There's so much feeling and detail in it. Each time I listen I get something more out of it and it takes me to that place.

The South had the blues/jazz/country/bluegrass, a whole melting pot of stuff just simmering. Interestingly one of Duane's main influences was Miles Davis. Here's a quote from Duane's wikipedia page.

Quote:Allman was well known for his melodic, extended and attention-holding guitar solos. During this period two of his stated influences were Miles Davis and John Coltrane. He said that he had listened intently to Davis's Kind of Blue for two years.

As Allman's distinctive electric bottleneck sound began to mature, it evolved into the musical voice of what would come to be known as Southern rock, being picked up by other slide guitarists, including his bandmate Dickey Betts (after Allman's death), Rory Gallagher, Derek Trucks and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and redefined in their own styles.

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Honey dripping beehive ..; Loved the song and lyrics for ages before the metaphor in them lyrics dawned on me !

Anyone who's been a traveller , in plush hotels and picked up a deeper connection with a fellow expat and left town without having the time to explore whatever it was .. this song and the movie would get you everytime !

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Has almost no lyrics, and is a very unlikely artist... but I get lost in this song. I've listened to it on many a long night with heavy things on my mind. It's a long vibey jam.





This one is a song about how no matter how bad things get, it will all work out for the best; the way it should. It's sort of poetry music. The lyrics aren't sung but spoken.

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This is gonna seem silly, but these two get me goosebumped and teary-eyed:

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(06-19-2015 10:15 PM)Dr. Howard Wrote:  

Charles Bradley is fantastic and that song hits me every time. Actually had a chance to see him at the Beacon Theatre a couple of weeks ago and he tore the house down. A random guy actually offered me and my date tickets in the front row for free, which was great; he was just there to support the opening act.

Here's another great one:

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^^^holy shit, that's a great story. I found out about Charles Bradley through the forum and he is something else. Very heavy and great energy.