hauntingly beautiful music

[Aggie_Ama]

Wow we have some talented people on here. I am tone deaf so I just appreciate those who can play. I cannot even keep a beat but I do love music.

[OakLeaf]

Oh yeah, +1 on "The Living Years." When that song first came out I couldn't even listen to the radio while I was driving, in case it came on. And Sarah McLachlan's "Angel."

[indigoiis]

Gary Jules - Mad World (the video is also really cool.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

(originally by Tears for Fears, but this version is good.)


Beck - Lost Cause (also a cool video.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GNcpuQePPA


Radiohead - High and Dry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPDiEz-GcE


These songs all make me bawl like a baby.

[badger]

there are so many different versions of hallelujah out there. If you go to youtube, there's one by 4 finalists of the Norwegian Pop Idol and that one's nice, too. John Cale also did a version.

[jobob]

Interesting thread.

Although, I now have Hallelujah running on an endless loop inside my head.

Could be worse I suppose.

[Crankin]

Not only do I feel untalented, but stupid, too.
I do listen to classical music and even had a subscription to the BSO for 3 years. But, I don't know the name or composer of anything. On the other hand, I don't know the name and composer or singer of any rock music, either. Maybe a few from my teenage years. My husband puts the music on my I Pod, since I wouldn't know what to download, since I don't know who sings what...
This was a definite defect when I taught group exercise classes. People would ask me," Who's singing that?" and I would have to tell them I didn't have a clue; I bought the pre-mixed tapes from my employer and was happy to pay the $!
I never spent time obsessing over records when I was a teen and I can't study or read with music on. My kids on the other hand, well one is a musician and I really doubted his talent until more than one teacher told me he had it. Have no idea where it came from!

[Biciclista]

we're all different, Crankin. I didn't get musically educated until my kids started playing in the High school orchestra. I can turn the radio on to the classic station in my car and my son will name the composers and sometimes the soloists.

We all have our own knowledge focus.

A good percentage of the people posting on this thread are naming popular music. I don't even recognize the names of the bands, let alone the tunes.

[shootingstar]

Thx for the Pachebel's Rant...it will be a link sent my partner's brother, a piano shop owner/manager ..it's his birthday tomorrow. And he does have music in his blood....he had better he has spoken with the brilliant but eccentric pianist, Glenn Gould who lived in Toronto...about what else pianoes.

I also love Vivaldi's, Gloria in excelsis Deo..more celebatory invigorating music (to me). Another baroque hit from long ago.

Just haven't taken time to know of enough contemporary hits/favs.

My music appreciation is amateurish..based on listening and reading ages ago on baroque era. I had a good friend who became a Mozart freak..she saw Requiem over 10 times. She got me started on baroque.. (I realize Mozart isn't exactly baroque.)