Greatest piece of music ever produced?

[manly40gimps0]

Delicate Sound of Thunder

 

[Matt23]

1812 Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fI-dGWT74

 

[Parra]

It's a coin toss between Shandi and Beth.

Try and split them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0e7yy9714&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyYSoCAISD8&feature=related

 

[Mr Fourex]

Echoes by Pink Floyd.

^^^ This ^^^

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Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

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Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

 

[Cliffhanger]

The song is called Brain Damage not Dark Side of the Moon. Unless you're referring to the whole album.

 

[gorilla with a shotgun]

Sweet child o'mine. Not my favourite gunners song but it has everything going for it... One of the best riffs ever, great guitar solos, catchy melody, great breakdown and axl although a douche is probably the best vocalist of the rock genre. He has such a huge vocal range. Queen's bohemian rapsidoy will be heard by generations after generations

 

[Whos Ya Daddy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2geAtMuVi4

Empire of the Sun- 'Country'. This is epic enough to listen to when you're sober. When you aren't, it is incredibly vivid, hypnotic, dream-like and lucid.

Tangerine Dream did it better decades earlier.

 

[Mr Fourex]

The song is called Brain Damage not Dark Side of the Moon. Unless you're referring to the whole album.

Whole album........

 

[Cliffhanger]

Whole album........

Fair enough just thought it was weird to choose a whole album as the "greatest piece of music." Regardless big call there then. I'm a big fan of Pink Floyd and that is arguably their best album but there's still a few weird tracks and not weird in a good way.

 

[Whos Ya Daddy]

More electronic pioneers

The Human League - The Black Hit Of Space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzSl1hLBOJI&feature=related

The Human League - Being Boiled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNrnmDmffRc

 

[Whos Ya Daddy]

I think they will be saying similar things about Aphex Twin in the future.

 

[carcharias]

Fair enough just thought it was weird to choose a whole album as the "greatest piece of music." Regardless big call there then. I'm a big fan of Pink Floyd and that is arguably their best album but there's still a few weird tracks and not weird in a good way.

you need to have a crack at a saucerful of secrets or interstellar overdrive.
That ups the weird ante somewhat from floyd.

not to mention several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and groovin with a pict off ummagumma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tfUaBezFo

 

[Cliffhanger]

you need to have a crack at a saucerful of secrets or interstellar overdrive.
That ups the weird ante somewhat from floyd.

not to mention several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and groovin with a pict off ummagumma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tfUaBezFo

Lol Ummagumma is one of my favourite Pink Floyd albums, but yeah that track is all kinds of weird.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Darkside of the Moon is pretty much a 40 minute song and as such imo the greatest song ever.

Sympathy for the Devil is also one of the greatest songs ever made.

Verdi:
http://youtu.be/EQjOaIyh6HQ

Amazing.

Apocalypse Now fan?

It's a very good film but I'd have preferred if Coppola had have done this instead:

http://youtu.be/MVor2Xm8qg0

Obviously if it were edited better and softer it would be a lot better.

 

[Cliffhanger]

Thread needs more Jazz

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

 

[gUt]

"I" by Meshuggah.

 

[Spanner in the works]

1812 Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fI-dGWT74

Nearly twenty years ago I saw the Vienna Philharmonic play this. The greatest version I have ever heard.

 

[Mr Fourex]

Fair enough just thought it was weird to choose a whole album as the "greatest piece of music." Regardless big call there then. I'm a big fan of Pink Floyd and that is arguably their best album but there's still a few weird tracks and not weird in a good way.

Maybe you're not listening to it the right way.......;-)

As you have correctly pointed out, the title of the album is indeed not a song title on the album.

My reasoning for calling the whole album a piece of music is that IMHO the album flows so effortlessly together, both musically and conceptually, that when listening to it one can only describe the experience as a complete journey of the mind that begins and ends with the first and last notes of music that hold the listeners imagination.

To try and separate them and individualise them as songs, is again IMO, doing a disservice to the creative genius behind such a moving piece of work.

My personal favourite section of the piece is "The Great Gig in the Sky" .............

My top 3 Floyd albums in order:

1. Meddle
2. Animals
3. Dark Side of the Moon

 

[madunit]

okay I'll say it.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Orion and Call of Ktulu - Metallica

 

[sydraider]

metallica-Orion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv9CDEbvmr8