I don't mean 'a great rock song', well, it could be if you want it to be. I am more aiming towards a song that is the equivalent musical experience of flying a microlite through a thunder storm.
I could of course refer to a hundred odd composers, but I am going to nominate S.A.L.T. by The Orb.
S.A.L.T. is seriously one of the most powerful tracks I have ever heard. It features dialogue sampled from the Mike Leigh film 'NAKED'. The scene that the dialogue is sampled from is a scene in which David Thewliss reduces a security guard to tears, by continually brow beating him about the apocolypse.
This dialogue coupled with the pitch black driving bass line is enough to bring the hairs up on the back of my neck by just thinking about it.
So, which track would you like to nominate and why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41APzy5kqBU
'Radio Protecter' by 65daysofstatic
It's epic and beautiful.
an envoy to the open fields- MEW
..
not really.
It's just a load of cymbals and a piano line that fools you into thinking that on the first few listens. It really is quite banal
Arcade Fire
The latter part of No cars go with the Hungarian military choir....gives you shivers and quivers.
Play it LOUD!
An Ending (Ascent) by Brian Eno
inspires awe in me
Dwr Budr
By Orbital, off Insides is truely awe-inspiring.
Flying a microlite through a thunderstorm, eh?
It'd have to be You Suffer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1IGjr2cT0
BANG, and then it's all over
King's Crossing
Elliott Smith
Simply the most incredible piece of music I've heard in my entire life.
It's great
but strung out again is better. If only for the incredible beatlesy solo at the end.
Ride Of The Valkyries, surely?
^gotta be
Well, I agree, but I was trying to stay away from
orchestral music because it's an easy one to pick.
Ooooh
I'm not a massive fan of the orb, but that film is certainly ripe for a sampling, with potentially apocalyptic results. Will check it out.
Mogwai - Friend Of The Night
Verdi
This...Verdi's 'Dies Irae' from his Requiem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOybOtYT1-0
From the bombast to the revelations-esque lyrics. This must have been truly frightening to hear in 1874.
Present of future end
by the most serene republic
An American In Paris
definitely
Untitled 8- Sigur Ros
She Dreamt She Was A Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone In An Empty Field
Olivier Messiaen's
Quartet for End of Time..
a-fucking-mazing..
x
On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, and while incarcerated he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the end of time") for the four available instruments, piano, violin, cello, and clarinet. The piece was first performed by Messiaen and fellow prisoners to an audience of inmates and prison guards.
^A truly incredible piece of music!
^
This. Yes
Nice choice, my favourite Messaien
I always thought that story would make a good film, done in a non-hollywood way of course.
Hopefully the BBC will broadcast the performance of this at the proms, there's loads of Messaien this year.
Just downloading from Deutsche Grammophon now...
It had better be worth it, people...
The Album - Jalamanta
by Brant Bjork.
I listened to this a lot back in the day.
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists
Like Antennas to Heaven...
^^^
Yes! Or 'Moya' from Slow Riot.
Moya!
is mine, love love love it.
another vote
for this! gobsmaking!
and another
can't believe I forgot all about it...
Only Skin - Joanna newsom
It's epic (at over 17 minutes)
It's musically astounding in it's key changes and rhythms and vocal melody.
It's got massive lyrical depth with meanings within meanings
And it it was written by one 23 year old girl.
Blows me away every time.
^ this
or the whole of Ys in general, live especially.
3rd movement from Brahms' 3rd
Pink Floyd - echoes
The live version at the Paris Theater 1972 that they recorded for the BBC
The first time they played it live
Awesome
Anything
by the twilight sad and explosions in the sky.
the last 4
tracks on loveless, taken as one continuous piece of music.
doves - the sulphur man.
lambchop - soaky in the pooper.
maybe
"adagio for strings" by samuel barber
or
"tiny vessels" leading into "transatlaticism" by death cab for cutie.
The Lark Ascending
by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Penderecki
Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima.
So brutal.
If you've got an hour to spare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AEaQJuKDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSEqQsAXbJw
I love this too.
I like molt vivace, for the chav reason that it's in A Clockwork Orange.
the ACO soundtrack
is a belter though, if you can find the Wendy Carlos album of stuff that didn't get used as well, they make a good back to back listen.
Prog heaven
Pink Floyd - Shine On Your Crazy Diamond
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Mansun - Cancer
The Mars Volta - Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus
That theme
song to Requiem For A Dream. Just awesome.
Gavin Bryars "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet"
(the original version, not the Tom Waits version)
Able to reduce me to tears within seconds, and keep me that way until the end of the song fades out, half an hour later. Fucking mind-altering.
Post-Tour, Pre-Judgement
By Aereogramme. The first time I heard it I thought I was shot in the neck.
Oh and...
So Long by Pilotdrift. If you do not know this bandand their album Watersphere, you should.
Styrofoam Plates
death cab
Scatman John - Scatman [New Radio Edit]
65 doesn't understand you
or 'This Is Autumn' by Andtheywillriot! for being one of the most explosive ends to an EP I've heard
could've moved mountains...
a silver mount zion