Interactive Poll #9 - Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar

Edited by Raff - June 18 2020 at 04:35

Edited by I prophesy disaster - June 18 2020 at 07:35

rushfan4 wrote: As long as you don't mind a violin in place of a guitar I will suggest Taylor Davis' Nebulous.  She does a fantastic job playing movie soundtracks and video game theme songs, but this here is one of her originals. If you like this song and you're interested in checking her out, here is a link to her YouTube page with a number of similar instrumental songs. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk40qSGYnVdFFBNXRjrvdpQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk40qSGYnVdFFBNXRjrvdpQ

Edited by micky - June 18 2020 at 12:43

dr wu23 wrote: Someone had to post this....or the Mickster would have been upset... as good as it gets....

This one is going to be tough for sure. It's going to be how my mood synchs up to each song at the time I am listening. I can easily see myself liking one over another one day and then flipping on another day. Whether I am mellow at the time or not.

This is going to be the hardest yet for me. I already had heard half of these, and like the others. That Allman Brothers is one of my all-time favourites (a friend played that to me when I was a teenager and I was blown away). Such a classic. And Alice Copper's School's Out is one of the first albums in my brother's collection that I can remember loving (that, Gary Numan's Replicas and Alan Parsons Project's I Robot were three really important albums to me as a child).

I'd wanted to do an instrumental one too, but if I get the chance, maybe I'll do one that asks for soundtrack music. Yeah, I like that idea.

EDIT: I see voting has already started for at least one person -- a bit premature I would have thought.

Edited by Logan - June 18 2020 at 15:18

yeah..  I suppose someone just couldn't hang with a bevy of buxom bad ass beauties .. someone throw some blue pills at whoever did that. Then again this is a prog forum.. what did one expect...

Logan wrote: I'd wanted to do an instrumental one too, but if I get the chance, maybe I'll do one that asks for soundtrack music. Yeah, I like that idea.

That would be cool. You could still do a straight up Part Deux and get another 15 diverse and stellar selections. I certainly had several other much different tracks in mind until YouTube said otherwise.

First impressions.....As always, I rule out pretty much, those I am familiar with from being in the top 3.  Contenders are all in bold, I refrain from considering my choice in the vote.

Anoushka Shankar and Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Raga Piloo ~    Of course I’m familiar with Anoushka, had not heard this before, though.  Love the combination of sitar and violin.  A contender.

Alice Cooper - Grande Finale       ~  Knew this one from Alice.

Charles Ives - Piano Sonata #2   ~  Fun following the notes.  Loved the “excited” section where the notation did get visibly kinda crazy.  Tried for the life of me to get the bonus, maybe it will yet come to me?  I know the melody, and know I did not know it from this.  A contender.

Kazu Matsui - Legend of the Lake  ~  Knew the name of the artist, but hadn’t ever heard anything.  Beautiful and calming, gonna be hard to compete with the plethora of violins this time, though.  A contender.

Tokyo Groove Jyoshi - What is Hip? ~ Knew the song, of course, fun to see it played this way and they were very energetic about it.  More of a novelty feeling for me, though, even though they were quite good.    

Ludovico Einaudi - In un'altra vita (In Another Life)  Almost chose another by him that I just love.  This is also so perfectly him.  A contender

Kaleidoscope – Taxim ~  My entry

Janko Nilovic - Underground Session  ~  Enjoyed this one, very different from what I usually listen to, but loved the horns.

Era - Tono   ~  Also beautiful and moving.  So hard to not love violin.  So I’m not even gonna try.  A contender  

Allman Brothers Band - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed ~ Great tune, but of course I know it.

George Benson - 6 to 4   Also too familiar with this one to vote on it.

Peace & Quiet - Looney Tunes ~ Some pretty good jamming there, but just not top 3 for me.

Bryan Beller - Casual Lie Day ~ Obviously accomplished, but this one didn’t get me.

Scorn - Forever Turning ~  This works better for me than the in-your-face Gudmundsen-Holmgreen piece, but still just doesn’t get my gut.

Marla Leigh - Rhythms of Tof Miriam ~  Even though I also chose a Middle Eastern piece and am familiar with the genre, found myself humming the tune all morning and then going and buying the release.  Unless something else comes out, this is probably gonna be my #1 choice, although that may be predictable, coming from me. Obviously a contender.

Philip Glass - Powaqqatsi - CAUGHT! ~  Another Philip Glass piece is something I’m contemplating for another potential poll.  Very different from this, this was kinda busier and brassier than others that  I like from him. 

Taylor Davis - Nebulous 0  ~  Wonderful, I love violin (all of the bowed instruments).  A contender             

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen - Plateaux pour deux  ~ Didn’t work for me at all.  I do like some experimental stuff, but it was too ducky for me. 

Edited by Snicolette - June 18 2020 at 16:41