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[Martin (Admin)]

So what a great tunes, out of your usual comfort zone, that makes you turn your gramophone up and why?!


Just listening to Fleetwood Mac - The Chain, on Radio 2
I love the way just in the middle of good song comes, just a fantastic tune out of nowhere and nothing to do with the song!
( For those that don't know, in the middle of the song, live the world iconic theme of F1 Grant Prix racing!)
   https://youtu.be/pcawnRIyeok

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, stole Aaron Copland's - Fanfare For The Common Man  and turned that in to something else completely (something better!).

What about the BBC's almost inspired choice of [/font] 'Nessun Dorma' by Pavarotti for the 1990 World Cup

Eva Cassidy - Somewhere over the Rainbow.




 

[Bob K]

I have edited the middle part of the Chain and use it as my Ring Tone.  Catches the attention 

[tigertiger]

Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings. It was used in the movie Platoon, where Sgt. Elias is killed.


Even without the movie connection, a great piece of music. Especially if you stay with it to the very powerful crescendo towards the end.
William Orbit also did a cover of this, as a dance track.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50WIs0Rbm9Q

[Andyn]

Had a duet with a girl stocking shelves in Tesco to 'Call Me Maybe' the other week, that count? 


(Other supermarkets are available)

[Klunk]

Dana Lyons singing cows with guns or June is a coming.
Reminds me of absent friends .
very poignant.

[U-33]

Stravinsky's 'Firebird Suite'...a beautiful piece of music in it's own right, and also starts most Yes concerts.

[Klunk]

Stravinsky's 'Firebird Suite'...a beautiful piece of music in it's own right, and also starts most Yes concerts.

Hmmmm I went to see YES at the NEC in the late 80 or early nineties. Worked all night then all day. Slept in the car to Birmingham.  Got to the concert, promptly fell asleep and  missed the whole concert and woke up as they walked offstage. To say I was annoyed was an understatement!

[U-33]

I saw Yes at the Reading Festival years ago...back in the days of Rick Wakeman and his famous illuminated cloak. A real class show...

[Klunk]

Of I remember correctly rick wake man played at this concert.

[U-33]

The man is a legend..

[malcolmfrary]

To prove to myself that it really did work, I set up a radio channel on a PC on one of the jazz stations and the first tune that popped up was the old Saturday Club (with Brian Matthews) theme.  Miles Davis, Milestones.  Hairs on the back of the neck moment - until then, I hadn't known what it was called.
Julie London - Cry Me a River,  Acker Bilk - Deep Purple,  Bobby Darin - If I Were A Carpenter, lots of memories with these and many others*.
Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn, ALWAYS want to turn it up to eleven.
Nina Simone - House Of The Rising Sun, for the goosebumps.
Weird Al Yankovic - Money For Nothing (with the words from the Beverley Hillbillys Theme, strangely, it works better than the original), just because.
Dave Brubeck - Take Five


Not sure about the comfort zone thing, just stuff that I would include on my solar powered mp3 player should the need arise.


*Many Others, little known Jewish session saxophonist, but often gets a mention in the credits.

[mrzippy]

Martin YOU had one of the greatest ever hits yourself -
is there something you would like to tell the world about your secret singing career?  LOL
regards Paul

[Martin (Admin)]

Yep, still getting royalties from that!   

Few more from me....
Dame Shirley Bassey - AFTER THE RAIN ( Ms Bassey said this her only quiet balad!)
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day  (reminds me of watching the Apollo missions.
Very Annie Mary - O Mio Babbino Caro (I HATE opera but this is so beautiful)

[Klunk]

lamb lies down - genesis
foxtrot - genesis
San jincinto, je san frontier - peter Gabrielle
babushka - Kate bush (swinging the sword.........)
most aka bilk
la gazza ladra - Rossini
1812 overture- Tchaikovsky performed by Berlin philharmonic with guns from the Wehrmacht 1938 I think
yes songs........yes
sounds of silence s & g
And this one always reminds me of Wicksteed....
Blowing in the wind

[mrzippy]

Matt Monroe - 'On days like these'
memories of listening to this 30 years ago on the radio while driving the daily slog from Leicester to Northampton,
in my old Mk4 Cortina on a sunny morning imagining I was driving down to San Tropez in a Ferrari Daytona.
Danny Bakers morning radio show belting out, waiting for his weekly chat with Rick Wakeman telling thee funniest tales about his life on the road - the one about Rick feeling hungry while performing on stage, sending the roadie out for a curry, then eating it concealed under his illuminated cloak while playing 2 keyboards - priceless !

Something completely different way out of my comfort zone -
Future Islands - 'Seasons'
The usual Friday night nodding off in front of Jools Holland - this band or rather their mesmerising lead singer,
jumped off the screen !  way out of my comfort zone, unique voice and visual spectacle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Uhf3gM1m0