Do you understand your favourite song? |
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condor
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 24 2005 Location: Norwich Status: Offline Points: 1069 |
Topic: Do you understand your favourite song? Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:08 |
And is that a good thing?
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Cristi
Special Collaborator Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Online Points: 41339 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:13 |
Do people have a favorite song, just one? 'cause i don't, I have favorite songs (as in plural), I listen to a lot of genres and subgenres of music, so I can't pick just one particular song.
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condor
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 24 2005 Location: Norwich Status: Offline Points: 1069 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:17 |
I guess enough people have a favourite song to make the question worthwhile, even if it's a short-term favourite.
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Cristi
Special Collaborator Crossover / Prog Metal Teams Joined: July 27 2006 Location: wonderland Status: Online Points: 41339 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:27 |
I guess so, but I don't so I can't participate here :(
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BaldJean
Prog Reviewer Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10377 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:35 |
understand how? lyrically or musically?
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Logan
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Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:40 |
Not prog, but one of my favourites is David Bowie's "Life on Mars." I understand that while it seems nonsensical and I think Bowie called it absurdist or some such thing, it's a surreal song that says something about entertainment meets life, entertainment as life, the desire for escapism, superficiality and the banality of existence. As for if understanding your favourite song is a good thing, if I am reading you correctly, well, why not? I value understanding or at least forming my own impression of something.
Edited by Logan - September 30 2017 at 09:43 |
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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Magnum Vaeltaja
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Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:45 |
Right now, my favourite song would have to be Yes' The Remembering. Edited by Magnum Vaeltaja - September 30 2017 at 09:47 |
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mechanicalflattery
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 08 2016 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 1056 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:51 |
Pharoah Sander's Let Us Go Into The House of the Lord is probably my favorite piece of music, but it has no lyrics. My favorite track with lyrics is probably Joanna Newsom's Emily, followed by The Doors' The End. In both those cases, I likely understand the general gist of the song, but plenty of lyrical details elude me. I rarely pay attention to lyrics these days though, and even more rarely contemplate them separately from the music.
I'm assume by understanding, you meant lyrics. Edited by mechanicalflattery - September 30 2017 at 09:52 |
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presdoug
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8085 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 10:28 |
my favourite song is below-Lucky Girl by Triumvirat; the lyrical content is pretty average, but Helmut Koellen's lyrical delivery is stupendous, as the song is instrumentally, with a stunning synth solo courtesy of Juergen Fritz that knocks you socks off!
In the lyrical content, there is not that much going on, but I sure understand why I consider it my fave song, as I have explained above, but, I am not a musician, so don't know it, technically. Edited by presdoug - September 30 2017 at 10:36 |
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fredyair
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 18 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 160 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 11:07 |
I do, in my own limited way of course, if I have to choose just one favorite song without hesitation I take Pink Floyd's Echoes, the music is the background score of the Universe and the lyrics talk about life evolution on planet earth and the meaning of being a sentient, empathetic human being.
Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can? Edited by fredyair - September 30 2017 at 11:12 |
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Long live Progresive music!
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Manuel
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 09 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 12382 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 17:19 |
Hard to define "Favorite Song", since there are many reasons I like certain songs, like the memories they bring, the way I enjoy them while driving, looking at the rain, Lyrical content, etc. So I like to relate them for a particular reason, and listen/enjoy them that way.
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Junges
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 19 2006 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 620 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 17:27 |
What do you mean by understand? How can you understand music? You enjoy it. There's nothing there to understand.
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Tillerman88
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 31 2015 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 495 |
Posted: September 30 2017 at 18:14 |
Lyrically and/or musically? C'mon .... once I fully understand its lyrics ...that's all about it man. Now, whenever a song lasts the most as my favourite, oh boy!... I just manage to understand something freaking new every damn time I listen to it. |
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maryes
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 16 2009 Location: rio de janeiro Status: Offline Points: 990 |
Posted: October 01 2017 at 07:10 |
I agree
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progbaby
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 20 2007 Status: Offline Points: 286 |
Posted: October 01 2017 at 07:36 |
I never did understand "Suppers ready".
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progaardvark
Collaborator Crossover/Symphonic/RPI Teams Joined: June 14 2007 Location: Sea of Peas Status: Offline Points: 48752 |
Posted: October 02 2017 at 06:42 |
I don't understand anything.
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Squonk19
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4706 |
Posted: October 23 2017 at 17:13 |
Siberian Khatru - Yes! A wonderful song (not my favourite, but well up the list!)
I honesty haven't a ******* clue what Jon Anderson is on about - something about nature? But somehow the sound imagery works! In fact most Yes lyrics are like that.....but I suppose that's what makes them timeless. |
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“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Tillerman88
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 31 2015 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 495 |
Posted: October 23 2017 at 18:01 |
Right you are about. No need to understand my love.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16199 |
Posted: October 23 2017 at 19:08 |
I have no idea what close to the edge is about and I don't think most fans do either. Suppers Ready seems to have some religious connotation but I don't really know what that one is about either.
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Larkstongue41
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 07 2015 Location: Eastern Canada Status: Offline Points: 1360 |
Posted: October 23 2017 at 19:19 |
^ Close to the Edge is about Herman Hesse's Siddartha, a buddhist story of enlightenment.
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