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    Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:08
And is that a good thing?
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:27
Originally posted by condor condor wrote:

I guess enough people have a favourite song to make the question worthwhile, even if it's a short-term favourite.

I guess so, but I don't so I can't participate here :(
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:35
understand how? lyrically or musically?


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Direct Link To This Post 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.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2017 at 09:45
Right now, my favourite song would have to be Yes' The Remembering.

I would certainly say that I do understand it, although I highly doubt that many (if any) other people would independently come to the same conclusions as I have. As it stands, though, I couldn't be more satisfied every time I hear it, knowing precisely how every note fits into the bigger picture.

Edited by Magnum Vaeltaja - September 30 2017 at 09:47
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Direct Link To This Post 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.


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Direct Link To This Post 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.




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Direct Link To This Post 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. 



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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2017 at 18:14
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

understand how? lyrically or musically?

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.


The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2017 at 07:10
Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

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.
 
I agree
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2017 at 07:36
I never did understand "Suppers ready".  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2017 at 06:42
I don't understand anything.
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2017 at 18:01
Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I don't understand anything.
 
Right you are about. No need to understand my love.
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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