What music leaves a mark on you?

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I've been immersed in music that spans from the 50s to today. Tony Lewis, lead singer for The Outfield, passed away back in 2020. One of the songs his group sang stands out as one of my all time favorites. The words are perfect, the melody draws you in, and he hits high notes with precision.

What are some of your favorite all time songs, and why?

 
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I've been on Pooh Shiesty and Key Glock lately. Unfortunately Pooh is in jail awaiting trial, that might put a damper on his music career.
 
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Just about anything by Bush. Bush and my first yellow TJ got me through a really rough time in my life.



 
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I am a HUGE music fan, playing professionally years ago even performing in the Hollywood Bowl once. You guys would slap me if you heard the old shit I listen to every day and especially for a couple undisturbed hours after the wife goes to bed lol. Classical and older jazz when alone (wife is no fan of my music lol), older rock bands like the Rolling Stones, ZZ-Top, Traveling Wilburys, etc. when on the trail or at the campfire.
 
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I'm a stern old bachelor although I'm not 44 anymore. Chubby Parker strikes a chord with me.


I do enjoy all kinds of music but favor 1750-1820, you know that Mozart crap and 1900-1940 America, the real oldies, not the RCA and Atlantic Elvis and Aretha stuff.
 
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Jerry Bransford said:
I am a HUGE music fan, and played professionally years ago performing in the Hollywood Bowl once. You guys would slap me if you heard the old shit I listen to every day and especially for a couple undisturbed hours after the wife goes to bed lol. Classical and older jazz when alone (wife is no fan of my music lol), older rock bands like the Rolling Stones, ZZ-Top, Traveling Wilburys, etc. when on the trail or at the campfire.
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RIP Dusty Hill
 
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The biggest one that stands out to me is bohemian rhapsody. As silly as it is - this was the song of my high school years driving between Denver and the high country. For some reason every time we played it, the traffic would start to clear up.

One big caveat is that everyone in the car had to know the lyrics. I had to let a girl down after her performance (but on the way home obviously).

 
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rasband said:
The biggest one that stands out to me is bohemian rhapsody. As silly as it is - this was the song of my high school years driving between Denver and the high country. For some reason every time we played it, the traffic would start to clear up.

One big caveat is that everyone in the car had to know the lyrics. I had to let a girl down after her performance (but on the way home obviously).

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Queen rocks.
 
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I'm old I guess - I've never even heard of anybody in this thread except Queen! I do like various (older) rock songs, usually one or two at a time, not a group or an album. Exceptions would be the Eagles, Foreigner, Journey - I like most of their stuff.

Let me see if I can find a vid of something I really like...
This woman's voice lights me on FIRE!

Then there's a few really obscure guys - Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky...
 
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Jerry Bransford said:
You guys would slap me if you heard the old shit I listen to every day and especially for a couple undisturbed hours after the wife goes to bed lol. Classical and older jazz when alone (wife is no fan of my music lol), older rock bands like the Rolling Stones, ZZ-Top, Traveling Wilburys, etc. when on the trail or at the campfire.
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Probably not! I grew up Listening to Hank Williams (Not Jr.), Marty Robins, Merle Haggard, Gene Pitney, Patsy Cline, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr. Dean Martin, and long list of others. I still listen to some of that today. One that is burned into my brain is a concert I went to when I was only 7. Although I was a poor kid, I had a best friend who was an only child and his parents were fairly well off. They took me along to a concert at then RFK. The group was the Beatles! :)
 
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Then there's a few really obscure guys - Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky...
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Them plus I'm a big Rimsky-Korsakov fan too, especially his Scheherazade piece based on the Arabian Tales of 1001 Nights.

There's a great story behind Scheherazade who stopped a Persian king from killing all the beautiful Persian princesses he killed nightly after marrying them. Revenge for his first bride who was unfaithful. She purposely married him believing she could stop him from killing more of the village's beautiful princesses. She then started telling him him amazing tales every night after being married that were just long enough so they couldn't be told in a single night. But so stories good the king let her live so he could hear ending the next night. To be followed by another, and another. Read about her, it's a great story. Truly. Then listen to the Scheherazade piece by Rimsky-Korsakov, a former late 1800's Russian naval officer.
 
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