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Post by Ayinger on Mar 31, 2007 19:43:37 GMT -5
I think Duke Ellington's finest moment is "Fluerette Africaine". I haven't heard much from him but I still doubt I will ever find a track that touches me more. Seriously doubt it. It isn't only the best Ellington I've ever heard, but also the best jazz I've ever heard, period. ah! I researched up that track as I wasn't familiar with it and discovered that it's on Money Jungle, a disc I'd been interested in as it teams Ellington up with Mingus and Max Roach. Now you've given me more reason to keep it in mind! For an Ellington piece that touches me the deepest, it'd have to be "Come Sunday" --- especially the delicate violin playing of Ray Nance. |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Mar 31, 2007 23:23:50 GMT -5
Actually, thorny recorded that song for me on a mixed tape and I fell in love with it immediately.
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Post by Ayinger on Apr 1, 2007 2:39:35 GMT -5
which song? "Fluerette Africaine" or "Come Sunday"??
I do have an mp3 somewhere of "Money Jungle" the song.....always had the notion that the entire album was ferocious just from that one tune.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Apr 1, 2007 14:11:01 GMT -5
Fluerette
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Post by wayved on Apr 1, 2007 23:45:23 GMT -5
This is gonna sound gay...
but Lou Christie. "Lighting Striking Again"--good grief! Its got everything in it. Bells. Piano. Big Drums. Horns. Females in the background (or is it all lou?). The guy is being a toal asshole in the song. But it does it for me. Theres even a shitty guitar solo. Perfect.
Shangri-Las-Sweet Sound of Summer--the first time I heard this on a tape a friend made me, I had to pull the car over. I played that shit all day. And all day the next day.
Brougues-I aint no Miracle Worker -- hear the song.
ANdy Kim-baby I love You-CMON BABY NANANANANANAAAA! (nananananaaaaa!) Perfection. Sweet sugary perfection.
Steppenwolf-Rock Me--pretty proggy for its time.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Apr 2, 2007 17:13:22 GMT -5
I think Sonic Youth's fm is in the song "Dirty Boots" where it builds up intensity at the end and then explodes into mellow ecstacy, kinda like an orgasm, yeah.
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Jun 29, 2008 2:16:26 GMT -5
Radiohead's finest moment is Pyramid Song, I mean Let Down, I mean Pyramid Song, I mean....shit they can have two, right?
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Post by ScottsyII on Jun 30, 2008 16:48:25 GMT -5
I don't think they're done having finest moments in my opinion - for me "All I Need" from In Rainbows is as much a finest moment as "Let Down" from Ok Computer...
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Post by Thorngrub on Jul 11, 2008 10:55:09 GMT -5
Fleurette Africaine - *gets goose bumps* - I agree on that being a finest moment. What I'm trying to discern, is it the finest moment for the Duke, jazz in general - or the history of music.
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