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09-08-2007, 12:52 AM
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One song which sums up your taste
At first it seems an impossible question to answer, but my mates and I have have been discussing this recently and we have each managed to do it.
Mine is: UFO - Love to Love.
The reasoning: Love to Love has an epic sound, light and dark...it builds and swirls and has energy - it's a song to lose yourself in. It is played by a group of talented musicians at the peak of their game. The words are beautiful, the guitar work is a lesson on how the instrument can compliment and enhance the feeling of the track - so often guitarists twiddle for the sake of it, not Schenker on this one. Phil Mogg's vocals soar and have a warmth which melts. The arrangement is as good as anything Beethoven came up with...anyway, I'm getting off track here. The point is the song sums up my taste - hard rock you can't help but sing to or air guitar to...a haunting sound, slick and thoughtful; insightful and yet uplifting at the same time.
I can enjoy everything from Girls Aloud to Venom but UFO captured all that I love in music in this one song. If I was to take one song on desert island, this would without hesitation be the one. If I was to recommend one song to anyone, I wouldn't hesitate to say Love to Love.
What's yours - not your favourite song, but the one which sums up your taste? [And don't bother replying that "my tastes are so wide that I can't pin it down to one song"  ...you can]
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09-08-2007, 9:31 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly
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09-08-2007, 10:31 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
ok 1 song?
Orion by Metallica.
Epic, serious, memorable, mature, complex, superior musicians, emotional etc.
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09-08-2007, 10:48 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
velvet underground-venus in furs
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09-08-2007, 11:18 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
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Originally Posted by systemsdead
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Are you sure it's taste in music you are talking about?
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14-08-2007, 9:00 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
I've loved this song since it came out and still listen to it regularly now. I saw them perform this song live at the Phoenix festival back in 1996, along with Shara Nelson who sang the lyrics. It was amazing, especially when the curtains opened behind the band to reveal a small orchestra.
"Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart
I'm missing every part"
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14-08-2007, 9:13 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
Tyketto - Forever Young
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14-08-2007, 9:24 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
'Child In Time' - Deep Purple. The live version off Made in Japan.
It's got everything, nice gentle intro, Gillans voice at it's absolute peak, literally and figuratively, reaching unbelievable heights during his screams of anguish, one of Blackmores all-time best solos. Thirteen minutes of sheer genius 
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14-08-2007, 10:43 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
Say Hello To Heaven - Temple Of The Dog
A song full of emotion sung by one of the Top ten vocalists of all time
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14-08-2007, 1:30 PM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
Alexander The Great - Iron Maiden
Long, epic & with some great dual guitars.
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14-08-2007, 7:42 PM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
I too thought this was an impossible question - my tastes vary so much, but finally thought of one...
It's not the best song ever...
It's not got the best tune...
I don't listen to it that often...
But it does have that indefinable ... yeah! .. that's my taste ...
Capt Beefheart - Neon Meate Dream of an Octafish 
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16-08-2007, 10:01 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
The Mars Volta 'Cassandra Geminni' (Parts A-E)
The closing suite of music on the "Frances The Mute" album. Pure rock music bliss. 
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17-08-2007, 11:28 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
Funkadelic....one nation under a groove...
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20-08-2007, 12:01 AM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Fortunate Sun'
the essence of rock n roll.
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20-08-2007, 7:23 PM
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Re: One song which sums up your taste
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Funkadelic....one nation under a groove...
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Strange World 2000 remake by Push
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