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I think on those long, lonely moonlit nights, there is only one song, DvoÅ™ák's Song to the moon - Renée Fleming's top line might also might cheer me up, if she could come and sing it to me?
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The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 16:05 - Nov 19 with 1702 views
The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 13:04 - Nov 19 by R_from_afar
Very hard to choose for all the amazing stuff out there but here's my opening shot:
RFA
Second stage: Haunting, elegaic instrumentral rock which makes very clever use of dynamics. It's mournful, even, but still beautiful in its own way.
The slow mid section, stripped back to swelling synth chords and a sparse lead guitar part, is quite something, in my humble opinion, and proof that the space between the notes has its own power. Or something
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 09:10 - Nov 20 with 1554 views
Number Three from me. Favourite soul ballad ever. The arrangement, production, musicianship and voice are all perfect. What's more, it's restrained and not the nasal caterwauling that often got passed off as soul in the decades that followed.
Never fails to get me, this one.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Possibly an acquired taste, but one of my all time favourite bands, and I love this track. Stellar line up in Magazine too: this incarnation features Howard Devoto, the late great John McGeoch on guitar, Barry Adamson on bass, Dave Formula on keyboards, John Doyle drums.
Had to have a Beach Boys song in their somewhere. I know it's not for the purists, but considering it was released in 2012, it sounds like it is straight out of 1965
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The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 11:06 - Nov 20 with 1504 views
I was going to post The Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone, so this is cheating slightly as it also includes The Good The Bad and The Ugly main title with The Ecstasy of Gold starting at 02:45 but they are both great pieces in my opinion.
Also gotta love a classical orchestra that has a man hanging from a noose above them to add to the effect!
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The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 11:40 - Nov 20 with 1487 views
The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 10:36 - Nov 20 by hubble
Possibly an acquired taste, but one of my all time favourite bands, and I love this track. Stellar line up in Magazine too: this incarnation features Howard Devoto, the late great John McGeoch on guitar, Barry Adamson on bass, Dave Formula on keyboards, John Doyle drums.
Very good, but I’d have picked Philadelphia. McGeoch was superb with Siouxsie and the Banshees too.
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The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 11:47 - Nov 20 with 1478 views
The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 11:47 - Nov 20 by SonofNorfolt
A Floyd or a Zep song? Hard not to really. Try this.
A fabulous track , from my favourite Floyd album. The whole thing flows and there are are some marvellously bitter, cutting lyrics. The two short tracks at either end of the album give it great symmetry and a proper beginning and end. It nearly made it into my eight.
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 12:04 - Nov 20 with 1454 views
The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 09:01 - Nov 20 by R_from_afar
Second stage: Haunting, elegaic instrumentral rock which makes very clever use of dynamics. It's mournful, even, but still beautiful in its own way.
The slow mid section, stripped back to swelling synth chords and a sparse lead guitar part, is quite something, in my humble opinion, and proof that the space between the notes has its own power. Or something
That rare thing, humorous lyrics paired with excellent music. The way the guitar, bass and drums complement each other is something to behold and it could be argued that with this tune, Primus created a new genre, hillbilly hard rock. Ridiculous and ridiculously good, all at the same time...
RFA
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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The LFW Desert Island Discs Thread on 12:09 - Nov 20 with 1452 views
The The - hard to choose one track. Really tempted to go with Beyond Love but settled on Uncertain Smile for the Jools Holland solo and uptempo feel which is a bit unusual for them
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, from my favourite Floyd album. The whole thing flows and there are are some marvellously bitter, cutting lyrics. The two short tracks at either end of the album give it great symmetry and a proper beginning and end. It nearly made it into my eight.