Love extreme metals...and old rock..
deep purple, Guns N Roses.....

but sometimes, classical music have it's own attraction...

Mozart Symphony No. 40.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZD9nt_wsY0

I enjoy classical music from time to time.It can be very relaxing...

I like Aaron Copeland

wow...nice and calm...

....never heard this one before...thank you!

I love rock/alternative/punk, but nothing has moved me more than Johannes Brahms.

I'll have to bring a CD along on my next appointment.

Here are some good songs...
Although I think you heard of them before.

Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Allegro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_jQBgzU-I

Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, 1st movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXJWUzn240

Liszt - Dream of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6hdDOFtW64

Handel - Arrival of Queen Sheba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGKJ9MgCOQ

My all-time favorite classical song is "Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner. Remember, Apocalypse Now," the helicopter assault scene? Robert Duvall's line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like...(sniff, sniff)..victory!!!!"
jhb

which some of you may recall was the opening music from "Trading Places"... love that movie.

Each walks to their own beat. Some slow and soothing others like the erratic beat of the jungle.

I grew up outside of Boston and enjoyed the Boston Pops from a very young age. I do so love classical but have found classical sounds in many fashions. Gadda-Da_Vida  Jethro Tull  Pink Floyd  just to name a few

Then came new-age music and I fell in love with the erotic draw of the sensual sounds of music all over again.

Heres one of my favorites and I do hope you enjoy it. Very talented writers and composers
who have brought me to the height of ecstasy many times over

Kisses Haley

Please check out the other tunes if you have time

Symphony of the forest....my favortite but couldn't get it to load,  Caravan, The Universe
   

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I usually have a nice selection of Asian, Indian, and Middle Eastern music with me. I love the sensual sounds of the primitive instruments. Some are even a nice meld of all three. V M Bhatt has put together some beautiful CD's of multi-cultural instrumentals.

When I go classical I tend towards Baroque  - Vivaldi in particular and some good old J. S. Bach.
I forget where I heard this, but supposedly baroque is good because of the tempo which is 60 beats per minute. That tempo is supposed to have a calming effect because your subconscious tries to get your heart to keep in time with it, and the 60 beats is an at rest rhythm. Hey it seems to work for me.

Another goody is Beethoven - Symphony #9 - Pastorale.

And like Haley there’s some nice New Age / Electronic offerings I like.
Tangerine Dream comes to mind.
Remember the train scene from Risky Business? Well it starts out with Phil Collins "In the air Tonight" and then on to that really hot sex scene. the music for the hot part - that was Tangerine Dream, from the TANGRAM disk, and that’s what got me turned on to TD in the first place. (see the clip below)

Now for classic Rock:

Tull
Genesis (their earlier work and the solo works of Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel)
Marillion (a largely unknown group  - but like Genesis in many ways)
Yes
Floyd
Springsteen
Beatles

I could go on, but that’ll do for now…

C_K



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as all are great - and many many more.

Perhaps we all were taught a little in the movie "ten" with Dudley Moore...  with Ravel's Bolero as the "soundtrack" to his would be wooing of Bo Derek...  

More my style would be the "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli and immortalized by Disney - as the dancing hippos!  and later used by Alan Sherman to describe camp experiences by youth.... ahhhh "Band Camp!"  Bwahahahaha....

Just so much to choose from....


AFter I initially posted this - I happened to recall that in the movie TEN - Annette Haven was featured as a gal that Moore peered at through his telescope.... what a hoot!

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I used to play it.  But I'm more of R&B person.  The other day, this gent played classical music which was fine.  Mostly wedding songs.. but then in the middle it turned to Requiem, which was kinda funny.  Am I supposed to think of it as sarcastic?

A pleasure trip on their subway. Did the mile high thing years ago but this seems so much more erotic to me.

Do most remember our favorite tune from a picture scene or our favorite picture scene from the music ?

This is one of my all time favorite so thanks!

Kisses Haley

Your welcome. I'll be Tom to your Rebecca anyday!
That part of the movie is just way HOTTT. So sensual.

It's too bad the DC subway is usually too busy and too bright - not mood lighting at all! - or I'd think about doing that...

Ah well - another fantasy to fill someday...

C_K

With some "Good Vibrations" as we have "Fun Fun Fun" on the "Sloop Followme B" in "The Warmth of The Sun"  as we sailt to "Kokomo"

"KISS ME BABY"



Thank You
2008=27

Remember Dudley Moore in 10, the scene with Bo Derek & Ravel's Bolero?

   I like Black Classical Music, aka Jazz....as well as pure classical....Bach, Mozart, Brahms, etc.....

   

The will over the intellect....

Became well known after Classical Gas was used on the Smothers Brothers show. Always loved that album title
"The Mason Williams Phonographic Record".

C_K

Edited to add the link below - DAMN can EVERYTHING be found on youtube?

There's even a version by Slow Hand (Eric Clapton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55A9H-PqOvY&feature=related


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Extraordinarily sensual and erotic. Waxes and wanes in a very sexual manner.

dance, techno... the harder the beat, the harder the... well you know

I think the YouTube link that lists Clapton as the player of Classical Gas is incorrect. Someone has been perpetuating this rumor on the net.

I've never seen a recording of this tune by Clapton, I question whether he has the technique to play it (fingerstyle is quite different from lead and Classical Gas is much harder to play than the blues numbers he does finger pick), and Mason Williams and Wilkipedi both question this claim.

When I'm in the mood for short piano pieces, Chopin played on an old Steinway is hard to beat (and hard to play).

Some of his preludes are profound. But is painful to hear his melodies converted to pop songs as has happened at times.

I had to look him up.. he looks like Anthony Hopkins from 1800's.

Although I don't know if he was trying to kill me or kill himself.  I just told him not to have a heart attack on me.

Gee marikod you mean to say not everything on the net can be taken at face value??? And may not be true?!?!

 

I am not as much of an aficionado of Mr.Clapton as you obviously are and I just posted the info without additional investigation, so I defer to your more enlightened assertion.

Thanks for posting that.

C_K

I of course have no personal knowledge C.K. as to who is playing in that clip in the link you found but that the fact that there is no video certainly raises some questions.

Back in the days of illegal downloads someone put a version of Classical Gas on the net and named Eric Clapton as the artist. So I think that is the source of the rumor.

Mason Williams comments on this in his web site. But it is a great tune and Eric of course is a great lead guitarist.

Oh, how I love to start rumors.

Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

Nearly everything each did is a work of genius and also very accessible.

For Bach, try his Brandenburg concerti.

For Mozart, either his later symphones (35-40), or his operas:  Marriage of Figaro especially.

For Beethoven try any of his symphonies (number 7 is my favorite) and his piano sonatas are also out of this world.

After you have had your fill of those, there are many more great composers to explore.  Divorak and the Russian composers like Tschaikovsky and Borodin to name but a few.  Also Brahms is quite nice.

Or, you could explore Vivaldi, Handle, Hayden and then there the real child prodigy:  Mendleson.

I could go on and on but I think you get the idea.

Welcome to the classical club.  I was raised in a house full of it, then went over to rock in the sixties.  Then one day I decided I had enough of rock for a while.  I switched back to the classical radio station about ten years ago and haven't looked back since.

"May the power of the Schwartz be with you"

as well. Except I'm not sure how Borodin snuck in there...