What is the most powerful piece of music you have heard ?
This has to be one of mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uroyYMxaw...ed&search=
Move 4 min and about 47 seconds into the clip to hear what I am talking about...
Jim Steinman's tunes are powerpacked but just aren't on par with this, the same goes for Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven"
This is my :2cents:
What is yours ?
Jangar Wrote:Jim Steinman's tunes are powerpacked but just aren't on par with this, the same goes for Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven"
Sorry, I don't agree with you. Dramatic organ music is just not my taste. :noway: I'm a huge Queen & Led Zep fan. That's why humans are interesting, we all have such different taste.
While you were listening to Phantom, I was listening to this old Danzig classic. This is powerful (don't click link unless you like
loud music!)
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2753345/colle...usicvideos :biker:
Bohemian Rhapsody now that is something special
Yep to Bohemian Rhapsody and Stairway. :jive:
Powerful - in what sense though - loud and thrashing or moving?
Enter the Sandman by Metallica, Hairway to Steven by Butthole Surfers, Anything by The Mission.
Moving - Bridge over Troubled Water - S&G, Sounds of Silence.
Opera not my scene. Sorry J have to agree with V on this one
Venus Wrote:Sorry, I don't agree with you. Dramatic organ music is just not my taste. :noway: I'm a huge Queen & Led Zep fan. That's why humans are interesting, we all have such different taste. While you were listening to Phantom, I was listening to this old Danzig classic. This is powerful (don't click link unless you like loud music!) http://www.ifilm.com/video/2753345/colle...usicvideos :biker:
I'm sorry but it only makes the speakers vibrate, it doesn't make them jump off the wall. It's loud and proud but to me it lacks the deep down low frequency "power" that I am searching for in this thread.
Perhaps what I am thinking about are "anthem" or "stadium" rockers ??? Songs so powerful that the whole arena structure suffers from metal fatigue ???
If by powerful you mean changing perception and mood then a top contender is Pink Floyd's : 'Is There Anybody Out There' from 'The Wall'............by itself it doesn't do much and is only just over 2 and a half minutes long with nothing more than an acoustic guitar arpeggio and a single line lyric. However, in the context of the album and where it's been placed, it changes the entire mood of the album from one of rebellion to one of self-reflection.
Another 'powerful' piece would have to be Led Zeppelin's 'In My Time Of Dying' off the 'Physical Graffiti' album.........if you want thunderous, precise drumming, a slide guitar created somewhere between hell and hades and a voice stating his case for being allowed into the 'hereafter' then this is the track.
Even after 11 minutes, you're left wanting more.
For raw powerful emotion from the instruments involved in the song, I would have to go with Guns and Roses 'Estranged' off 'Use Your Illusion 2'....the weeping melancholic guitar lines send shivers and the bass, piano and percussion fill the holes perfectly.
Venus, I have to agree with Danzig, heheh but I would go with 'How The Gods Kill'..........switching from soft, mellow, baritone and sweeping to raw, loud and angry at the flick of a switch.
Parisienne Walkway by Phil Lynott and Gary Moore
Theres too many to mention............
Performed properly :
Adagio for strings
Flight of the Valkyries
Carmina Burana
are extremely powerful.
How could I forget about Carmina Burana :duh:
I was also tempted to mention Gary Moore and Phil Lynott's "Out in The Fields"
