Super Interesting metal thread....

Brian_Uckfast

Some very stagnant threads goin on here...

I'd love to know what everyones favourite non-metal song is!!!

(And mods this IS rock\metal related as the only thing all of the songs will have in common is the absence of metal, as posted by metal fans, or frequenters of the metal forum )

Personally, it has to be....

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

apoch632

Probably Untitled 1 or 8 by Sigur Rós

Doctor J

Rock Me Amadeus by Falco.

Mushy

For me, it just has to be this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1KvhfSjhWg

Puts me in a trance everytime.

damonjewel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7oUwPIWCYI

This one for me

Malice

Brian_Uckfast wrote:

I'd love to know what everyones favourite non-metal song is!!!

Why not start this thread in the non-metal section then?

Anyway, picking a favourite song is impossible. I have to say I quite like this one though:

Lunascape - Surrender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOsv9Fe2x0

Pugsley

Has to be Nessun Dorma by Puccini, incredible piece:

adox

Could never really pick one song but this Imogen Heap track is both a technical marvel and full of soul, which is rare in the extreme.

Notorious

Its not easy to just pick one, but quite possibly Epic by Faith No More.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsETamxkT9E

kevin_de_big

Da Funk immediately springs to mind. The structure has that malignancy that will stick around in your consciousness for weeks.

rainbow kirby

Well, outside of metal I'm a huge Ani diFranco fan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_VRCprV2g

(Two Little Girls)

Gerard.C

The Street of New York by The Wolfe Tones or A Rainy Night In Soho by The Pogues or Damien Dempsey, both versions are great

Karl Hungus

Brian_Uckfast wrote: »

Some very stagnant threads goin on here...

I'd love to know what everyones favourite non-metal song is!!!

Good thread...

Now, I consider myself a music fan, not specifically a rock or metal fan. there's no way I could possibly pick one favourite. There's so many great genres out there, so many bands, so many artists, with so many albums, that it just couldn't be possible to nail down one. I mean, I'll listen to anything from Gojira to Bjork to Daft Punk to Herbie Hancock to SRV.

Interesting you picked Scatman John though, I've always felt he was an underappreciated talent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv-OwPTJcTc

Anyway, I love Jazz myself, especially stuff along the lines of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0Hs7-hX6E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggL_2hk9DyI

On a more eletronic side, love Susumu Hirasawa. Got into his work from the films he scored, he's got an amazingly unique style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD-5alqkDiA

Here's some Japanese pop music, which I think is awesome because it's almost as if someone took an innocent little song and stuck insane Meshuggah-esque rhrythms in it (from about 1:35 onwards) and it sounds heavy as hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxxnr3j604k

Being a huge film fan, I love a lot of soundtracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mbKjV5OChA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlxyoPNaFI

Gotta love Morricone, don't you? In fact, I'd say he influenced a lot of metal bands.

This is Joe Hisaishi, probably my favourite modern composer, he scored all of Miyazaki's films, such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. This is one from My Neighbor Totoro preformed live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKgUzahbhVE

Absolutely sublime song.

big b

Would probably give a different answer every time you asked, but for now I'll go with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmS41_JdVLg

SirLemonhead

A bit of Big Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij0Wa1sdXOw

Nea

Good Call on The Last Waltz from Oldboy Karl.Fantastic
I must get that soundtrack (Its madness they are even thinking about remaking that movie!)

Its too hard to pick just one song.

Gene Pitney RIP

I adore Jarvis

At the moment I am haunted by Dengue Fever

Warrior23

'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' by that dead guy, can't remember his name, sounds kinda Jamican.

Brian_Uckfast

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Good thread...


This is Joe Hisaishi, probably my favourite modern composer, he scored all of Miyazaki's films, such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. This is one from My Neighbor Totoro preformed live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKgUzahbhVE

Absolutely sublime song.

My God.

Amazing

Karl Hungus

Aye Nea, the Oldboy soundtrack is fantastic, well worth getting.

Glad you liked that Brian Uckfast, Joe Hisaishi absolutely stunning, I've more of his soundtracks than of any other composer, and have the DVD that the above video is from.

Karl Hungus

Dissapointed this thread isn't getting as many replies. Come on folkies, what other genres do you like?

Seeing as a few here appreciated the soundtrack videos I posted, I'll post a couple more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3zdYRW7jI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRDty052c2c

Stev_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmUde_EK5Y

Great song

MoominPapa

Big fan of crescendos and no one, except Sigur Ros, does crescendos better than Rufus Wainwright. Unfortunatly hes really lost it, which might have something to do with him going clean, theres a Bowie parellel going on, but here is his magnificent De Profundus to Crystal Meth - Go, or go ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYb5vyBuD3E

Malice

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Dissapointed this thread isn't getting as many replies. Come on folkies, what other genres do you like?

Okay then, you asked for it .

One style of music that has a special place in my heart is anything featuring the distinctive sound of the good old Commodore 64's SID Chip. It's amazing firstly what the chip designers managed to build and secondly what the muscians managed to create.

Here are some favourites of mine:

Sanxion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7yJh-NwPY

Platoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXfkev09fHA

Ocean Loader Version 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CRWLx_zBg

On a related note, if you haven't heard of them already, check out Machinae Supremacy. They mix SID sounds with metal for a very interesting sound.

Pugsley

malice_ wrote: »

On a related note, if you haven't heard of them already, check out Machinae Supremacy. They mix SID sounds with metal for a very interesting sound.

Have their Redeemer album, rather excellent.

And I second the notion of Joe Hisaishi, heard a fair bit of his stuff, superb.

Karl Hungus

malice_ wrote: »

Okay then, you asked for it .

One style of music that has a special place in my heart is anything featuring the distinctive sound of the good old Commodore 64's SID Chip. It's amazing firstly what the chip designers managed to build and secondly what the muscians managed to create.

Here are some favourites of mine:

On a related note, if you haven't heard of them already, check out Machinae Supremacy. They mix SID sounds with metal for a very interesting sound.

Ah nice one, videogame music for the win. I didn't have a Commodore 64, the Amiga was my first. Had a listen to Machinae Supremacy there, pretty damned cool it has to be said.

On the subject, I've a deep love of the Final Fantasy soundtracks. Nobuo Uematsu is just a genius:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYecLvwOiVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5st0b3ln5U

Pugsley wrote: »

And I second the notion of Joe Hisaishi, heard a fair bit of his stuff, superb.

Hisaishi is just the man, here's some more for good measure, absolutely breath-taking song again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-GPay8lSZs

the_syco

All time non-metal tune? Dunno.

One for this time of the year, has to be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3aoSyYOVs

christophicus

I'm not particularly into rap/hiphop at all. But this track that Philip Glass has messed with is really quite good imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb1LTZvrzxM

The Dead Flag Blues - GodSpeed You Black Emporer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS2BrxcWWZA

adox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCeZzW54a2o

This is probably the album I`m listening to most at the moment outside of rock/metal - Santogold.

Sarky

I can't pick one. Music is too wonderful for favourites.

If you've ever played the first mission of Homeworld, you'll know how amazing a tune Barber's Adagio is. I love that one. I'm very fond of classical music in general. It was the rock'n'roll of its time, really, everyone was trying to do something new, ever more complex melodies and patterns, it's pretty breathtaking stuff when you listen to it as something other than background music. I can't hear it at all without going all misty-eyed. Probably because of what happens in the game

One non-metal band I can't get enough of at the moment is The Real Tuesday Weld. They have a really strange synthesiser/cabaret/techno/oldschool thing going on, and it's just perfect listening for me right now. For an example of what they're like you could do worse than typing "Bathtime In Clerkenwell" into youtube...

nyarlothothep

very out of character for me but I like Dreamweaver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk4qeCT-RFk

burn baby burn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opY4qcidFk

debussy clair de lune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINSmhssRRs&feature=related

charlotte hatherley behave

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

graham central station-pow

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IuD6F3R5I

Karl Hungus

You know, I'm bumping this one up again. This was a terrific thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TAxm00jOg