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Beatles: Nowhere Man
Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb
Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In Blue
Harry Nilsson: The Puppy Song
Talking Heads: Take Me To The River (acoustic)
Phish: Bouncin Round The Room
Frank Sinatra: My Way
Paul Simon: American Tune
Crosby, Stills & Nash: Teach Your Children
Neil Young: Cowgirl In The Sand
James Taylor: Up On The Roof
Simon and Garfunkle: For Emily
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Grateful Dead: Friend of the Devil
Lyle Lovett: Friend of the Devil
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Byrds: My Back Pages
Blind Faith: Can't Find My Way Home
Hendrix: Little Wing
Sting: Little Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughn: Little Wing
Doors: When The Music's Over
(Add your own artists in your reply and edit your response to take in others' replies)
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"Make the pie higher." GWB
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ELO - Blue Sky
Ronnie Milsap - My Heart
Dollie Parton - And I will always love you
James Taylor - Millworker
Boz Scaggs - Sierra
Bread - Diary
CSNY - Dancers
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain
Christopher Cross - Sailing
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Beatles - Yesterday
America - I need you
Paul Simon - American Tune
Simon and Garfunkle - Kathy's Song
Thanks, JF.
I'm gonna open a bottle of wine and play some of these on my old guitar right now.
So much better than doing taxes.
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Beatles: A Day in the Life
Led Zeppelin: Ramble On
Talking Heads: Psycho Killer
Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Frank Sinatra: Just the Way You Look Tonight
Incubus: Make Yourself
Alainis Morrisette: Uninvited
Sublime: Romeo
U2: New Year's Day
Green Day: American Idiot
Oingo Boingo: So many ..., OK, OK, how 'bout Just Another Day
Cure: Let's Go to Bed
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Tori Amos: Tear in Your Hand
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JAZZ
Bill Evans: Here's That Rainy Day
John Coltrane: Spiritual
Oscar Peterson: Nigerian Marketplace
Billy Taylor: C-A-G
Jim Hall: Concierto de Aranjuez
McCoy Tyner: Wave
Don Pullen: Sing Me a Song Everlasting
Pat Metheny: Two Folk Songs
POP/ROCK
Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There
Grateful Dead: Eyes of the World
Phish: Split Open and Melt
Prince: I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Bob Dylan: Idiot Wind
Kawai RX-6, Satin Ebony
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Ringo - "I am the best drummer in the world."
Lennon - "He's not even the best drummer in the band."
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Bill Evans - Peace Piece.
Prince - Raspberry Barrette
Pat Metheney - Are you Going to be with me? and First Circle
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
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This is a great thread!! A total nostalgia-fest:
Beatles: In My Life
Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Flash
Bob Dylan: My Back Pages / Just Like a Woman / Mr. Tambourine Man
Harry Nilsson: Everybody's Talkin' / I Guess the Lord Must Live in New York City
Frank Sinatra: One for my Baby / The Lady is a Tramp
Paul Simon: American Tune (agree with you, Jack)
Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Lee Shore
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush / Expecting to Fly
James Taylor: Fire and Raim
Simon and Garfunkle: For Emily (agree) / Gone to Look for America (Kathy's Song) / Hazy Shade of Winter
Joni Mitchell: Blue / The Last Time I Saw Richard / All I Want / I Had a King
Carly Simon: Anticipation
The Beach Boys: Fun, Fun, Fun
"These are the good old days" --Carly Simon
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STEPPENWOLF!! 
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Better to light one small candle than to curse the %&#$@#! darkness. :t:
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Beatles: Eleanor Rigby Rolling Stones: Ruby Tuesday Bob Dylan: Tangled up in Blue or Hurricane Harry Nilsson: Guess the Lord Must be in NYC Talking Heads: title? "You may ask yourself, how did I get here?" Johnny Mathis: Misty Nat King Cole: Route 66 Paul Simon: Late in the Evening or Lincoln Duncan Crosby, Stills & Nash: Helplessly Hoping Neil Young: Cinnamon Girl Steve Stills: Sit Yourself Down James Taylor: Walking Man or Long Ago and Far Away Simon and Garfunkle: BoTW Joni Mitchell: Blue or You Turn Me On Stevie Wonder: Gosh, so many; All in Love is Fair, Knocks Me Off my Feet, My Cherie Amour.... Joe Cocker: You Can Leave Your Hat On or Feelin' Alright Aerosmith: Walk This Way Who: Won't Get Fooled Again Henry Mancini  : Moon River but only the Audrey Hepburn w/ guitar version Queen Aretha: R-E-S-P-E-C-T (of course!) or Skylark Beach Boys: In My Room Zombies: Time of the Season (not a great band, but I just love that song ) I've gotta stop, I could go on all night.
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Genesis: Supper's Ready Yes: Close To The Edge King Crimson: I Talk to The Wind Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick Pink Floyd: Several Species of Small Fury Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Groovin' with a Pict.  Emerson Lake & Palmer: Karn Evil #9 Kansas: The Spider Rush: 2112 Frank Zappa: I Am The Slime Uriah HeapThe Magician's Birthday Bill BrufordFainting in Coils Peter GabrielHere Comes The Flood QueensrycheSilent Lucidity The Flaming LipsIn The Morning Of The Magicians Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De LuciaFantasia Suite CSN: Teach Your Children This was really hard. Any piece by Genesis pre 1979 is without a doubt my favorite "Rock Music" but Supper's Ready is pretty much a religious experience for me. And that is saying a lot! I think the Pink Floyd piece was decided on mainly in jest. Not that I don't like it, I do immensely, but I just love the title! If I am going to listen to this "rock music stuff" it had better be damn creative stuff and worth my time. Teach Your Children is just plain good.
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Originally posted by kenny:
Prince - Raspberry Barrette
Uh, honey, I'm pretty sure that's Raspberry Beret. I thought gay men knew about accessories!  :p penny oh, and my favorite Prince song: hmmm, Nothing Compares 2 U is awesome (I know, Sinead recorded it, too, but he wrote it), maybe Purple Rain
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I do happen to have some some non-piano music stashed away in my MP3 collection.
Styx: Come Sail Away, Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man), Miss America, The Grand Illusion
Carly Simon: You're So Vain
Foo Fighters: Kung Foo Fighting
Ace of Base: Beautiful Life
Sarah Mclachlan: Adia
Beach Boys: Kokomo, I Get Around
Billy Joe Royal: Down in the Boondocks
Charlie Daniels: The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Desiree: You Gotta Be
TLC: Waterfalls
Roy Orbison: You Got It
Creedence Clearwater: Rollin on a River
Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (every single time I hear it, it for some reason reminds me of my grandfather on my mom's side, who died when I was 4 years old)
I have more but I think my list is long enough as it is now.
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jf said... Paul Simon: American Tune i hope u all know its a js bach st matthew passion rip off...
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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Originally posted by Nina:
Talking Heads: title? "You may ask yourself, how did I get here?" "Once in a Lifetime" is the title. Best line: "You may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful wife.'"
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. - Clemens
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Originally posted by bachophile: jf said...
[b]Paul Simon: American Tune Now that you mention it, I'd never really noticed! I did, however, always think that that song was incredibly harmonically adventurous for PS.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. - Clemens
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the original is the chorale;"Ich will hier bei stehen" from the st mathtew passion BWV 244.
its not accidentally similar, paul simon freely admits that he set his words to the music of the chorale.
from interview with Art Gaurfunkel:
Art Garfunkel : Well, I had a great feeling for that song. I had shown Paul the Bach chorale that is the basis of that song. Then we split up. Then Paul wrote "American Tune. " And I knew that was the kind of song that was very Simon & Garfunkel. Had we not split up, that would have been a "Bridge Over Troubled Water." I had a lot of fun writing that part because it had so much feel. I felt like I was partially the midwife that gave birth to that song.
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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American Tune" has a long and interesting history. The melody can be traced back to the German composer Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612), who originally wrote it as a love song called "Mein Gmth ist mir verwirret" ("My mind confuses me"). The tune was later transformed into a hymn with the lyrics "Herzlich thut mich verlangen" and later "O Haupt voll' Blut und Wunden." Johann Sebastian Bach borrowed the melody for his "St. Matthew Passion," where it can be heard five times at different points in the oratorio. Today the melody is still found in hymnals of many denominations, with the lyrics "Because All Men Are Brothers," among others. In 1973, Paul Simon continued the transformational life of the ancient tune when he penned the lyrics beginning "Many's the time I've been mistaken" and called his song "American Tune." Rolling Stone declared it to be the best song of that year!
"I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen
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Originally posted by Jack Frost:
Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb
jf Like you're allowed to play that song in the house! All in all, some brilliant choices, Jack--for Emily, just excellent.
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Beatles: Yes It Is
Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Flash
Bob Dylan: Every Grain of Sand
Talking Heads: And She Was
Paul Simon: Graceland
Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sting: Fields of Gold
Sarah MacLachlan: I Will Remember You
Beach Boys: I Can Hear Music
Bonnie Raitt: Dimming of the Day
Elton John: I'm Still Standing
and so on...
I'm out of time, but this was fun, Jack!
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