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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Cool Chris on June 20, 2018, 10:28:01 PM
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High Hopes might be my favorite Floyd song (discounting live versions). Wait, crap are we supposed to count The Endless River?
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Actual favorite:
Glen Campbell - Adios (If you can listen to that, knowing the story, and not bawl your eyes out, you're a stone.)
Queen - Innuendo
Maybe not ACTUALLY favorites, but certainly contenders:
Asia - Till We Meet Again
Genesis - Fading Lights
The Beatles - I've Got A Feeling
Whitesnake - Forevermore
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Queen - The Show Must Go On
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Queen - Innuendo
Queen - The Show Must Go On
Made in Heaven?
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I mean, technically that is their final album. I personally consider it post-humous and there's a few songs from Freddie's solo work that made it on there that was re-worked by Brian, Roger, and John.
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Innuendo will always count as their last for me. Made in Heaven had good stuff but more counted as a left-over album.
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Maybe not ACTUALLY favorites, but certainly contenders:
Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds.
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Yeah if The Division Bell counts as PF’s last album, then I pick High Hopes.
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10,000 Days (Wings pt 2) by Tool.
The only Tool song that I really like.
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Dream Theater - Power Down
and I think Graves is a good contender for a favourite Caligula's Horse song, though that's a tough call regardless
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Some I'm not 100% sure of, but they're at least, like Stadler said, strong contenders:
Haken - The Architect
Rivers of Nihil - The Silent Life
Persefone - Stillness is Timeless
Elder - Sanctuary
Manchester Orchestra - The Grocery
Converge - The Dusk in Us
The Dear Hunter - The Most Cursed of Hands / Who Am I
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Great Chain of Being
The Hirsch Effekt - Xenophotopia
Cult of Luna - The Wreck of S.S. Needle
Orphaned Land - The Cave
Novembre - Umana
God Is An Astronaut - Seance Room
Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage or Exist
If Innuendo counts I would pick the title track or The Show Must Go On too, I've been getting into them a bit more lately and those songs are both fantastic.
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High Hopes is a great answer, and the first that came to mind for me as well.
My other submissions:
Pagan’s Mind - Walk Away in Silence
After Forever - either Envision or Discord
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Possibly Rats by Ghost (tied with Square Hammer though).
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Possibly Rats by Ghost (tied with Square Hammer though).
Dance Macabre for the win! :metal
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Oh yeah :metal
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Speaking of Queen, just coincidentally I watched Queen Rocks Montreal, and... wow. Other than a moment there where my daughter was like "Wow, how did you guys not see that coming?" when Freddie was prancing around barefoot in the tight white shorts, red bandanna and Canadiens hat (which I thought was funny; she didn't say it to be judgmental) that guy... I forgot how good he was. "Save Me" - as good as Jeff did it with Sons - was just out of this world, and I even caught my wife looking at the screen when he and Brian did "Love Of My Life". Then, after two hours he destroys (in a good way) We Are The Champeens... no one can touch him in my book.
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It's not my #1 favorite, but it comes super close. "My Eternal Dream" by Stratovarius is one of the best power metal songs ever written and it was made 30 years into the band's existence on their 16th album. That's damn good.
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Detonation - Steven Wilson
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Ones that come to mind:
Tool - Vicarious
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Maybe not ACTUALLY favorites, but certainly contenders:
Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds.
Also this, plus Spit out the Bone by Metallica.
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is there a minimum number of albums they have to have in their catalog? (the 1st album favorite song thread was at least 5 albums).
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Not the favorites, but perhaps the most 'emotional' swan songs (ruh roh, another thread starter ;))
Queen - The Show Must Go On
Led Zeppelin - I'm Gonna Crawl
The Beatles - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
The Eagles - Sad Café
Genesis - Fading Lights
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Only one comes to my mind: Synchronicity II by The Police.
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Only one comes to my mind: Synchronicity II by The Police.
That's actually a great suggestion
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Only one comes to my mind: Synchronicity II by The Police.
Good choice. I think Wrapped Around Your Finger is my favorite Police song (though it changes constantly).
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The Beatles - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
This is what I came to post, but would include the whole medley.
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Like others have said, High Hopes is the first that came to mind. Also Exist by Avenged Sevenfold is a beast of a song, although I'm not sure if it's my favorite of there's. It's definitely a contender.
I'm sure there are others, I'd have to think about it.
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This was tougher than I thought:
From Monument To Masses - A Sixth Trumpet
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Not the favorites, but perhaps the most 'emotional' swan songs (ruh roh, another thread starter ;))
Queen - The Show Must Go On
Led Zeppelin - I'm Gonna Crawl
The Beatles - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
The Eagles - Sad Café
Genesis - Fading Lights
The Eagles have an album from 2007 Long Road Out Of Eden
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Sorry, folks, but The Endless River is the last Pink Floyd album, so listing anything from The Division Bell is cheating. ;)
I could possibly say Blackstar by David Bowie. There are a handful of Bowie songs that could be my favorite on any given day and that is one of them.
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I called that out in my first post. And everything I have read says Made in Heaven is an official Queen album release as well, so similarly Innuendo is discounted.
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High Hopes is a great answer, and the first that came to mind for me as well.
My other submissions:
Pagan’s Mind - Walk Away in Silence
After Forever - either Envision or Discord
Your post made me realise how long it has been since Pagan's Mind has released an album. Damn.
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Good call on After Forever - their best album and I would rather listen to that than Nightwish. I would've liked one more album out of After Forever before Floor moved on.
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If you're going to make that call on Innuendo - which I don't disagree with (frankly, I forgot about Made In Heaven, so my bad!) you have to ditch "In Through The Out Door" by Zeppelin, too, since the band considers Coda part of the canon.
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Genesis - Fading Lights
While I understand the desire to pretend Calling All Stations doesn't exist, nevertheless it does ;) Fading Lights is off their penultimate album.
My own answers (that come immediately to mind):
Right In Two (Tool)
Silver Eagle (Mark Knopfler)
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is there a minimum number of albums they have to have in their catalog? (the 1st album favorite song thread was at least 5 albums).
so, does 1 album count?
I guess I'll say:
Toy Matinee - Last Plane Out
Apes and Androids - Riverside
The Dissociatives - Aaängry Megaphone Man
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I just thought of another one:
Beardfish - I We Must Be Apart (A Love Story Continued)
Beardfish have released many great songs (in fact, And The Stone Said: If I Could Speak is not far behind the above mentioned), but this one might be my favorite. The story that Rikard sings touches me. Although I have not experience anything like this (duh), I can somehow relate. Every time I finish this song and reading the lyrics at the same time, it sends shivers down my spine... Such a haunting story.
It's a pity that they disbanded.
Fantastic song!
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I'm totally on board with Kaleidoscope and Syncrhonicity II. With After Forever, my choice would be Energize me or Equally Destructive.
What else?? ...
Triosphere - The Heart's Dominion (though, only 3 albums)
Kingcrow - If Only
Avantasia - Let The Storm Descend Upon You (though, it's really tied with The Scarecrow and Wicked Symphony)
Teramaze - An Ordinary Dream
Cloudscape - In Silence We Scream
Primal Fear - We Walk Without Fear
Silent Force - Caught in Their Wicked Game
Fates Warning - The Light and Shade of Things
Seventh Wonder - The Angelmaker
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Tool- wings for marie part 1 is up there as one of my favorite tool songs. The slow build, the atmosphere, the eerie tone. I love it all
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I'm totally on board with Kaleidoscope and Syncrhonicity II.
Totally agree about Synchronicity II. That has always been my favorite Police song. :tup :tup
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I'll go with 'King of Pain'
The Eagles have an album from 2007 Long Road Out Of Eden
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You got me on that. I'll also be honest in saying I've never heard any of the tracks.
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I was never that big on King of Pain. Synchronicity was the first vinyl I ever owned (not counting singles on 45's), and I know every song on it like the back of my hand, but King of Pain was the one I was never overly fond of. I like it more than I used to, but it's still never a song I would never listen to on its own (always in the flow of the record, like Mother).
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I'll go with 'King of Pain'
The Eagles have an album from 2007 Long Road Out Of Eden
You got me on that. I'll also be honest in saying I've never heard any of the tracks.
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Long Road Out Of Eden is a great album in my opinion!! I love most of the songs on there and although Don Felder doesn't play on there, it has some great instrumental sections.
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Not 100% on this but Empire Of The Clouds is possibly my favourite Maiden song. Bit too early for me to say anything off the new Ghost album but I do love pretty much everything on it.
I would also say that Broken Sky/Long Day (Reprise) is quite possibly my favourite Neal Morse song.