Classics... Oh boy, those are all good songs! Men at Work!! Yeah!!! I like Pink Floyd a lot; I've always considered "High Hopes," from "The Division Bell," to be a good one... Dang... Where, and how, should I upload stuff? To YouTube? (I've got an account... Hmm... What to do...???) Not to mention, "Money," "Wish You Were Here," "Time" (one of my favorites; I used a MIDI of that in a Doom level I'm making... Over two years later, still not done...), ehh, pretty much the whole "Dark Side of the Moon" album (of which "Time" and "Money" are part); I can't think of much else Pink Floyd related at the moment... I could go on forever on the subject of Classic Rock, however... Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," pretty much anything from "The Beatles," Don Henley and the Eagles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers... I could just go on and on...
Hmm, now for some Jazz albums I consider classics - and all of them by Miles Davis:
"Birth of the Cool," "Kind of Blue," "Sketches of Spain," "In a Silent Way," "B****es Brew" (even though he didn't mean it in a derogatory way - sometimes, that's just how some of the African-American folks talk, or at least, used to - I still refuse to uncensor it; it's all instrumental, and yet a few companies slap a "parental advisory" sticker on it? It's also controversial, because this ain't conventional Jazz; some have called it "voodoo," some have called it "noise," I call it an "experiment;" nothing wrong with that; it's also my favorite album in this unique sub-genre of Jazz, called Jazz-Rock, aka Fusion), "The Man With the Horn," "You're Under Arrest." Sadly, most of this stuff has been remixed, remastered, tampered with. Teo Macero, who worked with Miles from '59 to the mid-80s, is real upset about it, for a few different reasons. Oh, and he totally disagrees with the way that this whole "remixing/remastering industry" has just cropped up, putting "mistakes," in his own word, back on these classic albums. I for one, agree with him, both about the tampering of the music, and the addition of new unreleased stuff, but on the same end, I would like to hear these "new" tracks, if only to hear just what Davis himself rejected from the finished product(s)... Did you also know, that analog mediums actually have a fuller quality sound to them (records, compact cassettes, etc.) than their digital counterparts? I for one don't have the right equipment to tell for sure, but multiple people have stated this, not just Teo Macero.
Classical (yeah, I'm that "complex"):
Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," a name which he never knew it by; pretty much anything by Debussy; Bach's "The Art of the Fugue," putting that on here by it's legendary status alone; I have yet to actually LISTEN to a rendition of it...!
Anyway guys, a lot of this stuff can actually be listened to, for free (25 songs a month) on Rhapsody - streaming music. I can't access it anymore because of my firewalls, but some good stuff is there; however, a lot of that Jazz stuff is remixed, bleh. The originals were fine, leave them be! Just release an "accompaniment" album or something...
