Discussion»Questions»Music» There are many different kinds of music to suit any occasion. What kind of music or song would you like to listen to 'as you lay dying'?
Almost all music for regular life. My Tribute, (1st choice) and Amazing Grace is good dying music for me.
This post was edited by Honey Dew at July 30, 2021 12:12 PM MDT
I don't know what it is about that song, or hymm, but it appears more than any other to attract a competition to drag it out into the gooiest, slowest dirge going, turning dignity into parody!
It truly is Echooos! I learned from a musician who told me this would be a genre of beautiful decadence and there were a few songs that disappeared like that Linda Rondstadt and the black guy one in 1989. Let's see.
This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at July 30, 2021 6:35 PM MDT
One of the few covers I prefer to the original, mostly because Steve McGuire had an advantage over Greenbaum - effects pedals, which hadn't been invented in 1969. Norman had feedback issues, de-tuning a valve amp to dirty the sound is tricky. He got the desired distortion but the eight track didn't like it. Hence, feedback.
Dying takes a while so I think it would have to be a concerto or symphony by a Romantic or Modern composer: Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Saent-Saens, Elgar, for example.
Or maybe Classical, such as Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto - and its third movement cheerfully romps along, in anything but funereal style!
Atr the service, oh that will have to be Who Know Where The Time Goes - but the original, sung by Sandy Denny, with Fairport Convention. I have heard two or three covers, including one by Lionel Ritchie, I think, but they were not particularly good. One was dire - by an American opera-singer who seemed to be trying too hard to sing in a natural rather than grand-opera soprano aria style. It did sound odd!
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