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La Cura by Franco Battiato Oct 26, 2005

If not, give him a chance, you won't regret it. To me, that's the best italian love song ever written. Actually, it goes BEYOND love I couldn't even explain...
And, yes, JB works for me as well!
Gianni
PS: I think I am going to post more topics like this (following up: Best Band, the 10 Records to take on a desert island etc. etc.


Gianni, you've got me curious: will certainly look out for "La Cura"!

Go right ahead with the other topics: excellent idea.

Since no-one's mentioned J.J. Cale yet I will, because he more than deserves a mention. "Cocaine", which everyone's heard the Eric Clapton version of, is originally a Cale song. Bluesy, great guitar, laconic lyrics.

That's an interesting observation about mainly English songs being mentioned: merits a forum discussion of its own - I don't want to go off-topic here.


 
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LAYLA Oct 26, 2005

Note: Your title should summarize your main point.

 
Gianni Pastore
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One of my favorite books! Oct 26, 2005

Daniela Zambrini wrote:

Gianni Pastore wrote:

PS: I think I am going to post more topics like this (following up: Best Band, the 10 Records to take on a desert island etc. etc.


aha! Gianni, I'm sure you must have read this, if not it's a must for Top-five desert-island lists: "High Fidelity" - Nick Hornby

Ciao


Couldn't stop laughing eheheheh... Nick is great indeed!
Ciao
G


 
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ONE Oct 27, 2005

I couldn't possibly choose just one. I already narrowed it down to 14
Here's my list:

Italian:
Amedeo Minghi - Cantare è d'amore (always at the top of my list, always makes me shiver)
Josh Groban - Canto alla vita
Al Bano - Domani (I know it's old)

French:
Joe Dassin - L'été indien
Jean-Jacques Goldman - On ira (2nd favorite)
Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
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I couldn't possibly choose just one. I already narrowed it down to 14
Here's my list:

Italian:
Amedeo Minghi - Cantare è d'amore (always at the top of my list, always makes me shiver)
Josh Groban - Canto alla vita
Al Bano - Domani (I know it's old)

French:
Joe Dassin - L'été indien
Jean-Jacques Goldman - On ira (2nd favorite)
Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas (also 2nd favorite. See what I mean? I can't choose)
Charles Aznavour - A te regarder (2nd favorite)
Francis Cabrel - Je t'aimais, je t'aime, je t'aimerai

English:
Pat Benatar - We belong
U2 - One (another 2nd favorite)

Spanish:
Myriam Hernández - La fuerza del amor
Ricardo Montaner - Sólo con un beso
Chayanne - Lo dejaría todo
Julio Iglesias - Lo mejor de tu vida

I have about 30 favorite Greek songs, but I'll stop here (I've already exceeded the limit )
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Sodade, by Cesaria Evora Oct 27, 2005

A reason? Just listen it at http://www.caboverde.com/evora/evr-0092.htm


A second one? "Drumi Mobila" - By the cuban artist Bola de Nieve.

Both are very sweet songs (I'm afraid I'm not able to explain in English the motives as I don't find the proper words). But both manage to calm me.

A third one?
"Prendre un enfant par la main" By the fre
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A reason? Just listen it at http://www.caboverde.com/evora/evr-0092.htm


A second one? "Drumi Mobila" - By the cuban artist Bola de Nieve.

Both are very sweet songs (I'm afraid I'm not able to explain in English the motives as I don't find the proper words). But both manage to calm me.

A third one?
"Prendre un enfant par la main" By the french Ives Duteil. I heard it for the first time in a coffee at the Quartier Latin. I was seventeen years old, and my father and I were on our first vacations in a foreign country. An old drunken lady, at 10 o'clock in the morning was singing the song, and my dad and I loved it inmediately. The second time we heard it was the next day, at Versailles. Besides the lyrics - it teaches us how to take care of a child - it has a soft and sweet music. I won't say that I remember this song every single day, but when I do, I remember one of the best vacations I had with my father, the beautiful days I spent with him, and that, in fact, I take my childs by the hand... I do what the song says.

The song says (I found the translation at Internet):
To take a child by the hand
To take it along about tomorrow
To give him confidence in its step
To take a child for a king. <

Regards

Clarisa
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Dunno how you count, Philippe! Oct 27, 2005

But your message appears after mine and I had listed
- Il Sol dell'Anima - Italian
- Donna Cannone - Italian
- Canzone - Italian
- Eu queria cantar eu um fado - Portughese

That's four that are not English and that was just my post!!!



Angela

PS - what was yours?

Philippe Boucry wrote:
Well, that was the case when I posted my original message - unless of course we don't count the same way or use different criteria


 
Fernando Toledo
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I see the eyes are now open Oct 27, 2005

My favorite... today:

Jack sou brasileiro - Lenine

Pernambuco (Brazil) and Funk music hand in hand

and yes music is a gift coming from the beginning of time.


Spain, Pakistan, Sumatra, Morocco, Ghana, Brazil...


 
Joanne Nebbia
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What, no Joni Mitchell? Nov 5, 2005

Carrie does it for me - also A case of you (either Joni or Diana Krall

 
kando
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Amigos Nov 8, 2005

para siempre

 
emily_tann (X)
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Faure Dec 7, 2005

Jana Teteris wrote:

Very difficult to choose - but, Ravel's 'Cantique de Jean Racine' always sends shivers down my spine.



I agree, but I feel i must point out that it is by Faure! (don't mean to be rude!!!) =)


 
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Two songs Dec 7, 2005

"Colours" by Bob Dylan and "Strange Fruits" by Billy Holliday .
For the lyrics which teach us a few things about history.


 
Yazan Quandour
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Can't say one Feb 8, 2006

Well...

Problem is I'm a dreaming soul who loves many (MANY) types of music, one for every moment, one for every mood, one for every day and so forth.
The one currently sending the shockwaves up the spine for me is "Losing My Touch" for Toby Keith. Awesome country music, great lyrics, great voice and just mesmerizing.

But then again that's just me


 
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Too many to list Feb 19, 2006

But favourites include Queen, Springsteen, Nessun Dorma (good to sing in the bath), various rugby songs?

However, as a linguist, I am fascinated by the songs where they mess around with languages.

For example "Volare" by Dean Martin, where you are whisked from Vegas to Naples (or is it Palermo) in a second, as he dramatically switches into Italian.

Also lots of the stuff by Paul Simon a
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But favourites include Queen, Springsteen, Nessun Dorma (good to sing in the bath), various rugby songs?

However, as a linguist, I am fascinated by the songs where they mess around with languages.

For example "Volare" by Dean Martin, where you are whisked from Vegas to Naples (or is it Palermo) in a second, as he dramatically switches into Italian.

Also lots of the stuff by Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo where they jump to and fro in English and Xhosa.

Or that beautiful duet by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion "The Prayer", where they both variously sing in Italian and English.

To name just three of many.

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Nicky Jane (X)
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Many but this springs to mind... Feb 22, 2006

First time ever I saw your face by Roberta Flack.

 
Marc Glinert
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No problem
This is an easier question than it sounds.

...and please, if you're quoting get the spelling and brackets right.

This is the track with everything. Fabulous warm production, heart-felt wannabe lyric, rousing chorus, twiddly piano bits,
and the drumbreak which makes all other drumbreaks sound like someone has just snapped a pencil in half.

Written and performed by Eric Carmen (yes he of All by Myself fame) when he still had his wonderf
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No problem
This is an easier question than it sounds.

...and please, if you're quoting get the spelling and brackets right.

This is the track with everything. Fabulous warm production, heart-felt wannabe lyric, rousing chorus, twiddly piano bits,
and the drumbreak which makes all other drumbreaks sound like someone has just snapped a pencil in half.

Written and performed by Eric Carmen (yes he of All by Myself fame) when he still had his wonderful and highly under-rated group around him.

I know zilch about translating, as you can all see from my posts on the kudoz boards, but I know my pop music.
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