The Best Music You Have Ever Heard?


To be specific, what three pieces of music are guaranteed to put a smile on your face and make you feel happy and relaxed? Plus, needless to say, happy with your system. I know the answer to the question is highly subjective and personal. Here are my three choices (in no particular order):
 
1. Sunshine In The Rain, by Ryan Farish  - From the CD Beautiful.
 
2. Summer Wind, by Frank Sinatra - From the album Strangers In The Night, streamed via Qobuz.
 
3. Samba Pa Ti, by Santana - From the MFSL UltraDisc One-Step album Abraxas.
 
Please share your thoughts on your selection and feel free to nominate more than three choices.


 

mgattmch

I’m all over the place with the music that makes me smile. Every time I hear Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, by the Stones, I crank it up. But I do the same with a bunch of Jazz artists, Show tunes, movie soundtracks and classical.

What Sorabji piece is a possible top three favorite?  Is it the "Fuga a Quattro Soggetti" from his "Clavicembalisticum/"  I don't have that much of his insanely long and complicated works, but, I would be interested to know what others like a lot.

You must own the transcendental studies:

«Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s 100 Transcendental Studies (1940–1944) form the largest collection of concert études in the piano repertoire. Spanning over eight hours, the studies demand incredible virtuosity, featuring atonal melodies, complex polyrhythms, and thick textures. The definitive recording is by pianist Fredrik Ullén»

 If someone do not know Sorabji i recomment the "perfumed garden" . It is almost impossible to not fall in love with this piece .

What Sorabji piece is a possible top three favorite?  Is it the "Fuga a Quattro Soggetti" from his "Clavicembalisticum/"  I don't have that much of his insanely long and complicated works, but, I would be interested to know what others like a lot.

Thank you fot the suggestions.  I find his works interesting, but very demanding.  i will add your suggestions to my collection.

With all the music in the world, 3 is a very small number.

You Got Gold - John Prine  (Life is a blessin’ - a delicatessen of all the wonderful things you do)

Hypocrites- The Wailers (from the Bob Marley Songs of Freedom box set. Have not found on streaming)

This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads

 

Okay - these also make me happy;

If I Needed You - Emmylou (by the late, great Townes Van Zandt)

As I Went Out One Morning - Bob Dylan

And It Stoned Me -Van Morrison

Crescent City - Lucinda Williams

The Harder They Come soundtrack

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Willie