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.

mgattmch06-27-2026 4:45pm

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steverrino Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 23 posts 06-30-2026 at 10:59pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 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
audiodwebe Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 277 posts 07-03-2026 at 02:08pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Gato Barbieri - Europa Earth, Wind & Fire - Imagination (at the end where Philip Bailey goes off) These don’t make me happy, but rather affects me emotionally and causes me to make that ugly musical bliss face. I can’t listen to these tracks in public.
superblueapm Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 48 posts 07-04-2026 at 02:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Jason Isbell - Alabama Pines
kevemaher Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 427 posts 07-04-2026 at 05:20pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Wagner's "Die Walkure" (The Valkyrie) live at the San Fran Opera House opened my 20 something eyes and ears to the wonder of opera and live orchestral music. This transformed my opinion of opera from being a very stuffy, pretentious art form to one that provides an overwhelming emotional experience, enervating all the senses (well, maybe not taste). I get chills of pleasure rolling up and down my spine at certain moments in all of Wagner's operas. A very physical and uncontrollable experience. Wonderful! No other music does this to me. Al Stewart's albums "Modern Times" and "Past, Present and Future" made me listen and understand lyrics as they're sung. To this day, I can understand every word sung on any track. Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" illuminated my teenage rebellion against my parents, religion, and all other so-called authorities. There are so many quotable lines. Still a rebel. .
coltrane1 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 890 posts 07-04-2026 at 06:31pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Manley 450 mono’s, a BAT51SE, paired to CLSiiz’s. In my 18x25 room. Oh man, those were the daze! Next, anything connected to my Plinius SA250mkiv!