Most achingly-beautiful music

"The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" by Traffic (Steve Winwood). Hauntingly beautiful and mesmerizing.
I got to hear/see Steve Winwood perform this live at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California, last Tuesday, July 1, from the 3rd row, just right of center.
I was in heaven!
(CD's great, to.)

--Steve

"Me so Horney" by 2 Live Crew.

"Baby's got back" by Sir Mixalot.

"And Justice for all" Metallica.

You're all freaky! :)

Not quite achingly beautiful, more like lilting ear candy, but Morten Lauridsen's 4 minute piece called Dirait-on sure has captured my fancy. It's the last of several pieces from his cycle called Les Chansons des Roses, which are poems by Rilke that Lauridsen set to music. I have 3-4 recordings of it now. As I said, it's ear candy. Might be the next Pachelbel's Canon (I regret to say).

Elgar - Sospiri
Sigur Ros - ( ) esp. track 6
Grainger - Variations On A Theme From County Derry (Danny Boy)
Dvorak - Symphony 9, 2nd movement.

The best thread in a long time

As I get older I find that I appreciate music that is stripped of all pretensions and is simple and direct. While my first love is Jazz, of late I've been listening to alot of blues. Its music that speaks straight to the heart. My current favorite is the music of Mississippi John Hurt. If you don't feel chills up and down your spine when you hear him sing "Since I've Laid My Burden Down" you've got a hole in your soul. Something more recent is Kelly Joe Phelps's CD "Lead Me On". His superb slide guitar work and haunting vocals have the same effect.