Writer's Block: Name that tune
Is there any song you would never grow tired of hearing? If so, what is it, how long have you loved it, and why?
Submitted By connxx
There are two, actually.
First is Lady Stardust by David Bowie. I have loved it since I was fourteen, when I found it on a Velvet Goldmine fanpage with an unidentified Asian script and an electric green background and immediately fell in love.
I've written and deleted several reasons for why I love it, but really, I just do. It's not perfect or anything, it's just a queer little song that spoke to 14-year-old me (and still does) and I love it for that.
The second isn't really a song, it's a symphony, Beethoven's ninth, especially the fourth movement, the Ode to Joy. I know that it's a really obvious thing to like. It's like liking the number one song in the pop charts, but the thing with classical music is that there are 500 years worth of it, so if a piece of classical music is well liked it's because it's just that good, and not because the other choice was Lady Gaga.
I don't know when I first heard it since it's so ubiquitous it just slips into your consciousness, but the first time I really noticed it was when I was watching A Clockwork Orange the first time. I was absolutely blown away by it and bought a recording shortly afterward. That must have been in August '06 because that's the date on the bootlegged soundtrack :P
I love it because it's perfect and beautiful. It's grand and dramatic with lots of instruments (a whole orchestra of them :P), tension, crescendi and really loud, enthusiastic singing. It's called the Ode to Joy because To Joy was the title of Schiller's poem it was set to, but it could have been called that anyway because it is just so fucking joyful. Sometimes I cry at the finale for magnificent joy of it.
Submitted By connxx
There are two, actually.
First is Lady Stardust by David Bowie. I have loved it since I was fourteen, when I found it on a Velvet Goldmine fanpage with an unidentified Asian script and an electric green background and immediately fell in love.
I've written and deleted several reasons for why I love it, but really, I just do. It's not perfect or anything, it's just a queer little song that spoke to 14-year-old me (and still does) and I love it for that.
The second isn't really a song, it's a symphony, Beethoven's ninth, especially the fourth movement, the Ode to Joy. I know that it's a really obvious thing to like. It's like liking the number one song in the pop charts, but the thing with classical music is that there are 500 years worth of it, so if a piece of classical music is well liked it's because it's just that good, and not because the other choice was Lady Gaga.
I don't know when I first heard it since it's so ubiquitous it just slips into your consciousness, but the first time I really noticed it was when I was watching A Clockwork Orange the first time. I was absolutely blown away by it and bought a recording shortly afterward. That must have been in August '06 because that's the date on the bootlegged soundtrack :P
I love it because it's perfect and beautiful. It's grand and dramatic with lots of instruments (a whole orchestra of them :P), tension, crescendi and really loud, enthusiastic singing. It's called the Ode to Joy because To Joy was the title of Schiller's poem it was set to, but it could have been called that anyway because it is just so fucking joyful. Sometimes I cry at the finale for magnificent joy of it.