10 Favorite Tracks of All Time?

[Mark212121]

In no particular order, and this list could easily change week by week...

1) New Favorite - Alison Krauss & Union Station
2) Come On Come On - Mary Chapin Carpenter
3) And You And I - Yes
4) Playing For Time - Acoustic Alchemy
5) One Of These Days - Pink Floyd
6) Cinema Show - Genesis
7) Wind Up - Jethro Tull
8) Thank You (R.J. Reynolds) - Chris Jones
9) Argyle Bridge - Steve Strauss
10) Man-Erg - Van Der Graaf Generator

 

[Mgrif104]

Like for others, just 10 is hard. My list (not in order)
1) Peter Gabriel: In your Eyes
2) Peter Gabriel: Solsbury Hill
3) Joshua Bell - Romance of the Violin (my favorite album overall so including it as one track)
4) Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (entire album again)
5) Roberta Flack: First Take: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (what a voice!)
6) Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays: As Falls Wichita: Ozark (the interplay of Mays on piano is extraordinary even in relation to all of Metheny and Mays body of work)
7) Philip Aaberg: High Plains: High Plains
8) Philip Aaberg: High Plains: Marias River Breakdown
9) Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the common man (listen to reference recordings by Minnesota Symphony)
10) Beethoven Piano Concertos 1-5 (love them all, take your pick though I have several favorites)
Bonus: 11) Strauss Four Last songs: Kiri Te Kanawa (though the recording and orchestra are mediocre, her singing is glorious)

 

[godofwealth]

Rather than attempt the hopeless task of selecting 10 tracks that I’d limit myself, here’s what the Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft included as a sampling of the music of earth to any alien species that discovered the spacecraft. It’s the furthest man-made object flying in space that’s reached the outer limits of the solar system. It was launched in 1977.

Golden Record Overview - NASA Science

Launched in 1977, both Voyager spacecraft carried a unique 'time capsule' along with them.

science.nasa.gov

Music from Earth​

The following music was included on the Voyager record.

Country of origin	Composition	Artist(s)	Length
Germany	Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement	Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor	4:40
Java	court gamelan, "Kinds of Flowers"	recorded by Robert Brown	4:43
Senegal	percussion	recorded by Charles Duvelle	2:08
Zaire	Pygmy girls' initiation song	recorded by Colin Turnbull	0:56
Australia	Aborigine songs, "Morning Star" and "Devil Bird"	recorded by Sandra LeBrun Holmes	1:26
Mexico	"El Cascabel"	performed by Lorenzo Barcelata and the Mariachi México	3:14
United States	"Johnny B. Goode"	written and performed by Chuck Berry	2:38
New Guinea	men's house song	recorded by Robert MacLennan	1:20
Japan	shakuhachi, "Tsuru No Sugomori" ("Crane's Nest,")	performed by Goro Yamaguchi	4:51
Germany	Bach, "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3 in E major for Violin	performed by Arthur Grumiaux	2:55
Austria	Mozart, The Magic Flute, Queen of the Night aria, no. 14	Edda Moser, soprano. Bavarian State Opera, Munich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor	2:55
Georgia	Georgian S.S.R., chorus, "Tchakrulo"	collected by Radio Moscow	2:18
Peru	panpipes and drum	collected by Casa de la Cultura, Lima	0:52
United States	"Melancholy Blues"	performed by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven	3:05
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan S.S.R., bagpipes	recorded by Radio Moscow	2:30
Russia	Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance	Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, conductor	4:35
Germany	Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No.1.	Glenn Gould, piano	4:48
Germany	Beethoven, Fifth Symphony, First Movement	the Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, conductor	7:20
Bulgaria	"Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin"	sung by Valya Balkanska	4:59
United States	Navajo Indians, Night Chant	recorded by Willard Rhodes	0:57
United Kingdom	Holborne, Paueans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, "The Fairie Round"	performed by David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London	1:17
Solomon Islands	panpipes	collected by the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service	1:12
Peru	wedding song	recorded by John Cohen	0:38
China	ch'in, "Flowing Streams"	performed by Kuan P'ing-hu	7:37
India	raga, "Jaat Kahan Ho"	sung by Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar	3:30
United States	"Dark Was the Night"	written and performed by Blind Willie Johnson	3:15
Germany	Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 130, Cavatina	performed by Budapest String Quartet	6:37