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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Well, I would have to say that the two of us should never try to be in the same room listening to music, because one of us is almost certain to be gagging.
I think "The Mission" is one of the most beautiful things I've heard. "The Rhythm of the Saints" is not my favorite Paul Simon (that one would be "Graceland" ... ), and I can bear listening to Tom Wait's music.
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It is good of you to note my phrasing. As you could obviously see, I never said that I did not like Waits or Morricone - I simply said I could not tolerate listening to them, for unspecified subjective reasons.
Paul Simon's
Graceland would likely be hovering around the number one spot as my favourite album of all. I am enjoying that my tolerance level has increased to allow me to listen to
Rhythm of the Saints (which paradoxically means that "tolerance" fades as unnecessary).
The Obvious Child makes me cry, as does
Father & Daughter from
Surprise, while
Call me Al does the same for different reasons (I sometimes think
Graceland as an album is underrated partly because of some aspects' affinity with an oft-loathed musical decade, the 80's...then it might just be me looking for excuses as to why people don't rate it as highly as me
).
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The only Kate Bush song I've ever liked is "Don't Give Up" ... the duet she did with Peter Gabriel.
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Although not my favourite, I do like that one (even moreso since Australia was subjected to an execrable cover of it recently, one half of the duet being a loathed (by me) Australian Idol contenstent, thus making the Gabriel/Bush version infinitely brilliant in comparison). I fondly remember playing the album
So repeatedly. For tears though, I'd go for a song that you have listed -
Solsbury Hill.
Cheers,
Marc