Songs that give you goose bumps

[crookedtune]

Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation

Link: http://www.8notes.com/scores/5842.asp?ftype=gif

[Haggis13]

TLB is the worst kind of schmalz - and I'm sure Finbar & Co. knew exactly what they were doing and were not at all tongue in cheek about it - it's serious commercialism, like most of what they do/did..... for xxxx's sake, why has probably the C20th's most gifted piper spent most of his career doing that sort of thing and not just main-lining the pure drop????? (Rhetorical question!).


Sorry to bang this one again, but "songs" in the thread title when the OP makes it clear the OP-er is thinking/asking about tunes, NOT songs per se? (Plenty of the latter that can raise the old goose-flesh when well sung! I offer Karine Polwart's Marianna by way of example.)

Thanks for the encouragement. In all honesty, though, if fishing for an apology from a whistling youngster for (1) actually liking TLB and (2) having a habit of saying "songs" instead of "tunes" at times is the best you can do, my prediction is this is an unfortunate day for fishing.

I do thank you for the suggestion of An Feochan/Gentle Breeze, though. That one is indeed marvellous.

[jemtheflute]

No apologies sought or required! MTGuru warned you about TLB! We like what we like and that's fine, as long as we don't expect or set too much store by others' agreement/shared taste, though consensus opinions and higher "good taste" (whatever that is!) are both relevant. (Haggis might be a good case in point! ) No discouragement was intended either, by myself or others who expressed similar feelings - leastways, not on playing music!

As for linguistic murder, well, that's another matter. Songs by definition have words and are sung with a voice (unless you're Mendelssohn!). The air, melody or tune of a song without its words being sung is..... a tune, albeit a song-tune! Melodies (especially ones for dancing) that have no association with lyrics cannot sensibly be termed "songs" (unless there is some rider, as in Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words" for piano), and well/long established normal usage in trad music circles is to call them "tunes". As songs are also important in trad music, there is a serious distinction to be maintained and understanding to be preserved/sought.

[crookedtune]

Oh, what's the difference? Toons, aires, songues, gigs, reals..... They're all musics. Not rocket surgery, is it?

[Rhadge]

I don't know about that. A rocket scientist dedicates several years to achieve his knowledge, but there are musicians who've gone on far longer than that, and are still sometimes struggling, and finding new ways to improve.
In some ways, music is probably more demanding and advanced than rocket science.

[jemtheflute]

Oh, what's the difference? Toons, aires, songues, gigs, reals..... They're all musics. Not rocket surgery, is it?

Without retracting at all from my previous.....oh, alright, then, I admit it, I have that grumpy old man's reaction to a new, lax or lazy usage that sits ill with my experience of established usage, what I expect to hear. Calling what I know NOT to be a song "a song" is painfully irritating to me. An unrelated but similar example that has a worse effect on me than finger-nails down a blackboard (remember those?) is talk about someone being "on" a team rather than "in" it. Incorrect use of "effect" and "affect" affect me badly/have a bad effect on me!

I won't go on.....................................

[s1m0n]

The Butterfly slip jig is really nice played slow. Fast its just another slip jig, but slow is lovely.

[jiminos]

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

be well,

jim

[jiminos]

The Butterfly slip jig is really nice played slow. Fast its just another slip jig, but slow is lovely.

i love this TUNE.... i'm working on learning it... i'm sure it will take me just short of forever.

be well,

jim

[Fippler]

I was learning The Dark Island when I got the phone call that my dad passed away. That tune always evokes a little something extra in me. And they always let me start it at session.

I'll second "The Dark Island".....never forgot it after the first time I heard it.....

[walrii]

...why has probably the C20th's most gifted piper spent most of his career doing that sort of thing and not just main-lining the pure drop????? (Rhetorical question!).

Make enough money to play music without having to live in a rat hole and wait tables to eat? (Rhetorical answer with gratuitous question mark.)

[jiminos]

i've just listened to "The Dark Island" for the first time. it's not likely that i will soon forget the music or the words. there are no words to express...

be well,

jim

[mamakash]

I love Susan Susan McKeown's version of "The Snows They Melt the Soonest", but I can't find a YouTube clip for it. Cara Dillon's take on it seems to be equally lovely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5f9eZR5 ... re=related

[WyoBadger]

Here'sDuncan Johnstone. I can't find a video of it being played on whistle. MIght have to remedy that at some point.

Interesting how most of the tunes in this thread are slow.

[WyoBadger]

I was learning The Dark Island when I got the phone call that my dad passed away. That tune always evokes a little something extra in me. And they always let me start it at session.

I'll second "The Dark Island".....never forgot it after the first time I heard it.....

Hear, hear.