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mojo
5th October 2014, 02:11
I know this will be hard to narrow down to one, but if you had to what is the one song that most defines you?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0T9icPl3rw

PS will post my choice later...;)

sandy
5th October 2014, 02:40
Wasn't That a Party :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-KDSxqJ_0o

norman
5th October 2014, 04:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4

Catsquotl
5th October 2014, 04:46
I've been trying to find one that truly captures me..
It can't be done...Well I cant't do it anyway..

Most likely options were:
Stone Temple Pilots -- Creep
Susanne Vega --- Small blue thing.

WIth Love
Eelco

monk
5th October 2014, 10:01
White snake - Here I go again

Lol

Catsquotl
5th October 2014, 11:06
Found it..

U7vCm7U3-Bc

With Love
Eelco

Sooz
5th October 2014, 11:20
I agree with everyone, it's very hard to pick just one. So I will go with my obsessive choice at the moment. I have played it to death so much I reckon I could play the bloody thing myself, lol. I LOVE the music and I LOVE the visuals and style. This guy is obviously in the throes of creative ecstasy playing this instrument. He's almost making Love to the damned thing! Well, that is the creative process.:D

The way he throws his head around and the quick movements with the finger drumming, I find very alluring. And the big doggy there, chilling out is just a brilliant touch.

Love the room and obviously he chose it for the lovely echo effect. A full sensory experience.

I may change my mind next week (as you do), but this is definitely my fave at the moment.:D

This is the closest thing that defines who I am through music. (atm, lol...)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyUZh_Cbw6Q

Edit: Have to agree Eeclo, 'Small Blue Thing by' Suzanne Vega is a big favourite of mine too!

The One
5th October 2014, 11:57
Love it i pictured a rainbow


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-srSVHkvAdk

Sooz
5th October 2014, 12:17
Love it i pictured a rainbow


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-srSVHkvAdk

Oh yes, this one is a classic Malc. Reminds me of a time in my life. Music really does communicate doesn't it?

It's such an upbeat, positive song. Thanks!

Moonlight
5th October 2014, 12:55
One song that defines me ? There are so many melodies to choose from. Maybe...


http://youtu.be/9zACEJdFOpA

Tonz
5th October 2014, 13:19
Wow there are some great personalities above that i can relate to in so many different ways and at different times of my life.
For me it is so hard to put it to one as it really depends on who i am today at this moment as i have never been like this or like that for most of my life , the wind within is so kind to give me so many changes and also at times the wind is a curse.

so i will have to cheat !, but only if you have the decibels high enough to bother the neighbours , eyes closed , lean the head back and fly.

If i were to learn to play the piano i would have to learn this so sensitive but short piece from enya .''In memory of frank''

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRJs0Q3Tm1E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRJs0Q3Tm1E


And as i was talking about ''wind '' i was always struck with this, it is also sensitive , so this must be who i am today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85P3dywZ33s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85P3dywZ33s

PurpleLama
5th October 2014, 13:40
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNByMQZLRCs

ronin
5th October 2014, 13:46
a friend gave me this piece that i always return to,it helps to understand the transitional being of who we are and what we can become over the ages.
is it my song?dunno but it helps,there are so many songs to choose from!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0NBPRMe2E

jimmer
5th October 2014, 14:48
like most, it depends on the mood, the situation, but this one has stuck with me, philip glass, runaway horses.
always seemed like a life's arch in chapters -- birth, growth, the struggles, the wins, the maturity. surging.
the ending is the good part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVAUnKK1DdQ

thanks for this thread, mojo.

mojo
5th October 2014, 16:13
wanted to post 3 or 4..lol its hard to pick one...but have to settle with the meaning in the words to "Sailing to Philadelphia", "stargazer am I," and posted it way back in Tribe's thread...;)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTvc-bEP35I

Tribe
5th October 2014, 19:11
http://youtu.be/2_HXUhShhmY

Ascension
5th October 2014, 20:08
The song that defines me changes all the time. Currently, it's this one. Not sure what the true meaning is, but I feel like it personifies my attempts to find myself, looking everywhere but the right place.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qph_66beY

777
5th October 2014, 20:36
Thank you Ascension and welcome!

(welcome)

mojo
5th October 2014, 21:19
I second that, Welcome & ty 4 sharing..:)

161803398
5th October 2014, 21:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn2CeHlKrTw

Highland1
5th October 2014, 22:11
At this moment in time, this is my chosen song.....as for me it never fails to invoke powerful heartfelt emotions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOhuK7aZayw


Russ

Russ

Seikou-Kishi
6th October 2014, 01:57
I had to whittle this down from quite a large pool (like most people, I expect). But I checked my iTunes to see which song had been played most often — it seemed to make sense that the one with which I felt most "in tune" (pun sadly intended) would be one I'd play a little more than the others. Well this one came out as the clear leader, with a playcount of nearly a thousand.

This is a song my boyfriend's mother asked me to sing, and I'll always be grateful to her for giving it to me. I'd never really heard of the artists before and to this day I don't know many of their other songs (they're really not my style lol), but this one never fails to get right on in there lol. There have been nights I've fallen asleep listening to this one song on repeat. Anyway, it's "After All These Years" by Foster and Allen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NheTOSuqBuc

My darling come to me.
Sit you down easily.
And rest a while near the soft firelight —
cold as the night.
But warm is my heart with pride,
Having you by my side;
You're still my guiding light
After all these years.

Your soft assuring ways,
The rock I lean on,
Saw me through my darkest days
When all hope had gone.
You're still the only one
I'll ever hold near.
And I love you,
After all these years.

Time from me passes,
And and I'm growing old —
A lifetime nearly gone, I cannot unfold
Nights dark and cold.
But warm is your hand in mine,
Feeble with ageless time,
The light of love still shines
After all these years.

Your soft assuring ways,
The rock I lean on,
Saw me through my darkest days
When all hope had gone.
You're still the only one
I'll ever hold near.
And I love you,
After all these years.
I still love you,
After all these years.

sandancer
6th October 2014, 18:45
Russ I think you read my mind !

Along with "These are the days of our lives "

Goose bumps

Hairs up on the back of my neck

Shivers down my spine !

777
8th October 2014, 21:59
I've posted this before but given the thread title I can't think of better:


nJrRVl7goLE

:fire:

See you Here :chrs:

Spiral
9th October 2014, 09:24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcX1qA1Etc8

Calabash
9th October 2014, 12:29
Just the chorus - fits me to a T . . . . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpn_xu81ySo

Healthy Skeptic
9th October 2014, 14:29
Well whether you believe it or not, HS the 'Heavy Metal and Grunge Freak' Loves a song which I believe that defines and 'moves' me':

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With Love To You ALL, HS

ronin
9th October 2014, 15:47
just gonna post good songs that meant a lot :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFg0FCx4FGs

BabaRa
9th October 2014, 18:43
I absolutely love every one of the songs you've posted and on any given day could say anyone of them is the song that defines me.

Then there are these days: when as the song goes: the merry-go-round is beginning to taunt me


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IusRmuG8q5Y

Sooz
10th October 2014, 08:34
I absolutely love every one of the songs you've posted and on any given day could say anyone of them is the song that defines me.

Then there are these days: when as the song goes: the merry-go-round is beginning to taunt me


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IusRmuG8q5Y

Barbra Streisand has long been a star of mine. A voice like no other. When I was having my voice trained (a million years ago), my voice coach would make me sing her songs.

I have very fond memories of a lot of her songs. Never heard this one before though Babs. Thanks! Very poignant and I'm guessing it means a lot to you.

Love Sooz
x

BabaRa
10th October 2014, 14:38
Barbra Streisand has long been a star of mine. A voice like no other. When I was having my voice trained (a million years ago), my voice coach would make me sing her songs.

I have very fond memories of a lot of her songs. Never heard this one before though Babs. Thanks! Very poignant and I'm guessing it means a lot to you.

Love Sooz
x


Didn't know you were a songbird, Sooz

Do you have any video's you could put up?

Healthy Skeptic
15th October 2014, 06:28
OK, This song is Very, Very Precious to Me.
Please don't ask me why. I cannot answer that. It is very 'Tragic' to me, but on the other hand it is very important.

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With All My Love to you ALL, HS

Sooz
15th October 2014, 06:48
Didn't know you were a songbird, Sooz

Do you have any video's you could put up?

God no! Lol...and if I did, I wouldn't!

I did have professional recordings (audio only on old-fashioned cassette), a long time ago, but they've been lost in transit from many moons go. I have no idea where they are. Shame.

Maybe I threw them out. Don't know, but they are just gone.:cry:

Healthy Skeptic
31st October 2014, 08:45
This could be the last time that I ever Post on this Forum.
Although I was 'young' when I first hear this song, It 'haunts' me. Love you Janis - She was a 'precious darling'.
I hope you 'Love' this song as much as I have:

N7hk-hI0JKw

With ALL MY LOVE TO YOU ALL, HS

Healthy Skeptic
1st November 2014, 06:56
I'll 'sneak' this one here:

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With LOVE TO YOU ALL, HS

Healthy Skeptic
1st November 2014, 07:00
One last one while I have the chance:

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With LOVE TO YOU ALL, HS

Stoat muldoon
1st November 2014, 13:10
Nuff said . Listen with cans on and turn it upppppppp :rock:


http://youtu.be/tbkOZTSvrHs

Tribe
26th January 2015, 12:50
I don't think this song defines me but it sure does explain me lol


http://youtu.be/m_XbdxVduoA

I am very much in love with Malvina Reynolds ! Lol x

Curt
26th January 2015, 13:20
Don't know that it defines me, but I love it, and have for years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6iO_HpT4F4

Calz
26th January 2015, 16:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&v=LJM2GhkR_RY&x-yt-ts=1421914688

donk
26th January 2015, 17:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

Calz
26th January 2015, 17:29
Interesting albeit odd type of query ...

Can you define what "defines" means???



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688


If we are talking "favorite" song ... then damn ... how many moods do I (or anyone) have.


If you want crowd frenzy then have some ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRQnJyP77tY&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688

Calz
26th January 2015, 18:26
Want my personal definition of "war" (of course not ... who does ... but hey it is a constant aspect of humanity until we can figure a way out of this mess ...)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXP4tRUuqUY&x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534

Shezbeth
26th January 2015, 18:50
I saw this thread and immediately thought - choosing one song to 'define' me? Foolishness! Having said (and having thought about it a moment) the song that I most accurately follow or am portrayed by is this:

Make Your Own Kind of Music - Mama Cass & the Mamas and Papas


http://youtu.be/e390BV7_oQA

And yes, I went with the Lost compilation video. ^_~

That Guy
26th January 2015, 19:00
http://youtu.be/CBIRj3JW3h0

SmokeyJoe1952
26th January 2015, 19:04
Difficult choice, for now I would say mine would be "Knocking on heavens door" by Bob Dylan, I say this because I have knocked at that damn door so many times over the years yet repeatedly get told its not the right time so bugger off! If I can find the vid I will post it here. My close friends know exactly what I mean by these words.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaSIPQ-Bdc8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazW7MOqHzQ

Calz
26th January 2015, 19:10
No one song can define any of us (imho).

Consider the connectivity we have with all of humanity ... then what???

I can offer dozens of songs myself without taking that stretch ...




https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=YdwYGu1o8gs&x-yt-cl=84503534

Hermit
26th January 2015, 20:58
OK everyone sing along now!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHYvpXe75b8

Pris
26th January 2015, 21:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8GXISJd6nk

dianna
26th January 2015, 22:23
I'm telling you now, The greatest thing you ever can do now,
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now, It's very easy...

Met a man on the roadside crying, without a friend, there's no denying,
You're incomplete, they'll be no finding looking for what you knew.

So anytime somebody needs you, don't let them down, although it grieves you,
Some day you'll need someone like they do, looking for what you knew.

I'm telling you now, The greatest thing you ever can do now,
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now, It's very easy...

I'm telling you now, the greatest thing you ever can do now,
Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now,

It's very easy...


http://youtu.be/3kJvAo-Ob-s

mojo
26th January 2015, 23:08
some songs we go back to again and again so more about the songs that fit in that category...which is special in some way to us...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzA1KDxKXZw

1inMany
26th January 2015, 23:27
Doesn't define me, but describes me pretty well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjNVKtQHAY

1inMany
26th January 2015, 23:30
Ooooh, I do too, Tribe! One of my faves :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

Sorry, back to figuring out a single song that would define me...which I think is impossible...

mjk9
27th January 2015, 05:01
Mine would definitely be Reckoner by Radiohead. The avatar I'm using is a Radiohead image called Modified Bear. That band has immeasurable presence and meaning in my life, starting from childhood before the band had even formed. When I was a kid I wrote two words by themselves, no context. I never knew why I did that. It sort of just happened. I simply wrote 'radio head' and that was it.

There is a story, the story of how Radiohead came into my life, but it is much too long and detailed to tell. I can say that Reckon has been an internet name of mine since the early 2000's. When I heard Reckoner for the first time, well...

it sort of killed me. But that death was like entering the pearly gates into the world of Radiohead songs.
I call them "fleshy gods" because that's what they are to me. I'm very thankful to them, for the absolute best music I have ever known.

http://youtu.be/pVegpypXN1I

Melidae
27th January 2015, 16:28
This is the one song that comes closest to defining me and my journey through life...from searching outside to inside...always digging deeper...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycqEb8lfic0

NANUXII
27th January 2015, 17:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8ID1wsYXY

Altaira
27th January 2015, 18:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu60CIZtdFY



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yimoQM6tIaA

Elbie
27th January 2015, 23:07
:)

verve gal here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH6TJU0qWoY


.

Highland1
27th January 2015, 23:26
No one song can define any of us (imho).



I agree Calz
so, I asked my Mrs what she thought which song defined me.......

This is what she said:


http://youtu.be/g-_p6pwm1s8

I think she has me figured out....:hilarious:

Russ

Agape
28th January 2015, 00:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6b3swbnWg&spfreload=10

Walking , wandering , from Times to another Times , places and spaces

like group of Bauls , wandering musicians ,

like birds without trail ...

Care i not of the intrigues of the dragon palace , red , black or blue , those furious beasts of old , their gold , their pledge to mercy ...

mercy has gone , world full of gold yet so little sunshine .

Care i not what they say , count us our carrots , our daily bread , oh so expensive ..

been a long track and trail ,

longer yet from the Stars .. and longing to go..


uh oh :hilarious:

Calz
28th January 2015, 15:02
Wrong I was ... hmmm ... yes

One song to define I have ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422411861&v=VHVvTiapZdg&x-yt-cl=84924572

Calz
28th January 2015, 15:15
After watching 7's twerk ... *everything* is on the table!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE&x-yt-ts=1422411861&x-yt-cl=84924572#t=265

Agape
28th January 2015, 15:49
Wrong I was ... hmmm ... yes

One song to define I have ...




Reminds me of this high calibre Indian sadhu ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfQZv1b0POA&spfreload=10

Tonz
29th January 2015, 10:41
Lately been a little like this feel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek0SgwWmF9w

modwiz
29th January 2015, 10:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwN0X8YnWo

KINGSTON FRIZZ
29th January 2015, 16:22
a friend gave me this piece that i always return to,it helps to understand the transitional being of who we are and what we can become over the ages.
is it my song?dunno but it helps,there are so many songs to choose from!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0NBPRMe2E

This music is from the film The Fountain. A fantastic film with themes of reincarnation.

InCiDeR
14th February 2015, 22:14
http://youtu.be/lAwYodrBr2Q

I figured this video would be a decent electronic representation of me saying "Hi" to the forum...

Tribe
14th February 2015, 22:29
oh nice choice InCIDer , and welcome :thup:

sandy
14th February 2015, 23:59
Beautiful entry InCIDer...... Welcome :)

sandy
15th February 2015, 00:17
I miss mojo....hope he comes back soon. :swing::fire:

Calz
15th February 2015, 01:27
http://youtu.be/lAwYodrBr2Q

I figured this video would be a decent electronic representation of me saying "Hi" to the forum...


I respond to the beat of a different drummer ... and imho that was as good of an intro as I have seen in forum life over about four years now ...


http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/introductions.jpg

Calz
15th February 2015, 02:43
Yep ... me ... lately ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uN22sI4JM