# Best Music/Musician Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-musician-ever/447419 "2008-04-30T00:55:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mojo\_Pin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mojo\_Pin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_Pin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-musician-ever/447419/21 "2008-05-02T06:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=Magiver] Feel free to link your suggestions. I would love to click and absorb. [/QUOTE] ok. Love Over Gold by the **Dire Straits** : High quality live version of [Telegraph Road](http://youtube.com/watch?v=gjJzlIedCuo) climax My favorite version of [Love Over Gold](http://youtube.com/watch?v=CJB8PqOT2Ck), from Alchemy. [Promo vid](http://youtube.com/watch?v=gnHmrN7_eOw) for **Porcupine Tree** ’s Deadwing Porcupine Tree at its [most delicate](http://youtube.com/watch?v=dfmOtTMa-8M&feature=related) their first real [breakthrough](http://youtube.com/watch?v=fTNO4PBO5Zo) into almost-mainstream [Mikael Akerfeldt](http://youtube.com/watch?v=y69fZ5GdDxI&feature=related) (Opeth frontman) talks Ghost Reveries by **Opeth** [The Moor](http://youtube.com/watch?v=8j-r7kQRrBE), opening track to the album Still Life, is about a “heretic” who is exiled from his village (some unspecified little puritanical community i think) and loses his love. [Face Of Melinda](http://youtube.com/watch?v=qV1Fe9de0dA&feature=related), from the same album, this is where our exiled man approaches his long lost love to find she has become a nun in his absence. Shows the scary dude roaring for most of the previous song can also sing. Ok neither of these songs are from Ghost Reveries even though that was my initial recommendation… i just think these are a bit better first coming into Opeth. (advice: yes these are abit long, even if the growl turns you off, give the whole songs a chance to absorb) **Queen** - Innuendo [Innuendo](http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Qd_6Nvl5gE) Great song --keep an ear out for Steve Howe’s amazing guest appearance as the traveling gypsy guitar dude. Freddie [visibly unwell](http://youtube.com/watch?v=rNBWf54RvsI) and still putting on his best show–the whole things got such a melancholy undercurrent and intentional or not its moving. great song as well. [The Show Must Go On](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lSkx34M3XtY&feature=related) Powerful in the way only Freddie ever was. He really gave it all for his last great performance. **Radiohead** - OK Computer [No Surprises](http://youtube.com/watch?v=qqsyXdj_p_I)–great video. For some reason this song really has a powerful effect on me. Life insurance policy makers would do well to look into whether their customers listen to this song. [One day, I am gonna grow wings…](http://youtube.com/watch?v=RW6WqgvYHgc) overwhelming sadness and beauty–rush of nostalgia i get with this song is enough to make me sit down if i happen to be standing. **Sublime** A [New Song](http://youtube.com/watch?v=7iAhKYjxVyM) about Brad and his heroin addiction–one of their best. [STP](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSTOz506dVY) hey another song about his addiction [and another](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08HNApcVvk&feature=related). this one makes me really very sad [Superstar Punani](http://youtube.com/watch?v=vqQkGRneU3A&feature=related)–i think of this as the really sped up ska version of have a cigar. ok thats enough for one post–if you like any of what you hear i’ve got TONS (10,000 songs worth) more recommendations. cheers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-musician-ever/447419/22 "2008-05-02T06:40:38Z")
Ween. _Pure Guava_. “Don’t Get 2 Close 2 my Fantasy” may be the greatest song that ever lived. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-musician-ever/447419/23 "2008-05-02T06:57:06Z")
[QUOTE=Apocalypso] **Pinetop Seven** - Rigging the Toplights Imagine an old California ghost town, complete with ghosts. This is what would be playing in the saloon. Spooky and western sounding but not country. Awesome band IMHO. [/QUOTE] Wow. I just checked out some of their stuff on Seeqpod; it’s exactly as you describe. Spooky, melancholy, dusty, and easy to become completely absorbed in. Pinetop Seven is now one of my favorite bands. ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_O\_Genic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-musician-ever/447419/24 "2008-05-02T10:04:31Z")
Magiver, thanks for your reply. I was fortunate to see both artists live; Hedges in a high school auditorium. That dance he did hopping with knees bent on alternate legs while tapping was almost as riveting as Hendrix. I read an interview with him discussing future work where he said he’d like to do some Hendrix and I wondered whether he ever did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-music-musician-ever/447419.md?page=1)