What Is the Greatest Musical Work of All Time?

3/1/2006 | Reaganesque

[Reaganesque]

I was sitting here tonight listening to Mozart's Requiem and I got to thinking: what do I consider to be the best work of music ever? For my part, Mozart's work really does the trick for me when I need to be re-energized. Therefore, I believe that his Requiem is the greatest work of all time. There just isn't another work that is as powerful and passionate. When the chorus sings the final "Amen" at the end of "Lacrimosa" I get the feeling that he knew it was the last thing he would ever write. It gives me chills at times.

Other favorites are:

Handel's Messiah

The 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky

[clio morrel]

"I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark,
When he made Pearl Harbor.
I miss you more then that movie missed the point,
And that’s an awful lot girl...."

[sitetest]

Dear php5,

I prefer the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata. Understated, sweet, bittersweet, beautiful.


sitetest

[Lurking in Kansas]

Dude, like, all those guys are, like, dead.

Do you have any favorites that were, like, written after 1944?

[HairOfTheDog]

Pink Floyd.... Dark Side of the Moon :~D

[John Lenin]

[Billthedrill]

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Greatest
Drum
Solo
Ever

At least that's what I tell my drummer friends.

[beaver fever]

A friend of mine spent a week in Cabo San Lucas. The hotel lounge singer did a version of Feelings.

"Pealings noting more dan Pealings........."

My friend was a Polish girl with a good sense of ha ha.

She gutted herself when she heard that. The lounge lizard joined them at their table afterwords. He was quite the Don Juan. Pistachio leisure suit and gold chains. He was happenin'

Although he was married he played around on the side and made a point of telling that to the girls at the table.

In his words, "I yam married but I must have my lubbers."

When my friend came home she was gutting herself with laughter months after she got back.

PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEElings. Noting More dan PEEEEEEEEEEEElings

[ItsForTheChildren]

Geez... why not go with Loving You - Minnie Ripperton? ;-)

My choices...

Beethoven 9th Symphony
I'll Be Seeing You
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2
The Rite of Spring
Firebird Suite
Corcovado and Desafinado (Stan Getz, Verve Jazz Masters 53: Bossa Nova)
You've Lost That Loving Feeling

And not necessarily in that order. :-)

[daler]

We had joy, we had fun...

we had weiners but no buns...

Isn't that how it went?

[Congressman Billybob]

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. He was nearly deaf when he wrote it, but he heard every note in his mind. Mozart is a close second.

Congressman Billybob

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[CurlyBill]

[Mordacious]

Whatever it is, J. S. Bach composed it.

You got that right!!!!

[APFel]

Simple. "Gerry the Germ" on the C64 by Rob Hubbard. A slice of heaven on a SID chip, that is.

Or almost anything on the "Star Control II" soundtrack, for those who don't know who Rob Hubbard is.

APf

[Libertarian444]

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

[Liberty Valance]

Keep On The Sunny Side

There's a dark and a troubled side of life
There's a bright and a sunny side too
Though we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view

Keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us every day it will brighten all our way
If we keep on the sunny side of life

Oh the storm and its fury broke today
Crushing hopes that we cherish so dear
The clouds and storm will in time pass away
The sun again will shine bright and clear

Let us greet with a song of hope each day
Though the moment be cloudy or fair
Let us trust in our Savior always
To keep us every one in His care


;o)

[HairOfTheDog]

Thank you for offering Trey Parker to the list :~D

[WeddingPlanner]

AC/DC . . . come on now, you know Queen & Mr. Mercury beats Hell's Bells. (Actually, Freddie was pretty talented!)

[daler]

Excellent choice.

But not the equal of "Crying" by Roy Orbison.

[Darkwolf377]

Consider that these are my favorites, but to ME they are the greatest; also, half of these might not be here tomorrow in place of others I thought of. Onward:

Variation on a Theme of Thomas Tallis or Serenade to Music-Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Ring Cycle-Richard Wagner

The Goldberg Variations-JS Bach

Avalon-Roxy Music

Heaven and Hell-Vangelis

Slavonic Dance #1-Antonin Dvorak

All My Tears-Emmylou Harris

Sign of the Rainbow-RObbie Robertson

Gimme Shelter-The Rolling Stones

New York Serenade-Bruce Springsteen

Lonesome Old Town-Frank Sinatra

The Bridge of Khaza-Dun-Howard Shore ;)

The Ecstacy of Gold and The Big Gundown-Ennio Morricone

Planet of the Apes-Jerry Goldsmith

Something by Penderecki, not sure which I'd pick

Murder in the Red Barn-Tom Waits

Lady of Chalot-Loreena McKennitt

Love Me-The Phantom

Mission:Impossible-Lalo Schifrin

Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd

It's Alright-Ray Charles

Once in a Blue Moon-Van Morrison

Cinammon Girl-Neil Young

Lonesome Dove-Basil Poledouris

Star Trek-The Motion Picture-Jerry Goldsmith

Acadie-Daniel Lanois

[freedumb2003]

Carmina Burana
Toccatta and Fugue in D minor ("Ahhh, Bach")
"Survivor" GFR
"Dark Side of the Moon" Pink Floyd
"Tommy" London Symphony version -- The Who