Best song EVER(where all the musicians are high)

TehPaco · Fri 04/01/2008 06:35:33

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U
WATCH IT NOW

proof ( lol he forgets the song )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-yZDpMw3PU&feature=related

Kinoko · Fri 04/01/2008 08:32:26

Wow, I'd never heard of them but now I'm getting a bunch of their music. Freaking great music.

EldKatt · Fri 04/01/2008 12:04:57

They are awesome. If you're expecting more along the lines of "Hocus Pocus" you'll probably be disappointed (that song was fairly tongue-in-cheek, and they were not an otherwise tongue-in-cheek band), but as far as prog rock goes, Focus were some of the best around. Focus III and At the Rainbow are good albums to start with.

Yes, they were probably stoned, being Dutch and in the 70s, but I can assure you that Jan Akkerman is not "forgetting" anything in that second video. They are all excellent musicians.

Tuomas · Fri 04/01/2008 12:56:00

I think they play this faster than on the record. Personally I prefer Sylvia, from the "most known" Akkerman compositions. And I agree he's doing it just right there on the second video too.

jetxl · Fri 04/01/2008 13:31:10

Come on, everybody knows that the best song EVER is Toxic by Britney Spears.

Renal Shutdown · Fri 04/01/2008 14:43:31

Quote from: jetxl on Fri 04/01/2008 13:31:10
Come on, everybody knows that the best song EVER is Toxic by Britney Spears.

You take that back, you take that back right now.

It's Saturday Night by Whigfield.

Nacho · Fri 04/01/2008 14:53:35

Psycho killer, by the Talking heads!

Tuomas · Fri 04/01/2008 16:46:09

Nice choise Nacho, but this one is even better: Opening Out by Renaissance Wish that video was the complete alnum track

SinSin · Fri 04/01/2008 19:10:22

LOL
My crazy friend says
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Rincewind · Sat 05/01/2008 01:21:53

Focus is good stuff indeed.
But the best song ever? Pfah, I say "A Proper Love Ballad" by Bill Bailey.

radiowaves · Sat 05/01/2008 01:48:50

Hmpf, this video is spreading like fire on hot summer day. Seen it 100 times already and its so good that I can't get enough.

Why there isn't any good music out there anymore? People can't play? Everything is overdigitalized I think...

EldKatt · Sat 05/01/2008 12:10:38

Quote from: radiowaves on Sat 05/01/2008 01:48:50
Why there isn't any good music out there anymore? People can't play? Everything is overdigitalized I think...

There is. There are people literally everywhere doing stuff that is really good. The issue is that the "traditional" commercial sources of music (MTV, mainstream radio, mainstream record marketing) simply do not deal in them. Surely there has been an increase of "commercial" and "manufactured" music that is crap, and consequently it's taking a great amount of public space--but there has certainly not been any decrease of skilled musicians and good music, and if anything I guess it's easier than ever to find it, given the whole "Web 2.0" deal. You won't stumble over it in mainstream media as easily as perhaps you used to, and I don't deny that that's a shame, but if you look for it, it's there.

Tuomas · Sat 05/01/2008 12:30:11

I've found progarchives.com to be a splendid source for talented musicians from the 60's all the way to the year 2008. That's why I'm a regular member and an album reviewer, also at prog4you.com, even if they're a bit too prog for some, at least it's where I first heard of Fucos for example. Go to http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=658 and listen to Round Goes The Gossip, the song that got me into Focus