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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Kat Kid on March 26, 2014, 05:27:17 PM
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"Only in Dreams" Weezer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVu3np6562M)
"Glósóli" Sigur Ros (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XzJrMGj8r0)
"Stairway to Heavan" Led Zepplin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHFxncb1gRY)
"Where The Streets Have No Name" U2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsrPEUt2Dg)
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AHHHHH only in dreams is a really really good one.
I like right at the pinnacle where the drums go DAH DAH-DAH DAH-DAH. I always smash my steering wheel to the beat.
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Only in dreams might be the perfect song
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Death and All His Friends - Coldplay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_wcRxGbqdU&feature=kp)
One Day More - Les Mis 10th anni version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddP8AAIGTQ)
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like half the coldplay songs
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like half the coldplay songs
also led zepp
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November Rain- GnR
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Under Pressure- Queen
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Now are we talking great buildups here or when the last chorus shoots up an octave (a la Man In The Mirror, every 90's country song)?
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Now are we talking great buildups here or when the last chorus shoots up an octave (a la Man In The Mirror, every 90's country song)?
Crescendos are "buildups." Essentially, just growing in volume.
I think the other thing you'e talking about is a "key change."
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Now are we talking great buildups here or when the last chorus shoots up an octave (a la Man In The Mirror, every 90's country song)?
Crescendos are "buildups." Essentially, just growing in volume.
I think the other thing you'e talking about is a "key change."
Dude, I took Mrs. Mulkey's music class in 6th grade. I know what the word means. Just asking for a bit of clarification from KK about if this is the right thread to talk about key changes too.
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Jimmy Eat World- 23
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Kelly Clarkson- Miss Independent
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Music with emotion. (http://youtu.be/dggM4DGW6Rk)
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Music with emotion.
Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen at 3:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mu8lKPGf4s)
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First thing I thought of.
Foo fighters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ04WbgI9rg
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Where ears and hearts were opened. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLhMuCLEPk)
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Music with emotion.
Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen at 3:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mu8lKPGf4s)
isn't this pretty much the gold standard in terms of epic crescendos? (und weil wir deutsch sprechen sind. . .)
also sprach zarathustra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k&feature=kp)
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Now are we talking great buildups here or when the last chorus shoots up an octave (a la Man In The Mirror, every 90's country song)?
Crescendos are "buildups." Essentially, just growing in volume.
I think the other thing you'e talking about is a "key change."
Dude, I took Mrs. Mulkey's music class in 6th grade. I know what the word means. Just asking for a bit of clarification from KK about if this is the right thread to talk about key changes too.
Well you weren't listening well enough because Mrs. M would not mix up a change in octave with a change in key. Some one was sleeping during Obwisana. :ROFL:
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Big Mob (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkPLzul4lgc) Crescendo starts around 3 minutes in.
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"Giorgio by Moroder" Daft Punk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m4ZkEqQrn0)
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smooth criminal
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Music with emotion.
Wie lieblich sind Deine Wohnungen at 3:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mu8lKPGf4s)
isn't this pretty much the gold standard in terms of epic crescendos? (und weil wir deutsch sprechen sind. . .)
also sprach zarathustra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k&feature=kp)
i don't speak german, that just was a pretty good version of the absolute greatest choral piece.
i was wondering why sprach zarathustra is never translated and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra)
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"The River" Manchester Orchestra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrSBLU1YQ0I)
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LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yourself Clean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5oaCPCqN3Y)
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Music with emotion. (http://youtu.be/dggM4DGW6Rk)
:D
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Sandstorm
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"Hallelujah Chorus" from Handels Messiah
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Only in dreams might be is the perfect song
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The Ecstasy of Gold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhFXYIWp24)
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I've always looked this one
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMl8cQjBfqk&feature=kp
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I've always looked this one
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMl8cQjBfqk&feature=kp
great call with angels and airwaves. in fact, i've described AA as epic quite a few times. a lot of their songs give off such a feeling of victory.
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like half the coldplay songs
I can think of about ten of them off of the top of my head, but live, they really play up the one in "Fix You". If they're in a stadium, they'll usually shoot off fireworks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvofiXHbUI&t=2m10s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvofiXHbUI&t=2m10s)
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Only in dreams might be the perfect song
That entire album is a damn masterpiece.
Hell, Pinkerton may be even better.
I remember recording the CD onto a cassette so I could jam out in my '86 Mazda. I remember wailing like a drunk person once "El Scorcho" picked up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g)
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This is why KK and I are IRL friends. Great thread. Also let's just make it a rule that you have to post a YouTube link with your song title.
And Only In Dreams is the correct answer. And yes, you were mixing up key change with octave change. At least in reference to Man In The Mirror. I like to call it the "crowbar modulation" because of how those songs typically just jack their key up either a half step or a whole step about 2/3rds or 3/4ths of the way through the song. It's kinda hackey and played at this point but it always works. For those of you who aren't :nerd: about music theory but are curious, you can hear it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk&t=3m17s
This is a song with an incredible climax:
The Killers, "All These Things That I've Done" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTpLvsYYHw). Of course it occurs during the line, "While everyone's lost, the battle is won...with all these things that I've done."
You know what I find fascinating about this song and what I think makes it so successful? They avoid playing a V (dominant) chord for the ENTIRE THING until the very climax. And then when it lands during the aforementioned lyric, it is absolutely HUGE and held out and so apparent. The songwriting involved here is just crafty as eff. You ever try to write a song that avoids the V chord almost entirely and is still interesting? It's difficult.
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Only in dreams might be the perfect song
That entire album is a damn masterpiece.
Hell, Pinkerton may be even better.
I remember recording the CD onto a cassette so I could jam out in my '86 Mazda. I remember wailing like a drunk person once "El Scorcho" picked up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g)
Pinkerton is better. And there are so many good climaxes in the first two weezer albums, but they're ALL OVER Pinkerton. Especially during, like, "The Good Life" where they do that thing where they slow down during the guitar solo and bring in the slide guitar for a bit, then take everything out entirely except for Rivers' lead-in to the chorus a capella. It's amazing.
3:24 is the specific part I'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjLt0LS1M0I
Man. Weezer really used to know how to write a rough ridin' climax. What happened?
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Both of these songs have great buildups and then end on a quieter note, not sure if this is technically correct...I think they're great though.
The Angel and the One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYD_7ia8po (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYD_7ia8po)
Fake Plastic Trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik)
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Both of these songs have great buildups and then end on a quieter note, not sure if this is technically correct...I think they're great though.
The Angel and the One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYD_7ia8po (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIYD_7ia8po)
Fake Plastic Trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik)
Oh, man. Creep was pretty great, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk)
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pinkerton is not better
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FAKE PLASTIC TREES!!! YES! :excited: You might even say that climax 'wears me out'. :users: Good call.
And a lot of people know the Explosion in the Sky songs that were featured in Friday Night Lights, and those are great and very climactic. But they're mostly from the (incredible) album The Earth is Not A Cold, Dead Place. The album that came after that, All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (2007) has an opening track that makes me nearly tear rotator cuffs due to the ferocity of my air drumming at the climax.
Explosions in the Sky, "The Birth and Death of the Day" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvm1AE1b2n8&feature=kp)
Not even gonna tell you where the awesome part happens. Just turn it up and indulge in 7 minutes and 50 seconds of :drool:
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pinkerton is not better
that debate is for another thread that will be at least 12 pages long
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pinkerton is not better
that debate is for another thread that will be at least 12 pages long
Yeah, that debate can't be won objectively, and the subjective argument that ensues is lengthy to say the least.
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#7 on my Top 10 list: http://goEMAW.com/blog/?p=3106
8manpick had a great Manchester Orchestra song in The River, and he's right. They also have Colly Strings, which is an amazing crescendo song. Colly Strings is the last song on their first LP and The River is the last song on their second LP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS5-lXv_xUc
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the I NEVERRRRRR portion of mr. brightside is a good crescendo too.
and i really enjoy SkiBe's x's and o's of music.
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"Everything" by Lifehouse. Four minutes of slow love song leads to a colossal climax!
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the I NEVERRRRRR portion of mr. brightside is a good crescendo too.
and i really enjoy SkiBe's x's and o's of music.
No one can say I can't X/O some faces off with music and also with pud stadiums. :don'tcare:
Thought of another great one while I got ready this morning. Arcade Fire, "Neighborhood no. 1 (Tunnels)." Great song. Can't decide if they purposely sped up slightly to create a better climax or if they were just some first-album studio n00bs who thought they didn't need a click track; either way, I'm glad it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_IHjWXbuM
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the I NEVERRRRRR portion of mr. brightside is a good crescendo too.
and i really enjoy SkiBe's x's and o's of music.
No one can say I can't X/O some faces off with music and also with pud stadiums. :don'tcare:
Thought of another great one while I got ready this morning. Arcade Fire, "Neighborhood no. 1 (Tunnels)." Great song. Can't decide if they purposely sped up slightly to create a better climax or if they were just some first-album studio n00bs who thought they didn't need a click track; either way, I'm glad it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_IHjWXbuM
See also "Crown of Love" and "Wake Up" from the same album.
See also basically every U2 song. I know "Where the Streets Have No Name" was mentioned. "Bad" is another great example.
Mates of State have some good ones. My favorite is "An Experiment": www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aO0G4vuKrY
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AHHHH YES! I finally thought of a good one. Keeping Warm by We Were Promised Jetpacks. It's the song from the Kings of Summer trailer that we all went gaga over last summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJyY2sKkWc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJyY2sKkWc)
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Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie is basically one long awesome crescendo from start to finish. From the train tracks at the beginning to the muted piano and vocals, followed by the simple driving drum beat, and "I need you so much closer," leading to noisy electric guitars and "So come oooooooon," over and over again. It's also part of one of the best two-track combinations (with Tiny Vessels) that I've ever heard on an album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqQC7R_Me4
It's really a crescendo in every way. Even the lyrics are written in a crescendo style themselves.
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Freebird
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Don't know about epic, but basically the definition of a crescendo - "A Day in the Life" - Beatles.
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BOLERO
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In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
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"Old Man" Neil Young or James McCartney version
Neil Young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2a1_Do_fc&feature=kp
James McCartney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWedyonBtic
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In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
Nailed it
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2nd song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyQWffc9rP0
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AHHHH YES! I finally thought of a good one. Keeping Warm by We Were Promised Jetpacks. It's the song from the Kings of Summer trailer that we all went gaga over last summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJyY2sKkWc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNJyY2sKkWc)
:runaway: :runaway: :runaway: That is my alarm clock song!!! :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
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Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie is basically one long awesome crescendo from start to finish. From the train tracks at the beginning to the muted piano and vocals, followed by the simple driving drum beat, and "I need you so much closer," leading to noisy electric guitars and "So come oooooooon," over and over again. It's also part of one of the best two-track combinations (with Tiny Vessels) that I've ever heard on an album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqQC7R_Me4
It's really a crescendo in every way. Even the lyrics are written in a crescendo style themselves.
:love:
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some of you guys are really good at this game
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Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie is basically one long awesome crescendo from start to finish. From the train tracks at the beginning to the muted piano and vocals, followed by the simple driving drum beat, and "I need you so much closer," leading to noisy electric guitars and "So come oooooooon," over and over again. It's also part of one of the best two-track combinations (with Tiny Vessels) that I've ever heard on an album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqQC7R_Me4
It's really a crescendo in every way. Even the lyrics are written in a crescendo style themselves.
:love:
:adored:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwD5rQ-_d4
:dunno:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwD5rQ-_d4
:dunno:
Certainly more activity toward the end than at the beginning, but that's pretty much er'ry song in some way, wouldn't say this has an "epic" crescendo but it is still a great song though so TY for posting. If SB were looking for a Toadies song with a great big finish the choice would probably be Tyler, which is another great song.
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Outro - m83
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Freebird
This is my dad's favorite song, its awesome, he has told me this will be played at his funeral, no questions asked.
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The interlude of "Come on Eileen".
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simple minds - don't you
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Hurt, both Johnny Cash and Nine Inch Nails.
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http://youtu.be/BTFD5DZwK7g (http://youtu.be/BTFD5DZwK7g)
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Starts out rocking, silence, then crescendos into that chill guitar solo. Very melodic. Love it.
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FAKE PLASTIC TREES!!! YES! :excited: You might even say that climax 'wears me out'. :users: Good call.
yes, good one
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0VsvuvKT20&feature=kp (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0VsvuvKT20&feature=kp)
Swallowed in the Sea - Coldplay
My fav song ever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag1Dfa1e_E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag1Dfa1e_E)
morricone. the mission. my fav film score
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxWQMyoYJBU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxWQMyoYJBU)
the national. mr november. my fav non-oscar band
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This song was made for this thread.
https://youtu.be/5GJWxDKyk3A
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really great bump by skibe.
Also, okay look, i'm not saying i think this is a great song, i'm just saying in terms of an epic crescendo i don't think you can have an earnest conversation without including this ditty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3QAqZQYLIQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3QAqZQYLIQ)
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https://youtu.be/pqRDu3ueuA8
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https://youtu.be/qsYnhVITf9E
https://youtu.be/IGpMLoFyjwA
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https://youtu.be/qsYnhVITf9E
fun fact this guy plays the forgiving priest in the hugh jackman les mis movie
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https://youtu.be/qsYnhVITf9E
fun fact this guy plays the forgiving priest in the hugh jackman les mis movie
That's crazy. Did not know that. The final note on that song is one one of the most amazing things I've heard.
Did you like the Hugh Jackman movie? I thought it was just okay. I really liked the Les Mis that was on PBS Masterpiece a couple of years ago.
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i love the crap out of the movie. but i just love the crap out of les mis in general.
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https://youtu.be/qsYnhVITf9E
fun fact this guy plays the forgiving priest in the hugh jackman les mis movie
That's crazy. Did not know that. The final note on that song is one one of the most amazing things I've heard.
Did you like the Hugh Jackman movie? I thought it was just okay. I really liked the Les Mis that was on PBS Masterpiece a couple of years ago.
that's a pretty incred performance.
but since we're talking crescendos itt, anne hathaway's "i dreamed a dream" from the movie took the top of my head and exploded it into the sun, and i haven't recovered since
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJXiB5i_q0
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1812 overture
Canon in D
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https://youtu.be/hnAwPeqrdAk
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oh crap sorry guys, just realized which one wins (its not close) but please mods don't lock the thread let other posters compete for 2nd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PMq4XGtZ4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PMq4XGtZ4)
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anne hathaway's "i dreamed a dream" from the movie took the top of my head and exploded it into the sun, and i haven't recovered since
yeah she rocked this
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anne hathaway's "i dreamed a dream" from the movie took the top of my head and exploded it into the sun, and i haven't recovered since
yeah she rocked this
i mean she showed up in the movie for irl 15 minutes, *sang a song* and took home the best supporting actress oscar, and everyone was like yep this is correct
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDK-wsdEhNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJ4O-nSveg
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This song was made for this thread.
https://youtu.be/5GJWxDKyk3A
Is Billie Eilish this generation's Amy Winehouse?