King Of Music

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Who do you think is the king of music? Who has the best music and best moves? Could be anyone from composers to the hits of the 50’s to today?
And what is the best type of music in your opinion? Both for recreation and church.
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Well, first lets all agree that country music is ghastly. 😉

Composer → Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The most brilliant offering from mankind after Our Blessed Mother.

“Queen of Music” —> Dame - Cecilia Bartolli … could make the hardest stones weep with her voice.

Classic Rock → David Bowie: Very artsy, talented vocalist, timeless, refreshing and cool.

Contemporary Rock----> The White Stripes. The only thing new under the sun as far as rock music goes.

If I was stuck on a desert island and had to pick between classical music and classic rock… I would have to pick classical music. It simply contains ALL human emotion, love for life, for God, for mankind, and life. It is all encompassing.
But I would really miss Mick and the boys. 🙂
 
Wow, this is a tough question and, for those of us who like ALL kinds of popular music, almost impossible to answer.

To put it in context, I’m a 47 year old male who grew up in the Rock era. I was a little late for the Beatles, though I loved their music. Most of my friends and I in our teen years (in the 70’s, pre-disco) listened to mostly R&B and oldies (oldies then being from the 50’s and early 60’s), but in my young adult years I also listened to more mainstream pop and Rock. In my thirties I started branching out into Jazz, especially Latin Jazz (Tito Puente, Poncho Sanchez, Stan Getz, etc).

The last few years I have really come to appreciate Swing and Big Band music . Maybe it’s just my age, but I think it blends the best of all I’ve ever liked–pop, jazz, R&B, etc. There is a fullness and joy, as well as virtuosity and maturity in it that you don’t find in other music.If you held a gun on me and forced me to make a choice, I’d have to say that maybe Frank Sinatra was the king at his craft --the best ever of everything–the voice, the moves, the style, the music, the phrasing and song interpretation–all of it.

I still like all the other music I ever listened to (my music collection is pretty large, as you might imagine) but that’s where I am right now. Swing and Big Band aren’t exactly church music but, come to think of it, the same things I look for in popular I like to hear in church – fullness and joy, as well as some virtuosity and maturity (in substance and delivery).
 
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Well, first lets all agree that country music is ghastly. 😉
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Now wait a minute! There is no type of music (not including true satanic music) that is ghastly. I even have a really good disco LP (remember those) done by Robert Fripp (King Crimson) and David Burns (Talking Heads).
Although I have to confess that I have never heard any HipHop that I could appreciate.:o
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Composer → Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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. The most brilliant offering from mankind after Our Blessed Mother.
Ditto!
Best classical virtuoso: Paganini
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Classic Rock → David Bowie
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: Very artsy, talented vocalist, timeless, refreshing and cool.
Bowie is good but the best classic rock written was done by Pete Townsend (Who). The best classic rock virtuoso has to be Hendrix. or maybe Carlos Santana. The best band - BEATLES

Best southern rock: Skinard, and Little Feet 2nd.

Best great white northern rock: Rush

Best eastern pop: Ravi Shankar;)

Best comic R&B: The blues brothers

Best and first soul: Ray Charles:cool:

Best Jazz: Louis Armstrong

Best Christian voice: Sandy Patti

Best folk composer: Woody Guthry

Best folk prefermer: Pete Seager
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Contemporary Rock----> The White Stripes
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. The only thing new under the sun as far as rock music goes.I am too ignorant of modern rock (never heard of the White Stripes) but I really really like the new U2 album (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb). (:cool: squared)
However I do know that the best contemporary christian punk band with a lead bagpipe is flatbush 56! There best piece is Hold Fast!

Man there is so much great music I could go on all night!👍
 
Secular king ?
ELVIS ! He even made some hymn albums for his mother.
 
Well, he may not be commonly considered the top composer (whatever that means), but I’d nominate Bach for the title. Mozart, Beethoven, etc might have created more popular works (on the whole), but I’d argue that Bach had the best understanding of music.
 
If you want to go by sheer volume and number of hits, and also by gross revenue, it would have to be Paul McCartney easily. The dude is a billionaire from his music, and knighted by the English crown (since Elton John is too, I guess it doesn’t really count for much).
 
All around Entertainers who either had or have that magic of making the right moves, singing with style, smoothness, class, hip and coolness?

Elvis Presley
Dean Martin
Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis Jr
Bobby Darrin
Robbie WIlliams
Tom Jones

Female ones who come to mind and fill some of that bill…

Celine Dion
Tanya Tucker
Cyndi Lauper
Annie Lennox
Karen Carpenter
Wynona Judd
Janis Joplin (vocals to be sure!)
 
I guess Nirvana is out of the picture

How about Emo…I guess the forefathers would be Fugazi

Best Emo out there hmmmmm…maybe Thursday, Dashboard Confessional, or The Juliana Theory
 
:thumbsup:Tchaikovsky:thumbsup:

…but he’s dead. Pop music has taken the throne by force and has disgraced it. They must be stopped!
 
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