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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Love the sound of SAX,sex too

,what songs do you love that have a great Sax riff.

Your the best thing..Style Council

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Will you, Hazel O conner

Great sax solo

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

yeah awesome was mentioned on another thread a few days back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll fly for you,Spandau Ballet

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

A million love songs

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By *atcherofmyballsMan
over a year ago

hereford

Baker street

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baker Street

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Latest trick - Dire Staits (can't stand them but love that song)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Latest trick - Dire Staits (can't stand them but love that song)

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Good shout

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jungeland - The Boss

RIP Clarence

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guru Josh? I'm not sure that's right it just popped into my head!

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By *r Mahogany70Man
over a year ago

Leicester

"Will you, Hazel O conner

Great sax solo"

Good call

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lily was here -Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart. Another classic

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

my girl.madness

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Blue Thunder by Galaxie 500. There must other indie fans on fab! Less of this dire straits shite.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

R.I.P

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has to be baker street

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jungleland - The Boss.

Solo by Clarence Clemons.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blue Thunder by Galaxie 500. There must other indie fans on fab! Less of this dire straits shite.

Sorry mate its gonna get worse

Not sure if it's on the original track but there is a live version of Phil Collins Against all odds on utube which has the sexiest sax solo ever (well I think so)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And by his widow, Laurie Anderson - From The Air.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And by his widow, Laurie Anderson - From The Air. "

(Lou Reed's widow)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anyway are we talking riffs or solos?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hurricane Smith - oh Babe What Would You Say

Or am I showing my age FFS !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anyway are we talking riffs or solos? "

When I hear a sax the last thing on my mind is whether it's a riff or solo -whatever the difference may be.

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

Have a listen to Kenny g.......songbird

Brilliant track and full of sax

mmm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Love the sound of SAX,sex too

,what songs do you love that have a great Sax riff.

Your the best thing..Style Council

omg my fav x

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Modern Love, David Bowie

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Anyway are we talking riffs or solos?

When I hear a sax the last thing on my mind is whether it's a riff or solo -whatever the difference may be."
either

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By *picyspiregirlCouple
over a year ago

chesterfield

Joe le taxi. Riff and solo. I love that song.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Have a listen to Kenny g.......songbird

Brilliant track and full of sax

mmm"

Kenny G is possibly the most talentless man to ever pick up a saxophone, he makes Muzak sound like difficult jazz!

I'd post a rant that Pat Metheny did about him but you'd get bored very quickly

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Oh, and Red Army Blues by The Waterboys, by the way!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh Bondage up yours - X Ray Spex

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By *corpi0stingMan
over a year ago

london

Kenny G?!? Yikes! I guess someone might react the same way to my tastes on the opposite side of the spectrum as I am quite into spiritual/free/modal Jazz.. but surely anyone should be able to appreciate Maurice McIntyre's Humility in the Light of the Creator. Powerful stuff.

On a more mainstream level, and probably more relevant, Eddie Money's Take Me Home Tonight

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro

Angel Fingers ...... Wizzard great opening riff

Pretty much any song from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

and how about Junior Walker and The Allstars' from Tamla Motown's "Take me girl, I'm ready"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed"

That album was produced by Bowie - and he was the one playing the sax

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By *arnayguyMan
over a year ago

Durham Tees

All revved up with no place to go - Meatloaf

Absolute Beginners - David Bowie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The saxophone on Big Mountains cover of Baby I Love Your Way is wonderful.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Madness- One Step Beyond.

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By *igcovcockMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Careless whisper had a classic sax solo on it as does china in your hands by t'pau. Baker street is a good call. But the best sax solo ever is on walk on the wild side.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

jean Michel jarre - last rendezvous

such a hauntingly beautiful track

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By *cottishrichMan
over a year ago

Here and there

Inxs - never tear us apart.

It's a shame Hutchence went and asphixi-wanked himself to death.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm learning to play the alto sax too what a great thread

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Can play tenor sax (its not just a pic prop)

Love playing Baker Street

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Night boat to Cairo - madness

Can't get used to losing you - the Beat

Wooly bully - Sam sham and the Pharoes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hanoi Rocks have loads of them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anyway are we talking riffs or solos?

When I hear a sax the last thing on my mind is whether it's a riff or solo -whatever the difference may be."

Note to self - don't get too technical in forum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Road From the album The Language of Life by Everything But The Girl.

Stan Getz played the Tenor.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lets face it the Sound of The Sax played well is one of the most beautiful sounds on the planet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Road From the album The Language of Life by Everything But The Girl.

Stan Getz played the Tenor."

Blimey! THE Stan Getz? He's no Kenny G.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Girl from ipanema The Stan Getz version and anything by Cannonball Adderly Charley Parker And The theme from Alfie by Sonny Rollins

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Anything that Gilad Atzmon plays, ever! Seriously, probably the best sax player alive today...and he's a lovely bloke but politically a bit nuts!

You may find all 15 minutes of this a little 'difficult'!

http://youtu.be/jEDjgdjmCfA

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Us and them-pink Floyd, just love the sax in that track

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was discussing this at work the other day... Can anyone name a song with a sax in it that isn't any good?

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Was discussing this at work the other day... Can anyone name a song with a sax in it that isn't any good?"

Yeah, anything that Kenny G's on

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

cant believe I forgot Spandau Ballets True

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lets face it the Sound of The Sax played well is one of the most beautiful sounds on the planet"

any instrument played well sounds well that includes the voice although my favourite sound is Dave gilmours guitar

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

Kenny G...........Talentless....How do you work that out

Have you don't your homework..lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Madness- One Step Beyond.

One of my favourite songs

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Lets face it the Sound of The Sax played well is one of the most beautiful sounds on the planet

any instrument played well sounds well that includes the voice although my favourite sound is Dave gilmours guitar

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I quite like Liam Gallagher's Tamborine

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

Actually just been on youtube to listen to Kenny G and I stand by my decision

Best say player I know of

Certainly not talentless

U should hera him in the studio when writing his songs.......been there

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

Hit me with your Rhythm Stick

Ian Dury/Blockheads.

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By *icboyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Oh Bondage up yours - X Ray Spex"

Has to be this...a classic...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I see Jungleland and the late great Clarence Clemons have already received a shout so I’ll give a well dreserved call-out to Tupelo Honey and Pee Wee Ellis...

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Actually just been on youtube to listen to Kenny G and I stand by my decision

Best say player I know of

Certainly not talentless

U should hera him in the studio when writing his songs.......been there

Here's the nice bit that Pat Metheny had to say about him...

'Pat Metheny on Kenny G

Question:

Pat, could you tell us your opinion about Kenny G - it appears you were quoted as being less than enthusiastic about him and his music. I would say that most of the serious music listeners in the world would not find your opinion surprising or unlikely - but you were vocal about it for the first time. You are generally supportive of other musicians it seems.

Pat's Answer:

Kenny G is not a musician I really had much of an opinion about at all until recently. There was not much about the way he played that interested me one way or the other either live or on records.

I first heard him a number of years ago playing as a sideman with Jeff Lorber when they opened a concert for my band. My impression was that he was someone who had spent a fair amount of time listening to the more pop oriented sax players of that time, like Grover Washington or David Sanborn, but was not really an advanced player, even in that style. He had major rhythmic problems and his harmonic and melodic vocabulary was extremely limited, mostly to pentatonic based and blues-lick derived patterns, and he basically exhibited only a rudimentary understanding of how to function as a professional soloist in an ensemble - Lorber was basically playing him off the bandstand in terms of actual music.'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Children Of The Ghetto By Courtney Pine

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

UB40 Food For Thought

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dancing in the moonlight. Thin Lizzy awesome track especially the live versin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything By Bobby Wellings

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Wayne Shorter's soprano (I think!) solo on The End of the Innocence by Don Henley is beautiful.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sade - Your Love is King

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everything By Dexter Gordon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wesley Magoogan on the sax on Hazel o conners "will you", one of the best (nit bad for someone who was deaf) !!

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By *corpi0stingMan
over a year ago

london

Kenny G?!? I can't get over it.. not done our homework?! The irony! :D Put Kenny G up against Albert Ayler, John Gilmore, Arthur Jones, Marion Brown, Pharoah Sanders, Shamek Farrah, JOHN COLTRANE! And then get back to me

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Kenny G?!? I can't get over it.. not done our homework?! The irony! :D Put Kenny G up against Albert Ayler, John Gilmore, Arthur Jones, Marion Brown, Pharoah Sanders, Shamek Farrah, JOHN COLTRANE! And then get back to me

I could quote the other half of Metheny's rant, where he really lays into Kenny G

Kenny fucking G FFS!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

us and them .. pink floyd

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love kenny g's first album...g force

Also check out gerald albright, boney james, najee

All awesome sax players

Paul hardcastle uses alot of sax in his songs too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Check out marion meadows too

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

The Race Is On - Tommy Shaw

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

^Sax was by Richie Cannata

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

anything by madness .. and simply red

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By *uffinCouple
over a year ago

Chichester

Supertramp

Logical

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By *uffinCouple
over a year ago

Chichester

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By *ighland MasterMan
over a year ago

perth

the blow monkeys you dont own me was used in dirty dancing

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By *unkydesignCouple
over a year ago

Manchester

Cross The Tracks by Maceo & The Macks....or anything featuring the expert playing of Bob Holness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Baker street "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lily was here -Candy Dulfer and Dave Stewart. Another classic

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By *afTheWelshMan
over a year ago

Aberdare

Can't believe no one's mentioned China In Your Hand by T'Pau. Awesome song with awesome sax solo. One of my favs as the Sax is one of the instruments I play. Lol

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By *hyllyphyllyMan
over a year ago

Bradford

SunStroke Project and Olia Tira - Run Away. The 2010 Moldova entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Features Sergey Stepanov who become known as The Epic Sax Guy.

Here's an edited version of the song, to make him look more EPIC

http://youtu.be/gy1B3agGNxw

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

Acker Bilk .. "Strangers on the shore "is my all time fav ... Gives me goose bumps on me goose bumps!

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

As above,

us and them-pink floyd

Through the barricades-spandau balley

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All good suggestions but without a doubt the best song with a saxaphone riff is 'Eternal Drift' by 'Material'. It is a Jazz/Funk Fusion track and well worth a listen. It is from the album 'Hallucination Engine' and is posted on YouTube by Cookaborra. It starts off slow but the Sax comes in about 1.5 mins in. Let me know what you think?

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By *arisjokerMan
over a year ago

Admaston

Hazel O'connor song is stay now, not will you....

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By *arnayguyMan
over a year ago

Durham Tees

"Acker Bilk .. "Strangers on the shore "is my all time fav ... Gives me goose bumps on me goose bumps!

Nice song but Acker played a clarinet not a sax.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hazel O'connor song is stay now, not will you...."

No its will you.

True by spandau ballet is a good one too.

Roxy music is great for sax, bryan ferry is cooler than an ice cube.

The one in hit me with your rythm stick by ian dury is an unusual one.

The hazel o conner one is my favourite though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shhh..don't want any careless whispers

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

Gong: "The Isle of Everywhere"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smooth operator by sade

Careless whisper by george michael

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hall and oates - i cant go for that.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

money .. pink floyd ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Money too tight to mention

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Smooth operator by sade

Careless whisper by george michael"

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

"Acker Bilk .. "Strangers on the shore "is my all time fav ... Gives me goose bumps on me goose bumps!

Nice song but Acker played a clarinet not a sax."
lmfao... Opps me blonde! Lmfao

got me blowey in the end instruments , in a muddle! Still love this tune tho

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baker steet,or 'bluesy' Huey Lewis on dancing in the moonlight,Live n Dangerous

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Love the sound of SAX,sex too

,what songs do you love that have a great Sax riff.

Your the best thing..Style Council

I put a spell on you - Nina Simone

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By *arnayguyMan
over a year ago

Durham Tees

"Baker steet,or 'bluesy' Huey Lewis on dancing in the moonlight,Live n Dangerous"

Live & Dangerous is one of my favourite live albums ever. Huey played gob harp on Baby Drives me crazy. It was John Earle who played the sax on Dancing in the Moonlight.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Berlin - Marillion

Lots of great songs on here. Berlin is worth a mention as it is very descriptive of Cold War Germany.

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By *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

Not been on this thread for ages but cant believe all the bad said against Kenny G

After all it was only my opinion on one track

Bloody hell calm down

I know anyone can have an opinion but why go on and on and on about it when theres better things to rant about

omg

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't mess with my toot toot by John Fogerty.

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