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jcoyle231
Mar 25 2024
at 4:58 PM
I was thinking about this the other day and there’s a handful of tunes that are always at the ready: AYGWM, Goodbye, Sixty-Six, Phase Dance, Signals,and when I need a quick pick- me-up, First Circle.
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facing west
Feb 06 2025
at 8:46 AM
Bookmark and Share Lately it’s been the acoustic medley from Unity Sessions. Those tunes are so well constructed & resonate with each other to create something with real emotional power. Great morning music as the sun is coming up. (Phase Dance / Minuano / Midwestern Night’s Dream / The Sun in Montreal / Omaha Celebration / Antonia / This is Not America / Last Train Home)
bellce0
Feb 04 2025
at 7:56 AM
Bookmark and Share “The Truth Will Always Be” is currently at the top of my list. So many more sit right alongside… especially “Are You Going With Me.” BTW—My first post here. New member.
MarcNebo
Jan 30 2025
at 12:25 PM
Bookmark and Share zenmaster: I agree that is a great song, maybe Lyle’s best piano solo. I re-visited AWFSFWF the other night. Great record, basically Pat & Lyle duo with Nana Vasconcelos on several songs.
zenmaster
Jan 26 2025
at 8:32 PM
Bookmark and Share I play ’ September Fifteenth’ more than any other PM song. It’s just such a masterpiece, nothing short of a classical composition. The interplay between PM and LM, the solos, the dynamics, etc they’re just magical!
BobSmith1
Jan 14 2025
at 12:08 AM
Bookmark and Share Lately "Lakes" from Watercolours. I still can’t get over Lyle’s playing on this. The left hand chording is simply amazing. But the entire album is still revealing new things to me even after 45 years (bought the LP in1980).
foxesfred
Jan 04 2025
at 7:15 PM
Bookmark and Share I keep revisiting Third Wind live in Japan. Like everyone else here there are many others that keep coming back.
yossarian
Jan 02 2025
at 12:02 PM
Bookmark and Share Right now I’m listening to Seven Days from the Quartet album again... and again... and again... I’m figuring out the chord voicings because knowing the chords from the Pat Real Book is only half the story. I’ve so far had 46 years of listening to PMG and Pat and Lyle’s solo works. But delighted to still find pleasure in returning to tunes. This is not disposable music in any sense!
thirdwind
Nov 23 2024
at 1:35 AM
Bookmark and Share With PM, one song is rarely enough. I usually listen to the whole album once I get started. The Way Up simply can’t be interrupted, so it’s a special event when it plays, often on a long drive. I often break Secret Story into three movements, usually before The Longest Summer and Antonia where the emotional tone seems to shift. Offer me just one song, and I’d ask for First Circle, Imaginary Day, Third Wind or The Awakening. It has to be one of the long ones...
tiny_tim
May 17 2024
at 5:58 AM
Bookmark and Share Since the release of Side V1.IV it has been "Zenith Blue".....and seen live at the amazing gig last 13 July at Jazz de Vienne (with Chris Fishman on the keys and Joe Dyson on the kit)....everything about that chart just sends me to places beyond....especially after the Keyboard solo....when it goes all sonic.....mind blowing.....
jcoyle231
May 16 2024
at 2:47 PM
Bookmark and Share So many favorites! A true testament to the greatness of his music. I wanted to follow up on what BobSmith1 said about "If I Could." When First Circle was released and before I bought the album I heard this song on the U of Penn public radio station where on the weekends in the morning they played the "quiet sounds." When I heard "If I Could" I was just blown away and until I bought the album I would call the station nearly every weekend to request it. I agree it’s one of his most beautiful melodies and a song I never tire of listening to.
MarcNebo
Apr 16 2024
at 9:19 AM
Bookmark and Share AYGWM, probably partially because is is on a lot of my records and videos. A timeless song that has aged well.
Oystein
Apr 09 2024
at 12:15 PM
Bookmark and Share San Lorenzo, the tune that launched me into this PM(G) galaxy so many ages ago. Also September Fifteenth and The Heat of the Day ... for the time being :)
mugsy
Apr 04 2024
at 2:06 PM
Bookmark and Share I keep coming back to Are You Going with Me? This has probably been my fav for the past thirty or more years!
naut
Apr 03 2024
at 8:10 AM
Bookmark and Share "Song for Bilbao," "To the End of the World," "Finding and Believing," "The Truth Will Always Be," "Red Sky" -- and about five hundred others! :Þ
BobSmith1
Apr 02 2024
at 9:20 AM
Bookmark and Share jjcoyle231--Thank you for your comment--any of those songs you mentioned would be right up there at the very top with me too! I think "If I Could" is one of the loveliest melodies Pat ever created. Lyle’s Oberheim in that one is just sublime.
djangocat
Apr 01 2024
at 12:23 PM
Bookmark and Share Last Train Home, Travels, James
jcoyle231
Mar 31 2024
at 3:22 PM
Bookmark and Share Great choice, BobSmith1. There are so many Pat anthems to enjoy it’s easy to overlook the many, many just beautiful gems, like “Something To Remind You.” I’m thinking of “If I Could”, “It’s For You”, “September Fifteenth”, “Slip Away”, and on and on.
BobSmith1
Mar 29 2024
at 1:39 PM
Bookmark and Share Last few months I’m always teeing up "Something To Remind You". Just a perfect, beautiful song that keeps on giving.
Antoñete
Mar 28 2024
at 3:21 PM
Bookmark and Share Excellent choice jcoyle231!
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