Ruger Nut
US Veteran
My wife and I always play the Star Spangled Banner before bed.
Do you "stand at attention?"


My wife and I always play the Star Spangled Banner before bed.
This isn't something men discuss. Maybe in CA, but not heterosexual men.
K.525 - or pretty much any of the other 600+ compositions - most everything else pales ... really.
For a song, it's hard for me to imagine any that is more moving than Marlene Dietrich singing Lili Marleen
In German
Lili Marleen---lyrics in German - YouTube
In English
Marlene Dietrich Lili Marleen(ENGLISH) - YouTube
In classical music, I think it might be a tie between the evocative cannon fire of Tchaikovsky's Overture of 1812
1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky (Full) - YouTube
and the hypnotic repetitiveness of Ravel's Bolero
- Maurice Ravel BOLERO - Wiener Philharmonic - YouTube
Bob
Well, we ARE men-it's either that or the chili thread.Actually, I was using the word sensuous in the terms of affecting the senses rather than the intellect. I see, however, that some of you guys are stuck in one of the more primal aspects of the senses.
Bob
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Just about anything buy rap & Oprah. I like Joe Cocker.
My wife and I always play the Star Spangled Banner before bed.