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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 7 months ago
    How about "What I Did For Love" from the movie "Fame." The song is about having achieved a certain degree of mastery over a subject the singer loves, such as music, art, or dance. And in a classical vein there's the 1812 Overture by Tchaikowski.. True, it's an old warhorse, but it never fails to inspire, as it did in the movie "V." And, since I'm posting about warhorses, "The Star Spangled Banner" when played appropriately in an up-tempo always inspires me. It's telling about a battle that the fledgling USA was bound to lose, but didn't - "The flag was still there."
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  • Posted by bsmith51 8 years, 7 months ago
    For me, one remedy for discouragement is to listen to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, keeping in mind the entire work was composed when he was deaf (presumably from lead poisoning).
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  • Posted by MikeWi 8 years, 7 months ago
    Why am I receiving warnings about personal attacks when I haven't engaged in any?

    My two song suggestions for this topic are, 1)'You've got Another Thing coming' by Judas Priest and 2)'We are the Champions' by Queen
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  • Posted by $ DriveTrain 8 years, 7 months ago
    The first ones that spring to mind are a jarring contrast of genres.
    I can only stand Country for a few minutes at a time (it was a lot more fun in the mid-90s when Country bars were where all the women were at,) but I always liked the simple, direct sound of the late Chris Ledoux - serious Americana:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXGVz...

    When I first heard this I about fell off my chair, because it's an accurate description of a memorable day in my life a couple of years before, including the part about working on a barbed-wire fence...

    I'm really disgusted at the bizarre, public, Leftwing lurch that Professor Peart and the boys have taken in the last few months - and though I despise "rap" even when it's tongue-in-cheek, coming from Rush, and with some distinctly Objectivist lyrics... "Roll The Bones." Granted, the message is an exhortation to make an effort and take chances when there are no guarantees of outcome rather than being about success from work specifically, but still a shoo-in:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoE1S...

    And... does "Twenty Flight Rock" count? (No tie-in too vague for a link to the Jeff Beck-Imelda May "Rock 'n Roll Party" - one of the most spectacular tours I ever experienced):
    https://youtu.be/4VfeP3roN7A?t=4265
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  • Posted by tkstone 8 years, 7 months ago
    Maybe a bit of a stretch, but how about Red Barchetta by Rush. It takes a lot of work to outrun/outwit the future police, and keep the dream of the open road alive! Not much of the music of my generation spoke of such things as productivity.
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