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My Favorite Musical Pieces (Currently)
It is really impossible for me to sort these by individual ranking, as they each have qualities I prefer, nor can I say these are the only pieces I really like, but they are the pieces I have been especially fond of, and have listened to multiple times lately.

Stratosphere<Episodes<Stratovarius



This piece is of a baroque nature, yet is imbued with a power that rouses the listener to action in a unique way.

Bohemian Rhapsody<A Night at the Opera<Queen



This song is among my all-time favorite songs, because it takes one through a musical journey of drastically differing vicissitudes while maintaining a sense of "completeness". I don't prefer the lyrics but I find the instrumental has lodged itself inextricably within my mind.

Bohemian Polka<Alapalooza<Weird Al

 Weird Al is one of my favorite artists, and this comical take combines Queen's hit song with the polka style. If you are familiar with either Weird Al or Queen you will find this enjoyable.

So Shy<Sim Gretina



I don't often listen to electronic music, and I dislike genres like dubstep because they are rather formulaic genres, but I do like soothing pieces such as this one. Fluttershy is also my favorite character from MLP, and I'm reminded of someone I knew when I hear this.

In The Hall of The Mountiain King<Opus 46.,No.I<Edvard Grieg



There is something about pieces that gradually increase in intensity that or speed that I like, and the classics have many such pieces. In The Hall Of The Mountain King is a piece I like because of it's incessantly rising nature, like a dramatic verision of Bach's Endlessly Rising Canon.

In The Hall of The Mountain King<"On The Third Day"<Electric Light Orchestra



Here is a rendition of the piece by a band I just discovered, who have also made some good compositions, one of which being the famous Mr.Blue Sky.

Csárdás Macabre<S.224<Franz Liszt



Here is a piece I heard about a year and a half ago, and since then return to listen to often. Liszt paints an almost stone-cold atmosphere to break it up with periods of sonority reminiscent of his 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. It has a varied texture, like Bohemian Rhapsody.

The Skrigjaargen Polka<Victory Square<The Dreadnoughts



This is yet another song that increases in speed and power everytime the main theme is repeated. I like polka, and some rock music, (though I am more choosy with the latter genre), so hearing a combination of the two is great.

Hungarian Rhapsody VI<S.359/6<Franz Liszt



Liszts melodies were derived from the music of gypsy music, which accounts for the catchiness of this piece - and why I like it so much.

One/Alpha/Beta<C418



C418 is an ambient artist that I enjoy listening to when I want to relax, or just have a lot to think about. These three albums are his most famous, though he has of course made more.