Les Miserables discussion

I think the title is pretty self-explanatory.

i like:
[random order]
do you hear the people sing
one day more
the confrontation
look down

and i randomly like different songs at different times. but these i think are my core favorites :)

I love One Day More and The Confrontation! I also love Fantine's Arrest and Fantine's Death. Javert's Suicide and Stars. Little People. Umm... Finale. A Little Fall of Rain, Drink With Me, and lots of others.
The ones that I love the most I think are:
Javert's Suicide
Fantine's Arrest
One Day More
Empty Chairs and Empty Tables

i dont have all the songs, so i dont really know Javerts Suicide, Fantines Arrest and Little People very well. i should probably listen to them more.
ya, stars is good, and drink with me gives me shivers
the finale is also nice.
i think one day more is probably my number one though :)

Oh Yes! One Day More is probably the best in the whole musical. Everyone is shown at their best.

yup!!!!!! i love that song!!!!! lol,

i love how the tunes are the same for some songs and it makes you realize the connection.
example:

Javerts Suicide and Valjeans Solioquy have the same tune, and some of the same words- they have both past something big in their lives and they are dealing with it. its funny how they deal with it so differently- Javert gives up and kills himself, and Valjean decides to start a new life :)

then theres how all the 'sentences', like Valjean being caught stealing from the bishops house, Fantines arrest and Javert being discovered as as spy all have the same tune too in some parts.

there are loads of other examples too...

I love the Soliloquy and the Suicide. It is really clever how they have so many similarities and the characters are so very different.

yup :)
in short, its an amazing musical/book/story thingy :)

Yes! Victor Hugo was brilliant and so were Claude Michel-Schonberg and Alain Boubil.

lol, because of this group ive been listening to Les Mis two days straight! im driving my friends crazy by going "its pure genius!" the whole time :D
guess ive found something else im addicted too...

YAY! I've found me another Miserable!

yup!!!! and i have someone who i can rave about it to!!!!!

Indeed! Les Mis forever!

The Peoples' Song
On My Own
One Day More
Javert's Suicide
Valjean's Death (sorry if that's not the title)
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

All those songs are wonderful.
Oh, and I think the song you mean is Epilogue/Finale.

Yea probably

whats 'the peoples song?'

Do You Hear the People Sing? Maybe. Or, maybe it is Look Down.

I laugh whenever I hear Lovely Ladies, but then I get really depressed when they sing "Don't you know you're making love to one already dead?" Sad...
Oh, and I love On My Own and Castle on a Cloud...I don't anyothers...

You don't? Well, allow me to remedy that. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFr6nk...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROr4vd...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PXZ1n...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIwgD4...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odrZ6N...

Those are only a few, but I really like them.

personally i really dont like castle on a cloud.
way, did you give her i dreamed a dream and valjeans solique?

No, not yet. I will add those.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1s9ub... (it starts at 9:19)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jo4Fv...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxPpMR...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYCPHH...

isnt 'come to me' called Fantines Death?

Officially, Yes, but it can be called Come to Me as well.

oh, ok :)

Either title, AMAZING!!!

Yes.
The melody. The words. The meanings behind it. The Story.
Gives me chills!

Im reading it now! Its amazing!!!!!

This is the reason why Marius is miserable, skip to everyday and you'll see why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SkzW...

I love the whole show, but my favorite song is Who Am I.

Ooh! That is a good one.
Really powerful. Jean Valjean shows some real goodness in that song.

Especially when Colmie is singing it...sorry I call him Colmie more than Colm or Mr. Wilkinson.

I HAVE MASTER OF THE HOUSE STUCK IN MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH@!!!!!!!

That is annoying song to get stuck in your head.
That and Lovely Ladies. I think that those are my least favorite songs in the musical. And Dog Eats Dog. I don't like that one.

I only can remember the end of Lovely Ladies....and everytime someone says Lovely, I burst into song....Hahah....and yes, its annoying....im listening to it on Youtube as we speak!!!!! Im addicted to an annoying song!!!!!!!

I am also addicted to that song!! and also Fantine's arrest only I watch the high schools doing it then I start complaining about them so much I have to return to Philip and Ruthie's.

Haha....its a super annoying song...teehee.....and I sang Lovely Ladies to my mom, and she was like, "Thats what they say? Omg!!!!!! Thats horrible!!!" and I laughed.

O lord, Lovely Ladies and Master of the House- two very iteresting (to say the least) songs

Interesting...
Heh, that is one way to describe it.

Yes, that or....nevermind....teehee, but they can be quite addictive....ive been singing the last part...
"Everybody raise a glass...Raise it up the masters arse!" for like, weeks....teehee

I like
1. One Day More
2. Look Down
3. On My Own
4. ABC Cafe Red/Black (I think thats what its called)
5. Do You Hear the People Sing?
6. The Confrontation

Those are my favorites! :)

I dreamed a dream

That really tricky but these are my favourite In order:
One day more
On my own
Do you hear the people sing
The Confrontation
Javerts arrival/Little people
Red and Black
Look down/Paris
And ANything else that has Gavroche!

Wow. Hard to choose. I *love* every song in this inspired musical. Sheer beauty and depth, all the way through. The lyrics all sparkle and shine and paint vivid word-pictures. The underlying spirit of the play, and the themes that run all through it, are so gentle and kind that such sweetness and goodness, to this extent, are not common to authors, they just aren't. Victor Hugo was a saint. I really believe that. As for favorite song, again, how does one choose in a musical like Les Mis' ?? If I put against a wall, the song that breaks my heart the most, and is the *most* tender, is A LITTLE FALL OF RAIN. No matter who performs it, when Marius tells the dying Eponine, "You would live a hundred years, if I could show you how; I won't desert you now..." for me, that's when the floodgates REALLY open.
love to all of you.

Donald wrote: "Wow. Hard to choose. I *love* every song in this inspired musical. Sheer beauty and depth, all the way through. The lyrics all sparkle and shine and paint vivid word-pictures. The underlying spi..."

I completely agree!

I love the way you described the music, Donald "Sheer beauty and depth, all the way through. The lyrics all sparkle and shine and paint vivid word-pictures." That is such a perfect way to word it!

I admit, I've always had a softness for Eponine's death, though I think the finale is what truly sends shivers down my spine. When the chorus comes in quietly with "do you hear the people sing, lost in the valley of the night..." And they just get louder? Ooh! It's truly brilliant.

Oh, and Javert's suicide! How could I miss that one? It's such a powerful song. The way they integrated Stars into the ending when he's throwing himself off the bridge is truly amazing.

Way wrote: "I love the way you described the music, Donald "Sheer beauty and depth, all the way through. The lyrics all sparkle and shine and paint vivid word-pictures." That is such a perfect way to word it! ..."

Thank you, Way. If I could praise it more highly, I would. I've never heard lyrics like these, nor any that compare to them, in my entire life. Ever. I really believe that this play is inspired by God as is the novel. Peace, friend.

And way, I agree about the Finale. If there has ever been a more "holy" moment in a musical play, I have never heard it. I'm ready to stand and cheer once they start with, "Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?..." but when they cry out, Tomorrow COME!, I'm clapping like crazy even though there is nobody around to hear me, LOL (watching the dvd). peace, friend.