Your Favourite Song(s) Of All Time

[ukbanshee]

In keeping with the recent themes......
Sorry if this has recently been done, but we can revive it right.

Pink Floyd - Echoes
- Wish You Were Here
- The Great Gig in The Sky
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
- Castles Made of Sand
Sarah Mclaughlin - Angel
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
- Tears in Heaven
2 pac - changes
Aerosmith - i dont wanna miss a thing
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Carlos Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Bach - Air on a G String
David Gray - This Years Love
Dire Straits - Brothers in arms
- Sultans of swing
Elthon John - your song
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
- Simple man
- Tuesdays Gone
Ozzy Osbourne (with Randy Rhoads !!) - I dont know
Puff Daddy - Ill Be Missing You
Queen - who wants to live forever
- These are the days of our lives
U2 - with or without you
van halen - hot for teacher
Yngwie Malmsteen - Like an angel


well, thats me

[Daniel]

Jackopierce - Vineyard
The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap

[drm]

Green Day - Good Riddance
Holly McNarland - Beautiful Blue
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Collective Soul - Goodnight Good Guy
Collective Soul - The World I know
Blink 182 - Story of a lonely guy
Blink 182 - going away to college (track four on enema of the state)
Garrison Starr - Superhero
Madonna - Like a Prayer

There's about 5 other Collective Soul songs and about 6 other Blink 182 songs that I can listen to over and over again but my cd's are packed away.

[WSLer]

My alltime-hands-down-no-arguments-favorite song ever is
Don Henley-The Boys Of Summer
Led Zeppelin-Stairway To Heaven
Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child O' Mine
Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross
U2-Beautiful Day
The Beatles-Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
Ozzy Osbourne-Mama I'm Comin' Home
Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run

[RexDart]

I can't imagine anything at all helpful coming out of a thread like this, people won't even read the replies just make their own. I doubt anyone is reading these words, so why am I bothering? Well, in case the Original Poster reads this, I just wanted him to know that on his list with so many really good songs, he had to pick one of the WORST Aerosmith songs ever. There are so many better songs in every sense of the word "better" just within that band's library. Try any of these in roughly chronilogical order, all far better than "Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" (which was also flawed before I even heard it for being in a crappy movie)

Dream On
Back in the Saddle
Mama Kin
Kings and Queens
Sweet Emotion (original, not the 1991 version)
Let the Music Do the Talkin'

And even songs from the recent albums...

Permanent Vaction (1987)--
Rag Doll
I'm Down

Pump (1989)--
Young Lust
Other Side
What it Takes

Get a Grip(1993)--
Eat the Rich
Livin' On the Edge
The Power Ballad Trilogy
--Cryin'
--Crazy
--Amazing

Anything they did after that was pretty much worthless. I'd take ANY of those songs over "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing", which was just the sort of unoriginal, overplayed nonsense you'd expect considering it was featured in a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. Unless the Summer of '98 is somehow *really* sentimental to you, I suggest you listen to a little more Aerosmith. If that was the song you picked to put on your favorites list, you obviously haven't listened to much.

[Wearia]

Our Lady Peace:
4am
Clumsy
Mafia
In Repair
Made of Steel

Green Day:
Time of Your Life

Outkast:
Bombs Over Baghdad

Lifehouse:
Breathing
Everything

Yeah theres more but I'm to tired to write em all.
Wearia

[Nacho4Sara]

"Feels Like Home" by Bonnie Raitt
"Displaced" by Azure Ray
"Goodbye" by Alicia Keys
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" by Israel Kamakawakawiwo'ole
"Everything" by Lauryn Hill
"Lover's Rock" by Sade
"Expression" by Salt N Pepa
"Let It Be" by the Beatles
"Video" by India.Arie
"What About" by Janet Jackson


Yup, my taste is sort of eclectic, but I love music with soul. (I love women performers more than men, as well. Whatever that means.)

[pepperlandgirl]

I read the responses....

Paul Simon
Graceland
Slip Sliding Away

Sting
Fields of Gold
When We Dance
Ghost Story
Why Should I Cry For You?

John Lennon
Beautiful Boy
Watchin' The Wheels
Just Like (Starting Over)

Paul McCartney
Band On The Run
Jett!
Another Day

The Beatles
Yesterday
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Blackbird
I Should Have Known Better

That's all for now. ;)

[grendel72]

Aside:
Jeez, RexDart, do you have to be a dick about others musical taste? The thread title is Favorite song- purely a matter of personal taste, there is no "right" or "wrong" answer. And the thread does serve a purpose, some of us are interested in what others think although obviously you aren't and may be turned on to something we hadn't considered because someone we respect on the board posted it.

My personal favorites are Lo Boob Oscillator by Stereolab, Computer Blue by Prince, and Profondo Rosso by Goblin.

[Walloon]

The greatest Brian Wilson song he never wrote for the Beach Boys...
The greatest Sonny and Cher song they never sang together...
The greatest Patridge Family song they never got a groove on...

Rufus Wainwright's April Fool.

[todd33rpm]

The Waterboys "When Ye Go Away"...God, that's a sad, sad song. It pretty much only comes out during Bailey's Irish Cream night, when thinking about old romances.

Geggy Tah "Sweat"...if there were any justice in the world, it should have been as big as "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic."

Los Lobos' live version of "Tomorrow Never Knows"...I was there. Wow.

The Beatles "Another Girl" or "The Night Before."

The Who "Love Ain't For Keeping" (the version from the reissued Odds And Sods)...This one's an electric take I much prefer to the acoustic one on Who's Next.

Dire Straits "Portobello Belle"...you know how there's that one song that finally connects on a summer midnight drive when your windows are down? This one's mine, as well as Frank Sinatra's "Only The Lonely."

Soul Coughing "Soft Serve"...I didn't really internalize beat poetry until I heard how vocalist M. Doughty speak/sings the words "day undone" at the end of this. When I heard that, the light bulb went on.

But wait...don't go away...I've got a whole sheaf of other ones...

[Already in Use]

There are so many by the Beatles, but let's see if I can pick just a few.

Across the Universe
Tomorrow Never Knows
I Am the Walrus
I'm Looking Through You
Love You To

If I had to pick my two favorite songs of all time, they would be "Across the Universe" by the Beatles and "Watermelon in Easter Hay" by Frank Zappa.

[JohnBckWLD]

Observations:
I assumed Pepperlandgirl would have posted Butthole Surfers as opposed to Sting
Speaking of Soul Coughing: Screenwriter's Blues still blows me away

[Honey]

Linger - The Cranberries
To Sir With Love - LuLu
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Layla (The Original) - Eric Clapton
The Theme to Peter and The Wolf - Prokofiev
Your Love - The Outfield
Sister Goldenhair - America

[The Scrivener]

"Love Is Stronger Than Death" & "Slow Emotion Replay" -- The The (Matt Johnson) [orig. LP versions]
"Penny Lane" -- The Beatles
"Lay Lady Lay" -- Bob Dylan
"Crosseyed and Painless" -- Talking Heads
"Thela Hun Ginjeet" -- King Crimson
"Burning With Optimism's Flames" -- XTC [live]; "Yacht Dance" [LP]
"Strong, Simple Silences" -- The Golden Palominos ['80's]; "Anything" ['90's]
"Lonely Is (As Lonely Does)" -- The dB's
"I Want You" -- Elvis Costello
"Buggin'" -- The Flaming Lips

and just for fun,
"Beep" -- Pylon

List subject to changes by mood...

[Dragon Phoenix]

From my homepage (www.hennieschaper.tk):

1 Mad man moon (Genesis)
2 Ghosts (Japan)
2 Jesse (Janis Ian)
3 Kayleigh (Marillion)
4 Shine on you crazy diamond (Pink Floyd)
5 Carpet crawlers (Genesis)
5 Private investigations (Dire Straits)
6 Desperado (Eagles)
7 Killer queen (Queen)
8 Forbidden colours (David Sylvian)
8 Vincent (Don McLean)
9 San Jacinto - live (Peter Gabriel)
10 I'm not in love (10 CC)
10 Merlin - the legend (Kayak)
11 The sound of silence (Simon and Garfunkel)
12 The man with the child in his eyes (Kate Bush)
12 Family snapshot - live (Peter Gabriel)
13 Cinema show-aisle of plenty (Genesis)
14 Baker street (Gerry Rafferty)
15 This masquerade (Carpenters)
15 Where or when (Bryan Ferry)
16 Don't give up (Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush)
17 The first time ever I saw your face (R.Flack)
18 Brothers in arms (Dire Straits)
18 The winner takes it all (ABBA)
19 Wallflower (Peter Gabriel)
20 Stars (Janis Ian)
20 Tequila sunrise (Eagles)
21 Samba pa ti (Santana)
22 The lamia (Genesis)
22 Night porter (Japan)
23 Old and wise (Alan Parsons Project)
24 Hou me vast (Volumia!)
25 Through the barricades (Spandau Ballet)
25 Lying eyes (Eagles)
26 White rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
27 Dancing with the moonlit knight (Genesis)
28 Bat out of hell (Meatloaf)
28 Homeless (Paul Simon)
29 Love of my life (Queen)
30 Perfect day (Lou Reed)
30 Under your thumb (Godley and Creme)
31 One day in Paris (Martha and the Muffins)
32 Kathy's song (Simon and Garfunkel)
32 At seventeen (Janis Ian)
33 For Emily.....(Simon and Garfunkel)
34 American pie (Don McLean)
35 Routine day (Klaatu)
35 Telegraph road (Dire Straits)
36 I hear you now (Jon and Vangelis)
37 Con te partiro (Andrea Bocelli)
38 The ninth wave (Kate Bush)
38 Breaking us in two (Joe Jackson)
39 Wildflower (Skylark)
40 Song to the siren (This Mortal Coil)
40 Cup of coffee (Garbage)
41 Cloudbusting (Kate Bush)
42 Firth of fifth (Genesis)
42 I'm in the mood for love (Bryan Ferry)
43 Mother stands for comfort (Kate Bush)
44 The year of the cat (Al Stewart)
45 Testament (Boudewijn de Groot)
45 Time in a bottle (Jim Croce)
46 Promises (Cranberries)
47 Biko (Peter Gabriel)
48 Afscheid (Robert Long)
48 Julie with … (Brian Eno)
49 Vienna (Ultravox)
50 New year's day (U2)
50 Scarborough fair (Simon and Garfunkel)
51 Uncertain smile (The The)
52 The rhythm of the heat (Peter Gabriel)
52 Life on Mars (David Bowie)
53 July morning (Uriah Heep)
54 Oh yeah (Roxy Music)
55 Tian tang - paradise (Tengger)
55 Give up your guns (Buoys)
56 Torn (Natalie Imbruglia)
57 Belfast child (Simple Minds)
58 Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)
58 Real men (Joe Jackson)
59 China (Tori Amos)
60 Diamonds on the soles of her shoes (P.Simon)
60 Julia dream (Pink Floyd)
61 Take a chance with me (Roxy Music)
62 With or without you (U2)
62 Anne (Kayak)
63 On the border (Al Stewart)
64 Visions of China (Japan)
65 Dead birds fly forever (Kayak)
65 Stimmen im Wind (Juliane Werding)
66 Northern lights (Renaissance)
67 Easy living (Uriah Heep)
68 Do it again (Steely Dan)
68 Ripples (Genesis)
69 Empty chairs (Don McLean)
70 They dance alone (Sting)
70 Steppin' out (Joe Jackson)
71 You're my best friend (Queen)
72 Silent all these years (Tori Amos)
72 Hey little girl (Icehouse)
73 Tell me (Camel)
74 Listening wind (Talking Heads)
75 Starlight dancer (Kayak)
75 Brilliant trees (David Sylvian)
76 Suzanne (Peter Gabriel)
77 Under African skies (Paul Simon)
78 I'm Mandy fly me (10 CC)
78 Fragile (Sting)
79 Zombie (Cranberries)
80 Virginia plain (Roxy Music)
80 Blinded by the light (MMEB)
81 American tune (Paul Simon)
82 Time (Tori Amos)
82 Not here not now (Joe Jackson)
83 Marlene on the wall (Suzanne Vega)
84 Tears in heaven (Eric Clapton)
85 Time of the season (Zombies)
85 Het is over (Volumia!)
86 Adia (Sarah McLachlan)
87 Space Oddity - Ashes to ashes (David Bowie)
88 Nothing compares 2U (Sinnead O'Connor)
88 Don't look back in anger (Oasis)
89 Heaven can wait (Meatloaf)
90 Blood of Eden (Peter Gabriel)
90 By this river (Brian Eno)
91 Miss Serajevo (Passengers)
92 Renee (Talk Talk)
92 Michelle (Gerard Lenorman)
93 I've been high (REM)
94 You needed me (Anne Murray)
95 Riders on a storm (Doors)
95 Afscheid (Volumia!)
96 Entangled (Genesis)
97 Hotel California (Eagles)
98 Red skies over paradise (Fischer Z)
98 She's leaving home (Beatles)
99 Angie (Rolling Stones)
99 Pride - in the name of love (U2)
100 That ole devil called love (Alison Moyet)

[PunditLisa]

Rexdart, sometimes people's favorite songs have nothing to do with the song per se, but of the memories associated with the song.

For instance, one of my favorite songs is the Moody Blues' "Wildest Dreams," but not because I like the melody/lyrics. Rather the song conjures up a certain summer night with a certain man.....:) <---lascivious grin

[Lodrain]

I like Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box", not really because of the lyrics, but as PunditLisa said, the memories. The same memories are triggered by most of the Beatles' Help! album and Einstürzende Neubauten's Ende Neu, but that one isolated Nirvana song... I can never listen to the song without getting at least a little wistful.

As for the moment, I'm really liking "Ray" by Gry.

[rackensack]

No particular order, except that I saved the very best for last:


"White Man in Hammersmith Palais", The Clash
"96 Tears", ? and the Mysterians
"Dreaming", Blondie
"Watch Your Step", Elvis Costello and the Attractions
"My Affair" and "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby", Kirsty MacColl
"Fairytale of New York", The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
"Knock On Wood", Eddie Floyd
"Seven Days Too Long", Dexy's Midnight Runners
"Feel a Whole Lot Better", The Byrds
"Someone I Care About", The Modern Lovers
"Dodge Veg-o-matic", Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
"Something Else", Eddie Cochran
"When My Baby's Beside Me", Big Star
"September Gurls", Big Star

[Annie-Xmas]

Our Kind of Love (Beautiful Game)
When You Want to Fall in Love (Song&Dance)
Buenos Aires (Evita)
The Lady's Got Potential (Evita)
Peron's Latest Flame (Evita)
It's A Pig (By Jeeves)

[Coldfire]

Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix
24 Hou me vast (Volumia!)
...
85 Het is over (Volumia!)
...
95 Afscheid (Volumia!)Please tell me you're just homesick in that weird, far away City of the Lion. There's no other reason for three (not 1 but 3!) Volumia! songs on that otherwise excellent Top 100. ;)

[Coldfire]

Oh, and this is my favourite song of all time:

Twelfth Night - The Collector

[Dragon Phoenix]

Coldfire,
Nope. I simply like these three very much - don't care too much about their other songs, though. :)

[plnnr]

The Jupiter Symphony (Mozart)
Water Music (Handel)
Brandenburg Concerti (J. S. Bach)
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
Rites of Spring (Stravinsky)
Firebird Suite (Stravinsky)

You're The Top (Cole Porter), as done by Fred Astaire
My Funny Valentine (Rodgers and Hart), as done by Ella Fitzgerald
Embraceable You (Gershwin), as done by Billie Holiday

Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
Crazy (Willlie Nelson), as done by Patsy Cline
He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones)

I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown)
Dancin' in the Streets (Martha and the Vandellas)
What's Goin' On? (Marvin Gaye)
Tear the Roof Off the Mutha (Parliament/Funkadelic)

Rumble (Link Wray)
Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)
Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley)

[JohnBckWLD]

Originally posted by Coldfire
Oh, and this is my favourite song of all time:

Twelfth Night - The Collector I meant to ask you this last time you made reference to this epic.
Have you ever noticed the similarities between the lead singers pleads to "mommy" (In the Collector) and Arthur Brown's (screaming to be let out...please) in Prelude (Pt 2 of the Fire trilogy)?

[Barrett]

After about seven minutes of vaguely serious inner-debate, I’d have to say these are my top ten. And now, live and in color, in no particular order whatsoever:

1. And Your Bird Can Sing—The Beatles
2. Strawberry Fields Forever—The Beatles
3. Positively Fourth Street—Bob Dylan
4. Shine on You Crazy Diamond—Pink Floyd
5. The Final Cut—Pink Floyd
6. Brain Damage/Eclipse—Pink Floyd
7. Echoes—Pink Floyd
8. Elenore—The Turtles
9. Crazy—Aerosmith
10. Under the Bridge—The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Mock them as you will;

[JohnBckWLD]

Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix
From my homepage (www.hennieschaper.tk)This is my second time reading your list, it is quite unique.

I still wish I could find a link to Martin C Strong's poll in the 2nd edition of his "Great Rock Discography".


Anyway, I see your 100 and I'll raise you 5...

5 From The 21st Century BASEMENT JAXX Where’s Your Head At
DELERIUM Innocente’
KERNKRAFT 400 Zombie Nation
LINKIN PARK One Step Closer
WOLFSHEIM Once In A Lifetime25 From the 90’s BELLY Now They'll Sleep
BLINK It's Not My Fault
BLUR Song 2
THE CHARLATANS UK The Only One I Know
THE CURE Never Enough (Big Mix)
DINK Green Mind
DREAM WARRIORS My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style
KING MISSILE Detachable Penis
LUNA Anesthesia
KIRSTY MacCOLL Walking Down Madison
MINISTRY N W O (New World Order)
THE ORIGIN Growing Old
QUEEN Innuendo
R E M Crush With Eyeliner
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Killing In The Name
SON VOLT Drown
SOUL COUGHING Screenwriter's Blues
THE STONE ROSES Fools Gold
THE SUNDAYS Here's Where The Story Ends
JENNIFER TRYNIN Better Than Nothing
UTAH SAINTS Something Good
WAS (NOT WAS) I Feel Better Than James Brown
MIKE WATT Against The 70's
WHALE Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
JAH WOBBLE The Sun Does Rise25 From the 80’s MIKE AGRANOFF Ballad Of The Sandman
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Vengeance (The Pact)
JACKSON BROWNE Hold On Hold Out
ROCKY BURNETTE Tired Of Toein' The Line
DIRE STRAITS Industrial Disease
JOHN FOGERTY Mr Greed
JOE JACKSON Memphis
JOY DIVISION Love Will Tear Us Apart
KBC BAND America
THE KINGS This Beat Goes On / Switching To Glide
NEW ORDER Blue Monday
THE POLICE Voices Inside My Head
THE PRETENDERS My City Was Gone
THE PRETENDERS Precious
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS I'm An Adult Now
THE REPLACEMENTS Alex Chilton
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Somewhere Down The Crazy River
SIMPLE MINDS Promised You A Miracle
PAUL SIMON The Boy In The Bubble
TALK TALK It's My Life
VIOLENT FEMMES Add It Up
JOE WALSH The Confessor
PAUL YOUNG I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
WARREN ZEVON Detox Mansion
ZEBRA Take Your Fingers From My Hair25 From the 70’s BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
BLACK SABBATH Sweet Leaf
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Godzilla
DAVID BOWIE Panic In Detroit
JEFF BECK Going Down
LONG JOHN BALDRY Conditional Discharge / Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS The Beat
ERIC CLAPTON Mainline Florida
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Fanfare For The Common Man
FLASH & THE PAN Hey Saint Peter
LED ZEPPELIN Immigrant Song
LOGGINS AND MESSINA Angry Eyes
MARK-ALMOND BAND The City (Grass And Concrete/Taxi To Brooklyn/ Speak Easy It's A Whiskey Scene)
MOUNTAIN Nantucket Sleighride
HARRY NILSSON Jump Into The Fire
IGGY POP Lust For Life
THE RECORDS Starry Eyes
STEELY DAN Aja
SWEET Love Is Like Oxygen
THE STRANGLERS Peaches
T REX Jeepster
TALKING HEADS Cities
THE TROGGS Summertime
TRAFFIC Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
TOM WAITS Emotional Weather Report25 From the 60’s THE AMBOY DUKES Journey To The Center Of The Mind
ARTHUR BROWN Fanfare - Fire Poem / Prelule – Nightmare / Fire
CANNED HEAT On The Road Again
CREAM Swlabr
BOB DYLAN Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
DICK DALE & HIS DEL-TONES Miserlou
THE DOORS The Soft Parade
FLEETWOOD MAC Oh Well
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE Are You Experienced?
IRON BUTTERFLY In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Volunteers
KING CRIMSON The Court Of The Crimson King (Fire Witch-Dance Of The Puppets)
JOHN MAYALL Room To Move
THE MOODY BLUES Legend Of A Mind
NAZZ Open My Eyes
QUESTION MARK & THE MYSTERIANS 96 Tears
ROTARY CONNECTION Rapid Transit / Turn Me On
THE ROLLING STONES Stray Cat Blues
DEL SHANNON Runaway
SIMON & GARFUNKEL A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)
SWEET THURSDAY Gilbert Street
SYNDICATE OF SOUND Little Girl
THE SEEDS Pushin' Too Hard
TEN YEARS AFTER I'm Going Home
THE YARDBIRDS The Train Kept A-Rollin'

[ChuckForbin]

What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Tend My Garden - James Gang
Ooh La La - (Rod Stewart Version)
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel


And maybe ten thousand more.