favorite songs

[boli]

My best friend and I have a "favorite songs" list...we call it our top 10 but actually there are many more than that in it. I want to know the songs that "do it" for you...whether it be because they remind you of a great moment, or just because they cause you to feel on a deeper level.

Mine include:

One Part Be My Lover - Bonnie Raitt
Bittersweet - Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Me & Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Much Too Young to Feel This Damn Old - Garth Brooks
Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful - Jimmy Buffett
Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac

This is just the beginning!

[Contestant #3]

Do you feel like I do? - Peter Frampton (live)

Desparado - Eagles

SuzyQ - Credence Clearwater Revival

Purple Rain - Prince

Stealin' - Uriah Heep

Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr.

He stopped loving her today - George Jones

I want you back - Jackson 5

Brick House - Comadores

American Pie - Don McClean

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

...just a start...


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Contestant #3

[Babar714]

...My, My, Miss American Pie...

I have to say I love Weird Al's "The Saga Begins" to the tune of American Pie. "..My, my, this Anakin Guy. Maybe Vader someday later but he's just a small fry..."

[Satan]

A few off the top of my head:

The Buzzcocks - "Orgasm Addict"
Jane's Addiction - "Ted... Just Admit It"
Judas Priest - "Victim Of Changes"
Bad Religion - "21st Century Digital Boy"
King Crimson - "21st Century Schitzoid Man"
Wall Of Voodoo - "Mexican Radio"
Celtic Frost - "Mexican Radio"
Fugazi - "Waiting Room"
Dag Nasty - "Values Here"
XTC - "Mayor of Simpleton"
Ram Jam - "Black Betty"
Black Sabbath - "Children Of The Grave"
Metallica - "The Four Horseman"
Boogie Down Productions - "The Message"
Frank Black - "The Men In Black"
Motorhead - "Ace Of Spades"
Slayer - "Angel Of Death"
Heavy Pettin' - "Love On The Run"
Blur - "Song #2"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Anthrax - "A.I.R."
Velvet Underground - "Waiting For My Man"
Bob Marley - "One Love"
AC/DC - "Back In Black"

Okay, I'll stop now...

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[middsy]

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in your soul
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Ash - Girl from Mars
Blur - Country House
Bush - Swallowed
Radiohead - Creep
Yomanda - Synth & Strings
Counting Crows - Round Here
O.M.D. - Walking On the Milky Way
Ocean Colour Scene - The Day we Caught the Train.

If anyone can name 10 better songs than that I'll be shocked!

[Sam Stone]

Warren Zevon - "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
Warren Zevon - "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"
John Prine - "Hello in There"
John Prine & Bonnie Raitt - "Angel from Montgomery"
Guns N' Roses - "Sweet Child O' Mine"
The Doors - "Roadhouse Blues"
The Doors - "LA Woman"
The Beatles - Just about everything they wrote
Eric Clapton - Just about everything he played
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Ditto
Booker T. and the MG's - "Green Onions"
Allman Brothers - "Jessica"
CCR - Just about all of their Stuff
The Band - "The Weight"

[kellibelli]

metallica - fade to black
stones- mothers little helper
G n R- patience
keith whitley- dont close your eyes
green day- good riddance
eagles - hotel california
Steve miller band - ? pompitice of love? song
luba- every time I see your picture i cry
NakedEyes-always something there to remind me
the love song from top gun...?

I like all kinds of music, and my tastes change with my mood, but one that ALWAYS makes it to my top 10 is
Unchained Melody (Time Goes By)
Originally by the Righteous Brothers (definitive version)
Excellent rendition by LeAnn Rimes, too

You can't go wrong with:
anything by John Prine
anything by The Beatles
anything by CCR
anything by Janis Joplin
anything by Jimi Hendrix
anything by Patsy Cline

[Falcon]

Dave Matthews Band - "I'll Back You Up"
Rush - "2112"
Sarah McLachlan - "Dear God"
Moxy Fruvous - "King of Spain"
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "Jubilee"

[Byzantine]

RUSH - Witch Hunt
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
" " - Kiss that Frog
Queensryche - Revolution
Def Leppard - Stagefright
Weird Al Yankovic - This is the Life
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Yellow - Oh yeah
The Tubes - Talk to ya Later
Dream Theater - Surrounded

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The moon looks on many flowers, the flowers on but one moon.

[Eutychus]

"Big Electic Cat" by Adrian Belew



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Saint Eutychus
www.disneyshorts.org

[Globe-trotter]

How soon is now? - The Smiths
Pictures of you - The Cure
Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen
The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
Bad - U2
Games without frontiers - Peter Gabriel
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Anything by the Beatles
Supper's Ready - Genesis

and much, much more!

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I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895)

[kknick34]

The Doors - Light My Fire

Led Zeppelin - Since I Been Loving You

Frank Sinatra - The way you look tonite

[According to Pliny]

Here's my latest favorite song:

Don't be afraid to care.
Don't be alarmed by my vacant stare.
Please don't ever leave me
Huh?
Damn hippies!
Leave but don't leave me...
(ah, finally a thread I can think of something to say on!
Heave, heave at the fair.
Look around...
choose your own ground.
Balanced on the biggest wave,
Race toward an early grave.
Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
Run rabbit, run.
dig that hole; forget the sun
when atlast the work is done
dont sit down its time to dig another one
for long you live and high you fly
but only if you ride the tide
and balanced on the biggest wave
you race towards an early grave
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
Careful with that axe, Eugene.
Please, Please, Baby Lemonade...
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And will I take you by the hand, and lead you to a land ...
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip...
I've got a bike
Listen.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
Trudge behind death trough an ugly void
The winter sky could crush a shadow
The moon screams like music over iron-black seas
Cool whispery language rusts my blood
Several species of small furry animals living together in a cave and grooving with a pict
In Flanders fields the poppies grow......
One of these days I'm gonna' cut you into little pieces.
He was fitted with collar and chain.
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
...I dunno I was really drunk at the time
Doo Dah! Doo Dah!

Anybody know who sings this one

[Falcon]

Why, I think it's sly and the SDMB singers!

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"You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't."
-Emily Saliers

[funneefarmer]

Yello- Oh Yeah (gotta agree with that choice)
Sarah McLachlan-Possession
The Cramps-Surfin' Dead
Dan Baird-Seriously Gone
The Cranberries-Zombie
INXS-Spy of Love
ZZ Top-La Grange
Headstones- It's All Over
Georgia Satellites-Red Light

[Gail]

Selling the Drama by Live
Tenderness: General Public
Church of the Poison Mind: The Culture Club
Jumper: 3rd Eye Blind
Back 2 Good: Matchbox 20 (?)
Dr. Robert: The Beatles
Wedding Bell Blues: The 5th Dimension
Hot Fun in the Summer: Sly and Family Stone
Reeling in the Years: Steely Dan
Haitian Divorce: "" ""

I'm sure I could think of more.




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Gail
"Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you, my friend--
Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again...."
-Steely Dan

[dougie_monty]

"Seattle"--Perry Como
"City of New Orleans"--Arlo Guthrie
"The Vatican Rag"--Tom Lehrer
"Tammy"--Debbie Reynolds
"Angeltown"--Bob Thomas
"The Big Hurt"--Miss Toni Fisher
"He'll Have to Go"--Homer & Jethro
"Crazy Downtown"--Allan Sherman
"Honey Have You Seen the Highway"--Ina T & the RVs
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"--John Denver
"Save the Best for Last"--Vanessa Williams
"Fer the Good Times"--Homer & Jethro

[omniscientnot]

In no particular order:

"Layla" - Derek and the Dominoes
"Gimme some lovin'" - Steve Winwood and the Spencer Davis Trio
"A Day in the Life" - Beatles
"In My Life" - Beatles
"Here, There and Everywhere" - Beatles
"House of the Rising Sun" - Eric Burdon and the Animals
"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
"Echoes" - Pink Floyd
"Yer Blues" - Rolling Stones
"Damn Right I Got the Blues" - Buddy Guy

[BurnMeUp]

Water - Oingo Boingo
Wrapped in Grey - XTC
Good - Morphine
Cheryl Dodds is Pregnant - Toy Dolls
Some Kind of Love - Misfits
Booker - Harry Connick Jr
Kick in the Head - Dean Martin
I'm Mad - Reverend Horton Heat
Big Time Sensuality - Bjork
Bonzo Goes to Bitburg - Ramones
Silent Hedges - Bauhaus

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

[Persephone]

Before I start my list, I must say...Omniscientnot, we must get together sometime.

"American Pie," by Don McLean
Every freaking instrumental by the Allman Brothers, including "Mountain Jam."
Everything Eric Clapton ever thought of, except his version of "I Shot the Sherriff"
Pretty much everything by Danny Gatton (my husband the guitar player turned me on to his genius)

I am a sucker for anything with good guitar work. B.B King, Buddy Guy, T-Bone Walker, Clapton, Hendrix, Dicky & Duane...oh my, I could go on forever...

[omniscientnot]

Next Tuesday afternoon is open, Cristi

[Kat]

Off the top of my head:
The Change, Ireland, The Red Strokes - all 3 by Garth Brooks
Daddy's Hands - Holly Dunn
The Greatest Man I Never Knew, She Thinks His Name was John(?) - both by Reba
I'm Alright - Jo Dee Messina
Wanting It and Having It All - Sawyer Brown
It's All in Your Head - Diamond Rio
Feed Jake - I forget

I'll probably add more.

[Lissa]

Hole: Twenty Years in the Dakota
Hole: Old Age
R.E.M I Don't Sleep, I Dream
Nirvana: Something in the Way
Bjork: Army of Me
Tori Amos: Chains
Doors: The End
Don McLean: American Pie
"Mother, Mother" Tracy Bonham
Anything by the eels

[Shirley Ujest]

Anything by Sinatra.
Anything by Garth Brooks. ( I will not apologize either)
Old time Rock and Roll, Bob Segar
Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
Big Band Music
Irish fiddle music.
All Classical ( One in particular that goes " Bum bum bah da da bump bump...
Not a moment too soon - Tim McGraw
Anything by the Judds and most of Wynonna's stuff.

I will have to say that I do not know 1/10 of the bands/songs done in the 90s that anyone has listed here.

[BunnyGirl]

Sheryl Crow: Mississippi
Bruce Hornsby: Down With That (I think that's the name; off "Spirit Trail", disc 2)
Don McClean: Vincent ("Starry, starry night")
Diana Krall: Peel Me a Grape
Kathleen Battle: Ave Maria
Ricky Martin: Por Abajo (can't remember full name of song. First song on "Vuelve" album)
Andrews Sisters: Bie Mier Bisch Du Schein (horrible German spelling)
Anita Baker-anything by her
Christina Aguilero (??)-Genie in a Bottle
and, I hate to admit this one:
Limp Bizkit: Nookie. Couldn't understand the attraction until I saw the video and heard the song the whole way through.

[StStella]

Right off the top of my head these come to mind:

"Pepper"- Butthole Surfers
"Riders on the Storm"- Doors
"Walking after Midnight"- Patsy Cline
"Labatomy"- Ramones (anyone remember the movie Rock n Roll Highschool?)
"Feed the Tree"- Belly
"Waking the Witch"- Kate Bush
and my all time favorite: "Ring of Fire"- I think Johnny Cash did this song originally and my favorite version is by Social Distortion, but I've also heard a Reggae version (strange, but cool) and a version by a woman (excellent, wish I new her name).

I like this thread because it's interesting to see what people find appealing. Too numerous to name songs, wrote bands.

Genius:
Frank Zappa, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus

Vocals:
Yma Sumac, Ella/Bessie/Billie/Sassy, Johnny Hartman, Nina Hagen

Heavy:
Slayer, Gorefest, Bad Brains, Unsane, Plasmatics

Fun:
Toledo, Morphine, Love Jones, Fall-Outs (or anything on Estrus)

[BurnMeUp]

STStella, i think you mean Teenage Lobotomy

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

[omniscientnot]

Bit eclectic aren't we, Melanie?

Cristi: you bring the CDs, I'll bring the player and...we'll make beautiful music together

You do realize I've been dying to say this all along, right? LOL

[The Ryan]

A partial list:

• Depeche Mode- "Somebody" (easily the best love song I've ever heard), etc.
• The Cure- "This Is A Lie", etc.
• Savage Garden- "Truly, Madly, Deeply", etc.
• Pink Floyd- "Learning to Fly", etc.
• The Beatles- "And I Love Her", etc.
• Metallica- "Unforgiven II", etc.
• The Offspring- "Self-Esteem" and a few others
• Counting Crows- "Raining", etc.
• Goo-Goo Dolls- "Iris", etc.
• Dire Straits- "Money for Nothing"
• Madonna- "La Isla Bonita", etc.
• ABBA- "The Winner Takes It All", etc.
• U2- "Sunday Bloody Sunday", etc.
• Foreigner- "That Was Yesterday", etc.
• Pat Benatar- "Love is a Battlefield", etc.
• Tom Petty- "Free-falling", etc.
• ?- "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?"
• ?- "You're Like the Wind" (let me know if you know what I'm talking about with these two)

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-Ryan
" 'Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter.' " -Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

[omniscientnot]

Ryan: Perhaps Prism in the first case and Robson and Jerome in the second?

[kanashimi]

How can I think of any other song now that Santana's "Smooth" is constantly playing in the back of my mind??

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"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation." - Rhett Butler

[RealityChuck]

Off the top of my head: HAIR.

Seriously:

Rosalita -- Bruce Springsteen
Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- Meatloaf
The Intro and the Outro -- Bonzo Dog Band
Monster Mash -- Bonzo Dog Band version
(Oh, heck -- any song by the Bonzo Dog Band)
Rhapsody in Blue -- Gershwin
Won't Get Fooled Again -- The Who
Anything Goes -- Cole Porter
Rocky Mountain Way -- Joe Walsh
Nothing to Hide -- Spirit (or anything from the Dr. Sardonicus album).
Any song written by Harry Warren
Good Times Bad Times -- Led Zeppelin
A Whiter Shade of Pale -- Procol Harum
Abbey Road Medley -- Beatles
Sympathy for the Devil -- Rolling Stones
Cool for Cats -- Squeeze
Statesboro Blues -- Allmen Brothers

I should stop now. I can go on forever.

[SoxFan59]

I find it interesting that the question is asked about a "favorite song," and everyone responds not just with song titles, but the artist who sings them.

There was a time when it didn't matter who performed the song, but the song stood on its own. Of course, there are classic performances of a song, but if a song is a classic, most anyone should be able to record it, and interpret it.

For me, when I think of "favorite song," I think of things that have endured because the songs themselves are works of art, great poems or wonderfully crafted lyrics combined with a beautiful melody and harmonic flow.

There are sacred standards that have endured: Amazing Grace, How Great Thou Art, and some enduring sacred choruses that are simple, yet convey an eternal message.

There are classic standards of the american musical theater and jazz that have endured: some of my favorites include "My Heart Stood Still," "All the Things You Are," "My Romance," etc.

A "song" should be something that I can perform and interpret myself. It should be more than a vicarious experience. And, IMHO, it should stand on its own, without concern about who performs it.

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SoxFan59
"Its fiction, but all the facts are true!"

[The_Peyote_Coyote]

Off the top of my head:
"Just my Imagination (Running Away With Me) -- the Temptations
"My Favorite Things" -- John Coltrane Quartet
"Waiting for a Star to Fall" -- Boy Meets Girl
"Men and Women" -- Uncle Bonzai
"Beginnings" -- Chicago
Just about anything by Jimi Hendix, the Allman Brothers and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[Doobieous]

Here's my list, with artists too. These are in categories.

Lovesongs:

-Wishing on a Star - Rose Royce
-Seasons Change - Expose
-Let Me Be The One - Expose
-Take Me In Your Arms - Lil' Suzy
-Where does that leave love - George Lamond
-I Wanna Get Next To You - Rose Royce
-I'm Goin Down - Rose Royce
-Purple Rain - Prince
-Always and Forever - Heatwave
-Out On A Limb - Teena Marie
-Love You Down - Ready For The World
-Love On A Two Way Street - Stacy Lattisaw
-Love will never do - Janet Jackson
-That's the way love goes - Janet Jackson

Songs that put me in that special mood:

-Entra Mi Casa - Armand Van Helden
-Body - Funky Green Dogs
-Skin - Charlotte
-How Can We Be Wrong? - Trinere

That's just a few of the many favorite songs i have.

[Persephone]

Sorry Omniscientnot...been away from this thread for a couple of days. My husband says I can meet you, if he can come along, and bring his vinyl. And Tuesday is fine.

[sunbear]

Back to songs:
Favorite John Lennon song on't Let me Down. When it came out, I didn't like it much.Get Back was OK back then.
From the Let it Be sessions, the Billie Preston backed songs are my favorites. I've even come to like them better than Abbey Road.

[Misha77]

In no particular order:
Anything by Mazzy Star
Anything by Portishead
Faded by Afghan Whigs
Side of the Road by Concrete Blonde
Let Down by Radiohead
Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan
Clair De Lune by Debussy
Ol' 55 by Tom Waits
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley(but I like Cohen's version, too)
Head On by the Pixies
Tear in Your Hand by Tori Amos
Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd
100% by Sonic Youth
Sweet Jane by Velvet Underground
What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Just a few

[chief]

Guns N' Roses - Patience (and i love any of their others)

Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (any everything else..)

Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

Black Crowes - Descending

Allman Brothers - Melissa

Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

Yardbirds - Train Kept A Rollin

Hendrix - Voodoo Chile

Beatles - Let it Be

John Lennon - Cold Turkey

Metallica - Fade to Black

Jayhawks - Take me with you

Bob Marley - Redemption Song

probably a lot im forgetting...

and lots more...

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Chief's Domain - http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi

where to start...

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Don McLean - Vincent
Elton John - Candle in the Wind BEFORE the Australia tour!
Harry Chapin - Sniper
Mary Chapin Carpenter - Jubilee
Air Supply - Making Love Out of Nothing At All
Eagles - Last Resort
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Fleetwood Mac - Silver Spring
Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
CSN - Cathedral
Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
CCR - Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Steppenwolf - Snowblind Friend
John Denver - Follow Me (sung at my wedding)
Alan Jackson - Midnight in Montgomery
ELO - Boy Blue
Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm
David Allan Coe - Dakota the Dancin' Bear
Trisha Yearwood - The Song Remembers When
Garth Brooks - The Cowboy Song
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Coven - One Tin Soldier
??? - Avenging Annie
Edelweiss (Sound of Music)
I Don't Know How To Love Him (JC Superstar)

(Actually, I don't think that some of these are necessarily the artist's best song; mostly they're ones I really like that no one else ever asks for...I'll count on every one else to get the greatest hits )

more, but I can't think of them right now...


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Sue from El Paso
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Feed Jake - I forget
-Kat

Pirates of the Mississippi, I think...

?- "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?"
?- "You're Like the Wind" (let me know if you know what I'm talking about with these two)
- the ryan

guesses here:

"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" - Whitney Houston

"She's like the Wind", IIRC, is a song from Dirty Dancing, by Eric Carmen.


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Sue from El Paso
members.aol.com/majormd/index.html

OK, the broken-hearted one bugged me...

I found this on a lyrics site:

Now what's become of the broken-hearted
Who had love that's now departed?
I know I've got to find
Some kind of peace of mind
I'll be searching everywhere
Just to find someone to care.
I'll be looking everyday
I know I'm gonna find a way
Nothings gonna stop me now
I'll find a way somehow
I'll be searching everywhere

"What's Become of the Broken-Hearted" - Jimmy Ruffin

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Sue from El Paso
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[sunbear]

BunnyGirl: Mississippi/Crow, good choice. I wonder if Dylan wrote it for her. I don't remember if he recorded it himself.

[the first supraliminal]

Great list so far.

I think nobody mentioned CRAZY TRAIN, by Ozzy Osborne.

All aboard?



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One beer is less than two beers.

[the first supraliminal]

Almost forgot, George Thoroughgood's, "One bourbon, one scotch, one beer."

It's my theme song.



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One beer is less than two beers.

[vanillanice]

Yes, Ice Ice Baby is number one. Also, I wanna Be sedated by the Ramones. Don't Fear the Reaper by BOC. Somebody to Love by Queen.

[Misha77]

I thought "She's Like the Wind" was by Patrick Swayze. (I could be mistaken. It wouldn't be the 1st time.) And Paul Young did a remake of "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" that was kind of popular.