Your Favourite Songs

[Qin Shi Huangdi]

What are your favourite songs?

A brief pick:

"Battle Hymn of the Republic"
"Lili Marlene"
"Christmas Waltz"

[Oakminster]

I'm going to assume you're asking for a Top 3, since that's how many you listed in the OP.


1. Free Bird--Lynyrd Skynyrd

2. A Pirate Looks at 40-Jimmy Buffet

3. Me & Bobby McGee-as covered by Janis Joplin

Numbers 2 & 3 might change if I was asked again tomorrow, but Free Bird
, which isn't actually AKA "Oak's Anthem" but should be, is always going to be #1.

[Qin Shi Huangdi]

Feel free to list as many as you wish.

[RealityChuck]

Statesboro Blues. I have at least five versions, and am partial to the Allman Brothers, but Taj Mahal, Alice Stuart, and, of course, Blind Willie McTell are great.

Rhapsody in Blue. Maybe technically not a song, but I love it. Favorite versions include the Denver Symphony, accompanied by George Gershwin (via piano roll), Oscar Levant (though I wish it were in stereo) and my Joan Brill's (my aunt, who was trained at Julliard and plays professionally).

Rosalita -- Bruce Springsteen
The Abbey Road Medley
My Old Town -- Tom Lehrer
Summer '68 -- Pink Floyd
Razzle Dazzle -- Chicago (the musical)
Bride's Lament -- The Drowsy Chaperone (musical)
They Can't Take That Away from Me -- by George Gershwin
Sympathy for the Devil -- Rolling Stone
Lola -- the Kinks
Guitar and Pen -- the Who
Killer Queen -- Queen

I'll stop now.

[MwNNrules]

"Kid Charlemagne" - Steely Dan. A very bleak, powerful song that speaks to me in a lot of ways.
"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin. Great song, and I don't just like it for the solo (although it is my favorite solo... yeah, I'm just another man on the bandwagon).
"The End" - The Doors. Many people find this song extremely pretentious and stupid, but I find it poetic. I really like the rhythm as well.

[woodstockbirdybird]

Too many. Some off the top of my head:

The Divine Comedy - Tonight We Fly
Husker Du - Celebrated Summer
The Replacements - Unsatisfied
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever; Tomorrow Never Knows
The Clash - Complete Control
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
New Order - Ceremony
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
XTC - Mayor Of Simpleton
Bob Mould - See A Little Light
Pulp - Common People
Morrissey - Interesting Drug
The dBs - Black And White
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

[Labdad]

Way too many, but here a few that leap to mind:

"Pancho and Lefty" - Townes van Zandt
"All Along the Watchtower" - Bob Dylan
"Copperhead Road" - Steve Earle
"Plane Crash at Los Gatos" my favorite Woody Guthrie tune, covered by a zillion people. I like the versions by the Kingston Trio, Judy Collins, and the Byrds
"Something in the Air" - Thunderclap Newman

[jsc1953]

"Everybody's Everything" - Santana
"Whipping Post" - Allman Brothers
"Do Your Thing" - Basement Jaxx
"Southern Cross" - CSN&Y
"Knock On Wood" - Eddie Floyd

[CircleofWillis]

Well known...
Bad- U2
Walk On - U2
Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream
The End - The Doors
Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
The Thrill is Gone - BB King

Lesser known...
'59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem (Actualy this whole album kicks ass)
Blue Collar Suicide - The Refreshments
Chloroform the One You Love - Flickerstick
A Six Pack, a Number and You - My Dad

[MovieMogul]

If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life, it would be Hoagy Carmichael's "Lazy River", all the various incarnations, from the really slow (the Platters) to the really upbeat (Bobby Darin) and everything in between.

[jsc1953]

Originally Posted by CircleofWillis

...
Tales of Brave Ulysses - Cream...

Fist bump to another wa-wa- psychedelia fan. . "Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers..." I've loved this song since I bought Disraeli Gears when it first came out.

A DJ once said, after playing this..."we all went through the 60s, but Jack Bruce went through twice."

[want2know]

Where to begin, where to begin...

Deacon Blues--Steely Dan
Midnight Rambler (live)--Rolling Stones
What Is Life and Wah-Wah--George Harrison
Follow You, Follow Me--Genesis
House of Stone and Light--Martin Page
Blazing Saddles--Frankie Laine
Comedy Tonight--B'way cast of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
Clampdown--The Clash
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant--Billy Joel
Learning to Fly--Pink Floyd

...and just about anything by The Beatles.

[sqweels]

I'm a sucker for those overblown extended prog suites, especially:

"Xanadu" - Rush
"The Friends of Mr. Cairo" - Jon and Vangelis
"And You and I" - Yes

[Sitnam]

Recent favorites:
Dan Auerbach - Heartbroken, In Disrepair
David Byrne - Dance on Vaseline
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag

[astorian]

I can't even keep my favorite albums straight, let alone songs.

IF my iPod is to be believed, the three songs I play most often are:

"Panama" by Van Halen
"You Wreck Me" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
"Hey Bulldog" by the Beatles


But I must add, the songs I play most often aren't NECESSARILY the songs I like best. I like a lot of lengthy prog-rock songs from the Seventies, but if I'm in my car on a short jaunt, I may well skip past a long song, figuring I'll never hear it all by the time I get where I'm going. I'll almost never skip past a SHORT song I like.

So, while I like any number of Yes or ELP or King Crimson songs better than "Panama," I'm less likely to play those songs in their entirety.

[Jack Batty]

I've got a new favorite song, that's probably 30 years old and somehow I never heard it before. My local morning djs drug it out of the closet this morning, and I was hooked. It is very catchy.

Saulsalito Summer Nights by Diesel.

I'm a fairly astute music fan, who was a fairly astute music fan in the actual 70's, but this one totally slipped past me until this morning.

[Jack Batty]

I should note ... it is a very banal, poppy song ... full of wall-of-sound double-tripe-quadruple tracked vocals and the lyrics are utterly inane ... but it's got this catchy little two-note, then two-note lead hook to it that just works for me.

Oh, I shall be i-Tuning tonight.

[jsc1953]

Originally Posted by Jack Batty

I should note ... it is a very banal, poppy song ... full of wall-of-sound double-tripe-quadruple tracked vocals and the lyrics are utterly inane ... but it's got this catchy little two-note, then two-note lead hook to it that just works for me.

Oh, I shall be i-Tuning tonight.

Then you should probably note that it's Sausalito. Small town in Marin County, just at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge.

[Jack Batty]

I'm better at geography than I am at spelling.

[blondebear]

Because Paul Revere and the Raiders were mentioned in another thread, my current favorite song is Time After Time .

[Maiira]

In no particular order:

-The Boxer and countless others by Simon and Garfunkel
-Flower by Moby
-Inertia Creeps and Teardrop by Massive Attack
-Finlandia by Jean Sibelius
-Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
-Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens
-Major Tom, Shiny Toy Guns' cover
-Abode by Azam Ali
-Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar
-Siulil a Run by just about anyone, but particularly Celtic Woman and Clannad

There's lots more where that came from, but I think I'll stop there.

[kidneyfailure]

Originally Posted by CircleofWillis

Chloroform the One You Love - Flickerstick

Hey, I remember them!

[CircleofWillis]

Originally Posted by kidneyfailure

Hey, I remember them!

Yup yup.. Bands on the Run... This was the only one with actual talent and an actual stage show

[RikWriter]

I'll give you what's on my favorites CD:

Time Passages by Al Stewart
We Just Disagree by Dave Mason
More Than a Feeling by Boston
The Riddle by Five For Fighting
You Can Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac
Sweet Child of Mine by Guns n Roses
Running on Empty by Jackson Brown
Kashmir by Led Zepplin
Nightswimming by REM
Time Stand Still by Rush
Tonight, Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins
Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf
Swingtown by the Steve Miller Band
All This Time by Sting
Wild, Wild Life by Talking Heads
Possum Kingdom by Toadies
Where the Streets Have No Name by U2
Dance the Night Away by Van Halen

[samclem]

Joe Hill. Version by Joan Baez is the best known(and great) but Pete Seegar's is what I heard first and remember. Claw hammer banjo, don't you know.

Da Doo Ron Ron Crystals. 1963. It's all about when you grew up. I was 19 at the time. Songs are a big part of your life at that point.

Lovesick Blues--Hank Williams. Ask me to sing this one at a party. Anything he did is pretty swell. I have about everything he did on vinyl.

[PandaPhantom]

At the moment, my favorite four songs would have to be

Symphonies-- Dan Black
You Make My Dreams-- Hall and Oates
Brighter Than Sunshine-- Aqualung
Sweet Disposition-- The Temper Trap

I am kind of in an upbeat, uplifting, happy song phase.
Not a bad place to be, right?

[silenus]

If it ever happens that I know exactly when I'll die, the last piece of music I'd like to hear is the original quartet version of Dave Brubeck's "Forty Days." Let me pass on the last dying notes from the piano, and my heart stop beating with the last thrums of Gene's bass.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

After the Goldrush - Neil Young

(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love & Understanding - Elvis Costello

Hallelujah - John Cale version

Four Strong Winds - Neil Young verson

I Should Have Known Better - The Beatles

[Covered_In_Bees!]

My all time top favorites, in no particular order:

• Mr. Brightside (Jacques LuCont Thin White Duke Remix) -The Killers
• Halcyon & On & On -Orbital
• Seven Nation Army -The White Stripes
• Dragula -Rob Zombie
• Get Away -Maxx
• All Around The World (La La La La La) -ATC