# favorite songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 1999, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535 "1999-08-25T04:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Misha77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Misha77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misha77)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/41 "1999-08-29T03:47:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/42 "1999-08-29T04:07:00Z")
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… * * * Chief’s Domain - [http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi](http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/43 "1999-08-29T06:07:00Z")
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… Sue from El Paso [members.aol.com/majormd/index.html](http://members.aol.com/majormd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/44 "1999-08-29T06:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Sue from El Paso [members.aol.com/majormd/index.html](http://members.aol.com/majormd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/45 "1999-08-29T07:46:00Z")
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 * * * Sue from El Paso [members.aol.com/majormd/index.html](http://members.aol.com/majormd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/46 "1999-08-29T11:55:00Z")
BunnyGirl: Mississippi/Crow, good choice. I wonder if Dylan wrote it for her. I don’t remember if he recorded it himself. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/47 "1999-08-29T13:20:00Z")
Great list so far. I think nobody mentioned CRAZY TRAIN, by Ozzy Osborne. All aboard? * * * One beer is less than two beers. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/48 "1999-08-29T13:25:00Z")
Almost forgot, George Thoroughgood’s, “One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.” It’s my theme song. * * * One beer is less than two beers. ---
**Author:** ![vanillanice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vanillanice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanillanice)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/49 "1999-08-29T19:37:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Misha77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Misha77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misha77)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/50 "1999-08-30T05:03:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![vanillanice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecc23a/32.png) [@vanillanice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanillanice)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/51 "1999-08-30T14:05:00Z")
I also forgot;;;I’m No Angel by Gregg Allman, and Honky Tonk Woman by the Stones. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 1999, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/52 "1999-08-31T01:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Almost forgot, George Thoroughgood’s, “One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.” > It’s my theme song. Not _I Like Beer_ (Tom T. Hall)? ---
**Author:** ![Pickman\_s\_Model](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Pickman\_s\_Model](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pickman_s_Model)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/53 "1999-09-01T03:28:00Z")
“You Turned the Tables On Me”----Benny Goodman AHO (or anything else by the for that matter) “Wenn Wir Marschieren” (A German Army marching tune that is constantly in my head) “There Is a Flower That Bloometh”, “I Hear You Calling Me”, “Kathleen Mavourneen”, “Roses of Picardy”----all by John McCormack Mozart, Beethoven, Hadyn, Bach----'nuff said Gilbert and Sullivan, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli----ditto _Messiah_----Georg Friedrich Handel Any ragtime by Scott Joplin The national anthems of Canada, Germany, France, Israel, Turkey, and the Soviet Union, with “L’Internationale” thrown in for good measure Civil War music played on period instruments Rogers and Hammerstein; Lerner and Lowe—anything by And for light listening, Phil Harris, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, and anything country and western so long as it was recorded prior to 1968. Nonsense songs from the 1940’s like “Bongo Bongo Bongo” and “Open the Door, Richard” are good, too. ---
**Author:** ![SoxFan59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@SoxFan59](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoxFan59)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/54 "1999-09-01T03:42:00Z")
Pickman: “Bongo,Bongo, Bongo?” Don’t you mean “Abba Dabba Honeymoon?” ---
**Author:** ![Pickman\_s\_Model](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Pickman\_s\_Model](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pickman_s_Model)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/55 "1999-09-01T04:59:00Z")
Nope. The tune that I’m thinking of is all about the natives in the jungle and how happy they are that they don’t live in our so-called “civilization”. Part of the lyrics go: “Bongo, bongo, bongo I don’t wanna leave the Congo No, no, no, no, no, no! You have things like the atom bomb So I think I’ll stay where I om; Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!” And so on. It’s a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/56 "1999-10-26T02:55:00Z")
10 songs…I can’t name any top 10, so I’ll go with 5 current favorite CD titles: 1. Concrete Blonde-Still in Hollywood 2. Iggy pop best of. I only listen to the last half. Favorite song: The Passenger 3. Jethro Tull Live at BBC 4. Laika and the Cosmonauts.Surf. 5. Rhino Box set of Progressive era. I won’t actually get it till Christmas. Large investment. It tells how you would have experienced if you had used dope. Now you just have to listen to music inspired by dope. Only 1 american track out of 54 in the set. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/57 "1999-10-26T11:12:00Z")
Oh, this is cool. Here are some of my faves: 1. Rush - Red Barchetta; 2. Twelfth Night - The Collector; 3. Rush - Cygnus X1; 4. Savatage - Believe; 5. Rush - Hemispheres; 6. Dream Theater - Learning to Live; 7. Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary; 8. Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight; 9. Dire Straits - Telegraph Road; 10.Guns ‘n’ Roses - November Rain. And 20 million others, of course… * * * Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![saraam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@saraam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saraam)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/58 "1999-10-26T20:58:00Z")
Sara - Bob Dylan Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants Instant Karma - John Lennon 2nd movement of Pathetique Sonata (not really a song, but…) I Love to See You Smile - when Dr. John sings it. Changes in Lattitudes - Jimmy Buffett When I’m Sixty - Four - Beatles You Better, You Bet - Who Hurricane - Bob Dylan Ahead by a Century - Tragically Hip ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/59 "1999-10-26T21:50:00Z")
Favorite Songs: Hrm… Pirate looks at 40 - Jimmy Buffett Jolly Mon - Jimmy Buffett Heck, pret near anything by Buffett. 🙂 In your Eyes and Solsbury hill, - Peter Gabriel I Can see for Miles, Won’t get fooled again, I Can’t Explain - The Who. Your Move/All good People - Yes. (Again, most of old Yes is great.) And two I’m not sure many here would know of, since they are filks… ( I love a good Filk. ) A boy and his frog (An very moving tribute to Jim Henson) And Return of the King, UhHuh. (Elvis meets Tolkien, enough said. 😜 ) both by Tom Smith. (307 Ale is also a great one by him.) * * * \>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\< —The dragon observes ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-songs/10535/60 "1999-10-26T22:01:00Z")
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