Hmm, gosh. This question makes me tense! Ok, well, I’m obsessed with this song lately:
“That’s The Way We Get By” by Spoon
Ask me in ten minutes, and I’m sure my answer will change, but here it goes:
Map Ref. 41 Degrees North 93 Degrees West by Wire
Clasically, it might be Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9 No 2.
New York Minute, by Don Henley, et al.
The live version of Led Zeppelin - “No Quarter”.
Heroin, by the Velvet Underground. Or maybe White Light/White Heat, by same.
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen. 
I’m with DeVena…
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by von Kakajan, Deutches Grammaphon, 1973
Who Let the Dogs Out?
And no, I’m NOT serious.
Probably Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Pictures at an Exhibition
[Good Morning, Vietnam]
Anything, just play it loud!!!
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Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
Every now and hten, it changes, but lately, I’d go with:
R.E.M.'s The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite [Link, click on title]
or, failing that
Billy Joel’s Vienna [Link]
Mind you, I’d hate to eventually get sick of either of those.
It’s a tough choice, but I’d have to go with Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”, or “Just a Second” by Jump, Little Children.
It’s the kind of music that you could hear too over and over, and hear something new in each listen.
sympathy for the devil
rolling stones
No question:
“Calling All Angels” by Jane Siberry (with k.d. lang on backing vocals), the album mix.
Unless . . . “Dream Brother” by Jeff Buckley?
(though I’m kind of obsessed with that particular Spoon song, too.)
Well, of songs I really love, several bring tears to my eyes. Tears of joy w/Amazing Grace, The Old Rugged Cross, and a couple other hymns, my favorite secular song “Through the Years” by Kenny Rogers b/c I requested it on the radio all the time for my now deceased grandparents on tehir anniversary.
I wouldn’t want to get teary that much, so something upbeat and uplifting, yet a lot of repeition. Beethoven’s 9th, mentioned by some, is quite good, but I might also choose "Victory in Jesus,; only problem is it’s not long enough.
Handel’s Messiah, maybe? Tough one, reminds me of those great study breaks in college around 11 at night, when we’d come up with great philosophacal queries of the ages just like this. Great question.
Jimmy Eat World’s “A Praise Chorus.”
High energy and uplifting at the same time.
Twelfth Night - The Collector
Beautiful and insane at the same time.
Horowitz playing Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.”
If I’ve got to listen to it forever, it better be simple and it better be well played.
“Dancing Alone” by the band Ours.
I know… who??
If you like Jeff Buckley, Radiohead and U2, you’ll like Ours.
<i>Dream On</i> or a nice, live, extended jam of <i>Sweet Emotion</i>.
Queen, Zep, Petty, No Doubt, Weird Al and Evanescence would be on the list of maybes.