# Is there a song that you will ALWAYS love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621 "2000-12-29T03:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/21 "2000-12-29T08:00:48Z")
Hmmm. American Pie. But not the crappy Madonna version. Just the real, 9-minute-long one. More Than This - Bryan Ferry Here With Me - Dido all i can think of right now. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/22 "2000-12-29T08:17:20Z")
**Into the Mystic** –Van Morrison **Wonderful Tonight** –Eric Clapton **I Can’t make You Love Me** –Bonnie Raitt and laugh if you will (and I know you will) the most romantic song to me for my entire life is **Silhouette** –Kenny G ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/23 "2000-12-29T08:23:14Z")
but a piece of music that never fails to send thrills up and down my spine, the most exquisite, evocative piece of music I have or probably ever will hear in my life: George Gershwin’s **Rhapsody in Blue** Absolutely nothing like it on earth… Perfection. The world would be diminished in its absence. Gershwin shall live forever in the pantheon of the musical gods for this alone. Did I mention I like it? stoid ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/24 "2000-12-29T15:05:19Z")
Cat’s Cradle, by Harry Chapin. And a ton of songs that I heard in the 70s and 80s. I still crank the car volume almost to the max when they come on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Philosopher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Philosopher)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/25 "2000-12-29T15:25:00Z")
whoever said the true American Pie, I salute you. **Smells Like Teen Spirit** - Nirvana **Sad Song** - Oasis **The Masterplan** - Oasis **Freebird** - Lyrnyrd Skynyrd **Champagne Supernova** - Oasis **Stairway to Heaven** - Eric Clapton ---
**Author:** ![Many\_Crows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Many\_Crows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Many_Crows)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/26 "2000-12-29T15:26:12Z")
I’ll second Rhapsody in Blue. O Holy Night never fails to rip the guts out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/27 "2000-12-29T15:51:30Z")
**Move On** - Sondheim as sung by Bernadette Peters, I can’t hear this song without crying. **Sympathy for the Devil** - Rolling Stones, my absolute favourite song by them. **Soon It’s Gonna Rain** - from The Fantastiks **Bridge of Troubled Water** - Simon & Garfunkel I’m sure there’s more, but I’m drawing a blank. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/28 "2000-12-29T15:55:39Z")
We’re talking about songs you can listen to and never tire of, right? ‘I Feel Free’ --Cream ‘From the Beginning’ --ELP ‘Help Me’ --Joni Mitchell ‘Passing Thru Air’ --Kate Bush That’s just off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/29 "2000-12-29T16:07:36Z")
I’ll stick with two from George Harrison: “If Not for You”, from when I fell in love for the first time; and “Handle with Care” (with the Wilburys), from when I fell in love for the _last_ time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/30 "2000-12-29T16:30:50Z")
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton In My Life - Beatles Imagine - John Lennon Take My Breath Away - Berlin When a man loves a women - Percy Sledge Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/31 "2000-12-29T16:47:42Z")
Pictures of You - The Cure ? - Toad the Wet Sprocket (can’t remember the name and don’t feel like digging out my cd) One by One - INXS (great song, makes me feel like stripping my clothes off one by one) Also, there’s this song by New Order (or maybe it was Joy Division) that goes “…oh you’ve got green eyes, oh you’ve got blue eyes, oh you’ve got gray eyes, and I’ve never met anyone quite like you before…” that I will always equate with dancing around in the sand, sun shining, waves crashing on shore. ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/32 "2000-12-29T16:50:05Z")
Leaving on a Jetplane American Pie ( **not** Madonna’s version) Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day Home by Deep Blue Something On My Own from Les Mis Sweet Home, Alabama Jessica by the Allman Brothers ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/33 "2000-12-29T17:14:33Z")
when I read struuters “Passing thru Air”…exquisite. Troy - Sinead O’Connor Cantara - Dead Can Dance 🙂 Un Bel Di - Puccini (Madama Butterfly) ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/34 "2000-12-29T17:34:36Z")
I also have to agree with Rhapsody in Blue and (the real) American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/35 "2000-12-29T17:37:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MikeG \* > \*\*“Dance With Me” by The Orleans. Every time I hear it I get warm fuzzies - my mom used to sing it when I was a wee lad. \*\* Good God Man! That is really weird. I opened this thread with that song in mind, thinking I would catch some serious flack for it. Anyways, here’s another vote for “Dance With Me” by Orleans. ---
**Author:** ![SkySlash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SkySlash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkySlash)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/36 "2000-12-29T17:48:52Z")
Hanging by a Moment - Lifehouse (Fiance declared it our song, I concur) Last Kiss - Pearl Jam (Original by Johnny and the Rockets. Because I’ve been there with a friend.) Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve Pipe (Because this song forces you to feel pain and replace it with love.) All I Want is You - U2 (Perfect Balance + Emotion= Musical Excellence) There are more, but these will suffice for now. -SS 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/37 "2000-12-29T18:10:20Z")
Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) Liz Frasers voice and, dear god, I get teary just reading the lyrics… > [@](#): > > On the floating, shapeless oceans > I did all my best to smile > til your singing eyes and fingers > drew me loving into your eyes. > And you sang “Sail to me, sail to me; > Let me enfold you.” > Here I am, here I am waiting to hold you. > Did I dream you dreamed about me? > Were you here when I was full sail? > Now my foolish boat is leaning, broken love lost on your rocks. > For you sang, “Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow.” > Oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow. > I’m as puzzled as a newborn child. > I’m as riddled as the tide. > Should I stand amid the breakers? > Or shall I lie with death my bride? > Hear me sing: “Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you.” > “Here I am. Here I am, waiting to hold you.” ---
**Author:** ![Kvallulf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kvallulf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kvallulf)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/38 "2000-12-29T18:17:51Z")
I don’t believe in love-Queensryche ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/39 "2000-12-29T18:32:44Z")
“Drive”, The Cars “Better be Home Soon”, Crowded House “Barely Breathing”, Duncan Sheik “Building a Mystery”, Sarah MacLachlan “In Your Eyes”, Peter Gabriel “I Don’t Like Mondays”, Boomtown Rats (live at Wembley Stadium, 1985) ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621/40 "2000-12-29T18:35:34Z")
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads Buy You A Ring - Huffamoose Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise - Trembling Blue Stars For You I Will Pretend - Farmer Not So John Far, Far Away - Wilco Come On Come On - Emmylou Harris Anthem - Leonard Cohen Those, and about three thousand more. Fifteen of which I’ll remember after hitting Submit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-song-that-you-will-always-love/47621.md?page=3)