Like the song says…
I never travel far
Without a little Big Star…
I like putting “Don’t Stop Me Now” on repeat.
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
Alanis Morissette - Uninvited
All are so evocative and put me in a dreamy, swimmy state.
i’d forgotten about this song but I totally agree.
Al Stewart - The Year of the Cat https://youtu.be/neqfWdiKt8g
Ninjaed.
This was one of my late wife’s favorite songs and I can listen to it on infinite loop. Sadly, she passed away at the age of 44. She was a lovely person:
“She comes out of the sun
In a silk dress, run-ning
Like a watercolor
In the rain.
Don’t bother ask-ing
For explanations,
She’ll just tell you that she came.”
Songs I’ve listened to at least a couple of times a day, each, for the last several weeks
Under the Milky Way - The Church
Atmosphere, Isolation and 24 Hours, Joy Division
Catch, How Beautiful You Are and Charlotte Sometimes- The Cure
In Your Eyes (The Secret World Tour version) and Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Wax and Wane and Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins
Shatter and Amanita Muscara- Shelleyan Orphan
Salterello, Xavier and Black Sun- Dead Can Dance
So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings and Door - Caroline Polacheck
Little Girl Blue and The Battle Envy, Louder in Outer Space, Free Will at Ease and Arms & Opinions - Skating Polly
Strangers and High Five - Sigrid
Conqueror and Running With The Wolves - Aurora
Bonnie Raitt’s version of Runaway
The Tubes Don’t Touch Me There
Burning Sensations Belly of the Whale
The Who Love Reign O’er Me
The Who Won’t Get Fooled Again (gotta love an anti-revolution song)
Dread Zeppelin Heartbreaker (At The End Of Lonely Street) (gotta love a 300 lb Elvis impersonator)
Melissa Ethridge * Must Be Crazy For Me*
Richard Thompson Read About Love
Richard Thompson Vincent Black Lightning 1952
I could go on
and on
and on
The Kinks, “Victoria.” Arguably the greatest rock song of all time. Dave’s scream of Dionysian ecstasy towards the end will tickle you in the gonads.
The Beatles, “Norwegian Wood.” I’ve gotten heartily sick of a lot of Beatles songs, but this one is always welcome in my ears.
Laura Nyro, “Timer.” My favorite cut, along with “Sweet Blindness,” from the great Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. They say Nyro could squish five or six songs into one song, and “Timer” proves it. If you don’t like it, wait 20 seconds and it gets different.
(the cat imagery is because Timer was the name of Laura’s cat)The original or the What Do You Want From Live version? I could listen to No Way Out from Remote Control over and over again.
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
https://youtu.be/N_MqfF0WBsU
From Jazz, this is a song that absolutely rocks from the first note to the last. Miles by Miles Davis.
So many good ones here; and so many that I want to check out. I notice that a lot are on my Ipod. Songs that I like to listen to any time. For me there’s a slight distinction though. There are songs that delight me instantly - usually peppy ones- but the songs I listen to “over and over” are usually like the moody ones that I mentioned. Oddly enough, none of those songs is on my Ipod. I use it strictly for working out or doing chores.
No Excuses - Alice In Chains
The Lady Don’t Mind - Talking Heads
Absurd - Fluke
My favourites list on Youtube is over 600 songs. I could make a really long list of songs I can listen to over and over…
Hmmm…these four (at least), I could listen to back-to-back-to-back-to-back for a long time…
Old Black Water–Doobie Brothers
Seven Bridges Road–Eagles
The Gambler–Kenny Rogers
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald–Gordon Lightfoot
youtube links added for your enjoyment…
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Howard Jones/No One Is to Blame: Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame - YouTube
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Elton John/Tiny Dancer Almost Famous - Tiny Dancer - YouTube
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Jackson Browne/Running on Empty: Jackson Browne - Running On Empty (LIVE) 1979 - YouTube
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Fleetwood Mac/Never Going Back Again (live version is interesting): FLEETWOOD MAC. NEVER GOING BACK AGAIN. - YouTube
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Sophie B. Hawkins/As I Lay Me Down: Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down - YouTube
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John Mellencamp/Authority Song: John Mellencamp - Authority Song - YouTube
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Paula Cole/I Don’t Want To Wait: Paula Cole - I Don't Want to Wait (Official Music Video) - YouTube
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Steve Miller/The Joker Steve Miller Band - The Joker - YouTube
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REM/Stand: R.E.M. - Stand (Video) - YouTube
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Lowen and Navarro/We Belong (Yes, the Pat Benatar hit—they wrote it) Lowen & Navarro - We Belong (Bilingual) - YouTube
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Joan Osborne-Beast of Burden - YouTube
Sadly I can’t find footage of these two performing “Let’s Stay Together” the same evening…
Rebel, Rebel by David Bowie. Long story, fell in love at first sight, married at the time, never pursued it , this song was playing when I first saw her.
Still wonderin’ all these years later.
Totally agree with Ukulele Ike about Victoria!
My #1 turn it up song is 96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians.
Close second is Double Shot (of my Baby’s Love) by the Swinging Medallions.
Pretty much anything from Quadrophenia or Born To Run.
I know it’s tempting and easy to list a dozen or more favorites, but I think great tunes can get lost in the sauce when that happens.
So I’ll be very selective in my postings in this thread. First, I’ll offer up:
Fly Me To the Moon, Frank Sinatra
It’s not so much Frank’s vocals that get me, it’s the amazing instrumental arrangement. Horns and drums, in particular.
It never, ever gets old.
mmm