# What's your favorite song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834 "2002-03-18T04:36:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/21 "2002-03-19T23:56:19Z")
Right now - ohh… _Bereit_ by KMFDM _Poles Apart_ by Gry Bagøien _I Love Paul_ by Nina Hagen _One Caress_ by Depeche Mode And those are just at the current moment. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/22 "2002-03-20T00:03:33Z")
At this very moment … **Mesh** _I Can’t Imagine How It Hurts_ **VNV Nation** _Beloved_ **Anything Box** _An Ending_ **Color Theory** _The Perfect Song_ **Depeche Mode** _Somebody_, _Black Celebration_, _To Have and To Hold_ … And the list goes on. Colin ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/23 "2002-03-20T01:49:07Z")
Th best of many all-time favourites: Mad man moon by Genesis. ---
**Author:** ![igloorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@igloorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igloorex)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/24 "2002-03-20T02:21:47Z")
by Springsteen I grew up not far from there and that song captures the feel of the Jersey Shore teenage mind in a way that is purely magical. It is happy, depressed, hopeful, wistful and lovelorn all in one song. Just great stuff. Plus it has a number of great visual images: “down in town the circuit’s full of switchblade lovers, so fast, so shiny, so sharp.” “The fireworks are hailing over little Eden tonight, and forcing the light into all those stony faces left stranded on this warm July.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/25 "2002-03-20T03:28:39Z")
Saw some post that brought back memories. This was tough. Favorite(s)? SINGULAR or PLURAL is almost impossible…like asking Dr. J or Gene Simmons who his favorite lover was. [ul] [li] 1965: THE YARDBIRDS The Train Kept A-Rollin’[/li][li] 1966: (?) & THE MYSTERIANS 96 Tears[/li][li] 1967: CREAM Swlabr[/li][li] 1968: ARTHUR BROWN Fanfare - Fire Poem-Fire[/li][li] 1969: SWEET THURSDAY Gilbert Street[/li][li] 1970: QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE What About Me[/li][li] 1971: JOHN BALDRY Conditional Discharge / Don’t Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll[/li][li] 1972: MARK-ALMOND BAND The City (Grass And Concrete/Taxi To Brooklyn/ Speak Easy It’s A Whiskey Scene)[/li][li] 1973: DAVID BOWIE Panic In Detroit[/li][li] 1974: BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath[/li][li] 1975: TOM WAITS Emotional Weather Report (With Opening Introduction)[/li][li] 1976: STEVE MILLER BAND Serenade[/li][li] 1977: THE STRANGLERS Peaches[/li][li] 1978: SWEET Love Is Like Oxygen[/li][li] 1979: THE RECORDS Starry Eyes[/li][li] 1980: THE KINGS This Beat Goes On / Switching To Glide[/li][li] 1981 SOFT CELL Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go[/li][li] 1982: VIOLENT FEMMES Add It Up[/li][li] 1983: JOE JACKSON Memphis[/li][li] 1984: TALK TALK It’s My Life[/li][li] 1985: JOE WALSH The Confessor[/li][li] 1986: KBC BAND America[/li][li] 1987 THE REPLACEMENTS Alex Chilton[/li][li] 1988: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS I’m An Adult Now[/li][li] 1989: X T C The Mayor Of Simpleton[/li][li] 1990: WAS NOT WAS I Feel Better Than James Brown[/li][li] 1991: KIRSTY MacCOLL Walking Down Madison[/li][li] 1992: KING MISSILE Detachable Penis[/li][li] 1993: WHALE Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe[/li][li] 1994: DINK Green Mind[/li][li] 1995: MIKE WATT Against The 70’s[/li][li] 1996: BUSH Greed Fly[/li][li] 1997: BLUR Song 2[/li][li] 1998: FILTER & THE CRYSTALK METHOD (Can’t You) Trip Like I Do[/li][li] 1999: JONAH Sssst…(Listen) (Be Quiet) (Junior Vasquez Mix)[/li][li] 2000: WOLFSHEIM Once In A Lifetime[/li][li] 2001: DELERIUM (FEATURING Leigh Nash) Innocente (DJ Tiesto Remix)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Ironblayde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f14d63/32.png) [@Ironblayde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ironblayde)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/26 "2002-03-20T05:08:25Z")
There’s way too many to list. These come to mind at the moment: Opeth - Demon of the Fall Symphony X - Egypt Iced Earth - Dante’s Inferno Tony MacAlpine - Hundreds of Thousands Fear Factory - Timelessness ---
**Author:** ![cepter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@cepter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cepter)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/27 "2002-03-20T14:36:53Z")
Yep. Devil Woman, that’s the one.😛 Vehicle is another great one too. It seems a lot of bands in the 70’s had that horn section. It was like the funk age. Speaking of funk the best funk song ever is from the one and only James Brown it’s called -Give It Up or Turn It Loose from his CD In The Jungle Groove. I picked it up out of the blue and I stumbled upon one of the funkiest songs I’ve ever heard next to What Is Hip by Tower Of Power!!! Some other favorites: Do You Feel Like We do- Frampton Tumble In The Rough- STP off of the Tiny Music CD. Easy Like Sunday Morning- Commodores Sara. and Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac Everyday I Write The Book- Elvis Costello Every single album from VH except their last embarassment VHIII The Real Me- The Who. Another great band that actually gets you pumped within listening to 10 seconds of the song!!! The list will go on and on!!! 😃 I’m a musicologist. I love everything except Death Metal and Country. I was 10 when MTV started in 82’!!! I grew up watching that station to the likes of Musical Youth, Men At Work, It’s My Life- Talk Talk, J.C. Mellencamp, Iron Maiden, Judas Preist, R.E.M., The Clash, V.Halen, Gary Numan- Cars, Flock Of Seagulls. Just a great melting pot of music, I can’t watch it for 1 minute now, it’s sickening…" The times they are a changing"- Dylan. “Music is the soundtrack to our lives.”- Dick Clark. Boy was he right!!! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/28 "2002-03-20T14:55:40Z")
**Twelfth Night** - _The Collector_ Obscure early 90’s English progressive rock song of about 9 minutes long. Free beer for anyone who knows the band. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/29 "2002-03-20T16:07:50Z")
“My Funny Valentine,” music and lyrics by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, sung by Ella Fitzgerald on “Ella Sing the Rogers and Hart Songbook.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/30 "2002-03-20T16:40:33Z")
At the moment, I’d say **Statesboro Blues**. The Allman Brothers version (from _Live at Ludlow Garage_) sticks in my mind right now (for the extra coda), but their _Live at Fillmore East_ version is nearly is good, and there are great versions by Taj Mahal and Alice Stuart. Other choices: Gershwin’s “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” Porter’s “Let’s Do It” as performed by Noel Coward. Coward’s version of his own “Mad Dogs and Englishmen.” Bruce Springsteen’s “Rosalita” Meat Loaf doing “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/31 "2002-03-20T17:00:55Z")
At the top right now is “The Selkie” by Lady Amber (Linda King-Burdge) of Amberhawke. It’s an incredibly haunting song. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that anyone else here has heard it, as Amberhawke is a local group that plays the Ren Faires and a few pubs in the DFW area. As for a well-known song…it’s hard to say, but the first one to spring to mind is “Sultans of Swing” by Dire Straits. It just has an undefinable coolness to it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/32 "2002-03-20T19:00:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\ ***Twelfth Night** - _The Collector_ > > Obscure early 90’s English progressive rock song of about 9 minutes long. Free beer for anyone who knows the band. 🙂 \*\* It’s from The Collectors album, about some of my favorite things; lust and greed. ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/33 "2002-03-20T19:11:54Z")
right now it would have to be “sweet transvestite” from “the rocky horror picture show” just because it’s fun to sing along/dance to, until my roommate walks in and gets very frightened ---
**Author:** ![MrAndrewV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@MrAndrewV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAndrewV)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/34 "2002-03-20T19:15:38Z")
Gee I seem to be almost unique in that I can pin point a single song that is my all time favorite: ‘Something’s Always Wrong’ by Toad the Wet Sprocket. It speaks about love and loss and being tired of feeling alone. What really gets me about the song is that it is one of those songs where you can tell that the vocalist is singing from the heart. He wrote the song because he understands the emotions it evokes and he wants everyone to know. Brilliant song from a brilliant band. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/35 "2002-03-21T16:12:34Z")
_shaking booty_ “Hip-ness IIIIIIIIIS… whut it is…” Chalk one up for the “Song I can’t get outta my head now” thread! 😃 So, are you an honest-to-goodness, I-went-to-school-for-this musicologist? Not to imply that you’re any LESS of one if you DIDN’T, but the field kind of fascinates me (I have a friend with a Master’s in Ethnomusicology). 😃 If so, have you read [this book](http://www.xyberweb.com/freestyle/funk.htm)? I took a Funk class taught by the author (which was as far into the musicology field as I got) at San Fransisco State, while I was in grad school. Anyway, it’s really funny (he uses words like _nastay_, which just makes me laugh), and you might like it if you dig James Brown and Tower of Power. Oh, and BTW, I was 12 when MTV came on the scene, but didn’t actually watch in until I was 14. Ahhh, the mem’ries… ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/36 "2002-03-21T16:18:35Z")
“Talk to Me” by **Gypsy Soul** Beautiful lyrics, sung by the most beautiful voice in the music industry. Haunting melody, perfect arrangement. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/37 "2002-03-21T16:25:35Z")
Man, I can’t think of just one. Making Love Out of Nothing At All, Air Supply Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler Hard Habit to Break, Chicago Just Say you Love ME, Chicago Against All Odds, Phil Collins Part of Me, Lara Fabian The Search is Over, Survivor I Can’t Hold Back, Survivor What A Feelin’ (Flashdance), Irene Cara Come Sail Away, Styx Babe, Styx And no doubt there are many more that I’d consider favorites of mine as well. If forced to choose one, I’d go with the one at the top of the list. I proposed to my (now) wife with it. ---
**Author:** ![cepter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@cepter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cepter)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/38 "2002-03-21T18:00:08Z")
😃 I wish I did go to school for Musicology but I’m as close as you can get and still love to learn more about music that I don’t REALLY find the time to listen to. I’m a musician. The type that learns “By Ear” and not from lessons. My family is filled with people who are singer/songwriters as well as myself. My uncle also sings very close to the one and only late Mario Lanza operatic singer. The book you described looks interesting to read. I grew up in New Rochelle from the age of 1 to 7. To many that might sound stupid like,“How do you REALLY know music and adult music on the radio when your that young?” I DID!!! It still weirds me out. That music made an impression on me as well as listening to Summer In The City, and Thunder Island, as well as, The Night Chicago Died, Devil Woman etc. A.M. stations were still putting out these hits as well along with C. Mayfield, Ted Nugent, just everybody. My dads record collection consisted of Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix- Band Of Gypsy’s, Curtis Mayfield, Bach, Beethoven, Santana- Abraxas in Quadrophonic sound- remember that! 50’s songs as well and more, it was incredible!!! For some reason I tended to move toward music very early in those N. Rochelle years I was only 6 or 7!! I always loved the beat. It was always the beat- Funk, Latin-Santana, James Brown. etc. I liked Rock but I LOVED Rhythm & Funk! Who else is totally in love with music out there? Thanks again Auntie Em:) ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/39 "2002-03-21T19:11:40Z")
Like you, I honed most of my musical taste between the ages of 1 and 10. My siblings are all quite a bit older than I, so they were teenagers when I was but a wee one. I loved what they loved. (I’ll spare you the story about taking my Earth, Wind, & Fire album for Show & Tell in kindergarten… but suffice it to say, it doesn’t end well. 😉 ) I also love Count Basie, Stan Kenton, et. al., because of my dad. 🆒 I rarely buy music that I’ve never heard before (which may seem limiting, but I can still manage to drop a mint in the record store). Just recently, I bought Herbie Hancock’s “Headhunters” CD, and I telling the friend who was with me how the album cover used to scare me when I was little, so I’d look away as I pulled the album out to hear “Watermelon Man” (which just kicks ass). He refused to believe I was listening to–and loving–Herbie Hancock at an age when I was still young enough to be frightened by the picture on the cover. Anyway, point is, I believe you about remembering the music from very young childhood. Unlike you, however, I do not have much of a musical “gift”. I can sing well enough not to embarrass myself, but last year I bought a piano with the idea that I would teach myself to play it and emerge as the Black female version of David Helfgott. Diiiiiiiiiiidn’t happen. :rolleyes: So I signed up for lessons–and I’m getting pretty good at playing “Easy”, by the Commodores–but I still haven’t mastered “Linus and Lucy”, which is somewhat of a disappointment. 😉 I’m thinking of switching to conga drums. I think I could kick ass as Sheila E. 😃 \*\* P.S. TO EVERYONE: If this gets posted, like, 10 times, it’s because I am inept. 😉 \*\* ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/40 "2002-03-21T22:40:27Z")
**A New Day Has Come** by Celine Dion. I’m aware that this is a new song but it really is my favorite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834.md?page=3)