# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/41 "2002-03-22T02:06:23Z")
“Pressure” by Billy Joel. I’m not really sure why it’s my favorite song; maybe because it reminds me of my life at times. Also, some of the lines in it remind me of one of my favorite movies. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/42 "2002-03-22T14:26:46Z")
And We Danced - Hooters. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/43 "2002-03-22T14:30:56Z")
From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance: The London production;s “When You Want to Fall in Love,” which became Broadway’s “Unexpected Song” with the same melody, but different lyrics. This song makes a lovely duet. When I sent a Russian relative the CD and mentioned that, she translated both versions into Russian, did a duet with her husband, and mailed me a CDR. One of my most favorite ALW songs! ---
**Author:** ![AndYrAStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@AndYrAStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndYrAStar)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/44 "2002-03-22T14:44:24Z")
This is one of those things that changes constantly for me - at this very moment, it’s “Numb” by [Will Brett](http://www.mp3.com/willbrett). It’s just a beautiful song all around. You can download it on that site… hint hint 🙂 Most of the songs by The Sneaker Pimps on their album “Becoming X”; Stay Free and Guns of Brixton by The Clash; a lot of Smashing Pumpkins songs (like Here is No Why, the song my username came from)… this is too hard 🙂 (also, this is my first time posting on the new board, and it’s taking a lot of willpower to not make the whole post my favorite color…) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/45 "2002-03-22T16:46:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JohnBckWLD \* > \*\*It’s from The Collectors album, about some of my favorite things; lust and greed. \*\* _ **Nanny!!!** _ My goodness, I am not alone. OK, when will you be in or around Amsterdam? There’s a beer with your name on it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/46 "2002-03-22T16:52:59Z")
I can’t think of a single all-time favorite, but some prennial crowd-pleasers (for a crowd of me) are: **Happy When it Rains** - The Jesus and Mary Chain (slightly edging out **Just Like Honey** and **Sidewalkin’** ) **Driver 8** - R.E.M. **Nemesis** - Shriekback **Left of Center** - Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson **Birdhouse in Your Soul** - They Might Be Giants **A Day in the Life** - The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/47 "2002-03-22T19:47:35Z")
The Peanut seller - Stan Kenton, play this real loud. Every time we say goodbye - Ella Fitgerald, to hit the notes this accurately and change key take real talent. As time goes by - written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931 but sung by just about everyone, the lyrics are brilliant, subtle and true. Every night - Paul McCartney & Wings She’s gone - Hall & Oates Mannish boy - Muddy Waters I feel good - James Brown Squeeze box - The Who Night moves - Bob Seger The living years - Mike & the mechanics I feel free - Cream Without you - Badfinger, the true story behind this song is heartbreaking and utterly tragic. Dreaming tree - Dave Matthews band ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/48 "2002-03-22T20:00:09Z")
Currently, my favorite songs are as follows: 1. John Prine- Hello In There 2. Johnny Cash’s cover of One 3. Parliament-Funkadelic -Get up for the Down Stroke 4. Nick Drake- Which Will 5. Tool- Bottom 6. Lyle Lovett- LA County Of course, these will change at a moment’s notice. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/49 "2002-03-22T21:40:19Z")
I have so many favorite songs, how do I pick just one? It might be **[“Sign on the Window”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000024WJ/qid=1016832740/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-4927559-4058437)** by **[Bob Dylan](http://www.bobdylan.com/)**. It’s just a little ditty, far from his major opus, but it opens up a real down-home vein of timeless Americana that just gets you right _here_, you know? Or it might be **[“Voices of My People”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SQW4/qid=1016832289/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-4927559-4058437)** by **[Kate Price](http://www.geocities.com/acabir/kateprice/labyrinth.html)**, which taps into a deep tribal vibe of ancient, timeless world humanity. It’s a mystical experience. I think Kate Price is the most excellent songlady that no one’s ever heard of. Or maybe **[“Roots and Wings”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SQXX/qid=1016832144/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4927559-4058437)** by **[Sheila Chandra](http://www.rahul.net/hrmusic/discos/scdisc.html)**; I like all of her songs and just picked out this one as a representative sample. It’s a fascinating densely textured multilayered blend of Indian rhythms. I love everything by **[Vas](http://www.vasmusic.com/mastframe.html)** too, and one good song representative of their sound is **[“Sunyata”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005P4H/o/qid%3D957665581/sr%3D2-3/002-4927559-4058437)**; you just trance out on their vibration of timeless rhythm and beautiful voice. Perfectly blissful. Or my favorite song might well be **[“Mirrors”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RCDV/qid=1016831963/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/002-4927559-4058437)** by **[Sally Oldfield](http://www.sallyoldfield.com/)**, which is the brightest, lightest, sweetest, sparklingest song ever recorded about the inner essence of love. Can’t top that one. Something by **[Loreena McKennitt](http://www.quinlanroad.com/non_flash.html)** would be a good candidate for my favorite song, too, like **[“Dante’s Prayer”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002NHN/qid=1016832523/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4927559-4058437)** or **[“The Mystic’s Dream”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002MMS/qid%3D1016832597/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/002-4927559-4058437)**, blissful spirit songs that just take my soul right up to Heaven. (Can you tell I mostly like women artists?) ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/50 "2002-03-22T21:53:32Z")
_Pearl of the Quarter_ by Steely Dan ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/51 "2002-03-22T21:58:31Z")
“Kangaroo” by Big Star. ---
**Author:** ![Race\_Bannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Race\_Bannon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Bannon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/52 "2002-03-23T04:48:17Z")
I keep a list of my favorite songs, about 70 of them - I’ll spare you, and just mention: More than a Feeling - Boston Rhiannon -Fleetwood Mac Promises in the Dark - Pat Benatar Love Stinks - J. Geils Band ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/53 "2002-03-23T17:37:44Z")
Moving this to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/54 "2002-03-23T19:09:12Z")
When they’re playing, dozens of tunes are “my favorite song,” but if I had to abstractly name two, they’d have to be **Brown Sugar** and **Gimme Shelter**. The songs just _move_, man. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/55 "2002-03-23T19:27:37Z")
“Vincent” by Don McLean. Just cause he sang about one of my fav. painters and it’s sooooooo sentimental;) _Yay \*\* plnnr_\* love that one. \* ---
**Author:** ![reoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@reoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reoch)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/56 "2002-03-24T10:48:07Z")
**Weezer - Only in Dreams** You can’t resist her. She’s in your bones. She is your marrow, and your ride home. You can’t avoid her. She’s in the air. [in the air] And in between molecules of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide. Only in dreams, you’ll see what it means. Reach out our hands. Hold on to hers. But when we wake, it’s all been erased. And so it seems… only in dreams. You walk up to her. Ask her to dance. She says ‘Hey baby, I just might take a chance.’ You say its a good thing. That you float in the air. [in the air.] Up where there’s no way I will crush Your pretty toenails into a thousand pieces. Only in dreams, you’ll see what it means. Reach out our hands. Hold on to hers. But when we wake, it’s all been erased. And so it seems… only in dreams. Only in dreams. Only in dreams. Only in dreams! Only in dreams! Only in dreams! Only in dreams. GOD I LOVE THIS SONG!!! ---
**Author:** ![zepchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/858c86/32.png) [@zepchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zepchick)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/57 "2002-07-14T06:18:31Z")
**Cepter** , I too am a “musicologist”. It would be impossible for me to name my favorite song. Music is such a complex animal, I don’t see how you can rank songs if you listen to lots of different kinds of music like I do. Here are some of my absolute favorites… **Led Zeppelin—Whole Lotta Love** : This song just ROCKS OUT. The riff just gives me the chills x 10. Of course _ahem_ I am a little partial to the zep (see handle). **Weezer—Say It Ain’t So** **Feel Like Makin’ Love** : I love this song and I can’t remember who it’s by! **Pink Floyd—Wish You Were Here** **Jimmy Eat World—For Me This Is Heaven** **The Outfield—For Your Love** : I am so embarrassed that I like this song…it so eighties and cheesy, but c’mon…“Josey’s on a vacation far away/Come around and talk it over”. **Bryan Adams—Everything I Do, I Do It For You** : _sniffle_ **I Only Have Eyes For You** : By far one of the best, if not the best, love songs of all time. I plan on having this as “first dance as a married couple” song someday. **The Beatles—Hey Jude** **Train—Drops of Jupiter** : Can you imagine no love, pride, deep fried chicken? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/58 "2002-07-14T07:31:13Z")
I’m listening to it right now: Rufus Wainwright, **April Fools** , from his self-titled debut album, with the chorus _And you will believe in love And all that it’s supposed to be Yes, you will believe in love_ It’s the greatest Brian Wilson burst of sunlight he never wrote for the Beach Boys. It’s the grooviest Sonny & Cher number they never recorded. It’s the ultimate Patridge Family song. Exhilirating five-part pop vocal harmonies that Phil Spector would cry for. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/59 "2002-07-17T23:55:12Z")
These days, it’s \*\* Miami 2017\*\* by Billy Joel…but, it varies. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834/60 "2002-07-18T02:33:21Z")
Alltime-No-doubt-about-it Favorite-Song EVER!!!: Don Henley: The Boys Of Summer I can remember being in my high school auditorium working on the set for one of our shows and “Summer” came on and **EVERYBODY** there sang the “Out on the road today, I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac” line, (Except me :smack: :smack: :smack: :wally :wally ) and then Molly Gimmel gave me this **look** and said, “_Everybody_ sings that line.” It was the song that was on the 1st time I had sex, with the afore-mentioned Miss Gimmel. It just gives me that feeling of being in one of those crappy mid-fall days where it’s cold and rainy and a lot of the leaves are off the trees, and you think back to the past summer. Which is pretty much what the song is about, I guess.:smack: Anyway: Comic Book Guy/ **Favorite. Song. Ever.** Comic Book Guy/ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song/98834.md?page=4)