So I’ve been bouncing around Spotify and/or Youtube for a few days, reminding myself of some a bunch of songs I still love to hear. For fun, I thought I’d share some of them with you:
I’ll start with a bittersweet one. I play this one LOUD outside at night and think about how melancholy it can be to get really excited about dating someone new and fascinating, and going through the honeymoon stages, and then finding out (both of you) that things are a bit imperfect and messy and complicated. You wish you could go back to that early romantic simplicity and just buy each other a coke and soar through the heavens again. This song hits those emotions every time I hear it. Beth Nielsen Chapman - Dancer to the Drum
I love it! Just a beautiful arrangement. She may have the most purely angelic voice I’ve ever heard, which fits this wise song perfectly. It’s a celebration of the child and of life; how the child grows and changes into the person (s)he will become - while always having the option to return to innocent, wide-eyed wonder. I’m very comforted by Dancer.
So that’s two of my very favorite greatest songs ever. I have a lot more I can share as they come up.
I want to hear what you love! And why! Please share your own greatest songs ever!
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah and Don McLean’s American Pie are two songs that make me wonder how any one person could write such a masterpiece. I consider them beyond the scope of human ability.
I discovered this French Canadian singer several years ago, and I stille think this song is the best I’ve ever heard. “Cafe Robinson”, written, performed and accompanied by Marie-Jo Therio
Thanks for the links! I definitely like the Hot Tuna song - based on the band’s concentration and facial expressions and easy rapport, I get the sense that those guys simply love playing music together. Reading some of the YouTube comments reinforces that idea. And I appreciate Leonard Cohen’s best song, Hallelujah. Also, Marie-Jo Thério is a terrific singer!
Another one of my Greatest Songs of All Time (More hyperbole! More!):
This version is even better than Wilson Pickett’s excellent original. It’s a matter of being more invitingly soulful (Rascals) than aggressively soulful (Pickett). The song seems more fun to me. And you can still dance The Jerk to it!
Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Águas de Março” or The Waters of March " is another “How could one person write this song?” And he wrote both the Portuguese and English lyrics.
I couldn’t name just the top 10, let alone the one. So much good music that I’ve enjoyed all my life, I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Especially since so much depends on my mood and stage of my life.
I have too many songs that I like depending on my mood. However, I’ve said a few times that I can’t think of a better constructed song than Nightswimming by REM
