Rushmore-of-sorts (05/06/04): Songs
 

Which four songs would you consider your favorite songs over time....

here goes nothing.....

Come On Eileen- Dexy's Midnight Runners
Shimmer- Fuel
Radio- Alkaline Trio
Autumns Monologue- From Autumn To Ashes (<---- current favorite)

Dear Prudence - The Beatles
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
Give Me One Reason - Tracy Chapman
Round Here - Counting Crows

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femme's
What's My Age Again - Blink-182
California Sun - I forget who, but the 60's version
Bloodied Up - Alkaline Trio

Telephone : Au coeur de la Nuit (classic French Rock from the 80s)
Pink Floyd : I wish you were here
Dire Straits : Telegraph Road (although I haven't listened to any Dire Straits song for ages...)
Bob Marley : No woman no cry

The first 4 that came up

Do You Right - 311
Use of Time - 311
Star Quality - Brother Ali
Always Coming Back Home to You - Atmosphere

I LOVE the Dear Prudence pick, VPI.


Mine on 05/06/04 (acknowledging that it will probably be different tomorrow):


"Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)" --Talking Heads

"Pick Up The Change" -- Wilco

"Open" -- Bruce Cockburn

"Wassiye" -- Habib Koite

you had me at hello.... :)

favorite songs ever? just 4?

ok...

Jason Falkner/Roger Manning - "Search For Tomorrow"
Kula Shaker - "The Great Hosannah"
Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations"
George Harrison - "The Art Of Dying"

these will probably change by later this afternoon.

The Doors - LA Woman
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
The Who - I've Had Enough (Quadrophenia)
CSN - 49 Bye-Byes

I have that affect. I like that whole CD more or less. I thought about putting Private Eye, but I like Bloodied Up best of all me thinks. The last 4 songs kick ass along with the first, second, and 4th.

oooh... the Hall & Oates song?? now I'm gonna have to go revise my list...

Every New Day - Five Iron Frenzy
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Mrs. Potter's Lullaby - Counting Crows
Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan

List subject to change with mood and/or future epiphanies:

In no particular order ...
Rainbow In the Dark - Dio
Alone Again - Dokken
TNT - AC/DC
Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden

(the last choice could easily be replaced by any of probably a half-dozen other Maiden tracks

I NEVER would have guessed. Never.

Hmmmm...

The Climb- No Doubt
Orion- Metallica
Ride of the Valkyries- Wagner
What a Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong

Love the Dokken reference!!!

I still remember the It's Not Love video with them on the truck.

LOL, honest & truly, out loud

With the exception of a few country CD's here & there & an even smaller handful of new music (Nickelback, Staind, 3 Doors Down, and 1 old Seven Mary Three CD) the only music I've bought for myself in the past 10 years has been either catalog stuff from 70's/80's metal bands or new material
from those same bands.

In the past couple of years, I've made sure that my son (now age 6) has seen with me:
Scorpions, Dokken, Poison, Deep Purple, Dio, Dokken, and Cinderella.

And I'll be up & at 'em early Saturday morning trying to fight through the internet mob for Metallica tickets for the two of us (Gwinnett Arena, Nov 10th). I figure he'll enjoy it, he asked for (and got) the S&M video when he was just 2 y/o.

If it's too loud, you're too old

(He also enjoys watching The Ulitmate Ric Flair Collection DVD with me)

Suite:Judy Blue Eyes-CSN
Like a Rolling Stone-Bob Dylan
In My Life-Beatles
Mountain Jam-Allman Brothers Band

Hmm. For now

All-time favs:
Don't Go to Strangers - Etta James or Chaka Khan
Pass the Peas - the JB's
The Sweetest Chill/This Unrest - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Prelude #20 in C minor - Frederick Chopin

Current fav:
More - Matthew West

Rooster: Alice in Chains
Figure.09: Linkin Park
The Man's Too Strong: Dire Straits
Far Behind: Candlebox

Oh...Rooster. Good call, Raven Hawk. I briefly considered "Would".

U2: Pride
Led Zeppelin: When the Levee Breaks
Heart: Magic Man
Abba: Dancing Queen

Off the top of my head...

In My Life - Beatles
Heard It Thru the Grapevive - CCR
I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
Long Cool Woman - Hollies

I had to put an AIC song in there, because . . . well . . . I had to. My other AIC nominee would have been Angry Chair. Soooo many good songs to choose from. :)

If I had to go with Heart, I would have gone with Crazy On You, but Magic Man represents Heart pretty well. :)

This is tough, real tough.

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
2112 - Rush
Duel With the Devil - Transatlantic
War Pigs - Black Sabbath

Natural Science - Rush
Take a Chance on Me - ABBA (thanks, WSUCougar, for breaking the ABBA barrier for me) ;)
Heart of the Sunrise - Yes
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

In truth I probably could've just picked four Rush songs to complete this list, but I didn't want to appear one-dimensional. :)

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
Brand New - Seventy Times 7
Blink 182 - Dammit
Saves the Day - Nightingale

Geez, that was tough, there were 3 between B.N. and STD that I couldn't decide on which.. at all points I've liked them all the most.

There are about 5 Blink songs I can think of that are better. Untitled is my favorite, more so then WMAA, but Dammit? Might as well have said All the Small Things.

Party song kicks ass too

FTR, Dammit was my sketchiest choice. I was happy with all 3 but had to give Blink some acknowledgement.

So 5 songs are better? In your opinion. Dude, you're comparing All the Small Things when you put up What's My Age Again? Check yo'self.

Untitled was one of my favorites for a long time when I was big into blink, but Dammit got me hooked on the whole genre so it gets it's due.

And to completely respond to your whole post: Do you want to come to a party my friends picked me up in their truck at 11:30

The Animals - House of the rising sun
Bob Marley - No woman, no cry
Les VRP - Léo
Nina Hagen - African Reggae

Three from Led Zepplin:

Since I've been loving you

Rain Song (this was the first dance at our wedding)

Over the Hills and Far Away

And Shine on You Crazy Diamond (all parts combined) from Pink Floyd.

Nice choices. I forgot about House of the Rising Sun.

One of the funniest things I've ever heard is Oh Little Town of Bethlahem sung to the tune of that song. It fits perfect. It was on Bob River's Twisted Christmas, I believe. Now I can't hear one or the other without singing this to myself.

Bob Dylan- Stuck Inside Of Mobile
Paul Westerberg- It's A Wonderfull Lie
Big Star- Holocaust
John Mellencamp- Jackie Brown

Cool, another person picked one of my songs. :)


Cool, another person picked a Who song. :)

Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye
Pink Floyd - Fearless
Wrens - Hopeless
Guided By Voices - Your Name is Wild

Right on.

5:15 and The Real Me are my favorite Who songs, but I as a thematic song, Won't Get Fooled Again got my vote.

It does feature the greatest scream in the history of rock & roll.

In terms of Who songs, I always liked "Slip Kid" myself.

No shit. I saw The Who in 89. One of best things was seeing Roger sing, particularly this song.

Not to mention I got to see Entwistle before he died. 1 of my top 3 bass players ever. After 89, I never saw them. I would have liked to see them with Zakk Starkey on drums (I have the DVD but it isn't the same). I kick myself in the ass for not spending money to see them for the Quadrophenia tour in 96 or 97...whenever it was.

Slip Kid is a great song, as is The Real Me and pretty much anything off Quadrophenia.

California Love - Tupac and Dr. Dre
Gin n' Juice - Snoop Dogg
Fuck the Police - NWA
(The Roof is) on fire - Bizzy Bone

I Will - The Beatles
Kissing the Lipless - The Shins
Life, in a Nutshell - Barenaked Ladies
Take me Out - Franz Ferdinand


Those are my 4 favorite today. It may change tomorrow

Ball and Biscuit - White Stripes
Stem - Static-X
Comfortable Numb - Pink Floyd
Bobby James - N.E.R.D.

Shorty, without What's My Age again, you'd never would have heard of Dammit because, unless you were listening to Blink-182 at age 7, I doubt you got hooked on the genre by that one song.

AC/DC - For Those About to Rock, We Salute You
Beethoven - 7th Symphony
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
Pink Floyd - Echoes

Louie, Louie - Kingsmen
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Coolidge - Descendents
Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra, et al

One each from my 4 favorite groups:

Hey You - Pink Floyd
Suite Madame Blue - Styx
Pride - U2
Sand - Heart/Lovemongers

I think I heard Dammit in 6th or 7th grade..