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This is a very early REM song. It brings back a lot of memories about travelling around eastern europe in 1997, when I had two or three cassettes with me for the trip and this was the song which was played most. I've never been able to go without listening to it for very long, even though my music tastes have changed drastically.
What about you? What is your favourite song ever and why?
The greatest track ever made!
Karl
Nina Simone - "My baby just cares for me"
Motzart - various piano
Gutav Holst - "The Planets"
Hendrix - "Cross Town Traffic"
Beatles - "Back in the USSR"
Rolling Stones - "Get back"
Focus - Hocus Pocus
The Who - "Who are you"
Elton John - "Can I put you on"
Deep Purple - "Space Truckin"
AC/DC - "Touch too much", "Riff Raff"
Ruts - "Babylons Burning"
Led Zepplin - "Ramble on"
etc :-)
Anyone recall whose song "Alternative Ulster" was?
back to work now ..
That just has to be there!
Followed the Dead through the mid 70's (perhaps that why I have so much trouble spelling). When Keith and Donna were "Playing in the Band".
If you were never touched by the Dead, then it's hard to explain or pick a favorite ......
Eyes of the World , Uncle John's Band, Brokendown Palace, Franklin's Tower, Iko Iko ....
All you got to do is smile, smile , smile
Favourite song - Knockin on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan.
Should have thought to google it :-)
Here Without You - Three Doors Down
Bring me to Life - Evanescence
Everything You Need - Madison Avenue
Freeek - George Michael
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
Desert Rose - Sting & Cheb Mami
Why those? They keep me motivated and remind me of someone I miss.
(PS: there are too many songs out there that mean too much to pick just one!)
Why? It's one of them, that holds a lasting memory of something, very special, for me.
atob
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Makes me smile even if i'm really sad.
Wakes me up in the morning like nothing else.
... plus a few hundred others ... ;)
I could go on, but I'll stop here.
reason: band i've seen the most, way back, so its a sentimental journey.
Bring me to Life - Evanescence (the whole cd is good)
Desert Rose - Sting & Cheb Mami
But I also have a thing for:
Boston
Robert Miles
Certainly there are more, but that's the short list.
LisaB
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jeff Beck
Hendrix
Van Halen
Def Lep
Zep
Chaka Chan
Olita Adams
The Police
Floyd
Santana
Pat Metheny
Peter Gabriel
Toto
…
… no they’re all great but there’s opera? Mozart, Berlioz,
Oh I give up, it impossible ;)
Big Log - Robert Plant
Sacrifice - Lissa Gerrard
3 Days - Janes Addiction
The Tide Is High - Blondie
Voodo Child - Hendrix
Invisible Sun - Police
American Woman - The Guess Who
France - Shakedown Street/Grateful Dead
Oh Me - Nirvana Unplugged
Shaking the Tree - Peter Gabriel
Dylan
oooh too many songs... i could be here forever
and:
- Goldberg variations [Glenn Gould]
- Goldberg variations [Uri Caine ensemble]
- all the songs in Jeff Buckley's 'Grace'.
Reasons:
Lyrics - 'I wish I heard voices, wish I was a telephone' + works in references to Genet, James Joyce, Brecht, Chandler and even aludes to Kafka's The Castle + it's all about love and longing
Music - speeds up and slows down at will + epitomises the Golden Rule 'any more than 2 chords is just showing off'
You Don't Love Me (No No No) by Dawn Penn
Because it is such a decadent reggae groove.....arghh it's so bad you can almost touch it!
Have a good weekend fellow WWers!
[edited by: Go2 at 6:22 pm (utc) on Sep. 11, 2003]
Ghost Town - Specials
Mensch - Herbert Grönemeyer
The Saturday Boy - Billy Bragg
Texas Flood (live) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Racing in the Street - Bruce Springsteen
Just got home from a night out 'with the boys' [two babies sleeping like, errr, babies Nahlack].
What a GREAT song 'L.A. Woman by The Doors'.
Ok, Pished now, but the girls danced well, but great one.
Nighty night all.
additionally:
roots radicals - rancid
freakscene, the wagon, get me, the little baby - all by dinosaur jr
ocean man, push the lil' daisies, bananas and blow - all by ween
blanket - urban species
if i had to choose it would be banana's and blow at the moment...
they all rock. so listen.
:}
when i am depressed and need to be cheered up
Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out
All time favourite for private reasons
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Place to Be - Nick Drake
or maybe..
Enjoy - Björk
so many possibilities.
