Your Favourite Songs (Period)

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CriticAndProud said:
I committed a great injustice leaving this off the list. Must have slipped my mind, 'cause I love this song (if indeed it can be called a song)


If you want to have your mind blown, skip to 2:31.
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Nine Inch Nails is beautiful noise ;) Just listen to The Great Destroyer, from Year Zero. Love, love, love that track. I've been a fan for...18 years? And there's at least a few tracks on every album that I could listen to all day. NIN for the win :victorious:
 
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Paranoid Paintbrush said:
Nine Inch Nails is beautiful noise ;) Just listen to The Great Destroyer, from Year Zero. Love, love, love that track. I've been a fan for...18 years? And there's at least a few tracks on every album that I could listen to all day. NIN for the win :victorious:
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I love Pretty Hate Machine, its got a great 80's sound.
 
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CriticAndProud said:
I committed a great injustice leaving this off the list. Must have slipped my mind, 'cause I love this song (if indeed it can be called a song)


If you want to have your mind blown, skip to 2:31.
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Ah, if we're including songs that could be argued are not actually songs, I have to include this - particularly given the genre Mr. King prefers.

 
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I heard some Gordon Lightfoot on the road today - "Carefree Highway." I'd forgotten how much I enjoy his music.

"Carefree Highway."
"In the Early Morning Rain."
"Approaching Lavender."
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy."
"If You Could Read My Mind" is still good.
And a lot of people like "Sundown," but that one doesn't grab me.




Got to mention a couple others:

Al Stewart, "Time Passages" and "Year of the Cat."

"A girl comes towards you, you once used to know. You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in these time passages. I know you're in there, you're just out of sight."

I have exactly the girl in mind when I hear that song. I mean, like every time. No offense to Grandma. I'm thoroughly happy. It wasn't a first love. But I know that girl.

And "Year of the Cat" is just so very nicely constructed.
 
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Grandpa said:
I heard some Gordon Lightfoot on the road today - "Carefree Highway." I'd forgotten how much I enjoy his music.

"Carefree Highway."
"In the Early Morning Rain."
"Approaching Lavender."
"Canadian Railroad Trilogy."
"If You Could Read My Mind" is still good.
And a lot of people like "Sundown," but that one doesn't grab me.




Got to mention a couple others:

Al Stewart, "Time Passages" and "Year of the Cat."

"A girl comes towards you, you once used to know. You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in these time passages. I know you're in there, you're just out of sight."

I have exactly the girl in mind when I hear that song. I mean, like every time. No offense to Grandma. I'm thoroughly happy. It wasn't a first love. But I know that girl.

And "Year of the Cat" is just so very nicely constructed.
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I have to admit that I'd never heard of Al Stewart, so I gave Year of The Cat a listen and it's not bad at all.

What really struck me is how much he sounds like Neil Tenant from The Pet Shop Boys. It's quite uncanny.
 
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I'm with Todash - I don't have favorite songs, just "ones off the top of my head I know I love - squirrel" songs.

Money Can't Buy It - Annie Lennox
My Baby - The Pretenders
On Every Street - Dire Straits
Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
New Sensation - INXS
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
Trouble Again - Linda Ronstadt
Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith
Love Her Madly - The Doors
Rocket Man - Elton John
Still Thrives This Love - k.d. lang
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
Penny Lane - The Beatles
My Love is Chemical - Lou Reed
Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
Say It Isn't So - Hall & Oates
 
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Lily Sawyer said:
I'm with Todash - I don't have favorite songs, just "ones off the top of my head I know I love - squirrel" songs.

Money Can't Buy It - Annie Lennox
My Baby - The Pretenders
On Every Street - Dire Straits
Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
New Sensation - INXS
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
Trouble Again - Linda Ronstadt
Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith
Love Her Madly - The Doors
Rocket Man - Elton John
Still Thrives This Love - k.d. lang
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
Penny Lane - The Beatles
My Love is Chemical - Lou Reed
Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
Say It Isn't So - Hall & Oates
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love Simon and Garfunkel. Love. them.
 
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Flat Matt said:
I have to admit that I'd never heard of Al Stewart, so I gave Year of The Cat a listen and it's not bad at all.

What really struck me is how much he sounds like Neil Tenant from The Pet Shop Boys. It's quite uncanny.
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I think Al Stewart was the producer of "Dark Side of the Moon." Don't quote me - that could be a faulty filing in the mental archives.

The song just tells a story that's so far outside of the normal pop themes. Sort of like (in a completely different way)...

Oh, yeah!

Procol Harum. "Conquistador." How many rock songs center around a musing of an old, crumbling statue?
 
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Paranoid Paintbrush said:
*Sings* ~ God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised... :untroubled:

It has definitely got the late 80s/early 90s feel, yet it's timeless too...But then, I am pretty biased. Rightly so, IMO! ;););)
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My favourite song of that album is either "Something I Can Never Have" or "Sin" (or maybe "The Only Time").

"Stale Incense, old sweat, and lies, lies, lies". :jammin:


 
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Grandpa said:
I think Al Stewart was the producer of "Dark Side of the Moon." Don't quote me - that could be a faulty filing in the mental archives.

The song just tells a story that's so far outside of the normal pop themes. Sort of like (in a completely different way)...

Oh, yeah!

Procol Harum. "Conquistador." How many rock songs center around a musing of an old, crumbling statue?
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I saw Al Stewart in a small venue, many years ago. It was wonderful. And he had a collection box for toys for tots. Good guy. Year of the Cat, indeed.
 
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