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ceagleI've been wanting to do this for some time, so here off the cuff, is a leetle list of which I feel currently could be considered my top ten favorite songs...
10 You Do or You Don't ... Lindsey Buckingham
9 Anchorage ... Michelle Shocked
8 Crazy Without You ... Pure Heart
7 Wolfgang ... Pete Droge
6 The Angels Listened In ... Crests
5 Lodi ... CCR
4 The Way the World Would Be ... Glenn Yarbrough
3 I Should Have Known Better ... Beatles
2 Truly Do ... David Lindley
1 Summer and Lightning ... ELO
There's probably a lot more ELO, CCR and Beatles that could go here too :> I'd highly recommend checking out any of these that ya haven't heard of yet, also. Of course this sort of list changes throughout one's life, but this is a pretty good summation of 'em for now :>
Hope ya enjoyed!...
Now how about yours? :D (or comments/questions on these songs are welcomed too...)
10 You Do or You Don't ... Lindsey Buckingham
9 Anchorage ... Michelle Shocked
8 Crazy Without You ... Pure Heart
7 Wolfgang ... Pete Droge
6 The Angels Listened In ... Crests
5 Lodi ... CCR
4 The Way the World Would Be ... Glenn Yarbrough
3 I Should Have Known Better ... Beatles
2 Truly Do ... David Lindley
1 Summer and Lightning ... ELO
There's probably a lot more ELO, CCR and Beatles that could go here too :> I'd highly recommend checking out any of these that ya haven't heard of yet, also. Of course this sort of list changes throughout one's life, but this is a pretty good summation of 'em for now :>
Hope ya enjoyed!...
Now how about yours? :D (or comments/questions on these songs are welcomed too...)
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see?... I already gotta add more :>
Date: 2003-01-31 07:58 am (UTC)12 In the Ghetto ... Elvis
13 That's what the Little Girls Do ... Knack
14 From the Word Go ... Michael Martin Murphey
15 The Locomotion ... Little Eva
16 Never a Doubt ... John Denver
17 American Pie ... Don McLean
18 Afer Ventus ... Enya
19 Java ... Al Hirt
20 Crocodile Rock ... Elton John
good stuff! :D
Re: woofy list
Date: 2003-02-01 05:08 am (UTC)I was tempted to add one from Queen too, and that one's great!.. I would probably have added "'39" or "I Need Your Loving" though.
Of the other ones, I know "Revolution" and "All Apologies", and might recognize some of the others by sound but not name..
But the best thing about this kinda thing, is with these having your seal of approval, I can (and indeed any of these gentle readers here) check out the ones on your list and brighten my horizons *warble*
Thanks critter! *wagfeathers*
Re: woofy list
Date: 2003-02-01 05:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-31 04:32 pm (UTC)9) The Lighthouse's Tale...Nickel Creek
8) Moonlight Sonata...Beethoven
7) Angel...Sarah McLachlan
6) Can't remember the name but it sounds like running Horses...Mozart
5) Fur Elise...Beethoven
4) Dream...Everly Brothers
3) Theme song from the '60's version of Romeo and Juliet...the song with the tenor
2) Psalms 1... Kim Hill
1) Sounds of Silence....Simon and Garfunkel
Can't rank but like a lot:
Most of the Beatle's stuff
Vincent...Don McLean
Wake up little suzie...The Everly Brothers
The Highwayman...Loreena McKennitt
Scarborough Fair....Simon and Garfunkel
Kryptonite...3 Doors Down
GreenSleeves...
Volare....Dean Martin
Fly Me To The Moon...Frank Sinatra
He's Everything you want...Vertical Horizon
Lovely...Michelle Tumes
Hound Dog...Elvis
Cats in the Cradle...?
Fragile...Sting
Dust in the Wind...Kansas
Candle in the Wind (Norma Jean)...Elton John
Little Old Lady from Pasedena...Beach Boys
Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely...Backstreet Boys
Landslide...Fleetwood Mac
wow, ..those are some really good picks there.. :>
Date: 2003-02-01 05:44 am (UTC)Yep.. I toyed with adding some classical stuff too, but I generally can't remember the names of like Vivaldi's Concerto number 422 in D major Opus 42 *chuckle waggle*
I do love a chorale record I've got with Christmas Carols of Europe.. there is a link to a sample of one here in a previous entry.
*looks some more..*
Everly Brothers... heavenly, so much that they did.. and that harmony..
Simon and Garfunkel.. sad, but a great song.. more great harmonizers..
Sarah McLachlan ... mmm, nice.. I know someone who barely even likes music, who even likes that song..
Vincent...Don McLean ... ah yes.. that's a great one too, and there are two more of his that I was considering for the list..
GreenSleeves ... um, well.. this song I gotta say, is just too bleak for me.. almost entirely in minor key, it's just too depressing.. *peep* :|
Volare....Dean Martin ... hehheh! Another one of his I like is "Memories are Made of This"
Fly Me To The Moon... Hey! Have you heard Al Hirt's version of this? I like that'n the best..
He's Everything you want...Vertical Horizon ... Cool song *waggletail* ..Just not quite ready to put this on an alltime fave list for me .. :>
Elvis ... he hadda lotta great stuff *peep*.. I figured I'd try to pick just one though. Same for the Beatles.. or I might just take all Beatles to the island! I'd probably hardly ever listen to MM tour or the White Album tho .. I think "Beatles '65 (LP)" is my favorite, or maybe "Abbey Road" :>
Cats in the Cradle ... This is Harry Chapin.. a very very nice song, yepyep.. I tried to make the list things I could listen to endlessly though, and I think that one would beat me down after a while..
Kansas ... A lotta people love these folks.. I really should check out more of their albums :> *warble*
Elton John .. lotsa good stuff too!
Beach Boys... hehhehheh ;> hey now.. they had a lotta cool stuff! I'd like ta hear more of it remastered in sTeReO .. :9
Fleetwood Mac... yeep! There's *another* group of whose greats which I could probably fill up an entire list! I guess I was trying to not have any artist duplication.. like just one of theirs to leave room for more.. Guess that's why I picked the Buckingham piece :>
Re: wow, ..those are some really good picks there.. :>
Date: 2003-02-04 10:05 am (UTC)yes indeedy it is, my friend :>
Date: 2003-02-01 05:17 am (UTC)Oh wow.. ya gotta hear it, if ya haven't already... *waggle*
It's a relaxing treatise about touching base with an ol' friend, and how real friendships never die, sorta told in a very kickback narrative :>
And it has things that I like most about a really good song... pleasing melody and a great rhythm.. I also like a nice harmony, and a great arrangement can be like pure genius too.., and though it doesn't have a harmony section, chord changes and the heavenly arrangement stitch it all together with love and impact.. *coogle*
It's probably available on Amazon.com even!
It's not too old... though a few of the others on my list were... *chucklefluffles* :>
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Date: 2003-02-01 02:15 am (UTC)I find it impossible to list individual fav songs, I'm too AOR for my own good. Stereophile once ran a short column called D.I.D. - Deserted Island Disks.
The idea being that if you were Gilliganized (ack!) and only had ten albums with you, what would they be?
So my task when I've gotten some snooze in is to come back here and list my 10 DIDs, as right now I can't think too clearly after bathing in gasoline =:-O
CYa!
Mako
But Professor, I want more than ten CDs!
Date: 2003-02-01 05:21 am (UTC)Great example, me friend.. yep, that's why I qualified it by saying it can change over time, but at this moment in time, those are the ones I'd most likely grab.
Although.... I'd probably miss a lot of the hawaiian music I've been diggin' the last few years .. :P
Guess I'd haveta start a CD-in-a-bottle exchange with BMG Music or Columbia House, so I could get new CDs on the island every two weeks... 8>
Re: But Professor, I want more than ten CDs!
Date: 2003-02-04 03:10 am (UTC)Ok, I still owes ya a List of some my D.I.Ds, but I've been a wee more bzy than usual - my NT server of 3+ years is finally at death's door with a fatal dose of Kruft.
Tnx to one of
This is important since that box not only hosts some mundane web pages, but most critically also hosts Scott's high resolution image archive of 21st Century Fox. It's become a pretty popular feature for the fans, so I was under some pressure to keep that site on line.
I was going to go to Win2K, but Tegeran ponied up and volunteered to uber g33k Redhat into submission for me, yays :)
I've spent most of tonight (it being 3:10AM, ack!) copying off 8GB+ of files off the wounded NT box onto a backup on another 'puter. Still some clean up chores and stuff for me to go but once those are done, I'll do an Arnie and Be Back :)
CYa!
Mako
Random madness
Date: 2003-02-02 08:14 am (UTC)Hey Jude The Beatles -- Great song... It's one of those songs that just has been there wheen I needed to find hope SOMEWHERE. St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, and this song was actually written for Julian Lennon when he was six years old, to maybe give him a little bit of comfort in the time where his parents were getting divorced.
Just a Little Bit The Maranatha! Kids -- When I was younger, we listened to a lot of Bible song tapes in the car. The tape that this came from was REALLY good (Famous Kids of the Bible), but this song is especially inspiring.
Suzy Fool's Garden -- German group who scored a #1 on the German charts with "Lemon Tree" in 1996 (which happened to coincide with the first time I came to Germany). This song, however, just reminds me a lot about how I don't have to be perfect to be loved.
Benzai-Tan Blackmore's Night -- This is one that can get me crying, because it's so achingly beautiful. Blackmore's Night is a group that does a lot of combining renaissance and folk, and this song has a Japanese twist to it, about a demi-goddess (or something) who married a dragon king in order to save mankind.
Here Comes the Sun The Beatles -- Absolute perfection in a song.
Life Is Sweet Natalie Merchant -- Bittersweet, but hopeful.
If It Makes You Happy Sheryl Crow -- My theme song my freshman year of college.
Closing Time Semisonic -- Great.
One of Us Joan Osborne -- She makes a very good point in a really good song.
The Boxer Simon and Garfunkel -- I'm a fighter too.
(Okay, I couldn't stop)
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Jim Croce -- So much fun, and a "hometown" song.
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I've got a page about some of my favourite songs, which can be found here. This is by no means complete either.
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*L* I really dislike "In the Ghetto" by Elvis. I'm from inner-city Chicago. Yes, it's tough. But at the same time, the song makes it seem like it's inevitable that somebody who is born there never has a chance to do anything with their life. I promise you, it IS hard. But falling into the vicious circle is *NOT* inevitable. Secondly, it's ELVIS singing the song. He grew up in the South, in the country, and by the time he sang that song, he had more money than he'd ever know what to do with, so I don't see how he could have any *real* understanding needed to go with the song. /rant
Re: Random, but cool, list
Date: 2003-02-02 10:32 pm (UTC)Ah.. (re: 'Ghetto') ... Although I do like the lyric in this song, it usually isn't among the top things that make or break a song for me. it's definitely a bonus if it works, but then it's like, ya get to enjoy and nice poem along with the song :> Actually it's more than that ;>
I can see how that song can be seen as a generalization too, yeah.. For me I just take it as a specific set of incidents story. True it doesn't offer any concrete solutions other than 'people dontcha understand, the child needs a helping hand' :| (I don't think Elvis wrote many, if any of his songs too)..
So I guess ultimately I wanted to put at least one Elvis song in there just because I like so many of them, and I like the arrangement and melody in this one particularly *warble*
Thanks for the extra commentary though! :>