Top Songs

Songs can evoke all sorts of memories and feelings in me. It doesn't necessarily have to be a great song, or even by some standards a good song, but something that I heard over and over and came to associate with good times. Therefore, my list includes, but isn't limited to (in no particular order):

Vehicle by the Ides of March
Sugar, Sugar by the Archies
In the Mood by the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Pachelbel's Canon in D
Master of the Universe by Hawkwind
Poor Girl by Savoy Brown
I Just Want to Make Love to You by Foghat
Lucky Man by ELP
Progression by the Moody Blues
Moonshadow by Cat Stevens
Highway Song by Blackfoot
Look at Yourself by Uriah Heep
Soul Sacrifice by Santana (Woodstock version)
Teacher by Jethro Tull
Into the Void by Black Sabbath
I Can't Wait Much Longer by Robin Trower
Proclamation by Gentle Giant

Oh gosh, let's see. Here are just a few...

Doh Wah Diddy - Manfred Mann
September Morn - Neil Diamond
Taking Care of Business - BTO
Forever Young - Rod Stewart
Bad Moon Arising - CCR
Proud Mary - CCR
Wise Men Say - UB40
Always On My Mind - Willy Nelson
Angle Flying To Close To The Ground - Willy Nelson
At Last - Etta James
Stir It Up - Bob Marley
Listen To The Music - Dooby Brothers

I could keep this up, but I'll stop here.

99 Luftballons, Nena, the german version

Four to the Floor, Starsailor (and all their other songs)

Secret for a Song, Mercury Rev (plus all their albums after See You on the Other Side)

Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung, The Flaming Lips

3rd Planet, Modest Mouse (and most of their other songs)

Displaced, Azure Ray (and most of their other songs)

White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane

Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Tears for Fears

Our House, Phantom Planet

Blueside, Rooney (and most of their other songs)

Somewhere a Clock is Ticking, Snow Patrol (and most of their other songs)

I want to go on but there'd be like, hundreds of songs (I'm writing the soundtrack to my life...I have a lot more favorites than I thought)

Nice choice of Black Sabbath songs in the previous posts. I suppose there are songs I play a lot and keep coming back to. Here's a few I like:

Love Will Tear Us Apart and Disorder - Joy Division
Harvest Moon and Unknown Legend - Neil Young
Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
Nightshift - The Commodores
Next Exit and Leif Erikson - Interpol
I'm On Fire, Sad Eyes, Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
Sister Midnight and Wild America - Iggy Pop
Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed
The Ship Song - Nick Cave
Fuck The Pain Away - Peaches
Funeral March For Queen Mary - Purcell
Aquarium - Saint-Saens
After Midnight - JJ Cale
Hello, Hooray - Alice Cooper

A few in no particular order:

Like the Weather - 10000 Maniacs
Hey Jack Kerouac - 10000 Maniacs
Galileo - Indigo Girls
Love Will Come to You - Indigo Girls
Criminal - Fiona Apple
All for You - Sister Hazel
Busted - Matchbox Twenty
Like Dust - Passion Puppets
I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan
Uncertain Smile - The The
Unanswered Prayers - Garth Brook
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Like the Way I Do - Melissa Etheridge
Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield

Added: Legendary - Michael McDermott

My list of favorites changes all the time, but here's a core group of some old and some new songs I turn up loud and never get sick of hearing:

Ramalama Bang Bang, Roisin Murphy
True Blue, Musical Outfits (Chicago band--on iTunes, check them out)
The Denial Twist, White Stripes
Flat Top, The Goo Goo Dolls
I Need You, Eurythmics
In a Daydream, Freddy Jones Band
Tuesday's Dead, Cat Stevens
Fly, Sugar Ray
Over the Hills and Far Away, Led Zeppelin
Love You Madly, Cake
Here's Where the Story Ends, The Sundays
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Pearl Jam
I Will Follow, U2
A Little Help From My Friends, Beatles
Bright Lights, Matchbox 20
Hypnotize, White Stripes
Brighter Than Sunshine, Aqualung
Breakout, Foo Fighters
Doesn't Remind Me, Audioslave
Stars, Switchfoot

aspiringwriter said:

Little Willy, Fox On The Run--Sweet

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Oh my gosh! Talk about a blast from the past. I loved that song! Forgot all about it til you posted.

Here's a few...

Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Retrovertigo - Mr Bungle
Indifference - Pearl Jam
Psychopomp - The Tea Party
Night Goat - Melvins
Washer - Slint
Lava - Ministry
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
No Quarter - Led Zeppelin
Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden
NIB - Sabbath
Group Four - Massive Attack
Atom Bomb - Fluke
Break - Fugazi
Invincible - Benatar
Backass - Butthole Surfers
Dumb - Nirvana
Would - Alice in Chains
Mouthful of Cavities - Blind Melon
1000 Forms of Mind - Mudhoney
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Winter - Tori Amos
Reach Down - Temple of the Dog
Hennin Hardine - Jucifer
Neue Regel - Queensryche

Only You - The Platters
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
Let's Get the Show on the Road - Michael Stanley Band
Hello, It's Me - Todd Rundgren
The River - Garth Brooks
pretty much every song by Led Zeppelin
Break Your Heart - barenakedladies
Everybody Hurts - REM
What Do You Want From Life - Tubes
Jump - Van Halen
Right Now - Van Halen
Crazy - Patsy Cline
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
I'm the Highway - Audioslave
CarnEvil 9 - ELP
Love Reign O'er Me - the Who
Treetop Flyer - Stephen Stills
Cattle Call - Eddy Arnold
It's Been A While - Staind
Give A Little Bit - Supertramp

I have varied taste... My favorites are George Jones (both with and without Tammy Wynette), Loretta Lynn, and Liza Minnelli.

George Jones:
I'll Give You Something to Drink About
The King is Gone
Honky Tonk Song
He Stopped Loving Her Today (classic...)
If God Met You (with Tammy Wynette)

Loretta Lynn
Hey Loretta
You Ain't Woman Enough
Fist City

Liza Minnelli
NY, NY
Sara Lee (singing about dessert...)
Don't Smoke In Bed
If You Hadn't, But You Did
I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore (the version that was written for her, not the original one from Gigi.)

Allan Holdsworth-Three Sheets To The Wind, Metal Fatigue, Road Games
John Coltrane-Giant steps
Wes Montgomery-Four On Six
Cynic-Textures
King Crimson-Starless, 21st Century Schizoid Man
Yes-Siberian Khatru
Gordian Knot-Rivers Dancing
Sentenced-Nepenthe
Rush-Double Agent, La Villa Strangiato, Natural Science, Freeze, Hand Over Fist, Hemispheres
Pink Floyd-Time
Genesis-Supper's Ready
Coroner-Semtex Revolution, Pale Sister
Arcturus-Kinetic
Ulver-Porn Piece Or The Scars Of Cold Kisses, The Future Sound Of Music

Tom Waits- Tango Till They're Sore
Arctic Monkeys- A Certain Romance, Despair in The Departure Lounge, The View From The Afternoon, Fluorescent Adolescent, Who The fuck Are Arctic Monkeys, You Probably Couldnt See For The lights But You Were Staring Straiht At Me
Interpol- Obstacle 1, Obstacle 2, Specialist
The Killers- Read My Mind, All These Things That I've Done
Nirvana- Lounge Act
The Smiths- A Rush and a Push And The Land We Stand On is Ours
etc.

"Taken By the Wind" - David Arkenstone
"The War is Over Now" - Sarah Brightman
"A Matter of Honour" - SB
"Dawn of a Century" - Secret Garden


That's all I can think of now at 12:30 am...