What are your favorite songs?
Are they primarily from an specific era, genre, or event in your life?
Mine range from late childhood to present. Some hold meaning... Others, I just liked that much.
Give me a top five!
Mine:
Take on me- ABBA
1979- Smashing Pumpkins
Mary Jane's Last Dance- Tom Petty
She talks to angels- The Black Crows
HRSA- Blue October
Here go a few of my all time favourite :
Beyond The Realms Of Death, Judas Priest ;
Where The Wild Roses Grow, Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue ;
Dancing In The Dark, Bruce Springsteen ;
Save A Prayer, Duran Duran ;
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, Iron Maiden ;
Solitude, Black Sabbath ;
Samarithan, Candlemass ;
Black Dog, Led Zeppelin ;
Pursuit Of The Vikings, Amon Amarth ;
Future World, Helloween ;
Disposable Heroes, Metallica ;
Hangar 18, Megadeth ;
Rock Me Amadeus, Falco ;
Rasputin, Boney M;
As I Am, Dream Theatre.
Falco! Ftw
I consider myself pretty eclectic when it comes to genres.
The best song ever written is Night's Blood by Dissection. The song is written like a poem. I don't know how Jon did lead and vocals at the same time. I can't keep up that tempo for very long, let alone do vocals!
Van Halen - Jump
Boston - Foreplay/Longtime
Breaking Benjamin - Breath
"Telephone Line", by Electric Light Orchestra
"Swamped", by Lacuna Coil
"Dream Weaver", by Gary Wright
"Budding Trees", by Nahko Bear and the Medicine for the People
"Nothing's Free", by Phoebe Warden
I like you taste. ABBA is fabulous.
Honestly I only know that one ABBA song. When I had my first love interest (15, 16), it was "our song" ?
I think that Peter Paul and Mary songs are considered to be in the folk genre.
La Villa Strangiato - Rush
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
She Sells Sanctuary - the Cult
Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
Voodoo - Godsmack
Well, it's a selection of 5 favorites anyway
Love song - the cure
Don't fear the reaper - blue otster cult
Alabama song (whiskey bar) the doors
Honour - VNV Nation
Herion she said -wolfsheim
The Cure ?
"Perhaps Love", sung by John Denver & Plácido Domingo.
I have this on an album from years ago....they were great singing together.
Mine keep changing. Too many to count. But some perennial favorites, due to lyrics that make you think, are:
"Fragile" and "History Will Teach Us Nothing," both by Sting,
"Free Will," by Rush,
"93 Million Miles" by Jason Mraz,
"In My Life," by the Beatles,
"Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word" by Elton John
Limiting it to five is a difficult task! I am going to have to give this some substantial thought.
Yeah I really was undecided.
Those are the ones I always return to.
Finalized my list! In no order:
On the Turning Away-Pink Floyd
Am I Evil-Diamond Head
Rags to Riches- Tony Bennet
Promised Land-Chuck Berry
Fade to Black-Metallica
"The Dance" sung by Garth Brooks.
His last tour was very impressive. Three sold-out nights in Indy. He is returning to play at Notre Dame sometime in the winter
@Nichole765 I really do not care for Garth Brooks but this song has a very powerful meaning to life.
@jlynn37 yeah he's definitely not my genre. But to produce an album that will sell out shows after 15,20 years is impressive.
Good Night Saigon - Billy Joel
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Nobody's Fool - Cinderella
One More Fuckin' Time - Motorhead
Adagio For Strings - Samuel Barber
I'm Going to Hell - The Pretty Reckless
Fuckin' Perfect - Pink
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Tomorrow some of these will be different....
Absolutely love Nobody's Fool! Also Save Your Love.
I feel Blue October is severely underrated. I've traveled all over the midwest to see their live shows.
I'm just going to post the 5 most listened to songs I have on iTunes. All 5 are Black Sabbath songs
Out of the 60 most listened to songs I have on iTunes, 3 are Ozzy Osbourne songs (#37, 38, and 57); the rest are Black Sabbath songs. lol. Can you tell who my favorite band is?
I'm gonna see Ozzy this weekend. He doesn't know it, but we are spending my birthday together!
@joeymf86 we just won't tell Sharon. Hehehe
I already left a post saying too many to list and I love a lot of classical songs too, but I have two favourites at the present and I am posting them here now. The first is Benny Andersson of ABBA’s song Give Me My Song sung by Bryn Terfel and Sissel Kyrkjebo and the second is Morten Harket singing his own song There Is A Place.
Oh and another Benny Andersson song sung by Sissel which I love....Like.An Angel Passing Through My Room.
“Danny’s Song”. Loggins & Messina
“The Secret of Life”. James Taylor
“Vincent” Don McClean, played by Chet Atkins
The Beatle’s song about John’s son Julian, sung by Paul, the title of which I can’t remember
Not really a song, but beautiful music: “Variations on a Theme of Paganini”. Serge Rachmaninoff (sp?)
Probably one of my all-time favorites: Def Leppard - Hysteria