Ooops - this was meant to follow the thread of best albums.
The Beatles were at their peak during the mid-sixties, my college days - lots of great songs. While trying to pick a Beatles favorite, "Michelle" pops into mind. No reason to believe others weren't better.
The greatest has to be a personal criteria. As a American, my favorites are some that were provided by American DJs. Didn't care for Elvis when I was a teenager, now I think he was likely the greatest.
These days I best enjoy the mix from the fifties and early sixties. I'm inclined to think songs prominent during military service were most likely to become sentimental favorites. I remember listening to Reddings "Dock of the Bay" while stationed at Fort Ord, CA. Rember listening to it while sitting in the Fort Ord EM Club, watching the sun set on the Pacific. Can't match many songs with a life experience.
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Liked "Michelle" as well, "Because" and the trilogy "Mean Mr. Mustard", "Polythene Pam" and "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" were my favorites.The Beatles were at their peak during the mid-sixties, my college days - lots of great songs. While trying to pick a Beatles favorite, "Michelle" pops into mind. No reason to believe others weren't better.
"We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans. With a capital "A", huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts."
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"While my guitar gently weeps" is easily my favourite Beatles song.
How about a favourite Rolling Stones song? Very hard to choose, but I'd pick 'Live with me' from Let it Bleed.
If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you.
Rocky Raccoon with its hillbilly sound does it fer me.
^ Same as that, my fave Beatles song. Sympathy for the Devil is my fave RS one.
Danny the Dragon and the Saturday Morning Cinema show songs bring back sweet memories for me.
Riddle me this brother can you handle it
Your style to my style you can't hold a candle to it
Equinox symmetry and the balance is right
Smokin' and drinkin' on a Tuesday night
It's not how you play the game it's how you win it
I cheat and steal and sin and I'm a cynic
Bon Jovi:
I'm a cowboy, on this steel horse I ride, I'm
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Best really loud, in a go-go bar, when I'm plastered.
Also a military tie-in from Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Japan
As a child my favorite Beatles song was, "Norweigian Wood"
I used to watch Soul Train a lot and bought the O' Jays greatest hits for my first record. Anything off that album brings back memories. I remember dancing to the Monkies "Last Train to Clarksville" and "Stepping Stone". I also loved Tommy James's "Crimson and Clover".
My first more conscious teenage years lead to Kiss's "Double Live" album, Rush's "2112" and Queen's "A Night at the Opera".
Then I heard the Sex Pistols, "God Save the Queen" and life was never the same. My fondest older memories are songs by the Ramones, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, the Germs, and the Damned.
Music is almost as powerful to my memory base as my sense of smell. I seldom listen to anything listed above nowadays, but I do get sentimental whenever I hear it playing.
I've been listening to these groups alot lately (CJs not as much altho the "Group Sex" lp is a favorite of mine). Black Flag blew my 14 year old mind when "Slip it In" came out. I recall blasting it from a "ghetto blaster" in my friend's front yard. Neighbors called the cops... The Germs "MIA" has been a recent fave as well...Black Flag, Circle Jerks, the Germs
As for Beatles: "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "Helter Skelter." Love the placid stuff as well ("Rubber Soul" album). Rolling Stones, early Pink Floyd: can't choose one! Zeppelin: tough to choose one as well.
Ok...I'm useless.
banging the gong...
Love Michelle, a genuinely sad, haunting ballad. Love Norwegian Wood too.The Beatles were at their peak during the mid-sixties, my college days - lots of great songs. While trying to pick a Beatles favorite, "Michelle" pops into mind. No reason to believe others weren't better
Difficult to name one favourite Beatles song, put a gun to my head today and I might go for A Day In The Life, but I also love Hey Jude, Dear Prudence (pop perfection), Rocky Racoon, I'm Only Sleeping, Julia, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Hard Day's Night, and probably a few more I've forgotten.
Similar with the Stones really, my favourites there would be Backstreet Girl, Under My Thumb, Dandelion, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Let It Bleed, Sympathy For The Devil, Bitch, Dead Flowers, Moonlight Mile, Sweet Virginia. Any one of those on any given day.
It's funny that. I still love or have affection for a lot of the songs I loved as a teenager. But the songs that give me a really powerful jolt of sentimental emotion are the disposable pieces of fluffy pop that, objectively, I couldn't stand then and still can't, but which happened to play on the radio at certain stages of my life.Music is almost as powerful to my memory base as my sense of smell. I seldom listen to anything listed above nowadays, but I do get sentimental whenever I hear it playing.
Or would you like to swing on a star?
I was in downtown Khon Kaen on Sunday and this 60 year old samlor driver had a Black Flag "Damaged" t-shirt on. I was gob-smacked!Originally Posted by dongintheklong
'Yesterday' has to be the best pop song ever written.
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Most of A-Ha'a back catalogue.
When I was in America a guy told me to 'have a nice day' but I didn't, so I sued him
ivor cutler - beautiful cosmos
"...ever wonder why they kill the weak ones, baby?"
I couldn't pick a 'best 100' if my life depended upon it. Maybe 'best 500 pop songs of all time.'
Almost anything by CCR and Guns'n'Roses. That covers about a dozen albums. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the concert for Bangladesh still carries me to another planet - I got a bad speeding ticket in the Mustang convertible listening to that one. For the Stones, at least a dozen numbers off their "Forty Licks" album will do, or "Mother's Little Helper" and "Jumping Jack Flash." Bon Jovi, "You Give Love a Bad Name" or "Bad Medicine." Of course, "Layla" and "Cocaine" and "In the Presence of the Lord" by Eric the master.
I still go crazy over the long instrumentals: "Wipe-Out" and "Inagaddavida" and "Light My Fire."
And for pure kitsch, Mark Deming's "Teen Angel" (I met Mark's sister) or "Seasons in the Sun" or "DOA" by Bloodrock.
I used to be crazy about Black Flag, Butthole Surfers and Bad Brains, nowadays I`m happier listening to Soul...
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